Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/January 2010

= January 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 January 1


 * 1) US Court of Appeals 9th Circuit decisions
 * 2) The Bordeaux Diligence revisited
 * 3) "Forces of darkness"
 * 4) Augustus word game
 * 5) Julius Caesar
 * 6) Domitian
 * 7) Gaius Julius Alpinus Classicianus
 * 8) Marcus Claudius Marcellus Aeserninus
 * 9) Ava Gardner article in Esquire Magasine

= January 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 January 2


 * 1) "FDR HIDES PLANE"
 * 2) English governance
 * 3) Ku Klux Klan and the Decendent Line of Cain
 * 4) Utilitarian value of existence
 * 5) Antarctica and the freedom of panorama
 * 6) Mercury-vapor lamp usage
 * 7) long live king who?

= January 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 January 3


 * 1) Startup license
 * 2) Why you removed certain material that made the US look bad but was true?
 * 3) Is NEW Delhi really the capital of India
 * 4) Taj Mahal - True History?
 * 5) Uninterpretable question
 * 6) African writing or literature from early 19th. century
 * 7) Book about entire human race existing to give an alien/robot a piece of metal
 * 8) New Journalism
 * 9) Lyrics too leadbelly song
 * 10) musical instrument key/scale

= January 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 January 4


 * 1) Leveraged Buyout (LBO)
 * 2) Interactive fiction
 * 3) Why is Chess popular geographically in some areas but not others?
 * 4) meat, trial, manufacturer, 1906-1910
 * 5) Marshall Plan
 * 6) Where can  find a list of nations by gender income gap?
 * 7) Economics Prize + John Forbes Nash, Jr.
 * 8) Cnut the Great in Flandern
 * 9) Social class
 * 10) ritual video
 * 11) John H. Johnson's wife
 * 12) anyone recognize this movie?
 * 13) DAN BROWN NOVEL HINDU THOUGHT EXERCISE

= January 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 January 5


 * 1) Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence
 * 2) Lance Ito's wife
 * 3) Chairman and CEO
 * 4) Who decided to count decades beginning with "0"
 * 5) Why do troubled British football clubs face tax bills?
 * 6) Anonymous famous writers like Salinger and Pynchon
 * 7) Old Passenger Ships/ SS BUTNER and SS PATCH
 * 8) civil appeal motions
 * 9) Iraq's war of independence

= January 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 January 6


 * 1) Coughing while standing at attention
 * 2) History of Salerno, Italy defense in WW 11
 * 3) Cursus honorum
 * 4) Grampian Hotel, Stevenage, UK
 * 5) Retail level stock and bond transactions
 * 6) Questions?
 * 7) Is it an insult, or is it right to call somebody a "mercenary"

= January 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 January 7


 * 1) Geoffrey Chaucer and John Wycliffe
 * 2) Terrorism indictment
 * 3) Retail
 * 4) Worst kind of torture ever discovered or documented?
 * 5) Deistic Gnosticism
 * 6) JC1- H2 English Language and Linguistics
 * 7) Fourteenth century scholar
 * 8) GK Questions
 * 9) Reader's Digest prize draw
 * 10) Songs with a Blues Beat
 * 11) Songs with a Swing Beat

= January 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 January 8


 * 1) How many official Dictators to time of Roman Empire
 * 2) Painting identification
 * 3) Magazine called the Nineteenth Century, for March 1890, concerning bookshelves.
 * 4) how similar/different are anglican and methodist?
 * 5) Allport's 1935 paper "Attitudes"
 * 6) How authentically Buddhist is...
 * 7) Wrongfully executed people
 * 8) In theory, Quebec is part of Latin America
 * 9) lex Junia Licinia
 * 10) Socialism and communism
 * 11) Customhouses far from borders?
 * 12) Malawi's (two) term rule

= January 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 January 9


 * 1) Foreign Presidents Buried in the USA
 * 2) Hamlet and Catholicism in England
 * 3) How to make academic journal version of the Economist exactly follow the organization of the original version (printed or online)
 * 4) Can someone please find anything about Josef papirnikov?

= January 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 January 10


 * 1) Sneaking undesirable items into a proposed bill
 * 2) Productivity of men vs. productivity of women worker
 * 3) sister city of Compton, California and East Los Angeles, California
 * 4) Systematic relationship between and examples of controversy and issue

= January 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 January 11


 * 1) Name or term for philosophical line of thought - morals
 * 2) International Dutch Judicary
 * 3) Letters to the Editor section in the Economist
 * 4) Heil Churchill
 * 5) Paying for other people's children
 * 6) Place in California with the most populate multiracial groups
 * 7) Prisoners of war and civilian police
 * 8) diffs between cohabiting (unmarried) couples and married couples

= January 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 January 12


 * 1) Today's Judaism Tanakh versus the Bibical Old Testament
 * 2) 10th Amendment and State Laws
 * 3) Internet enabled Air condiontioning unit
 * 4) Harlem renaissance Songs
 * 5) Weather under ground
 * 6) Marriott connection
 * 7) How much of the Vatican Library has been catalogued?
 * 8) Would Woods have been so cruel ?
 * 9) What is solar system
 * 10) Project on 'Discrimination of Homosexuals'
 * 11) List of terms for gay in other languages
 * 12) John Kufuor's govt policies
 * 13) French Law on Public Rights of Way

= January 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 January 13


 * 1) Alcohol laws in France
 * 2) Dick Cheney - Go f yourself
 * 3) arthur vellosy
 * 4) How many UK taxpayers?
 * 5) Earliest legislation regarding public footpaths in the UK?
 * 6) General knowledge questions
 * 7) Connie Chung

= January 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 January 14


 * 1) Haiti earthquake and Dominican Republic
 * 2) Which of these books is longer?
 * 3) Publius Cornelius Rufinus
 * 4) Principle of law in Nigeria
 * 5) Andrew Cunanan's pic
 * 6) 15 African first lady in LA
 * 7) Speech act theory; Perlocutionary act
 * 8) Battle of Arausio

= January 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 January 15


 * 1) Should I be able to sing in a Tenor voice?
 * 2) Gaius Maenius
 * 3) ideas
 * 4) The fourth Indiction in the month of April in the year 6589.
 * 5) Geography question
 * 6) patent law
 * 7) Burma election
 * 8) snow
 * 9) Vietnamese and white
 * 10) Where Is Malamute Located?
 * 11) gene patents

= January 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 January 16


 * 1) Quote's author?
 * 2) Does presentism imply nihilism?
 * 3) William Penn and Indian languages
 * 4) Jagrata and  Vyala motifs in Indian Art
 * 5) Geoffrey Chaucer's words
 * 6) Prince of Neuchâtel
 * 7) Who did Nixon shove?
 * 8) Neglected estate in England

= January 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 January 17


 * 1) Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky
 * 2) Iqbal poem
 * 3) Henry O Studley obituary in the Quincy Patriot-Ledger
 * 4) Questions about "counterfeits"
 * 5) Death rates in prisons

= January 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 January 18


 * 1) Situation in Haiti
 * 2) File:Flag of Australia with Aboriginal flag replacing Union flag.svg
 * 3) What's wrong with moderate inflation?

= January 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 January 19


 * 1) Financial Time's article emailing
 * 2) Voltaire quotation
 * 3) Targino-Flensburg
 * 4) Will without living beneficiaries
 * 5) Will for people not yet born
 * 6) Who owns who
 * 7) The Duke of Norfolk's Case
 * 8) FamilyName Firstname
 * 9) cohabiting and marry status
 * 10) average marriage age
 * 11) Zineb Jammeh
 * 12) Sylvia Ajma Valentin
 * 13) Dents in the border between New South Wales and Queensland

= January 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 January 20


 * 1) two CNN specials
 * 2) strong sexual urges
 * 3) American education quality: University of (state name) vs. (state name) State University
 * 4) Suspended sentences
 * 5) Massachusetts_health_care_reform and federal reform in house+senate
 * 6) Public domain
 * 7) Fair use in Australia
 * 8) zits
 * 9) FRANCE - IN RIGHT OF ENGLAND VS NAVARRE
 * 10) US Court case nomenclature
 * 11) Hinda Deby
 * 12) THE QUEEN'S RELIGIOUS TIES
 * 13) Germans in France,1945 to 1947
 * 14) chords over standard musical notation
 * 15) Living people on UK postage stamps

= January 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 January 21


 * 1) Classics
 * 2) The Operation, Art,  Painting
 * 3) The Art of War in The Great Book Burning
 * 4) Concerning a Previous Question - POW Pay Rates
 * 5) Shootouts not as often as in the Movies
 * 6) History of consumer movement in Bangladesh
 * 7) canadian-Guatemalan ambassadors
 * 8) The vigour of the American people lies with its African-Americans
 * 9) Nazi Germany child-naming
 * 10) did the Greeks know their legends were bullshit?

= January 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 January 22


 * 1) Baseball Rule Question
 * 2) fourth auction by Jay Leno
 * 3) "modern" technological differences in everyday life at any time before, say, 1600 (back to, say, 450 BC)
 * 4) Who was the British Romantic poet who committed "metaphysical suicide" by reading Kant?
 * 5) Randal Keynes
 * 6) 18th century diplomacy, envoys, royal letters
 * 7) Child support. How about elderly parent support?
 * 8) Religious restrictions on the consumption of pork and Christianity
 * 9) how US Census does calculations

= January 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 January 23


 * 1) Controversies around Christianization of Scandinavia
 * 2) Human nature
 * 3) If I'm Conon O'Brian
 * 4) Betty Ong's call on 9/11
 * 5) Phyllis Simons
 * 6) candidates for hottest picture on the internet?
 * 7) Correlation between inflation and social mobility
 * 8) Capital and Labour
 * 9) Is 'A man's a man for all that' mostly liberal or socialist?

= January 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 January 24


 * 1) Julius Caesar and The Netherlands
 * 2) Dalmuir (Gaelic: Dail Mhoire) : Farms: Dalmuir and Loretto in Limpopo, South Africa.
 * 3) Comic strip
 * 4) Edward Barber, Barbour, Barbor, British sailor 1703
 * 5) musicians and drugs
 * 6) What is this?
 * 7) You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours
 * 8) Unidentified batallion
 * 9) Income inequality
 * 10) Priamary and Secondary qualities
 * 11) Why did the movement to create Grammar Shools (in North America = 'Public Schools') arise?
 * 12) Double entry bookkeeping described in scientific terms

= January 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 January 25


 * 1) Copyrights and linking to URLs
 * 2) Is Finnegans Wake in the public domain?
 * 3) A Dessert That Looks Like Turkish Delight
 * 4) Significance of "z"
 * 5) Royal Inbreeding
 * 6) WW2 Casualty Rates by type of land unit? (infantry / tank / artillery)
 * 7) Archives
 * 8) prime minister
 * 9) Crown Lands of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
 * 10) Australian recipe
 * 11) The cons have it
 * 12) Calendar epoch at Easter?

= January 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 January 26


 * 1) Charity idea
 * 2) Hurricane Katrina special
 * 3) Print a verse of a poem.
 * 4) Joseph or JOSFH camp in Vavuniya
 * 5) Geography Question
 * 6) Say if it really was so, Joe.
 * 7) Finance: Comparing exchange rates and import-export data
 * 8) What percentage of anti-abortion Americans oppose the death penalty?
 * 9) Vital statistics down through the ages ?!?

= January 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 January 27


 * 1) Registered Agent
 * 2) Communism
 * 3) Which Bank?
 * 4) Swazi Cultural Costume
 * 5) Re edits
 * 6) the political and spiritual persecution to me for Chinese and HK people
 * 7) Economic theory explaination for the earning power of bankers?
 * 8) Port Elmina
 * 9) Name my poison: question about alcoholic beverages
 * 10) white and Japanese
 * 11) African American Muslims
 * 12) "A celebrity is a person who is well known for his well knownness." Daniel J. Boorstin
 * 13) Turkish/Afghanistan/Pakistani Anthems
 * 14) Population of German Empire
 * 15) What protestant sect did the Diggers belong to?
 * 16) When did the Chionites begin invading (eastern) Afghanistan?

= January 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 January 28


 * 1) Flag Ratios
 * 2) Eating the gross
 * 3) Federalism, Banking, etc
 * 4) Why has human nature changed so much?
 * 5) Nazis targets
 * 6) are couples that have anal sex more likely to stay together?
 * 7) Health insurance
 * 8) Philip Pullman's Sally Lockhart novels
 * 9) Socialism and the United Kingdom
 * 10) Who owns the copyrights to Alberto Vargas playing cards?
 * 11) HELP: Bond prices
 * 12) 3 types of interracial marriages
 * 13) Mein Kampf
 * 14) Copyright violations for unauthorised sequels

= January 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 January 29


 * 1) Victoria and Albert- a serious question
 * 2) Statute of Westminster 1931
 * 3) Gestalt Laws of perception.
 * 4) list of things that are real and notreal at the same time
 * 5) Ryan White Care Act voters
 * 6) UK Companies
 * 7) Human motivation through stigma
 * 8) Great Awakening sermon/essay
 * 9) Employment prospect for Bachelor of Arts in History
 * 10) Creationism and the Flat Fish Eyes
 * 11) generation values
 * 12) Requesting reference books or other available material for ""Impact of Culture in negotiations"

= January 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 January 30


 * 1) Business plan
 * 2) Copyright question
 * 3) Electors of Hesse
 * 4) Chastity belt question.

= January 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 January 31


 * 1) apparel and shoes in Super Bowl opening
 * 2) Elected Officials in Jail
 * 3) redheads
 * 4) George Kennedy Britz Hospital in Mumbai
 * 5) USA's consumer price index data
 * 6) Grammar schools converted from chantries
 * 7) Brandenburg-Kulmbach to Brandenburg-Bayreuth
 * 8) Papal fiefs of England and Ireland; France, Isle of Man
 * 9) Longshanks in Scotland
 * 10) Vince Cable twins, Liberal Democrats, UK
 * 11) Double entry bookkeeping