Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/February 2010

= February 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 February 1


 * 1) U.S. utility patent expiration
 * 2) How do I avoid this economical Tsunami
 * 3) Immigration
 * 4) Medical and legal questions
 * 5) Patent law
 * 6) Twenty-Ten Redux
 * 7) Was Bamiyan always part of the Kabul-Shahi
 * 8) french composer
 * 9) Comparison of Samoa and American Samoa
 * 10) Successful people reared in rural surroundings?
 * 11) Leaving a will contingent on an act of chance
 * 12) Details of Catholic polity
 * 13) Communion in Christian Churches
 * 14) Little People in Little Houses
 * 15) where whites and asians get marry
 * 16) lottery taxes
 * 17) Pre-modern Jews who speak and read a foreign language
 * 18) Islam and images
 * 19) Why is my analogy unpopular?
 * 20) Firm diversification

= February 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 February 2


 * 1) Economy Growth
 * 2) Bail Bonds companies
 * 3) Where do the intelligent/ well-informed people get their news?
 * 4) MicroWarehouse and Felix Dennis
 * 5) Scientific misconduct in social science
 * 6) Fobana
 * 7) Writer of book (or article) falsely reporting Iraq War atrocities by US troops
 * 8) A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present

= February 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 February 3


 * 1) Female and Male Population of India
 * 2) Does "Hand Vagina" appear in the literature?
 * 3) Which nationality did she have?
 * 4) Zen Calendar 2/2/2010 explanation please
 * 5) Speed limits
 * 6) Handling of wannabe tough guys (Psychology)
 * 7) Post Office Investigation Branch
 * 8) Changing last names

= February 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 February 4


 * 1) Did Paul von Hindenburg ever give the Nazi salute?
 * 2) Greeting someone without addressing the person's name
 * 3) organizational behaviour
 * 4) Did anybody ever really try this ploy?
 * 5) Attractiveness
 * 6) does/did noam chomsky drive, and if so what kind of car
 * 7) King Arthur and English royals

= February 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 February 5


 * 1) Personal qualities admired in others by criminals etc?
 * 2) equity yheories
 * 3) Book recommendations for Spanish learner
 * 4) does steve job wear the same thing to work as his public appearances?
 * 5) To be able to get in Whitehouse or government office

= February 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 February 6


 * 1) rate of margin growth or decline
 * 2) Agent of the Queen?
 * 3) Christopher J. Alden
 * 4) Different terms for different houses of bicameral legislatures
 * 5) Golden Nymph
 * 6) updated funds total from charity telethon
 * 7) Causes/motivations of boasting
 * 8) Why was the Salvation Army anti-union?
 * 9) barrak obama born in kenya???
 * 10) History of attitude toward farting
 * 11) Books critical of Marxism
 * 12) if I knew of an easy way to get FREE money ...
 * 13) Duke Of Lugo
 * 14) Hermann, Margrave of Brandenburg-Salzwedel
 * 15) Painting where the national spirit teaches a slave child to read?
 * 16) origin of wilton ct. phone number prefix - porter 2

= February 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 February 7


 * 1) Flight 180
 * 2) Wealthy village in Rajasthan desert India
 * 3) book publishing
 * 4) Typo in Bold

= February 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 February 8


 * 1) Meaning of CDT 00120
 * 2) Find relatives of Miguel Rebeiro in portugal
 * 3) Where do Mennonites live in Canada
 * 4) bridges
 * 5) Marxism, communism, socialism, whatever it is called question
 * 6) Is it possible to be proud or ashamed?
 * 7) Writer of book (or article) falsely reporting Iraq War atrocities by US troops
 * 8) chinese lending
 * 9) legal routing number on check
 * 10) Possible qualification to claim title of Emperor

= February 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 February 9


 * 1) Extant Mayan And Aztec People
 * 2) Democratic socialist countries ranked at 2nd and 3rd highest GDPs in the world
 * 3) Explain the concept of music licensing for online broadcasting to me
 * 4) Transport with horses in China
 * 5) Prussian East India Company
 * 6) How much of the US's wealth due to its natural resources per capita?
 * 7) Where did the iron ore for battleships come from?

= February 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 February 10


 * 1) Where can I find information of people killed per person
 * 2) religion questions
 * 3) pacific island cult
 * 4) Forgotten weapons of the Cold War
 * 5) Suilliac
 * 6) Selling owned office building and leasing it back
 * 7) Arab World university history
 * 8) Ludwig Freiherr von und zu der Tann-Rathsamhausen
 * 9) Worst electoral result for a sitting President
 * 10) Need help finding a couple pieces of provincial legislature from the Ontario archives / e-laws
 * 11) Betting on the underdog ... always

= February 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 February 11


 * 1) Who's the head of government
 * 2) Finding what an LA Times article says
 * 3) British royalty mostly descended from the fifth-century Saxon King Cerdic?
 * 4) origin of term "the good war"
 * 5) Average length of service for current US house of reps
 * 6) German Empire education

= February 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 February 12


 * 1) Guantanamo Terrorists
 * 2) Medellín v. Texas
 * 3) Enforcement powers of the European Union
 * 4) 2nd undefeated German commander in World War I?
 * 5) Looking for a children's book that ...
 * 6) Sierra Leone painting
 * 7) Philosophers and translations
 * 8) Kennedy and his leg
 * 9) Everyone at least 50th cousin to everyone else
 * 10) Suicide rates for various occupations and lifestyles

= February 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 February 13


 * 1) monopoly of physical force in a state
 * 2) Côte d’Ivoire Coat of Arms
 * 3) Coat of arms of Burma
 * 4) Jewish law
 * 5) British royal family
 * 6) Debunking JFK conspiracy theory
 * 7) Statistical data on career motivation
 * 8) children of prostitutes
 * 9) Nicotine as a Schedule I
 * 10) Indo-Pakistani war of 1971 -- speech by Indira Gandhi

= February 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 February 14


 * 1) SAR dogs in Hurricane Katrina
 * 2) Other Royal families with British members
 * 3) Where do the Lufthansa executives work out of?
 * 4) When was World War I first called World War I?
 * 5) Finding a poem

= February 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 February 15


 * 1) British Queen consorts
 * 2) Where is F5?
 * 3) Head of State Citizenship
 * 4) Colorado Springs mayor Robert M. Isaac
 * 5) Double Entry Bookkeeping
 * 6) Theology: Literary-Historical Method
 * 7) Time traveling
 * 8) M.I.A not allowed into the U.S.A

= February 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 February 16


 * 1) When did the majority of western women become stay at home housewives?
 * 2) how is the iraq war significant to the civil rights movement?
 * 3) Reuben James Burial Place?
 * 4) Inge Bongo
 * 5) When was AD year numbering first used?
 * 6) Tri-lateral War?
 * 7) The Poggle who had no toes
 * 8) Anna Cirksena
 * 9) Government response to 1990 recession
 * 10) Napoleon, Oldenburg, and Russia
 * 11) Carbon economics
 * 12) Ludwigshafen memorial installation, 28 October 2008
 * 13) Côte d’Ivoire: Population Pyramids
 * 14) Why are people so sexually minded on the internet, but not in real life?
 * 15) Meaning of  "progressive" as an adjective in music
 * 16) Zingh empire
 * 17) Murder rate by income level
 * 18) US armed forces demographics
 * 19) Ma Ying-jeou and the European Union
 * 20) quake memorial
 * 21) ebook site like Amazon?

= February 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 February 17


 * 1) foreign literature in schools
 * 2) working together
 * 3) Name of long book then movie, author died in obscurity without publishing it
 * 4) Need help identifying people in this picture (Reagan-related)
 * 5) When was this village created
 * 6) AFRICA    HOME
 * 7) Kitzmiller v. Dover
 * 8) Twelve Apostles in Sub-Saharan Africa
 * 9) Driving East Coast
 * 10) Capital Controls
 * 11) Papal Assassinations
 * 12) Fish on Ash Wednesday

= February 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 February 18


 * 1) Affair
 * 2) Friendships
 * 3) biographies of presidents
 * 4) Copyright for Oklahoma state song?
 * 5) psychology/psychiatry of Jesus of Nazareth
 * 6) What causes dark ages
 * 7) Statute of limitations
 * 8) "Australia's First Fleet" printed medium by Jonathan King.
 * 9) The Times archive
 * 10) UK Chief Rabbi
 * 11) Texas plane incident
 * 12) Flatiron Building, New York
 * 13) Thinking outside yourself
 * 14) What state lotteries allow winners to claim in total anonymity?

= February 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 February 19


 * 1) Indifferent to and ignorant of topics like taxes, insurance, social security, political activities, economics, etc.
 * 2) PHYSIOLOGY
 * 3) Automatic writing
 * 4) Tribe in Northern India
 * 5) Diptych of novels?
 * 6) MMMMMMD
 * 7) Source/authenticity of MKULTRA photo?
 * 8) Why do Bermuda and Greenland have the same net worth?

= February 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 February 20


 * 1) Mardrus-Mathers translation
 * 2) lgbts and communists
 * 3) antarctic
 * 4) Ever seen a 2008 model Audi RS6 Avant in the wild outside Europe?
 * 5) british royal succession
 * 6) What % of the Roman empire was Jewish?
 * 7) Parental rights of a rapist
 * 8) Can someone link to (or create) a map of countries of Europe as for a child?
 * 9) Move to commons tag for other-language Wikipedias?
 * 10) Danger of the "you can, if you want, attitude"
 * 11) Hypothetical monarch numbering
 * 12) Fall of Dutch government
 * 13) Who were the Knights of Anara?
 * 14) youkai wearing a mask or a veil

= February 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 February 21


 * 1) No Winter Olympic boycott 1980-84
 * 2) Available poems of David Diop
 * 3) Crossing over from one Indian state to another Indian state
 * 4) Indian defaultsort 1
 * 5) Percentage of Americans who have been abroad
 * 6) Burma-Bangladesh border
 * 7) Which Christian theologian said "there are infants a span long in hell?"
 * 8) 1984 (Orwell's book)
 * 9) Inequalities of "equal" primogeniture
 * 10) Dante Alighieri translation
 * 11) Financial Times article this weekend

= February 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 February 22


 * 1) Australians' high rate of travel
 * 2) Law Creating/Eliminating Postal Police
 * 3) Is the level of inequality greater now than any time in history?
 * 4) Slang Words for A WW2 German Solider
 * 5) US illegal farm worker wages
 * 6) Conjoined Twins and Murder
 * 7) USA BOP deficit
 * 8) Rasputin's effect on russia
 * 9) Plato's epistemology: how is knowledge of others possible?
 * 10) Malines Belgium
 * 11) How to refer to Dutch people in 18th century
 * 12) ken Carey, author of the third milinium

= February 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 February 23


 * 1) General of Volunteers
 * 2) History of RAF Molesworth
 * 3) Where is English Poetry Now ?
 * 4) Energy Suppression Conspiracy
 * 5) Dress code of wearing a veil
 * 6) Midrash available in translation, online
 * 7) School Project.
 * 8) Arabic surnames
 * 9) possibly offensive question -- don't read if easily offended:  Does slavery make business sense?
 * 10) A fell 5% with respect to C, B fell 4% with respect to C, does it mean that B gained with respect to A?

= February 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 February 24


 * 1) british royal family
 * 2) signed white house passes
 * 3) For goods and services for which supply is equal to amount demanded, where do the signals for equilibrium come from?
 * 4) Wikimedia Foundation
 * 5) Nobody wins if there are more than 3 candidates
 * 6) boiler explosion memorial fund
 * 7) Future president quote
 * 8) Wikipedia statistics
 * 9) Ellis Island passenger records
 * 10) Bully = gang with one person in it?
 * 11) Economics of Treasury Consumers Bill of Rights
 * 12) What powers does an Associate of ILEX hold?
 * 13) How do I run for THE GOV in The 2010 Gubernatorial California Elections?
 * 14) Why don't 1099-B forms just tell you what your capital gain/loss is? (U.S. tax question)

= February 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 February 25


 * 1) Crosscountry Skiing Cross
 * 2) self-determination vs territorial claims
 * 3) Statistics of first names by ethnicity
 * 4) Left wing vs. right wing
 * 5) Lionel Arbuthnot
 * 6) Political polling in the UK
 * 7) a great and effective lie to get someone to stop smoking?
 * 8) Cost of proposed UK Identity Cards
 * 9) Felling trees in Conservation Areas, UK
 * 10) PhDs in Christian theology

= February 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 February 26


 * 1) How many layers of government in the UK?
 * 2) Socially awkward/inept mentor
 * 3) The Holocaust & Compensation
 * 4) Disputes over ownership of art works that went to litigation?
 * 5) Japanese police procedures
 * 6) DuPont market shares in India
 * 7) can dead people be fined?
 * 8) Trade directories and trade organisations in the UK?
 * 9) Sodomy in Dante's Inferno
 * 10) Look up telephone number tariffs, UK?
 * 11) Erskine May Parliamentary Practice
 * 12) Correlation between Sloboda, Slobodan and Slobodian
 * 13) Music Sales Data
 * 14) Help about ships
 * 15) Seigneurs of Sark

= February 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 February 27


 * 1) US Federal Government pay scales
 * 2) Proportion of the population (not households) of the UK without car transport
 * 3) Highest award for successful entrepreneurs
 * 4) Metric city blocks in Melbourne?
 * 5) £ v. $
 * 6) Adding another user to work on the same new article
 * 7) May '68 - Quotes
 * 8) What book?
 * 9) is the bit of water in the Pope's ...

= February 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 February 28


 * 1) carrier
 * 2) New police in Spain
 * 3) NAACP/NAAWP
 * 4) Sand art
 * 5) Achievement seen as insubordination
 * 6) Obama and Palin dancing photo