Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/December 2006

= December 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2006 December 1


 * 1) Dan Rather
 * 2) Foreign educated lawyers and the Hawaii Bar Exam
 * 3) Shakespeare- out, out
 * 4) Collaboration in the UK. Late 90's
 * 5) Red Collar Crime
 * 6) usic Question
 * 7) Propaganda In The Cold War
 * 8) epeated question
 * 9)  History
 * 10) Who is the first recorded human by name?
 * 11) apology.
 * 12) eibniz Theodicy - objection III
 * 13) Shakespeare quote
 * 14) Sections of a page
 * 15) ection
 * 16) Subsection
 * 17) Subsection
 * 18) Sub-subsection
 * 19) fernand pelez 1843-1913
 * 20) countries the US has helped
 * 21) Constitutional law and constitutional theories
 * 22) The lady's not for turning

= December 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2006 December 2


 * 1) Religious emblems
 * 2) Averting Nuclear War
 * 3) Titles and Duties of crew members on a ship
 * 4) Canada in WWIII
 * 5) The Seven Worlds
 * 6) Falkland Islands
 * 7) Lebanon and March 8
 * 8) Workers owning their factory
 * 9) Rudeness
 * 10) Proof for God's inexistence
 * 11) american law
 * 12) irection to story?
 * 13) Government
 * 14) Only $19.99!

= December 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2006 December 3


 * 1) Wa-wa-wa sound effect
 * 2) Cara Black
 * 3) Spiro Agnew Science Fiction
 * 4) Saladin and Europe
 * 5) arriage Question
 * 6) can queenEII be sued under the law of Tort in a matter in which she personally had direct involvment
 * 7) Online Translations
 * 8) Thomas Kuhn/History of Scientific Development
 * 9) Music from Bedazzled
 * 10)  Were wheels known in ancient Egypt?
 * 11) Life in Japan immediately following Japanese Surrender (under American Occupation)
 * 12) Antipater
 * 13) How goes the battle?
 * 14) Iliad translation

= December 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2006 December 4


 * 1) British American football teams
 * 2) Crime and Punishment Translations
 * 3) End of WWI Trenches
 * 4) Longest and Shortest Wars
 * 5) Colors associated with Christmas
 * 6) What is the term?
 * 7) Use of a Dremel on a gemstone.
 * 8) Cost of food in Sierra Leone?
 * 9) SWORDS and metals : what swords were made of
 * 10) Advent
 * 11) Criminal Law: Bail/Suicide
 * 12) MiddleAge-swords : various questions
 * 13) justice
 * 14) Wheat Berry substitute
 * 15) Dutch employment law
 * 16) Name of the List of "Best Universities
 * 17) Right to a telephone call on arrest

= December 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2006 December 5


 * 1) East Indians and Caucasians
 * 2) old photographs
 * 3) What does Catholicism say about certain types of sexual deviance/behaviour?
 * 4) Musical Modes
 * 5) Inclusion into the list of developed countries
 * 6) Musical modes and The Beatles
 * 7) Registers of the saxophone
 * 8) Moderation
 * 9) Progression of Ideals
 * 10) informations
 * 11) Origin of no meat Catholic days
 * 12) Duck Test
 * 13) An ancient Jewish sect.

= December 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2006 December 6


 * 1) CS Lewis- ethics and philosophy
 * 2) Interview as Stalin
 * 3) story of a giraffe with shrunken neck
 * 4) Marx and the individual
 * 5) Marking students for artistic ability in other subjects?
 * 6) hat was the name in the Beslan school hostage event in Russia?
 * 7) us/soviet casualties during post wwii occupation
 * 8) Sunni vs. Shi'a
 * 9) Shipping Corporation of India
 * 10) fernando emmanuel pelez de cordova posters of saltimbanque
 * 11) 28 Billon Dollars Net Worth
 * 12) Trafalgar Square, London
 * 13) Islam
 * 14) Mount Rushmore update
 * 15) 'North by Northwest''
 * 16) Propaganda In The Cold War
 * 17) Silly Organisations Locating Themselves In London
 * 18) Riverboat gambling
 * 19) locations
 * 20) The UK Times newspaper
 * 21) How are political borders defined
 * 22) Twelve Olympians
 * 23) Omni curious

= December 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2006 December 7


 * 1) Which Songs Are These?
 * 2) xtended Quotes from Iraqis about war
 * 3) Is there any other christian country that still have murder sentence except USA?
 * 4) Christians and the Old Testament
 * 5) Foreigners in the American Revolutionary War
 * 6) ative Americans in Congress
 * 7) Anglo-Dutch Wars?
 * 8) Macbeth
 * 9) The only place I can be free on earth
 * 10) history

= December 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2006 December 8


 * 1) Renaissance euphemisms for the phallus
 * 2) How do you taxi a B-17 backwards?
 * 3) ody Matherson
 * 4) odeo
 * 5) nternational Trade
 * 6) Song info
 * 7) History
 * 8) Dominatrix - how to?
 * 9) US residency after 5 years
 * 10) iron man

= December 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2006 December 9


 * 1) 2006 Mississippi Senate Race
 * 2) Religious Rights For women
 * 3) Jewish Marriage
 * 4) complete details about Girish Karnad, Mr.Rohinton Mistry, MrVijay Tendulkar and Mr.Vikram Seth
 * 5) Unknown Novel
 * 6) Negative Criticism of Jane Austen
 * 7) Bach and Whiter Shade of Pale
 * 8) Milk and poultry
 * 9) Atomic bomb

= December 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2006 December 10


 * 1) Food/Clothing for Mexican/Inuit children
 * 2) The reason behind Islam's rapid spread?
 * 3) Incentives for accepting refugees
 * 4) 1950s - 60s movie name spoken in the movie caused an audience reaction, what was the reaction, cheer?
 * 5) Judaism
 * 6) Does Hong Kong contribute only financially in the Asia-Pacific Region?
 * 7) newspaper delivery costs in the USA
 * 8) Belfry of Mons, Belgium
 * 9) Can anybody "translate" the 20/20 section for people who are married 20 yrs, 20 yrs of service are comleted, 3 years of marriage was active duty and the rest while retired
 * 10) US Supreme Court cases and constitutional theories
 * 11) "Falklands War" v "Falklands Conflict"
 * 12) US Military Expenditures
 * 13) Elected communists/Marxist leaders in democratic governments
 * 14) 1916
 * 15) APUS HELP

= December 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2006 December 11


 * 1) Pinochet and the Devil
 * 2) sc laws on probation violation
 * 3) experimental constitutional provisions
 * 4) State allegiances in the civil war
 * 5) materanal
 * 6) judical review in the federalist number 78
 * 7) uciano De Crescenzo
 * 8) Western democracy
 * 9) Immigration Policy in North America (specifically Canada)
 * 10) Fancy wording
 * 11) Poke center?
 * 12) Hello!
 * 13) American History

= December 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2006 December 12


 * 1) what did elisabeth kinsolving write?
 * 2) Name of fiction book with a quantum twists
 * 3) UN Charter regarding military action at the time of the Korean War
 * 4) Percentage of a TV series
 * 5) Rodeo
 * 6) Original Grant of Land from John Ingram dated 1416 A.D.
 * 7) Public conversation
 * 8) our more years!
 * 9) Where was Morgoth during the Third Age?
 * 10) Boney went to Elbow
 * 11) horsemen and marshall on Parthenon
 * 12) Comba Tai in America
 * 13) rab immigration to Palestine in the 20th century
 * 14) Law: my band releasing songs to public domain
 * 15) Is the killing of foriegn sitizens in a foreign country against their will an act of war?
 * 16) Culture: What do Poor Canadians Eat?
 * 17) Adam and Eve - Who misguided who?
 * 18) ww1 poet ..in the ****ing firth of forth

= December 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2006 December 13


 * 1) Acronym for significant other + roommate
 * 2) Jesus being prejudice
 * 3) what is the oldest form of the handfasting ritual?
 * 4) Agatha Christie
 * 5) Persian inscription
 * 6) Political Activist Organisation
 * 7) Christmas in Islam
 * 8) Memory
 * 9) Why didn't Austria join NATO?
 * 10) Federalists vs. Democratic-Republicans
 * 11) The bible and history
 * 12) Who is charles switzerland?
 * 13) Antique furniture Gainsborough chairs
 * 14) quote in front of book
 * 15) Ancient people
 * 16) Identify Piano Music
 * 17) Salem witch trials
 * 18) Real Estate LAW
 * 19) Bible inventions

= December 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2006 December 14


 * 1) Japanese Nukes
 * 2) rticles of Confederation
 * 3) step parents
 * 4) Eucharist
 * 5) fforts of congress to secure fundamental rights
 * 6) history american
 * 7) history 202
 * 8) Films featuring the British Royal House of Stuart
 * 9) Sleigh ride
 * 10) archetypes in world religions
 * 11) Reliable source for used book prices?
 * 12) Rebuilding of cities
 * 13) Who killed Laura Palmer? (Twin Peaks spoilers)
 * 14) no shows
 * 15) numbers in orchestration
 * 16) raq / Vietnam US deaths
 * 17) Anorexia nervorsa patience's relation to her mother
 * 18) hose son was shot?

= December 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2006 December 15


 * 1) Pantheon
 * 2)  Pantheon building maintenance ?
 * 3) PS3 odds
 * 4) A society ruled by smart people?
 * 5) News montage
 * 6) irst time I added content
 * 7) Why does Vesper *** in Casino Royale the film?
 * 8) Fines in Football
 * 9) Blue things in Tangier
 * 10) British drama trivia
 * 11) hat was the name of General Charles Gordon's batman at Khartoum?
 * 12) Real-life consequences of new Quebec status
 * 13) Justice system of gold rush mining towns.
 * 14) Race car accident where the driver's brother was killed by a racetrack ambulance?
 * 15) Euripides

= December 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2006 December 16


 * 1) German  philosopher quotation
 * 2) hy is there no page about Juggy Gales from the Brill Building era?
 * 3) Nick Cave/Wings of Desire
 * 4) What are "Santa Fe pants"?
 * 5) Title of the Book
 * 6) Nobel Prize Laureate....(Women)
 * 7) Holocaust guilt
 * 8) An Iowa event

= December 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2006 December 17


 * 1) Survivor (TV series) theme song
 * 2) Who invented the hand pump for basketballs?
 * 3) achel from Another World
 * 4) Jamaican Government
 * 5) Frilly, Late '60s, British Psychedelic Rock Garb
 * 6) What are Parish records? Rugbyball 11:26, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
 * 7) Painter
 * 8) nformation on the life of Sculpture P H Mourey 1840 - 1910
 * 9) capital punishment court cases
 * 10) Muslims
 * 11) Article III  District Courts of the United States
 * 12) What Time Should Kids Open Presents?
 * 13) the Gospel of Mary Magdalene
 * 14) Action To Take To Avert Cake-spill Catastophe?
 * 15) Anderson Snow who was he?
 * 16) Jews

= December 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2006 December 18


 * 1) Who recorded the song "Kiss My Irish Ass"?
 * 2) Islamic law against depiction of the human form
 * 3) trying to find info on my father, dale hodson, who served in vietnam
 * 4) extra-territorial organizations
 * 5) Literature
 * 6) Few details regarding 'Metro' - the free daily newspaper
 * 7) Eucharist: How do Catholics receive on the tongue?
 * 8) Question about citing a person's ethnic identity on Wiki
 * 9) The film "Barfly"
 * 10) Where did "18" as the age of adulthood come from?
 * 11) Kashmir's Boundaries

= December 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2006 December 20


 * 1) olish-Soviet War 1939
 * 2) hat fallacy is this?
 * 3) ARGENTINA OPINION ON NORTH KOREA
 * 4) Staten Island
 * 5) Tenor clarinet?
 * 6) niara
 * 7) Re.  "Goodbye, Mr. Chips"
 * 8) Reference
 * 9) Film identification
 * 10) ussian philosophers
 * 11) ro-Chinese American Communist Party 2006?
 * 12) Which Azumanga Episode Am I Thinking Of?

= December 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2006 December 21


 * 1) hich ghost movie
 * 2) hristian Research Institute and WP:RS?
 * 3) Schellenberg's use of Nostradamus in invasion of France 1940
 * 4) Greek Myth? Maybe.
 * 5) Which Jackie Chan movie?
 * 6) Song artist
 * 7) Irak oil industry before and after 2003
 * 8) name for a specific ethnic group
 * 9) Tangier Ville Rail Station
 * 10) My hand hurts!?!
 * 11) FA Premier League
 * 12) diagrams or maps of egyptian pyramids (inside showing chamber locations)
 * 13) Checking surname for Sept or Clan affiliation
 * 14) Rock the Casbah
 * 15) Leeds Castle
 * 16) Items found in public places
 * 17) The Experience Machine
 * 18) Anti-kosher foods
 * 19) Questions about Palestinian elections system

= December 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2006 December 22


 * 1) People of Waterloo?
 * 2) Crowd conundrum
 * 3) Eurasian Pole of Inaccessibility
 * 4) Cresh?
 * 5) "Irrepressible Sister Miriam" by Wilfrido Ma. Guerrero
 * 6) Looking for a dance
 * 7) equest for information on painter known as J. Lettwil
 * 8) Customs laws in Australia

= December 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2006 December 23


 * 1) 02 Governor's race in Wisconsin
 * 2) sex education
 * 3) Asian or Aboriginal?
 * 4) How to get projects from company/ or making clients?
 * 5) The Riddle Song (Traditional)
 * 6) Name this book
 * 7) Why does the world seem to hate Saddam Hussein?

= December 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2006 December 24


 * 1) Ande Ande Lumutan
 * 2) Initial Public Offering
 * 3) CEO Salaries & Bonuses
 * 4) Cultural Assessment

= December 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2006 December 25


 * 1) New Testament
 * 2) Changing date from BC to AD
 * 3) Appius Claudius Caecus
 * 4) Scipio Cornelius Africanus - defeated Hannibal
 * 5) novel about black boy written before 1960
 * 6) Appius Claudius Caecus ("the blind"; c. 340 BC-273 BC) relationship to Philip II
 * 7) Free Trade of Human Organs
 * 8) Francesco Petrarch - De Viris Illustribus
 * 9) Pope Vigulus and Oregans.
 * 10) what was used as winter-clothes in the old days ?

= December 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2006 December 26


 * 1) Sunken Ship
 * 2) use of pictures on the wikipedia-reference page ?
 * 3) Inequality?
 * 4) Why do Westerners use green color for positive and red color for negative in stock market?

= December 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2006 December 27


 * 1) US influence on UK entry into the Eurozone
 * 2) Style of future husbands of Princesses of York
 * 3) Abstention from pre-marital sex
 * 4) Balaam's ass
 * 5) Jerome: De Viris Illustribus (On Illustrious Men)
 * 6) help me with the months ?
 * 7) A Problem With Statistics
 * 8) buenos aires argentina police
 * 9) Is there a concise, fact-based web site that provides summary information on both sides of controversial issues?
 * 10) Fastest growing religion
 * 11) Samuel Reichmann

= December 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2006 December 28


 * 1) Globalization letter by economist
 * 2) looking for a specific sheet music website
 * 3) Why does society seem to find the idea of prisoners being sodomized amusing?
 * 4) Did Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes say this?
 * 5) politcal opinons of the royal family
 * 6) Father Christmas
 * 7) The Odyessy - Comparing Pages 124 - 141 in the book to the movie
 * 8) Bank closures in the US

= December 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2006 December 29


 * 1) Existence of my own mind
 * 2) The Black Sea ?
 * 3) Cargo ship v/s Cargo airline ?
 * 4) Old Middle English spelling for Jesus
 * 5) Biblical Name meanings
 * 6) British territories sold to the US in WWII
 * 7) Miami Beach
 * 8) A question of psychology
 * 9) Money / Banking / Investing
 * 10) Calling the UK England
 * 11) Monocular Blindness
 * 12) Saad EL hariri
 * 13) Cloth in Europe on the 1100-1300's
 * 14) "Heavy Manners"
 * 15) [Burgas Port]]

= December 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2006 December 30


 * 1) Avignon papacy - 46 Years
 * 2) Question on the Buddha's first sermon
 * 3) Who is this?
 * 4) Law: accidental overhearing of confession
 * 5) Town twinning
 * 6) Reserve requirement of Canadian Banks
 * 7) Open market operation
 * 8) Medieval currency
 * 9) Re.  "Goodbye, Mr. Chips"
 * 10) Shoes on or off ?
 * 11) Sha'biyat question
 * 12) what exactly was diefenbaker's achievement?
 * 13) Big Booty Song Lyrics
 * 14) psychology
 * 15) A Somerset Maugham short story about a man and an elephant
 * 16) Hanging Saddam's dog - truth or WP vandalism?
 * 17) Where can I find a good archive of videos/pictures of American soldiers violating human rights in Iraq?
 * 18) God being Jesus's father

= December 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2006 December 31


 * 1) Anyone else go like Saddam?
 * 2) Humans and Monkeys?
 * 3) Conflicting information on U.S. currency
 * 4) The Bible as the word of God
 * 5) Resolves of the Pennsylvania Assembly on the Stamp Act
 * 6) Do Objectivists support prison rehabilitation?
 * 7) Rome travel guide
 * 8) Colour-madness
 * 9) or Blok
 * 10) Defunct UK magazine - nothing here and little elsewhere