Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/January 2013

= January 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 January 1


 * 1) Christianity, America, and Capitalism
 * 2) Christianity, America, and Capitalism (cont.)
 * 3) "Rigged" U.S. Presidential Elections
 * 4) Which is the city up side down on the map at 1:13 in this music video?
 * 5) Aristotle and acoustics
 * 6) Is praxeology dependent to mathematics and formal logic?
 * 7) Polish Armoured trains in Britain
 * 8) Prussian King turn German Emperor
 * 9) Pride

= January 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 January 2


 * 1) A book by Rabani Mauri, 1532, de Clericorum institutione et Ceremoniis ecclesiae:
 * 2) Anencephalic Infants and Citizens
 * 3) Is Ordinary language philosophy a philosophical school of thought or a philosophical movement?
 * 4) Did a billiards player commit suicide because of a fly?
 * 5) Gateless public transit
 * 6) Source for quotation
 * 7) Conducting and musicianship
 * 8) British citizens, House of Lords
 * 9) equal capital gains taxation theory

= January 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 January 3


 * 1) Battleship Potemkin
 * 2) What book is good for political philosophy graudauate study
 * 3) United States Going To War And Then Backing Out
 * 4) Dhanyawadi state
 * 5) Author of phrase?
 * 6) Feminism question
 * 7) Houghton Hall, Norfolk, UK
 * 8) House numbering in Britain

= January 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 January 4


 * 1) French Revolutionaries
 * 2) How do Encyclopædia Britannica verify their contents?
 * 3) Secular Humanism and Communism
 * 4) Communism and Socialism
 * 5) God and the Devil
 * 6) Same social class or different?
 * 7) All the Heinrichs in the Reuss family
 * 8) Name for that effect:  personality test alredy biased by the person's self-assessment?
 * 9) Origins of the spoiler warning
 * 10) Friedrich Nietzsche quote

= January 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 January 5


 * 1) Hair and grooming in historical Venice, Italy
 * 2) Relation between William Perry and Matthew C. Perry
 * 3) Classical vs. medieval armies
 * 4) Once King Abdullah dies, can a young Prince become King?
 * 5) Famous actors, musicians or artists who have received the Order of Canada
 * 6) Catholicism, priests, and reproduction
 * 7) Democratic elections where one party wins all the seats

= January 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 January 6


 * 1) Atheism and the Devil
 * 2) Nontheism, the Devil, Good, and Evil
 * 3) His Dark Materials, God, the Devil, Good, and Evil
 * 4) Older name for the "Korean peninsula"
 * 5) Reginald Brentnor
 * 6) 3rd, 4th and 5th and other largest Bangladeshi Americans
 * 7) Alternatives to London ca. 1900
 * 8) XKCD comic
 * 9) What medal is Alexander wearing?
 * 10) 2012 Inflation Data release?
 * 11) The "only two cars in Ohio" story
 * 12) Why do flight attendants insist that in case of crashing into the sea you open the lifebelt once you got off the plane?
 * 13) Is it true that god is present ?
 * 14) Jonasson
 * 15) Same-sex marriage and the persecution of Christians
 * 16) Primary Education in the United States

= January 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 January 7


 * 1) She named a crater on Venus - but who was she?
 * 2) How accurate are home appraisals?
 * 3) St. Jude Children's Hospital
 * 4) Why is communism still tried?
 * 5) Sodom and its sexual interpretation (or lack thereof)
 * 6) Easter
 * 7) What is a legacy payment system?

= January 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 January 8


 * 1) Drawing conclusions from the wrong experiment-fallacy
 * 2) What trivias about Tokugawa Ieyasu is verifiable?
 * 3) Pastafarian Minister Honorific?
 * 4) General studies
 * 5) Colonization of the Americas as a good thing
 * 6) Columbine High massacre
 * 7) Did Jesus have a family name?
 * 8) proportional representation party list why not full
 * 9) Was KwaZulu a monarchy?
 * 10) What is the concept in political science or philosophy that speaks about the political autonomy of a private property and what is the technical term for that?

= January 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 January 9


 * 1) What is the status of the legal dispute between HarperCollins and Open Road?
 * 2) Sharia in specific area of Muslim majority nation
 * 3) Are prisoners' brains extracted in Security Prison 21?
 * 4) Completely stumped.
 * 5) First RAF 'kill' of second world war
 * 6) I'm wondering why there is no patent on financial instruments?
 * 7) The very first dilly bar maker
 * 8) Israeli election
 * 9) Religious conversion
 * 10) 1st and 2nd largest Bangladeshi, Arab, Somali, Iranian, Afghan and Turk communities in United Kingdom
 * 11) Lambastide
 * 12) Belief-oriented religion vs. Tribal religion
 * 13) Trillion dollar coin and Matthew Yglesias

= January 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 January 10


 * 1) Why not wall off Pakistan to stem the flow of Taliban?
 * 2) Article request
 * 3) Could Piers Morgan be deported because of the petition of one person?
 * 4) Münster Rebellion

= January 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 January 11


 * 1) What is the maximum legal age limit for adoptive parents in the United States?
 * 2) American-Vietnamese children
 * 3) The Roe v. Wade baby
 * 4) Scottish independence referendum, 2014
 * 5) Paranormal phenomenon involving the collective unconscious.
 * 6) Methods to analyze sacred texts?
 * 7) Gun control

= January 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 January 12


 * 1) Sunni and Shia majority provinces of Iraq
 * 2) SOE rogue op
 * 3) Fred Burnham
 * 4) Is being a homosexual punishable by the sword in Saudi Arabia as well?
 * 5) Gender ratio in biblical studies and theology?
 * 6) Mr Fiebig and his Kallifthongon
 * 7) When will I be able to upload it?

= January 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 January 13


 * 1) God, the Devil, and Gender
 * 2) Environmentalism and the Fall of Communism
 * 3) Jurisdiction of Hawaiian courts
 * 4) B?
 * 5) Trajan's column
 * 6) Indian Judiciary
 * 7) Steam clock
 * 8) Land of Punt
 * 9) Women's breasts

= January 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 January 14


 * 1) What was her full name and the year of death?
 * 2) Ranking of US presidents - background?
 * 3) Looking for information about a person in the 17th century
 * 4) 613 Commandments
 * 5) Average yearly income of a faimly who owns a coastal house

= January 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 January 15


 * 1) Marquess of Reading
 * 2) Proving common sense
 * 3) Europe's taxing artists
 * 4) Palmistry of Tokugawa Ieyasu: can it be verified?
 * 5) OCD
 * 6) Mapping of the entire earth
 * 7) London bombings during WW2
 * 8) Finding Forrester
 * 9) Milk, bread, sandwich, winter weather?
 * 10) Religious schools in Christianity, Hinduism and other religions
 * 11) Thinking of fiction in terms of how it was created
 * 12) symbolic gesture at NCAA football game

= January 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 January 16


 * 1) Far Spain
 * 2) Iraqi Kurdistan
 * 3) Offices affected by the Weather Service Modernization Act of 1992
 * 4) How can it make sense to issue mortgages now?
 * 5) Why is this article placed under Irreligion?
 * 6) If my country were ever attacked, could we attack their soil?
 * 7) The legitimacy of Azawad as a state (Malian conflict)

= January 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 January 17


 * 1) Question about crime
 * 2) Marriage Validity
 * 3) Succession to the Crown Bill logic
 * 4) Poverty in Korea
 * 5) psychological reasons for granting last meal
 * 6) Congo rubber

= January 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 January 18


 * 1) Famous travelers of Tahiti
 * 2) Battle of Ivy Hill
 * 3) The Lords Haden-Guest
 * 4) Nerds and penises
 * 5) Hikikomoris in my country Japan
 * 6) Society and Relationship
 * 7) Mouthwash
 * 8) Famous (nazi?) quote

= January 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 January 19


 * 1) Human worshiping
 * 2) Lenin
 * 3) PSU sex scandal
 * 4) Obsolescence of the Military drummer boy?
 * 5) Signing of the constitional amendments (United States)
 * 6) e. battiglia/titled pieces

= January 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 January 20


 * 1) Searching for origin of quote about armies going to war over pieces of land not big enough to bury the dead
 * 2) What kind of Fiat?
 * 3) Economic value of a phd
 * 4) Crime and otakus in Japan
 * 5) I've got blisters on my fingers
 * 6) Percentage of disabled people in the UK accessing the countryside annually
 * 7) Bank of Montreal questions

= January 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 January 21


 * 1) Hereditary Democracy article?
 * 2) Are there any sources about Tokugawa Ieyasu's palmistry?
 * 3) West and Johnston publishers

= January 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 January 22


 * 1) Orient vs Occident
 * 2) Moral panic and societies of the World
 * 3) When did semiconductor manufacturing in China first overtake manufacturing in the US?
 * 4) Julian Lloyd-Webber
 * 5) Is there a deadline for U.S. troops in Japan or not?
 * 6) I,m looking for a political word, partially defined below

= January 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 January 23


 * 1) French laws regarding police, riots, and crowd sizes.
 * 2) Hohenzollernsche Lande
 * 3) Origin of work
 * 4) A poem that is at first gentle but then becomes transfigured, dissonant.
 * 5) French Probate
 * 6) History of processed carbohydrate
 * 7) Same articles in a different media
 * 8) Outgoing Pres. Clinton briefs Pres. Geo Bush about al-quaeda
 * 9) How many Secrtary of States have been grilled after an attack on Americans in foreign countries

= January 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 January 24


 * 1) Roy Raymond (businessman)
 * 2) rival package companies with smaller aircrafts
 * 3) Being attracted to / impressed / fascinated by the incomprehensible
 * 4) Copyright law UK
 * 5) Projecting Americanism abroad -- standard of living
 * 6) Weird video of hostage
 * 7) sleeping in two cycles
 * 8) circumcised
 * 9) Ancient Somalia & Macrobia
 * 10) Based on what did the Canadian PM say this?

= January 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 January 25


 * 1) High-ranking transsexual officials
 * 2) Looking for a book
 * 3) Options for a family's family names in the USA
 * 4) What was the original language?
 * 5) Death of Adolf Hitler
 * 6) The Wart
 * 7) Indigenous people
 * 8) Secular humanism
 * 9) Opportunity of a Lifetime
 * 10) Creationists
 * 11) Israeli Elections Party Lists
 * 12) emo/goth

= January 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 January 26


 * 1) Nations with free tuition?
 * 2) Cheapest colleges for a Kansas resident
 * 3) Legitimate or scam?
 * 4) Could some tell what the following Italian Surnames mean: Collura D'alfonso Deniro Milano Pacino Ciccone?
 * 5) bonfire commemoratives
 * 6) Historical prices of iron compared to other goods
 * 7) Typical starting out of convicts arriving in Australia
 * 8) History Question: what are some famous before 17th century Lesbian couples listed in history? Also have any lesbian couple remains ever been found?
 * 9) Corbreuse census around 1944

= January 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 January 27


 * 1) What do you call the mongrel half science/half memoir genre
 * 2) Vidal
 * 3) Identify composer
 * 4) Ralph Nader and 2000
 * 5) Jacobite Succession
 * 6) List of well known Americans living and working in Africa
 * 7) post card DVDs
 * 8) The first actress of her country - does any one know more?
 * 9) What is the best death?

= January 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 January 28


 * 1) Programme for International Student Assessment
 * 2) Why does Hollywood depict American twenty-somethings so poorly?
 * 3) These wretched times of ours
 * 4) Pre-fire buildings in Chicago
 * 5) Age of Consent versus Orientation
 * 6) Is my country, Japan, the strongest ally of the U.S. in Asia?
 * 7) Algeria hostage crisis and Japanese citizens
 * 8) old train designs/pictures
 * 9) Waterloo painting

= January 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 January 29


 * 1) archives-Wettenberg, Germany
 * 2) Roy Raymond
 * 3) Finance Sector for beginners
 * 4) My lucky day, or not
 * 5) Study that confirms that emotion and reason are intertwined...?
 * 6) Stock splits' effect on prices
 * 7) Is this racial profiling?
 * 8) Kosovo
 * 9) Why does Canada intervene in Mali?
 * 10) Julian, Lord Fellowes

= January 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 January 30


 * 1) How to find how many translations a book has?
 * 2) Modern-day descendants of Julius Caesar
 * 3) Alleged proposed constitutional amendments
 * 4) Is it possible to reconstruct a currently spoken language (grammar, vocabulary, phonology) given it's parent language and sister languages?
 * 5) Copyright status of WW2 propaganda poster
 * 6) Rechtsfähigkeit/権利能力 (Kenri Nōryoku)
 * 7) Is a Governor General a commander or not?
 * 8) Divorce rates in places and times

= January 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 January 31


 * 1) Saying grace (for Mormons)
 * 2) Ancient prayers in Odyssey
 * 3) Silverites and the U.S. Democratic Party
 * 4) Epitaph
 * 5) 9/11 conspiracy theories
 * 6) Can you at least  comprehend this?