Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/May 2016

= May 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 May 1


 * 1) Salvation Army
 * 2) US debt 2
 * 3) Northern Ireland GIS website
 * 4) Middle East races

= May 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 May 2


 * 1) To what extent does gross private domestic investment determine the rate of growth?
 * 2) Limbo (needs more definition)
 * 3) Subnational teams competing at the national level
 * 4) Great Cleveland Sickout -- are RNC delegates really required to vote?
 * 5) People and places
 * 6) Cebuano wiki
 * 7) UK Banks issuing MasterCard/Maestro Debit cards
 * 8) Birth and death Statistics
 * 9) Atlantis
 * 10) Front matter

= May 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 May 3


 * 1) Judaism and the law
 * 2) Societal evolution of taboos

= May 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 May 4


 * 1)  Condeming Condemning/Denying permission to make a movie
 * 2) Are the remaining Republican Party presidential primaries still held if a nominee already has the required number of delegates?
 * 3) William Henry Dimond
 * 4) Physical Exemptions from Conscription
 * 5) Is Mexico willing to exhange land for Baja California?
 * 6) Battleships which never saw combat
 * 7) Ted Cruz' last week or so

= May 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 May 5


 * 1) What happens if a nominee for U.S. President is no longer available or interested after he receives the nomination?
 * 2) Ruskin's List of the Best Hundred Authors
 * 3) Esther Meynell - alleged Dowager Marchioness of Salisbury

= May 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 May 6


 * 1) Currency equivalents
 * 2) Medieval bridges?

= May 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 May 7


 * 1) Is HMNB Devonport still the biggest naval base in Western Europe?
 * 2) Project management
 * 3) Are warship battle honours considered heritable?
 * 4) medieval Hospitals?
 * 5) Impact of floods on rural medieval cities?
 * 6) Commercial viability

= May 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 May 8


 * 1) Historiography
 * 2) what did he do during 1939-1945 ?
 * 3) Why did Stanisław Mackiewicz went back to Poland?
 * 4) Corporate culture in non profit and government organisations

= May 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 May 9


 * 1) Republican resignations
 * 2) Francis Lathom
 * 3) Secret Six
 * 4) Source of a quotation - dim religious light

= May 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 May 10


 * 1) How is it possible that a Secretary of State would never encounter classified material while on the job?

= May 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 May 11


 * 1) Colorado referendum 1992

= May 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 May 12


 * 1) First knowledge of the Great Pyramid in the West?
 * 2) British chapel at Athens
 * 3) A street in Athens
 * 4) Is antivenin really 2,000 times cheaper in India?
 * 5) Immovable judges
 * 6) Is kohl popular in Israel?

= May 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 May 13


 * 1) Grave of Charlez Russel
 * 2) All-time total UK MPs
 * 3) Andersen (?) fairytale
 * 4) History
 * 5) Anglo Saxon Kings of England

= May 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 May 14


 * 1) Finding source in Paradise of the Pacific
 * 2) Oak Apple Day
 * 3) Farrah Abraham
 * 4) ISIS uniforms

= May 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 May 16


 * 1) Shares of stock
 * 2) Currency basket
 * 3) Perceptions of "the beginning of history" in England vs. the rest of Britain and Ireland
 * 4) When were totem poles first descibed in writing?
 * 5) Magyar raids in Northern France?

= May 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 May 17


 * 1) It's clearly a budget
 * 2) Elector system trouble scenario
 * 3) If a real priest, minister or rabbi played the same in a marrying scene?

= May 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 May 18


 * 1) Would it be legal for Hillary Clinton to name Bill Clinton as her running mate?

= May 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 May 19


 * 1) How can you sue an entire country?
 * 2) Which kind of yellow jacket?
 * 3) Parentage of Harvey Bailey

= May 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 May 20


 * 1) If either of the front running presidential candidates were to die or become incapacitated before the general election, what would happen?
 * 2) Vice President of the USA - Question 1
 * 3) Vice President of the USA - Question 2
 * 4) Photos of August Natterer
 * 5) Who was W.G?
 * 6) Execution vs. suicide
 * 7) Psychology of gambling

= May 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 May 21


 * 1) Four mosques in St. Cloud, Minnesota
 * 2) Reason for Xiamen – Shenzhen – Seattle flight route
 * 3) Hijacking PRC airliners to gain political asylum in Taiwan
 * 4) don't get it...

= May 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 May 22


 * 1) circumvent the Jones Act by  Hawaii/Alaska-Vancouver-Seattle
 * 2) What happened to the nightclub(s) in Russia where naked men swim in fish tanks?
 * 3) Has there ever been an external tariff?
 * 4) Can someone tell me why social people don't want to dance before midnight?
 * 5) Do drug addicts ever love the substance?
 * 6) Landscape Drama and Music

= May 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 May 23


 * 1) 41st United States Colored Troops
 * 2) What is sound banking?
 * 3) References

= May 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 May 24


 * 1) Price of a bottle of Coca-Cola in ~1916
 * 2) Benjamin Jowett's translation[s] of Plato
 * 3) Paul Stahl (soldier)
 * 4) Scenario
 * 5) Oxford University reforms 1854
 * 6) Leigh Hunt's speech impediment

= May 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 May 25


 * 1) Do transsexual bathroom rights come with a dress code or identity check?
 * 2) Male and female attraction to breasts
 * 3) Scorsese surname origin

= May 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 May 26


 * 1) Building at top of Mount of Olives
 * 2) Advantage of currency depreciation

= May 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 May 27


 * 1) Haircuts and gender roles

= May 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 May 28


 * 1) Trans-Pacific Partnership
 * 2) How long is a term of office (for presidency) at the NAACP?

= May 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 May 29


 * 1) Famous quotes with name of person who made quote unknown
 * 2) The World Firsts Page

= May 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 May 30


 * 1) how and why is the harmonic curve you see on the neck of a concert or Paraguayan harp, or the treble bridge of a piano is calculated.
 * 2) Secondary school-level reading lists

= May 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 May 31


 * 1) America/Boise
 * 2) Wealthy people