Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/May 2009

= May 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 May 1


 * 1) Merovingian bloodlines
 * 2) British Army - Essex Regiment in 1944
 * 3) G SUMIT
 * 4) Ancient ruins- location and/or name?
 * 5) ancient indian quilt image search
 * 6) famous literary writers of the 16th century and before
 * 7) why don't jews eat pork?
 * 8) french women -- urban legend?
 * 9) The Mongols
 * 10) Children's Laureate
 * 11) Critques of Status in Anthropology

= May 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 May 2


 * 1) re: Robert Williams (psychologist)
 * 2) IIPA (Institute of Incorporated Public Accountants) Ireland www.iipa.ie
 * 3) Checking credentials
 * 4) does any country accept israeli citizens as their own?
 * 5) East European equivalent of "Frank"
 * 6) Legality of preventing sports fans of rival team to attend games

= May 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 May 3


 * 1) Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 May 3
 * 2) How to get displayed in an Art Gallery
 * 3) Bank interest rate
 * 4) finding out the year of publication
 * 5) Which Nowe Miasto?
 * 6) What is a criminal?
 * 7) california trespassing
 * 8) Emperor of the Franks
 * 9) squeemish ancient history question
 * 10) Best way to make money
 * 11) What would happen if New York was attacked with a nuclear weapon?
 * 12) Japan's religous demographic
 * 13) have any antisemites converted to judaism?
 * 14) Bootmakers to Kings

= May 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 May 4


 * 1) University Suicide
 * 2) Infinite Perception
 * 3) Mainstream bibles around the world
 * 4) Proto-Helladic period
 * 5) world heritage sites
 * 6) Projects marred by human rights allegations?
 * 7) Fact checking, educational system
 * 8) when was oral sex invented?
 * 9) Follow up based on findings from Tango's response above

= May 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 May 5


 * 1) Voletta Wallace
 * 2) Long Hair Merovingians
 * 3) NYSE and NASDAQ listed stocks
 * 4) Single superpower, single party
 * 5) When welfare in the US runs out
 * 6) Women and the internet
 * 7) Have I broken the law?
 * 8) Bridge types
 * 9) Stafford Hospital scandal, UK
 * 10) Strange fertility pattern of Anna of Bohemia and Hungary
 * 11) US foodstamps
 * 12) John Hersey's Books
 * 13) Great x ? uncle
 * 14) Renaissance handwriting

= May 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 May 6


 * 1) Monetary Reform Act
 * 2) UK hereditary peers
 * 3) Is Apportionment of cost necessary for control?
 * 4) Paintings in the White House
 * 5) Masters thesis or master's thesis?
 * 6) Michael Savage and Britain
 * 7) Heritage Month
 * 8) English libel law
 * 9) A bank with triple purposes

= May 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 May 7


 * 1) Elected official from a disenfranchised group
 * 2) Did the USSR ever use the term "New Soviet man"?
 * 3) Primary sources about the holocaust
 * 4) Gitmo detainees released
 * 5) Native Americans?
 * 6) Reasons For Opposing Slavery In The North?
 * 7) Manifest Destiny?
 * 8) What's this novel?
 * 9) Two Unknown Books
 * 10) "Ten Pound Court"
 * 11) cousin marrying
 * 12) GSP and past mayors
 * 13) English
 * 14) weighing and drying process

= May 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 May 8


 * 1) Subsidies instead of tariffs
 * 2) More on gender of internet use
 * 3) Islamic inheritance jurisprudence and will
 * 4) Cutting the hair during sickness
 * 5) Is Urdu a Semitic language?

= May 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 May 9


 * 1) French King/Duke of Aquitaine
 * 2) Nothing to do with the old or new Coke
 * 3) Muslim achievements
 * 4) Did the recent Euromillions lottery have a positive expectation?
 * 5) Websites that do stock market predictions using Collective Intelligence
 * 6) The symbolic significance of the 5th. of May in Chaucerian times
 * 7) The hazard rates for popular activities
 * 8) French passes
 * 9) Paintings in the White House 2
 * 10) What different ways can money be created in finance?
 * 11) Price of a cow?
 * 12) Bassoon Music
 * 13) Fed funds
 * 14) Trinity vs Hindu polytheism

= May 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 May 10


 * 1) Yemen's water system
 * 2) Which flag is this ?
 * 3) Arab Mulatto
 * 4) Footballs before the air pump
 * 5) Roman Catholic Church and IVF
 * 6) HIV and the U.S. Military
 * 7) Question about perception biases in art
 * 8) New and/or growing Markets
 * 9) Do animals have nationality?
 * 10) New Jersey Airports
 * 11) Music genre port city

= May 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 May 11


 * 1) Joe Wicks (not the fictional character)
 * 2) Do you know of any ancient Cossa's
 * 3) Old SCOTUS opinions
 * 4) Mystery bread deliveries
 * 5) The Mall, London
 * 6) driving distance time from Brussels to Paris
 * 7) Institutions and people in developed Asian countries
 * 8) Pakistan and counterinsurgency
 * 9) Tracking down a Heinlein novel from one snippet of information
 * 10) FAMOUS GREEN WOODCUT-STYLE ARTIST
 * 11) Racism?
 * 12) In the humanities, what are the applications and benefits of a tree structure?
 * 13) Potok's Asher Lev sees Picasso Crucifixion work
 * 14) did the Pope give any reasons for Palestinians having a state?

= May 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 May 12


 * 1) Modern architecture
 * 2) More 1904 SCOTUS
 * 3) Sinhalese-speaking Muslims
 * 4) Penehupifo Pohamba
 * 5) Communism
 * 6) Churchill and national anthem
 * 7) Group of people mutally agreeing to will wealth to each other - hypothetical question
 * 8) Time line
 * 9) Turn of the century Italian painter
 * 10) Pope Pious XII
 * 11) Psychology "taking offense"
 * 12) Marriage Laws for Muslims
 * 13) WWII Slovenia
 * 14) Commoning and Community Building

= May 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 May 13


 * 1) Kings of Aquitaine
 * 2) Abdoulaye Wade's wife
 * 3) Denis Sassou Nguesso's wife
 * 4) Conservative/Green alliance?
 * 5) Autocracy and despotism - difference?
 * 6) Is there a name for this?
 * 7) Civil rights in Japan and South Korea
 * 8) Derek Bok Quote
 * 9) Words in the World
 * 10) Looking for building pictures

= May 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 May 14


 * 1) Zoological Society of London - Presidents and Secretaries
 * 2) Artefacts made by Jesus
 * 3) biblical question
 * 4) christian gods?
 * 5) gods mother?
 * 6) moderation
 * 7) can Americans do "illegal drugs" in places where they're legal?
 * 8) Aeroplanes and jurisdiction
 * 9) Is this wrong?
 * 10) Bank of England
 * 11) Non-resident Indians in Caribbean statistics
 * 12) Contradicting laws
 * 13) What article am I thinking of?
 * 14) Singularity
 * 15) English "legalese" meaning of assign (moved from languages)

= May 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 May 15


 * 1) Which ethnic group is the wealthiest in India?
 * 2) Which Christian denominations believe that evolution is compatible with their beliefs?
 * 3) WWI censorship (UK)
 * 4) Heir to the title of Duke of Suárez?
 * 5) Regent of Monaco at the French court
 * 6) Identification in Britain
 * 7) Aung San Suu Kyi popularity
 * 8) Western hemisphere politics
 * 9) Annual review of operations / management report
 * 10) World War Two Weapons

= May 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 May 16


 * 1) articles on Ireland economics
 * 2) Accidental leaks
 * 3) Coats of arms
 * 4) Utah Lieutenant Governor
 * 5) Administrators of Zilla Parishad
 * 6) THE BOOK OF THE NEW SUN MOVIE
 * 7) Who is this woman?
 * 8) Terminator franchise

= May 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 May 17


 * 1) updates on shooting suspect
 * 2) "unit pricing" in retail markets, esp. Grocery stores
 * 3) Draw duel
 * 4) Atheism, Evolution, Human Nature, and Capitalism
 * 5) Old Man River
 * 6) 21st century monarchism
 * 7) How to contact an author
 * 8) Vatican pornography
 * 9) cemetary
 * 10) Researching my MP, in the UK

= May 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 May 18


 * 1) Minsk Historically
 * 2) "It is illegal to rob police cars"
 * 3) name of a modern country
 * 4) Name that tune
 * 5) Armed civilian v. cop
 * 6) Church talk...
 * 7) Novel about woman who thinks cary grant is god

= May 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 May 19


 * 1) latest baggage updates
 * 2) Dangerous Animals in South Korea
 * 3) Modular part-time university courses in the UK
 * 4) what percent of Europe's jews were killed in the Holocaust?
 * 5) Harvard Referencing query
 * 6) Why don't Baptists celebrate Ascension Day?
 * 7) deflation & inflation
 * 8) Who's the artist? What's the name of the painting?
 * 9) Parimutuel betting

= May 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 May 20


 * 1) Translation
 * 2) Request for a mathematical term name
 * 3) Orthodox Bibles
 * 4) Atheism, Evolution, Human Nature, and Capitalism (cont.)
 * 5) Politicians and nudity
 * 6) Monastery on top of rock pillars in Asia?
 * 7) Can someone with a common surname be of Jewish descent?
 * 8) Economical crisis = business school crisis?
 * 9) Pursuit of low inflation one of the causes of the economic crisis?
 * 10) history recomendations for non native speaker
 * 11) The man with the rifle shoots...
 * 12) mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroup of Stone Age peoples?
 * 13) Behavioral modernity and Great Leap Forward?

= May 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 May 21


 * 1) Robert Mugabe's siblings
 * 2) Symptoms?
 * 3) Difference between Compatibilism and Pessimistic Incompatibilism
 * 4) Identity of murderers/criminals
 * 5) Buddism in theWest: most common sect
 * 6) Modernisation/Westernisation and political spectrum
 * 7) Europhile Socialists?
 * 8) Relationship between "Mosaic" (tiles) and Moses (Biblical Prophet)?
 * 9) Landscape
 * 10) Straight ticket voting states
 * 11) Largest Empire Ever
 * 12) Listing the "virtual/emotional parent" in a wedding program

= May 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 May 22


 * 1) paul Biya's first wife
 * 2) Arduin of Irvea's wife
 * 3) Utilitarianism and Human Nature
 * 4) Disclosure of expenses of British Members of Parliament
 * 5) European Hockey Skate Manufacturers
 * 6) Bills Signed Into Law By U.S. Presidents
 * 7) Bharatiya Janata Party Buddhism Zoroastrianism Jainism
 * 8) Wikipedia's use of the GFDL
 * 9) does anything you whip pass the sound barrier?
 * 10) List of Big Brother / Police State developments in the United Kingdom
 * 11) What is this mask called?

= May 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 May 23


 * 1) Inconsistency in the European title of (hereditary) "Prince"
 * 2) Lalla Salma of Morocco
 * 3) Language of Haakon VII of Norway
 * 4) Roman mosaics pattern
 * 5) Picture containing 3-D objects
 * 6) Art

= May 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 May 24


 * 1) Startup banks get pledges
 * 2) canteens and cafeterias
 * 3) Race question?
 * 4) Baron and Count
 * 5) Australia
 * 6) rejecting the Nicene Creed
 * 7) Like political compass - but for EU parties

= May 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 May 25


 * 1) Jeremy Bentham and Human Nature
 * 2) Running museum joke in letters to The Guardian
 * 3) art history
 * 4) Byzantine crown jewels
 * 5) Coronation of Byzantine Emperors and Empresses
 * 6) Kongeluns (?) in Denmark
 * 7) Biblical prohibition of fornication
 * 8) Doubling Polonius and Fortinbras
 * 9) Lawyer trade mag
 * 10) Finding county-level US census data for 1960, 1970, 1980 and 1990

= May 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 May 26


 * 1) Mini Monkey in Amber
 * 2) Music Website
 * 3) What does an introductory logic class actually involve?
 * 4) Finnish Sniper - WW2
 * 5) Conflicting rights
 * 6) Tiananmen Square protests of 1989/The Internationale
 * 7) post-WWII Disarmourment Cartoon
 * 8) gold coins again
 * 9) 'Dug-out' officer
 * 10) medical condition from beauty procedure
 * 11) Book title....

= May 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 May 27


 * 1) Daniel Arap Moi's wife Lena
 * 2) Government departments non-profit?
 * 3) Wrong pilot credited with Bf 110 first flight
 * 4) Supply and demand
 * 5) Human resource functions
 * 6) Being raped in the subway
 * 7) Personal Royal Mottoes (UK)
 * 8) history
 * 9) Galloping Major scandal
 * 10) Financial Times front page for 1993 Bishopsgate bombing
 * 11) Ahmad Tejan Kabbah's second wife

= May 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 May 28


 * 1) Did WWII tanks ever resort to physically pushing enemy tanks?
 * 2) Ernest Bai Koroma's wife Sia
 * 3) Does anyone care about the big picture?
 * 4) Salma Kikwete
 * 5) Que Sarah Sarah?
 * 6) Learning to sing
 * 7) Election results in Sweden?
 * 8) Rapture
 * 9) Address of Emmy Rossum
 * 10) UK Councillors/local councils by party
 * 11) The title of a book from my childhood

= May 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 May 29


 * 1) U.S. Spelling Bee & participant race
 * 2) North Korean Infantry - Main Weapon
 * 3) Which Buddha Statue ? (done)
 * 4) Marcus Favonius date of birth
 * 5) What is the contribution of coal (percentage) to the total energy consumption in Poland?
 * 6) Cabbage
 * 7) Abatement
 * 8) Which was worse the First or Second Red Scares?
 * 9) Ancient Documents
 * 10) Jewish hymn
 * 11) Hello
 * 12) Black Death quote

= May 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 May 30


 * 1) Myrna Colley-Lee
 * 2) Earth's Other Satellite
 * 3) Any other famous latin phrases like "carpe diem"?
 * 4) Canada GM Car Clearance
 * 5) Section 3 of the 25th Amendment under VP absence
 * 6) Ruben's "History of Constantine the Great" series
 * 7) Giveaways and antitrust
 * 8) What is right and what is left?
 * 9) communion faux pas?

= May 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 May 31


 * 1) Full version of "JANA GANA MANA/INDIA'S NATIONAL ANTMEM"
 * 2) Economic slowdown causes
 * 3) "Holocaust Theology" sources