Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/May 2013

= May 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 May 1


 * 1) Western Culture and homosexuality
 * 2) Distant members of the Princely Family of Liechtenstein
 * 3) Tracing new world's black population

= May 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 May 2


 * 1) "Sexual attraction"
 * 2) Moral Constructivism vs Semantic Meta-ethics
 * 3) US military things named after Confederates
 * 4) Did anyone die in the Tunguska event?
 * 5) mizrahi supporting and in left wing parties in Israel

= May 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 May 3


 * 1) Engels' contribution to sociology
 * 2) Grenade-resistant

= May 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 May 4


 * 1) Antonio Ferrante Gonzaga, Duke of Guastalla
 * 2) Anti-Homosexual Novels
 * 3) Medieval shipyard
 * 4) Intermarriage in Israel
 * 5) Breton duke

= May 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 May 5


 * 1) open university?
 * 2) US federal legislation vs. state legislation
 * 3) Photograph of a 19th-century Bosnian woman
 * 4) Earliest-born known human to be photographed

= May 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 May 6


 * 1) Alien abduction insurance
 * 2) Global Employment in Automotive Driving?
 * 3) Link between watching porn and sexual violence
 * 4) Pokemon Species by Popularity

= May 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 May 7


 * 1) The definition as "race"
 * 2) Allied war crimes during World War II
 * 3) Native separatism
 * 4) regular currency sales
 * 5) Explorers Maps
 * 6) Brontë sisters
 * 7) Peter de Vries and Frank Herbert

= May 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 May 8


 * 1) has any country or city recently gotten up and moved?
 * 2) First President to visit a ballgame.
 * 3) Bitcoin-like currencies

= May 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 May 9


 * 1) Why is there a liquor ban during the days around the 2013 Filipino presidential election?
 * 2) Ho Chi Minh
 * 3) unreferenced text in Taira no Tomomori
 * 4) John Buchan's family
 * 5) National statistics
 * 6) Businesses that support same sex marriage.

= May 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 May 10


 * 1) Cæcilia Knudsdatter
 * 2) update on assistance
 * 3) London Geography
 * 4) English weight in Medieval times

= May 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 May 11


 * 1) German Calvinist states
 * 2) French work, but I only know the Dutch title
 * 3) Are these coins original?
 * 4) Higher education in USA
 * 5) Paul the Apostle
 * 6) U.S. Nuking Targets in Japan in 1945
 * 7) Dowager consorts
 * 8) Nuclear targets in Germany

= May 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 May 12


 * 1) Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Denmark
 * 2) "Sound evidence for the existence of human differences in intelligence that parallel human differences in technology is lacking."
 * 3) Subspecies of homo sapiens
 * 4) Detail of history behind the Vilakithala Nair ?
 * 5) Jewish people not trying to gain new converts (contrary to Christians and Muslims)

= May 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 May 13


 * 1) Most powerful country in WW2
 * 2) The Situation Room Photo
 * 3) Gubernatorial term limits California
 * 4) Native American cultures

= May 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 May 14


 * 1) Regime Change Successfully Implemented by the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. During the Cold War
 * 2) Career
 * 3) How fast is a horse?
 * 4) Denmark's Failure
 * 5) does The Economist have a (relatively) new Editor?
 * 6) Colonel Sam Genius

= May 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 May 15


 * 1) How did Shakespeare die?
 * 2) Oak Bay-Gordon Head
 * 3) Non-unified Germanic people
 * 4) What was the year and decade that had most amount number ones albums and songs?
 * 5) The Life and Death of George C. Parker
 * 6) Meet the Press
 * 7) Aboriginal Australians populations in the USA

= May 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 May 16


 * 1) The name of Madame de Pompadours fortune teller
 * 2) The cry of the Belfast Telegraph seller (extinct)
 * 3) Dukes of Oldenburg

= May 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 May 17


 * 1) Accuarcy of a story about anti-Vietnam War protest at White House
 * 2) Global Employment in Driving?
 * 3) Public school is different from private school but how?
 * 4) Record Regents
 * 5) Hi! question on relative of Jeffrey Dahmer
 * 6) HMS Illustrious (87) Officers
 * 7) middle east politics in the 1800s

= May 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 May 18


 * 1) Catholic bishops and cathedrals
 * 2) Guy Medal in silver 1915
 * 3) Hipsters
 * 4) World War I is missing: which one should it go in, and why?
 * 5) Pocky

= May 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 May 19


 * 1) Ronaldsway culture
 * 2) What time of day and date of the year would most people on earth be in darkness?
 * 3) St. Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna - unidentified detail
 * 4) Creating a communist society
 * 5) the Anamithim

= May 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 May 20


 * 1) Alex Linder's middle name
 * 2) Efficacy of detachable faceplates for deterrence of car stereo theft
 * 3) Need help identifying piano work
 * 4) Evidence of consciousness is coming up independently with the the 'hard problem' - who has already said this?
 * 5) Maggie Q in Mission Impossible 3
 * 6) egalitarian opposition to lotteries
 * 7) Primogeniture

= May 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 May 21


 * 1) Kansas Real Estate Commission - Statutory Authority History
 * 2) The folk explanations of the cause of Kennedy tragedies?
 * 3) Lincoln–Kennedy coincidences urban legend
 * 4) obscure term
 * 5) Hit-man services on the dark web - real?
 * 6) Entailment law England in first half of 19th century
 * 7) The Dam Busters, The Great Escape and suchlike
 * 8) Civil unions and equal marriage
 * 9) US-USSR Parliamentarian Conference, 1978
 * 10) 2nd, 3rd and 4th largest democracies
 * 11) Mahatma Gandhi's Bangladesh visit as part of Satyagraha district
 * 12) Baby Jesus
 * 13) Traditional Jews in Israel: Practice and values

= May 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 May 22


 * 1) Earliest genocide or massacre in human history with solid archaeological evidences?
 * 2) UK Gay Marriage Bill
 * 3) 19th century Awards with a significant History
 * 4) War as a cause of death
 * 5) Buyers remorse
 * 6) Very basic question, but what are some complex answers, please?
 * 7) Candace Amanirenas
 * 8) Casteism in Bible
 * 9) Nobel Prize vs Copley Medal academic domination politics
 * 10) "Mr. Berg" from Norway

= May 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 May 23


 * 1) Protestant Ranavalona
 * 2) Forced deathbed conversions
 * 3) Fried chicken and watermelon
 * 4) Essay on Jeffrey Dahmer - would it be biased?
 * 5) Western religions that are not so individualistic...
 * 6) Laws regarding abuse of free drink refills in cafes/fast food places?
 * 7) Fictional characters becoming real people
 * 8) French prisoners of war in Engeland

= May 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 May 24


 * 1) How many times did Phil Esposito score against Tony Esposito?
 * 2) US service commitments in the 1960s
 * 3) Friday holidays
 * 4) Double jeopardy

= May 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 May 25


 * 1) How to list instruments by range using wolfram alpha?
 * 2) Xin Zhui
 * 3) Odd number of police officers or detectives?
 * 4) is there a disability that...
 * 5) Middle names

= May 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 May 26


 * 1) [Protected article] Inadequate, but not necessarily incorrect, summary of scholastic opinion
 * 2) Efficacy of detachable faceplates for deterrence of car stereo theft
 * 3) Weight
 * 4) Shi'ite suburbs in Beirut

= May 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 May 27


 * 1) anti-communism
 * 2) Had there been any well-known debate between communism and anti-communism?
 * 3) When was Tang of Shang's reign?
 * 4) is Communist Party of India (Maoist) the actual name of the "Communist Party of India (Maoist)" party?
 * 5) Mexico City
 * 6) How do I identify the owners of a business?
 * 7) Am Shalem and Koah Lehashpia most votes gain from which place
 * 8) Otdia

= May 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 May 28


 * 1) Otto von Kotzebue
 * 2) Do we have an article on required school readings?
 * 3) Aaron is not real at the Latin wikipedia
 * 4) Legally coaxing Julian Assange out of the embassy
 * 5) Battle of Bladders
 * 6) Who would be the most senior Democratic elected official in Oklahoma today?
 * 7) George I of Greece
 * 8) Cats in Oceania

= May 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 May 29


 * 1) Marxism
 * 2) Record number of consorts by Chinese emperors
 * 3) Are earrings very important to Spanish women?
 * 4) UK House of Commons subcommittees
 * 5) Why long tail is important?
 * 6) The New York Times Book Review
 * 7) New Deal debate

= May 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 May 30


 * 1) "Welfare quarantining" Schemes - effective? cost effective? ethical?
 * 2) European Union
 * 3) Could New World slaves buy things?
 * 4) A Sculpture by Augusta Savage
 * 5) Muhammad's successor debate in Islamic groups
 * 6) Name of law, sociological metric

= May 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 May 31


 * 1) Liberal area in a city of a conservative Muslim nation
 * 2) Tie in a US presidential election - agreement in the Electoral college
 * 3) Kush
 * 4) food versus politics
 * 5) Destroying images of Atatürk