Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/January 2015

= January 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 January 1


 * 1) new brunswick place names
 * 2) Did European Christian families eat the best foods only on big holidays?
 * 3) Median height of world population?

= January 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 January 2


 * 1) Were the ancient Egyptians Coptic
 * 2) Cities not connected to transportation network
 * 3) Triple portals in Gothic architecture
 * 4) Prince Louis of Luxembourg
 * 5) Modern Egyptians

= January 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 January 3


 * 1) Virgin martyrs
 * 2) Could poor Italian peasants during and around Pope Alexander VI's time enter the clergy and rise to bishop?

= January 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 January 4


 * 1) Can anyone help me identify the subject of this painting?
 * 2) Now We are Free
 * 3) Number of married people
 * 4) Napoleon in Russia
 * 5) Who proposed this theory?
 * 6) Saints in the Roman Catholic Church

= January 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 January 5


 * 1) Really old tallest buildings
 * 2) Elizabeth I and Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester
 * 3) This is my Indonesian brother Darryl, and this is my other Indonesian brother Darryl.
 * 4) Gaokao questions
 * 5) Religion of Robert Kirk

= January 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 January 6


 * 1) Titles and authors of novels
 * 2) Tsar's children
 * 3) Two term limits in Rwanda and DR Congo
 * 4) "Rescuing" a pirate
 * 5) Hakaristi
 * 6) Deaths/Punishments of Prophets/False Prophets, Apostles, Messengers, Oracles, Gods, Goddess, Demigods, Messiahs/False Messiahs…
 * 7) WW2 Eastern Front Morale
 * 8) Alteration of winter solstice content.

= January 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 January 7


 * 1) Why did Roosevelt support Taft in 1908?
 * 2) Kabbalah or Qabalah
 * 3) God, Animal, Fruit and a Baby
 * 4) What does "damsel dark" signify in "There is a Tavern Town"?

= January 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 January 8


 * 1) Why is marijuana illegal?
 * 2) How is the world's religious population changing?
 * 3) Angel article understanding problem
 * 4) How can you calculate if something has hit bottom?
 * 5) Tim Cole

= January 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 January 9


 * 1) Need help finding a short story
 * 2) Organization whose initial is C
 * 3) Keeping Faith
 * 4) Suborning sin?

= January 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 January 10


 * 1) Where is Hammeliski?
 * 2) Percentage of US citizens with family members in another country
 * 3) Largest cities in mountain passes?
 * 4) Battle of Klyastitsy

= January 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 January 11


 * 1) Apotheca - is it part of ancient roman houses?
 * 2) Jose Serrano 22nd amendment?
 * 3) Sources on a historic U.S. bank
 * 4) Holocaust & the Kadoshim
 * 5) USA politics
 * 6) Name of non-monetary transaction
 * 7) What Should She Have Said?
 * 8) Murder Most Contradictory

= January 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 January 12


 * 1) Rob Fisk
 * 2) image of Muhammad
 * 3) 20 year employment and capital stock projections

= January 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 January 13


 * 1) The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
 * 2) funny or else
 * 3) Where can I find a copy of Charlie Hebdo in the US?
 * 4) Thanks

= January 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 January 14


 * 1) Coins and their colours/colors
 * 2) Evangelical Lutheran Church in America - what is the culture like?
 * 3) Hackers and Internet Security
 * 4) Trying to understand Western views on Charlie
 * 5) Best (survey-type) phrasing to self-select out non-respondents
 * 6) Apology
 * 7) Ranzo?

= January 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 January 15


 * 1) Who was the "Prince of Braganza" involved in 1938 Brazil coup?
 * 2) singing totally different roles
 * 3) insane multiphonics (whistle-hum)
 * 4) Does Eagleton ever refer to Spinoza?
 * 5) Are Scottish Sheriffs (Judges) overpaid?
 * 6) How did tofu become associated with vegetarianism and veganism in the western countries?
 * 7) Disbarred for failure to pay some clients

= January 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 January 16


 * 1) Another SDA question
 * 2) Cities whose borders and administrative divisions remained the same since the 1800s or earlier than the 1800s (all the way up to today)?
 * 3) How far does legal snapping turtle discrimination go?
 * 4) Sought: study on a certain group of entries (fiction)

= January 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 January 17


 * 1) Effects of hate speech
 * 2) 1) (although I believe he's the son of God, for this purpose let us instead assume he is a historical figure as explained below.)  Please describe historical jesus's biography
 * 3) recent apocrypha

= January 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 January 18


 * 1) The ravages of deflation.
 * 2) Is there a gospel tract that gives more significance to Mary, mother of Jesus?
 * 3) why does my vitamin B have 6000% percent of this stuff
 * 4) Information about artist F. Tayler
 * 5) Estimate of compensation to Britain for loss of 1776 USA.
 * 6) Architectural terminology

= January 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 January 19


 * 1) "body of a bird surrounded by 72 virgins"
 * 2) Chinese immigrants in the mid-20th century and marriage
 * 3) Quantitative easing
 * 4) what would a chinese person explain if we could talk?
 * 5) do we have an article comparing contemporary human cultures?

= January 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 January 20


 * 1) Golfan/Khalfan tribes in Sudan
 * 2) Were 1950s American colored drinking fountains safe?

= January 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 January 21


 * 1) Carpet bombing
 * 2) What was the justification for morality in antinomianism?
 * 3) Tracking down a cite to "The Consensus Opinion" artwork
 * 4) Book Reviews, Ex-Inmate In Exile
 * 5) Henryk Dobrzański  - Confirmation in respect of his son
 * 6) Reference in the Brundtland Report
 * 7) "one of the most valuable things about history is that it teaches us how things do not happen"

= January 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 January 22


 * 1) FAMOUS PAINTINGS
 * 2) Medicaid expansion in PA without legislative approval?
 * 3) Harvard in-text citation
 * 4) Do Muslim converts and Hare Krishna adherents have to choose Arabic and Indian names?
 * 5) What would be the name of both choices?
 * 6) Human microphone
 * 7) Biographical information for a translator

= January 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 January 23


 * 1) allegiance obligation
 * 2) Espousals of the Blessed Virgin Mary to Saint Joseph

= January 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 January 24


 * 1) Evolutionary history/Origin of Mythologies
 * 2) Cultures / ethnicities which have never developed religion

= January 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 January 25


 * 1) Scipione Rota, a Prince of Acherontia
 * 2) Dafydd ab Owain Gwynedd
 * 3) Jo Indian, Adirondack Mountains
 * 4) African Union languages template

= January 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 January 26


 * 1) Relationship between relative age of students and their academic performance
 * 2) what if the USA, the EU-Countries, Russia, China and India suddenly disappared?
 * 3) Judaism
 * 4) Questions about Black people in Britain
 * 5) Red Army personal firearms in 1918-1921
 * 6) australian aboriginals

= January 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 January 27


 * 1) Is it illegal anywhere to surgically assign sex at birth?
 * 2) What Happens Next ?

= January 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 January 28


 * 1) Apostasy in the Jehovah's Witness denomination
 * 2) about drama
 * 3) "Al-Mrrajjam", Jordan
 * 4) Agnes of Rome
 * 5) Third Crusade
 * 6) ‘Out-of-body’ and ‘Inside the body’ Experience
 * 7) Exchange of prisoners with ISIS

= January 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 January 29


 * 1) What style of architecture is this?
 * 2) other proposed Taiwanese flags
 * 3) Legal voluntary euthanasia and life insurance policies
 * 4) Godparent
 * 5) UK Fraud Investigation
 * 6) Book recommendations for Roman Republican history
 * 7) Perpetual stew vs pottage

= January 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 January 30


 * 1) Alternatives to Bible Gateway?
 * 2) Third Crusade and people on ships
 * 3) Everlasting punishment
 * 4) Colonialism in Africa

= January 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 January 31


 * 1) Both the president and vice president attending the White House Correspondents' Dinner
 * 2) Lady Windermere's Fan
 * 3) Japanese Buddhist underworld
 * 4) How are patron saints supposed to work in practice?
 * 5) Videos of ISIS hostage beheadings