Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/December 2011

= December 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 December 1


 * 1) Oldest African American vote
 * 2) Air Canada strikes
 * 3) What counts towards GDP?
 * 4) Legal term for ambiguous clause interpreted strictly
 * 5) Where do White Men find their Asian Wives?
 * 6) Famous black Americans named after famous whites
 * 7) Metropole Hotel, Belfast
 * 8) Midrash Citation Help?
 * 9) Trilingualism in Pakistan and India
 * 10) Robin Hood's king
 * 11) When/ if science proves there is no god or that god is not necessary
 * 12) Windows or open square on boat?

= December 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 December 2


 * 1) Illustration identification
 * 2) Stations of the Cross at Pájara
 * 3) Nothing
 * 4) Story about a child who enjoys pain
 * 5) Women allowed to study in Portugal
 * 6) What is the difference between "Christian Fundamentalist" vs. "Conservative Christian" vs. "Christian Right"?
 * 7) Specific Walmart Profit Margin Question
 * 8) A little incident in the library

= December 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 December 3


 * 1) Taiwan (ROC) presidential debate
 * 2) Black people of Pacific
 * 3) Israeli fighter pilots tested when young?
 * 4) Brideshead Revisited reference
 * 5) Contribution of Eating to Cholesterol Levels
 * 6) Ulster Protestants and the Great Famine
 * 7) Greater Toronto Area politicians of visible minority background
 * 8) LGBT adoption and lack of male/female role model
 * 9) International law - military action against Iran
 * 10) Who did Poe read?
 * 11) Reply of the Sultan to the Zaporozhians
 * 12) Why is the United States Constitution so short?

= December 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 December 4


 * 1) Names of wars in the USA
 * 2) Buongiorno ?
 * 3) Why do so many Europeans hate Gypsies so much?
 * 4) GK question  -- Business, Brands, companies
 * 5) List of 1996 Supreme Court of Canada decisions in Wikipedia
 * 6) Tui Manuʻa Elisala
 * 7) Monotheism & Old Testament
 * 8) Was there any attempt to link Constantinople to the myth of Rome's Trojan origins?
 * 9) Why academics don't contribute to Wikipedia
 * 10) Were Monaco or part of Switzerland ever part of an Arab caliphate?

= December 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 December 5


 * 1) Last woman hanged in thew UK?
 * 2) Budget cuts and "creating efficiencies"
 * 3) plush version
 * 4) Yugoslav navy
 * 5) Christmas tree

= December 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 December 6


 * 1) World War Three
 * 2) Stalin speaking Georgian
 * 3) I need to find the cheapest community college in Kansas.
 * 4) Josef Bühler's foot
 * 5) Other name on the second term's ballot

= December 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 December 7


 * 1) Gay stereotypes
 * 2) Royal republicanism
 * 3) 1990 Canterbury vs Wellington
 * 4) When is consent given to be governed?
 * 5) Do you need faith to live?

= December 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 December 8


 * 1) Languages of Belgium, Luxembourg and Switzerland
 * 2) Partial globe
 * 3) Syria vs France
 * 4) Ottoman Sudan?
 * 5) Demographics South Africa
 * 6) Difference between generic and brand-name guidelines for biologics
 * 7) Afghanistan time

= December 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 December 9


 * 1) Germanic people nations Roman Catholic and Protestant
 * 2) How to write well
 * 3) TRADOCtrine
 * 4) Tui Manuʻa Elisala
 * 5) What type of military equipment did the Qing use during the Opium Wars?
 * 6) monarchs of Arabian Gulf
 * 7) Looking for Moroccan princess married to Lebanese
 * 8) Black man speaketh with forked tongue (X-Factor)
 * 9) Empress Dowager Bo's tomb

= December 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 December 10


 * 1) Question Moved to Languages Desk
 * 2) 1930 Census Cook Co, Illinois, USA
 * 3) Liberal Party of Canada counterparts
 * 4) Saudi Arabian Airlines headquarters
 * 5) republican party vs democrat party (US)

= December 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 December 11


 * 1) Grand OLD Party?
 * 2) Interest on gold accounts?
 * 3) Peru/Fujimori bio
 * 4) Thomas Nast and His Terrifying Santa
 * 5) Gender of Indian River Names
 * 6) Andrew Johnson and overthrow plot
 * 7) biography of an artist
 * 8) History of DC Voting Rights

= December 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 December 12


 * 1) Japanese mythology
 * 2) Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee Painting
 * 3) Pro-islam Parties in Europe
 * 4) Casualties among USCT during ACW (regarding casualties among white troops)
 * 5) Building options reccomendations
 * 6) GK Question
 * 7) African leaders
 * 8) Who Built the Pyramids?
 * 9) Muslim empires Europe
 * 10) Elevating a principality to a kingdom

= December 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 December 13


 * 1) Mayan inheritence Customs
 * 2) Help in identifying antiquity

= December 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 December 14


 * 1) How are aerial victories recorded?
 * 2) Wikipedia and calendars
 * 3) UK Pension Pot
 * 4) Wad Hijam in Sudan
 * 5) Being easily offended

= December 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 December 15


 * 1) Animal representations of countries
 * 2) Military monuments in 18th century British India
 * 3) IQ test for research purposes

= December 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 December 16


 * 1) Camila
 * 2) Bank and Credit Union
 * 3) Converting from musical notation to SI units
 * 4) Zju-27, Zu-27 or Sic-27
 * 5) Wearing a tartan
 * 6) European monarchs relating to Queen Elizabeth II of UK

= December 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 December 17


 * 1) Quote
 * 2) Dream dictionaries
 * 3) Buddhist schools
 * 4) Charles IV of the United Kingdom

= December 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 December 18


 * 1) Human Relationships
 * 2) Attention span
 * 3) Munich, Tennessee
 * 4) UKIP multiculturalism
 * 5) The most intriguing quotation in Genesis
 * 6) Is there a reason why monotheism is so popular in society?
 * 7) Why the English Wikipedia is racist in some articles?

= December 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 December 19


 * 1) Stolen credit card used at USPS
 * 2) USA presidential veto override
 * 3) memories of a bygone business
 * 4) Street number required for defunct Belfast pub
 * 5) Languages of the Jeberti
 * 6) Variability in crime rates
 * 7) Nazism and Occultism
 * 8) Atheism in a novel
 * 9) Kingdom of Imereti

= December 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 December 20


 * 1) Why'd it take so long for books (codex form) to be invented?
 * 2) Detectives series Scandanavia England Netherlands Belgium
 * 3) Louis XIIII
 * 4) Pyongyang Overwhelmed with Grief at Demise of Kim Jong Il
 * 5) Name origins
 * 6) to know about humanity and sexual questions
 * 7) Convicting John Doe
 * 8) Bharatiya Janata Party Khalistan movement
 * 9) Pro-violence murals in Northern Ireland
 * 10) Teeny tiny books
 * 11) Arguments for Anti-Homosexuality

= December 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 December 21


 * 1) Who was the first child born into a European family in an American Colony?
 * 2) Letter Zyu
 * 3) Looking for info on painter Lauritz Holst
 * 4) North Korea
 * 5) religious beliefs concerning man made perfumes
 * 6) Sex offender's "the talk" with neighbours
 * 7) MLA citation style
 * 8) That half trillion

= December 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 December 22


 * 1) Economic questions
 * 2) Christian converts
 * 3) citations
 * 4) Quest plot
 * 5) Word for Male Orgasm in Pre-Tudor England
 * 6) Norman D. Hill
 * 7) New Mexico birth certificates

= December 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 December 23


 * 1) Religious divisions: leadership vs dogma
 * 2) Who will become president of the United States if....
 * 3) Was Henry Ward Beecher  colonel in an USCT regiment ?
 * 4) What significance does voter registration have in the US, and is your registration public?

= December 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 December 24


 * 1) Anonymous Authors
 * 2) James Cook's feather cloak(s)
 * 3) Der Holle Rache

= December 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 December 25


 * 1) Count Ciano
 * 2) Arguments against 'religion provides support' or 'religion provides a sense of community'
 * 3) Democratic roosters
 * 4) When was the regency?
 * 5) Hawaiian Islands
 * 6) Last British royal to die abroad before Diana
 * 7) Elizabethan fiction and the Reformation

= December 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 December 26


 * 1) Haughty Byzantines
 * 2) mystery novel dealing multiculturalism
 * 3) Scandinavian mystery writers
 * 4) Psychology textbook recommendation
 * 5) Westernmost naval battle of the American Revolution
 * 6) Which Earl of Northumberland?

= December 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 December 27


 * 1) About US Congress
 * 2) How popular is the emperor in Japan?
 * 3) How did the descendants of Cain survive the flood?
 * 4) Sir Arthur E Turner-Thomas VC KG
 * 5) Parents who left their children behind in the care of family while moving to another country
 * 6) female scholars of Islam
 * 7) Afro-Latin Americans slavery
 * 8) A taxable value of two geld units
 * 9) Mayan Civilization and Technology?

= December 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 December 28


 * 1) French Revolution with New France
 * 2) US Congress
 * 3) Police stealing soda in Hilltop Mall
 * 4) What's it called?
 * 5) Islamic Africa empires
 * 6) Conspirator in the Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand who later became a WW2 Tito partisan?
 * 7) Named air battles

= December 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 December 29


 * 1) Would anyone kindly explain how North Korea even OBTAINED Detroit iron?
 * 2) Imprisonment and voting rights
 * 3) US President vs. US Congress
 * 4) Bedroom window
 * 5) Amadeus
 * 6) Bosnian election

= December 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 December 30


 * 1) US government
 * 2) Rebecca (novel)
 * 3) ISBNs
 * 4) Louisiana Native Guards in Pascagoula (09-4-1863) :?
 * 5) Cut-up technique
 * 6) Towns which are surrounded by larger towns

= December 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 December 31


 * 1) Repercussions of Huguenot
 * 2) Old editions of Old Farmer's Almanac
 * 3) Did William A. Wallace write his onwn memorial address?
 * 4) From any well-known business (offline and on), what can we get for free (or a good discount) on our birthdays?
 * 5) Source of a Quotation by Dietrich von Hildebrand
 * 6) India-China border
 * 7) US Congress (predictor)
 * 8) Accessible Translations