Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/January 2012

= January 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 January 1


 * 1) Official side of North Korean power transfer
 * 2) Hindi & Punjabi Names for Mount Everest

= January 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 January 2


 * 1) Ethics of photoshopping
 * 2) Japanese equivalent to the McCollum memo ?
 * 3) How exclusive is the path to enlightenment?
 * 4) Liberation of St. Peter question
 * 5) Translated in English Wikipedia article
 * 6) History book about South Korea?

= January 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 January 3


 * 1) Islam in Europe and Africa
 * 2) Bangladesh Jatiya Party and Islami oikkya Jote
 * 3) fictional Bangladeshi political party
 * 4) What is the most significant....
 * 5) Tahitian display image
 * 6) Deficit
 * 7) Kosovo War in the 90s
 * 8) my Great Britain
 * 9) Is there much support in Argentina for the Falklands remaining British?
 * 10) Lend-Lease
 * 11) Joisey

= January 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 January 4


 * 1) The Indian Rupee Rising
 * 2) Who won?
 * 3) the Government of Canada as a contractor to the US government
 * 4) Abe Lincoln's haircut
 * 5) pre-1973 local elections in the United Kingdom
 * 6) Ismieal Muhsin
 * 7) Hindu Gurungs
 * 8) Legal successorship - Kingdom of Italy and the Republic of Italy
 * 9) Book recommendations
 * 10) Indian architecture

= January 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 January 5


 * 1) Black slavery in Bangladesh
 * 2) Measure of Science
 * 3) Official status of the Hungarian language between 1849 and 1867
 * 4) Michael D. Higgins knee operation in 2004?
 * 5) Alvin Goldman (1967) and requirements for knowledge
 * 6) There is a canon which confines a curse to fifty lines
 * 7) Clarification of the Role of Super Delegates in the Republican Primaries
 * 8) Oprah's lucky opportunities
 * 9) History of a metonym
 * 10) Seeking information on electoral fraud

= January 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 January 6


 * 1) UK "ethnic minority controversy" related question - looking for an article on something
 * 2) Shaktism
 * 3) Help me find the lost article: List of possible Antichrists (or something to that effect)
 * 4) Hungary
 * 5) fax machines
 * 6) File:Mary Custis Lee and Robert E. Lee Jr 1845.jpg
 * 7) Santa Claus letters
 * 8) Please help (church questions)
 * 9) ablaq masonry

= January 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 January 7


 * 1) Aragon
 * 2) The underground war
 * 3) Are there any non-military companies, organizations or countries whose secrecy rivals (or at least matches or is close to) that of Apple?
 * 4) Does anyone know any good quotes relating to beginning/ amateur poets?
 * 5) New Hampshire Primaries
 * 6) What title would Camilla have if she outlives Charles?
 * 7) US House of Representative and Senate seats New York Dearborn Minneapolis

= January 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 January 8


 * 1) Identities of the two ministers who betrayed Liliuokalani
 * 2) Erotic asphyxiation
 * 3) Ron Paul's military service
 * 4) Canadian
 * 5) Quebec

= January 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 January 9


 * 1) Criticism of University
 * 2) The first execution with lethal injection in the US
 * 3) our society

= January 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 January 10


 * 1) Largest dowry in lands
 * 2) Scotland's records of birth at ScotlandsPeople.gov.uk
 * 3) Census 1911 Lancashire, England
 * 4) Theme park
 * 5) what's it called when two temporally different storylines in one book/film, e.g. the new madonne film?
 * 6) Surnames as movie titles
 * 7) Pretending to take medicine: is it real?
 * 8) spy cities
 * 9) Maximum duration of a contract

= January 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 January 11


 * 1) Why was Guinness given a 9,000 year lease?
 * 2) US citizenship and voting
 * 3) The Awntyrs off Arthure
 * 4) Simple questions from a non-english speaking country
 * 5) Horizontal map of California
 * 6) ecoche ---  in relation to human anatomy
 * 7) Ordination question
 * 8) old newspapers and mazagines?
 * 9) Byzantine empire
 * 10) Voter ID laws
 * 11) Hosanna-Tabor v. EEOC

= January 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 January 12


 * 1) US code
 * 2) Reine de Tahiti Pomare IV
 * 3) Crop circles?
 * 4) patent costs?
 * 5) Box office results for Mainland Chinese film
 * 6) A Company Law Question
 * 7) what's the difference between being single and divorce?
 * 8) Is it Governor or Ambassador Huntsman

= January 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 January 13


 * 1) Decadent, short-lived cigar
 * 2) Government of Singapore when it was part of Malaysia
 * 3) Christian/catholic church VS. science
 * 4) Pawley & Corkran kidnapped in Manchuria
 * 5) A poem starting with the line...
 * 6) most famous city for opera in Italy
 * 7) Studies of profitability of patents
 * 8) Distribution of scores on political compass
 * 9) Are "fiction" and "non-fiction" genres?

= January 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 January 14


 * 1) Mozilla
 * 2) Looking for an article on responsibility and social involvement
 * 3) Assassinations and international law
 * 4) Race and census
 * 5) Argument for existence of god
 * 6) Policies and positions of US presidential candidates
 * 7) Are potlatch customs a function of languistic difficulty?
 * 8) Why don't news stories have background music anymore?
 * 9) Hostility towards Christianity today vs early America

= January 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 January 15


 * 1) Italian maritime investigation authorities
 * 2) Exiled Queen of Raiatea
 * 3) Cuba
 * 4) Placing the right hand over the heart during the playing of a national anthem?
 * 5) Underground Warfare
 * 6) Why aren't non-Muslims allowed to make the hajj?
 * 7) What is flawed in Ely Cathedral ?
 * 8) Liberal convention Canada
 * 9) Criminalisation of murder

= January 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 January 16


 * 1) Getting a checking account
 * 2) Late-2000s financial crisis
 * 3) Battle of Te Feipī
 * 4) A little help from the historians
 * 5) Great Expectations book - which one

= January 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 January 17


 * 1) "Glorifying UNESCO"
 * 2) Query on the booklet  'Reiterfestspiel das Dragoner Regiments "Konig" '
 * 3) How many times has wikipedia engaged in political activity
 * 4) Circle of politics
 * 5) Military Law - what would this soldier be charged with?
 * 6) Countries without police or armed police
 * 7) How to learn Sri Lanka Tamil?
 * 8) Statistics of Atheist Comedians

= January 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 January 19


 * 1) How long will English Wikipedia shut down?
 * 2) Why doesn't the US start a war against North Korea or Cuba?
 * 3) Corporations testifying
 * 4) Best way to get lobbying money out of Congress?
 * 5) Is there an SEC law that says CEOs can't say profit?
 * 6) Famous Tahitians
 * 7) moral values of youth in the development of a nation
 * 8) list of upcoming university inaugurations
 * 9) What is the Orgin of "Architectural Squiggles"?
 * 10) Centennial Celebration

= January 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 January 20


 * 1) Sino-Sikh War fact check?
 * 2) Sources for Ocean County Sheriff's Department
 * 3) Governors of Rashidun, Umayyad and Abbasid Caliphates
 * 4) Blame for WWI
 * 5) Blackness
 * 6) Insurance
 * 7) What nations that have financial troubles would be keen to enact a "Verbal Morality Statute?"
 * 8) Teuira Henry
 * 9) Political weight of being faithful
 * 10) The South After the Reconstruction

= January 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 January 21


 * 1) Crazy (purely philosophical viewpoint)
 * 2) Tahitian Dogs
 * 3) Poi Dog
 * 4) Marginal propensity to consume at very high income
 * 5) Siege of Antioch - positions stephen of bios & anonymous author gesta
 * 6) are baby tigers dangerous?
 * 7) Salt and silver
 * 8) How do American film studios and music recording companies pressure the US government into basically violating international law?
 * 9) Lost African statue
 * 10) ISSN registration and ad hoc frequency

= January 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 January 22


 * 1) Surnames as movie titles – feedback
 * 2) Forgiveness without repentance
 * 3) Murder in Oxford
 * 4) Economic left but social conservative and economic right but social liberal
 * 5) saluting during a foreign anthem
 * 6) Collective term for groups of people with physical disabilities and people with special needs
 * 7) Negative campaigning and the political system
 * 8) Rail crash at  Concord West
 * 9) J. Edgar Hoover
 * 10) Kalām cosmological argument
 * 11) siblings on either side of the law
 * 12) George Orwell's Homage to Catalonia
 * 13) Public Broadcasting System
 * 14) National Gallery info

= January 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 January 23


 * 1) National conservatism in Europe
 * 2) What denomination do born-again Christians belong to?
 * 3) Overturning Dred Scott
 * 4) Why didn't the US kill Che earlier?
 * 5) How likely is intelligence?
 * 6) Copyright in US judicial decisions
 * 7) rights of a tenant
 * 8) History
 * 9) Is there a relationship between the analysis of King Lear and the contemporary culture wars?
 * 10) Bengalis in former British colonies
 * 11) Give It Your Best!
 * 12) number of men who had membership in puritan church who sign mayflower compact
 * 13) accounts of 17th century weddings

= January 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 January 24


 * 1) Argentina and the Falklands during WWII - general questions
 * 2) Mormonism and the US Presidency
 * 3) President of the United States whose most recent service was House of Representatives
 * 4) Wikipedia books
 * 5) Memphis desegregation
 * 6) getting in touch with Valerie Browne Lester
 * 7) What is the mainstream economists' view of the New Deal?
 * 8) "Default through inflation"
 * 9) Pope Gregory XI

= January 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 January 25


 * 1) What makes a fictional work existential
 * 2) Does India get its oil from the Strait of Hormuz?
 * 3) the 17th century equivalent of 'decor'
 * 4) WWII pilot commemorative plush toy
 * 5) David Stuart (Michigan politician) : cause of miltary career brutal end in 1863 ?
 * 6) Egg coddler

= January 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 January 26


 * 1) Theoretical stance of Australian Labour and Liberal parties
 * 2) Russian Revolution reasons
 * 3) Cartilage, Curtilage
 * 4) Girard, Philadelphy

= January 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 January 27


 * 1) Voting patterns in presidential election of 1860
 * 2) Pachelbel's Canon/Werner Herzog/The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
 * 3) Video in the National Archives
 * 4) Congressional Visit to Hawaii in early 1900s
 * 5) All WP articles lead to philosophy
 * 6) God's will and free will

= January 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 January 28


 * 1) Black women single?
 * 2) Interracial love
 * 3) Ark of the Covenant makes you implode? Can't the suicidal test this?
 * 4) Why did pre-Columbian civilisations arise in such odd places?
 * 5) Rivers of the British Isles Map
 * 6) Blue-red-green flag
 * 7) Gog and Magog
 * 8) Serbian Orthodox church

= January 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 January 29


 * 1) Why are most countries that have capital punishment poor?
 * 2) How to indicate a book title w/out italics or underlining
 * 3) Israel
 * 4) loan calculation
 * 5) Ethnic Cleansing.
 * 6) Aldous Huxley available online

= January 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 January 30


 * 1) Looking for the wording and source of a Jewish quote/adage/saying
 * 2) Was Galois Welsh?
 * 3) Pros and cons of each type personal finance accounts
 * 4) Copyright in UK
 * 5) Executive Orders / Large denomination currency
 * 6) Is Transnistria communist?
 * 7) Percentage of HIV-positive people among homosexuals
 * 8) Scissors and Superglue
 * 9) French universities alumni muslim leaders
 * 10) Current event: Woman in Bebee, AR who fished $1M winning scratch ticket out of trash bin
 * 11) Novels with Character Legend/Key
 * 12) What are “autonomous sketches?”  re: Hieronymous Bosch article
 * 13) Who painted this picture?

= January 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 January 31


 * 1) Biblical calendar
 * 2) The key of a piece of music
 * 3) Why can't the EU just abuse their fiat currency?
 * 4) Old comic strip
 * 5) David Stuart (Michigan politician) : cause of military career brutal end in 1863 ?
 * 6) Analogue to sadism
 * 7) Central bank money printing
 * 8) Scotland
 * 9) Most extreme outlier case of patent success in recent history