Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/December 2009

= December 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 December 1


 * 1) World's oldest religions
 * 2) Indian International Students
 * 3) classical music song
 * 4) In the 'Muslim Demographics' video, a popular youtube video, where does he get this piece of information?
 * 5) Reproduction rates in  the EU countries
 * 6) Divorce rates in the USA
 * 7) Succession to the British throne: Protestant descendants of Catholics
 * 8) Legality of using someone else's unsecured network in UK
 * 9) Purpose of swim trunks inner netting

= December 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 December 2


 * 1) Borough vs County constituencies
 * 2) Did they or didn't They ?
 * 3) SCi Fi Book involving unaware humans
 * 4) Question moved from article space
 * 5) Legal status of illustrations depicting pedophilia in Canada
 * 6) Soldier who kept a diary during the Napoleonic wars?
 * 7) Ordering employees to lobby Congress
 * 8) French poet who taught for a while in a village school in England?
 * 9) Regarding Canadian law and bankruptcy
 * 10) Language use by world leaders during meetings/summits
 * 11) Trends of black and white couples
 * 12) Hindu chant in Indian Jones and the Temple of Doom?
 * 13) Peace Corp updated
 * 14) Natural-born life

= December 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 December 3


 * 1) Dean Koontz Book
 * 2) How people look up information
 * 3) infant skeletons found in well between convent and monastery.
 * 4) Osama Bin Laden's Gun
 * 5) national geographic nature movies

= December 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 December 4


 * 1) Can someone please explain the context of this Dawn article
 * 2) Popular minimalist design style
 * 3) Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen's religion
 * 4) Three groundbreaking SF stories
 * 5) What was that beautiful Taste ?
 * 6) George Washington member of an Scandinavian society in Philadelphia around 1760
 * 7) Larry K Fish

= December 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 December 5


 * 1) Christmas in the Finnish Orthodox Church
 * 2) The remotest places on earth, or in mainland Britain
 * 3) Marcus Livius Drusus children flock
 * 4) German citizen
 * 5) No Derivative Works
 * 6) Museums in Chelyabinsk, Russia
 * 7) island

= December 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 December 6


 * 1) Polynesian expansion
 * 2) U.S. Public Law
 * 3) albert henry prime minister of cook islands 1965
 * 4) John J. Farrell (Lord Mayor of Dublin)
 * 5) Why are highways named after police officers who died in the line of duty?
 * 6) Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold - Gay couple?

= December 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 December 7


 * 1) What happened to the Hitler Diaries?
 * 2) Shakespeare's non-masterpieces according to Bloom
 * 3) Prayer
 * 4) US Supreme Court case temporal overlap
 * 5) Copenhagen climate change conference
 * 6) Symbol identification?
 * 7) What are my rights?  What would most likely happen?
 * 8) Otto Graf Lambsdorff
 * 9) Decimus Junius Silanus (Consul 62 BC)
 * 10) What is "magisterial Protestantism"?
 * 11) God guiding people
 * 12) the humanitarian imperative
 * 13) Ed Koch

= December 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 December 8


 * 1) Uknown Painting
 * 2) A question from the ad/business world
 * 3) Ancient Roman tribe Lemonia
 * 4) International phone numbers
 * 5) When Hu Jintao meets African Leaders oversea

= December 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 December 9


 * 1) Bengali folklore
 * 2) 1
 * 3) Cruel and unusual punishment
 * 4) Australia & New Zealand Navy against Japanese Whaling?
 * 5) Teaching technique for young adults
 * 6) early Congolese bishop
 * 7) Pompey
 * 8) Critisms of John Kufuor
 * 9) The perfect defense against capital punishment?
 * 10) Illegally collecting unemployment in the US
 * 11) Coronation of Richard II of England
 * 12) Confessing upon hearing Not guilty verdict

= December 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 December 10


 * 1) Car manufacturers in Bangladesh
 * 2) Correlational studies?
 * 3) Pradeshiya Sabha in Sri Lanka
 * 4) First science fiction literature
 * 5) rednecks and reverse parody
 * 6) Lead sentences in Nationalism article

= December 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 December 11


 * 1) Why would a nondisclosure agreement be governed by Texas?
 * 2) Emulating Greek pottery
 * 3) Skilurus
 * 4) Translating trademarked names
 * 5) Philosopher brought out of retirement
 * 6) Homosexuality in the United States of America
 * 7) Papua New Guinea in Southeast Asia
 * 8) What is the significance of a sun with a face?

= December 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 December 12


 * 1) Elections for filling casual vacancies of Australian senators before 1977
 * 2) county commissioners on fateful day
 * 3) Albert VII, Archduke of Austria
 * 4) any connection
 * 5) The Gravestone with the Bloody Hand
 * 6) What did Amerigo in 1497
 * 7) Why did Susan Sontag call the white race the cancer of humanity?

= December 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 December 13


 * 1) Just a few quick questions about musical notation
 * 2) Credit Default Swaps and Argentina
 * 3) Where can I read latkes, latkes good to eat online?
 * 4) Inflation-adjusted data on GDP per capita
 * 5) Legislation passed by one house of Congress but not the other in current session?
 * 6) the german fatherland
 * 7) Odes (Horace)
 * 8) Sherlock Holmes copyright
 * 9) We have the "Island of Great Britain" ... so where is the "Island of Little Britain"?
 * 10) Medicare part D penalty
 * 11) Similarities between ancient and modern Greek
 * 12) Updated websites for intellectuals?
 * 13) Ends, ways, and means, in the military etc
 * 14) Incestuos marriage in old Europe
 * 15) North Pole

= December 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 December 14


 * 1) Julius Caesar
 * 2) Why is corn still subsidized?
 * 3) Territorial evolution of Russia
 * 4) Tommy Lynn Sells Execution Date?
 * 5) Works of al-Biruni
 * 6) English translation
 * 7) Corned beef
 * 8) Red + green = Christmas colors
 * 9) The Bordeaux Diligence
 * 10) Question about  9/11 conspiracy theories
 * 11) pumpkin soup
 * 12) Regent if Scottland in the 1540s
 * 13) What is a "Special Envoy to the Prime Minister"?
 * 14) Railway mileage (UK) 'zero' points.

= December 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 December 15


 * 1) Yazoo City Mayors
 * 2) Movement of the sun and moon around the sky
 * 3) Literature question
 * 4) Success
 * 5) Pre-Islam religion in Arabia?
 * 6) Georgia's Death Row
 * 7) Christmas movies during WWII
 * 8) Constitutional rights + same-sex marriage (not a math equation :)

= December 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 December 16


 * 1) Naughty James Gillray prints
 * 2) Digital theft
 * 3) Photograph of Rabbi Yosef Zemelman of Przedecz Poland
 * 4) Richmond Formulae.
 * 5) Geography question
 * 6) How to explain invalidity of this syllogism?
 * 7) For white peoples to have a dark brown skin
 * 8) insurance info question
 * 9) Pirate Latitudes
 * 10) Help me find a Poe essay

= December 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 December 17


 * 1) Unacceptable and acceptable
 * 2) Where's the fallacy in this?
 * 3) Summary Book on the Roman Empire
 * 4) Biggest buildings
 * 5) geography question
 * 6) DJ Hero & Copyright Law
 * 7) Earth Changes II
 * 8) Geography question
 * 9) Abraham Lincoln
 * 10) When was she regent?
 * 11) Jefferson Davis

= December 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 December 18


 * 1) Socialism & the US
 * 2) Jury nullification
 * 3) Where is Kupfermühlen Bay?
 * 4) Desecration of portraits in Iran and Islamic law

= December 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 December 19


 * 1) uk law.....a need to inccrease sentences.
 * 2) Why doesn't the USA invade and capture Canada?
 * 3) Peru's my question
 * 4) Product
 * 5) How many Southeast Asians in India?
 * 6) Actuarial data determination

= December 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 December 20


 * 1) Concerning an East German flag designed to be hung vertically
 * 2) Abstract Expressionism cartoon
 * 3) Lethal injection
 * 4) Christiane Wilhelmine Luise of Solms-Roedelheim and Assenheim
 * 5) regent franco
 * 6) Search and rescue dogs in Thanksgiving Day Parade
 * 7) "a life is worth anything"
 * 8) The role of birth control and foreign aid in the fight against world hunger
 * 9) Ram Bahadur Bomjon
 * 10) Democracy question

= December 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 December 21


 * 1) African Tribe With Bright White Teeth & Eyes...
 * 2) Map request
 * 3) Classic Science Fiction recommendations please!
 * 4) Word for the unintentional stealing of ideas?
 * 5) Intelligence service of Jordan

= December 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 December 22


 * 1) Archduke Ferdinand assassination
 * 2) Geography question
 * 3) Judaism and Death
 * 4) How did Athens benefit from the discovery of silver in the mines at Laurium?
 * 5) Parme and Plaisance
 * 6) Pindus Principality
 * 7) Obama and Schmidt

= December 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 December 23


 * 1) Concentration camp Wester-Faengle
 * 2) Cooking polenta
 * 3) Polish-Czech Border
 * 4) Milling dandelion seeds?  (And other flowering seeds of umbelliferae]]
 * 5) a weird question from a first time poster
 * 6) Growth
 * 7) Beit Chabad in Mumbai (Bombay) India
 * 8) Dutch ship timber
 * 9) Does India provide citizenship to foreigners?

= December 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 December 24


 * 1) In the USA, are there more White female-Asian male relationships, or are there more White male-Black female relationships?
 * 2) japan feudal era chronological chain of events
 * 3) What books should high school students read?

= December 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 December 25


 * 1) Merry Christmas
 * 2) Deprivation of political rights in China
 * 3) Sets of conditions seen as indicative of stock price rise
 * 4) xmas msg
 * 5) Who writes the Royal Christmas Message?
 * 6) Does the Queen ever sing?
 * 7) DaVinci's "Last Supper"

= December 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 December 26


 * 1) Princess of Girona
 * 2) Marrying in Washington
 * 3) Ancient Roman tunica
 * 4) Hitler's badge
 * 5) Law against comparison shopping as depicted in the film Holiday Affair
 * 6) Age of Jesus

= December 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 December 27


 * 1) us congressional districts
 * 2) property tax
 * 3) Marxist Internet Archive
 * 4) Hitler--India--Subhas Chandra Bose---questions
 * 5) Geography question - another

= December 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 December 28


 * 1) Technical  term for "part of the story" (drama)
 * 2) Are these essential features of Gnosticism?
 * 3) Question about the Portuguese Estado Novo
 * 4) There's a word for that, but I don't seem to know it...
 * 5) Hitler
 * 6) Geting out of the US
 * 7) Mineral Rights
 * 8) Arrows vs musketts
 * 9) Counterfeiting
 * 10) Cleves and Soissons
 * 11) Biological family of Jesus
 * 12) Name of a certain Korean food
 * 13) German PhD
 * 14) Second wisest man in England

= December 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 December 29


 * 1) Declining an Honorary Degree
 * 2) serial killer
 * 3) what did a typical Tongmenghui / Chinese republican revolutionary look like?
 * 4) Photograph from Algiers 1899
 * 5) Do animals have nationality / citizenship?
 * 6) Purchasing music: profit breakdown

= December 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 December 30


 * 1) Statute of limitations and extradition
 * 2) World citizenship
 * 3) Person with most citizenships
 * 4) French Guiana and the freedom of panorama
 * 5) Inverted price elasticity of demand
 * 6) EUROPEAN HISTORY: THE IMPELLER
 * 7) ANCIENT EGYPTIAN HISTORY
 * 8) The Wire and the Life and Death of the American Stevedore...
 * 9) Jerome's De Viris Illustribus translation
 * 10) Anti-empiricism in medieval thought?
 * 11) Why can't America make homosexuality legal in Afghanistan
 * 12) man shaking hands with woman

= December 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 December 31


 * 1) Truth or myth about reading ability
 * 2) Which Eutropius is this?
 * 3) Some clarification for the wikipedia article on Christmas.
 * 4) Copyright exceptions
 * 5) Geography Question
 * 6) Obama asks moms to return to school
 * 7) Exchange Rates in Germany 1930
 * 8) Why isnt the European Union regarded as a country?
 * 9) Why is Russia still so heavily involved in space despite a comparatively low GDP?