Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/January 2011

= January 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 January 1


 * 1) Bahá'í religious choice
 * 2) 1810
 * 3) Female immigrants to the US
 * 4) voting
 * 5) Crime cost effectiveness study
 * 6) Nuclear War
 * 7) Former Governor of California

= January 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 January 2


 * 1) Unusual given names of movie characters
 * 2) Old children's story
 * 3) "American" style wedding
 * 4) Mechanical copyright
 * 5) When did January 1 become a bank holiday in England?
 * 6) House of Reuss

= January 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 January 3


 * 1) Federal reserve comic books in public domain?
 * 2) Base and superstructure, Dialectical materialism and historical materialism
 * 3) California law
 * 4) Statistics on Egyptian tourism
 * 5) regarding Rajaraja chlan
 * 6) Buying French Guiana and France's Oversea Islands
 * 7) Logic as basis of system
 * 8) UK TV drama, about 25 years ago

= January 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 January 4


 * 1) Where are the true facts about the Ark?
 * 2) Fashionable colours of clothing in 12th century England
 * 3) Confused Aspie guy here
 * 4) Gun control
 * 5) Bookkeeping transactions

= January 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 January 5


 * 1) Enlgihtenment
 * 2) Mariner's Mirror 1926
 * 3) A crime even if committed unknowingly and with innocent intent?
 * 4) Beatriz Galindo; which years?
 * 5) Accepted in to high society in the 18th-and 19th-century
 * 6) James Bond Advert Soundtrack

= January 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 January 6


 * 1) Action of 8 December? 18 December? 28 December?
 * 2) Logical publication of the law
 * 3) brachy-brown
 * 4) Offspring of mixed Muslim-Christian Marriages: Muslim or Christian
 * 5) Frankly, I cann't figure it out
 * 6) Where can I find old comparative population figures for Australia?

= January 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 January 7


 * 1) hope this is not a request for legal advice, asking out of curiousity
 * 2) Straddle (naked or not)
 * 3) Character from folklore or legend who rides a wheeled grasshopper?
 * 4) 'The Garden' (Joan Miró)
 * 5) Worse local authority services that cost more, UK
 * 6) List of US presidential election results by county
 * 7) Quote
 * 8) Games and songs from Commonwealth countries
 * 9) London cholera, oral-fecal transmission, politics/morality

= January 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 January 8


 * 1) Missing people who were later found alive
 * 2) Princess Frederica Charlotte of Prussia - when did it hapen?
 * 3) What is likely to have happened?
 * 4) Federal Governance of Washington, D.C.
 * 5) I'm looking for the closest civilian analogs to Basic Training. Help?
 * 6) Name for a typical library-use desk light
 * 7) Any studies showing long term benefit / disadvantage of keeping job salary public/secret
 * 8) Bo's brother, Rico
 * 9) White female captives of Native Americans
 * 10) What can you analyze about this essay?
 * 11) Different calendars in use in modern times?
 * 12) Marilyn Monroe sex tape
 * 13) Tamil Muslim language
 * 14) Community service
 * 15) Employees choose own salary and hours
 * 16) Jacksonville, Florida city map with borders

= January 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 January 9


 * 1) Walmart statistics
 * 2) desert rats
 * 3) The Royal Park in the UK and The Crown
 * 4) "Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand." - Baruch Spinoza
 * 5) Pathology of confusing "you" with "me"
 * 6) Ulster Volunteer Force
 * 7) Travelling with children
 * 8) industrial cleaning'
 * 9) Mexican chocolate in UK
 * 10) Rote memorizing in US vs UK pedagogy
 * 11) Old Venezuelan bolívar
 * 12) Why aren't vows of consecrated life considered one of the 7 Catholic sacraments?

= January 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 January 10


 * 1) Purpose of the British monarchy
 * 2) hindu pork
 * 3) Mosques in Jacksonville, Florida and other southern cities
 * 4) Mosques in Buffalo, New York
 * 5) Is there a way to find the others ?
 * 6) Liberal education
 * 7) First Dog fan mail
 * 8) What'll it take to enter the Korean Air Force?
 * 9) Grudges?
 * 10) Baroque music
 * 11) Mississippian Language
 * 12) Pricing of world oil
 * 13) Percentage of American households without guns?
 * 14) CNN report on politics vs sports

= January 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 January 11


 * 1) Study
 * 2) Joane Martin's dimensions (perspective) of the organizational culture
 * 3) Bibliography required

= January 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 January 12


 * 1) Old coin
 * 2) poorest city in USA
 * 3) Charity Organizations that might assist with funeral expenses.
 * 4) Einstein's last will and testament?
 * 5) Sumerian King's Palaces
 * 6) London capital city status
 * 7) Actualization of disgust
 * 8) Japanese style toilet and toilet paper
 * 9) Correction and embarrassment

= January 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 January 13


 * 1) Pinter quote from an introduction to one of his works
 * 2) "Through Jesus Christ Our Lord, Amen" and its acceptability to different Christian denominations
 * 3) Why is it a bad thing if the Jews killed Christ?
 * 4) Anatomy of the Soul
 * 5) Artist, Oil Painting
 * 6) Is there any historical proof that Cleopatra would stick pins in her slave-girls' breasts?
 * 7) Very strange concentration camp badge

= January 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 January 14


 * 1) Do Catholic bishops reign?
 * 2) Ben-Hur:_A_Tale_of_the_Christ's prison
 * 3) Wikileaks abstracts for geopol students
 * 4) Noble titles
 * 5) Childhood fingerprinting, adult conviction
 * 6) Cuba
 * 7) build your own car

= January 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 January 15


 * 1) Rabelais and his fruit
 * 2) How old, most likely, is the oldest military secret?
 * 3) external link change on semi-protected page
 * 4) Children's Book: Orphan Girl in Ursuline Convent, New Orleans
 * 5) Cemetery lot brain teaser
 * 6) Did Lysenko believe in genes?  Was there an alternative term?
 * 7) Looking for a quote
 * 8) the many daughters of Robert Arden
 * 9) Afro-Arabs

= January 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 January 16


 * 1) Stigma around things that are a part of life
 * 2) Culture trickles up?
 * 3) Chinese poet Li Po's biography
 * 4) Sub-Saharan African Admixture of Black Jamaicans
 * 5) J. B. Herr
 * 6) Congressional plurality?
 * 7) new old cars
 * 8) Drug laws, state by state.
 * 9) College education

= January 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 January 17


 * 1) French food
 * 2) HOW TO KEEP BALANCE ENGLISH BETWWEN CHINESE INCULCULTURE
 * 3) Tang-era Nanzhao sword
 * 4) Countries ordered by level of centralization
 * 5) Did Columbus really underestimate the size of the Earth by 30 percent?
 * 6) WW2 British Home Fleet
 * 7) Declaring war
 * 8) Sephardic Jews in Latin America
 * 9) Psychological label
 * 10) "What should one's life be?"
 * 11) Reading the Bible in English  -- a book?
 * 12) Kansas in the American Civil War
 * 13) Large Greek Island Invaded by Greeks, Displacing Landowners in Classic Times

= January 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 January 18


 * 1) Is fiction a means of mental ventilation?
 * 2) Largest democratic country with many parties
 * 3) In Search of Giovanni Antonio da Brescia
 * 4) Other cities surrounded by water
 * 5) Slashed zero
 * 6) Correction by schoolteachers
 * 7) baby doc

= January 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 January 19


 * 1) I'm in a Predicament
 * 2) A specific kind of very important city...
 * 3) Discrepancy in The King's Speech?
 * 4) speakers and connections
 * 5) Non-coalition democratic governments
 * 6) Lists of dates books published on
 * 7) Allusions in Prose Literature

= January 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 January 20


 * 1) Worlde War 1 medals
 * 2) Epifanio Garay - English Language References
 * 3) Multiculturalism in Quran and Hadith
 * 4) Lipstick
 * 5) Who has declared war lately?
 * 6) can someone explain this joke?
 * 7) Daily online cartoon?
 * 8) Who are Haddanites?
 * 9) "Shield of arms" for surnames?

= January 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 January 21


 * 1) Impromptu speaking
 * 2) Loss of citizenship
 * 3) Bicycle races, brakes
 * 4) Manunda
 * 5) The specific term for a legal clause
 * 6) Safest country to live in
 * 7) UK police fudging crime figures?
 * 8) Headstone Foundation
 * 9) Bhagavad Gita Translation
 * 10) The dangers of pregnancy and childbirth

= January 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 January 22


 * 1) Patent/Copyright Paradoxes
 * 2) What is "the fall of the Synagogue"
 * 3) HMT means HM Trawler or HM Troopship?
 * 4) Albert Terhune's parents
 * 5) Irish politics question
 * 6) What psychological problems are likely to be faced by North Koreans upon unification?
 * 7) Der Golem
 * 8) UK tax deductable amounts for small businesses

= January 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 January 23


 * 1) Incest laws in Israel
 * 2) ancestry.co.uk
 * 3) IMDB title
 * 4) The everyday calendar in Islamic countries
 * 5) Why the large growth rates in developing countries?
 * 6) Korean Racist Slurs

= January 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 January 24


 * 1) Firing Squad Regulations - German Army - WW2
 * 2) Religious fiction cliche
 * 3) Roman numbers
 * 4) US presidential line of succession - who becomes Speaker of House?
 * 5) how many trees needed to make A4 paper?
 * 6) Tea Party Movement/2010 US Mid Term Elections
 * 7) Is there an International Day for Physically Disabled / Special Needs people?

= January 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 January 25


 * 1) Immunity for diplomats' children
 * 2) cancelled coins of denomiation of 25 paise coins by R.B.I.w.e.f.June2011
 * 3) World War Two
 * 4) would it be considered wrong to deceive someone in poker or part of te game?
 * 5) Arnulf
 * 6) is it true that japanese, when recycling, sort their trash into 10+ categories?
 * 7) bbc iplayer
 * 8) Definition of partial lot legal description
 * 9) Is low inflation the highest goal of economists?

= January 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 January 26


 * 1) Bangladeshi visits by Mahatma Gandhi
 * 2) Puccini v. Andrew Lloyd Webber -- copyright term?
 * 3) Who are these people?
 * 4) Precedents on this game
 * 5) Austrian Empire vs Kingdom of Hungary
 * 6) Guns in the Bible
 * 7) Permanent states of emergency
 * 8) I would like to find out the approximate size of the outdoor sporting industry in the US? How much $$...

= January 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 January 27


 * 1) The oldest piece of music
 * 2) Seclusion of upperclasswomen in Imperial China
 * 3) Noblewomen criminals in the old age
 * 4) Current account + Capital and Financial account = 0
 * 5) Patron gods and patron saints
 * 6) Little Ice Age and rise in infant mortality
 * 7) The Stone Diaries
 * 8) Resignation from the House of Commons (UK)
 * 9) History of randomly selected jurors?
 * 10) lapel ribbons with accompanying letter
 * 11) Why can't I remember my pre-life?

= January 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 January 28


 * 1) French noblewoman
 * 2) 1963 Philippine Scouting tragedy
 * 3) "The Crown" and God
 * 4) Four Loko
 * 5) What Do Turks newspaper say about Germany?
 * 6) Denmark in Iraq/Afghanistan
 * 7) Sell off the royals
 * 8) Exempting judicial review

= January 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 January 29


 * 1) UK Monarch's religion
 * 2) Presidential signature
 * 3) Quacks
 * 4) Information collected by banks
 * 5) Double entry bookkeeping and bank statements
 * 6) Bank statements forsee the future
 * 7) How much of our knowledge of history is modern
 * 8) Gunfight at the O.K. Corral

= January 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 January 30


 * 1) Standard of review on appeal in Bangladeshi courts
 * 2) Clarification on terms - India, 1946
 * 3) Please provide a list of notable people on the Autistic Spectrum who hold any leadership positions.
 * 4) Is there a way to punish Fitch Ratings for opposing democracy?
 * 5) The current riots in Egypt and their coverage in US media
 * 6) Investment as a share of GDP
 * 7) Oymyakon
 * 8) What is correct: Bavaria or Simmern?
 * 9) If there are no stupid questions
 * 10) Self-declaring a republic
 * 11) Greek and Maltese WW II refugees in India
 * 12) Latest populated country
 * 13) Italian Prisoners in World War Two
 * 14) isbrandsten shipping company.
 * 15) Isabella of Mar's burial site
 * 16) I've heard of ads placed on cars to earn the owner income. How can that happen to me?

= January 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 January 31


 * 1) What has changed?
 * 2) Black Spot (Treasure Island)
 * 3) Syria and Egypt
 * 4) sharing money vs. sharing time + information
 * 5) Is it true that Australians are descended from criminals?