Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/January 2008

= January 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 January 1


 * 1) The Federation
 * 2) The Night of the Vanities.
 * 3) Punishment for family member's crime
 * 4) Mughal Empire
 * 5) Tamara Summers
 * 6) Countries that use leaded gas
 * 7) Trying to identify classical piano piece - music fans, please help! [Solved]

= January 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 January 2


 * 1) Phillip Roth's libido
 * 2) Is this illegal?
 * 3) Identification of a musical instrument or style
 * 4) Spinet Grand Piano
 * 5) Culture differences and effects on Wikipedia developement
 * 6) Pakistan Muslim League(N)
 * 7) What Colonial Emperors Were There?
 * 8) If the United Kingdom attempted to abolish the monarchy
 * 9) Germans: rudness vs openness/honesty
 * 10) German XXII Corps(es?) in 1939
 * 11) stocks and bonds
 * 12) What happened to the tribes in Rwanda during the Rwandan Genocide?
 * 13) Why do paparazzi not require model releases?

= January 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 January 3


 * 1) GPL vs GFDL vs CC-BY-SA-3
 * 2) Utah caucus?
 * 3) Shared parenting
 * 4) The Time of her Life, The Time In Between and The Memort Man
 * 5) Iowa caucuses
 * 6) Nuremberg War Tribunals

= January 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 January 4


 * 1) Ursula K. Le Guin recommendations
 * 2) Justice Potter's birthday?
 * 3) How do you draw a supply / demand curve for public radio and non-profits?
 * 4) Is it true that USA let a lot of Japanese WW2 war criminals go free/covered up war crimes in return for money?
 * 5) Witness information

= January 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 January 5


 * 1) Average number of friends
 * 2) WWII alternate history
 * 3) McCain/Giuliani
 * 4) Religious-use of cannabis by Buddhists
 * 5) Process of suing Wikipedia for copyright infringement
 * 6) Election tresholds
 * 7) Delegate anomaly
 * 8) United Statesian caucuses/primaries etc.
 * 9) getting a physical stock certificate to hang on a wall

= January 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 January 6


 * 1) us wars
 * 2) Orion
 * 3) US presidential election
 * 4) Law Citations
 * 5) information about a female activitist mentioned in Noam Chomsky film "Manufacturing Consent"
 * 6) Most requested US military job
 * 7) Teen Money
 * 8) 2 door disel car in NA?
 * 9) Alberta Law Schools

= January 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 January 7


 * 1) Best city in the US for a bootstrapped startup
 * 2) Treason in the U.S.
 * 3) Midweek Bible Class and Sunday Night Services
 * 4) Back-weighted primary victory - historically precedented?
 * 5) Magazines
 * 6) Oldest continually functioning democracy
 * 7) Detective Author
 * 8) Treaty of Servres
 * 9) MAJOR help Needed. Guarani Primary Sources!

= January 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 January 8


 * 1) The Memory Man (novel)
 * 2) Avoiding USAs indpendence
 * 3) Searching a place to live
 * 4) Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male--prosecution of doctors?
 * 5) Cost of Living increases the U.S. over the last 10 years
 * 6) Source of Quotation from Spenser
 * 7) a simply question.
 * 8) British government department naming
 * 9) Viet Nam War Memorial: Funding
 * 10) City Smoke Commissioner
 * 11) Expelled from the party

= January 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 January 9


 * 1) "Fingerings of a piano"
 * 2) Modern Torah scrolls
 * 3) Louis G. Kaufman
 * 4) Martial Arts Instruction
 * 5) Economists: How do I draw indifference curves?
 * 6) How are the relatonships between centre and states in USA?
 * 7) michigan law
 * 8) Wally dugs
 * 9) The oldest map
 * 10) "Gay" vandalism
 * 11) lovesickness
 * 12) Yates
 * 13) Gnashing of teeth: some questions

= January 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 January 10


 * 1) Mistakes in the Qu'ran?
 * 2) Death watch beetle and nativity song
 * 3) Imperialism
 * 4) How do I lead a double life?
 * 5) NON PROFIT FOUNDATION
 * 6) Killing in the name of...
 * 7) Christian or Jewish name
 * 8) About Panchatantra
 * 9) Bara bröst

= January 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 January 11


 * 1) Travel across the Mediterranean Sea in ancient and medieval times
 * 2) Obtaining sculpture
 * 3) Fiction books about Pankration?
 * 4) Voting twice in U.S. primaries
 * 5) Short articles on various topics
 * 6) NON PROFIT FOUNDATION IN GREAT BRITAIN
 * 7) Are we constantly lying?
 * 8) Is there someone with a subscription to Highbeam research? I want to know the name of the third hijacker of Ethiopian 961
 * 9) Ancient religious symbols
 * 10) Some questions
 * 11) discharge under mental health act

= January 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 January 12


 * 1) Meaning of “Jailed”
 * 2) PAGE NEEDS YOUR HELP!!!
 * 3) how do i outsource on a small scale
 * 4) calculation of Easter 1808
 * 5) Happily Married Philosopher?
 * 6) Tabula Gerlandi
 * 7) Gays in Bangladesh?
 * 8) Poems written by Alexander Scriabin

= January 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 January 13


 * 1) cult cure
 * 2) Obesity/popular culture
 * 3) Principles of Feminism
 * 4) Dolly Madison
 * 5) Is the name "Goldstein" a Jewish family name?
 * 6) wife taking husband's name
 * 7) Military garb
 * 8) Living Gods
 * 9) Non-fiction recommendations
 * 10) Tikkun

= January 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 January 14


 * 1) "Wars have begun that way"
 * 2) How Many Bills has Bush passed into law?
 * 3) Beaver testacles as medicine?
 * 4) Public library use in the UK
 * 5) Recipe website that gives recipes according to what ingredients you have?
 * 6) Origin of the name
 * 7) China Factories - Foriegn Ownership
 * 8) India Real Estate  - Foreign Ownership
 * 9) Buyouts by GM & Ford
 * 10) History of Buckingham Palace
 * 11) Canada recognizing independent states
 * 12) Sultana disaster 1865
 * 13) Yummy plain white rice

= January 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 January 15


 * 1) What East, West and North africans race belong to?
 * 2) Irish Senate and democracy
 * 3) American talk radio
 * 4) Greek history accounts
 * 5) Formalitate
 * 6)  where in what country is cocaine legal like [in the same way as] cigarettes and alohol [are] in america?
 * 7) list of objects that on or in the vicinity of your person make you sexy
 * 8) "Doing the ultra-violent"
 * 9) How can yo tell the difference between criticism and abuse?
 * 10) Oreboat Workers

= January 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 January 16


 * 1) how many people were killed by UN forces since WWII?
 * 2) Hello
 * 3) Metaphorical winter
 * 4) Republic of Blank
 * 5) MOU
 * 6) Similar sites to Amazon Mechanical Turk
 * 7) humanity
 * 8) Basic JC-1 H2 Economics help needed
 * 9) Was the Roman conquest of Britain a major strategic error - in retrospect of course?
 * 10) What is a "good economy" defined by economists?
 * 11) Relation / Correction of Tanakh page with Ketuvim page

= January 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 January 17


 * 1) Primaries & caucuses
 * 2) Book Review for The Memory Man
 * 3) Inflation
 * 4) Southern California
 * 5) Arab leaders
 * 6) Western Africa
 * 7) Metal buildings
 * 8) Palestinian Media influence on
 * 9) Art relative?
 * 10) Kutuzov and Napoleon
 * 11) United States Political Appointments
 * 12) Dick Cheney quote
 * 13) Declaration of Independence rough drafts!?
 * 14) Colonial Rhode Island Religion

= January 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 January 18


 * 1) FDNY Memorial flag
 * 2) Hermes, Plato and Manichaeism
 * 3) Roman decline
 * 4) Literature / Poetry
 * 5) Theologians
 * 6) Journalism/reporting
 * 7) Married U.S. Congresspeople
 * 8) finding a bunch of cash on the pavement.

= January 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 January 19


 * 1) Votes for Women
 * 2) Delegate counts
 * 3) Popular landscape artist
 * 4) Personality and external appearance
 * 5) Information about Yeoiju in Korean culture.
 * 6) Painting depicting a Boy with a Monkey on His Shoulder - Probably Dutch Genre Painting - 17 th Century.
 * 7) Dr Albert Schweitzer
 * 8) Per capita income and living
 * 9) England in the Middle Ages
 * 10) Crusade route
 * 11) A Medieval War
 * 12) making her feel I've spent a lot of time on her...
 * 13) Spanish erotic novel
 * 14) Where are knife rests placed in tablesetting?
 * 15) driving laws USA
 * 16) 1848 Rvolutions
 * 17) 19th Century Politics
 * 18) Vivicide

= January 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 January 20


 * 1) psychologists who were murderers.
 * 2) What is a "Buckeye Christian"
 * 3) Versicle and response at the end of Evensong
 * 4) Urban legend concerning McDonald's following the Kent State Massacre
 * 5) French law, adultery and homicide
 * 6) Did Jesus learn his teachings from India?
 * 7) Politics
 * 8) Old Testament Bible
 * 9) Arabic words
 * 10) female somali dress
 * 11) business classes relevant to development coop./int'l org's/NGOs?
 * 12) Correct Name of Month Celebrating African-American Heritage in the U.S.
 * 13) What is a "formative essay"?
 * 14) "no animals were harmed during the making of this film"
 * 15) where did Jesus go to school?
 * 16) Business Ideas
 * 17) M.L.K.

= January 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 January 21


 * 1) Stradivarius violin authentication
 * 2) Basic JC-1 H2 Economics help needed (again)
 * 3) an american bank in budapest
 * 4) History of South India
 * 5) Who said it?
 * 6) BIBLE commentary needed
 * 7) Who is more evil, Macbeth or Lady Macbeth?

= January 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 January 22


 * 1) Attraction between cultures
 * 2) MMORPGs and philosophy
 * 3) sexual orientation
 * 4) Philosophical Question
 * 5) Arts-Comics-golden age- 'Jane' strip cartoon
 * 6) Compatibility of GFDL with Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported
 * 7) Last British soldier killed in World War One
 * 8) "Question"
 * 9) A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
 * 10) Chapter-verse notation styles
 * 11) Somali-Canadians
 * 12) Australia and New Zealand

= January 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 January 23


 * 1) Les Miserables Quote on Communism
 * 2) senators
 * 3) Food and Wine in Plays
 * 4) Could Congress change the result of a presidential election?
 * 5) Literary device name
 * 6) Rome and China
 * 7) Religion and the End of the World
 * 8) Art Painting UN Security Council
 * 9) Corpus Glossatorum Iuris Civilis
 * 10) Egypt vs Thailand
 * 11) Coat of arms of Nepal
 * 12) Does the Nazi flag fly in German memorials?

= January 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 January 24


 * 1) Santa Fe Trail
 * 2) LDS
 * 3) JC-1 H2 Literature texts
 * 4) Gerard Winstanley
 * 5) Oldest city in Oklahoma
 * 6) Mandate of Palestine
 * 7) Am I right in saying the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut is certainly NOT "the oldest constitution in the Western World"?
 * 8) United Nations and genocide
 * 9) Irish or British??
 * 10) Is there a philosophy that ....
 * 11) Aqiqah

= January 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 January 25


 * 1) DPS
 * 2) Editor of The Hindu
 * 3) American Casualties
 * 4) Price of milk around the world
 * 5) Subconsciousness
 * 6) Child porn laws
 * 7) photographic history of Sandgate, Newcastle New South Wales, Australia
 * 8) Giovanni Boccaccio's exact birth date
 * 9) Origin and interpretation of the phrase 'Mercenaries, Missionaries, Misfits'
 * 10) Why weren't flamethrowers used durring the American Revolution
 * 11) What are some movies that depict gunpowder warfare?
 * 12) Catholic Polygamy
 * 13) Psychology of terror
 * 14) Tall Romans? (ancient)
 * 15) Introduction to Hegel
 * 16) British Empire

= January 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 January 26


 * 1) Using a freely-licensed work inside a work that is not freely-licensed
 * 2) Protectionism in the E.U.
 * 3) Strange Book
 * 4) James Thurber's eye color
 * 5) Is this greatest debate performance ever audio recorded?
 * 6) Ragnarok now?
 * 7) Nice map showing evolution internal structure of Soviet Union : Wikipedia doesn't have it anymore

= January 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 January 27


 * 1) The New Bohemia
 * 2) Evidence for Christianity as the One True Religion?
 * 3) Charles Manson and popular culture
 * 4) Convention Conventions
 * 5) how does this relate to the menorah?
 * 6) Man of Tahitian culture
 * 7) Military rules, discipline
 * 8) Global Warming
 * 9) world bank
 * 10) Animals of Kenya
 * 11) U.S. Presidential Election this year
 * 12) Unpopular King?
 * 13) books on how cult members are recruited

= January 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 January 28


 * 1) Khobalus?
 * 2) 7 day week
 * 3) Court fools
 * 4) Lifespan of book and album covers
 * 5) Why are psychedelic drugs illegal?
 * 6) United States Military - science & tech inventions
 * 7) First of the modern conqurers
 * 8) Hullo Central
 * 9) strange land formation in northern quebec?
 * 10) Sneaker Pimps
 * 11) Desteni?
 * 12) The Roman Empire
 * 13) cole scego
 * 14) A high resolution picture of a Lenin painting
 * 15) Constantine and Christianity
 * 16) Musicals: "The Red Mill" vs. "Moulin Rouge!"
 * 17) Defection
 * 18) Oil Exploitation

= January 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 January 29


 * 1) Regulation of the high seas
 * 2) John Edwards' Delegates
 * 3) Public domain government reports
 * 4) Contactless payment cards in various cultures
 * 5) Real or Fake
 * 6) How can we consider them as rapists and criminals?
 * 7) Black Death
 * 8) Officialy the best sporting nation
 * 9) Translations of Plato's Republic
 * 10) Proper names
 * 11) Odon von Horvath
 * 12) How important is $100 to an average American?
 * 13) Corporate jet setters
 * 14) South America: Homicide Information
 * 15) Dark Complexion?
 * 16) Nurse capill

= January 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 January 30


 * 1) Florida primary
 * 2) JC-1 H2 Literature texts
 * 3) Assassination or murder?
 * 4) Public Hangings in the United Kingdom and France
 * 5) Coat pulled over the head
 * 6) Al Gore
 * 7) Amtrak v Miller
 * 8) Pronunciation: Ayn Rand
 * 9) Use of IPA in education?
 * 10) Giving your staff shares as part of salary arrangement
 * 11) Greats of Martial Arts
 * 12) City of Vice
 * 13) The Red Tsar
 * 14) What is معلاي
 * 15) Highland Army
 * 16) source for Pindar's 7th Olympian Ode
 * 17) Filling gaps in the CV

= January 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 January 31


 * 1) African languages
 * 2) Mystery code.
 * 3) Horse Racing and Women's Hats?
 * 4) Finding legislative bills on the net
 * 5) Commercial Underwriter
 * 6) deciding my major
 * 7) Democracy
 * 8) Imperialism