Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/May 2007

= May 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 May 1


 * 1) Lessons of the wars
 * 2) ears in Britain
 * 3) Stalin-was there an alternative?
 * 4) Trotsky's book on Stalin
 * 5) Event Management
 * 6) Global (international) financial centres
 * 7) Lincoln/ habeas corpus
 * 8) Chávez/Venezuela and the IMF/World Bank
 * 9) United States healthcare vs. British healthcare
 * 10) Hegemony
 * 11) the concept of justice
 * 12) Touring at London
 * 13) Retailing and Immersive environments
 * 14) Wars of the Roses

= May 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 May 2


 * 1) An evolutionary view on good and correct democracy
 * 2) Nazis vs. Jews
 * 3) Telugu calender
 * 4) lizabeth And The Occult
 * 5) dow jones and co.
 * 6) Legal signature
 * 7) What does a 2/3 majority for overriding vetoes mean?
 * 8) Virginity statistics
 * 9) The English restoration
 * 10) Non-reductive Materialism
 * 11) Russia in 1900
 * 12) Abdoulaye Wade
 * 13) Buddhist relics ?
 * 14) Ah met a coo
 * 15) Stuart Davis painting
 * 16) Soviet space program
 * 17) Was the union a good thing?
 * 18) declartion of aboroth
 * 19) The Job of Court Judges

= May 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 May 3


 * 1) Famous Greeks
 * 2) Ancient Greek Society
 * 3) Department of Defense Dependents Schools
 * 4) How does one post NPR interview to a Wikipedia site?
 * 5) ossible philosophical term
 * 6) Madrasah and Schooling
 * 7) atural Born Citizen With Deported Parents
 * 8) German novel
 * 9) Self denying ordinance
 * 10) is today a normal working day in NJ, U.S.A?
 * 11) Family Trusts
 * 12) ancient cities II
 * 13) Midwest Migrant Workers in the Mid 20th Century
 * 14) News agency costs
 * 15) Henry V and the Hundred Year War
 * 16) How much money is spent each month?
 * 17) Economics

= May 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 May 4


 * 1) Reagan republican
 * 2) Which King Louis was insane?
 * 3) Surrender of New Amsterdam
 * 4) Leading/Best Legal Authority for Ethics/Professional Responsibility
 * 5) Archiving gone amok
 * 6) Beyond a reasonable doubt
 * 7) Emigration from england in the 1820's
 * 8) Shepherd
 * 9) Secret Police
 * 10) US History
 * 11) Paradox
 * 12) copyright status of US Court filing
 * 13) need help with this
 * 14) Shrek 2
 * 15) Hostile Takeover
 * 16) Newspaper Prices in USA and free newspapers
 * 17) Gray hair influence
 * 18) Gustave Dore Publications
 * 19) ELECTRIC BICYCLE LAW IN THE U.S.
 * 20) NYSE stocks - alternative trading methods?

= May 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 May 5


 * 1) Local sale of product restriction
 * 2) Does the specific shield shape of e.g. US highways have a name?
 * 3) Ramadan
 * 4) jacobite rebellions
 * 5) Royal maladies
 * 6) Kirov and the Reichstag fire
 * 7) Jews funding Hitler
 * 8) Types of military units
 * 9) tatute of Limitations on Murder
 * 10) inyin
 * 11) Rejection of Christ by some Jews
 * 12) Cat minders in history

= May 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 May 6


 * 1) Nobles
 * 2) Religious terminology
 * 3) Wifes of Henry the eight
 * 4) 'Clean-limbed'
 * 5) Best International Relations Schools
 * 6) George Rudisil, what prison camp was he in?
 * 7) ifferences between left and right wing

= May 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 May 7


 * 1) Trotsky, Stalin and the terror
 * 2) Edward III
 * 3) Churches in Towns
 * 4) Family Trusts?
 * 5) Hostile Takeover?
 * 6) NYSE stocks - alternative trading methods?
 * 7) Helicopter circles neighborhood for 3+ hours every few days. FAA, police, etc. won't do a thing even to find out who it is
 * 8) The Auld Alliance
 * 9) Israel and India:Connection?
 * 10) What does the legal acronym CRO mean?
 * 11) Proficiency in World War II
 * 12) Rule, Britannia!

= May 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 May 8


 * 1) AP US History Exam
 * 2) Early hominins?
 * 3) Meeting minutes
 * 4) Who is the speechwriter for Queen Elizabeth II ?
 * 5) Useless weapons
 * 6) British in Italy
 * 7) Why history?
 * 8) To hell or connacht
 * 9) WWII cessation of hostilities in Europe
 * 10) Hitler and the holocaust
 * 11) Fund managers bound to maximize profit?
 * 12) Iraq conflict
 * 13) Engagement
 * 14) Ancient Rome
 * 15) Help identifying this (outsider) art
 * 16) Muslim militias

= May 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 May 9


 * 1) ostracism
 * 2) Volunteers for Franco
 * 3) Lawrence of Arabia's opinions on Homer
 * 4) George Orwell
 * 5) Our Society's Swear Words
 * 6) Lite and Londonpaper????
 * 7) Iraqi Provincial Governments
 * 8) March on Rome
 * 9) Science Fiction Story
 * 10) KEFITZAT HADERECH

= May 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 May 10


 * 1) Can Indians have light color eyes?/ India's people?
 * 2) Christian Arab
 * 3) Marriage 'by license' vs 'by banns'
 * 4) Saint Pedro de Arbués
 * 5) Another question for Clio Muse: how stable was the Weimar republic
 * 6) ysterious art
 * 7) early christian and byzantine
 * 8) The Decree of King Ahasuerus
 * 9) English Monarchs not buried at Westminster Abbey
 * 10) may 18,1947
 * 11) Ethnic cleansing in the Scottish Highlands
 * 12) ize of estate
 * 13) Madrid: Google Maps — what's this?

= May 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 May 11


 * 1) virgin mary
 * 2) anging Judge Hyde
 * 3) greeting
 * 4) Scots-Irish
 * 5) Muslim persecutions in the middle ages
 * 6) Criminal law question
 * 7) Royal Americans
 * 8) Russian dolls
 * 9) UK Government Debt
 * 10) Seattle Geography
 * 11) Maya Civilization
 * 12) Muslims and the Holocaust
 * 13) Oil statistic in "Soviet-German Cooperation"
 * 14) Dow Jones Industrial Average -- Linear versus Logarithmic graph
 * 15) Bloody Mary
 * 16) Barbarossa
 * 17) Finishing School

= May 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 May 12


 * 1) Roman Republican government
 * 2) Criminal Law: Duress
 * 3)  dystopian question
 * 4) Breasticles
 * 5) James I's Daemonologie
 * 6) Pasminco Corporate Governance.
 * 7) Credentials
 * 8) FINANCE
 * 9) Scotland and the Union
 * 10) The Black Prince
 * 11) Pomponia Graecina and Asinia Pollionis filia
 * 12) Which affects potential to get into college more? GPA or SAT score?
 * 13) Italy
 * 14) Churchill and Black People
 * 15) Albigensian Crusade
 * 16) Tennessee Monkey Trial
 * 17) Hostile Takeover?
 * 18) I saw a dead man win a fight, and I think that man was I

= May 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 May 13


 * 1) Mapp v Ohio case
 * 2) Bruce Report
 * 3) Re-evaluating Rostow
 * 4) Authors in the olden days
 * 5) Princess in the tower
 * 6) Britian in 1800
 * 7) Deaths in space
 * 8) National Identity in Hawai'i
 * 9) History of the Mongols.
 * 10) Richard Cobden
 * 11) Statue of Liberty
 * 12) Sack of Rome 1527
 * 13) world evolution
 * 14) A follower of Ancient Greek Religion
 * 15) Spherical rocks on Mars

= May 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 May 14


 * 1) ürgen Klinsmann and Tottenham
 * 2) Archaic Occupations - Crocher
 * 3) Glorious Revolution
 * 4) Gertrude Bell
 * 5) Obscure PBS Musical Piece
 * 6) Lord of the Rings
 * 7) XM Capital Management
 * 8) Eurovision Politics
 * 9) animal rennet in chocolate bars and Kashrut
 * 10) Middle ages - Middle class?
 * 11) Cromwell statue
 * 12) fred the monkey website
 * 13) Jewish refugees
 * 14) Objections to a missile defence system
 * 15) Starting a Small Rental store (Canadian Regulations?)
 * 16) Spanish legion
 * 17) Do you think I would have a better chance of getting into college if I pretended to convert to Islam?
 * 18) What do the British call people who come from the United States?

= May 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 May 15


 * 1) Spanish Regenerationists
 * 2) God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
 * 3) English resistence to the Normans
 * 4) British republican movement
 * 5) Writing a poem
 * 6) Politics question re: Australia + Asia
 * 7) Iranian revolution
 * 8) Who commits gun crimes?
 * 9) Brother-in-law
 * 10) Loss of Normandy
 * 11) Fall of Constantinople facts
 * 12) Starting a company
 * 13) January 1st, 0 BCE

= May 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 May 16


 * 1) Why is there no article for JER Investors Trust
 * 2) Harry Potter, John Newbery Medal
 * 3) Mucha's rendition of Sappho?
 * 4) Womenfolk
 * 5) Liberation theologists?
 * 6) Hitler on lebensraum
 * 7) "Direct Descendant"???
 * 8) Autonomy in the UK
 * 9) CALOTROPIS GIGANTIA
 * 10) How much do the richest 1% make?
 * 11) Ohio American Legion
 * 12) Military acronym WTF
 * 13) Battle of Chumik Shenko
 * 14) US debt to China
 * 15) Nazi-Soviet Pact
 * 16) British's monarch / royal family rights to vote?
 * 17) The two Harrys
 * 18) war experiences

= May 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 May 17


 * 1) castle in Roman
 * 2) You shall not kill
 * 3) reaking up Iraq
 * 4) Rudyard Kipling
 * 5) Geographical information on Greater Rosario, Argentina.
 * 6) The UK's next Prime Minister
 * 7) Black death in Britain
 * 8) Charge of the Light Brigade
 * 9) llegal immigrants and university scholarships
 * 10) Christian reactions to the rise of Islam
 * 11) [Stephen Ward]]'s flat in Devonshire Mews
 * 12) the Louisiana territory

= May 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 May 18


 * 1) Catarina van Hemessen
 * 2) false arrest
 * 3) Treaty of Amiens
 * 4) Schlieffen Plan
 * 5) Martin Heidegger
 * 6) Will Power
 * 7) London life in 1700
 * 8) "Books into Boys" list
 * 9) Ends of the Western Front
 * 10) elsus and Thyestes
 * 11) Starting a Small Rental store (Canadian Regulations?)

= May 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 May 19


 * 1) George Steer and Guernica
 * 2) Stalin and the rothschilds
 * 3) Smoking herb
 * 4) Wallis Simpson
 * 5) Rupert Murdoch
 * 6) USA - individualism
 * 7) araguay flag day.
 * 8) habeas corpus petition
 * 9) Perceptions of the Devil

= May 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 May 20


 * 1) Ex US Senator
 * 2) Cardinal Richelieu
 * 3) Reynald de Chatillon
 * 4) Eyemouth disaster
 * 5) British merchants in St. Petersburg
 * 6) Third Reich
 * 7) Publishing in the Roman world
 * 8) Roman Empire
 * 9) Battle of Liaoyang
 * 10) Commodity fetishism
 * 11) Killed rappers

= May 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 May 21


 * 1) Starting a Small Rental store (Canadian Regulations?)
 * 2) U.S. Federal Anti-piracy regulations
 * 3) Jewish Aryan
 * 4) Do you like girls?

= May 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 May 22


 * 1) Great Americans of the twentieth century
 * 2) John Leslie, 1st Duke of Rothes
 * 3) Stock market volume and volatility
 * 4) United Nations
 * 5) almud
 * 6) Some guy who changed millions of people's lives for the better
 * 7) Civilization
 * 8) Himmler's feudal settlements
 * 9) Boozy Britain
 * 10) Story (Short?) about a Door of Light
 * 11) Novelists in their books
 * 12) Situational Irony
 * 13) Ivy League acceptance - rigorous requirements?

= May 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 May 23


 * 1) Shi'a majority
 * 2) Arbusto
 * 3) Has Scotland Yard or SIS verified that they gave Richard Tomlinson his hard drives back?
 * 4) WWII Pacific Theater
 * 5) rthashastra
 * 6) Barbatio
 * 7) Catholicism and Christianity
 * 8) Susan Richmond and the Somme
 * 9) Natars?
 * 10) rammar
 * 11) Identify this village in Ontario?
 * 12) Renouncing citizenship
 * 13) Russian Orthodox Church
 * 14) Florida
 * 15) USMC officers in Vietnam
 * 16) Voted against WWII
 * 17) Anti America Gang???
 * 18) Rank and meaning of a "sales executive"?

= May 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 May 24


 * 1) Whats the diff?
 * 2) attle maps
 * 3) Film Festival rejection statistics
 * 4) Soviet Foreign Relations in the Inter-war Period.
 * 5) Russian Civil War medal
 * 6) Finding shareholders of companies
 * 7) Clio Muse and the weimar republic
 * 8) Silver Certificate value
 * 9) Niger/Nigeria
 * 10) Genealogy War Records
 * 11) Blackmore's Style
 * 12) ayment for digital info
 * 13) Napoleon's greatest moment
 * 14) question about APA style

= May 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 May 25


 * 1) Why Can the Catholic Church Give Wine to the Underaged?
 * 2) Conversation between George H. W. Bush and his son
 * 3) Mary Queen of Scots
 * 4) Britain in 1950
 * 5) Two for one on sentences! (When they're gone, they're gone!)
 * 6) history of the evolution of hats and balls
 * 7) US employer type statistics
 * 8) alling people you don't know by name
 * 9) History Question
 * 10) Corrections

= May 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 May 26


 * 1) MC Escher
 * 2) My rights, I guess.
 * 3) Fleur-de-lis on a flag
 * 4) Ribbentrop
 * 5) Robert F. Kennedy
 * 6) Ancient peoples' views on various topics
 * 7) Brossano, Italy
 * 8) Roger Morrice
 * 9) Christianity's views on God in relation to space travel?

= May 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 May 27


 * 1) Fat women with horns
 * 2) Abbas and the Armenians
 * 3) "God doesn't believe in atheists... so therefore they don't exist"
 * 4) Italian hill towns
 * 5) Names
 * 6) Black people names
 * 7) How sad - elephant deaths
 * 8) National Socialism and German Universities.
 * 9) Petrarch's library materials
 * 10) invocational address
 * 11) Pedophiles in Nazi Germany?
 * 12) noms d'electron

= May 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 May 28


 * 1) Human seasons
 * 2) vich
 * 3) In the US, how much does a legal name change generally cost in court fees?
 * 4) Slovakian Politics
 * 5) Cromwell assassination plot
 * 6) Stonewall Jackson
 * 7) K" for Contracts
 * 8) guantanamo
 * 9) Racism in a popular song??
 * 10) Why didn´t the Allied forces bomb the train rails going to Auschwitz II?
 * 11) Naal

= May 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 May 29


 * 1) Play like someone
 * 2) Boy gets cooked alive
 * 3) Need help with Ontario towns
 * 4) Luya Province
 * 5) Painting
 * 6) Stalin's continuous working week
 * 7) Kipling and socialist folksong
 * 8) Taxation of dividends - International perspective
 * 9) Madame de Pompadour
 * 10) Anansi
 * 11) Nude Bowl
 * 12) Female pilgrims in the Middle Ages
 * 13) The Seven
 * 14) Duke of Wellington
 * 15) Term for Lost in Translation
 * 16) asonic lodges
 * 17) eyford
 * 18) A painting
 * 19) How tall was Abe Lincoln?

= May 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 May 30


 * 1) Israeli Nuclear Technology
 * 2) Canadian History in 20th Century
 * 3) The Dutch and their cents
 * 4) Disraeli's ideas
 * 5) Battle of the Atlantic
 * 6) Founder of Biblioteca Marciana
 * 7) Palazzo Molina
 * 8) Zen Yoga
 * 9) Emery: the question.
 * 10) Jesus' patronymic
 * 11) Berlin Wall
 * 12) Russian female soldier
 * 13) World economics
 * 14) Handcuffs

= May 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 May 31


 * 1) Flag and general officers.
 * 2) Longest serving legislators
 * 3) Icelandic Holidays
 * 4) Are Tinnitus real?
 * 5) Cossack pirates
 * 6) Bill Clinton quote
 * 7) Constantinople after the conquest
 * 8) how to become REALLY
 * 9) How to  REALLY become a successful trader? (please pardon my last post, it was a mistake)
 * 10) spirop user page
 * 11) I want to know the skinny
 * 12) Literary quiz
 * 13) CDC Military Uniforms
 * 14) Whats the difference between Stan and Kyle???
 * 15) Careers, teachers, and educators
 * 16) Classic music in the film Ocean's Eleven