Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/May 2012

= May 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 May 1


 * 1) Gambier Islands
 * 2) Kings of Easter Island
 * 3) "People are much less accurate at throwing darts at pictures of JFK than at pictures of Hitler"
 * 4) Flags of Trans-Mississippi
 * 5) Online photography contest
 * 6) Why isn't Kosovo a UN member/observer?
 * 7) Taian teahouse page help
 * 8) St. Vincent de Paul Church in Davenport California

= May 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 May 2


 * 1) Exact date of death for writer Doris Gates?
 * 2) Have any countries succeeded at reducing censoring of media?
 * 3) Is it possible for an author to hide his writer's voice?
 * 4) Why didn't Richard Kuklinski get the death penalty?
 * 5) Los Angeles of Toronto
 * 6) Sega and Toronto Blur Jays font
 * 7) Somoans/Pacific Islanders
 * 8) humanities academic journal search online

= May 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 May 3


 * 1) want to know about a 1911 book
 * 2) Penn state page
 * 3) Methodological individualism
 * 4) What is the best open access English speaking university?
 * 5) George Ledwell Taylor (1788 – 1873)
 * 6) Which is larger

= May 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 May 4


 * 1) Why did the United States purchase so much territory compared to other countries?
 * 2) Garouch and Bad Pakh in Afghanistan
 * 3) Wikimania
 * 4) Jurisprudence, Barrister, Magistrate
 * 5) Abrahamic religions and religious tolerance
 * 6) Is there a relationship between lesbianism and 'uppity women'?
 * 7) In short, what caused Greece to be in the bad shape that it's in?
 * 8) Ancient history
 * 9) Looking for a sci-fi story
 * 10) Historians favor U.S. Presidents who owned slaves

= May 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 May 5


 * 1) presentness as opposed to presence
 * 2) Hesychius?
 * 3) The preserved Pharaoh in Islam
 * 4) Who ordered the construction of Tauride Palace?
 * 5) Eritrea and Ethiopia

= May 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 May 6


 * 1) Historians
 * 2) Pillars of Society
 * 3) Abe Lincoln vs. The Native Americans
 * 4) CBS ABC FOX CNN
 * 5) Free bus passes in England
 * 6) Life imprisonment in England and Wales
 * 7) about islam
 * 8) Handbury question
 * 9) Viewership vs advertising
 * 10) "bread" as a slang word
 * 11) Business Magazine question
 * 12) Robot education in science fiction
 * 13) elections in the uk

= May 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 May 7


 * 1) Exclave of Berkshire in the middle of Buckinghamshire
 * 2) Second(?) Longest regularly scheduled National elections cycle in the World?
 * 3) Psychologists/psychiatrists having sex with ex- patients
 * 4) Canada-France relationship Jean Chretien Francois Mitterrand

= May 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 May 8


 * 1) Why has the Battle of Moscow recently taken the spotlight as the turning point of WWII's Eastern front when Battle of Stalingrad has enjoyed that title for years? What changed?
 * 2) Medical education in Russia
 * 3) Prince Henry?
 * 4) Hanukkah
 * 5) Lotus Blossom Babies?
 * 6) What is an MRS degree?
 * 7) Racism laws in South Africa
 * 8) Decapitate

= May 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 May 9


 * 1) Soviet invasion of Xinjiang
 * 2) Most beautiful women
 * 3) Early numbers of cars
 * 4) Abu Qatada Gap
 * 5) Trooping the Colour Music
 * 6) Puerto Rican statehood vote 2012
 * 7) unemployment benefits (USA)
 * 8) Are images on Wikipedia part of the public domain?
 * 9) foreign students
 * 10) French for black male servants to French women during colonial times
 * 11) First Christian Nation and/or First Nation Claiming to be "Christian"
 * 12) What is the best life strategy? a - expect the best or b - expect the worst

= May 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 May 10


 * 1) English AP exam prompts
 * 2) Was Brad Mehldau's Largo recorded live?
 * 3) Gesturing while Talking
 * 4) Merger of elevator divisions of ThyssenKrupp and Hitachi
 * 5) US bureaucratic reorganisation
 * 6) Is Gambling work?

= May 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 May 11


 * 1) Are there any rational arguments against gay marriage at all?
 * 2) Pierre De Fermat
 * 3) Countries whose civilian salute is placing the right hand on the heart?
 * 4) Netherlands single party majority
 * 5) ISA
 * 6) "Purpose" of marriage
 * 7) Catherine, daughter of Joan I of Naples

= May 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 May 12


 * 1) Actual lawsuits over use of presumed Orphan works
 * 2) Is Sukhoi Superjet 100 the first civilian passenger aircraft produced by Sukhoi?
 * 3) What do you call this? (Chinese history-related question)
 * 4) Why has New York City historically been so East River oriented?

= May 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 May 13


 * 1) Mutopia project music licencing
 * 2) La frégate L'Artémise entrant à Tanoa, après son échouage
 * 3) Historical popular culture "meems"
 * 4) Marriage
 * 5) Relationship of Cole's `The voyage of Life' and Rachmaninoff's `Symphonic Dances'
 * 6) Identification of a Native American
 * 7) War until one side has 0 men left?
 * 8) English Civil War, international reaction
 * 9) Pierre De Fermat 2

= May 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 May 14


 * 1) Washington, DC's street grid
 * 2) Secular scholarly studies on Christianity and the Bible
 * 3) Phantom Zone
 * 4) The Specifically British Title "Professor"
 * 5) Are gamekeepers kind of underdogs in England?
 * 6) John Slidell
 * 7) Pronunciation of Albanian names ending in -aj
 * 8) Dual doctorates
 * 9) The stadium of other lives
 * 10) Jigsaw puzzles in literature

= May 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 May 15


 * 1) Difference between genres?
 * 2) Last year Spain, Italy and/or Greece were together?
 * 3) Brooks's dress?
 * 4) French language of South Asia and other european languages of South Asia
 * 5) What's this flag?
 * 6) Ludwig van Beethoven's background
 * 7) Killings per country total
 * 8) Declaring money to keep the same value

= May 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 May 16


 * 1) Republic colonialism
 * 2) International Relations
 * 3) Identify somebody from history
 * 4) English term for the French "l'Euphratèse"
 * 5) Office of Economic Opportunity
 * 6) Chafing-dish

= May 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 May 17


 * 1) Plague crosses
 * 2) Arabs and Afro-Francophones in French cities
 * 3) Indonesian Muslims in the Netherlands
 * 4) African emigrants in Spain major cities
 * 5) The marriage moment
 * 6) "Zucker-" prefix in German/Jewish surnames
 * 7) Fiji, Ireland, South Africa
 * 8) cost of living in the USA

= May 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 May 18


 * 1) Accidents involving aircrafts carrying state leaders
 * 2) Who was Charles Sweeney (one of Ernest Hemingway's friends)
 * 3) Question about military
 * 4) Why do people appreciate   Pan-Am smiles?
 * 5) Marxist criticism of marriage
 * 6) important colony

= May 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 May 19


 * 1) Bastards
 * 2) 7-Eleven in the UK in the nineties?
 * 3) Depression and unhappiness
 * 4) Biharis of Bangladesh
 * 5) Jar with multiple spouts
 * 6) Were any cities completely destroyed by a natural disaster

= May 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 May 20


 * 1) Are thumbnails in search engines fair dealing in Canada?
 * 2) Charles Giraud
 * 3) Appropriate amount of wine to give neighbours
 * 4) Appropriate amount of wine to give neighbours part 2
 * 5) Fourteenth century English Parliament

= May 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 May 21


 * 1) Froggy (brand)
 * 2) Islam in Canada
 * 3) Why is religion not taxed in America
 * 4) Coenraad "van" Bos

= May 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 May 22


 * 1) Lieutenant governor (Canada)
 * 2) Were the commonwealth realms technically neocolonies?
 * 3) Medieval means of publication
 * 4) Smokey (the) Bear and US federal law
 * 5) Reviews of work of historian Antony Polonsky
 * 6) Can a US state unilaterally secede?
 * 7) Confirm some data about states with death penalty for apostasy

= May 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 May 23


 * 1) SITTING REPUBLICAN US HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
 * 2) Communism on totalitarianism and authoritarianism
 * 3) London Partnership Register
 * 4) Stage Combat in the 18. Century
 * 5) US federal prisoners before federal prisons
 * 6) Football statistics and copyright
 * 7) Please help a struggling uncle!

= May 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 May 24


 * 1) Chen Guangcheng vs. Chengguan
 * 2) What the point of a 0% investment?
 * 3) Hypothetical voting system
 * 4) Kennedy assassination book(s)
 * 5) Relative popularity of "Simon" in the UK and USA during the 20th century

= May 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 May 25


 * 1) "backcharge wealth-getting fee"
 * 2) Legal aspects of Etan Patz's case
 * 3) Franco-Tahitian War and the Leeward Island Wars
 * 4) Middle Class Indians & Immigration to America

= May 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 May 26


 * 1) CAN IT POSSIBLE
 * 2) Treason in the USA
 * 3) purely leveraged financial instrument
 * 4) Roman catholics in England

= May 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 May 27


 * 1) Economics as normative ethics
 * 2) US Electoral College v. popular vote
 * 3) Prefabs, UK
 * 4) John Webber
 * 5) Anna of Austria (1549–1580)
 * 6) Soviet tankers (ships)
 * 7) Country of passport, Passport nationality
 * 8) Maslow's hierarchy of needs - examining its history (who invented 'the pyramid'?)
 * 9) Wealemefnas

= May 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 May 28


 * 1) $ 250,000
 * 2) Third party political systems in United States state parliaments and territorial parliamentary houses
 * 3) is it ironic?
 * 4) Religion
 * 5) history of investor protection / references
 * 6) Power of Attorney

= May 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 May 29


 * 1) Four temperaments
 * 2) People who have "recanted" after coming out
 * 3) Theoretically, will piracy be eliminated or lessened if...
 * 4) Oldest historical event
 * 5) Picture interpretation
 * 6) Judged for two things simultaneously ...
 * 7) Impersonating a priest
 * 8) USS Peacock
 * 9) Why do fossils?
 * 10) Is 'Death cross' some kind of commonplace jargon in finance/investing?
 * 11) Foreign countries that advocate for change in the United States

= May 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 May 30


 * 1) requiring alcoholics to get treatment
 * 2) Eurobank's Logo
 * 3) in pale
 * 4) Che Guevara's gun/s and capture

= May 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 May 31


 * 1) Date references
 * 2) Legal vacation/vacating
 * 3) What is the tune?
 * 4) Signing of federal laws in the U.S.
 * 5) Causes of homosexuality
 * 6) Earliest recorded drunk
 * 7) CDN © : company does freelance
 * 8) "the normal human sexual continuum"