Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/February 2008

= February 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 February 1


 * 1) Somali-canadians in toronto
 * 2) Regions of Somalia
 * 3) Tamil Tigers
 * 4) Jazz tune
 * 5) Austro-Hungarian interests at the Treaty of Versailles
 * 6) JC-1 H1 History: Bizonia?
 * 7) Pakistan
 * 8) Whiplash!
 * 9) The gift-loan
 * 10) Do you recognize this tune?
 * 11) astrology question for astrologers  :)
 * 12) word history
 * 13) What do MEDCs owe to LEDCs?

= February 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 February 2


 * 1) One error or two?
 * 2) Unusual rock assemblies
 * 3) Herbert Spencer
 * 4) World Tour
 * 5) energy consumption
 * 6) Parodies of Coleridge's "Kubla Khan"
 * 7) reflections on a vase/mirror/etc.
 * 8) Constituent Assemblies dismissing Congresses
 * 9) 100 years of best sellers
 * 10) Intricate mysteries
 * 11) How to write literature

= February 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 February 3


 * 1) Intelligence and wisdom
 * 2) Treasure Island
 * 3) Sales Taxes on Ebay
 * 4) Song
 * 5) Horse Racing and the Horse's Age
 * 6) Names of schools - Scots/Scotch?
 * 7) images of buddha
 * 8) Bestsellers in the UK
 * 9) George Washington
 * 10) Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 February 3
 * 11) Children's Book a Metaphor for WWII
 * 12) Gothic cathedrals

= February 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 February 4


 * 1) Political terminology
 * 2) A Medal of a Friend
 * 3) Britain and Rome
 * 4) When did people start smiling in photographs?
 * 5) Test of October
 * 6) What really is absolute pitch?
 * 7) Muslims Hindus India Pakistan
 * 8) Choosing a college
 * 9) Independence of Rhodesia?
 * 10) can i eat dogfood?
 * 11) Historical price data for retail automobiles

= February 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 February 5


 * 1) How do you get over the idea that online dating is weird and pathetic?
 * 2) Need info on St. Mary's Church of the Assumption in Wilkes-Barre,PA
 * 3) Extreme elements photographers in the 70s
 * 4) Do people get reimbursed for a travel expenses going to a job interview in Switzerland?
 * 5) Links between language and reality
 * 6) Cancelling postal orders
 * 7) History of data
 * 8) Ethics
 * 9) Schopenauer and free will
 * 10) Location of archives of Gerald Abrahams
 * 11) photographer - mass naked people
 * 12) Rap music, M to the C
 * 13) Multinational Force and Observers (MFO) in Egypt&mdash;Current Deployed U.S. Forces?
 * 14) Orwell and Trotsky
 * 15) Italian heraldic question

= February 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 February 6


 * 1) middle ages joustin
 * 2) Khutbah
 * 3) somali female dress
 * 4) John McCain
 * 5) speeches
 * 6) Ordinary life in the Third Reich
 * 7) Guitar fret markings
 * 8) Social Security Benefits
 * 9) Fundamentalists vs. Evangelicals
 * 10) Van Gogh PowerPoint Presentation
 * 11) 2 questions ...
 * 12) sociology help
 * 13) When does Virginia get to vote in the Primary elections?
 * 14) Peloponnesian War
 * 15) interaction between humans
 * 16) Burma dictatorship
 * 17) Name of Short Story

= February 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 February 7


 * 1) Mahatma Gandhi
 * 2) Jacob Burkardt / coining of "Renaissance style."
 * 3) Waz up i neeed help On a report!!!
 * 4) Movie screenwriting
 * 5) Is the Metatron really the voice of God or is Alan Rickman lying to me?
 * 6) Senator vs Senator
 * 7) How to become a Muslim?
 * 8) Presidential candidates losing their home state
 * 9) Turks in Germany
 * 10) Names and backgrounds of wives of the Karaite exilarchs
 * 11) Name of a symbol?
 * 12) Mayan artifact?
 * 13) The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940

= February 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 February 8


 * 1) Software business
 * 2) Quote from an Aboriginal
 * 3) Berlin and the cold war
 * 4) Rumi
 * 5) Tale of two Revolutions
 * 6) Lowest paying jobs in America
 * 7) Who is Cletus?
 * 8) King Richard III
 * 9) Which of the 48 States has the cheapest residential real estate?
 * 10) Summary of Human History
 * 11) Question about economic stimulus package
 * 12) the presidential election
 * 13) Does animals have nationality?
 * 14) Losing Popular Vote in US Primary elections?
 * 15) Heraldry: Order of blazoned Fields
 * 16) Family name question
 * 17) Music translation: notation for bells

= February 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 February 9


 * 1) Can't reinsert trombone tuning slide
 * 2) Is there a 'Follower effect,' or something to that extent?
 * 3) The Bible on Marijuana.
 * 4) who are mid-May's other children?
 * 5) English Civil War, Glorious Revolution & Act of Settlement
 * 6) did the portuguese discover the Americas first before Columbus??
 * 7) Orleanism and French politics
 * 8) Procopius and the Secret History
 * 9) Where does Hegel outline his theory of tragedy?
 * 10) Arab Muslim nations vs.civilization
 * 11) Quran
 * 12) Country Song
 * 13) Superdelegates

= February 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 February 10


 * 1) Men who lost virginity to prostitutes
 * 2) Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach's definition of God
 * 3) Virgin Islands
 * 4) US-Canada relations; Parliamentarians and Royalists, not Whigs and Tories?
 * 5) The Merry Monarch?
 * 6) symbols
 * 7) Rabbi Moritz Gudemann's brother-in-law
 * 8) First world war race riots
 * 9) Sunni Madhhabs
 * 10) Culture of Somalia and Bangladesh
 * 11) Identifying a piece of music
 * 12) Readable Classics
 * 13) Simpsons, deontology, and utilitarianism
 * 14) Napoleon and Germany
 * 15) From Homer to Henry James - What's this narrative technique called?
 * 16) How did Bridget Bishop come to be charged with witchcraft in Salem Village?
 * 17) frankenstein
 * 18) Roman mystery
 * 19) the spanish and dutch empires

= February 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 February 11


 * 1) HISTORY
 * 2) Are haitians Afro french while Dominican Republic are Hispanic?
 * 3) Valentine's day greetings
 * 4) The West Wing
 * 5) When is the poll close of 3 states election in 12 February 2008?
 * 6) Is the Hegelian triad thesis-antithesis-synthesis really a myth?
 * 7) Tears
 * 8) Military Vicar
 * 9) Deafblind
 * 10) Christopher Brookmyre Wikipedia entry
 * 11) Different forms of Nazism during WW2 (Germany, Italy and Japan)
 * 12) Prince Potemkin's English village
 * 13) Marines fighting and dying for our Right to Free Speech...
 * 14) Turkey after WWI
 * 15) LGBT or Straight?
 * 16) Amartya Sen
 * 17) Books on St.Francis of Assisi as diplomat and adventures in Egypt

= February 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 February 12


 * 1) Murder, She Spoke
 * 2) U.S. election primaries and conventions
 * 3) stalin the leader
 * 4) Introduction to Israeli/Palestinian conflict
 * 5) Russian Revolution and the working class
 * 6) emilian school
 * 7) Iliad and Odyssey
 * 8) Royal charter
 * 9) Europe's opinion of Barack Obama for president?
 * 10) Did the Clintons remove items from the White House that did not belong to them?
 * 11) Iris Habib Elmasry
 * 12) Lady Macbeth's Sin
 * 13) Capitalist
 * 14) astrology question!! yay!!

= February 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 February 13


 * 1) Government and market economy
 * 2) Ello Friends
 * 3) Obamicans
 * 4) What is the definition of a shatterbelt?
 * 5) Microsoft Sales
 * 6) Inscriptions on Paris building
 * 7) Police in France
 * 8) Journey from Vienna to Magdeburg in 1889
 * 9) Peerages
 * 10) Why is Potter so Popular?
 * 11) Image highly disturbing.
 * 12) "Greeks" moving out of (present day) Greece and being replaced by Slavs in Middle Ages?
 * 13) what is the sexiest non-pornographic (non-obscene) picture on the Internet???

= February 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 February 14


 * 1) Aust indigenous culture
 * 2) Starving or freezing to death
 * 3) Help with List of Chairmen of the Federal Reserve.
 * 4) Giotto and Arena Chapel
 * 5) More JC-1 H2 Economics help needed
 * 6) famous late starters?
 * 7) Outcomes
 * 8) United States Economic Stimulus Act of 2008
 * 9) Name of the Pop/Alternative Band from maybe Sweden? Switzerland? With like 30-40 members?
 * 10) American newspapers' endorsement of Presidential candidates
 * 11) Medieval twins
 * 12) WARFARIN USE??.
 * 13) Two strong candidates from one party?
 * 14) Question form de.WP: Why do american presidential candidates point on persons with their finger before starting to talk?
 * 15) fall of the romanovs
 * 16) Are there any countries where cocaine is legal (not a legal question).
 * 17) Question Regarding CAIR

= February 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 February 15


 * 1) Clause about prohibition sale on the internet
 * 2) Zeal
 * 3) What exactly is a magnetic field?
 * 4) Waaaz up! (again)
 * 5) commemorative pins
 * 6) The Lotus Sutra
 * 7) architect of New Museum of Contemporary Art
 * 8) nation rural emloyment gaurantee scheme by indian govt
 * 9) Eagles-myth and symbol
 * 10) naďve vs nad've vs naïve
 * 11) Nazi sphinx

= February 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 February 16


 * 1) Animal rights in Islam and other religions
 * 2) Is this neutral monism, panpsychism, or what?
 * 3) Crowley's Confessions
 * 4) Septuagint the first translation of a religious text?
 * 5) Gladstone liberals
 * 6) Mayan math
 * 7) Drawn out nature of US presidentdial race
 * 8) Literary hoax author?
 * 9) Newspaper Vending Machines
 * 10) Unconditional Surrender
 * 11) al-Qaeda statements
 * 12) Drinking milk in a bowl
 * 13) Rousseau's Paradox?
 * 14) The Visitor
 * 15) school colors

= February 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 February 17


 * 1) Can we build a person from nicknames?
 * 2) Spanish ducat in 1500s
 * 3) Kosovo and Albania
 * 4) "Open Piano Suggestion"
 * 5) Opening time for British University
 * 6) Olympics boycott
 * 7) Stimulus package refunds for working kids
 * 8) musical term
 * 9) Beginning, middle and end?
 * 10) Sicilian questions
 * 11) Axis Public Opinion
 * 12) "water bottles" of antiquity

= February 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 February 18


 * 1) What can I learn from literature and philosophy
 * 2) Chord Progressions
 * 3) America-related reading
 * 4) Old British "wake-up"
 * 5) Lady Jane over time
 * 6) Raynald the Bastard
 * 7) Finding information within the reference desk
 * 8) law of marriage on england
 * 9) how to write a grant
 * 10) Archbishop and Sharia
 * 11) Photos of Mormon polygamists with their wives
 * 12) Numbering of Western Canadian municipalities
 * 13) Buddhist beliefs
 * 14) Indian National Congress and Bharata Janata Party leaders
 * 15) Sri Lankan Political Party
 * 16) Pakistan People's Party and Muslim League(Q)
 * 17) celine anti-semitism
 * 18) Pronounciation
 * 19) wounded students
 * 20) Schizophrenics and Deaf people

= February 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 February 19


 * 1) Pizarro boats (how did they get there?)
 * 2) Correlations to libertarianism
 * 3) Which historian?
 * 4) Middle East Leader of the 1980's
 * 5) Rate of evolution of culture
 * 6) Waterloo train fares
 * 7) Anti-Semitism and conspiracy theory
 * 8) Hitler
 * 9) Please ID book
 * 10) German Artist Jacob Winfried
 * 11) Quotation

= February 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 February 20


 * 1) Francisco Hernández de Córdoba (conqueror of the Aztecs).
 * 2) Judas and Thamar
 * 3) Historical revisionism?
 * 4) UK living: Glasgow or Edinburgh
 * 5) Gilgamesh adaptation
 * 6) Town and Country Planning Act 1990
 * 7) what is the most romantic song?
 * 8) Stoning in the Bible/Old Testament
 * 9) Algeria indipendence
 * 10) Lake Norman
 * 11) Jacobite Rebellions
 * 12) Ethnic cleansing of Silesia

= February 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 February 21


 * 1) incest
 * 2) Question regarding a trademark
 * 3) Is "Ethnic Cleansing" a word of approval for genocide?
 * 4) Lost poem on the "Lewis Carroll" page
 * 5) Turner Collection
 * 6) Why is Nutella so expensive?  Can I make it at home from hazelnuts (filberts)?
 * 7) The Anglo Scottish Wars
 * 8) is there any modern-day no-man's-land?
 * 9) Mozart
 * 10) Britain and the first world war
 * 11) Ultimate fighting championship
 * 12) Kenya
 * 13) Template ghosting mystery
 * 14) ship explosion

= February 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 February 22


 * 1) Decisive battle
 * 2) Guglielmo Giannini+ Fascist trials
 * 3) giotto/arena chapel
 * 4) Identifying piece of classical music (Michael Nyman, perhaps?)
 * 5) Salerno Coat of Arms Interpretation
 * 6) Insults to humanity
 * 7) Extradition
 * 8) Law and nazis
 * 9) US National Anthem
 * 10) Clarendon
 * 11) Restitution of Belongings to Holocaust Survivors

= February 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 February 23


 * 1) OLD AIRCRAFT CARRIER #8
 * 2) Baptist church
 * 3) Stalin in Libya?
 * 4) Women's fashion history?
 * 5) 1952 abolition of identity cards in the United Kingdom
 * 6) Jewish anti-semitism
 * 7) What percentage of the world population owns a car, phone, and a house?
 * 8) World Educational Statistics and Demographics
 * 9) Mauritius
 * 10) Gorbachev
 * 11) Remembering a painting/artist
 * 12) rescueing narrative from directed interviews
 * 13) Ronald Reagan and the Cold War
 * 14) Flash in the pan?
 * 15) Gorky and Lenin

= February 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 February 24


 * 1) In camera proceedings in the USA
 * 2) Chomsky as junk scientist
 * 3) Very famous piece of classical music
 * 4) What TV news/current affairs programmes can be watched live on the internet?
 * 5) why is there the discrepancy between the economically liberal/laissez faire but socialy conservative policies of the US Republicans and the UK Conservatives
 * 6) What is it that Hillary Clinton is freaking out about?
 * 7) Why are the people of Tanna (island) so nice?
 * 8) Stupid question from a stupid person
 * 9) Dante
 * 10) How do I get extradited?
 * 11) Incorrect reference in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anat
 * 12) Over 65s as Percent of Population in United States / Europe Historical Data?
 * 13) Commonly heard classical music piece -- what's it called?
 * 14) Rivers of Blood
 * 15) English in Scotland
 * 16) Soviet Anthem
 * 17) Italian unification
 * 18) Was the U.S. Constitution originally written on hemp paper?
 * 19) Source for Quote Wanted
 * 20) Information please
 * 21) African American History
 * 22) Tom Wait's "Buzz Fledderjohn".
 * 23) what makes a faux turtleneck faux?
 * 24) Wolsey and the supremacy
 * 25) why is boxing legal?
 * 26) a gentleman in every parish
 * 27) Israel daily life
 * 28) historical account

= February 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 February 25


 * 1) Who is De Gouy, a composer from Arban's Grand Method for Trumpet?
 * 2) Jewish missionaries
 * 3) Worth its weight
 * 4) Hyperinflation
 * 5) Ipatiev House and Ekaterinburg 217.43.8.161 (talk) 14:04, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
 * 6) Clausewitz and Iraq
 * 7) Purchasing power parity and geographical differences in cost of living within a country
 * 8) War against japan

= February 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 February 26


 * 1) Changes in laws after changes of government (in EU)
 * 2) Holst, The Planets, fourth movement
 * 3) Investment advice from Bill
 * 4) Poem about ice skating, the moon, and death
 * 5) Definition of misdemeanor?
 * 6) Could I get a neutral ONE-PARAGRAPH summary of Israel and Palestine
 * 7) Pronunciation of "Salome"
 * 8) Dietary laws and categories.
 * 9) Ecclesiastical History
 * 10) school memorials
 * 11) Legacy of the Nazis

= February 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 February 27


 * 1) Swastikas and the law in Europe
 * 2) auguste comte
 * 3) Amy Van Horne
 * 4) Man of the World
 * 5) Love..
 * 6) Yugoslav provinces & Serbia
 * 7) Cultural differences
 * 8) Square bullets
 * 9) Is there any sexual position that was first invented theoretically and only later actually performed?
 * 10) time adjustment
 * 11) Foundations of the Nineteenth Century
 * 12) Quote attributed to Winston Churchill "Small men who covet power should never be allowed to touch it"
 * 13) Microsoft fined - where does the money go?
 * 14) German/Japanese direct military collaboration during World War 2
 * 15) Richard the Second his downfall
 * 16) Article on speech/thought disorder
 * 17) Jews and the Black Death
 * 18) Landscape painter
 * 19) Buying / redeeming pachinko balls
 * 20) Why is Gravel still running for president?

= February 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 February 28


 * 1) List of people who died while testifying before Congress?
 * 2) HOW DID THE draft SUCCEED???
 * 3) Joining the US Marine Corps
 * 4) Taare Zameen Par
 * 5) Ubuntu
 * 6) The Queen's taste in art and music
 * 7) Setting the day of Easter
 * 8) noir/mtv
 * 9) Please, don't understand....
 * 10) LaTeX issue

= February 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 February 29


 * 1) Mestizos
 * 2) Song called "Stickball"
 * 3) enforcement of rules
 * 4) Chomsky's Politics
 * 5) Mikoyan Purge
 * 6) Into the wild
 * 7) Post Cold War
 * 8) most popular vacation times in USA?
 * 9) First morning cigarette
 * 10) prose edda, aesir, troy etc
 * 11) Looking for a demon named Diophosys
 * 12) The Bodhisattva and Buddhahood
 * 13) how many generations of grammar-based language users have there been?
 * 14) 75 Year Public Domain, Copyright Law Questiones? Re: FILM