Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/March 2018

= March 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 March 1


 * 1) Foreign exchange student vs international student

= March 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 March 2


 * 1) What is a "browning shot"? Submarine warfare in the First World War
 * 2) Technical problem in ultimate solution?

= March 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 March 3


 * 1) Anglo-Norman marriage alliances
 * 2) David the composer
 * 3) Became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
 * 4) "For children, use first names on second reference. For adults, use last names on second reference."

= March 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 March 4


 * 1) National Flags with Writing

= March 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 March 5


 * 1) I come from X and want to know what Y is
 * 2) Poland and the Holocaust
 * 3) I have an inquiry about the news in Indonesia

= March 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 March 6


 * 1) German pastor arrested for anti-nazi activities and later released
 * 2) Is lying considered wrong in Russian culture?
 * 3) Imprisonment for public protection...

= March 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 March 7


 * 1) Modern/correct name of a 15th century Dutch town
 * 2) Research paper about the history of the Chinese heritage language schools in the United States

= March 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 March 8


 * 1) Western Orthodox University

= March 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 March 9


 * 1) Modern numeral systems
 * 2) Syria's conflict
 * 3) Which is regarded as a prestige language in Hong Kong - Standard Mandarin, Standard Cantonese, or English?

= March 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 March 10


 * 1) Do French families bear collective responsibility for income tax?
 * 2) Naming system for variations of musical modes
 * 3) Finding K-12 student work about the US-Mexico border from students in US and Mexico

= March 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 March 11


 * 1) Has anyone evaluated whether the Black Stone at Mecca could be a piece of the Elagabalus stone?
 * 2) closest lighthouses
 * 3) Charley Farley

= March 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 March 12


 * 1) What is the highest sex on earth?
 * 2) Highest face value gold or silver coin?
 * 3) Life in prison without parole in the EU
 * 4) celebrity endorsements in Dutch general elections 2017, German general elections 2017 and Italian general elections 2018
 * 5) Borders of Pennsylvania

= March 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 March 13


 * 1) The religious affiliation of Albrecht Dürer
 * 2) "Foggy Bottom" Reference in News Article
 * 3) Do countries that sell land for money ever buy it back? Or part of it?

= March 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 March 14


 * 1) Kathy Xiaosi Gong
 * 2) What does Wikipedia call it when two romantic partners are in a car
 * 3) Fairy tale type 480

= March 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 March 15


 * 1) Technical term - dramatic line with too few feet
 * 2) Translation from German to English

= March 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 March 16


 * 1) For profit prisons
 * 2) Wine competition
 * 3) Election results that are "too close to call"
 * 4) HistoricalWitch hunt
 * 5) Elisa Montessori
 * 6) "Question everything, Learn something, Answer nothing"

= March 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 March 17


 * 1) Did the Romans invade Britain for tin?
 * 2) Sunday Bloody Sunday Film Title
 * 3) Beihai State
 * 4) Critics of the New Deal.

= March 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 March 18


 * 1) Meaning of this line of numerals
 * 2) Abdication in Catholic vs Protestant monarchies
 * 3) Why is Magnus Carlsen's FIDE blitz rating so high?
 * 4) The US has 50 states and the Republic of Ireland has 26 counties

= March 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 March 19


 * 1) Historic postal address for Bristol
 * 2) galley proofs

= March 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 March 20


 * 1) survival exercise: would the rivers be frozen?
 * 2) Did Germany ever bomb Germany
 * 3) SNAP and Food Banks

= March 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 March 21


 * 1) Italy general election results 2018
 * 2) Equivalent to FBI serial killings
 * 3) Current status of proposed Russian political party Independent Democratic Party of Russia

= March 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 March 22


 * 1) Where's the busiest point of Interstate highway that's not in a metro or micropolitan area?
 * 2) Qaddafi's 50 million Euro campaign contribution to Sarkozy presidential campaign
 * 3) Translation of Chinese deity name
 * 4) Why the Romans persecuted Christians
 * 5) naming perpetrators in the media
 * 6) What might've that claim been talking about? (England to 13 colony immigration)

= March 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 March 23


 * 1) How does Russia have 15 closed cities that nobody knows the location of
 * 2) Why didn't North Vietnamese forces overwhelm American patrols in the jungle?

= March 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 March 24


 * 1) Foot fetishism semiotics articles journals
 * 2) How can an international company like Toys R Us go bankrupt?
 * 3) Collaterals and property ownership
 * 4) Jesus teaching in the Synagogues

= March 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 March 25


 * 1) 1917 French Army mutinies
 * 2) Views of America's youth on the US military and aggression

= March 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 March 26


 * 1) Politically conservative parties and climate change denial
 * 2) Which positions have the politcal parties in the UK about how to deal with the Brexit vote?
 * 3) Why is the Catholic Church not a member of the World Council of Churches?
 * 4) Where are some of the places in this video located?

= March 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 March 27


 * 1) family connection to two tragedies
 * 2) Qui vult finem, vult etiam media

= March 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 March 28


 * 1) Omnia cognoscentia cognoscunt implicite Deum in quolibet cognito
 * 2) Similar concepts to anatta in Western philosophy
 * 3) Philosophical quotes
 * 4) Do foreign nationals ever send their kids to Chinese local schools than international schools?
 * 5) Good Friday Fish but not meat

= March 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 March 29


 * 1) "sing three songs of araby" theme and allusion in joyce's "araby" analysis
 * 2) German to English translation
 * 3) Counting the hours (back when 6 AM was called the 1st hour)

= March 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 March 30


 * 1) Countries that require social media information for visas

= March 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 March 31


 * 1) Questions about the King James Only movement
 * 2) Christian Responses to Friedrich Nietzsche?