Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/May 2008

= May 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 May 1


 * 1) Flags
 * 2) price of oil and value of dollar
 * 3) campaign finance
 * 4) Soviet military thinking
 * 5) Pigs in the mud
 * 6) Surprises in history
 * 7) Laundry poem
 * 8) is migration good for development?
 * 9) I was only obeying orders
 * 10) Murdered Hebrew prophets
 * 11) woman warrior who dyed herself blue
 * 12) Holocaust questions

= May 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 May 2


 * 1) Sheet Music
 * 2) Diversity
 * 3) Conservative conspiracy
 * 4) Kipling and Recessional
 * 5) How do you found a umbrella organization?
 * 6) Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale
 * 7) Josephine Butler
 * 8) What was the danger?
 * 9) Belly Dance
 * 10) Natural resources of Canada issues
 * 11) new year
 * 12) Tabandeh and Mahmassani
 * 13) Struggle between east and west
 * 14) Reaction to Sino-Indian war of communities in  Singapore and Malaysia?
 * 15) Nicholas Rockefeller
 * 16) Catherine Parr
 * 17) Anarchism-arguments against
 * 18) Coat of arms prior to Henry II
 * 19) How are new militaries formed???

= May 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 May 3


 * 1) Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra's Family
 * 2) Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra descendants (desendientes)
 * 3) Mr. Martin/The Queen, Our Head of State
 * 4) Becoming beastly in order to fight a beast
 * 5) Plymouth
 * 6) Pope's villa bombed in WW2?
 * 7) Abbey Road (street)
 * 8) English Queens and puddles

= May 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 May 4


 * 1) British in WWI
 * 2) Evidence for Zoroastrianism as the One True Religion
 * 3) Tobacco deaths
 * 4) Atlantic Slave Ships
 * 5) RAF
 * 6) Epicurus
 * 7) Timing of start of working day around the world
 * 8) Science fiction novels with the word "Maze" in the title
 * 9) Pot Bouille
 * 10) Alexander I and universities
 * 11) archaeology
 * 12) A question regarding EU and provinces
 * 13) Paris, 1968
 * 14) people who became famous later in life (ie after 50)

= May 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 May 5


 * 1) Bhumibol Adulyadej
 * 2) The Tin Drum - Exactly What did Oskar's Mother Eat
 * 3) Shautaraw
 * 4) If I'm born with that ethnicity, I will be that ethnicity forever in my lifetime?
 * 5) specific name for girls who have black hair.
 * 6) Writing System
 * 7) the definition of TOLLYWOOD
 * 8) School
 * 9) EC law (moved from WP:HD)
 * 10) Dresden
 * 11) Status of Women
 * 12) French Socks of Long Ago
 * 13) Metal use in antiquity.
 * 14) crude oil consumption
 * 15) A picture of the world?
 * 16) Edward II and Gaveston
 * 17) Archaeology

= May 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 May 6


 * 1) Wars
 * 2) Filioque
 * 3) Gas price economics 101
 * 4) A picture of a painting from my dad which died in 1996.
 * 5) Voltaire's Third Letter on Oedipus
 * 6) The size of the atom according to the ancient atomists
 * 7) Next position
 * 8) British commanders negligence on the Western Front during the great war (First World War)
 * 9) plurals and group names
 * 10) Second Dutch War
 * 11) Opposite of personification

= May 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 May 7


 * 1) Anyone ever "speak now?"
 * 2) Clinton's vs. Obama's plans
 * 3) No Revolution in Britain
 * 4) List of United States Presidents by genealogical relationship
 * 5) Number of trains daily from Vienna to Magdeburg in 1889
 * 6) Anti-Defamation League Role in Great Sedition Trial
 * 7) Support organisation or information on rape victim compensation in Germany
 * 8) Other Minds
 * 9) What did Pablo Picasso think about Israel and Zionism?
 * 10) Themes in The Octopus
 * 11) The Crimes of Kaiser Bill
 * 12) Issues natural resources
 * 13) Literature

= May 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 May 8


 * 1) Conservative sociologists
 * 2) Afroamerries
 * 3) University
 * 4) Tin Drum 2
 * 5) Eva the Jew Hater
 * 6) Prisioners in the English Civil War
 * 7) Serving as Vice-President & Secretary of State Concurrently
 * 8) Aelia Capitolina
 * 9) Darkness at Noon
 * 10) Stalin
 * 11) GDP
 * 12) Painting, Art, Heralding the Dawn
 * 13) Crime vs. social phenomenon

= May 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 May 9


 * 1) data on international or global food prices going back 50 years or so
 * 2) Killing Theives
 * 3) Socrates and Buddhism or Taoism
 * 4) JC-1 H2 Literature set texts
 * 5) Famous Virginians
 * 6) Mosley's Mentality
 * 7) Wittgenstein and Schopenhauer
 * 8) Becoming a jew: the easy way
 * 9) Popish Plot
 * 10) Overview of 1700s-era naval uniforms?
 * 11) French Revolution
 * 12) Offer excludes Northern Ireland
 * 13) Best source for Ibn Battuta's travels

= May 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 May 10


 * 1) National Service League-United Kingdom
 * 2) Cultures/ groups forbidding or objecting to cutting hair
 * 3) Bad grades and grad school/master/PhD
 * 4) Annual economic growth rate
 * 5) Deaths in Medieval England
 * 6) Experience
 * 7) presidential nominees
 * 8) Gender Equality in Education
 * 9) Job interview success
 * 10) The mind in ancient Greece
 * 11) Why is Tsutomu Miyazaki still alive??
 * 12) battleship diplomacy
 * 13) The role of committee members in a small club
 * 14) Definition of the mind
 * 15) Essentialism and Enlightenment Tolerance

= May 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 May 11


 * 1) artist/painter A.F. Gerstmayr
 * 2) Guthrum II
 * 3) COPPA compliance
 * 4) Su vegetarianism, Fruitarianism, and dharmic religion.
 * 5) Historical understanding of static electricity
 * 6) Kent State and American Law
 * 7) Day saver for trains in the UK
 * 8) Pictish History
 * 9) Room of the house
 * 10) Finding progress of lawsuit, lacking news coverage
 * 11) Meaning of 'either'.
 * 12) Darius
 * 13) Art of our time
 * 14) Quote by Charlemagne
 * 15) SS Enterprises

= May 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 May 12


 * 1) How might an undefended Asante town in 1701 deal with a British landing?
 * 2) Why doesn’t Tarzan have a beard?
 * 3) Oppression
 * 4) The Ottoman Empire in the 16th century
 * 5) Cybernetic mind control
 * 6) Belgian Power
 * 7) British Naval power in the eighteenth century
 * 8) Noam Chomsky Books
 * 9) Why was I born to my parents in my town at a specific time?
 * 10) Classics
 * 11) Division Bell in Parliament
 * 12) Christianity and kosher foods
 * 13) UK prime minister
 * 14) Roadside Park
 * 15) "Ghost Account" phenomenon

= May 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 May 13


 * 1) Advantages and disadvantages diplomatic immunity
 * 2) 1931 to 1945 world map for allies and axis
 * 3) Myanmar/China response to disaster
 * 4) Identifying statues on the Albert Memorial's frieze
 * 5) Why (and when) did Britain's John Lewis Partnership start calling itself a co-operative?
 * 6) The size of the atom according to the ancient atomists
 * 7) How do i get involved in fighting poverty in Angola
 * 8) Ranks in 16th Century Venetian Navy
 * 9) Earliest mention of Lord in a religious context
 * 10) Sailing east: any poems, songs or nicknames?
 * 11) UK court-dress changes
 * 12) Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
 * 13) Norse Mythology
 * 14) What's the difference between "Natural Rights" and "Human Rights"???

= May 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 May 14


 * 1) Obscurantism
 * 2) Standby Power wastage
 * 3) Darwin and Eugenics/Social Darwinism
 * 4) Inquiry
 * 5) Allied Aid to Soviet Russia in WW2
 * 6) Name of the many-winged aircraft bicycle
 * 7) Vatican - UFO conspiracy
 * 8) Yunaitedo Suteetsu
 * 9) The Restoration in Scotland
 * 10) Locke and politics
 * 11) Inquisition
 * 12) What is meant by "toadstool casserole"?  (Not as in food)
 * 13) POWs, international law, internment/repatriation
 * 14) renewable and non-renewable natural resources of Canada
 * 15) Economics: Government Deficit, Output &
 * 16) Iron Guard
 * 17) Gordon Brown as PM
 * 18) Difference between Total Population and Admin. Population
 * 19) Fronde
 * 20) List of states that remained independent throughout European colonization
 * 21) War finished on time

= May 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 May 15


 * 1) Madonna Video With Hot Sweaty Modernist Industrial Men As Cogs / Gears In Factory Setting...
 * 2) Medieval painting identifications
 * 3) Racists in relationships with people of colour
 * 4) annales history
 * 5) The British economy since 1997
 * 6) A weird thought : "Vegetarians kill plants".
 * 7) Banking services as a component of GDP
 * 8) Country or government without debt
 * 9) Prime Minister's Questions - No. 5
 * 10) Gambling debts
 * 11) Book on geometry in Islamic art

= May 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 May 16


 * 1) Greek Theatre
 * 2) Did Carl Stephenson (Leiningen vs the Ants) actually exist?
 * 3) Image Copyright question
 * 4) Need to know who painted this
 * 5) similarites and differences berween ethics morality and law
 * 6) The English Reformation-the Bollocks of Henry VIII
 * 7) Hindu Gods
 * 8) US army vs the world
 * 9) Philanthropy
 * 10) John Paulson and Henry Paulson
 * 11) Landlocked island nations
 * 12) What are Energy Trusts?
 * 13) newspaper Canada natural resources
 * 14) Proof
 * 15) Stocks

= May 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 May 17


 * 1) What if they hadn't refused a title?
 * 2) help
 * 3) Debate wiki
 * 4) York v. Lancaster
 * 5) Classical and Anti hero traits
 * 6) Tolstoy and Shakespeare

= May 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 May 18


 * 1) What happened to the buildings?
 * 2) Credit and supply elasticity
 * 3) Integration of foreigners
 * 4) Is it true that masturbation was illegal in the Nazi Germany??
 * 5) Getting fires lit
 * 6) British medals
 * 7) Why am I standing here instead of...there?
 * 8) Legal math
 * 9) Little girl married with an old man
 * 10) Philosophy of Censorship
 * 11) HIDDEN HISTORY: Where is there evidence of black Americans in the Philippines, Guam and/or Wake Island between 1940-1945?
 * 12) UK Pub laws
 * 13) Operation Marylin

= May 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 May 19


 * 1) Female history photographer
 * 2) Sunken ship in the Thames
 * 3) Muftis
 * 4) Drugs in the Middle ages.
 * 5) Indian Muslims
 * 6) Arab world under Iran
 * 7) The Bodhisattva
 * 8) Current riots in South Africa
 * 9) MPs
 * 10) speak truth to power

= May 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 May 20


 * 1) Dog Training Equipment
 * 2) John Doe
 * 3) Is the USA a "State Sponsor of Terrorism"?
 * 4) Origin of this quote
 * 5) Self-identification
 * 6) International Wire Transfert exchange rate
 * 7) Yukio Mishima's grandfather

= May 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 May 21


 * 1) What is cultural assimilation?
 * 2) Patterms, motifs and xxx
 * 3) President Sfeir ?
 * 4) Quote about rhythm in the arts other than music...
 * 5) Maitlands and the crown
 * 6) France and Hanoverian succession
 * 7) European Left Pro-Iran ?
 * 8) Smoking in Public vs. Kissing in Public
 * 9) Work as a librarian
 * 10) Jesuit Power in Washington
 * 11) Gibbon on Apollonius of Tyana
 * 12) Loaning your campaign a few million
 * 13) tax avoidance
 * 14) World Heritage site?
 * 15) Distribution Restriction
 * 16) Ravel had three arms?
 * 17) Russian religion before Christianity?

= May 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 May 22


 * 1) OPEC/economics question
 * 2) youtube etc
 * 3) In the UAE you would be executed if you publicly say "I'm gay"?
 * 4) Murder?
 * 5) i Want an 3 page article on topic 'Birds-Feathered Friends,
 * 6) Nineteenth Century China
 * 7) How many generals in German Army in 1939
 * 8) Secular schools
 * 9) What is the largest number for a monarch/Pope in history?
 * 10) David Ricardo
 * 11) North Yemen
 * 12) Check on copyright status of a song?
 * 13) Calle Ocho artwork

= May 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 May 23


 * 1) Who is KANZO?
 * 2) The three jewels
 * 3) Arab league
 * 4) U.S. and Michigan child custody laws
 * 5) fostering
 * 6) Identity documents in the United States
 * 7) Trying to find a Greek sculpture
 * 8) Category for "Monotony"
 * 9) What poem am I thinking of?

= May 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 May 24


 * 1) knowledge of candidates
 * 2) Pinching and Dreams
 * 3) Who are these chicks?
 * 4) Identify font?
 * 5) art style
 * 6) Rumour painted full of tongues
 * 7) Plato and Buddhism
 * 8) author

= May 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 May 25


 * 1) Maronite Christians
 * 2) Date pronunciation
 * 3) Shigechiyo
 * 4) W
 * 5) If Barr were to carry the state of Georgia..
 * 6) AFTER AMERICAN CIVIL WAR
 * 7) playing musical instruments without looking
 * 8) knowing the law
 * 9) Fed backed real estate scam?
 * 10) Establishment of a British nationality
 * 11) Escape to Palestine
 * 12) Watergate's meaning
 * 13) let fools contend

= May 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 May 26


 * 1) Model and methodology
 * 2) Tenth century Byzantine policy to the caliphate
 * 3) SARS morbidity rates
 * 4) Organised crime

= May 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 May 27


 * 1) "Back up our battleskies!"
 * 2) Paradox?
 * 3) Foreign policy of Libya
 * 4) Allusion too obscure?
 * 5) Australia
 * 6) The Aswan High Dam
 * 7) Longest post-presidential career?
 * 8) Fundamentalist Mormon Women
 * 9) What are these architectural grids?
 * 10) Origins of credit card size?
 * 11) Latin American nationalism

= May 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 May 28


 * 1) Paul Nicklen Art
 * 2) dominating force
 * 3) US Air Force Distinguished Service Medal
 * 4) DHL company in Malaysia
 * 5) My religion is between my god and me
 * 6) inherit the throne
 * 7) Romani/Gipsy brass band music
 * 8) Are there social movements using wikis? And how?
 * 9) What is the name for the study of the history of printing / writing / the book?
 * 10) What is the Marxist Scientific Method?
 * 11) Historical Religious Flag
 * 12) Meaning of the name Pen Argyl, and the people who founded the town.

= May 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 May 29


 * 1) Name for belief about acquiring attributes
 * 2) Voodoo?
 * 3) Tin Woodman
 * 4) Who is this writer?
 * 5) Relation
 * 6) Question!
 * 7) Simple Question .... Long answer
 * 8) Gold State Coach
 * 9) Pear and Fig dish
 * 10) Secret codes in france WWII
 * 11) Governments & bank accounts

= May 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 May 30


 * 1) what are these buildings
 * 2) The River Nile
 * 3) Walibri's strange custom
 * 4) Is there a website with the names of clothes?
 * 5) Eastern Europe and Cluster Bombs
 * 6) Australian Experience
 * 7) Christian beliefs about life after death
 * 8) Child-in-Common
 * 9) early 20th-century Scandinavian criminal
 * 10) cremated remains found in a box

= May 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 May 31


 * 1) Hats
 * 2) 1969 White Paper
 * 3) Does Japan deport illegal immigrants?
 * 4) DNC delegate hearing