Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/May 2014

= May 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 May 1


 * 1) Shanty town and slum
 * 2) "Murder on the Orient Express" question
 * 3) Popular critics of Internet communities?
 * 4) Ancient Egyptian development pace
 * 5) Software playlists
 * 6) Male Mormon missionaries vs. female Mormon missionaries

= May 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 May 2


 * 1) Best selling books

= May 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 May 3


 * 1) Are we getting dumber?
 * 2) READ
 * 3) Saudi princes and all that
 * 4) Connections between Isis (Auset) and Ishtar?

= May 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 May 4


 * 1) "Government intervention" as a misnomer
 * 2) Freedom charter monument kliptown

= May 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 May 5


 * 1) The long arm of the victim
 * 2) effect of gold influx,
 * 3) Gold standard and redeeming the "physical" metal
 * 4) How did Ireland become christian before Britain?

= May 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 May 6


 * 1) Business speeches
 * 2) Why don't many sports like accuracy?
 * 3) Anyone know this novella/short story?
 * 4) St. Leo of the Catholic Church

= May 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 May 7


 * 1) non-profit fundraiser limitations
 * 2) Full Day Kindergarten
 * 3) Pope of royal descent

= May 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 May 8


 * 1) "these dark Satanic mills" vs "those dark Satanic mills"
 * 2) Jakob Lorber
 * 3) About the 30-day SSI rule - could I just visit a US diplomatic mission once a month to get around it?
 * 4) Preferring faith over personal evidence?
 * 5) Crafter too good, King cripples him.
 * 6) Funding PhD students

= May 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 May 9


 * 1) Screaming at concerts
 * 2) Resting place of Kings of Naples
 * 3) Why is the Vice President not Acting President while the President is out of the country?
 * 4) Why are SATs and ACTs at like 7 am?
 * 5) Adriano fiorentino

= May 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 May 10


 * 1) Carlist and the Pragmatic Sanction of 1830
 * 2) Kangar paintings
 * 3) Schools making kids tour hardened Correctional facilities
 * 4) Anyone have access to the following Italian source?
 * 5) UK Base rate vs lending rates
 * 6) Venetian ceremonial galley of the 1700s
 * 7) Who was David Murdoch referenced on page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_frontier#Prostitution
 * 8) Female United States Navy SEALs

= May 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 May 11


 * 1) Battle of Berlin footage
 * 2) Wikpedia errors becoming an Internet meme: Peter Katin
 * 3) Ray Kassar
 * 4) Belligerents' diplomacy during WWII
 * 5) Forty Martyrs
 * 6) Ancient Peru
 * 7) What is the real per capita income of the USA?

= May 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 May 12


 * 1) Religions with inferior Creators?
 * 2) The draft
 * 3) Saint related superstitions
 * 4) Why do I pretty much never get a tax return, no matter how much I make?
 * 5) International Economic Commissions

= May 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 May 13


 * 1) Any visible parts common to " Statue of Liberty" and "Eiffel Tower"
 * 2) State borders in the USA
 * 3) Makeup
 * 4) Amending the U.S. Constitution
 * 5) Legal question
 * 6) Friend Of The Court
 * 7) Water faucets
 * 8) Pink Dollar generated in the United States

= May 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 May 14


 * 1) Events known by different names in different countries
 * 2) enquiry about the original book of Robinson Crusoe
 * 3) Arbeitskarte work papers during World War II
 * 4) What is the problem with a morphine overdose as a means of execution?
 * 5) If gays had rights, thieves would have rights too
 * 6) West Georgia, Alaska
 * 7) Disability
 * 8) Trying to find source of quotation - Foot family (British politicians)
 * 9) Origin of law enforcement as a distinct occupation
 * 10) Chinese history / fiction question

= May 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 May 15


 * 1) why does being Jewish descent mean only through one's Jewish mother and not father?

= May 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 May 16


 * 1) US President Impeachments
 * 2) Oldest recorded voice of a president

= May 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 May 17


 * 1) posters with similar causes
 * 2) Jakob Lorber's personal life
 * 3) how various instution promote culture in uganda?
 * 4) What was the first state with a republic government system?
 * 5) Public records / public information
 * 6) London Auxiliary Ambulance Service
 * 7) Queen Tuarii

= May 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 May 18


 * 1) "SOCIETEY ENDRACT"
 * 2) Tahiti queen journal illustre
 * 3) Gigong and yoga

= May 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 May 19


 * 1) Reliable biography of Nikola Tesla
 * 2) A general blackout
 * 3) Isidore Chesse
 * 4) Corporate influence over politics in first world democracies
 * 5) wondering about a strange sociology documentary
 * 6) Three newspapers that dropped Doonesbury because of the Andy Lippincott story

= May 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 May 20


 * 1) Long and short term U.S. Natural Rate of Unemployment derivations?
 * 2) How do I not plagiarize myself
 * 3) Rule Of Not Ruling Anything (Out?)
 * 4) Australia
 * 5) Global net worth

= May 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 May 21


 * 1) American soldiers and American society's regard for them
 * 2) Crucifixions with nails & rope
 * 3) Nuclear powers joining the nuclear non-proliferation treaty
 * 4) Phoenix Program targets / victims - "guilty" versus "innocent"
 * 5) Patron saints
 * 6) us senate
 * 7) Battles where a small number of troops have defeated a much larger force?

= May 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 May 22


 * 1) Henry Nott
 * 2) Adam Benjamin photo

= May 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 May 23


 * 1) Best Illuminati revival attempt so far?
 * 2) Anybody know the history of music?
 * 3) What is going on in Thailand?
 * 4) Benjamin L. Marks

= May 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 May 24


 * 1) London to Toronto and Toronto to London trips and Toronto to Birmingham
 * 2) identity of a portrait
 * 3) Chinese phrase
 * 4) America, Capitalism and Christianity
 * 5) Environment, Capitalism and the Christian Right
 * 6) How to get archives of French newspapers?
 * 7) Stone Mountain in Georgia

= May 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 May 25


 * 1) List of wali called upon in tawassul?
 * 2) Racism in pirate times?
 * 3) Is there such a graph that displays different regions of political views that correspond to two variables: economic and personal freedom?
 * 4) "Jerusalem" in Catholic churches

= May 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 May 26


 * 1) René Gillotin, Portrait of Marquesan chiefs
 * 2) what is the meaning of "fructus est fullonius"
 * 3) Company debt collections
 * 4) Did Elliot Rodger have a mental illness
 * 5) Unanimous consent vs. 100-0
 * 6) Largest bank
 * 7) Question about the growth of Wikipedia
 * 8) Hesse-Philippsthal and Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld

= May 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 May 27


 * 1) Ranavalo Manjaka
 * 2) Question about Chinese references to Indian monument
 * 3) Literal gold diggers
 * 4) American Legal System
 * 5) Are there Jewish or Christian equivalents to Islamic sharia law?
 * 6) Why is the Quds Force called the Quds Force

= May 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 May 28


 * 1) Matching point sizes of different typefaces for visual size equivalence
 * 2) Henry Adams
 * 3) Term for a fellow disabled person
 * 4) European peoples who attend school in America
 * 5) Bias against people with disabilities?

= May 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 May 29


 * 1) Serhiy Tihipko
 * 2) RICHARD WRIGHT
 * 3) Treason by another name, and the U.S. constitution
 * 4) Banking hours worldwide
 * 5) Stock market valuation
 * 6) The Russian Provisional Government's Decision to Remain in WWI Being Influenced by the United States's Decision to Enter WWI?
 * 7) Why aren't cards bigger?

= May 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 May 30


 * 1) Not a cheese-eating surrender monkey
 * 2) Scenic Route, Dalkey to dublin
 * 3) Process of becoming a church member
 * 4) Music notation question
 * 5) Does playing chess make you smarter?
 * 6) Majority owner of public company

= May 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 May 31


 * 1) Inquiry into the conviction of David Eastman
 * 2) Conversion to Judaism
 * 3) William Little Lee
 * 4) Indian toilets
 * 5) Did the majority of the Chinese and Soviet populations endure Axis occupation during WW2?
 * 6) Romans
 * 7) Movement of Soviet infrastructure east of the Urals during the GPW
 * 8) Homework
 * 9) Longest tenure in a US House district
 * 10) The Structure of Shakespearean Tragedy