Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/July 2015

= July 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 July 1


 * 1) Les Chants de Maldoror public domain English translation
 * 2) Showing skin

= July 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 July 2


 * 1) Ptolemaic numbers
 * 2) Terminations and buy-back
 * 3) India-Bangladesh border deal

= July 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 July 3


 * 1) Joseph Lane
 * 2) Baikonur, Kazakhstan - status
 * 3) Whiskey barrels on the American frontier
 * 4) What are the reasons for the placement and position of the numbers on the face of a clock?

= July 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 July 4


 * 1) Approximate number of STANAG magazines manufactured annually in the US
 * 2) Crossing the floor
 * 3) What is the correct term for this relationship?
 * 4) How do I find the SET-plan budget
 * 5) Naming of 61 Communards shipyard in Odessa
 * 6) Do illegal migrants have good reason to head for the UK, as opposed to other stable countries?

= July 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 July 5


 * 1) When was Vostok Island claimed by the UK?
 * 2) Order of competing claims
 * 3) Raymond Lubitz
 * 4) Pansexuality and Cochin
 * 5) Maiden names as middle names
 * 6) Has a confederation of nations ever been stable when it has central law/monetary policy but not redistribution of resources?

= July 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 July 6


 * 1) Jules Dumont d'Urville in Manga Reva
 * 2) Is it known yet what will be the last state to perform its first same sex marriage?
 * 3) shortsightedness
 * 4) History of the Queen Victoria Monument
 * 5) Real person - Paul Berowne
 * 6) Negotiating with Apocalyptic lunatics
 * 7) Online sales
 * 8) Project vs general management
 * 9) To hold palms up or not?
 * 10) Does Greece have a backup plan?
 * 11) Why don't Roman Catholic Masses ever finish the hymn?

= July 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 July 7


 * 1) Did Bouguereau have English ancestry?
 * 2) "A Balagvatan"
 * 3) What ethnic group is the name "Ali Ag Wadossene" from?
 * 4) Store within a store
 * 5) Did Velázquez change his surname?

= July 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 July 8


 * 1) A question regarding recent work by David C. Mitchell on the Psalms
 * 2) Origin of the name Monthermer
 * 3) Canada / Australia confusion

= July 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 July 9


 * 1) First Daguerreotype of Non-White
 * 2) Architectural style of the former building of the Royal College of Organists.
 * 3) Successful pre-Kindle self-published authors
 * 4) Sequence of ancient Armenian kings

= July 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 July 10


 * 1) Help identifying Novel

= July 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 July 11


 * 1) The witch drowning test: True or myth?
 * 2) Listing of relatives in an obituary: how can an individual have two mothers-in-law?
 * 3) Stations of the cross
 * 4) In Catholicism, is eating the Body of Christ better than discarding it?
 * 5) When did the Middle Ages end according to the first people to use the idea?

= July 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 July 12


 * 1) Which one is the most useful housing affordability indicator? Listing price, sale price, or valuation?
 * 2) Pandectae in Novum Ordinem
 * 3) Teaching the Catechism in the Roman Catholic Church

= July 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 July 13


 * 1) Transition from "Early" to "High" Middle Ages
 * 2) movie about the Arab Israeli conflict
 * 3) Holy water and dilution
 * 4) Calamity Jane's cap
 * 5) European Union Referendum Bill
 * 6) Wake Island claimed by Marshall Islands?
 * 7) Circumventing ATM problem in Greece

= July 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 July 14


 * 1) What is going on here?
 * 2) Why is non-religious male genital mutilation considered normal in the US?
 * 3) Removed racist trolling, which was accidently reinstated.
 * 4) Lawrence E. Stager
 * 5) Why don't English speakers learn Latin anymore?
 * 6) Li Yong
 * 7) Offshore processing of refugees and irregular migrants to the European Union

= July 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 July 15


 * 1) Trying to recall short story
 * 2) Admin roles
 * 3) Deicide-by-human in non-Christian religions
 * 4) Alfonso of Aragon
 * 5) Did ports of entry have tons of dictionaries before electronic translators existed?

= July 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 July 16


 * 1) Is Greece technically able to print Euros on its own?
 * 2) Highways England Traffic Officer Service article
 * 3) Search for a particular Canadian postage stamp image
 * 4) The Picture of Dorian Gray and aestheticism
 * 5) Hilter and Wilhelm II

= July 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 July 17


 * 1) In-store USPS
 * 2) Iran Nuclear Agreement
 * 3) Disappearance of Joanne Ratcliffe and Kirste Gordon

= July 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 July 18


 * 1) Oceanian turbans
 * 2) Was there a US senator who represent two countries?
 * 3) Which side is whose?
 * 4) Martin Luther King, Jr.

= July 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 July 19


 * 1) Why are bad things considered "good" by those that oppose them?
 * 2) How do American atheists hold funerals?

= July 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 July 20


 * 1) Why did Bush and Obama let North Korea get nuclear bombs but not Iran?
 * 2) Country With The Highest Life Expectancy In 1950
 * 3) World Infant Mortality Rate
 * 4) Why did the UK lose economic ground to France, Germany and Italy?
 * 5) 20s vs 40s

= July 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 July 21


 * 1) Did anyone die from heat on 8 July 2003 in Dhahran?
 * 2) Living to age 100 or more
 * 3) to find correct reference Mkalburge (talk) 06:36, 21 July 2015 (UTC)
 * 4) dames & knights
 * 5) Females on slave ships.
 * 6) English-speaking Buddhists
 * 7) Why can't celibate Catholic priests castrate themselves?
 * 8) Homosexual slavery in the United States
 * 9) Slavery and US currency
 * 10) Shackles and leg irons.
 * 11) Germans

= July 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 July 22


 * 1) bronze age India
 * 2) States vs Non-state societies vs something inbetween
 * 3) Cutting the thumbs of Bengali weavers: reliable source?
 * 4) Gurcharan Singh Bhikhi (Sidki)
 * 5) Japanese consumers
 * 6) The King's step-children

= July 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 July 23


 * 1) Conversion to Christianity in the 1700s - Robinson Crusoe
 * 2) Are price tags in a store legally binding?
 * 3) Capital of Denmark
 * 4) Stylised Dublin map/diagram
 * 5) Pearl Harbor
 * 6) Police asking "You OK? You seem very irritated" when giving out a ticket: purpose?
 * 7) Tokyo green belt

= July 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 July 24


 * 1) US copyright formalities, pre-craziness
 * 2) Wire transfer with different beneficiary bank and receiving bank
 * 3) Ethiopia: a landlocked nation
 * 4) By-election results
 * 5) At What Point Does a Treaty Become Invalid or Void Because It's Terms Are Secret or Unwritten?

= July 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 July 25


 * 1) When did The Adventures of Rupert Bear run?
 * 2) Israel Shahak quotes?
 * 3) Was this Israeli soldier quoting the Bible?
 * 4) About a scene in Eisenstein "Ivan the Terrible" Part 2?
 * 5) The UK-Parliment is a perfect o imperfect bicameral?
 * 6) When a person dies, are you supposed to notify the credit reporting agencies?

= July 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 July 26


 * 1) history of the current european immigration laws.
 * 2) Is Wikipedia English or American?
 * 3) Albert Einstein long cat quote

= July 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 July 27


 * 1) Oldest named animal
 * 2) Christian missionaries involved in Mangareva and the Gambier Islands
 * 3) Why would Congress want an even number of justices on the U.S. Supreme Court?
 * 4) Mute turns verbose
 * 5) Deleuze & Guattari
 * 6) Biographical research....
 * 7) Why did France declare war on Britain in 1793?

= July 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 July 28


 * 1) No dark ages in middle east
 * 2) respectable interconnections

= July 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 July 29


 * 1) The world's northernmost medieval building
 * 2) The truth in Nazi germany
 * 3) Michel-Gaspard Coppenrath
 * 4) Papaoa
 * 5) Entering the UK from France as Illegal immigrant

= July 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 July 30


 * 1) Is it still called religious conversion?
 * 2) Looking for the title of a science fiction novel published in the last 10-15 years
 * 3) Who said "A lie repeated often enough becomes the truth"?
 * 4) Measuring the Effectiveness of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
 * 5) Scams
 * 6) Who were the Northallerton glasshouse mutineers?
 * 7) Picpus Fathers

= July 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 July 31


 * 1) Segregation in the United States.
 * 2) Xingjiang eastern border
 * 3) Does any of those musical instruments exist?
 * 4) Are paper books cheaper now in real terms than pre-Internet?
 * 5) Apostasy in Catholicism
 * 6) Were Hercules and Sampson the same guy?
 * 7) Franco-New brunswick community and acadian community
 * 8) Online sources for pre-1945 UK parliamentary by-elections