Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/June 2011

= June 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 June 1


 * 1) "Critical context"?
 * 2) Great Expectations
 * 3) Who said this
 * 4) Helen Keller The_Frost_King
 * 5) Shabia (Eritrea)
 * 6) Fruit Jar Company Enters Aerospace Industry. Huh?
 * 7) "upside down" and "right side up"
 * 8) Stalin
 * 9) Alexander the Great's conquests

= June 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 June 2


 * 1) Source and artist of painting of Alexander, Bucephalus and Diogenes?
 * 2) Muslims vs. Quebec Referendum
 * 3) Help identify a poem
 * 4) What Are The Branches

= June 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 June 3


 * 1) Number of Buddhists in the world?
 * 2) Book of logical fallacies?
 * 3) Honorary doctorate
 * 4) How to refer to a woman married to a British earl
 * 5) US National Spelling bee
 * 6) Citing a US Supreme Court case
 * 7) Sharpe's Diet
 * 8) Operatic languages
 * 9) How to do the bump?

= June 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 June 4


 * 1) Swearing
 * 2) House de la Cerda
 * 3) Bestselling author
 * 4) Politics, and qoutes about political action
 * 5) Political economics, UK
 * 6) Danish law on preventive home visits
 * 7) did Tennyson (Alfred, Lord) know Greek?
 * 8) Nerang National Park IUCN
 * 9) US higher education institutes
 * 10) To Kill A Mockingbird
 * 11) Germany, Anchluss and the Spanish Civil War
 * 12) Difference between "clean bill of health" and "unqualified statement of assurance"

= June 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 June 5


 * 1) Large scale memorial events
 * 2) broadcasters' estates
 * 3) Noam Chomsky
 * 4) did George Orwell study Ancient Greek at Eton?
 * 5) Conservative regions in Liberal Canada
 * 6) Appiani d’Aragona
 * 7) Overthinking the ACT Science section?
 * 8) so when you raise money for a startup, is it your money or investors' (the company's)?

= June 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 June 6


 * 1) Yevgeny Zamyatin's We
 * 2) Private vs public
 * 3) Help indentifying a piece of music for string quartet
 * 4) A graphical timeline of world history
 * 5) Winston Churchill
 * 6) Frozen economy
 * 7) What's that called?
 * 8) Looking for a name
 * 9) Armband vs armlet
 * 10) Police differences
 * 11) US Debt Limit & Quantitative easing

= June 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 June 7


 * 1) What did the NYSE and Euronext merger achieve?
 * 2) Marxist/socialist view of robotics
 * 3) Plessy vs Ferguson -- unanticipated disaster?
 * 4) Work Accident Claim
 * 5) Simion Tavitian, Lascu Stoica: reliability
 * 6) Inflation
 * 7) Nazereth to Jerusalem
 * 8) Photo from federal prison

= June 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 June 8


 * 1) Queen Victoria's diaries
 * 2) Pierre Albuisson
 * 3) Mixed capitalist-communist system
 * 4) Bible version(s) used/referenced by Henry VIII in his dispuute with the Vatican
 * 5) Homosexuality in Israel, need lots of info
 * 6) Western Europe 1453
 * 7) Ownership of Royal Graves

= June 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 June 9


 * 1) Genealogy in Australia
 * 2) Palin and Paul Revere
 * 3) Length of sentence: EU vs. US
 * 4) 16th century ports
 * 5) Most impressive speech against U.S. Policies

= June 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 June 10


 * 1) YHWH
 * 2) Pensions and salaries in occupied France
 * 3) Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
 * 4) Difference Liberal Party and New Democratic Party
 * 5) Marx in mainstream economics?
 * 6) Shimon Peres
 * 7) Benjamin's wife

= June 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 June 11


 * 1) support vehicle
 * 2) When will this case be heard?
 * 3) Marriage alliances with Portugal
 * 4) Robert Kiyosaki
 * 5) Somalis in Canada
 * 6) Looking for b/w photo
 * 7) Photos of non-'rectangular'-star-pattern United States Flags?
 * 8) Countries offering citizenship for anyone
 * 9) "Reading" people

= June 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 June 12


 * 1) Baron Hirsh suicide rumors
 * 2) significant Muslim population in Ontario and Quebec
 * 3) A sovereign power unilaterally vacating it's sovereignty?
 * 4) Novels about Canadian inuit
 * 5) Can anyone name of any notable LGBT Inuit or Native Alaskan people?
 * 6) Status of the princesses of Japan

= June 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 June 13


 * 1) iParty with Victorious Premiere
 * 2) Aristotle on proving that which is more certain by that which is less certain
 * 3) Utilitarianism
 * 4) Brooke Shields touching the heart of Henry IV of France
 * 5) Utilitarian view on torture
 * 6) A question about copyright?
 * 7) Legit Libyan rebels?
 * 8) Così fan tutte
 * 9) Is there a loophole in Jante Law?
 * 10) As You Like It
 * 11) Oldest son of King Abdullah

= June 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 June 14


 * 1) George Washington and cost being a factor
 * 2) Are all people who are of Jewish descent descended from Israelites?
 * 3) Ethical foundation of democracy
 * 4) International News Photographic Service
 * 5) why are people wrong
 * 6) Coat of arms of Singapore
 * 7) Truth and reality
 * 8) The King on the Radio
 * 9) Empress of the ottoman empire?
 * 10) Archaic Globalization
 * 11) The nature of keys in fire department lockboxes
 * 12) Avoiding restructuring of Greek debt
 * 13) Free living wage distribution
 * 14) Greece's rating
 * 15) mythology questions

= June 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 June 15


 * 1) The "Doom Book"
 * 2) Wives of Vasili IV of Russia
 * 3) Measuring a civilization by the lowliest members
 * 4) Utilitarianism revisited
 * 5) Typefaces with monospaced digits?
 * 6) "the usual coffee maker business" -- Belle Epoque prostitution
 * 7) question on Yugoslav republics

= June 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 June 16


 * 1) Arab Ships sewn with thread
 * 2) Ethical egoism vs rational egoism
 * 3) With fuel prices these days, could it be cheaper to ship gasoline from Venezuela?
 * 4) Land worth negative value
 * 5) When did a sitting president last lose a primary challenge?
 * 6) online translator
 * 7) Comparison from 2011 v 1991 & 1991 v 1971
 * 8) British monarchy

= June 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 June 17


 * 1) A nymph in mythology
 * 2) Barangay
 * 3) Searching for copyright renewal
 * 4) Spanish language
 * 5) Most respected contemporary Muslim religious leaders
 * 6) Business ethics
 * 7) Waste in healthcare systems
 * 8) Atheist-turned-Christian

= June 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 June 18


 * 1) Forsaken saint
 * 2) Calling parents by their name
 * 3) Washington haGadah
 * 4) Oshima Island
 * 5) what things make something look like an office?
 * 6) breast enhancement
 * 7) Editable Text of Confucius Quote

= June 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 June 19


 * 1) Athletic shoes hanging from power lines
 * 2) pronunciation of Arthurian names
 * 3) When random people talk about the same thing
 * 4) History question: ancient Roman Vulcanal (Volcanal)
 * 5) "Unwritten rules" of interpersonal interactions

= June 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 June 20


 * 1) a quotation attributed to Maxim Gorky: really his?
 * 2) Who is the oldest author still writing?
 * 3) Jewish cities in Europe
 * 4) Carthaginian parrot tattoos
 * 5) Chinese Character Variants and Section Headers (Radicals?)
 * 6) A Question of Etiquette
 * 7) Immigration Officer in Inception
 * 8) Booker possibilities
 * 9) Voice Types in Articles about Singers
 * 10) trademark for "the (generic)"
 * 11) Etching/engraving style
 * 12) landlocked nation
 * 13) Attitudes by GW Allport, 1935
 * 14) politics in the home counties v. new england
 * 15) Greece's debt to Germany and France

= June 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 June 21


 * 1) Thurber question
 * 2) Hitler's mustache
 * 3) Is there a Facebook App game that lets us play on a simulated stock market?
 * 4) "British" as an exclusive nationality
 * 5) Weak countries leaving the Euro - could it work at all?
 * 6) When does a winning lottery ticket count as income?
 * 7) Donegal Ireland / Enya
 * 8) Japanese school schedules
 * 9) Freeview (UK) for graduates
 * 10) Royal Marriages Act 1772
 * 11) Debt
 * 12) films based on Latin American wars of Independence
 * 13) Henry VIII on trial

= June 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 June 22


 * 1) Jackie Kelly MP Marijuana Smokers Rights Party
 * 2) Documentaries regarding Canadian history
 * 3) China gender gap vs. Government stance on pr0n, prostitution
 * 4) Philosopher's essay on diachronic conception of personal identity
 * 5) Chinese restaurant
 * 6) Cost of transportation
 * 7) Law re children playing prize bingo
 * 8) Maps of Windsor, Dearborn and Hamtramck City with borders
 * 9) Canadian cities affect by Canada-America Free Trade agreement
 * 10) is it true you have to pay taxes on things of value you 'win' by chance?  (autos etc)
 * 11) RMS Titanic
 * 12) From which painting is this?

= June 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 June 23


 * 1) Late 80s fantasy novel depicting a eunuch's erection
 * 2) The Slattery Report on Alaska
 * 3) yellow fleet compensation
 * 4) Catholic Marriage After Rejected Annulment
 * 5) American attitude towards Japanese during WW2
 * 6) Shinto sea gods Ryūjin/Watasumi
 * 7) Ordnance Survey map font - Ye Olde writing

= June 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 June 24


 * 1) Nature of ownership and consent
 * 2) US Presidents and Illegal Drugs
 * 3) Judgment in the Wilders case
 * 4) Cooking / culture question
 * 5) Bangladeshi american enclaves

= June 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 June 25


 * 1) list of countries which face economical crisis.
 * 2) How to wear a dhoti/lungi
 * 3) Low inflation the cause of our problems?
 * 4) The only witch trial of Portugal
 * 5) Column 5
 * 6) Chicago and Houston
 * 7) Historical UK sovereign debt defaults

= June 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 June 26


 * 1) how to satisfy two women
 * 2) Source of lyrics
 * 3) Samoa
 * 4) 1 billion hungry
 * 5) The Book of the Dead

= June 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 June 27


 * 1) What is the most northern community in Alaska?
 * 2) St. Clive?
 * 3) what happens if you don't preheat?
 * 4) Difference between New York City's boroughs and other city boroughs, such as Mexico City's boroughs
 * 5) Discrimination of women
 * 6) Betting in court
 * 7) Pay until you're sick in China a true story?

= June 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 June 28


 * 1) William Lafayette Strong
 * 2) Interpretation of Canadian Charters of Rights and Freedoms
 * 3) Rights in Canada
 * 4) Types of rights in Canadian Charter Rights and Freedoms
 * 5) War poets
 * 6) Downtown New York City?
 * 7) White House thrill seekers

= June 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 June 29


 * 1) Sichuan Migrant Workers in China
 * 2) Could the U.S. hock Taiwan?
 * 3) house of Hanover
 * 4) "divers Abuses"
 * 5) In the EU, but not in the NATO
 * 6) history quotes
 * 7) Aqueduct in Israel near Lohamei HaGeta'ot
 * 8) Taxes - Good or Bad?
 * 9) What are the consequences of 9/11 on government policies all around the world regarding terrorism?
 * 10) wouldn't it be fair to charge next-of-kin?
 * 11) war disease deaths

= June 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 June 30


 * 1) Declaration of Independence
 * 2) Route 101 collectibles
 * 3) Inflatable rats at strikes
 * 4) Submarine enemies
 * 5) ordinary in South Carolina
 * 6) Bride kidnapping
 * 7) Referendums on independence from sovereign states
 * 8) Mountain north of Mexico City
 * 9) Loki
 * 10) what do the Germans and Japanese have in common?