Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/May 2015

= May 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 May 1


 * 1) Pasteur's height
 * 2) Bank Losses
 * 3) identify artist of painting of George Washington's first inauguration
 * 4) Plummer v. State v. Bad Elk v. United States
 * 5) Ashford v Thornton
 * 6) Article title question
 * 7) Judges with 'Ag' after name
 * 8) Man impaled Greek statue

= May 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 May 2


 * 1) Hell and Punishment
 * 2) versus symbol
 * 3) Partwork magazines

= May 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 May 3


 * 1) Request for debate
 * 2) What was Highland Homes history back in 1946  502 W. Highland Ave Phx. Az 85013
 * 3) Politics in England

= May 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 May 4


 * 1) How do I open a manhole?
 * 2) Why are human beings so unpredictable?
 * 3) Traffic Lights - Red, Yellow, and GO!

= May 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 May 5


 * 1) Prayer Your Cross
 * 2) Did the Great Wall of China accomplish what it was originally intended for?
 * 3) Scramble for Africa - shares of the colonial powers
 * 4) Is any US government agency allowed to lie to the public?
 * 5) Reasons for Western dominance?
 * 6) islamic countries vs western countries

= May 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 May 6


 * 1) Does an adopted child change the line of succession to the British throne?
 * 2) Can someone with a bachelor’s degree in political science and an MBA teach undergraduate courses in Political Science?

= May 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 May 7


 * 1) Reference to Halle Berry
 * 2) Schumann's stranded repeat sign
 * 3) Crossing international or interstate borders by car
 * 4) Are banks able to loan out more money than they receive in deposits?
 * 5) Type of social dance shown in Pride and Prejudice
 * 6) Gangs and cars
 * 7) Several decades of growth

= May 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 May 8


 * 1) How long does a British general election campaign really last?
 * 2) nonrenewables
 * 3) UK elections
 * 4) Stadiums' declining capacity
 * 5) Explanation for Scottish election results sought
 * 6) UK PM as party leader

= May 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 May 9


 * 1) Is there any correlation between the areas of Roundhead and Labour support in UK elections?
 * 2) Are there any universities today that have a post-positivist or anti-positivist curriculum for political science?
 * 3) 1850 Double "O" Double Eagle
 * 4) Is England and/or Britain really planning to leave the EU unless they can get more Big Brother laws?

= May 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 May 10


 * 1) Is it easier to sell a commercial property in China with or without a restaurant lessee?
 * 2) Debt
 * 3) Jehovah's Witnesses and the name "Jehovah"
 * 4) Non-fiction Classification Pre-Dewey Decimal
 * 5) Question about how WW2 ended the Great Depression in America
 * 6) Groundhog Day in Punxsutawney
 * 7) Myth of Polish cavalry charging German tanks with lance and sabre during WWII...

= May 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 May 11


 * 1) How did the Portuguese get hold of Northern Brazil Amazon Forest but not the British, the French or others?
 * 2) Does BPM Need To Cite Source
 * 3) Tobruk (Movie 1967)
 * 4) Flag of Memelland
 * 5) First Amazon bridge
 * 6) Cartoon Character
 * 7) Who painted these?
 * 8) Hitler at strategy
 * 9) UK elections 2015

= May 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 May 12


 * 1) Muslims killed by .... won't go to Paradise
 * 2) Inconsistent apostrophes in older work
 * 3) Stella van der Loopen

= May 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 May 13


 * 1) Iranian reactions to the Andijan massacre?
 * 2) Copyright for Maya hieroglyphs font based on drawings by scholar Thompson
 * 3) Parent & child life peers

= May 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 May 14


 * 1) How can I prevent birds from flying into large picture windows?
 * 2) Did the French schools in Kabul close?
 * 3) Mirabeau and the end of absolutism
 * 4) Is a specific story or author in the public domain?
 * 5) Citations on Didius Julianus

= May 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 May 15


 * 1) Bengali font Microsoft Word
 * 2) Hunchback
 * 3) Director of the off-off-Broadway production of The Lion in Love (play)?
 * 4) When did the Cherokee Outlet become part of Oklahoma Territory?

= May 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 May 16


 * 1) Allegheny vs. Monongahela

= May 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 May 17


 * 1) Christian fundamentalism, Biblical literalism, and creationism outside the United States
 * 2) Niderbergdorf
 * 3) Somerset House
 * 4) Effect of cigarette prohibition laws (1890-1927)
 * 5) Tomatoes in pizza and stir-fried eggs and tomatoes

= May 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 May 18


 * 1) Bloomberg Business
 * 2) Portuguese gains in WWI?
 * 3) Cultural attitudes towards slapstick comedy - is there a relationship?

= May 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 May 19


 * 1) Three Questions on Boundary Commissions (United Kingdom)
 * 2) The seven lamps of style - P.M.Fulcher,
 * 3) Novel Sci-Fi Regarding a genetic reason for Jesus Healing
 * 4) Are most or all American companies and organizations Equal Opportunity Employment employers?
 * 5) Expanding Sahara
 * 6) Saltwater crops ?
 * 7) Operations management

= May 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 May 20


 * 1) Proof of Alabama rejoining the union on July 13, 1868?
 * 2) Dostoevsky: origin of quote?
 * 3) Northanglia?
 * 4) Secession from the U.S.?
 * 5) Henri Giscard d'Estaing (historian)?
 * 6) Are any developed countries solvent in the long run?
 * 7) Equality equals quantity, whereas equity equals quality
 * 8) C.C.D. in case citation
 * 9) Title of this painting
 * 10) Another legal terminology question
 * 11) "Augustus ... acknowledged he could not make a new Latin word"
 * 12) Novel about woman in medieval time
 * 13) Table of Effects for s:The Health and Safety (Safety Signs and Signals) Regulations 1996

= May 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 May 21


 * 1) How to pronounce the "v." in court cases?
 * 2) Visa Waiver Program
 * 3) America
 * 4) Can or will formal language replace ordinary language in the literary arts?
 * 5) Thomas Harcourt's kidney
 * 6) A detail of the boundary between Minnesota and Wisconsin

= May 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 May 22


 * 1) Please identify this nasheed
 * 2) City of London pub history
 * 3) Sniffle-less Žižek?
 * 4) Is there a right to be forgotten?

= May 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 May 23


 * 1) H. Blacklock & Co
 * 2) Status of Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe
 * 3) One of Queen Victoria's daughters, an eminent scientist, and a mysterious bird.
 * 4) Are the board memberships and directorships of Delaware Corporations considered public record?
 * 5) United States paleo-indians
 * 6) Hawaiian Supreme Court Justices

= May 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 May 24


 * 1) When did the states join the Confederacy?
 * 2) professor Robert Solomon Wistrich  ..NEUBERGER prof,  not  as spelled on Wikipedia
 * 3) Loving your colonizer?

= May 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 May 25


 * 1) Was Anne Meara considerd influential in her field?
 * 2) Egtved Girl's cause of death
 * 3) Masons Manual of Legislative Procedure

= May 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 May 26


 * 1) Did the National Revolutionary Army really prepare to bomb the Tiananmen?
 * 2) a short story about mantises

= May 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 May 27


 * 1) Request for Free Resources for Law Courses
 * 2) 1895 newspaper
 * 3) National Guards vs Citizens' Guards of the Republic of Hawaii
 * 4) Involuntary apprenticeship?

= May 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 May 28


 * 1) Capitals and Largest Cities of American States
 * 2) Women and menstruation
 * 3) US police skirts
 * 4) Forced consent by means of imprisonment; any precedent in law for rights breach?
 * 5) Kiowa Tribe Article
 * 6) Copycatting

= May 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 May 29


 * 1) US restraining orders
 * 2) How can information be corrected?
 * 3) Who ruled France in the early 16th-century?
 * 4) Green armband, Poland, 1934
 * 5) Strategy of Tension

= May 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 May 30


 * 1) Italy

= May 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 May 31


 * 1) What has Wat got in his hand? (17th Century portraiture)
 * 2) fictional scarecrow