Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/May 2020

= May 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 May 1


 * 1) Free markets and single-party rule
 * 2) Deaths from 2015–2016 Zika virus epidemic
 * 3) What are the cultural differences between Alabama and Mississippi?
 * 4) Basil Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 4th Marquess of Dufferin and Ava
 * 5) Cruikshank of the News Chronicle

= May 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 May 2


 * 1) WWII German War Decorations
 * 2) Black supporters of segregation
 * 3) Der Veker 1920-1921?
 * 4) Finger pointing in martial art films
 * 5) Abū Jaʿfar al-Ghāfiqī and Muhammad ibn Aslam Al-Ghafiqi

= May 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 May 3


 * 1) Question regarding D. H. Lawrence's Apocalypse
 * 2) Sieges ended by climbing a garderobe
 * 3) Baku coordinates

= May 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 May 4


 * 1) Kantian ethics

= May 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 May 5


 * 1) May the fourth be with you
 * 2) conspiracy theories

= May 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 May 6


 * 1) FDR's speech
 * 2) Ulysses and Bobrikov
 * 3) 20th century
 * 4) Jacky Gordon and her brother

= May 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 May 7


 * 1) Soviet fuel tank
 * 2) Crimes / sexual assaults on college campuses
 * 3) Combining the chancellery and the presidency?
 * 4) Covid-19 reporting basis: deaths per million

= May 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 May 8


 * 1) People in Jesus' time
 * 2) Mary, Mary, quite contrary
 * 3) History of 20th century

= May 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 May 9


 * 1) Siege of Paris painting
 * 2) The residents of Sodom, Shetland--are they called Sodomites?
 * 3) Kalakaua coronation fashion
 * 4) Is there any country today without monetary inflation?

= May 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 May 10


 * 1) Burgh Boundaries in Scotland

= May 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 May 11


 * 1) Moving troops

= May 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 May 12


 * 1) What did G. M. Young write that upset Churchill and Beaverbrook?
 * 2) US federal court rulings
 * 3) Kashmir–USSR border

= May 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 May 13


 * 1) Shortest time in which a novel is set
 * 2) Distance from Iceland to Rockall

= May 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 May 14


 * 1) Writ of mandamus to prosecute somebody
 * 2) Date where Longwood Gardens started charging admission?
 * 3) Strange ritual which involves (allegedly) ghosts and meditation
 * 4) Does lucid dreaming have negative effects?

= May 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 May 15


 * 1) What is the "Baron de Coubertin"?

= May 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 May 16


 * 1) maids of honor
 * 2) History, medieval, shields, concave vs convex.
 * 3) The Iraqi Constitution and the selection of Iraq's Prime Minister

= May 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 May 17


 * 1) Adam, Eve and Incest
 * 2) Afford Insurance

= May 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 May 18


 * 1) Woodrow Wilson, national self-determination, and the Mexican-American War
 * 2) Gerald Ford stair incident
 * 3) Bartkus v. Illinois, 359 U.S. 121 (1959)

= May 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 May 19


 * 1) Sea level
 * 2) Anti-aircraft machine guns on tanks
 * 3) Hot pursuit across US state borders
 * 4) Sea Level II
 * 5) "Harvard outline" format
 * 6) English-speaking Hitler
 * 7) literary device
 * 8) Famous 1800s London person?
 * 9) Riot grrrl and men

= May 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 May 20


 * 1) National Education Union - 19th century Anglican organisation
 * 2) Moral relativism in Asian cultures
 * 3) Sussex - "an old smithy that cried out aloud how it had once been a hall of the Knights of the Temple"

= May 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 May 21


 * 1) Photo info
 * 2) "He was the future once"
 * 3) Fabian Ware img
 * 4) Late ancient Pagan/Hellenistic writer (poet) in, I think, Alexandra?
 * 5) What was the population, area and GDP of the European Communities in 1986, with exception to Spain and Portugal?

= May 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 May 22


 * 1) Dardanelles during Byzantine Empire
 * 2) Margaret Mead “earliest sign of civilization” anecdote?
 * 3) Felony murder charge after someone intentionally kills themselves?

= May 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 May 23


 * 1) "... Forever hold your peace"?
 * 2) Gender-specific names
 * 3) POTUS as federal employee

= May 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 May 24


 * 1) Invasion of Spain during Spanish-American War
 * 2) Idiomatic translation
 * 3) Southern Europeans generally more financially well off than Northern Europeans?

= May 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 May 25


 * 1) Te Rata Mahuta
 * 2) Flynn again

= May 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 May 26


 * 1) Lion's Tail

= May 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 May 27


 * 1) African demographics

= May 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 May 28


 * 1) "Heil Hitler" to Hitler himself
 * 2) Translation of German word
 * 3) How Does Wikipedia Determine which States are Countries?

= May 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 May 29


 * 1) Founding of Papeete
 * 2) appealing automatically places court order on hold?
 * 3) Is it an ad hominem to say that a source is unreliable?
 * 4) "Never again"
 * 5) Family tree

= May 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 May 30


 * 1) Coming it
 * 2) Out-of-state MN rioters
 * 3) Prevagen

= May 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 May 31


 * 1) UK cheques
 * 2) He who votes black is an enemy of our people
 * 3) United Airlines museum