Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/June 2010

= June 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 June 1


 * 1) Was Mirza Ghulam Ahmad vegetarian?
 * 2) when did the reichstag fire start?
 * 3) Hypothetical philosophical question
 * 4) elimination of advanced culture
 * 5) Cold War histories
 * 6) George Orwell quote
 * 7) Rev 1
 * 8) Native Americans in US Politics
 * 9) Robert Mugabe
 * 10) British Petroleum

= June 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 June 2


 * 1) Two short stories
 * 2) Defending Macbeth
 * 3) free speech mini forum
 * 4) Is China a manufacturing leader
 * 5) Tan authors of literature
 * 6) Steady customers
 * 7) Capital punishment
 * 8) Relationship between "France" and "Frog"
 * 9) Music
 * 10) Buddhists taking offense
 * 11) Any sports/games where the player is drowned in vegetables/salad etc
 * 12) non-fiction books
 * 13) Capitulation during WW2

= June 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 June 3


 * 1) Jamaica (W.I)
 * 2) French Revolution
 * 3) Derrick Bird
 * 4) 2 questions about J.D. Salinger
 * 5) How old may be that Penguin book ?
 * 6) how do I not talk so much?
 * 7) "Accessory before or after the fact"
 * 8) What Was the First Gun Invented For?
 * 9) How many Bs make five?
 * 10) where did Fox argue the right to lie?
 * 11) is there any way to "own more than 100%" of a company?
 * 12) Walter v. Lane [1900]
 * 13) handguns in the b.w.c.a.
 * 14) authoritarian and libertarian nations
 * 15) Ancient Mongol tax
 * 16) One vote makes a difference?!
 * 17) History of the Identification Card

= June 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 June 4


 * 1) More on unusual time signatures
 * 2) Qiu Jin book
 * 3) Prejudice and discrimination against Aspies

= June 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 June 5


 * 1) Economics question
 * 2) Happiest communist country ever
 * 3) when to take meds discreetly?
 * 4) Drugs in athletics
 * 5) Consumer rights in the EU
 * 6) Bourbon Dauphiné
 * 7) Liberty leading the people help
 * 8) magnets

= June 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 June 6


 * 1) People who look like their distant ancestors
 * 2) "X is just a tool; it's value/morality depends on how it is used"
 * 3) French Revolutionary Wars - Did upper class people still travel between North Wales and Transylvania in 1795?
 * 4) Ambulance passenger(s)
 * 5) Bangladeshi sovereign territory within India, and vice versa
 * 6) Hitler - Not a Typical German Surmame?
 * 7) Supreme Court
 * 8) Effects of child sexual abuse

= June 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 June 7


 * 1) Orange County where?
 * 2) humanities
 * 3) Hardback fiction kept in print
 * 4) LGBT prejudice/discrimination against Aspies
 * 5) Glorious! Victorious! One pint of beer between the four of us...
 * 6) journalising payroll deductions
 * 7) need quick statistics on environmental degradation and conservation!
 * 8) Who was Chingi Chkhana?
 * 9) Multinational companies treating differently people from different countries
 * 10) Book written by Henry VIII
 * 11) What's this guy's name?

= June 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 June 8


 * 1) comprehensive list of ways a child can help a family
 * 2) Analysis of Israel's recent international/diplomatic strategy
 * 3) Details of the Saxbe fix
 * 4) Romeo and Juliet
 * 5) I need to find if someone has died, and this is tricky...
 * 6) Geography/GK question
 * 7) Two-up, two-down council house
 * 8) Welfare programs as incentive for wealthy to reduce earning gap
 * 9) Balance of evidence in UK civil courts

= June 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 June 9


 * 1) Maimonides quote
 * 2) Indian Constitution
 * 3) What is this?
 * 4) Dutch monarchy - regent?
 * 5) friendships among one another

= June 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 June 10


 * 1) Fact check on Supreme Court case Berghuis v. Thompkins
 * 2) Pirates and Scots Accents...  What Gives?
 * 3) Hunger and poverty
 * 4) Organ action
 * 5) generation
 * 6) USA first time homebuuyer $8,000 tax credit
 * 7) Indian nationality law
 * 8) US/UK Relations
 * 9) Is Kansas a 1-party consent state?
 * 10) Earl of Angus
 * 11) "Most free" country

= June 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 June 11


 * 1) Minimum copyrightable length of original works
 * 2) urgent requirement to airlfit from india
 * 3) which wars
 * 4) Is modern art (visual) simply a gimmick?
 * 5) british army ranks
 * 6) Irish Copyright Law
 * 7) Indian nationality law
 * 8) esquire
 * 9) Dwight D. Eisenhower

= June 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 June 12


 * 1) Future world superpowers

= June 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 June 13


 * 1) criminal sociology 1
 * 2) Alert-detached philosophy
 * 3) Authors and the ref desk
 * 4) Most played national anthem in the world
 * 5) Bertha of Kent
 * 6) Vitamin eh?
 * 7) Doré's methods
 * 8) First Notable Person
 * 9) Any public studies ranking burnout by country among students
 * 10) Looking for painting

= June 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 June 14


 * 1) Hands in the jacket?
 * 2) How many Jews didn't they kill?
 * 3) The Akhmetchetka camp in WWII Transnistria
 * 4) indian nationality law
 * 5) War between the states of the United States of America
 * 6) Looking for book

= June 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 June 15


 * 1) Formation date of Black Hand
 * 2) Ralph Klein, Paul Martin and private healthcare
 * 3) Free Mesothelioma Information Packet.
 * 4) Lap dogs

= June 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 June 16


 * 1) Marca Hispanica
 * 2) charge nurses
 * 3) Geography/GK question
 * 4) Help me figure out what this song was....
 * 5) Challenging predjudice

= June 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 June 17


 * 1) Who was the abroad friend?
 * 2) First woman assassinated in Serbia
 * 3) Hunting Act 2004
 * 4) Let there be light
 * 5) obsession with truth
 * 6) BP

= June 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 June 18


 * 1) Assassination or murder
 * 2) history of flag
 * 3) BP's >=$20bn fund
 * 4) DOHSA
 * 5) Hymn to identify
 * 6) Oklahoma bombing and Northern Ireland Troubles.
 * 7) Winston Churchill wartime speeches BBC broadcasts
 * 8) Icelandic Modern Media Initiative
 * 9) Breastfeeding in public

= June 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 June 19


 * 1) Why is Battle of Fort Myers referred to as southernmost battle of the American Civil War?
 * 2) value proposition of believing scientists about things you can't understand vs. believing marketers about things you can't tell are true or not.
 * 3) The Rings of Saturn by WG Sebald
 * 4) Free violin sheet music
 * 5) Does this quote really belong to Nietzsche?
 * 6) War which caused the most deaths in history
 * 7) Ethical master morality
 * 8) Churchill Says...
 * 9) address of oriole lodge
 * 10) Moral relativism, nihilism, and utilitariansm

= June 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 June 20


 * 1) Elizabeth II
 * 2) Ancient Bull Worship in the Mediterranean Basin and Middle East
 * 3) Marconi shares
 * 4) Lovecraft - Cool Air -strange language
 * 5) County of Falkenstein
 * 6) First novel
 * 7) european cars in Egypt
 * 8) Cars in Bangladesh

= June 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 June 21


 * 1) why is the USA more right-wing than europe and the rest of the westrn world?
 * 2) Hochschule fūr Kunsterzeichnung, Berlin 1933-1937
 * 3) Leo Tolstoy
 * 4) Judge Laughlin or McLaughlin
 * 5) The queen of Frederick the Great
 * 6) Catholicism in the Old South
 * 7) American military bases
 * 8) Samuel Ealy Johnson, Jr.

= June 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 June 22


 * 1) Law question (Not advice)
 * 2) Search warrant for 1000 pieces of stolen luggage (not advice)
 * 3) Negro slaves
 * 4) Aleksander Sochaczewski
 * 5) House MD and the law
 * 6) Winged victory of Samothrace in 3D online
 * 7) Princess Victoria
 * 8) On Bertrand Russel
 * 9) Surname of the Dukes of Norfolk
 * 10) Dwight David Eisenhower biography
 * 11) Randolph jefferson, brother of thomas jefferson
 * 12) Legal jargon

= June 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 June 23


 * 1) Princess Maria Christina of Saxony (1770–1851)
 * 2) Arguing about women's pay vs. men's pay in US
 * 3) what is the oldest bottle of wine anyone has been verified to drink?
 * 4) Brandt Report and American/British foreign aid policy
 * 5) Kovchitsy Vtoryye, Belarus
 * 6) ACT
 * 7) Final Exams
 * 8) major historical events of the era 1988-2000
 * 9) SMPs
 * 10) What did Aristotle tell us about Plato's life?
 * 11) U.S. Gen. McChrystal
 * 12) Westboro Baptist Church "scripture"
 * 13) Michelangelo Quote

= June 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 June 24


 * 1) A young lady from ____?
 * 2) The Meaning of this joke ?
 * 3) Painting transfer
 * 4) A Short Story that Franz Kafka May Have Written
 * 5) Forms of trade other than barter or monetary
 * 6) Film industry lucrative?
 * 7) Bankrupt in Venus, wealthy in Mars
 * 8) Charges against company accounts
 * 9) Plot of the novel "Bunny Lake Is Missing"?
 * 10) Looking someone in the eye
 * 11) The origin of the hajduk
 * 12) Lyndon Johnson
 * 13) predecessor of WAAC
 * 14) old testament
 * 15) is human murder part of natural selection
 * 16) Female vs. male body painting models
 * 17) Ancient Human Metropolis Found in Africa!?
 * 18) Demyanka River

= June 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 June 25


 * 1) Birthdate of Ellen Watson
 * 2) When something is "nationalized" like Chavez has been doing, what exactly happens?
 * 3) Selective Service in the United States
 * 4) Common set of citations for portions of text
 * 5) Are "Class of "Graduation Year"" (class levels) organizations?
 * 6) Identify a song
 * 7) Buddhists excelling in something

= June 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 June 26


 * 1) female politician in recent American election who got her cue cards mixed up on live TV and said nothing for at least a minute?
 * 2) Question regarding Trotskyism
 * 3) Shot in the head
 * 4) UK CGT PPR
 * 5) where can I find a list of stylistic nuggets
 * 6) Why can't a Marriage Registrar under the German Civil Code be a single person?
 * 7) The "unnecessary" curve of JFK in Dallas
 * 8) Did the American revolution affect Britain's access to tobacco?
 * 9) Odds of marriage
 * 10) USA saved Europe?
 * 11) ship memorabilia
 * 12) Oz

= June 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 June 27


 * 1) Devising property in a will
 * 2) German Monarchies
 * 3) Judaic question
 * 4) What are these men doing?
 * 5) South Africa
 * 6) Buddhist Study Guide
 * 7) ---shire
 * 8) Tamilnadu or Tamil Nadu

= June 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 June 28


 * 1) Sigmund Freud
 * 2) BCG study on millionaire households across the world
 * 3) Of a politician's death
 * 4) Balcony scene in Romeo and Juliet
 * 5) Number of executors for an English will
 * 6) How did Robert Byrd keep getting re-elected
 * 7) Israel
 * 8) Facing Qiblah in hotels

= June 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 June 29


 * 1) Hispanics in California don't support pot legalization
 * 2) Help finding a photograph?
 * 3) Cool Eskimos
 * 4) "Bombs bursting in air"
 * 5) interest groups
 * 6) FDR in a wheelchair
 * 7) Timeline of WW II
 * 8) Giants in Greece.
 * 9) Greek in Gaudy Night
 * 10) religion
 * 11) US House Committee on Claims
 * 12) Question for Liszt fans

= June 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 June 30


 * 1) Investing in Chinese currency
 * 2) Jesus Christ
 * 3) buying a copy
 * 4) Competition from the Chinese and other international markets
 * 5) JFK in Dallas 22.11.1963
 * 6) UK planning objections and appeals
 * 7) New Martinsvile Glass, Dates and Designers ?
 * 8) What are "household effect" in context of family law?
 * 9) Historical comparison of Portugal and Spain
 * 10) Economic index
 * 11) Who said "Bullshit, love is the only weapon with which I've got to fight."
 * 12) Something blue
 * 13) Has anyone really "stopped the presses", why