Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/July 2014

= July 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 July 1


 * 1) Minimum cigarette prices
 * 2) Original research should be accepted
 * 3) 1987 aircraft incident - did it happen?

= July 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 July 2


 * 1) What's the highest ranked team this World Cup that was "seeded to lose"?
 * 2) Possible scam email
 * 3) Racially mixed couples / female partner preferences
 * 4) Absolute timing?
 * 5) Citing a book without page numbers

= July 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 July 3


 * 1) Questions about closed primary elections in the US
 * 2) Date of birth for Howard Austen
 * 3) I'd like to roll to Rio some day before I'm old!

= July 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 July 4


 * 1) Was Fyodor Rostopchin a general?
 * 2) Help with name of book.

= July 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 July 5


 * 1) Congressional sessions in the 19th century
 * 2) Us tribal reservation law enforcement

= July 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 July 6


 * 1) French painter
 * 2) Would it be better if all legislators will be required to obtain a law degree before entering into politics?
 * 3) What was in the original Japanese text?
 * 4) Why did the russian stop kissing each other after communism

= July 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 July 7


 * 1) Did Jesus get married?
 * 2) A movie about a child murderess
 * 3) Successful lawsuits against the Wikimedia Foundation
 * 4) Ira B. Dutton
 * 5) Why does an Englishman say "dollars" in The Hound of the Baskervilles?
 * 6) jesus and messianic prophecy
 * 7) Citing a web page
 * 8) (How to ask for) references on pedophilia

= July 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 July 8


 * 1) Need help identifying a portrait from a movie
 * 2) Origin of Kings
 * 3) Second most powerful office in America
 * 4) University of Wales, Islamic Theology

= July 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 July 9


 * 1) Nazi food and oil pre-Barbarossa
 * 2) Lord of the Manor titles
 * 3) Neolithic Revolution: "Sedentary" farming??
 * 4) Hedge Funds
 * 5) Coat of arms of the Bagrationi dynasty

= July 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 July 10


 * 1) Self-made child porn
 * 2) Job Application Query
 * 3) Environment, health, and economy
 * 4) Books About the Role of Children in Gang Warfare
 * 5) Canadian Armed Forces insignia

= July 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 July 11


 * 1) Bill Ragsdale
 * 2) 19th century travel accounts
 * 3) unfair workplace practices
 * 4) Conversion narratives about people who convert from a nonreligious, non-theistic background to a traditional Christian background?
 * 5) In what ways is the Baha'i religion similar to Unitarian Universalism and different from Christianity?
 * 6) Sanguine personality - a good thing?  When?

= July 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 July 12


 * 1) Most prolific convicted murderer
 * 2) Charles N. Arnold
 * 3) Political position of Richard Nixon

= July 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 July 13


 * 1) Herod the Great in Art
 * 2) Are there Christian sects that have become an ethnoreligious group?
 * 3) (Western) Samoa-American Samoa relationship
 * 4) Maine and Massachusetts
 * 5) The prophecy of the Three Witches in Macbeth

= July 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 July 14


 * 1) How do Western parents give blessings to their sons-in-law prior to marriage?

= July 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 July 15


 * 1) Louis II and the Jagiellons
 * 2) George F. Wright
 * 3) Langton, near Warlington, England
 * 4) Tolkien question

= July 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 July 16


 * 1) What's the procedure for a province to break away from a turmoiled country and declare independence?
 * 2) George R. Carter
 * 3) Temporal solaces
 * 4) Influence of EU membership on English law
 * 5) Where is this?
 * 6) Bicorn tapestry?
 * 7) How did the American concept of evangelicalism change from Lutheranism to conservative Protestant Christianity?
 * 8) How common are Christian-to-Buddhist family conversions in the world?

= July 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 July 17


 * 1) Historical names for the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, etc
 * 2) Where did the "coffee" in the Coffee Club come from?
 * 3) Historical person obsessed with clocks
 * 4) Malaysian airline crash in Ukraine
 * 5) Are these notable in England

= July 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 July 18


 * 1) What was Rhode Island's status before it ratified the Constitution?
 * 2) jurisdiction & admissibility
 * 3) Low population density of central inner Spain
 * 4) Taking pets to war

= July 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 July 19


 * 1) Coin Act 1696
 * 2) Passports during aircraft accidents
 * 3) List of current constituent African monarchs
 * 4) Sodanomics

= July 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 July 20


 * 1) James Harden-Hickey
 * 2) First World War medical report
 * 3) Which authors used the most adjectives and which ones used the least
 * 4) 'Lives of the saints'
 * 5) How are former French, Spanish, Portuguese and English colonies performing economically?

= July 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 July 21


 * 1) $23.6 billion jury award in tobacco lawsuit
 * 2) American civil war ten years before
 * 3) Outback Steakhouse
 * 4) ISIS Fines for Christianity
 * 5) pig's skin which covers a Muslim, avoids arriving to heaven?

= July 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 July 22


 * 1) Family businesses
 * 2) Everyone loves Lepidus
 * 3) American Curl meme
 * 4) Is the concept of race really a social construct?

= July 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 July 23


 * 1) Is there a philosophical notion for the inability of a corpse to have faith?
 * 2) architecture
 * 3) Why do Russians love to name their children "Alexei" and related names?
 * 4) Royal Philatelic Collection
 * 5) Walter L. Shaw

= July 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 July 24


 * 1) Washington Street, Boston
 * 2) A contemporary Russian author?
 * 3) Eleventh Annual Report of the Hawaiian Mission Children's Society

= July 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 July 25


 * 1) Anime and manga with pregnancy as a major theme?
 * 2) Did/does this type of language exist?
 * 3) How are Jewish and Christian values different from each other?

= July 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 July 26


 * 1) American white supremacist
 * 2) 22nd Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry
 * 3) November 18, 1862 letter at Fort Tillinghast
 * 4) 2K14
 * 5) Iambic trimeter

= July 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 July 27


 * 1) Christian denominations which do not receive the Eucharist
 * 2) Mormon Church at Kealia, Hawaii
 * 3) Piéton a tributary of the Sambre

= July 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 July 28


 * 1) Why do every piece of land have to be owned by a country?
 * 2) Joining two political parties in the US
 * 3) Why is Australia part of the "West"?

= July 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 July 29


 * 1) Median earnings and wealth
 * 2) Hail, hail Fredonia, land of the brave and free
 * 3) Roman ball game (Follis)
 * 4) "A Study of the Geography of 1 Enoch 17-19"
 * 5) Joseph Lane's personal slave
 * 6) Where is J. Howard Marshall's money?
 * 7) Have relevant newspaper clippings but incomplete citation data
 * 8) British Daughters of the American Revolution

= July 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 July 30


 * 1) Cargo ship

= July 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 July 31


 * 1) Why can't Argentina pay bondholders of its restructured debt outside of the US banking system?
 * 2) When and how did HP Lovecraft become popular?
 * 3) Restoration of Charles II
 * 4) Famous leaders who practiced nonviolence