Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/July 2011

= July 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 July 1


 * 1) Thunder and lightning
 * 2) French phrase for owner of loot?
 * 3) How tall is Elizabeth II?
 * 4) Is the messenger god Hermes associated with water and is war god Ares associated with fire and arrows?
 * 5) Income of at least £34 million a year, every year, for ever
 * 6) Tontine (redux)

= July 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 July 2


 * 1) Richard Francis Burton and getting into Mecca
 * 2) Can anyone list any celebrities who are half white and half black besides Obama and Halle Berry?
 * 3) Section 29 of the Canadian Charter Rights of Freedom
 * 4) what is wrong with the gold standard
 * 5) Society Islands Kingdoms
 * 6) codifying an existing debt
 * 7) old british public schools system

= July 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 July 3


 * 1) Do you think an article about the monthly press conferences by the European Central Bank would work?
 * 2) Talking about something = healing wounds?
 * 3) Monaco regency
 * 4) Townships in Newfoundland
 * 5) South California Proposal: Tax Diversion Unique to 4 Riverside County Cities?
 * 6) is there any culture with a national sleepy-time?
 * 7) 9/11
 * 8) curiosity and hatred

= July 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 July 4


 * 1) Rufio ?
 * 2) can anyone be CFO?
 * 3) "Can anyone recommend any new romance books that are not in any series that have a love_triangle or mysteries?"
 * 4) "Pismo totemami" of Lenin
 * 5) trying to track down an exact quote (postmodern)
 * 6) Amalia of Oldenburg's religion
 * 7) A question on Andrew Jackson
 * 8) Fascist intellectuals
 * 9) Accountacy of real estate plummeting
 * 10) Average amount of tax paid by UK taxpayers per year
 * 11) Stop, thief !
 * 12) Protecting one's self from Stock Dilution

= July 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 July 5


 * 1) Annoying stuff
 * 2) Largest regnal number
 * 3) In what did Madoff invested the money?
 * 4) how do left-wing people think taxes should work?
 * 5) History books
 * 6) The sons of Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza
 * 7) A = B ≠ A
 * 8) Humanitarianism vs. philanthropy
 * 9) What publicly traded stock has performed best over the past X years?

= July 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 July 6


 * 1) is agent orange really being used to clear brazilian rainforest?
 * 2) Regents of England
 * 3) Serbia- Best sports nation in the world?
 * 4) Sense of justice: judging people by outcome or by intention
 * 5) Choice, ethics, and non-Kantian philosophy
 * 6) Islamic biblioclasm

= July 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 July 7


 * 1) Who was the female student of Mozart?
 * 2) Funding Of Political Parties By The Government
 * 3) Modern monarchs
 * 4) Not For Resale in the U.S.
 * 5) Find a fiction book: pilot's girlfriend must land small airplane when pilot falls unconscious
 * 6) What percentage of people born into poverty end up financial successful?
 * 7) 'Major players' in the financial world

= July 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 July 8


 * 1) Muammar Gaddafi
 * 2) Chum and Tipi - convergent evolution or common ancestry?
 * 3) Coeliac disease
 * 4) Kosher Hunting?
 * 5) road deaths
 * 6) Azerbaijan-Catholic Agreement

= July 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 July 9


 * 1) naming custom of Salva Kiir Mayardit?
 * 2) The Bible
 * 3) Prince Phillip
 * 4) South Sudan
 * 5) When is Tu B'Av this year?
 * 6) The Euro convergence criteria
 * 7) Practical implications of the lack of no-fault divorce in New York State?
 * 8) Harem
 * 9) Questions about British parish churches
 * 10) Development of democracy in Germany

= July 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 July 10


 * 1) summarizing Shakespeare (SPOILER WARNING!)
 * 2) Two Thomas Davidsons
 * 3) Animal rights' view of predation
 * 4) No ship named after LBJ?
 * 5) New Israeli maritime border with Kypros
 * 6) Polygyny and polyandry
 * 7) Leadership incompatible with Marxism?
 * 8) How are all relevant documents found for disclosure?
 * 9) Butterfly effect and human lives

= July 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 July 11


 * 1) Finding a logo before registering one
 * 2) Identify this saint
 * 3) American deficit
 * 4) Indecent liberties
 * 5) Civilization of Egypt
 * 6) Cultural level of slaves
 * 7) Question about an apparent contradiction (or confusion) in the meaning of “Going to the city [center]” (Manhattan)
 * 8) Prison sentences
 * 9) UK politics before 1975 referendum
 * 10) Best Cabernet Sauvignon of the Golan Heights Winery in the last 10 years
 * 11) How many suspended sentences end up being served?
 * 12) "Over all of Spain, the sky is clear."
 * 13) United States citizen detained at Guantanamo Bay

= July 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 July 12


 * 1) Being "sponsored"?
 * 2) date discrepancy between two articles concerning Glossolalia

= July 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 July 13


 * 1) Group pressure
 * 2) Rose
 * 3) College vs. University
 * 4) William Tell

= July 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 July 14


 * 1) hinduism /thantric symbolisms of Lord Siva
 * 2) The real reason Annie Whitenmeyer home was closed
 * 3) Cuban healthcare
 * 4) Two contradictory articles

= July 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 July 15


 * 1) Historically accurate painting of Jesus' crucifixion
 * 2) Citing a source numerous times
 * 3) 2 part question about ADOLF HITLER
 * 4) Purchasing power in Russia and the Baltic states.
 * 5) Philosopher
 * 6) Buying a house, an apartment, and condominiums in population declining cities
 * 7) Random capitalization
 * 8) Which U.S. officials could propose a two bracket income tax only treaty?

= July 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 July 16


 * 1) what's the best way to deal with a socipath
 * 2) Are there ANY colleges in the world with bidet-seats in the restrooms?
 * 3) heraldry
 * 4) Historical technology and world regions
 * 5) Median-average world standard of living
 * 6) 10th anniversary of 9/11
 * 7) MILITARY
 * 8) was it an american war

= July 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 July 17


 * 1) Lips on Characters in Japanese Manga/Anime
 * 2) Image verifications
 * 3) Why is art in paint?
 * 4) Harsh sentence because of Royal connection?
 * 5) Toirdhealbhach Luineach Mac Neill Chonnalaigh O Neill
 * 6) Morality of religion
 * 7) Psych wards

= July 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 July 18


 * 1) Charles Xavier
 * 2) Existence of Jesus
 * 3) Company name
 * 4) Phone hacking
 * 5) Current US interest in the Panama Canal
 * 6) "I'm going downtown" (Chicago)
 * 7) confusion about fatalities
 * 8) Nero's involvment in Claudius's death

= July 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 July 19


 * 1) Liliuokalani's desire to behead people
 * 2) Will India become a communist country?
 * 3) "Austria" in Austria
 * 4) Map of Italy
 * 5) Inheriting royal houses in Europe
 * 6) What kind of culture is America?
 * 7) Soldiers firing bullets in the air to celebrate

= July 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 July 20


 * 1) Did Britain ever try to take over Europe?
 * 2) Article 5 of ICJ Statute
 * 3) Forming one's own country
 * 4) Queen proposing
 * 5) American liberals vs socialists
 * 6) Ramayana: Disambiguation
 * 7) Where do scriptures say that ancestors' sins are inherited?

= July 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 July 21


 * 1) Mark Anthony Stroman
 * 2) Franz Joseph I of Austria
 * 3) Rationale of not letting people leave a socialist country
 * 4) No earnt income, but living off....?
 * 5) The Times newspaper emblem/crest
 * 6) Advertising of Habitat (retailer) UK
 * 7) List of 16 major world currencies
 * 8) Horn of Africa famine
 * 9) Suetonius: The Lives of the Twelve Caesars

= July 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 July 22


 * 1) Duty to try to make a profit
 * 2) What is a "civil magistrate" in Virginia?
 * 3) End of don't ask, don't tell

= July 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 July 23


 * 1) Iran's HDI
 * 2) Traffic ticket for a non-local
 * 3) American debt compared with Greek debt
 * 4) John Hancock's ships
 * 5) Renting floor trading privileges and exchange memberships
 * 6) Morphine-A Soldiers Disease
 * 7) Authors and LLCs
 * 8) Faith

= July 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 July 24


 * 1) Fully licensed restaurant in the UK
 * 2) Legal majority for women - when where they no longer minors?
 * 3) New York City under British occupation during the American Revolution
 * 4) science and religion
 * 5) Names of the  Utoya victims
 * 6) What's the sentence for killing >90 in Norway?

= July 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 July 25


 * 1) Capital punishment in Venezuela
 * 2) schist disk
 * 3) Why was Anders Breivik exempted from conscription in the Norwegian military
 * 4) Terms of Loan Guarantees
 * 5) Did the seclusion of women in ancient Greece also include royal women?
 * 6) Recording and photographing a meeting
 * 7) Safe Money
 * 8) privatization of government
 * 9) Cutting the USA debt
 * 10) austerity programs

= July 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 July 26


 * 1) British Slavery and Racial Equality in Europe
 * 2) Odd extension on the rear of an 1870s house
 * 3) My missing Family!!
 * 4) Oceania
 * 5) If Spain truly did conquer England in 1588, then whom did they intend for the throne?
 * 6) Black Swan
 * 7) Location of post office in Houston
 * 8) Global Economic Crisis
 * 9) Should Congressio​nal paychecks be stopped if Debt Crisis in Washington​ DC is unresolved​, effective August 1, 2011?

= July 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 July 27


 * 1) A question about religion
 * 2) Economic simulation digital computer model
 * 3) USS Constitution
 * 4) Why do women like men?
 * 5) How to learn more about classical music
 * 6) Duas for Ramadhan
 * 7) Statistics and discrimination
 * 8) time
 * 9) Ethics with Mac and Virtualbox computing

= July 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 July 28


 * 1) Morphological taxonomy of jokes
 * 2) Citing the Federal Reporter
 * 3) ICJ Statute again (article 54)
 * 4) special needs/developmental delays
 * 5) Wouldn't this debt crisis "solution" cause massive inflation?
 * 6) O. J. Simpson case
 * 7) Sulla
 * 8) Buckingham palace
 * 9) oldest website
 * 10) Flashback
 * 11) 13th century Scotland

= July 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 July 29


 * 1) Flag of Hawaii
 * 2) Credulity of Westboro Baptist Church members
 * 3) Famous only after death
 * 4) What was the text of all the articles in the last News of the World issue?
 * 5) A cabbage leaf?
 * 6) Contribution-lands
 * 7) Looking for a specific Conrad Gessner quote
 * 8) Baseball, Duff Cooley question

= July 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 July 30


 * 1) Former Location of Conservatoire de Paris
 * 2) Politic worms
 * 3) gold versus bonds
 * 4) Lenin and Stalin
 * 5) The EDL leader's lament
 * 6) value of gold
 * 7) Bishop of Arezzo
 * 8) North America without First Nations

= July 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 July 31


 * 1) What is the Roman Catholic Church's position on Christian Existentialism, Phenomenology and Kierkegaard?
 * 2) invention of rhyme
 * 3) gold coins
 * 4) Jans Janzoon Von Haarlem
 * 5) Could the US Government turn to corporate sponsorship to pay down the debt?
 * 6) (Historical question) Alcohol aboard Royal or US Navy ships
 * 7) GK Question