Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/January 2009

= January 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 January 1


 * 1) Irish in Los Angeles
 * 2) Who is the girl on the cover of the Deftones' album Around the Fur?
 * 3) Name of Belgian village
 * 4) Why does a small country like Denmark wish to remain outside the eurozone?
 * 5) Which continent is Turkey a part of?
 * 6) Upazilas of Bangladesh
 * 7) Children as domestic servants, marrying in 1880s Ohio
 * 8) Doubleday, Mary Hewitt
 * 9) Non-blood cousin terminology?
 * 10) Not even the dog that piss against the wall of Babylon shall escape this judgement!
 * 11) Pakistani scholars

= January 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 January 2


 * 1) Help identifying a children's book from my youth
 * 2) Can the  Democratic or Republican  Party refuse to seat primary winners?
 * 3) Religion and US Inaguration
 * 4) Here there be monsters
 * 5) French translation please
 * 6) Graves of humans
 * 7) Christianity and Evolution
 * 8) Serb citizenship for Kosovars
 * 9) POW WWII Pacific
 * 10) A Bulow
 * 11) Defunct cigarette brands?
 * 12) Ignatio Pulici
 * 13) Arab Travelers
 * 14) Bangladesh political parties 2008

= January 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 January 3


 * 1) Unknown German Currency
 * 2) Time zone
 * 3) Amateur pornography and 2257
 * 4) How can I stop the use of RFID tags?
 * 5) Smith's influence on Kant
 * 6) Chopin Nocturne in F minor in a film

= January 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 January 4


 * 1) I want to know about the B.Ed in India
 * 2) Hezbollah and Hamas
 * 3) ethnic backgrounds
 * 4) finance
 * 5) Supposed British spy
 * 6) international reaction to current Israel action
 * 7) Piggly Wiggly

= January 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 January 5


 * 1) State Canvassing Board
 * 2) Arabs, Jews, and basically the entire Middle East
 * 3) Are there any historical cases of attempts to verthrow a state government (not federal) in the US?
 * 4) Minorities candidates in Bangladesh general election 2008
 * 5) tallaghts oldest public house
 * 6) portsmouth history
 * 7) American Electoral Question
 * 8) can you tell if someone is lying?
 * 9) Is it possible to see anything relating to Nazi Germany on tourist trips to Germany and/or the surrounding countries?

= January 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 January 6


 * 1) UN Deputy Secretary-General, pre-1997?
 * 2) Who wrote this?
 * 3) First Play-writer
 * 4) Christianity vs languages of Pakistan
 * 5) Russian lit: Killing a man to see his soul
 * 6) Crying Frenchman after Nazi victory
 * 7) Sociology? Anthropology? or ?

= January 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 January 7


 * 1) Googly eyes?
 * 2) E1 transaction
 * 3) whaling
 * 4) Koan: Flax or hemp?
 * 5) fanfiction writers and copyright
 * 6) Married into Hungarian nobility
 * 7) Is israel an occupying power?
 * 8) How many US presidents have been alive at the same time?
 * 9) Sorting of Indonesian names

= January 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 January 8


 * 1) US Cabinet confirmation process
 * 2) Saraiki Sikhs
 * 3) literary insight
 * 4) Is Pakistan doing enough to combat terrorism?
 * 5) the amateur detective who didn't move much.

= January 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 January 9


 * 1) Leap Years
 * 2) uni degree
 * 3) Canadian Contract Law
 * 4) Are chain letters containing threats illegal in the UK?
 * 5) Russian painters
 * 6) Question about the Blago mess
 * 7) Nonfarm

= January 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 January 10


 * 1) we are ispanic family.
 * 2) Situation in Myanmar
 * 3) Inaugural Youth Concert
 * 4) looking up entry/exit requirements for travel
 * 5) In how far is Palestine a souvereign country?
 * 6) What territories did Israel conquer in 1967?
 * 7) Language in Shakespeare
 * 8) Statue of Virgin Mary
 * 9) is it sounding or side of
 * 10) technology and it's impact on jobs
 * 11) russian short story    Author/title

= January 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 January 11


 * 1) Electoral vote counting
 * 2) Two Questions before making a decision. Q1 and Now what?
 * 3) In Saxony
 * 4) Arab/Israeli Conflict
 * 5) Beginning of Confusion of the Lexeme 'Priest' or 'Priester'
 * 6) BR20: Flags of All Nations
 * 7) What is SURYA NAMASKARAM?
 * 8) incest
 * 9) radiation
 * 10) paris to monacco?

= January 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 January 12


 * 1) children's book about little girl making footsteps in the flour?
 * 2) What religion
 * 3) origins of Islam
 * 4) Name for rhetorical device

= January 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 January 13


 * 1) Queen's Guard
 * 2) PAR BRAHAMAM OR PARA BRAHAMAM's location in India please
 * 3) Europe-wide prepaid SIM card?
 * 4) HEATHROW
 * 5) Highest French Army Rank????
 * 6) Latin American Presidential Rival Political Parties and number of terms
 * 7) Next President of Bangladesh?
 * 8) Slobodan milosevic
 * 9) Lebanese Civil war battles
 * 10) Form of governments of Arab World
 * 11) Who is this?
 * 12) Order of the Seraphim

=January 14= Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 January 14


 * 1) Can the Democratic Party refuse to put candidates on the ballot?
 * 2) parlor scenes
 * 3) Who said Contempt is blah blah something about good arguments
 * 4) Do Alan Greenspan really deserve all that blame?
 * 5) Political parties of North America

= January 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 January 15


 * 1) A book that describes the use of submachine guns some two hundred years before they were invented?
 * 2) Wine
 * 3) Israel bans "Arab political parties"?
 * 4) Constantine Andreou's awards
 * 5) Order and Disorder in Hamlet.
 * 6) Political Rivals
 * 7) Famous People Who Have Wikipedia Accounts
 * 8) Ex cathedra: literally?
 * 9) Ethics question
 * 10) NHL player stats against specific teams

= January 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 January 16


 * 1) DNR (Do not resuscitate) orders in South Africa
 * 2) Margarethe von Holzheim
 * 3) Actual cost of LPG
 * 4) Prospering businesses in this climate
 * 5) For what is ABC  an abbreviation?
 * 6) World population growth since when?

= January 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 January 17


 * 1) Joshua Kaeo
 * 2) bioclimatic design
 * 3) China surpasses Germany to become the world's third-largest economy
 * 4) How did Israel know that the tunnel was built for capturing Israeli soldiers?
 * 5) please halp me
 * 6) Taking the government to court

= January 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 January 18


 * 1) Classical Piece
 * 2) Where did "March 4" come from?
 * 3) Hessian consorts
 * 4) French immigration in Australia
 * 5) Ming Restoration
 * 6) Obama – 44th or 43rd president?
 * 7) Map locations
 * 8) When Jan 20th is on the weekend....
 * 9) how much apple stock does the woz own?
 * 10) For visual artists (and anyone else interested)
 * 11) What's up with the "the" in "The Ukraine"
 * 12) What it going on in England and UK?
 * 13) photo

= January 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 January 19


 * 1) Earliest film of the oldest person
 * 2) How many months in the year were there originally?
 * 3) Reasons for the Spanish Armada
 * 4) do women prefer reading porn to watching porn?
 * 5) NON-EXTRADITIONARY COUNTRIES
 * 6) More bank bailouts
 * 7) Unitary state or federation or neither
 * 8) which eastern european country is chomsky's grandfather from?
 * 9) Which chinese provinces/regions have the most christan protestants?
 * 10) Princesses of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
 * 11) Serial Killer Andrei Chikatilo: Russian, Soviet or Ukranian?

= January 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 January 20


 * 1) What are the names of Annie Oakleys siblings?
 * 2) Saint Praxed
 * 3) Student Loans
 * 4) "English-speaking world"
 * 5) What President left office the night before inauguration of his successor?
 * 6) Help with settling an arguement
 * 7) Peaceful?
 * 8) Oath of office botched by Chief Justice Roberts
 * 9) What is the name of the character
 * 10) Irish smile
 * 11) US Cabinet members
 * 12) Church and State
 * 13) The Eagles

= January 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 January 21


 * 1) Equality before the law
 * 2) Police State
 * 3) Aretha Franklin's song
 * 4) Uzbekistan Immigration
 * 5) Sorry, it's another Obama question
 * 6) Mobius loops in operas?
 * 7) Does Frank Zappa do the majority of singing on his albums?
 * 8) Is Wikipedia vandalism a computer crime?
 * 9) A tribe called the "Sunderlanders" that was like 8000 years old?
 * 10) So help me God.
 * 11) Ivan IV.
 * 12) link to franken/coleman documents
 * 13) Discrimination and abuse of Native Hawiians
 * 14) Lebanon and Syria

= January 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 January 22


 * 1) Autobiographies
 * 2) Aerated autoclaved concrete
 * 3) Why does Harwich have a much bigger article than Hook of Holland?
 * 4) Awards for places serving unhealthy food?
 * 5) mansur hallaj
 * 6) obama's staff or advisers
 * 7) Prosecuting hate crimes against women
 * 8) First Regius Professor of Greek (Oxford)
 * 9) Fair Use of Education Resources

= January 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 January 23


 * 1) Name of the company that holds all stocks traded in the United States?
 * 2) Did you serve in the army or any other war services during WWII?
 * 3) War crime or not?
 * 4) William Anders quote
 * 5) National buddhist and church of Bangladesh
 * 6) Sartre question
 * 7) Walworth Road Baptists: still active?
 * 8) logo look-alike
 * 9) British Army during WWI - Other Fronts
 * 10) [resolved] is the pope always old
 * 11) 107 commuted death sentences
 * 12) How do you write a speech outline in First person on the person who you have to be?
 * 13) How does music change your mental state?

= January 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 January 24


 * 1) why does my economics book put the price as a Y axis when the quantity is a function of it?
 * 2) Paper Money in Banks?
 * 3) UK Royal Coats of Arms
 * 4) Walpole's Castle of Otranto
 * 5) Iraqi Bonds
 * 6) Richard Cardinal Cushing Radio Show Rosary

= January 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 January 25


 * 1) Humourous Map of Europe in 1914 (German)
 * 2) Feodora of Saxe-Meiningen
 * 3) do some people not know wrestling is fake?
 * 4) An atheist U.S. President?
 * 5) American Gods Character Question
 * 6) Law of Property Act 1925

= January 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 January 26


 * 1) crosses and crucifixes use in religion
 * 2) Why is Depeche Mode so popular in Eastern Europe?
 * 3) Champroux
 * 4) why is Encyclopedia Dramatica not outlawed?
 * 5) Michael Haneke: does anyone know the case on which The Seventh Continent/Die Siebente Kontinent is based?
 * 6) President
 * 7) Angels with harps
 * 8) Child deities
 * 9) Muse-Like
 * 10) Inuit daily life
 * 11) What's the odds of creating a million dollar painting in my lifetime?

= January 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 January 27


 * 1) Curse of Timur
 * 2) The Senate under the French Third Republic
 * 3) American/British Legal System Question
 * 4) Statue of Limitations on Debt
 * 5) Homicides by Juveniles
 * 6) words of Bush talk with Helen Thomas
 * 7) Birth of art according to ancient Greek mythology
 * 8) Hindu castes in West Bengal, Tripura and Bangladesh
 * 9) Foreigners campaigning in USA elections: espionage?
 * 10) existence of a non sexist society?

= January 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 January 28


 * 1) Does 'God' start wars? No opinions please
 * 2) name the novel (fantasy trilogy)
 * 3) Taiwanese and Koreans in the Japanese Imperial Army
 * 4) Awaji-shima, Japan
 * 5) Poetic gibberish
 * 6) Ernest Hemingway - suicide or murder?
 * 7) Does anyone know where to find ratios of skilled/unskilled workers in UK industry types?
 * 8) Political Parties based on Arab and African nationalism
 * 9) Prison break

= January 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 January 29


 * 1) Nigerian women
 * 2) The worst human being ever (pre-Hitler)?
 * 3) Children's book identification
 * 4) United States Supreme Court building and police
 * 5) How many people did Hitler kill personally?
 * 6) How many nonwhite minority heads of government have there been?
 * 7) Dilbert
 * 8) Desert´s son
 * 9) STARVATION
 * 10) Origin of Half-Breeds and Stalwarts
 * 11) How do you pronounce Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, likely first openly gay PM of Iceland?
 * 12) Psychology of Fightclub
 * 13) Is the principle "Lex superior derogat legi inferiori" used under this or another name in anglophonic countries?
 * 14) Zahrani seat in Lebanon
 * 15) What is the disposition of Tom Delay's charges?
 * 16) About Ian Brady's quote.
 * 17) Paypal in Contradiction of UK Law?
 * 18) How to address an Imam?
 * 19) Why do some businesses offer 'senior discounts'?
 * 20) Guinea pig vs England
 * 21) Music
 * 22) The process is the punishment
 * 23) Explaining death to a child.
 * 24) Clarification on the Golden Rule of fiscal policy

= January 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 January 30


 * 1) Finnish humour
 * 2) summary of human affairs (present day)
 * 3) Debate over the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
 * 4) The Queen's sense of humour
 * 5) Name that Icelandic landscape painter
 * 6) Arab World Religions
 * 7) carboniferous plants
 * 8) St Edwin

= January 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 January 31


 * 1) Law question
 * 2) New paintings in Oval Office
 * 3) name the novel (children/young adult book)
 * 4) Zambo
 * 5) Gypsy And English Romnichel
 * 6) Naval Armada in Pirates of the Caribbean?
 * 7) Arab butt dancing videos
 * 8) Parliament of Scotland
 * 9) History of waving (the hand gesture)
 * 10) Dollarizing Zimbabwe
 * 11) Question about the Hall of the Maggior Consiglio in the Ducal Palace in Venice
 * 12) notable people with a low agerage IQ