Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/May 2011

= May 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 May 1


 * 1) Wendi Deng
 * 2) Taiwan politician wearing vests?
 * 3) Prince William's medal
 * 4) Oxford Group
 * 5) Encouraging diplomats to defect
 * 6) Time travel - becoming a historical figure
 * 7) Smokey Clegg
 * 8) Painting in The Other Guys

= May 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 May 2


 * 1) List of locations of polling places in last Czech Parliamentary elections?
 * 2) Teen views on same sex marriage
 * 3) Time Urgent--  help us find a list of companies that supported Jim Crow?
 * 4) Online Korean Language courses - where, please?
 * 5) Why are christians happy that Osama Bin Laden is dead?
 * 6) Dulle Griet/Dull Gret
 * 7) Double Jeopardy
 * 8) Forts / Fortresses in Medieval Europe
 * 9) Princess Royal
 * 10) Middleton's money
 * 11) Bay Area US Peace Index
 * 12) People in the situation room last night

= May 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 May 3


 * 1) What happened to Mauro David?
 * 2) Family tree: Should mother-in-laws & father-in-laws (and their family) of my cousins, uncles and aunts be added?
 * 3) Smallest winning vote in Canadian election
 * 4) denim brands
 * 5) Medieval fiction - English capital
 * 6) Geography question
 * 7) Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech
 * 8) Bucklin voting/Borda count in Oklahoma
 * 9) Legal Rule of Cool?
 * 10) Ambition

= May 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 May 4


 * 1) Princess Kate?
 * 2) Danish-Norwegian elections
 * 3) Girls with guns
 * 4) Canadian Conservative Party
 * 5) non-pornographic cover of a pornographic video
 * 6) Obama photo
 * 7) Not reinforcing bad behavior
 * 8) Background of homophobic violence - studies?
 * 9) History Of Harold E Monser
 * 10) 4th Avenue?

= May 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 May 5


 * 1) Excuse me sir!
 * 2) Democratic party propaganda PR strategy of the 60s or 70s
 * 3) Hitler
 * 4) Is the killing of Osama Bin Laden legal?
 * 5) Safia Farkash
 * 6) Did the citizens destroy any tanks during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989?
 * 7) Almost a saint, but stumbled on the last hurdle?
 * 8) Searching for a hymn
 * 9) Fort Knox

= May 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 May 6


 * 1) Need book title
 * 2) Men marriying rich and older women
 * 3) UK styles
 * 4) Scottish National Party policy regarding independence
 * 5) Cut-backs during a time of austerity
 * 6) Best covert/special forces?

= May 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 May 7


 * 1) U.S. troop levels in Iraq and Afghanistan in recent years
 * 2) Most children
 * 3) law: Recanting
 * 4) Baptism
 * 5) Identify the logical fallacy
 * 6) Why do American supermarkets still count out pennies?
 * 7) UK referendum results: a record?
 * 8) UK High Court Judges
 * 9) Copyright question
 * 10) Question on logical fallacies
 * 11) True or myth: Nazi dog with a label 'dog' on it.
 * 12) Sex question
 * 13) Mixed Number Proportional Representation
 * 14) National debt
 * 15) Russian jews
 * 16) Dalia Rabin-Pelossof

= May 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 May 8


 * 1) Richardis of Schwerin-Wittenburg or Richardis of Schwerin or Richardis of Lauenburg
 * 2) Counts of Schwerin
 * 3) Bentley ad - truth or hoax?
 * 4) Presidential Cocaine Use At The White House
 * 5) Was Ibrahim bin Laden one of the bin Ladens flown out of the U.S.?
 * 6) Why have a president?
 * 7) Ontario Legislative Assembly seating plan
 * 8) "Phoenix Four" report (UK)
 * 9) Why did Soviet ideology reject the steady-state theory and what was their alternative?

= May 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 May 9


 * 1) Why is Pres. Obama so disliked?
 * 2) Most marriages
 * 3) French colonial empire and others
 * 4) Rahner and Man as Transcendant Being
 * 5) Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in Canada
 * 6) Pierre Trudeau Bangladesh 1971
 * 7) Monarchs of Portugal
 * 8) Hungarian central office for book revision
 * 9) Seceding from the Union
 * 10) Does anything matter in the big picture?
 * 11) Prank calls in Germany
 * 12) Spirituality for non-religious people
 * 13) Seek Author, title(s) english children's book(s) circa 1940's
 * 14) Inauguration of presidents
 * 15) Police procedure
 * 16) An excess of apostles

= May 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 May 10


 * 1) Michelin guides in English
 * 2) Daniel Ortega
 * 3) Help with identifying an artist
 * 4) Pepper spray and the Chemical Weapons Convention
 * 5) War vs Criminal Justice and nonstate actors

= May 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 May 11


 * 1) Carlsberg Special Brew
 * 2) babies and Christian baptism
 * 3) muslim sex in india
 * 4) Pipless US
 * 5) When democracy failed
 * 6) Per-capita millionaires
 * 7) Number of policepersons in the UK
 * 8) Does the Queen ever make a decision or refuse to sign?
 * 9) Wales Split from the Kingdom of England?
 * 10) Rosh Hashanah in Israel
 * 11) The purpose of stock exchanges
 * 12) Pakistan and Afghanistan, ISI

= May 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 May 12


 * 1) Where I am From analysis
 * 2) Hansard and superinjunctions
 * 3) People's Republic of China Language Census
 * 4) What's the best online stock-trading application?
 * 5) Lithium company stocks
 * 6) Overcrowded refugee ship in WWII - the "Navamar"
 * 7) Forensic Investigation:
 * 8) Sprechen Sie Deutsch... or Hebrew?
 * 9) Stanley Spencer balloonist and parachutist
 * 10) How could their be a divorce?
 * 11) Competitive advantage for becoming a financial center
 * 12) To all certified public accountants and/or auditors out there, i've got a question for you.
 * 13) What was the name of the place?
 * 14) 1980 referendum

= May 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 May 14


 * 1) Gemstone rings
 * 2) Another Judaism question
 * 3) Illiterate Americans
 * 4) Jane Austen by G.F.Maine
 * 5) London Gazette search
 * 6) Which philosopher or scientist?
 * 7) A video series like Zimbardo's "Discovering psychology" (1990)

= May 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 May 15


 * 1) Draw France
 * 2) Canadian politics
 * 3) Life expectancy in the Soviet Union
 * 4) St George statue at the UN Headquarters
 * 5) First President
 * 6) Logical positivism
 * 7) Films filmed all over Europe like Bourne series?
 * 8) 5th fleet in Middle East since when?
 * 9) Scotland Economy and Independence
 * 10) Diplomatic missions of Canada
 * 11) Canada-Bangladesh
 * 12) American mail boxes
 * 13) understanding a religious concept
 * 14) WB elections
 * 15) Racial segegration
 * 16) Did she ever truly rule?

= May 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 May 16


 * 1) Royalty and "style"
 * 2) Bomb threats and codewords
 * 3) The invisible pink unicorn
 * 4) Conditional ordinations and conditional confirmations
 * 5) I would like some book recommendations
 * 6) Most Beautiful/Most Handsome?

= May 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 May 17


 * 1) Why do Rastafarians smoke marijuana?
 * 2) Can anyone name any mermaid fiction books for adults?
 * 3) Person synonymous with brevity?
 * 4) U.K. Elections
 * 5) Length of time of feelings of jealousy
 * 6) Should Empress Jingū be included in :Template:Monarchs of Japan?
 * 7) Respect Party candidates
 * 8) Whole history of humankind in one narrative.
 * 9) Looking for a specific image depicting the Enlightenment
 * 10) Women banned from performing

= May 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 May 18


 * 1) Documentary about textile industry in South East Asia
 * 2) the most "Transgendered" (by population) place in Usa  Canada? and Europe?
 * 3) Money as a means of communication
 * 4) Stories from Nazi Germany
 * 5) Jamaat Shibir (Bangladesh)
 * 6) Edmund Burke on James Mackintosh
 * 7) Wesley Snipes & The Sovereign Citizen Movement
 * 8) UK Law:The Wildlife and Countryside act 1981 with respect to Natrix natrix
 * 9) 1099 tax form
 * 10) lead bullets illegal in US
 * 11) How does money work, exactly?

= May 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 May 19


 * 1) Will they ever lower the drinking age in Las Vegas  and the rest of the united states from 21 to 19 or 18?
 * 2) Finance: Fictional bank account scenario
 * 3) The history of Vaageshwari Maatha temple in Rajasthan
 * 4) Name the book
 * 5) Is it illegal for the police to carry a backup gun ?
 * 6) Alcohol in candy
 * 7) Major Dundee questions
 * 8) Why people with no needs would network with people with needs
 * 9) Constitutional Rights and religious Freedom
 * 10) Extraterritoriality
 * 11) Chinese economics, American debt

= May 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 May 20


 * 1) Slovenia influence on U.S.?
 * 2) online books
 * 3) The Wall Street Journal
 * 4) Loans to unsuccessful factions
 * 5) Extradite between US states
 * 6) "Penny Schools" in the United Kingdom
 * 7) Thirty pieces of silver
 * 8) What time will I be raptured?
 * 9) Old street in Belfast
 * 10) Psychology questions
 * 11) Historical French Flags?
 * 12) graduate attitudes towards education and honesty
 * 13) 12/21 or 12/23?
 * 14) @ What time should I be raptured
 * 15) Princess Nora Univ. faculty and grad student numbers

= May 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 May 21


 * 1) Name of bias
 * 2) Is 3% the usual number of people?
 * 3) Airline industry
 * 4) Schwartzenneger bodybuilding tips
 * 5) Data about the inflation of the Portuguese escudo
 * 6) Boeing
 * 7) updates on two international societies
 * 8) I have a wikibook submission
 * 9) University in Brega
 * 10) German volunteers in the Spanish Civil War
 * 11) citizenship of my hypothetical (but likely) child
 * 12) Appropriate gift
 * 13) Billionaires break laws of economics?

= May 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 May 22


 * 1) Literature related references
 * 2) sci-fi science - human / animal hybrid
 * 3) UK courts conniving with the immoral?
 * 4) Political ideology and corporate donation
 * 5) Lancers /Light Cavalry /Hussars/Mounted Rifles / Horse Artillery?

= May 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 May 23


 * 1) What if the internet broke tomorrow?
 * 2) Thought Experiment
 * 3) Welsh novels
 * 4) Fantasy books
 * 5) Monbushu/MEXT policy on Japanese names
 * 6) John Maynard Keynes and pedophilia
 * 7) Who cares about Iowa?
 * 8) Air France plane on US soil
 * 9) Nemesis
 * 10) Political affiliation of superheores
 * 11) Millard Fillmore's religious beliefs
 * 12) US languages
 * 13) Judges and Wikipedia
 * 14) word counting
 * 15) Constitution of San Marino
 * 16) New invention, new money?

= May 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 May 24


 * 1) Latin
 * 2) Use of civilians on trains during the Anglo-Boer War
 * 3) Intellectuals without formal education
 * 4) Reviewing the Troops
 * 5) Fashionably late
 * 6) Cannes Film Festival
 * 7) London Boulevard
 * 8) Monthly billing

= May 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 May 25


 * 1) What is the most northern community in Sierra_leone?
 * 2) Grains for breakfast
 * 3) Pro-Communist bias of Wikipedia
 * 4) Music identification
 * 5) Poor man's copyright and email
 * 6) About how much money total in 2011 dollars to go to the moon the first time
 * 7) "Hap" poem
 * 8) lottery and taxes in the US
 * 9) Indian caste system

= May 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 May 26


 * 1) Third parties in the US
 * 2) Correct etiquette
 * 3) Rupert Murdoch
 * 4) Business Cycle Graphs
 * 5) Did George Washington whip his slaves?
 * 6) complete list of "common" urban services and memberships
 * 7) Printing of the one dollar (USA) bill.
 * 8) Looking for a book
 * 9) Should simple living / minimalistic living seen as liberal or conservative?
 * 10) Do you know why Surigao del Sur is one of the poorest province in the Philippines?
 * 11) Ralph Waldo Emerson
 * 12) Ivy League Colleges

= May 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 May 27


 * 1) Detailed unspecified music
 * 2) Copyright
 * 3) Murder in space
 * 4) what financial transaction would on any level (even farcically) seem to imply a negative valuation (market capitalization) of a company?
 * 5) religion
 * 6) Nearest Relative rights
 * 7) Singers' accents
 * 8) Intellectual/scientist cum businesspeople
 * 9) Paris Hilton
 * 10) Gilliam Asperger's Disorder Scale (GADS)
 * 11) Requirement for signatures to be consistent?
 * 12) Copyright question
 * 13) Grandville artwork

= May 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 May 28


 * 1) American journalist who brought the existence of black supremacism to the general public
 * 2) Murder on a plane
 * 3) "Ministry of Helth"
 * 4) are there people with no citizenship?
 * 5) why is london on weird time?
 * 6) cost and time between London and Paris
 * 7)  TIPS and U.S. Sovereign debt
 * 8) Environmentalism
 * 9) Chinese Calligraphy Help
 * 10) Thomas Hepburn: miner, unionist, social reformer

= May 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 May 29


 * 1) Net worth of billionaires
 * 2) Prince El Darago of Italy
 * 3) Nevada
 * 4) copyrights
 * 5) Tallest building in the US
 * 6) Black Saturday Bushfires
 * 7) Name of the philosopher
 * 8) Was bush sr the last US president to have any sons?
 * 9) Castilian Spanish, revisited
 * 10) Foreigners in Japan during WWII
 * 11) is it easier to do laundry if all your clothes are dark/colored?
 * 12) norwegian book

= May 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 May 30


 * 1) Which Android apps help users make money the best?
 * 2) Think thank in the US
 * 3) Most wanted non-Muslim terrorists
 * 4) Empires
 * 5) Are there any sacred texts outside the Judeo-Christian tradition that include history books?
 * 6) Help identifying aircraft
 * 7) Tolkien: "Balin" and the Poetic Edda
 * 8) adoption in England
 * 9) World War II deaths by year

= May 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 May 31


 * 1) Business in North Korea
 * 2) Fact and opinion question
 * 3) How many brands do The Coca-Cola Company and PepsiCo operate?
 * 4) Double pricing at gasoline stations
 * 5) Consistent college rankings?
 * 6) Science is wrong, so I'm going to use science to prove it!
 * 7) Sir Thomas Gates portrait
 * 8) Borderline personality disorder
 * 9) Soviet Trade Fair in Los Angeles, 1980s?

= May 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 May 25