Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/December 2007

= December 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 December 1


 * 1) Romanticism: Literature
 * 2) Who is the author of this painting? / Unrecognizable signature
 * 3) Did America ever get it's 'garden hose" back?
 * 4) Why the black population is still growing in Sub-Saharan Africa?
 * 5) Christmas
 * 6) Marius, or The Fugitive - in English?
 * 7) Stalemate in World War One
 * 8) Wilderness years
 * 9) Anjirō
 * 10) What kind of dough to use?
 * 11) Frederick the soldier
 * 12) painting as a response to flowers
 * 13) Socio ethnocentric
 * 14) An Allegory
 * 15) Seasonal quiz help

= December 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 December 2


 * 1) Can someone write me some poetry
 * 2) The Potato and France
 * 3) Catholics under Elizabeth
 * 4) Ratification of international treaties by France
 * 5) Fair use
 * 6) Switzerland military
 * 7) Rendition by US Authorities (non terrorism cases)
 * 8) Problems in the aboriginal communities??
 * 9) Franco and the fugitives
 * 10) Baghdad in Afghanistan?

= December 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 December 3


 * 1) findings map that shows northern european tribes reach into england and ireland
 * 2) Mad monarchs
 * 3) Kosovo
 * 4) Rabbi Kook and the Shemittah year
 * 5) Ireland from a historical point of view
 * 6) John Maynard Keynes quote on tedium of stock-trading
 * 7) Swiss wars
 * 8) Taifa and Almoravids
 * 9) Medical/Cosmetic Tourism Lawsuits
 * 10) Reading comprehension - Harry Potter

= December 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 December 4


 * 1) Russian Music
 * 2) Name of artist for Blood Money cover art
 * 3) George Sand
 * 4) texas native american tribes
 * 5) Catholic Saint and the Holy Spirit
 * 6) Analysis of Emily Dickinson Poem
 * 7) "A Charlotte Zolotow book"
 * 8) French failing
 * 9) Chinese Belief
 * 10) Why war?
 * 11) first generation entrepreneurs
 * 12) Oh hell, I just screwed something up!
 * 13) Assurance
 * 14) What role did Caeso Malleus participate in for the Second Punic War (about 200 BC +/-)?
 * 15) Alexsander Eiduk
 * 16) Can someone explain this video?
 * 17) Need a German type name for a German shepard puppy
 * 18) Entering Heaven -
 * 19) Cromwell and parliament
 * 20) Hanafuda cards
 * 21) Hindus wearing Karakul caps
 * 22) Is this right?

= December 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 December 5


 * 1) Somalia Arab League?
 * 2) Removal of church/god from public education system
 * 3) Tom Driberg
 * 4) Article about the Mongol Invasion of Persia is needed
 * 5) Movie Based on Tolstoy Book
 * 6) Urban Warfare in world war one
 * 7) Divorce in the UK
 * 8) Near death experiences and heaven
 * 9) Origin of Government
 * 10) T. Roosevelt letter to Edwin Arlington Robinson
 * 11) SS recruitment
 * 12) Indemnity payments during the Russian Civil War
 * 13) Beowulf
 * 14) One child policy and Islam
 * 15) Tanks
 * 16) Leprosy in Europe
 * 17) military as an alternative to prison
 * 18) Tkachyov and Lenin

= December 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 December 6


 * 1) Gabroo
 * 2) A name from Beckett/Berio
 * 3) Does any work by Marx or Lenin desribe Communist society?
 * 4) Cold Chills / "Heilige Schauer" or "Holy Shiver" in German Romanticism
 * 5) Kalizi, Assyria
 * 6) Sign languages
 * 7) Famous last words
 * 8) Tudor poor
 * 9) Serving military officer should hold a political office. Any supporter?
 * 10) stamps -- north rhodesia, pre-independence
 * 11) War spy doll maker
 * 12) Generation Y
 * 13) Muhammed
 * 14) rectangle flag of nepal
 * 15) Fernão Mendes Pinto
 * 16) Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 December 6
 * 17) Syphilus in Europe
 * 18) Nationalist objectives
 * 19) Relient K and homosexuality
 * 20) Executions in the Past

= December 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 December 7


 * 1) Jesus as a given name
 * 2) UK Scale in Maps
 * 3) One Spartan
 * 4) Weird historical coincidences
 * 5) Shipping drama set in Bermuda
 * 6) Art of Lighting
 * 7) Dutyless Daughters
 * 8) Caligula's horse
 * 9) Leopold III
 * 10) Looking for the title and artist of a French painting
 * 11) Impact of Terrorism
 * 12) Historians and travellers from antiquity
 * 13) Christmas Pudding
 * 14) Economics book
 * 15) More music like this?

= December 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 December 8


 * 1) Ghost story
 * 2) The Catholic Church's position on the undead?
 * 3) Romanticism:music
 * 4) What is the USA equivalent of the UK Companies House
 * 5) English Inn Signs
 * 6) F. Saunders
 * 7) Mazarin and Machiavelli
 * 8) The Two Tenors
 * 9) German invasion of Russia
 * 10) Danger! kidney beans!
 * 11) Business research in the US, starting with owner name.
 * 12) Lifestyle//Literary style of the 1800's...
 * 13) Study of Lighting
 * 14) Government regulation of the economy
 * 15) Philip of England and Ireland, disowned unlike the Orangist William
 * 16) Germans in England

= December 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 December 9


 * 1) What do MBA's do ?
 * 2) Scottish and German colonies compared with the Anglo-Irish and French, in North America
 * 3) Mysterious felony
 * 4) Louis XIV
 * 5) Kant, Schopenhauer and the Will
 * 6) Anglo Catholic?
 * 7) Slovenian Liberation Front
 * 8) Relationships with Jesus
 * 9) What is "The porheron statement"?
 * 10) Mary Tudor and Edward the Sixth
 * 11) Darfur conflict
 * 12) The Second World War in America
 * 13) Zheng He ( Author's)
 * 14) British state opening of parliament
 * 15) A strange Irish custom?
 * 16) American citizens and Puerto Rico

= December 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 December 10


 * 1) Masque of Anarchy
 * 2) Throne speeches
 * 3) The Alamo
 * 4) George Brown College General Science and Arts Schedule Arts
 * 5) Reconstruction and its results on former slaves
 * 6) Interfaith sex in medieval Europe
 * 7) Jeopardy quiz show
 * 8) Russia at the end of WWI
 * 9) Identifying a piece of music
 * 10) Art
 * 11) Leagal or not leagal? That is the question
 * 12) Kierkegaard and third-best
 * 13) Waterloo and after
 * 14) Mass Suicide

= December 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 December 11


 * 1) Emancipation laws in Texas
 * 2) International Literary 1992-2007 Prize winner or nominees
 * 3) 3 types of Hajj
 * 4) A Doll's House questions
 * 5) Buchner and atheism
 * 6) european explorers
 * 7) Future imperfect
 * 8) Art and urban regeneration...
 * 9) Italian partisans
 * 10) What are Christmas in Sweden?
 * 11) Victorian occupations
 * 12) Story of Civilization by Will Durant
 * 13) Cold Chill or Holy Shiver

= December 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 December 12


 * 1) Has George Bush ever met Osama Bin Ladin
 * 2) Smallish Countries
 * 3) Mechanism design theory and environmental regulation
 * 4) Napoleon and the Marseillaise
 * 5) Question appearing on my final
 * 6) Jean Pierre Pellissier
 * 7) The health of FDR
 * 8) Montaigne on memory
 * 9) Charles Edward, Duke of Coburg
 * 10) What's My Sign?
 * 11) How are judges assigned in the  Los Angeles County Superior Court?
 * 12) The Balkans and their language
 * 13) Escapes from the Soviet Gulag
 * 14) Malaya and Indo-China
 * 15) On how one addresses saints
 * 16) Philosophical concept

= December 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 December 13


 * 1) Industrial Revolution
 * 2) Mediaeval Royal Descendents of the Byzantine Emperors
 * 3) Zheng He
 * 4) Did Germans in WWII believe they were fighting a defensive war?
 * 5) Mary
 * 6) Italian wars
 * 7) Suez Canal Sculptures - Two Monumental Harpies - Sphynx-Like Women
 * 8) Driver's licenses
 * 9) Cranford
 * 10) Another Soviet question

= December 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 December 14


 * 1) Will to Power
 * 2) Philip, King of England
 * 3) A true story?
 * 4) Mohammad Ali JInnah VS Mahatma Gandhi
 * 5) Army of Paraguay
 * 6) Thoughts
 * 7) Find a Book
 * 8) Super Furry Animals
 * 9) Who wrote this bit of verse?
 * 10) Petain the defeatist

= December 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 December 15


 * 1) Equivalent before the invention of computers
 * 2) Did George W. Bush hit his father?
 * 3) Why is there no Engelist or Engelism?
 * 4) Credit card security
 * 5) Latin Empire compared to Holy Roman Empire
 * 6) Wagner a Nazi?
 * 7) King Billy

= December 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 December 16


 * 1) Financing the revolution
 * 2) HIndi and Tamil
 * 3) Belgium
 * 4) Source for this verse about Thermopylae
 * 5) Is knowledge over-managed? Evaluate the accuracy of this statement
 * 6) Templars in England
 * 7) Plead the 5th
 * 8) Oldest person to be referenced
 * 9) NAFTA and Customs duty for shopping in US
 * 10) What is the current duties?
 * 11) Defending the empire
 * 12) War Writing
 * 13) Old Swiss Confederacy
 * 14) Are Hegelians bound by the Categorical Imperitive?
 * 15) Pound sterling

= December 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 December 17


 * 1) how would you draw a gondolier
 * 2) The Rise of Western and European Civilization
 * 3) Today's equivalent of one pound sterling in 1978 in Britain
 * 4) Doggy story
 * 5) Kinship terminology
 * 6) First Naval Victory?
 * 7) German Names
 * 8) Tale of Two Cities - question about sequel(s)?
 * 9) (Very) Christian names
 * 10) Headlam and Christian Socialism
 * 11) Constitutional Law
 * 12) USA Presidential Candidates
 * 13) Henrik Ibsen

= December 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 December 18


 * 1) A few questions about world trade.
 * 2) Tamo tigers?
 * 3) Industrial Revolution
 * 4) Karl Marx Young and Old
 * 5) Examples of Conflict/Irony in "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"
 * 6) Is cream cheese and lox kosher?
 * 7) Plate armor worn during the American revolutionary war and napoleonic wars
 * 8) British constitution
 * 9) Modern swords?
 * 10) Cultural Relations
 * 11) Differences between abaya, burqa, and jilbab?
 * 12) Sex scandals
 * 13) Christians?

= December 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 December 19


 * 1) Ancient Greek architecture
 * 2) Where did it come from?
 * 3) Bible
 * 4) American colonial contact and discovery films
 * 5) Quatre-cent vingt et une (hope I got this right)
 * 6) Napoleon's downfall
 * 7) Nazism / Hatred
 * 8) Valeri - Curious about Latin Translation
 * 9) Mad all his life
 * 10) Cultural Diffusion
 * 11) Looking for study or news item about zoning in Los Angeles that is hurting food consumers

= December 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 December 20


 * 1) Cosmetics and culture
 * 2) Fine arts
 * 3) Use of logaritms in economics
 * 4) GRE in the UK
 * 5) Nazi voters
 * 6) What did the Marxists get right?
 * 7) More on the crusades
 * 8) Domestic life in Georgian England

= December 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 December 21


 * 1) Countries
 * 2) Hair dyeing and straightening cost
 * 3) Parents Rights
 * 4) Theories about Values and Ethics in Youth Work
 * 5) Livy in english
 * 6) Lasting legacy of our greatness
 * 7) novelists getting published in C17 Europe?
 * 8) Captives in the war of the kingdoms

= December 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 December 22


 * 1) 1964 World's Fair
 * 2) Bob Considine
 * 3) Jahangir nanak
 * 4) What is the income range for middle, upper middle and upper classes in America?
 * 5) Looking for source of quote.
 * 6) Sole Proprietorships and Partnerships

= December 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 December 23


 * 1) Mistakes in Holy Books and Proving Religions False
 * 2) Fox on Barbados
 * 3) Hamilton and Montrose
 * 4) the promised one of Islam and the Seal of the Prophets
 * 5) Italian army in WW2
 * 6) Cruelty reduced disposal

= December 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 December 24


 * 1) Bourgeois charms?
 * 2) Why do Canadians shop in US?
 * 3) The Iron Guard
 * 4) Why was simi banned?
 * 5) explain process of putting up a picture for explanation
 * 6) American Indian Declaration of Independence
 * 7) what is the commercial law?

= December 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 December 25


 * 1) Six Questions To Norman Mailer
 * 2) Looking for a photography project about a modern second coming.
 * 3) Angels

= December 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 December 26


 * 1) Smallpox erradication and the soviet union
 * 2) Angela Lansbury - Contact Information
 * 3) 250 pages book prize winner and finalist
 * 4) Music video I saw

= December 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 December 27


 * 1) Re Angels and wings or no wings.
 * 2) Names
 * 3) Harrods
 * 4) [Latin]  Is the link the work cited? Is it worth linking?
 * 5) Joe Keeper
 * 6) Marie Antoinette's children
 * 7) Civil war in Pakistan
 * 8) Eating the Salad with his Fingers -- famous person who defies etiquette and the sheep who follow... (SOLVED)
 * 9) Louis XIV at war

= December 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 December 28


 * 1) UNAM student population
 * 2) Aesthetics, etc
 * 3) Somebody wanna decipher this site for me?
 * 4) Governing Structure - officers - ranks of British Raj, East India Company
 * 5) watercolour artist   possibly spanish
 * 6) Charisma in U.S. Presidental elections
 * 7) Bombardier Q Series
 * 8) Joshua Gianavel
 * 9) Napolean and the 1812 invasion of Russia

= December 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 December 29


 * 1) Looking for pics - help
 * 2) logrolling--has anyone heard of corrupt dealmaking betw.public defenders and
 * 3) GDP in the 70-s
 * 4) Asaish - Kurdish secret police?
 * 5) Textbook use in the US
 * 6) What Dutch painter signed with "ploos"
 * 7) Bangladesh provincial government?
 * 8) DMV in south carolina website

= December 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 December 30


 * 1) Thought experiment
 * 2) Sonata in G Major (Haydn)
 * 3) Men's Penis size
 * 4) Undercover cops...
 * 5) Postcodes in Upminster
 * 6) Androboros

= December 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 December 31


 * 1) Where do/did Yugoslavia's external and internal borders come from? When were they first drawn? By whom?
 * 2) Elam, Pennsylvania
 * 3) The Guaraní people and the Jesuit Reductions PRIMARY SOURCE
 * 4) W. German coins: just for W. Germany or for all of post 1990 Germany?
 * 5) Is all economic regulation "socialism"?
 * 6) William Bunce - At the Battle of Trafalgar
 * 7) Benazir Bhutto's manner of death