Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/May 2010

= May 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 May 1


 * 1) Is it possible that North Korea torpedoed Deepwater Horizon?
 * 2) Holy Roman Empire
 * 3) Lame duck PM?
 * 4) Source of quotation: "Dance like no one's watching"
 * 5) Finite afterlife
 * 6) Cult of Padre Pio
 * 7) Opposition to proportional representation
 * 8) BNP but not Greens on TV in UK
 * 9) Overseeing a small amount of house renovation
 * 10) November 22, 1963
 * 11) Why in the past decades has there been violence against missionaries working in Turkey?
 * 12) Are court-ordered psychological evaluations privileged?
 * 13) Modern missionary practices and criticisms
 * 14) Greek austerity protests
 * 15) hindues

= May 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 May 2


 * 1) negative eugenic practices in the united states
 * 2) mourinho's unbeaten home record
 * 3) The EU and Greece
 * 4) Supreme Court case on copyright
 * 5) First israeli Ambassador to the UK
 * 6) Women's magazines
 * 7) monarchy power
 * 8) Caliphate of Córdoba
 * 9) censorship in China
 * 10) When was the women of Korea unveiled?
 * 11) Royal women of old Korea
 * 12) One so-called legal name at a time in USA?
 * 13) Comparative chart and article
 * 14) Roman Catholic Festival - Feast of the Dead
 * 15) Young David in I Samuel
 * 16) Jehovah witnesses
 * 17) double standards

= May 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 May 3


 * 1) Handing out titles of the Peerage of England  - how was land involved?
 * 2) Wife of George VII of Imereti
 * 3) More people recognized Ronald McDonald than George Washington
 * 4) An Ashokan Farewell
 * 5) Estate agents aggregation websites for finding property
 * 6) Copyright of FTSE index figures
 * 7) African American
 * 8) Heuristics for doing difficult and complicated things?
 * 9) a term for ivory or bone jewelry
 * 10) Over time how has ......
 * 11) Kant and kairos

= May 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 May 4


 * 1) Simeon Sakskoburggotski
 * 2) Pope's apartment
 * 3) When did the medieval day begin?
 * 4) Talent<->Denarius exchange rate
 * 5) flea in flea market --- what does it mean?
 * 6) Times Square bomber + Freedom of Information
 * 7) Safe deposit boxes after death
 * 8) dried up river beds

= May 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 May 5


 * 1) Law of Consanguinity in the Royal Families of Medieval Europe
 * 2) Changes in human morphology
 * 3) What would happen if Greece defaulted on their debt payments?
 * 4) Codification of interpolations in Bhagvad-Gita
 * 5) B type blood and its arrival in Europe
 * 6) Identifying a mislabelled sound file on Wikipedia, probably by Handel
 * 7) Evil
 * 8) Post military-model
 * 9) HIV/AIDS

= May 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 May 6


 * 1) Probable cause
 * 2) Judge knowingly permitting perjury?
 * 3) UK election polling times
 * 4) Too Big to Fail
 * 5) Why was jesus executed?
 * 6) Voting
 * 7) Government-run drug research
 * 8) The Bluebelle
 * 9) France Gini question

= May 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 May 7


 * 1) April Fool's Day
 * 2) Race
 * 3) ways to represent ones art
 * 4) Polish-Soviet War  : is the soldier on the left a woman ?
 * 5) UK election results: "others"?
 * 6) Conducting business meetings on wikis
 * 7) The Wives of Henry VIII
 * 8) Elected
 * 9) Anonymous reviews in The New York Times
 * 10) Social proximity — jargon terms for types of propinquity? (Sociology/Social Philosophy)
 * 11) Robert Simon Telfer Scott DSM and HMS Havelock Norway 1940
 * 12) Anne Boleyn
 * 13) any sex symbols who worked as a pair?
 * 14) If the U.S. Government stopped printing paper money tomorrow, what would happen?

= May 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 May 8


 * 1) English Democrats in Wales
 * 2) Short Story Collection
 * 3) Classical buildings with asymmetric pediment
 * 4) First French national anthem
 * 5) The Destruction of Bruchsal in 1945
 * 6) The idea of Mankind waging war against God
 * 7) Karaite attitude towards adoption
 * 8) Size of the Forbidden City
 * 9) Helping poor students
 * 10) Was Tiberius a vegetarian?

= May 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 May 9


 * 1) Al-Qaeda / bin Laden Manifesto
 * 2) Communist founders in London
 * 3) William Robson translation of The Three Musketeers
 * 4) Service of process
 * 5) Homelessness resources in London
 * 6) Bernard Werber - 『Paradis sur Mesure』
 * 7) Sousa marches during religious ceremonies
 * 8) "Know Thyself" by Dr John Arbuthnot
 * 9) The Twelve Caesars
 * 10) Forbidden artifacts
 * 11) John Wilkes Booth's fiancée
 * 12) Notable Virginia Politicians
 * 13) Does abject poverty exist in Western Europe and/or the USA?
 * 14) Notable Virginia Attractions
 * 15) Searching for a short story title and author
 * 16) For Whom the Bell Tolls

= May 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 May 10


 * 1) dedicatee's last name
 * 2) Identifying flags - The Hippodrome Theater, 1905
 * 3) Great-great-great grandparents of Charles II of Spain
 * 4) UK Election
 * 5) Soviet dissidents - quoting and denouncing
 * 6) UK election results
 * 7) Parallels of the Prime Ministerial situation
 * 8) how is it possible to GET a patent (directly or indirectly) without being associated with it in any way?
 * 9) Ways to go as allegory
 * 10) "The Judas Tree"
 * 11) Using an Alias for your Surname?
 * 12) Legal status of part of Kashmir

= May 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 May 11


 * 1) late 1950's embossed images on paper
 * 2) Electoral reform in UK
 * 3) tourism statistics
 * 4) Genocide
 * 5) Kechemeche
 * 6) Roman empire vs Chinese three kingdoms
 * 7) Portuguese economy
 * 8) U.S. Constitution law
 * 9) Jewish Heaven
 * 10) Question on Henry VIII
 * 11) Air ambulance costs
 * 12) Hitler
 * 13) Betting to lose

= May 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 May 12


 * 1) Maastricht Pact
 * 2) Greek word for doorstep poem
 * 3) Question about the concept of the "soul"
 * 4) question about "Ford T model" being an essential item in US citizen life
 * 5) Drusus Julius Caesar, son of Tiberius
 * 6) does every voice type sing the same?
 * 7) monarchy form of government
 * 8) Cyril of Alexandria image
 * 9) Capital gains tax, UK
 * 10) Bylaws
 * 11) Correct Usage of a title
 * 12) safety mirrors
 * 13) Musica notturna delle strade di Madrid, movements
 * 14) Choice of musical genre

= May 13 = Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 May 13


 * 1) real or fake newspaper?
 * 2) Shia rituals
 * 3) buildings
 * 4) Daguerreotype Union Cases
 * 5) UK constituencies
 * 6) is there any more leveraged "long selling" (betting stock will rise) than options?

= May 14 = Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 May 14


 * 1) Sport Spectation
 * 2) Short story, poem, picture, etc. about teamwork
 * 3) English and British Duchesses of Normandy in the Channel Islands
 * 4) United States geography
 * 5) British India - Army and Navy chiefs
 * 6) Asha Rose Migiro
 * 7) Cases of Judgment notwithstanding verdict
 * 8) SDLP & British Labour
 * 9) Why did European colonists want to go to India so badly?

= May 15 = Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 May 15


 * 1) Henry Corbin essay
 * 2) "Out"
 * 3) Government/executive boycott election?
 * 4) Regnal number of future Spanish monarchs
 * 5) Islamic or Sufi quote
 * 6) Sugarloaf Mountain, New Brunswick memorial crosses
 * 7) Arthur Kemp and his idea of the "indigenous peoples" of the British Isles

= May 16 = Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 May 16


 * 1) sunglass removal and the police
 * 2) Bengali surnames
 * 3) US spending a lot on military aid
 * 4) Robin Hood: infernal blood in the Angevins
 * 5) Novel in Heaven
 * 6) UK coalition government
 * 7) Scandinavian Military Defense

= May 17 = Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 May 17


 * 1) Released Confederate Prisoners in the US Civil War
 * 2) Which date was which ?
 * 3) Extremely pro-choice philosopher
 * 4) Responsibilities of an LDS prophet
 * 5) national emblem of United kingdom
 * 6) Marcel Duchamp
 * 7) School Years For UK & America
 * 8) Economics qualifications of UK chancellors
 * 9) Kappa Sigma motto
 * 10) Who was Leibowitz in A Canticle for Leibowitz?
 * 11) Was Agatha Christie Anglican or Catholic?
 * 12) Oldest U.S. National Parks

= May 18 = Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 May 18


 * 1) Mystery Location
 * 2) What is the opposite of a pyrrhic victory?
 * 3) Old Road Maps of the US
 * 4) God
 * 5) majority government Canada
 * 6) Romeo and Juliet Project
 * 7) Kurt Vonnegut
 * 8) Chronic diseases in medieval times and such
 * 9) Henry VIII of England's wife
 * 10) God and free will

= May 19 = Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 May 19


 * 1) Legal freedom in the US, UK
 * 2) Sales tax on auto purchases?
 * 3) Was a crime comitted here?
 * 4) Citizenship
 * 5) 100% inheritance tax, UK
 * 6) literature:critical essays about Ernest Hemingway's short stories
 * 7) Modern Morality
 * 8) is there anyone who spends $100,000,000 a year on their lifestyle?
 * 9) Questions waiting to be answered.
 * 10) how much would it cost to buy all the music on iTunes?
 * 11) North Korea and Iran

= May 20 = Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 May 20


 * 1) Public school class size reduction advocacy organizations
 * 2) Shakespeare scripts
 * 3) Correct way to ask permission from Author for making use of instrument
 * 4) Israel losing a war question
 * 5) What is the bare minimum to give a 2010 Census worker?
 * 6) Shakespearean actors
 * 7) Not legal advice, just curiosity
 * 8) Ancient music
 * 9) lonely hearts club
 * 10) Learning artificial languages
 * 11) Double Cross double agents
 * 12) St. Louis vs. Saint Louis
 * 13) when was the pop-up box (of tissues) invented?
 * 14) Jasmine Macdonnell
 * 15) Eric Illsley
 * 16) Citable Charlottetown Accord
 * 17) Arahabaki
 * 18) Attorney in the United States.
 * 19) Which British Prime Ministers belonged to Dissenting Non-Conformist Churches?
 * 20) Bubba

= May 21 = Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 May 21


 * 1) Painting of a woman with butterflies on her eyes and mouth
 * 2) Upper class
 * 3) Did the Western Allies ever consider sending ground troops to fight on the Eastern Front during WW2
 * 4) 13th century feminist writer?

= May 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 May 22


 * 1) net debt vs. accumulated deficit
 * 2) Vietnam War Question
 * 3) Italianate or Stick-Eastlake?
 * 4) Heavy breathing
 * 5) Israel and Mossad
 * 6) The typical Wikipedian
 * 7) Germany, post 1945
 * 8) Euro vs. US dollar and UK sterling
 * 9) Unknown oil painting artist
 * 10) Getting money for US Healthcare

= May 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 May 23


 * 1) Term for calendar-related structure?
 * 2) Historical Elected positions in Imperial China
 * 3) Six degrees of separation
 * 4) China pegs the dollar. Can America peg the yuan? What would happen?
 * 5) are there any aspie politicians?
 * 6) Looking for a Russian poem
 * 7) architects
 * 8) what do you call political views
 * 9) Name this unhappy fellow...
 * 10) My theory on the meaning of life
 * 11) Millionaires in the UK cabinet
 * 12) Adulterous princess imprisoned
 * 13) Identifying Isaac Asimov short story
 * 14) Church attire

= May 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 May 24


 * 1) Anthony Hayward BP CEO
 * 2) Agnate of the Stewart line
 * 3) Schools of law
 * 4) necklace for men
 * 5) Offshore accounts
 * 6) Rain musical contraption
 * 7) Wet nurse
 * 8) Molly Malone
 * 9) First Year Kickout Rate
 * 10) KECHEMECHE
 * 11) Business communication with limited English
 * 12) Dominant woman
 * 13) Are Houyhnhnms bigender?

= May 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 May 25


 * 1) Trying to track down a Daniel Patrick Moynihan quote
 * 2) Food policy
 * 3) "Stereo Love" video location
 * 4) Passport fraud
 * 5) American Gold Eagle coins
 * 6) Medieval illustrations
 * 7) in the united states, can you write a newspaper article calling for the eradication of black people (a la klu klux klan)
 * 8) Recessions and inflation
 * 9) Biblical prostitutes

= May 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 May 26


 * 1) Victorian court case about Calvinist Priest not seated in Anglican Church?
 * 2) honorary doctorate
 * 3) What is Victorian Government?
 * 4) Why aren't Mathematicians starving?
 * 5) how many people have nickel allergies worldwide?
 * 6) Typography in Shakespeare
 * 7) ROKS Cheonan sinking
 * 8) A problem with an article
 * 9) Hofstadter Allegorical Bundles
 * 10) no longer by boat

= May 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 May 27


 * 1) Jew gold
 * 2) 3D movie impact?
 * 3) The Best Party (Iceland) joke party?
 * 4) Coroners Court of Victoria and changes to law
 * 5) Definition of "episcopal list"
 * 6) Impregnable fortresses
 * 7) Jaikie Galt real-life antecedent in John Buchan book
 * 8) St. Petersburg
 * 9) Yami no Waru
 * 10) A city in Iraq
 * 11) Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk
 * 12) World War III
 * 13) shared revenue

= May 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 May 28


 * 1) Nuclear Bombs
 * 2) home or self schooling
 * 3) When was my house built?
 * 4) Difference between debt and deficit
 * 5) Internet and television advertisement
 * 6) Luxembourg v. UK
 * 7) Capitalization in legal documents
 * 8) Capitalisation in songs
 * 9) Honorary degrees

= May 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 May 29


 * 1) Restriction imposed on Jewish population of Nazi Germany
 * 2) Number of Italian governments?
 * 3) "Legitimate" descendants Peter I of Portugal
 * 4) Vietnam War responsibility
 * 5) Ambitious oldies
 * 6) Abbreviations in a Catholic litany
 * 7) Forbidden Fruit
 * 8) recognition of Palestine

= May 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 May 30


 * 1) Shakespeare's Sonnets
 * 2) Penal Code by/for Religion
 * 3) Historical Herbs And Spices
 * 4) constitutional convention
 * 5) why do tennis players wear such short skirts?
 * 6) A trademark/logo with four hearts
 * 7) Unemployment rate by Cities in Russia
 * 8) Politicians writing novels
 * 9) Pay-Per -View
 * 10) British noble the father of Swedish 19th-century actress
 * 11) Eurovision Song Contest

= May 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 May 31


 * 1) icing but not the cake (metaphor for gaining qualifications without having knowledge)
 * 2) Iran
 * 3) African folktales
 * 4) Is it legal to circumvent privacy settings on facebook?
 * 5) Translating an author's original text into another language, without the author's permission
 * 6) Details of the burning of the Jaffna library
 * 7) architecture of Domitian
 * 8) How do I attach my curtains to my curtain rings?
 * 9) Name of prominent anti-Semitic Jewish conspiracy theorist