Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/December 2010

= December 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 December 1


 * 1) Prince Michael of Kent – Royal cypher
 * 2) Religion of Oscar Wilde
 * 3) Why did america invent the submarine during the rev. war?
 * 4) Kalmar Union
 * 5) Borders of U.S states
 * 6) Copyright question
 * 7) Did Arnold Böcklin paint a picture called "The Return"?
 * 8) What is a scorching bicyclist?
 * 9) Racism and mixed-race individuals
 * 10) Pakistan liberal conservative
 * 11) Rev James Blair, 1656 - 1743, Williamburg VA
 * 12) Does fiction - novels and films - make us better persons?
 * 13) Monetary exchange rate for US dollar circa 1900
 * 14) Baptism-how many days after birth
 * 15) Bangladesh Awami league Bangladeshi nationalist party
 * 16) Tombstone orientation

= December 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 December 2


 * 1) Santa Clauses
 * 2) 5-page phd thesis
 * 3) Why is there no such thing as legal insurance? How the HELL do poor people pay for lawyers?
 * 4) Were Adam and Eve Muslims?
 * 5) Economics/statistics/policy question: Tendency for a scoring metric to be increasingly uncorrelated with a variable as that metric is emphasized by policy?
 * 6) Median value of reminders
 * 7) Francophobia
 * 8) Online trending site
 * 9) Buddhist iconography and Chinese fictional literature
 * 10) Muslim belt in Toronto?
 * 11) Gay king

= December 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 December 3


 * 1) A few questions about 1000 push-ups (press-ups)
 * 2) what is this "Jewish-only roads" in Israel thing?
 * 3) i look for notable/famous examples of parents doing child abuse
 * 4) Junior Kings
 * 5) Ten Commandments in Islam
 * 6) Old flag
 * 7) Foreign language
 * 8) who are some people with disengeniuous careers? (having admitted it)

= December 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 December 4


 * 1) Taxation in the United Kingdom
 * 2) coroners court transcripts in england
 * 3) Extradition
 * 4) Why not business closed down and in prison?
 * 5) Predynastic Egypt
 * 6) Punctuated vegetarianism
 * 7) HMS Rawalpindi
 * 8) Patent for business idea
 * 9) Paper and pencil methods for managing or planning small projects
 * 10) Land property
 * 11) Purchase of a grave plot in a cemetery

= December 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 December 5


 * 1) Duchy of Lorraine
 * 2) The financial bailout - US
 * 3) There seems to be a statistical pickle here
 * 4) Are North Korean press releases written in English?
 * 5) Two Questions That Are Not Legal Advice
 * 6) Mexico question
 * 7) Riverside CA history
 * 8) Tibetan football
 * 9) Charles Bernard "Charlie" Rangel
 * 10) Wikipedia user with expertise on ethnic groups wanted for mediation
 * 11) Requesting Wikipedia entry for the Cleveland Division of Fire in Cleveland, Ohio
 * 12) Outcome of the Bed Intruder crime?

= December 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 December 6


 * 1) Questions about immigration
 * 2) The Amish have been 100 years behind us. The Model T started 102 years ago. Do they drive them now?
 * 3) Pro bono Fair Use consultation? (US, online)
 * 4) 2010 Asian Games - why was Kuwait the Olympic Athletes of Kuwait or something like that?
 * 5) Any evidence that organisations with zero secrecy would be impossible?

= December 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 December 7


 * 1) Knighthoods, peerages, Bob Geldof et al
 * 2) Looking for a sci-fi book...
 * 3) Proquest Archiver
 * 4) Carnival as a reversal of the usual order
 * 5) Getting a payday loan
 * 6) Using Aggadah (Nonlegal literature)   of Talmud literature as a research tool

= December 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 December 8


 * 1) Coronation
 * 2) Do leaked US government documents carry intellectual property rights?
 * 3) Is there an equivalent to the board of governor's waiver fee for the UC/CSU system?
 * 4) Irrationalist atheism?
 * 5) Gustave Paul Cluseret
 * 6) breakfast food

= December 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 December 9


 * 1) When did privacy become sacrosanct?
 * 2) planning frameworks in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland
 * 3) Death of King Henry VI of England
 * 4) Myth of Venice born whole from the Aegean or Adriatic?
 * 5) African-American names
 * 6) POW Camps in WW2 Germany - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalag_Luft_III#The_.22Great_Escape.22
 * 7) did people used to think the moon changes shape?

= December 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 December 10


 * 1) Who was Edith Macy?  I can only find info on a conference center that bears her name.
 * 2) British Monarch Coronation
 * 3) Somali names
 * 4) Why can't I find street gangs in Compton, CA on Google StreetView?
 * 5) Identify a 18th-century painting of three sisters
 * 6) 'Free' education that's too expensive
 * 7) Are mobbing victims sometimes at fault?
 * 8) taiwan, singapore, education
 * 9) Who was the first actress in Germany?

= December 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 December 11


 * 1) Horses in Michael Clayton
 * 2) Military Hardware in Use by the Guomindang in late 1930s
 * 3) Kumari Fulbright details?
 * 4) East Polynesian contact with mainland Australia
 * 5) Columbus

= December 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 December 12


 * 1) Font sizes
 * 2) Captain Alatriste
 * 3) Christmas gifts
 * 4) Which century were beds used?
 * 5) Why the Christian population isn't growing in India?
 * 6) Birthdate of Isabelle of Hainault
 * 7) The earliest sunset
 * 8) Valdemar III of Denmark
 * 9) Somali dance niiko

= December 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 December 13


 * 1) The Big Bang Theory
 * 2) Issue with research project and annonymity....
 * 3) 3D in China?
 * 4) Donaghcloney, County Down
 * 5) The hand in the coat
 * 6) Federal Reserve Banks private or public
 * 7) lifestyle forum for living better?
 * 8) Neal Stephenson blurb
 * 9) List of dances in India
 * 10) Party affiliation statistics for career federal civil servants in US.
 * 11) Jesus in a manger
 * 12) Punishment for sexual traitors in 1944-45 after WWII ?
 * 13) French Military in First and Second World Wars

= December 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 December 14


 * 1) 1960 U-2 Incident
 * 2) Term for fifty-US-states-and-DC-and-nothing-more?
 * 3) Global Warming
 * 4) Extradition (cont.)
 * 5) "Extension" of unemployment benefit as part of "Bush tax cuts" extension deal
 * 6) Why so little proselytizing in airports?
 * 7) Baby pictures of Jesus Christ
 * 8) Looking for new authors: What do I read next?
 * 9) governance of france
 * 10) Cosmonaut Dmitry Kondratyev
 * 11) Writing with sources from multiple languages
 * 12) Dutch arrest of WikiLeaks supporters

= December 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 December 15


 * 1) Luger pistol
 * 2) Why are the poor dirty?  It's not because it's expensive...
 * 3) gender socialisation.
 * 4) University by GRE or other standardized test
 * 5) Several questions about how things worked in a medieval barony
 * 6) What distinguishes two identical objects?
 * 7) Angels

= December 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 December 16


 * 1) When did Germaine de Staël begin?
 * 2) Obama + the GOP
 * 3) Is the Maid of the Mist exclusive?
 * 4) Japan - The Emperor's Birthday
 * 5) What countries keep the exact number of their executions a state secret and why?
 * 6) Legal question
 * 7) things to do with the right roommate to increase my quality of living?
 * 8) Questions about prohibitions in Sikhism
 * 9) Icelandic sagas at the time of Christopher Columbus
 * 10) What would happen if the United States Congress all died?
 * 11) Why is the OED online so expensive?
 * 12) Amount present in banks
 * 13) First Amendment violation?

= December 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 December 17


 * 1) Terrorist attack on Washington
 * 2) Date for Japanese painting
 * 3) How can I share my Christmas wish with the whole world?

= December 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 December 18


 * 1) Angels (cont.)
 * 2) do kurds descend from the aryans?
 * 3) Median PPP income for people in the US and UK
 * 4) Ask?
 * 5) Travel scanners

= December 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 December 19


 * 1) Historical Latin names for French cities
 * 2) What happens if the U.S. President and Vice President both die and none of the line of succession were born in the United States?
 * 3) Stock Market Database
 * 4) when  the deserters came home from Canada
 * 5) How far and how fast can a horse travel?
 * 6) What would a medieval peasant do during winter and off-season?
 * 7) King Lear
 * 8) Expensive holidays for UK delinquents
 * 9) Increasing retirement age in the UK but keeping the rent subsidy for council tenants
 * 10) Outdoor furnace laws
 * 11) Degrees of friendship
 * 12) Christian Nihilism

= December 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 December 20


 * 1) 9/11 attacks
 * 2) How many prisoners are atheist?
 * 3) How do you scape nihilism?
 * 4) Slave
 * 5) Christmas Day for Jewish families
 * 6) Eternal Hell, yet Resurrection of the dead too

= December 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 December 21


 * 1) Semi-semitic Greeks
 * 2) specific type of sobriquet
 * 3) Politics
 * 4) Is that a fact ?
 * 5) Any personal information about bordyguards of the russian Tzar Nikolay II, at least in the period of 1890-1905?
 * 6) Irish mythology - boy with long fingers
 * 7) Allegations against Julian Assange
 * 8) Icebox of Canada

= December 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 December 22


 * 1) Diaries
 * 2) The Bible in modern prose
 * 3) Israel demographics
 * 4) Dollars Spent
 * 5) True Cross
 * 6) Why would someone need wikileaks?
 * 7) compare sensory overload of aspies with epileptic seizures?
 * 8) incidence among different cultures of regularly utilizing the other insertion during heterosexual amorous activities
 * 9) Myths, superstitions and reality
 * 10) Humid Continental Climate North America
 * 11) Gift wrapping

= December 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 December 23


 * 1) how old was Paris Hilton in the sex videos?
 * 2) Christina of Denmark
 * 3) What would be the health effects (and effects on mental alertness) of the following diet for an obese Chinese-Singaporean?
 * 4) Least famous US president
 * 5) Christian and Frederick
 * 6) UK almond sugar cookie recipe
 * 7) Which country has some 30 odd cities/towns with the same name
 * 8) Car wagon full of Iron Crosses
 * 9) Is a picture where my face is on my copyright or intellectual property?
 * 10) How money affects performance
 * 11) Geography question --
 * 12) Who is the Supervisor's supervisor?

= December 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 December 24


 * 1) Property taxes
 * 2) Hindu girl speech
 * 3) cold in summer and hot in winter
 * 4) Hereditary monarchy
 * 5) what is the difference between a muslim and a jude?
 * 6) Evaluating worth of murder's memoirs
 * 7) What is the present educational canon?
 * 8) Geography /History question
 * 9) Torontonian Enclaves
 * 10) International Phone Call
 * 11) Las Vegas "comps"
 * 12) Letter from America

= December 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 December 25


 * 1) Is there any confirmation about XAT 2011 pattern?
 * 2) the Catholic Church and Santa Claus

= December 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 December 26


 * 1) Nebuchadnezzar II a Bahraini?
 * 2) Hanseatic Republic
 * 3) Name That Poet/Poem, If You Like.
 * 4) Censorship of WikiLeaks

= December 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 December 27


 * 1) is it really crass to make out at a cafe?
 * 2) What was the largest U.S. company in 1776?
 * 3) AICTE accreditation
 * 4) 2010 Harry Reid budget bill lookup?
 * 5) Yale M. A.
 * 6) SOmalis in North America
 * 7) American WWII newspaper
 * 8) australian law and the paparazzi
 * 9) POLITICAL QUESTION: how do we find the right amount of government regulation without stifling business and making them do too much tax
 * 10) Why picas?

= December 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 December 28


 * 1) UN peacekeepers Bangladesh Sierra Leone
 * 2) Popular names for governments
 * 3) Tallest vice president?
 * 4) Chopin's Ballade No.1
 * 5) Before a fixed retirement age
 * 6) Abraham Lincoln comparative height
 * 7) Why "What Is The Best Philosophy?" Is A Difficult Question

= December 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 December 29


 * 1) Catholic Communion Practices
 * 2) legal
 * 3) 2nd Book on History of Roosevelt NY
 * 4) why Parliament?
 * 5) Quote
 * 6) Golden Jubilee guest lists
 * 7) US VP.
 * 8) The pagan festival of Saturna (not Saturnalia)

= December 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 December 30


 * 1) Giants Ninepin and Thunder
 * 2) American descendants of English royalty and nobility
 * 3) poems' unknown authors
 * 4) Price of infinite goods
 * 5) interesting geography/GK question
 * 6) economy versus society
 * 7) cap tossing at graduation
 * 8) Which English queen consort had the noblest pedigree?
 * 9) House names
 * 10) English universities: teaching in cosy private rooms

= December 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 December 31


 * 1) Weddings on a Sunday
 * 2) Buying a set of pencils for artists
 * 3) Types of conservatism
 * 4) immigration