Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/February 2012

= February 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 February 1


 * 1) Lead, follow, or get out of the way
 * 2) Robert Boyle by Johann Kerseboom
 * 3) Slavery: How did a slave owner pay for his slave?
 * 4) List of people who have mysteriously disappeared and then later have been found/their remains have been recovered
 * 5) pie charts of language use in europe
 * 6) British laws that aren't enforced
 * 7) Why would the Buffett rule raise only $50 billion in taxes?

= February 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 February 2


 * 1) Passing bad checks
 * 2) Socialist place names in and around the People's Republic of Fife
 * 3) What about ACTA?
 * 4) Did India issue a military medal for Operation Polo (capture of Hyderabad) in 1948?
 * 5) Speculative detective
 * 6) Il Salone dei Cinquecento, the Hall of Five Hundred does not seem to exist?
 * 7) First biography
 * 8) South Sudan independence referendum
 * 9) State leaders who were tortured to death
 * 10) Old Mortality
 * 11) Ryuichi Sakamoto translate lyrics

= February 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 February 3


 * 1) Indian names used by Muslims
 * 2) Which districts of India Muslims?
 * 3) Baptist Children
 * 4) Criminal politicians
 * 5) Romney/Bush, but not as we know it
 * 6) Which melody is this?
 * 7) Style issue
 * 8) Pope Urban VI

= February 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 February 4


 * 1) Where does Apple have its cash?
 * 2) Patel as a common name for hotel owners
 * 3) War of the Austrian Succession and France
 * 4) What do you need to be a CEO
 * 5) About Adam Smith (16 June 1723 – 17 July 1790)
 * 6) Capitalism vs. Free Market Economy
 * 7) Lawsuits for copyright infringement

= February 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 February 5


 * 1) Waitangi
 * 2) "Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe" and prepositions
 * 3) Chinese Poem
 * 4) Two-way Caesar cipher
 * 5) Pet bugs on strings
 * 6) Gap-Theory
 * 7) notable special schools
 * 8) Steam boat disaster, Scotland
 * 9) Compromise of Wikipedia's neutrality
 * 10) Why did Pol Pot have so many high-quality friends (allies)?
 * 11) book about a british girl in India babysitted by an Indian

= February 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 February 6


 * 1) Greek protests targeting inequity of austerity?
 * 2) Access to source needed! The mutiny on the Meermin / (2003) Alexander, Andrew
 * 3) Is there a relationship between continental philosophy and the intelligent design movement?
 * 4) Jumping the broom 1848

= February 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 February 7


 * 1) Two questions about New France
 * 2) About the U.S. economy
 * 3) Democracy vs. Republic
 * 4) about portrait painting
 * 5) Honor killings
 * 6) Hawaiian hotspot
 * 7) Who is the most intelligent Wikipedian?
 * 8) Identifying a late-Victorian illustrator
 * 9) Purgatory, anyone?

= February 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 February 8


 * 1) languages of Opera
 * 2) Support for communism

= February 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 February 9


 * 1) Pixelated
 * 2) Three in religion/mythology
 * 3) Internment camps
 * 4) Britons in the French and Indian War
 * 5) Mute and motionless
 * 6) UK Parliament - 3rd reading
 * 7) Source of inspiration for the "Vitruvian Man" by Leonardo da Vinci
 * 8) languages of Literature
 * 9) Does Geoff Ryman's "The Child Garden" have a happy ending?
 * 10) What am I legally eligible to donate for $?
 * 11) African American Muslims in New York City
 * 12) Mosques in New York City, Detroit, Dearborn, Minneapolis, Buffalo
 * 13) Mosques by Kyrgyz, Tajik, Iranian, Kazakh, Uzbek, Turkmen, Azeri, Turkish, Indonesian, Malaysian, African communities
 * 14) Black Canadians Caribbeans

= February 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 February 10


 * 1) International treaties, agreements etc
 * 2) Darius III and Greek
 * 3) pulling out all the stops
 * 4) Do audio books normally include a pdf (or epub, djuv or whatever) version

= February 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 February 11


 * 1) What is the tax rate on ill-gotten gains?
 * 2) Inventing, but not for the army
 * 3) Number 27 and Isis
 * 4) February 21 Language Day
 * 5) Migrating to New France

= February 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 February 12


 * 1) Mitt Romney
 * 2) African American and Latino Muslim women marriage
 * 3) Help me find an Indian story
 * 4) Harpsichord sustain pedal.

= February 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 February 13


 * 1) Last monarchs in war
 * 2) Grasshopper
 * 3) Marxist sense of "exploitation"
 * 4) What's this picture called in English?
 * 5) conservative cities and liberal cities in Lebanon
 * 6) acharya chankya spoke about ...we need one more acharya﻿ chanakya in 2014 for india
 * 7) Jesus

= February 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 February 14


 * 1) Yelling In Lower Chambers (Govenment) When Someone Is Talking
 * 2) Simon Blackburn's interpretation of Matt 10:5-6
 * 3) Constitutions and Capitalism
 * 4) k.u.k.
 * 5) FOREX.com spreads
 * 6) Beach Walk Rear, Honolulu
 * 7) If a US VP becomes President, how much longer can they serve as President?
 * 8) "Referring" a US Senate bill
 * 9) Best book on the origins of human morality
 * 10) What if... ? (USA Civil war)
 * 11) Trusts  questions (UK)
 * 12) what philosophers/schools of thought discuss this view of ethics?

= February 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 February 15


 * 1) Being in the army and the navy at the same time?
 * 2) Chinese pentatonic scale
 * 3) La Bayamesa = Cuba's National Anthem
 * 4) was the bible ever written
 * 5) reference check
 * 6) What's a good way to sell a short domain hack domain name for big bucks?

= February 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 February 16


 * 1) T.S. Eliot's word count?
 * 2) Talleyrand plan
 * 3) Most popular delusion
 * 4) Original text for the Oath of Supremacy

= February 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 February 17


 * 1) aroused by cartoon characters
 * 2) defining affinity group or work group as related to the spokes council model
 * 3) Agriculture Innovation Technology Application
 * 4) Question about legal ethics (conflict of interest)
 * 5) 613 commandments list only goes to 605
 * 6) The Catcher in the Rye
 * 7) Who is David Stevens?
 * 8) GDP (Output) gap & Okun's Law
 * 9) Trying to understand coin collecting

= February 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 February 18


 * 1) Defraud Innkeeper?
 * 2) Secretariat General of Commonwealth
 * 3) Fetish name
 * 4) university of kent
 * 5) English maternal DNA
 * 6) Economic impact of leap year

= February 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 February 19


 * 1) Passbook and money market accounts
 * 2) Where does the US House of Representatives get the funding for BLAG?
 * 3) RP pronunciation of stairs
 * 4) how do I address a Church Elder?
 * 5) A full list of countries with death penalty for apostasy
 * 6) is it usual or possible to get a ba in music from a conservatory
 * 7) Entrance Hall
 * 8) Sinn Féin's nationalism
 * 9) honorary doctorate
 * 10) Mormons abroad and learning native languages

= February 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 February 20


 * 1) How much capabilites does Israel need to attack Iran?
 * 2) Why Israel?
 * 3) How did Rastafaris come to believe in Haile Selassie I?
 * 4) Map confusion
 * 5) US Restraurant Reviews

= February 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 February 21


 * 1) Specialty hospitals and emergency situations
 * 2) Mahmoud Ahmadinejad − academic career
 * 3) American education system vs Indian system
 * 4) Australian poet John Millet
 * 5) Rule of the shorter term
 * 6) Calories and kcal

= February 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 February 22


 * 1) How good are we to spot intentions of others?
 * 2) Best Native American Tribe to Live in
 * 3) official language(s) BiH
 * 4) How does the Hong Kong government deal with asylum seekers such like Falun Gong practitioners and and others?
 * 5) Employer sponsored health care and age
 * 6) I never knew how to end an e-mail conversation.
 * 7) Date of this 17th century map of Siam?
 * 8) what's up with the highs in 'queen of the night' aria?

= February 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 February 23


 * 1) Meaning of word or name
 * 2) Humanities Freemasonry
 * 3) Low vehicles per capita for Colorado and Nevada?
 * 4) Pete Hoesktra's attack ad
 * 5) Police badge, shields, and nomenclature
 * 6) a tomour
 * 7) Does Wikipedia have information about the payroll tax cut extension?

= February 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 February 24


 * 1) Shafia murder trial other two kids
 * 2) Grand Duke/Duchess of Luxembourg at Nobel Prize ceremony
 * 3) Muslims of Thailand
 * 4) Muslim majority of Russia
 * 5) Why is it easier for the Labour Party to win the elections in the UK?
 * 6) future India vs china war
 * 7) Billionaire CEOs who take $1/yr salaries and minimum wage issues
 * 8) Moving, voting in a state's primaries
 * 9) how high is a trillion
 * 10) Hooters Airline

= February 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 February 25


 * 1) Why is the Dominican Republic much better off than Haiti if they are on the same island?
 * 2) Rurikid
 * 3) French to English
 * 4) South Sudanese currency exchange rate
 * 5) Why is the debt crisis the euro's fault?
 * 6) Effective tax rate on paintings (UK)
 * 7) Who was the emperor married to?
 * 8) Anyone heard of a facing edition of Frege's Grundlagen?
 * 9) Roughing It illustrations

= February 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 February 26


 * 1) Portraits
 * 2) Single-battle wars
 * 3) Equity and Restatements of Law
 * 4) Cheap high quality education
 * 5) Pattie Boyd's Bio
 * 6) History and Origin of Pasta
 * 7) Syrian uprising 2011-2012
 * 8) Old style to Gregorian date conversion
 * 9) USA/MEXICO

= February 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 February 27


 * 1) Christopher Hitchens conversation with Chris Hedges at UCLA
 * 2) Assembly of Experts
 * 3) Can fair use apply to trade secrets or computer code protected by copyright?
 * 4) Statues of British PMs in the U.S.
 * 5) Good research on social network analysis of cell phone networks?
 * 6) George Bancroft and Alexander Bliss
 * 7) Antipope Clement VII
 * 8) Landlords in the USA

= February 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 February 28


 * 1) Why are demons/devils/The Devil depicted as having features of sheep or goats?
 * 2) Literature dealing with Multicultural Britain
 * 3) George Wallace delegates in 1972 election
 * 4) Impossibilty of feeling or conveying sorrow
 * 5) FBI-Spanish refugees incident in the '40s.
 * 6) The nineteen propositions of John Wycliffe
 * 7) the thirteen articles of the Sachsenspiegel
 * 8) Company sizes

= February 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 February 29


 * 1) Memphis, USA and Memphis, Egypt
 * 2) Leap Year...Today's
 * 3) Organization Type For Pooled Funds?
 * 4) Public vs. private laws in the USA
 * 5) UK employment law