Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/March 2010

= March 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 March 1


 * 1) Matt Morrison
 * 2) Article about a London park with a "protected" view
 * 3) Restaurant Laws in Western Australia
 * 4) US Politics - Definition of "top tier candidate" or "first tier candidate"
 * 5) Figure Skating
 * 6) Sexuality images in Wikipedia
 * 7) Roller Skates
 * 8) Robert Service books
 * 9) what caused the 1962 Burmese coup in the first place?
 * 10) Econ question
 * 11) "creative accounting"
 * 12) Last U.S. Vice President to rule from the Chair of the Senate
 * 13) Art
 * 14) Coffe With Puree

= March 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 March 2


 * 1) Sheriff's house an official residence?
 * 2) As I Lay Dying
 * 3) BMX?
 * 4) Fake Snake Loop Earring
 * 5) Incest among animals
 * 6) Real estate bubble effect on the larger economy
 * 7) Monopoly game used during WWII
 * 8) Gregorian Calendar
 * 9) Copyright Status of E.E. Cummings Poetry
 * 10) File:Disputation.jpg
 * 11) Legal status of embassy-related building
 * 12) man-in-the-waiting-room theory
 * 13) Conjoined twins and the law
 * 14) The origin of knee-slapping
 * 15) Media regulation during elections in the U.S.A.
 * 16) Tiny countries' defense
 * 17) Footballers good, bankers bad
 * 18) Mother-son marriage in South Korea
 * 19) Divorce and Credit Card Debt

= March 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 March 3


 * 1) Prussian regiment in  painting
 * 2) Succesful towns that look horrible?
 * 3) It's "for religious reasons"
 * 4) Iranian surnames
 * 5) hijab summer olympics
 * 6) Debt and Countries
 * 7) The Age of Enlightenment in Russia and Scandinavia
 * 8) About 19 century churches
 * 9) War
 * 10) novels
 * 11) looking for artist/painting name
 * 12) finance: Surrogate debt definition
 * 13) what on one's person counts as a status symbol in Southern Germany? (man's)
 * 14) Typesetting in the 1960s
 * 15) private detectives
 * 16) Lord of the Rings
 * 17) Tit fucking, scholars, and doctors
 * 18) Religion

= March 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 March 4


 * 1) Historic US census reports
 * 2) 350000 Allied POW escapes in WW2
 * 3) Conquered subsuming conquerers
 * 4) Who coined "wild west"
 * 5) Trans-Atlantic Telegraph Cables in World War Two
 * 6) Humanities
 * 7) Pornstar
 * 8) Second time the Sacred Cod went missing
 * 9) two articles declined
 * 10) life of himba tribal women
 * 11) what influenced hitler (esp when hes young) to be so anti semtic?
 * 12) "Blue-skying"
 * 13) aerocraft
 * 14) Henry Darger
 * 15) What is "vulgar Marxism?"
 * 16) LGBT issues in Iran and Saudi Arabia
 * 17) Educating Esme

= March 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 March 5


 * 1) Tort
 * 2) Word War
 * 3) Bestsellers lists
 * 4) The War
 * 5) Livestock
 * 6) Deflation
 * 7) Style of play from a chess computer opponent?
 * 8) Strait of Gibraltar during WW2?
 * 9) Ownership of Language

= March 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 March 6


 * 1) Violence in Congress?
 * 2) billion
 * 3) Information on Instant Messenger Use
 * 4) History Channel Documentaries
 * 5) Novel
 * 6) Jesus' connotation with David
 * 7) Space fiction
 * 8) Dreaming
 * 9) Sunday shopping in Germany
 * 10) Iceland debt
 * 11) what prophecies about the Messiah did Jesus fill?
 * 12) Sunday shopping in Poland

= March 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 March 7


 * 1) All Nippon Airways headquarters
 * 2) Immediate family in the military
 * 3) Help identifying this person
 * 4) Forbidden Books
 * 5) Deer species in the Bambi translation
 * 6) would someone modifying Mosaic Law today still be subject to the death penalty under it?
 * 7) Where is the Icesave money now?
 * 8) Creating and destroying money
 * 9) Arthur Leslie Salmon - Author
 * 10) Where does Riyadh get its water?
 * 11) Historical Chinese gender imbalance
 * 12) Etymology question: Ptah *ph₂tḗr
 * 13) Music
 * 14) Single, Young African-American Moms and Fornication
 * 15) Same Sex Marriage in the UK

= March 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 March 8


 * 1) Marijuana Intoxication
 * 2) Novels, books and novella
 * 3) Former Air France headquarters in Montparnasse
 * 4) What is truth?
 * 5) Mystery poem
 * 6) AA Flight 11 passengers.
 * 7) Swear words
 * 8) Name question
 * 9) Detroit
 * 10) Postage Due

= March 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 March 9


 * 1) Marriage prospect of Nicholas II's children
 * 2) Skates
 * 3) Cock
 * 4) Selling a banned product
 * 5) Third Anglo-Burmese War
 * 6) Flag of British Burma
 * 7) Last line of a novel or short story
 * 8) Moses
 * 9) Jewish shops in Germany
 * 10) Merchant Marine Vessels of Scotland and Great Britain

= March 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 March 10


 * 1) Bram Stokers Dracula was lost and found in a barn in Pennsylvania
 * 2) WWI photograph identifications
 * 3) The Father of Beatrix Potter
 * 4) Dekotora
 * 5) Warrington & Co.
 * 6) Fit For Performance
 * 7) Online Dictionary
 * 8) Principality of Neuchâtel
 * 9) Why people cry when they are happy
 * 10) Canada's role in producing energy for the world
 * 11) Reason for the POETICS list protest of Billy Collins's appointment?
 * 12) becoming millionaire
 * 13) Lords of Toron
 * 14) Prince Ernst August of Hanover
 * 15) in what part, as a percentage, was world war 2 caused by an unjust peace agreement following world war 1?
 * 16) I need some knowledge of Pearl Harbor attack
 * 17) Pulp-like novels
 * 18) Warren Buffett
 * 19) Sexual content in Lolita

= March 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 March 11


 * 1) Star Trek: TNG episode "The Inner Light" refers to a Japanese folk story?
 * 2) What's the probability that the Icelandic debt repayment referendum could lead to war?
 * 3) How to deal with Bullies
 * 4) Difference between straight male and female's reactions to homosexual people who have crush on them
 * 5) Ave Caesar, morituri te salutant
 * 6) Operation Helmand Spider and relation to Operation Moshtarak
 * 7) was Iraq an unprovoked attack like Pearl Harbor?
 * 8) Normative Economics
 * 9) Spanish Don
 * 10) Strait of Gibraltar compared with English Channel in WW2
 * 11) Financing high risk business through options etc?

= March 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 March 12


 * 1) Has there ever been an actual, verifiable (or even strongly suspected) case...
 * 2) Styles of authority or power
 * 3) Paying mortgage off early
 * 4) Dehra Dun
 * 5) AMERICAN GRAND FATHER/BRITISH FATHER!
 * 6) Does Russia Railways observe daylight saving time? Need clarify.
 * 7) Menstrual extraction
 * 8) Knee/leg movement; vibrating

= March 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 March 13


 * 1) Is Microsoft a Monopoly?
 * 2) Is it only me?
 * 3) How can there be a tie if you need 60 votes?
 * 4) 山楂酪
 * 5) King of Leon (in Spain, not the band)
 * 6) writer completing studies abroad
 * 7) Possibility of a Spanish default
 * 8) Regimental Combat Team
 * 9) Kievan Rus and the Black sea
 * 10) Why do some do-rags have a cape?
 * 11) Blasphemy

= March 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 March 14


 * 1) Shandong cuisine
 * 2) Group psychology
 * 3) FOX News babes
 * 4) Auto Insurance
 * 5) artist tao lengyue (1895-1985)
 * 6) Harassment of Italians in World War II United States

= March 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 March 15


 * 1) Ethical Eating- GM, meat, non-organic, chemicals, hormones...
 * 2) Communism
 * 3) Ecclestistic court decision on Indians having souls
 * 4) Nonagenarians who died before 1900
 * 5) rise if the third world
 * 6) Simple leadership questionnaire
 * 7) Name in Khmer
 * 8) Women and music, throughout the ages
 * 9) Foreign language names of school district
 * 10) What would have been the historical effects if Hitler had been successfully assassinated?
 * 11) Who was the editor of the Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands
 * 12) Angry or depressed at a disapointment?

= March 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 March 16


 * 1) From where does the strength of the pro-Israel lobby come in American politics?
 * 2) Supreme Court of India appealing before itself
 * 3) Corsets for men in the 19th century
 * 4) Banksy
 * 5) Asatru
 * 6) Information about the artist Ib Geertsen?
 * 7) bigfoot
 * 8) Splitting Nigeria
 * 9) Africa (Petrarch)
 * 10) Short stories dealing with sexual abuse

= March 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 March 17


 * 1) How to cite The New York Times - under T or under N?
 * 2) Communism 2
 * 3) Seventh-Day Adventist in China
 * 4) Can someone explain this please? Finding out who you are...
 * 5) Ping Fu
 * 6) Authorising use of logo
 * 7) cynicism overload
 * 8) UK and Ethnicties
 * 9) Versailles
 * 10) For Whom the Bell Tolls
 * 11) Marriage

= March 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 March 18


 * 1) Looking for a science book...
 * 2) traditional Francophone elite
 * 3) fishing sector of Canada
 * 4) Jeffrey Dahmer's mugshots

= March 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 March 19


 * 1) King of Tavolara
 * 2) Crown Prince of Denmark
 * 3) Original & Translation version of Gilgamesh
 * 4) services industries
 * 5) sales revenue and employees
 * 6) drum beat in music
 * 7) Free Churches Moderator
 * 8) "it isn't _____ if you don't get caught"
 * 9) The imminent resignation of Hillary Clinton?
 * 10) Olympics question
 * 11) Falkland War -- Thatcher Speech
 * 12) History of the bound book

= March 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 March 20


 * 1) "Realistic" Visual Art Outside of the West
 * 2) Parting one's hair
 * 3) Step Will
 * 4) Payment in cash
 * 5) Voice-over
 * 6) Campus radio
 * 7) Slovakia during WWII
 * 8) Medicinal brandy
 * 9) Warren Buffett valuing a business
 * 10) Why did Argentina run its trains on corn when there was world famine after WWII?
 * 11) American Culture

= March 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 March 21


 * 1) Religion
 * 2) Any truth to reports of Chinese people making cooking oil from sewage
 * 3) Life of Moreshwar Ramchandra Kale
 * 4) Israel and the Palestinians
 * 5) Kabul Times
 * 6) fishing sector of Canada 2
 * 7) Uganda-Tanzania War press conference
 * 8) Why was France so weak militarily during WW2?
 * 9) News orgs using "Mr. Obama"
 * 10) Death penalty law wording
 * 11) Is this a real photo of Hitler?

= March 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 March 22


 * 1) Height and weight of Hitler
 * 2) Lil Rob
 * 3) US health care reform - pre-existing conditions
 * 4) Evolution and redemption
 * 5) Fascism and obedience
 * 6) Why pay banks to lend to the Fed when the largest risk is they aren't lending to their customers?
 * 7) How much income equality is optimal?
 * 8) Politics
 * 9) Looking for a book I read about five years ago
 * 10) Charles Manson

= March 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 March 23


 * 1) mining industry in Canada
 * 2) Housewife
 * 3) Health Care Bill
 * 4) OFEX stock market, UK
 * 5) what qualifications can you get overnight
 * 6) is there a psychological condition where people hear themselves being narrated?
 * 7) Name the fallacy
 * 8) Indigenous people of the United States
 * 9) Longevity of political systems or forms of government
 * 10) Marahasta
 * 11) Violin Sheet music for "hey soul sister" by Train

= March 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 March 24


 * 1) Health care law
 * 2) procrastination trick
 * 3) Break Even
 * 4) Date
 * 5) fund for ferry crash victims
 * 6) developement of criminal law
 * 7) Spoke Zarathustra
 * 8) Architecture Copyright
 * 9) death penalty and insanity

= March 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 March 25


 * 1) Arab world mineral industry
 * 2) minerals Canada
 * 3) Obama
 * 4) Currency manipulator
 * 5) is it true that...
 * 6) Racists everywhere?
 * 7) U.S. Recess appointments
 * 8) bankruptcy
 * 9) Incubus ?
 * 10) citation help
 * 11) "Book Within a Book" Title
 * 12) Psychopaths
 * 13) passport notation

= March 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 March 26


 * 1) Meyer Lansky never went to trial because...?
 * 2) Can a professional not be humane also?
 * 3) Dying so that someone else may live
 * 4) Scottsboro Boys
 * 5) Response to inflationary pressure of full employment
 * 6) Allowing someone dearly loved to die for someone else

= March 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 March 27


 * 1) Health care bill opposition
 * 2) Rail Spur construction cost
 * 3) Ownership of foreign companies
 * 4) What's worth a pound?
 * 5) magic and witchcraft

= March 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 March 28


 * 1) what does the bible actually say about pedophilia on part of priests?
 * 2) Prostitute tea
 * 3) "Hand car"--means of transport
 * 4) Correlation between the Sharpeville Massacre and Cato Manor Massacre
 * 5) History of writing out currency amounts on checks
 * 6) damaged aircraft auction
 * 7) Source of quotation, probably from W.B. Yeats
 * 8) Hypothetical scenario
 * 9) How are nurses who kill caught?
 * 10) (Business Valuation) Sales / Headcount -- a meaningful statistic?

= March 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 March 29


 * 1) Why is wikipedia possible?
 * 2) what atheism
 * 3) Sovereign Debt Defaults
 * 4) Is this group against the law?
 * 5) Illustrious 14 Romans
 * 6) Medical staff, Civil War
 * 7) Oldest people in Rome?
 * 8) advance reading copies
 * 9) How usual is it to have no friends?

= March 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 March 30


 * 1) Proper Way to Observe a Baptism
 * 2) Chinese male face with political tentacles
 * 3) FAA Violations
 * 4) Angel(?) Danyal
 * 5) Unknown Asimov book?
 * 6) Moral terpitude

= March 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 March 31


 * 1) Aryan vs. Japanese racial superiority
 * 2) primal fear and catatonia
 * 3) An Interesting GK Question
 * 4) Has the UK population become very much more intelligent in recent decades?
 * 5) Impossible feats of heroism?
 * 6) What happened to old Chinese coins when dynasties fell?
 * 7) Did Bill Gates start Microsoft with his parents' money?
 * 8) Find board of directors of california corporations
 * 9) Bach cantatas
 * 10) What's the point of learning Irish?