Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/June 2009

= June 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 June 1


 * 1) Canadian girls as prostitutes
 * 2) Military Discharge and Land Purchase
 * 3) Historical Business Cases
 * 4) High resolution scenes of the Bayeux Tapestry

= June 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 June 2


 * 1) Hu Jintao's family
 * 2) Swine flu in Antarctica?
 * 3) Need The Following Census Information On Religion Within The United States
 * 4) Jaroslav Seifert Poetry
 * 5) Cicero on Plautus
 * 6) Treasury Stock
 * 7) The "Art Deco" PAGE [Photo of black car bottom right of page]

= June 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 June 3


 * 1) Why a slow rise but a sudden fall in the economy?
 * 2) Pro-Indian Sri Lankan Party
 * 3) Career In Photoshooting
 * 4) Chinese online communities / discussion forums
 * 5) Rapa Nui mythology
 * 6) Deportation laws (~1945) Alaska => Soviet Union
 * 7) liberalism and journalism
 * 8) Gay Adoption Statistics
 * 9) Joe Biden resigned as Senator in January 2009. Was this unconstitutional?
 * 10) Getting rid of the National Debt by a period of inflation?
 * 11) Cop search legality and marijuana suspicion
 * 12) Socialist/communist locales in the United States
 * 13) Question About A Song

= June 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 June 4


 * 1) Trading spaces
 * 2) What does a bronze star mean?
 * 3) Name of English Industrialist
 * 4) Paul Harvey Essay

= June 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 June 5


 * 1) Amadou Toumani Touré's wife
 * 2) Ship Access during Siege of Boston
 * 3) China's new censorship tool?
 * 4) Oldest Holiday
 * 5) Massacre of 1804?
 * 6) Empress and Queen of Haiti
 * 7) cdl
 * 8) which aria
 * 9) Narayan kavacham
 * 10) Obama's Cairo speech

= June 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 June 6


 * 1) European Parliament election, 2009
 * 2) I have lots of question about western culture....thanks for your help
 * 3) Khrushchev's ethnic background
 * 4) Oded Golan
 * 5) moral rights of the author
 * 6) Freelolita101 Talking
 * 7) Population of Istanbul in 1400's

= June 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 June 7


 * 1) Can anyone recognize these two famous authors?
 * 2) philosophical analogy forgotten
 * 3) Norse or Roman Prometheus
 * 4) "Working with Liam Byrne"
 * 5) European elections - proportional representation or what?
 * 6) UK MP's expenses - which political party had to pay most back?
 * 7) Where to find detailed election voting statistics in the UK?
 * 8) Blanche Parry - Lady Troy - Elizabeth I of England
 * 9) Litany of the Saints
 * 10) Terminator
 * 11) Unusual classics such as Thus Spake Zarathustra, Against Nature
 * 12) New York parking violations scandal - article?
 * 13) Lebanon general election 2009 candidates
 * 14) Pakistani constituencies
 * 15) Bangladeshi politicians

= June 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 June 8


 * 1) Britain and EU parliament
 * 2) Supply-side economics
 * 3) Assassination in World War II
 * 4) Women ruler of the Roman Empire
 * 5) The last execution of heresy in Europe
 * 6) examples of common charity causes?
 * 7) Cost of food?
 * 8) benefit concert
 * 9) Uganda and Tanzania guys in divorce??

= June 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 June 9


 * 1) Hard labor
 * 2) Hate speech provision of Canadian criminal code
 * 3) Dracula in the public domain
 * 4) Credit cards and currency
 * 5) Schleswig-Holstein
 * 6) Taxi Cost - Charles de Gaulle Airport to the Louvre
 * 7) National portrait gallery and copyright
 * 8) New Age " Movement "
 * 9) Lebanon and Iran: Which nation are most democratic ?
 * 10) South Asian riots in UK

= June 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 June 10


 * 1) Rosa Parks and Alice Walker
 * 2) U.S. Treasury bonds
 * 3) Concept problems
 * 4) Quantum computer company
 * 5) Labour conditions of Israeli Jews and Israeli Arabs in Israel
 * 6) Who was the Confederate leader who wrapped himself in the CSA flag and shot himself?
 * 7) Where can I find Drug Use/Production statistics for years earlier than 1988/9?
 * 8) Do difficult people exist?
 * 9) Very first election in Iran
 * 10) Equivalent of the Independent Police Complaints Commission in the US?

= June 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 June 11


 * 1) Succession plan
 * 2) How big is the world energy market?
 * 3) Airline pilots
 * 4) Why isn't it illegal to sell concert tickets at more than face value?
 * 5) Are most kids in China taught English?

= June 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 June 12


 * 1) Can anyone recognize these three philosophers?
 * 2) JK Rowling's sources of income
 * 3) Verifying a Goethe quote

= June 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 June 13


 * 1) Where did the United States take their missles after pulling them out of Turkey?
 * 2) Harkavy edition of Holy Scriptures
 * 3) Ilinka Crvenkovska
 * 4) Reign Dates
 * 5) Rose of Lima as the patron saint of India
 * 6) The sun never sets...
 * 7) I have a strange question regarding US Presidential succession...

= June 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 June 14


 * 1) United States draft exceptions
 * 2) Alcohol sale in Finland
 * 3) Strange stone structure
 * 4) Are all sunglasses sold in the UK UV-protective?
 * 5) Alcohol vs drugs
 * 6) What is the largest US city without a McDonalds?
 * 7) Were the Original Egyptians Black?
 * 8) Oldest Holiday (Part 2)

= June 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 June 15


 * 1) Cricket scoring
 * 2) Was the Harkavy translation of Holy Scriptures changed in later printings
 * 3) Landy, Derek series Skullduggery Pleasant discrepancy
 * 4) Bathtub Portrait
 * 5) WWII Switzerland
 * 6) Communism Judaism
 * 7) Iran
 * 8) Gotai
 * 9) Olive Lembe Sita and Chantal Biya

= June 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 June 16


 * 1) Finding School Histories
 * 2) Japanese Divinity
 * 3) Joseph's decree
 * 4) Were Adam and Eve the first humans?
 * 5) Vulgate Sources of Alexander the Great
 * 6) Population of Canada over 50
 * 7) Bible sales
 * 8) Therapeutic Communities in Female Prisons in the US

= June 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 June 17


 * 1) Sociological topics
 * 2) Judaism versus Nudism and Homosexual
 * 3) Benjamin Franklin - Illegitimate Children
 * 4) help this guy out (short story ID)
 * 5) Iran protests
 * 6) Mount Rushmore
 * 7) Matilda of Tuscany's marriage to Welf II
 * 8) Polygamy and demographics
 * 9) Lebanon general election 2009 results
 * 10) Mahmoud Ahmedinejad hijab crackdown
 * 11) Newspaper of General Circulation
 * 12) German heel-click salute
 * 13) Religion and violence

= June 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 June 18


 * 1) Zimbabwean presidential election, 2008 and Sabina Mugabe
 * 2) One for the historians
 * 3) fact or something else?
 * 4) Arresting a head of state
 * 5) Jewish influence in Ethiopian Christianity
 * 6) British Law/ Prisons
 * 7) Visible submerged shipwrecks
 * 8) Tosca
 * 9) latest on shooting suspect

= June 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 June 19


 * 1) Electoral fraud in Iran
 * 2) Japan 2 : 0 Germany - Why?
 * 3) Economics: what happens with an essential good that is almost too expensive for people to afford?
 * 4) theocracies
 * 5) Bangladeshi Jatiyo Sangsad (national assembley) Women Reserved Seats election 2009 results
 * 6) Pan-Arab news
 * 7) Newt in 2012?
 * 8) Credit/debit card security code vs signature
 * 9) Latvian socialists in Geneva, 1905
 * 10) Has there ever been a serious consideration of the use of LSD as a chemical weapon?
 * 11) Arabic-English translation book
 * 12) South Asian writers
 * 13) A Name for Babylon

= June 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 June 20


 * 1) Getting cancer and our destiny
 * 2) Translation
 * 3) V for Vendetta
 * 4) Designer of the SS uniform
 * 5) Purity
 * 6) Name the throne
 * 7) Finding a topic for research masters degree in social work
 * 8) Dis Chord Discord
 * 9) List of billionaires in jail
 * 10) Type of "curtain" in coat of arms
 * 11) An African-American janitor and his homemade basement kingdom
 * 12) History of History

= June 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 June 21


 * 1) Painting, can you identify?
 * 2) What inmates do in prison in U.S
 * 3) Copyright
 * 4) Russian medals: Order of St.Vladimir - What class might this be?
 * 5) Julia of Aragon/Sicily
 * 6) Reference to Germany in the title of the Prince of Liechtenstein
 * 7) What situations to use letters after your name?
 * 8) wannabe professional musician, 1940 vs. today
 * 9) Oliver North's Medals

= June 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 June 22


 * 1) Term for non-voter who is counted in apportionment
 * 2) Where is this stained glass window located, and who created it?
 * 3) Federal subjects of Russia
 * 4) Squamish Nation
 * 5) Authoritarianism and Cronyism
 * 6) Two Short Stories - I think they were in the same book
 * 7) Iranian electoral system
 * 8) Dog that bobs for beer...
 * 9) Supposed early Scottish kings
 * 10) need digital images/templates/early canonical lists
 * 11) Non-Catholic President of France
 * 12) wheel in prehistoric America
 * 13) Book burning quote by Umar
 * 14) Azeb Mesfin

= June 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 June 23


 * 1) John Trevor (speaker) portrait oddity
 * 2) Causes and Manifestations of Discrimination
 * 3) Waffle Frolics
 * 4) How many signatories
 * 5) Meaning of Non-Human Life
 * 6) Revolution in Martinique 1790
 * 7) D-Day: Canadian & British troops
 * 8) Why do Asians often make kind of a peace-sign with their hands on Photos?

= June 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 June 24


 * 1) How long do average national leaders hold in power?
 * 2) Scottish Parliment taxes
 * 3) International Standards
 * 4) army
 * 5) Life in Frederick II's Sicily
 * 6) Indian Population in Victorian London
 * 7) Ghanaian presidential election
 * 8) English Bible translation for Catholic Lectionary

= June 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 June 25


 * 1) Army inflation/deflation
 * 2) Fidel as Roadkill?
 * 3) Photo composite
 * 4) First Queen of Jordan in public
 * 5) Nobility and royalty in witch trial
 * 6) holocaust denial

= June 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 June 26


 * 1) Feeling personal attachment towards footwear
 * 2) A different Richard Southern?
 * 3) Can countries declare bankruptcy?
 * 4) Most prolific Britannica author
 * 5) conservative Catholic bishops
 * 6) Salary on Think tanks
 * 7) Zanele Dlamini

= June 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 June 27


 * 1) Popular reaction to antisemitism in nazi germany
 * 2) Pretty dresses
 * 3) Have John Kufuor met Daniel Arap Moi ?
 * 4) books or films which significantly contributed to social change?
 * 5) Indian man/child who, though alive, was officially dead in public records as a result of a family member trying to scam money
 * 6) Ceremony when a tribe wants the new technology of an explorer by praying to god/gods

= June 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 June 28


 * 1) Earlier ancestors of the Families of Brabant and Hesse
 * 2) How do germanic and latin europeans 'behave differently'?
 * 3) Who discovered coffee?
 * 4) Trieste Rivers
 * 5) A question about the FBI, CIA and the Armed Forces
 * 6) Finally - B.E.M.
 * 7) Hitchens parents
 * 8) Constitutions
 * 9) What is the population of Tierra del Fuego?
 * 10) WWII London Bombings
 * 11) Model for sales in a market
 * 12) Canadian Nobility
 * 13) This Woman in the Ordeal by Fire

= June 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 June 29


 * 1) Jesus as myth?
 * 2) Visual Bible
 * 3) Witch trials in Ortodox countries
 * 4) contemporary classical music question
 * 5) Truman = War Criminal?
 * 6) Woman giving virginity to another woman
 * 7) Acts of parliament/congress - differences between UK and US terminology
 * 8) Paul Kagame's master in university
 * 9) Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Bangabandhu / Kemal Mustafa Ataturk

= June 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 June 30


 * 1) Gnosticism
 * 2) Jervis Bay Territory's reason for existing
 * 3) 1st person hanged
 * 4) Living standards measure
 * 5) Queen of Iraq
 * 6) Madoff's life
 * 7) legal advice
 * 8) Eddie Van Halen's race
 * 9) Tolkien -Turin's tale - dragon origins
 * 10) Andes flight disaster - Can someone please provide me with the exact co-ordinates of the Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crash site? Article has possible discrepency.
 * 11) International Society of Krishna Conciousness
 * 12) Tanzanian general election, 2005