Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/March 2008

= March 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 March 1


 * 1) United States Citizenship Policy
 * 2) Marxist analysis of the Pacific War
 * 3) Age restrictions on drinking alcohol
 * 4) Songs about drugs and rehabilitation
 * 5) How many Nazis, how many Allies?
 * 6) Treaty of Versailles
 * 7) Sport - Currie Cup Cricket Statistics
 * 8) Britain and the EU
 * 9) Wanda Coleman Poet
 * 10) Treatment of Irish Catholics compared to that of other people in the mid-1800s?
 * 11) Out of retirement: did any European monarchs return after abdicating?
 * 12) Purgegate
 * 13) Strasser, Goebbels and the Nazi left
 * 14) Date of the ordination of Rev. John Williams D.D.
 * 15) how to refer to the Book of Genesis
 * 16) Musicianship and IQ: any correlation?

= March 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 March 2


 * 1) Effects of Late-19th Century Imperialism
 * 2) a resident gentleman in every parish, continued
 * 3) "On the rory"
 * 4) Dates: what are CE and BCE?
 * 5) China will end one child policy
 * 6) "There’s a whole world beyond this field of dreams we’re all dancing in, and I want to see that world"
 * 7) Agreement or pact of so called "Congress of Vienna in 1939"
 * 8) Dictatorship of the Proletariat
 * 9) What happened in Fall 1913?
 * 10) Crimean War
 * 11) Sexual Imagery in Gaskell's North and South
 * 12) Kapp Putsch
 * 13) 'Tips for a Beginner'
 * 14) Hitler statues
 * 15) Pork in the Bible

= March 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 March 3


 * 1) Educational facilities in Louisiana: Technical College part of Tech University?
 * 2) New Zealand parliament dates
 * 3) Castle to Castle
 * 4) Mussolini and socialism
 * 5) Franco a fascist?
 * 6) Where to find Frank O'Connor's Downfall of Heathendom in print?
 * 7) history in mass communication
 * 8) Crowds and Power
 * 9) Navvies: are they Irish?
 * 10) Anna Louise Strong on Mao
 * 11) Adam Smith
 * 12) ethics and values?
 * 13) Constitutionality of referring to God in schools
 * 14) Is flirting illegal in New York?

= March 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 March 4


 * 1) FARC and uranium
 * 2) Africans: how many kinds are there?
 * 3) What does this quote mean
 * 4) A list of Catholic converts to Evangelicalism or Protestantism?
 * 5) Quote from van Gogh letter
 * 6) Origin of the Australian word "pohm"?
 * 7) Red Cross Societies
 * 8) Burgermeisters in Latvia
 * 9) Drumbeats
 * 10) Iconoclasts from Iran in Holy Land in 614
 * 11) U.S. Congressional term limits
 * 12) Atatürk's Societal Impact
 * 13) my question about israel and palestine

= March 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 March 5


 * 1) How is Lani Guinier's name pronounced?
 * 2) University degrees: why year of graduation, not age at graduation?
 * 3) Murder assignment
 * 4) mao voluntarism
 * 5) Clio the Muse?
 * 6) Glasgow 1915
 * 7) Churchill and Goebbels
 * 8) Rodney King and the LA Riots 1992
 * 9) After Flodden
 * 10) Jung and the Nazis
 * 11) managing figures in a Company
 * 12) Chinese discovery of America
 * 13) Sartre and 68
 * 14) Byzantium and the Crusades
 * 15) Mongol invasions of Japan
 * 16) Texas primary, Texas caucus
 * 17) Difficulty or impossibility of proving the absence of an item
 * 18) Dickens and Utilitarianism
 * 19) Nazis and gays
 * 20) Stamps: turning stamps into blind dogs
 * 21) WHY Bill Clinton got 80% of the Jewish vote in '92????

= March 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 March 6


 * 1) Latin Americans forms of government
 * 2) Christianity in Europe
 * 3) Spinoza "On the Improvement of the Understanding"
 * 4) Tourism: what are the advantages?
 * 5) Daylight savings time zones, Canada

= March 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 March 7


 * 1) Afghanistan, Sri Lanka and Iran
 * 2) why was correction to caption rejected?
 * 3) Judicial Terror and the Third Reich
 * 4) Ben Mathews and the Bakewell tart: source for this?
 * 5) Nineteenth Century Battle, won against the odds?
 * 6) Another Dickens question: his political views?
 * 7) The Glorious Revolution
 * 8) Max Income Before Taxed
 * 9) Wizard Weir
 * 10) What the...? Joseph Goebbels' flamboyant "camp" uniform
 * 11) All Bones? The Road of Bones, Siberia
 * 12) Most powerful woman in the Soviet Union
 * 13) Smokie Norful song with birds singing

= March 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 March 8


 * 1) Different Types of Karma in Buddhism
 * 2) Colonies: why did Europeans discover and colonise?
 * 3) European intervention: why so little, in American Civil War?
 * 4) Who is "Lady Ann Byron"?
 * 5) Tabligh Jamaat
 * 6) Mixed black/white Arab
 * 7) Structure of Roman Army
 * 8) Of Human Bondage
 * 9) Versailles and the end of democracy
 * 10) Does this kind of collar have a name?
 * 11) Canceling an adoption
 * 12) Change of names of religions - Mohammedan to Muslim
 * 13) MP3 law question
 * 14) Khmer rouge
 * 15) Daeg Faerch
 * 16) Saladin's wife

= March 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 March 9

= March 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 March 9


 * 1) Architecture and Music
 * 2) Music and emotion
 * 3) Ragging (in India, especially)
 * 4) Identifying classical piano piece.  Please have a listen!
 * 5) Nutty Nazis?
 * 6) The word "Beastorn"
 * 7) Wild Geese: "Flight of the wild geese"
 * 8) Singing: what is this "quivering" of the voice?
 * 9) Britain, UK, British Isles, etc.
 * 10) A Dutch patriotic song
 * 11) The estate of Anna Nicole Smith
 * 12) Question regarding loan talks (germany post war)
 * 13) Discographies: Alberto Ginastera's "Danzas Argentinas"

= March 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 March 10


 * 1) Artificial Competition
 * 2) People Who Were Important in Establishing Bilingual Education Programs in the United States
 * 3) Battle of Chancellorsville
 * 4) 2008 US presidential Campiagn
 * 5) The Confederate Emancipation Proclaimation
 * 6) Naming babies after dead siblings
 * 7) Lorna Doone
 * 8) Accounting practises for branch accounting
 * 9) Discrete and Insular Minority
 * 10) Digital copy of House Bill 775?
 * 11) Machiavelli-the devil?
 * 12) Southern States: which US states are "southern"
 * 13) Disraeli and Jewishness
 * 14) Classical or pastiche? Dido and Aeneas
 * 15) Replacing a superdelegate
 * 16) Books on Sexual Practices & General Sexuality in America 1900-1940 Needed

= March 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 March 11


 * 1) Philosophy of Law
 * 2) history of languages - a 'taxonomy'
 * 3) Napoleon in 1813-14
 * 4) Being and Nothingness: political commentary?
 * 5) Henry Rudolf de Salis, UK, businessman and author, 1866-1936
 * 6) Saints: Black Madonna of Częstochowa
 * 7) EEUU: meaning of this abbreviation?
 * 8) Dickens on Social Class
 * 9) Any heaven in Judaism? If not, why bother?

= March 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 March 12


 * 1) human flagpoles
 * 2) Enjoyable, readable ancient classics?
 * 3) When someone pulls your credit report, what do they see? (For USA)
 * 4) Document on American perceptions of federalism
 * 5) Sex, drugs, and ethics
 * 6) Stability: most stable country or culture, for longest time?
 * 7) Creative Commons: license for van Gogh letters
 * 8) Adam Smith and intellectual property
 * 9) Arthur, earl of Essex
 * 10) Greatest political leader, last century?
 * 11) Military Covenant
 * 12) Philosophy: who are the six greatest philosophers?
 * 13) U.S. Congressmen in WW II
 * 14) Why Isn't Bartholomew Sharp getting credit?
 * 15) SS UNITED STATES Ocean Liner
 * 16) London the socialist: was Jack London a socialist?

= March 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 March 13


 * 1) Media violating copyright?
 * 2) Gwine to ride up in the chariot (early in the morning)
 * 3) Heart of Darkness
 * 4) Black soldiers: German propaganda campaign, 1920s
 * 5) Isaac Asimov's street address in Somerville, Mass.
 * 6) HISTORY: compulsory in school systems in how many countries?
 * 7) Charities combating racism
 * 8) Spread of religions
 * 9) Schopenhauer's Will and Representation
 * 10) Understanding the failure of monetary policy in Japan
 * 11) history of tanzania
 * 12) Government spending
 * 13) Greatest English king
 * 14) german guns of ww2
 * 15) Definition of Political Correctness
 * 16) Naming of military units

= March 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 March 14


 * 1) Details about Columbia River
 * 2) Service that is still missing on the internet
 * 3) Insurance: what sort do stunt-people purchase?
 * 4) Trans Holocaust victims: any details on transgender victims?
 * 5) Zita, death: 13th-century Saint Zita's clothes
 * 6) Doing a history PhD in the UK
 * 7) My PhD/Doctorate question
 * 8) Beastorn report: see archives
 * 9) Paul de Lagarde
 * 10) Latin Empire
 * 11) Sociology question: selective affinity?
 * 12) Advice on moving to Belfast
 * 13) Tertullian and the definition of heresy
 * 14) Trajan and the First Dacian War
 * 15) Computer as a Judge?
 * 16) British Monarchy - Line of Succession
 * 17) How does economics explain the earnings of supermodels?

= March 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 March 15


 * 1) How religious was Benjamin Franklin?
 * 2) Obligatory rights
 * 3) white, black and hispanics community
 * 4) Why did the Government do this? (Australian Government vetoing Oliphant's US Medal)
 * 5) Did Milošević plan to attack Montenegro?
 * 6) Conscripted African soldiers
 * 7) Champange with raw egg
 * 8) Cawnpore Massacre
 * 9) Bahai
 * 10) Chester U.K. Laws in Tudor(?) times
 * 11) Facts on the History of the community of Pudur Dravidians
 * 12) Opium and Kubla Kahn
 * 13) abuse of women, forced fat
 * 14) Stalingrad
 * 15) Term for stuff characters do that we don't see, during other parts of their lives
 * 16) Can I edit?
 * 17) British throne taken by monarch from elsewhere - what happens?
 * 18) Women in the 18th century
 * 19) Churchill and Russia
 * 20) Who demanded 1914 borders in east of Germany in German political scene after World War 2

= March 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 March 16


 * 1) Trial court procedures: documents and their filing?
 * 2) The Peloponnesian War
 * 3) College football season: US and Canada
 * 4) From my textbook: Hitler, racism, and "Anglo-Saxon supremacy"?
 * 5) Glorious Revolution
 * 6) Syrfia
 * 7) Practice for Lawyers, Doctors, Etc. - Derivation of Term
 * 8) Fragrence ın Sultan Ahmed Mosque, Istanbul
 * 9) Athiest pope
 * 10) Titanic
 * 11) Do religious israelis in israel think god gave them the land they're settling?
 * 12) Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 March 16
 * 13) request for summary of suicide bombings by palestinians.
 * 14) May you live in interesting times of Chinese origins?
 * 15) Pictorial difference between hieroglyphs and cuneiform scripts?
 * 16) Jewmasters
 * 17) Worst military defeat
 * 18) did early europeans (colonial times) in America believe America was given to them by God?

= March 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 March 17


 * 1) 6 month old news article
 * 2) Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 March 17
 * 3) American artist - PEAKE, CHANNING (1910-1989)
 * 4) is this woman for real?
 * 5) Nazi questions
 * 6) The Founding Fathers and religion
 * 7) Marsh Creek Springs, California
 * 8) What if the south had won?
 * 9) Edward I and the Edict of Expulsion
 * 10) US and PLA Marines
 * 11) Bankruptcy of mutual fund company: what happens to the fund?
 * 12) Greatest Knight
 * 13) Gold ownership
 * 14) Any National banks selling gold bullions?

= March 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 March 18


 * 1) Tahitian surfer with same last name
 * 2) Laundering money
 * 3) An explanation of the Jews
 * 4) Technical colleges
 * 5) global warming
 * 6) Need help finding melody
 * 7) First World War in Boys' Books (British)
 * 8) Buster Keation - related to Diane or Michael?
 * 9) Carr, Thompson, and Hobsbawm
 * 10) Russian Jews in London
 * 11) What's the geographic centre of Chinese politics?
 * 12) Not sure...
 * 13) Iran
 * 14) Please tell me this is a joke!
 * 15) Inflation, It's cause
 * 16) old testament
 * 17) Leadership of Muslim communities/mosques
 * 18) Ark of the covenant and Tablets of stone
 * 19) First black woman mayor in the United States

= March 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 March 19


 * 1) Lutheran Hymns
 * 2) farm animal as pet animal B.C. Canada
 * 3) History assigment-help please
 * 4) Purchasing power of US dollar circa 1900
 * 5) Most prolific fathers
 * 6) Agricultural commodity prices
 * 7) bible, talmud etc other books
 * 8) The Light
 * 9) Popes and Emperors
 * 10) Enjoyable eastern and other non-western ancient classics?
 * 11) grandville sharp rule
 * 12) Chinese instrument
 * 13) Who owns the freehold of London's roads & why
 * 14) Term Limits
 * 15) Vehicle registration and inspections
 * 16) Bharata Janata Party West Bengal and Tripura leaders

= March 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 March 20


 * 1)  H Donald-Frith H Donald Smith, portrait painter
 * 2) Homelessness
 * 3) Divorce and women in the Middle Ages
 * 4) Medieval crime and punishment
 * 5) North and South
 * 6) Is the Swiss Franc still immune from inflation?
 * 7) A picture of Wilhelm Liebknecht, Karl Marx and three of their comrades
 * 8) agriculture,writing
 * 9) Frederick the Great and religious belief
 * 10) Heroes of their time
 * 11) Case study on Anonymous
 * 12) University Applications
 * 13) Daring medical rescue

= March 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 March 21


 * 1) Economies of the Home Countries
 * 2) Paul Scofield and Sir Thomas More
 * 3) Percentage of scientists
 * 4) What would "THE" original battle of iwo jima flag raising photo be worth?
 * 5) Communication technology and economics
 * 6) Israel and ISM
 * 7) Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 March 21
 * 8) Iranian Minority
 * 9) Arab Christians
 * 10) Punjabi-speaking Pakistani scholars
 * 11) Indian bengalis
 * 12) Fall of the Directory
 * 13) Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 March 21
 * 14) Proving residency in a State
 * 15) Francis Fowke and George Fowke
 * 16) Smoking Law In UK

= March 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 March 22


 * 1) Cult Definition
 * 2) Moral philosophy of evolution
 * 3) Burma, Laos, Cambodia, and Thailand: Indosphere or Sinosphere?
 * 4) Princess Anastasia
 * 5) Does the Christian celebration of easter have its origins in the Hindu Bahagavad Gita ?
 * 6) Philosophers Wealth
 * 7) Population
 * 8) Art Work
 * 9) Stalin's father
 * 10) What do interest rate cuts have to do with inflation?
 * 11) The Devils
 * 12) ebooks
 * 13) Depression in students

= March 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 March 23


 * 1) About a photograph
 * 2) Huang Yong, Chinese serial killer
 * 3) Do Jews believe in hell and the devil?
 * 4) Supply and demand in the labor market
 * 5) must religious stereotypes be bigotted???
 * 6) Who is the earliest known person?
 * 7) does the California State Military Reserve allow gays
 * 8) The Date Of The New Moon  Visible In Jerusalem Nearest The Spring Equinox 2008?
 * 9) Lord Jim and Imperialism
 * 10) Aklavik
 * 11) Demonology trivia
 * 12) State first to throw a million men into war?
 * 13) Douglas MacArthur
 * 14) What were Sazonov's Thirteen Points ?
 * 15) why dont citizens of other countries get to vote in U.S. elections
 * 16) what's the MOST number of people that could be hidden and unaccounted for without anyone realizing it?
 * 17) Paintings of the Popes in the Vatican
 * 18) Gay Nazi Officer
 * 19) The largest resistance in the WWII
 * 20) 2010 quarter
 * 21) Different strokes for different fokes

= March 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 March 24


 * 1) Hitler's "compassion"
 * 2) American economic history
 * 3) Break-up of the Soviet Union
 * 4) Nazi justice and foreign workers
 * 5) Attitude towards disabled people in Buddhism
 * 6) Analyzing "bog land" by Seamus Heaney
 * 7) Looking for any information on Harold Johnson, 60s-era jazz pianist
 * 8) Time Capsule
 * 9) Musical instrument learning resources (Piano in particular)

= March 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 March 25


 * 1) Nation and Ethnic Group
 * 2) translators/interpretors salary
 * 3) Deletion of "list of automobiles - makes with histories.
 * 4) 1937 Soviet census
 * 5) Absurd Philosophical Notion
 * 6) Conquest of the Desert and the 1982 war for the Islas Malvinas (Falklands)
 * 7) help plz
 * 8) Things People Have Crossed Canada In
 * 9) Critique of Dialectical Reason
 * 10) War of the Two Matildas
 * 11) gear vehicle
 * 12) Sony vs. Casio
 * 13) Scriabin's Sonata in E-Flat Minor (1889)
 * 14) SS
 * 15) Rubles at turn of 20th century
 * 16) Unreasonable and outdated dissatisfactions
 * 17) Changing fortunes of the Nazi Party
 * 18) Kublai and Genghis
 * 19) Authorship and publication of Wikipedia
 * 20) Republic of Ireland: Income tax liability for actors
 * 21) stores in history
 * 22) H Donald Smith
 * 23) A painting by Picasso of Modigliani
 * 24) Strories set in the Deep South

= March 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 March 26


 * 1) legal age for...
 * 2) Mexicans in the US
 * 3) Folk illnesses
 * 4) Windows
 * 5) The Don Flows Home to the Sea
 * 6) Is it true that the best Guillotine blades were made by Gillette???
 * 7) Mulatto - White and Black perspectives
 * 8) Question about Niger
 * 9) Kant's Categorical Imperative
 * 10) Marriage in the Canterbury Tales
 * 11) Land Usage in U.S.
 * 12) Agitate. Agitate, Agitate!

= March 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 March 27


 * 1) A war between Japan and China, 1880-83?
 * 2) info on an artist
 * 3) George Washington,Did he have investments in British Banks?
 * 4) Commonwealth war graves during WW2
 * 5) Centurion
 * 6) Against the Ustase
 * 7) Shia majority
 * 8) US Medal of Honour
 * 9) Economy and outsourcing
 * 10) Native Indian population of Americas
 * 11) Arts and Crafts
 * 12) Religion
 * 13) Kenya - sustainable development project
 * 14) Famous Canadian Color guard photograph

= March 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 March 28


 * 1) scrabble replays
 * 2) big buildings in pre-Columbian America
 * 3) 9/11 Lawsuit
 * 4) Thomas Jefferson
 * 5) Irish short story
 * 6) Roger Casement's poem entitled The Nameless One
 * 7) State to first throw 500,000 men into war?
 * 8) State to first rule over 1 million people?
 * 9) philosophy
 * 10) Scotland and the Wars of the Roses
 * 11) Letters of Danish parties
 * 12) IQ and career success
 * 13) Missing vessels

= March 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 March 29


 * 1) Floating Castles
 * 2) war poems
 * 3) Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values
 * 4) Agitprop
 * 5) Patrona Halil
 * 6) Law question: title of party
 * 7) Dance in UAE
 * 8) Somalis in Bangladesh
 * 9) Philosophy: career options
 * 10) Katie Cruel
 * 11) Murdered Greek actress Eleni Papadaki, denounced by envious rival?
 * 12) 1974 Jazz organist/keyboardist
 * 13) Hillary: The Movie
 * 14) Did Nazis execute old people??
 * 15) Name of song
 * 16) Legal systems

= March 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 March 30


 * 1) Holocaust denial
 * 2) Judaica
 * 3) Gayelle
 * 4) Holocost
 * 5) Title and Artist?
 * 6) Pyramids, Ice Ages and The End of the World.
 * 7) Cold War liability
 * 8) Neonazi ideology
 * 9) Civilization and barbarism
 * 10) Largest light festival of Europe
 * 11) Naturist children
 * 12) Republic of Korea's (South Korea) Stance on Disarmament Topics
 * 13) 1937 Soviet Census
 * 14) Cottage names in 19C England
 * 15) Christian selling to Muslims
 * 16) Neo-Nazi, Aryan Brotherhood and Islam

= March 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 March 31


 * 1) gayelle
 * 2) Penelope's suitors
 * 3) racist
 * 4) Stub Articles
 * 5) diplomatic missions and foreign policiy
 * 6) International Business
 * 7) Wilde and Salome
 * 8) removing money in circulation
 * 9) April Fool
 * 10) references (insecure life in pakistan)
 * 11) The English Gentleman
 * 12) Carbon emissions and locally produced food
 * 13) microeconomic  development
 * 14) wife's college
 * 15) CHRONOLOGICAL AGE
 * 16) Minimum wage and working on comission in Saskatchewan
 * 17) Eupean Slavery Between the 1500-1800
 * 18) Wavell the viceroy
 * 19) Origin of the South Atlantic Medal
 * 20) Non-Formal Education