Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/February 2011

= February 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 February 1


 * 1) Percentage of felons who claim they are innocent and appeal their conviction (U.S.)
 * 2) Gonzaga name
 * 3) Cost for a water pump including labor and materials in Bangladesh in us dollars...
 * 4) Bengal Daily Wage
 * 5) Tax not being paid by British royals
 * 6) Ethnicity of Europe's royals
 * 7) Effects of U.S. government shutdown
 * 8) A logical answer to these questions?
 * 9) Newt Gingrich instead of Newton Gingrich
 * 10) 17/12/93
 * 11) Oil shocks with low inflation
 * 12) President of the US stopping a death sentence of a state government
 * 13) Bashing of Religion
 * 14) Malaysia and Muslim population of Philippines and Thailand
 * 15) What makes a song catchy and danceable?

= February 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 February 2


 * 1) what is the name of this artwork?
 * 2) Egypt's Revolution >>>>Europe
 * 3) Last names
 * 4) Thriller writer called Patterson
 * 5) Belfast's Little Italy
 * 6) Russian Orthodox question:  "first" and "second" resurrections
 * 7) Family Guy
 * 8) Why is it that Sub Saharan Africa is so primitive?
 * 9) Any democratic royalty?
 * 10) "Top secret"

= February 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 February 3


 * 1) Veiling under Atatürk
 * 2) Nelson A. Boylen
 * 3) David and Mary Thompson
 * 4) US Presidents unpopularity
 * 5) ACT/SAT prep
 * 6) Land
 * 7) Ancestors of Qais Abdur Rashid
 * 8) Edward Carpenter Poetry
 * 9) The first actress in Italy and Europe
 * 10) history

= February 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 February 4


 * 1) Killer kings
 * 2) World population pyramid
 * 3) Primer to List of Philosophies?
 * 4) Abbreviation for Senior Sergeant
 * 5) Egyptian protesters
 * 6) Geography question
 * 7) Jerusalem and Thailand/Cambodian border
 * 8) He might be a motherfucker, but he's our motherfucker.

= February 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 February 5


 * 1) Lawyer on trial defends himself
 * 2) Stella!
 * 3) More currency - the loonie
 * 4) Former British Empire not in the Commonwealth?
 * 5) Royal jewlery
 * 6) Art with a gamma camera
 * 7) Cop says: "Don't leave town"
 * 8) Famous Ancient Chinese Common Women
 * 9) William Poole House
 * 10) Christian deism? Jesuans?
 * 11) Northern Irish Citizenship?

= February 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 February 6


 * 1) Antonyms
 * 2) Gentle males
 * 3) Execution of Jesus during or after Passover
 * 4) What on earth are justice?
 * 5) how helpful is being a fluent speaker of modern Greek, to learning ancient Greek?
 * 6) California-Arizona desert murders
 * 7) innocuous do not disturb sign
 * 8) Identify painting/Greek myth

= February 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 February 7


 * 1) Do servicemen have multiples of the same uniform?
 * 2) Plead error
 * 3) City of London
 * 4) Looking for statistics on Life Imprisonment in Florida
 * 5) about annasophia robb
 * 6) Why is Sweden more likely than UK to extradite Julian Assange?
 * 7) Wikipedia Policy against giving Legal Advice.
 * 8) commentary of The Cask of Amontillado

= February 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 February 8


 * 1) Vocal range
 * 2) Sunan Airport and Air Koryo
 * 3) Peers and Knights
 * 4) Florida Property Taxation
 * 5) Pachelbel's Canon
 * 6) food to buy
 * 7) Quote
 * 8) Drawing ability

= February 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 February 9


 * 1) pilgrim(s) in an unholy land
 * 2) China
 * 3) Brussels Intercommunal Transport Company
 * 4) Reconciling one's idols with one's ideals
 * 5) Einstein Religious Views Article
 * 6) Armed bodyguards
 * 7) metals
 * 8) crossbow and archery equipment
 * 9) Interdependence quoted by Tom Harris
 * 10) Correct information about the marriage and exile of a princess?
 * 11) Sartre quotation
 * 12) What is the source of a quotation about wit and humor?
 * 13) US Military Bases on Foreign Soil
 * 14) Underage rape
 * 15) Odd State Names
 * 16) Mürur tezkeresi in Arabic
 * 17) "pressure from bond markets"

= February 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 February 10


 * 1) Buried in prison after life imprisonment
 * 2) Chinese citizenship
 * 3) The Vietnamese adult film industry
 * 4) Kindle Buddhism Book Rec? More principles, less New Age garbage
 * 5) WW2:  Russia vs. Japan: Ongoing?
 * 6) Is this the "Batiment Banque Congolaise"?
 * 7) attachment of soul in Christian theology
 * 8) James Murdoch (media executive)
 * 9) if I knew what I would believe -- i.e. that I don't believe now -- if I were smarter...
 * 10) NY Times 11 nov. 1918
 * 11) List of ship casualties

= February 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 February 11


 * 1) Psychologist treating themselves
 * 2) Best book on the Louvre
 * 3) GMT + ? - Eastern U.S.
 * 4) uncovenanted king
 * 5) List of Christian Nations of Europe
 * 6) Oscar Wilde story about Jesus
 * 7) Human eye colour
 * 8) Visiting churches and cathedrals
 * 9) Colonial and State Establishments of Religion
 * 10) What is the copyright status of books published by the Soviet state?
 * 11) Barry Bonds Steroids Trial
 * 12) Einstein's image
 * 13) Roman Britain's importance
 * 14) Fixed costs for airliners
 * 15) Business = evil
 * 16) Renew Chinese passport
 * 17) King Tut Expedition

= February 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 February 12


 * 1) Social advice - conversations
 * 2) Fuad II of Egypt
 * 3) Buddhism -- ok to feed a starving animal?
 * 4) Vikings in Cornwall
 * 5) Who is an "eminent jurist"?
 * 6) "do you think people are against you" as a assessment question
 * 7) riddle: something rather heavy someone would always have with them, where-ever they go
 * 8) Origin of the surname 'Lust'?
 * 9) Relationships in The Moonstone
 * 10) Reverend Innes and dinosaur denial
 * 11) case law resource for self-representation

= February 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 February 13


 * 1) Trade Secret
 * 2) Technology is the devil's work?
 * 3) relationship names
 * 4) Nuclear bombs at home
 * 5) Leprosy in the Roman Empire
 * 6) Does suicide send them to Hell? Mom told me this, but where in religious text does it say so?
 * 7) My Generation
 * 8) What was the combined total area of the USSR and its satellite states?

= February 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 February 14


 * 1) Grand Mosque Tirana
 * 2) Egypt's dissolvement and suspension
 * 3) Demand curves (and supply curves)

= February 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 February 15


 * 1) Computer question-answering
 * 2) Why were the Europeans successful in colonizing North America and not Sub-Saharan Africa?
 * 3) Cable Car funicular
 * 4) Israel's supposed possession of atomic weapons
 * 5) I don't understand this joke
 * 6) How many times did Labour take Britain to war?
 * 7) "District Miss'y"
 * 8) The Walsgrave triangle,Coventry.
 * 9) Where can I find the laws governing public facilities like a city recreation center?

= February 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 February 16


 * 1) Source of citation
 * 2) History of Vision and Mission Statements?
 * 3) Politics and war several in 1
 * 4) what type/field of logic is used when thinking in...
 * 5) Who originally said "good judgment comes from experience ... experience comes from bad judgment"?
 * 6) vulnerability to radicalization
 * 7) Protests in Middle East and North Africa
 * 8) Crescent Moon
 * 9) Generation identity
 * 10) Breastfeeding
 * 11) advanced question: how to play honorable poker

= February 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 February 17


 * 1) King Charles' Letter of Thanks to the Cornish
 * 2) Michel Foucault geopolitics view
 * 3) What could that number of gold coins buy in the 1300s?
 * 4) Living in Beijing with only $550 US a month
 * 5) M1911's small magazine size
 * 6) Cold war
 * 7) 1970s-era photos
 * 8) JSF, GE & UTX

= February 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 February 18


 * 1) Presidential bodyguard
 * 2) Help needed to identify type of fallacy
 * 3) How best to make known political policy wishes from the grassroots in the UK?
 * 4) Copy-and-paste PhD
 * 5) Symbol cask of amontillado

= February 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 February 19


 * 1) Name this genre
 * 2) Trying to remember a Gogol story
 * 3) Parallel time
 * 4) UK Gift aid
 * 5) "All men are created equal" and slavery
 * 6) Proceedure for issuing palaces to the royal kids/grandkids
 * 7) images of Indian nationalist movement
 * 8) A section in the Bible
 * 9) German hazmat team in orange?
 * 10) Which Irish party?

= February 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 February 20


 * 1) Wisconsin brouhaha: article?
 * 2) So how is Belgium functioning?
 * 3) Revenge and inner peace
 * 4) collective bargaining
 * 5) Whispering columns of Jerash
 * 6) poem that C. S. Lewis referenced
 * 7) Dieter Dengler
 * 8) The destruction of the Temple of Artemis.

= February 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 February 21


 * 1) Directors of Turism for San Juan Puerto Rico
 * 2) The Omnivore's Dilemma
 * 3) peace and harmony
 * 4) Michael Grade
 * 5) The  ease of accessing each of the Mayan Ruins in Central America
 * 6) Missionaries and near-naked/naked tribes
 * 7) MLA
 * 8) Why isn't Egypt invading Libya?
 * 9) airport scanners
 * 10) Population of U.S. if there was no Civil War
 * 11) 1963 Mona Lisa visit
 * 12) How And where Thomas Ellis Hardee was Murdered?
 * 13) Women musicians in antiquity
 * 14) do freelance coders or graphics designers or translators who basically just "use" their laptop and sometimes phone ever travel the world while doing so?

= February 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 February 22


 * 1) Books on arguments against I.D. and Young Earth Creationism
 * 2) is this stuff true?
 * 3) Cross of nail.....coventry cathedral
 * 4) Antony Flew (former atheist)
 * 5) Bryony Worthington, Baroness Worthington
 * 6) Poem written in response to "House by the Side of the Road"
 * 7) Trust fund kids
 * 8) Freemasonic countess in the 18th-century?
 * 9) Ancient Symbols of Hyrule
 * 10) HMS Joanna

= February 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 February 23


 * 1) Hill, James B. (1945). Autobiography
 * 2) Illegality of unapproved drugs in the United States
 * 3) Prediction by comparison to fiction?
 * 4) Pendolino trains in the UK
 * 5) merchant of venice willam shakespeare
 * 6) Age of majority in Israel
 * 7) Early 13th century song: Edi Beo
 * 8) Iran Hostage Crisis response
 * 9) 2010 local level census data
 * 10) End of the Iran-Iraq War
 * 11) Getting an investor interested in a particular project.

= February 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 February 24


 * 1) Animorphs 37 reference
 * 2) Hitler
 * 3) Yuon
 * 4) Semi-structural economic model
 * 5) Correct pronounciation of "ICE"
 * 6) Please answer
 * 7) Mutual Fund vs Index Fund
 * 8) APY
 * 9) Line-item vetoes and what?
 * 10) Multiple social classes?
 * 11) Avoiding stagflation despite oil price increases
 * 12) Royal lineage of Alimi's royal family from Ilorin in Kwara State
 * 13) High-speed train in the US (or lack thereof)
 * 14) What version of the bible would Inazo Nitobe likely have used?
 * 15) Red Square

= February 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 February 25


 * 1) Makkin wor Cheryl tak proper like
 * 2) Old motto of the University of Bologna?
 * 3) Anti-Mullah compaign by Khaksar movement not mentioned in the article.
 * 4) seed capital demand curve
 * 5) King's College and the police
 * 6) France invading Spain/UK
 * 7) Literature & fear of death
 * 8) Gnome in the Lord of the Rings
 * 9) death
 * 10) British military bases in US

= February 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 February 26


 * 1) Poland
 * 2) OMG
 * 3) W. M. mason
 * 4) Front bench changes after Irish general elections?
 * 5) 2011 Libyan uprising
 * 6) German speaking Metallica-like bands?
 * 7) "permission to speak freely"
 * 8) Middle East
 * 9) Pistol Packing Mama

= February 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 February 27


 * 1) Modern presidents
 * 2) 16 syllables
 * 3) Nonsignatories to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation treaty?
 * 4) Help finding a Desert Storm photo
 * 5) Pendolino trains - why?
 * 6) Where can I find the following online courses for under $220/credit-hour?
 * 7) Islamic view on ancient Egypt
 * 8) NM Native American Lands

= February 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 February 28


 * 1) Proportion of soldiers at the sharp end
 * 2) can private companies sell shares with restrictions that they not be resold within a time?
 * 3) Reason(s) for absence of Historical Buddha scholarship?
 * 4) Copyright question
 * 5) Street Called Straight
 * 6) Providinig reference to wikipedia article that is new
 * 7) Information regarding street in Belfast
 * 8) Horace Mann(s)
 * 9) Anything like National Writing Month?
 * 10) hitler in conversation
 * 11) Grand Western Canal - route through Taunton
 * 12) PPF - proof that a point is productively inefficient.
 * 13) Where do Noahides worship?
 * 14) Italian citizenship
 * 15) Where did Attila die?
 * 16) Memorize music