Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/May 2018

= May 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 May 1


 * 1) Statues on interior columns of Berlin's Marienkirche
 * 2) Kim Jong-nam's body
 * 3) Legitimate vs illegitimate children
 * 4) Profit flows between countries
 * 5) Czechs learning Slovak, or vice versa

= May 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 May 3


 * 1) reconstruction plan after the civil war
 * 2) Union label
 * 3) Wikipedia's use of the Gregorian calendar in biographies.

= May 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 May 4


 * 1) Suicides among writers
 * 2) Coffee shop inside reading places
 * 3) Why did Prussia adopt the Gregorian calendar so early and so much ahead of all the other Protestant states?
 * 4) Is this a Kepler quote?
 * 5) Marriage of a divorced Roman Catholic
 * 6) Malcolm Thomson, biographer of Lloyd George and of Churchill
 * 7) What's the "Weixi era"?

= May 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 May 5


 * 1) Flag identification

= May 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 May 6


 * 1) Why do Christians like Nietzsche?
 * 2) The Big Short (film)

= May 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 May 7


 * 1) Children born in the White House
 * 2) Alphabet soup
 * 3) What are the options for low-income, single people who are old enough to retire out of the workforce and really can't work anymore?
 * 4) Weddings of the century

= May 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 May 8


 * 1) Weddings of the century
 * 2) What was the official currency of Nazi Germany backed by?
 * 3) Canada East
 * 4) Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action snapback of UN sanctions
 * 5) How do runaway children find work nowadays? Who will hire them?
 * 6) What happened to the Judge in the Llanfrothen Burial Case?

= May 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 May 9


 * 1) Repealing a repeal
 * 2) Quantum Mechanics for Beginners
 * 3) Karl Popper and Evolution
 * 4) Ancient sex guides other than the Kama Sutra
 * 5) what can I do to find out their birthdate?

= May 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 May 10


 * 1) What's the approximate scale of the largest barter agreement after 1950?
 * 2) Father not paying child allowance (UK)

= May 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 May 12


 * 1) Historical Jesus grab bag
 * 2) Why don't hospitals check the patient's insurance company to see whether the insurer is in-network or out-of-network?
 * 3) photo colorization
 * 4) Polar bears
 * 5) “Rags to riches” stories other than those written by Horatio Alger

= May 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 May 13


 * 1) In the US, what law stipulates 'in dubio pro reo'?

= May 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 May 14


 * 1) Cheapest way to rest in peace
 * 2) John R. Bolton
 * 3) Arms of Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor, and arms of Viscount Tenby

= May 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 May 15


 * 1) What was name of novel about an Army computer programmer whose program has an error?
 * 2) Avesta Harun
 * 3) Teo Savory
 * 4) Kensington Palace
 * 5) Novels about celibate men
 * 6) Confusion about Robert the Bruce (Robert de Brus) ancestor

= May 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 May 17


 * 1) Nettle liquid manure
 * 2) 1983~1990 Palau National Geographic article question
 * 3) Indian police shields

= May 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 May 18


 * 1) Lloyd George in Brighton

= May 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 May 19


 * 1) Who was the Page to whom John Morley spoke of Woodrow Wilson?
 * 2) Harry's wedding giggles
 * 3) Vomiting in antiquity
 * 4) Hippocrates' Aphorisms
 * 5) Giovanni Antonio Facchinetti de Nuce birthplace
 * 6) Why is Duke so prominent in the titles of most British Princes?

= May 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 May 20


 * 1) Name of 1624 papal bull?
 * 2) Aslan Verlag
 * 3) Why was the Grand Duchy of Lithuania so preposterously underpopulated?

= May 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 May 21


 * 1) How do illegal immigrants prove that a child is born in the US?
 * 2) Need someone who REALLY knows how British royal titles work.
 * 3) Notability
 * 4) Refugees

= May 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 May 22


 * 1) Who is with Lloyd George
 * 2) Does the Greek sea god Triton have a counterpart in Roman mythology?
 * 3) What does this sign mean?
 * 4) Schengen Area
 * 5) Christianity
 * 6) Quote origin

= May 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 May 23


 * 1) Is this bitcoin mining company using at least 1% of the electricity generated in China?
 * 2) Maternity leaves
 * 3) Sting credit card numbers - have they ever been tried?

= May 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 May 24


 * 1) Anti-fraud laws and magic
 * 2) Anglicizing New Testament names
 * 3) To what extent is marriage a public commitment?

= May 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 May 25


 * 1) Colin Wilson's Spiderworld
 * 2) a Courts and Repingtons - Wiltshire MPs and soldiers
 * 3) Last Judgment

= May 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 May 26


 * 1) Single/double consonants in English
 * 2) Blakiston Rectory haunting

= May 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 May 27


 * 1) two charities working together

= May 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 May 28


 * 1) Human Arm-Bones as Measuring Sticks
 * 2) Usage of time zone in French Canada
 * 3) Deaths in war
 * 4) Nathaniel Bright Emerson

= May 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 May 29


 * 1) (British) Royal Patronage in the Republic of Ireland
 * 2) Who lends money to private equity firms' subsidiaries?
 * 3) Universities in Middle East offering History program
 * 4) Supreme Court vote
 * 5) Hegesias of Cyrene
 * 6) Ancient Germanic Clothing and Fashion

= May 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 May 30


 * 1) Muslim Scholar from the Medieval period
 * 2) Catalog of lost books
 * 3) Number of audio CD titles in print
 * 4) Slave prostitution in pre-Civil-War America?

= May 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 May 31


 * 1) Abkhazia–Nauru relations
 * 2) Assaulting a police officer in the US
 * 3) Law report catchwords
 * 4) No-original-parts paradox
 * 5) Tom Neil chronology
 * 6) Was it ever possible to catch the Blue Riband ship without flying? (if it wasn't late and your connection wasn't early)