Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/January 2017

= January 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 January 1


 * 1) Why Buddhism no more in India?
 * 2) Parmailitaries killing each other during "The Troubles" in Northern Ireland
 * 3) What's the oldest patriotic song in the world?
 * 4) Solomon and the baby

= January 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 January 2


 * 1) U.S. law and order
 * 2) Cultural structure of social media communities
 * 3) Essex man
 * 4) The Questions of King Milinda
 * 5) The accuracy of the first world map ever!

= January 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 January 3


 * 1) troops volunteered when they enlisted for Vietnam
 * 2) Cultural upheaval
 * 3) Do you know about MCLR, and how MCLR is different from the base rate?
 * 4) Alternatives to AFF
 * 5) Ingersoll on Moses
 * 6) US constitutional definition of treason - "declaring war on the US"?

= January 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 January 4


 * 1) Did anyone ever add anachronistic KJV-style verse numbers to pre-verse manuscripts?
 * 2) 4th January
 * 3) The Pledge of Allegiance
 * 4) Why UK wanted to protect Poland back then?
 * 5) Elections and very poor turnout
 * 6) Homer, Iliad

= January 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 January 5


 * 1) 1881 US and UK political cartoons
 * 2) Prisoner's dilemma with countries
 * 3) British demographics
 * 4) Presiding Officer of the United States Senate
 * 5) Nuclear option
 * 6) How did ethical eating become non-religious?

= January 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 January 6


 * 1) Airport as a gateway
 * 2) US Vice President state car
 * 3) Political ideology
 * 4) Shieldmaiden = Virgin?

= January 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 January 7


 * 1) Office clothings and skin problems
 * 2) Ranking literature
 * 3) Restricting access to contraception and abortion
 * 4) E. Linde

= January 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 January 8


 * 1) Adolf Hitler's plan fr france
 * 2) World War I and II Impact on Global Demographics

= January 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 January 9


 * 1) 1901 regular session journal for Hawaii Senate
 * 2) Religious question
 * 3) What happened to Union garrisons stationed in the cotton states at the outbreak of the US Civil War?
 * 4) Razing Fort McHenry in the Battle of Baltimore - what did it hope to achieve?
 * 5) Radio
 * 6) Outsiders looking at medieval and early modern Europe

= January 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 January 10


 * 1) Who built Cuba's Granma boat?
 * 2) Someone (not sure if the same) one is removing religions out of historical people's tool box (and one famous person)
 * 3) Why is marriage regulated by the government?
 * 4) Syracusia
 * 5) New York Times History
 * 6) Steamship Asia

= January 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 January 11


 * 1) Nuclear option
 * 2) Taiwanese flag banned/censored in Mainland China?
 * 3) Existence of "Mont Terri Castle" in Switzerland, no source found

= January 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 January 12


 * 1) global warming, Pope Francis, First Things
 * 2) Catholic believe: did God create EVERYTHING
 * 3) What is PayPal?

= January 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 January 13


 * 1) Official Declaration 1
 * 2) Millennials
 * 3) The economics of slave ownership vs cheap "free man" labour

= January 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 January 14


 * 1) Ancient Greek cremation
 * 2) Hinduism  deities names
 * 3) Hawaii County Act 1903

= January 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 January 15


 * 1) First purpose-built/dedicated courthouse
 * 2) Tanks, instead of men, in the front-line of Normandy landings?
 * 3) US Supreme Court
 * 4) Source for Helen Suzman quote

= January 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 January 16


 * 1) Global Inequality and the Golden Billion
 * 2) Did a general really believe that if the Cold War blocs had 2 survivors & 1 then the side with 2 wins?
 * 3) Renewable Heat Incentive scandal
 * 4) Declarations of independence prior to July 4 1776

= January 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 January 17


 * 1) Has anybody done anything except stand on the moon? Kneel, sit, lay?
 * 2) Can tankers really take off from aircraft carriers?
 * 3) Why (at usa presidential election) you need 50%+1 electoral votes to win the election by usual means, but you dont need 50%+1 population votes to be the winner of some state?
 * 4) Wall Street and Bay Street counterparts
 * 5) Why did doctors visit patients' houses?

= January 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 January 18


 * 1) Indian religions swastika mistake for Nazi
 * 2) quote is bugging me
 * 3) Plank roads

= January 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 January 19


 * 1) Anti Muslim hate crimes that have turned out to be fake
 * 2) Risshū (Buddhism)
 * 3) Imperial Household Law
 * 4) More than one President
 * 5) Inauguration Day
 * 6) Which latitude and longitude crosses the most countries in the world?
 * 7) What's the best place to read 50% probability-bad Trump scenarios, 10%, 1% and so on written by experts?
 * 8) Question on policies and removing a page
 * 9) What do you call the symmetrical folds around the mouth ion this face?
 * 10) Is it really accurate to describe Trump as fascist?

= January 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 January 20


 * 1) When did the tanks arrive?
 * 2) When does the handover happen?
 * 3) Environmental policies of Hitler
 * 4) noon
 * 5) Is gender bias a kind of cognitive bias?
 * 6) YAL
 * 7) Is social class determined by income level or standard of living?
 * 8) Sinjar, Yazidis, U.S. intervention
 * 9) 1lib1ref
 * 10) Orthodox Jewish hat boxes

= January 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 January 21


 * 1) Judge cartoon
 * 2) How did food surplus create class division?
 * 3) Bibliography  book
 * 4) Rory of the Hills
 * 5) Squares for protesting

= January 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 January 22


 * 1) In what era was the developed world's imports from the developing the highest percent of the latter's GDP?
 * 2) Monotheism and Plato
 * 3) Use of genealogy books among persons of Korean descent in North America

= January 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 January 23


 * 1) What are the Guidelines for Government Classification in Wikipedia?
 * 2) Official wiki-social-media
 * 3) "Old way of politics"?
 * 4) UK elections - winning multiple seats

= January 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 January 24


 * 1) Why call country communist?
 * 2) Dependency/Territory? Any difference?
 * 3) How did people with gluten sensitivities survive in the Middle Ages?
 * 4) Do Canadians ever come to the United States illegally?

= January 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 January 25


 * 1) Scotland
 * 2) Executive orders
 * 3) Waterboarding and diminishing returns
 * 4) Polygamy
 * 5) American murderers fleeing to Canada to avoid the death penalty
 * 6) International income inequality
 * 7) Car makers in Canada and the US and Mexico
 * 8) Fiction without conflict
 * 9) No civilian aviation over the USA
 * 10) Where should we put a record of Trump's actions in office?

= January 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 January 26


 * 1) How many of these orders seem likely to happen?
 * 2) US Secretary of State
 * 3) US judicial system
 * 4) Introduction to Economics
 * 5) Ideology
 * 6) Which religious group has the longest religious text? Longest canon?
 * 7) H. G. Wells

= January 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 January 27


 * 1) Defunct holidays
 * 2) Trying to recall shorty story/novella about buying land
 * 3) Social Science Quarterly
 * 4) The South Pacific Times
 * 5) Psychological experiments similar to Stanford prison experiment or Milgram experiment
 * 6) Taxation as theft
 * 7) Internal Autonomy Day

= January 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 January 28


 * 1) Unemployment benefits
 * 2) Asia
 * 3) Are there border markers on the Great Lakes at the US-Canada border?
 * 4) Actual airspace defence in the U.S., and other western countries
 * 5) Cadences

= January 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 January 29


 * 1) How many ‘Rassenschänderin’ did the fascists penalize?
 * 2) Did "feme sole" exist in any other nation but England?

= January 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 January 30


 * 1) Soviet Union and the Congo Crisis.
 * 2) Questions about the José Medellín murder case
 * 3) Nanjing Massacre - availability of sources

= January 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 January 31


 * 1) Benoit Hamon primary win by departments and communes
 * 2) Terrorist groups by ethnicity/nationality/religion
 * 3) What's this kind of mate called?
 * 4) Events
 * 5) Trying to look for a library that carries this book
 * 6) Is Peter Navarro Hispanic?