Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/November 2008

= November 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 November 1


 * 1) information on law
 * 2) Depends on murder?
 * 3) Lack of foresight in government?
 * 4) Balignant episode
 * 5) minor parties
 * 6) Corridors
 * 7) Kansas City
 * 8) War profiteers and banking families
 * 9) what is the opposite or rival of the Phoenix?
 * 10) Tocharian Religion pre-Buddhism
 * 11) Give me back my tail - hunter tormented by thing in forest

= November 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 November 2


 * 1) British Isler
 * 2) Eastern European in Toronto
 * 3) Socialism
 * 4) Psychological Disorder
 * 5) Call at lunchtime
 * 6) Are mixed race people smarter or not smarter?
 * 7) Bierce quote
 * 8) Moonlight
 * 9) invoice
 * 10) 1960s Israeli communist newspapers
 * 11) Bollywood
 * 12) New York Times vs. US

= November 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 November 3


 * 1) US election
 * 2) Religion
 * 3) Meiendorf Castle, near Moscow?
 * 4) Charismatic Leaders, Orwellianism, Propaganda, and Groupthink
 * 5) Fairy Tale Motif
 * 6) economics
 * 7) US presidential election poll?
 * 8) Sexsmith
 * 9) Identifying Reformed theologians

= November 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 November 4


 * 1) Fewer Homosexual Blacks
 * 2) American Revolution a coup?
 * 3) Approach to writing a biography
 * 4) Obama LA Interview
 * 5) US Ambassador postings
 * 6) Voting machines in the USA
 * 7) who is favored to win the election and by how much?
 * 8) what is the effect of the economy?
 * 9) american election
 * 10) Bengali script
 * 11) term in office
 * 12) Learning about other cultures
 * 13) betting site for elections?
 * 14) U.S 2008
 * 15) Religious Pluralism.
 * 16) Pliny quotes on the Netherlands
 * 17) Statute of limitations in Hawaii
 * 18) Health problems and elections

= November 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 November 5


 * 1) President Start Date?
 * 2) Roe v. Wade Question
 * 3) Shiny question
 * 4) 848
 * 5) METAL BOATS FIRST USED WHEN?
 * 6) painting sources
 * 7) List of United States Presidents by college education...
 * 8) Multiculturalism in Uzbekistan
 * 9) Which US Presidents were sons of immigrants?
 * 10) Margin of victory
 * 11) Obama
 * 12) Is a progressive income tax considered socialist?
 * 13) Obama - The first time a black person becomes president of a majority white state?
 * 14) Leader of the Party
 * 15) Democrats and Republicans
 * 16) What does entropy have to do with a surjective sense of time?

= November 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 November 6


 * 1) Musical taste and recreational drugs
 * 2) Friedrich Nietzsche on cocaine?
 * 3) Suing an abortionist for refusing to perform an abortion
 * 4) Naval attire
 * 5) Military healthcare law change
 * 6) what do they mean?
 * 7) Heaven
 * 8) what am I?

= November 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 November 7


 * 1) In our midst
 * 2) South Caucasus = Middle East?
 * 3) Prime Minister of Canada
 * 4) Religion in Japan
 * 5) national bankruptcy - article in wikipedia missing
 * 6) LaRouche Democrats
 * 7) On Proving Princess Diana's Importance to the World
 * 8) us presidentcy
 * 9) Happiness and motivation in Marxism
 * 10) United States Presidents and visual/hearing impairments

= November 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 November 8


 * 1) NY Drug Case Law.
 * 2) Not asking for legal advice!
 * 3) Madras Presidency
 * 4) Surname
 * 5) Love worth the pain? (a reading list)
 * 6) Oldest Roman Arch
 * 7) Leap years and bachelors
 * 8) When religions 'borrow' ideas from earlier religions
 * 9) Historical congressional district maps
 * 10) famous soldiers before Napoleon

= November 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 November 9


 * 1) Child labor laws in Ohio?
 * 2) U.S. Federal Personal Income Tax Revenue
 * 3) Independence of Cambodia and Vietnam
 * 4) 1969 Moon Landing
 * 5) Collective Unconscious
 * 6) Goering's Desk
 * 7) Help thinking of an original name for a website about the british monarchy...
 * 8) The Trial
 * 9) Update - Census and the Oregon Trail
 * 10) rewriting request
 * 11) Absurdism
 * 12) Corruption

= November 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 November 10


 * 1) Rights to works in the public domain?
 * 2) Polish Prisons Conditional Release
 * 3) God's fate
 * 4) conflict..help
 * 5) Queen dowager - exist anymore?
 * 6) Longest court-action in british history?
 * 7) Browsing Microsoft's digitized books?
 * 8) Mergers & Acquisitions
 * 9) Follow on question from Queen Mother/Dowager

= November 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 November 11


 * 1) Quotation marks in the Bible
 * 2) Orwellian Rhetorical Devices
 * 3) Youth violence
 * 4) prominent leader for Sunni and Shi'a community in Lebanon
 * 5) Royal British Legion - inappropriate photo?
 * 6) What does the captain of a carrier get paid?
 * 7) post-election campaign funds
 * 8) What's the Latin tag?

= November 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 November 12


 * 1) 74.14.117.196 questions
 * 2) How does he look like
 * 3) US one-party state
 * 4) Moses's Egypt?
 * 5) Fastest growing sorority?
 * 6) descendants of ancient famous figures
 * 7) what is the period of time the supreme court hears cases
 * 8) Run on a currency?

= November 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 November 13


 * 1) Babylon as a symbol of "orgiastic decadence"
 * 2) Any relation...?
 * 3) This book title
 * 4) Back from the dead
 * 5) Can you help me find the original projections of social networking sites such as Facebook and Myspace
 * 6) Role of the Israeli prime minister
 * 7) Calling Joe de Maistre
 * 8) Charles Dickens Quiz Question
 * 9) first world war and Vatican
 * 10) Bengali Christians and Buddhists
 * 11) Educational background of Sara Palin
 * 12) Jim Jones Massacre
 * 13) Looking for Fairytale or other stories..
 * 14) Joe Biden endorses...
 * 15) (Newspaper) layout: why this?
 * 16) Factors that Affect Air Fuel Price in India
 * 17) Anthropocentric viewpoint and animals
 * 18) UK Gold state coach
 * 19) Did whites participate in the Biafra war?

= November 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 November 14


 * 1) US State Legislature Control
 * 2) famous schools for the gifted
 * 3) what's the wrongest anyone's been?
 * 4) Capital Adequacy Ratio
 * 5) the shifting sands of the census
 * 6) Origin of the verb 'To stonewall'
 * 7) Demographics of the Market Street/Civic Centre area of San Francisco
 * 8) Is it vandalism?
 * 9) What is meant by Bhakthi yoga?
 * 10) Reference - Nonverbal communication - psychology
 * 11) Hindostan, BS
 * 12) Spiriting informants
 * 13) Drugs to fight boredom at work?
 * 14) ettiquette differences?
 * 15) Killed or wounded in Action - information policy

= November 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 November 15


 * 1) Why did Western Europe take over the world?
 * 2) Is there such a place
 * 3) Why is there something rather than nothing?
 * 4) White Horses
 * 5) Arguments made against womens' and blacks' rights in U.S. History
 * 6) State of nations
 * 7) Languages
 * 8) Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 November 15
 * 9) culture/art as oppression
 * 10) Theological Libraries in the Northwest
 * 11) English

= November 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 November 16


 * 1) Fail.
 * 2) ?Just Curious
 * 3) Gay Right movements
 * 4) Employment by small business in Jamaica
 * 5) I don't know what my ethncitity is.
 * 6) On fate: are we a function of the universe?
 * 7) near collision with another flight
 * 8) Paradox
 * 9) financial management
 * 10) Marx quote on Schopenhauer
 * 11) Patent
 * 12) Why were lots of houses built during the 1930s slump in the UK?
 * 13) Shipping cost, cheapest prices
 * 14) How many divorced Indians are there in India?
 * 15) Montesquieu/Diderot Impacts

= November 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 November 17


 * 1) How to implement/awareness Human Rights  in different community around world?
 * 2) Pronunciation of Deskovic
 * 3) Edgar Allen Poe question
 * 4) video documentary about original composition of the bible
 * 5) Why did the proto-indo-european peoples spread so far?

= November 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 November 18


 * 1) Contract law essay
 * 2) Awami League and Bangladesh Nationalist Party's alliance
 * 3) Psychology question:  name this feeling!
 * 4) Does Bangladesh have a military alliance with India or Pakistan today?
 * 5) Were battles in the middle ages fought 24/7?
 * 6) % of us population that knows who noam chomsky is
 * 7) is it true that japanese school-children stand?

= November 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 November 19


 * 1) Why was Spain at the recent G20 Summit.
 * 2) Leadership  styles
 * 3) Messiahs in History
 * 4) Side-spring boots in Heart of Darkness
 * 5) US Capitol Trolley Car
 * 6) Imported Oil for India
 * 7) Chad
 * 8) Izhevsk
 * 9) Monetary values compared between 1918 and 2008
 * 10) Awami League, Bangladesh Nationalist Party, Indian National Congress, Bharatiya Janata Party, Pakistan Muslim League, Pakistan Peoples Party

= November 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 November 20


 * 1) stock movements
 * 2) Things like National Federation of the Blind v. Target Corporation
 * 3) Source for military decoration citations
 * 4) Afro-american male crime.
 * 5) guitar versus piano
 * 6) Twins as heir to a throne
 * 7) Child monarch in modern age
 * 8) Witch trials in 19th century Latin America
 * 9) Incest, bigamy and homsexuality in L'ancien regime
 * 10) Sub-districts elections
 * 11) Who are 'latinos'
 * 12) What is the best evidence that some Gitmo prisoners were sold to us the US?

= November 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 November 21


 * 1) Security Council votes
 * 2) solution to the financial crisis
 * 3) Trying to figure out the name of a classical music song
 * 4) Great Britain welfare
 * 5) 李印泉 (Li Yinquan)

= November 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 November 22


 * 1) Federal political parties in India
 * 2) Seats in South Asian Parliaments
 * 3) Seeking reference materials on Ilse (F.) (Davidsohn) (Intrator) Stanley
 * 4) Books on Guarany/Guarani language?
 * 5) Benefits of a bachelor degree for police officers?
 * 6) Language spoken in heaven
 * 7) design
 * 8) Asking age/sex/race questions of an applicant
 * 9) presidential gifts
 * 10) Proof of religion
 * 11) Islam: group conversation customs?

= November 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 November 23


 * 1) Instinct
 * 2) The movie Caligula and historical accuracy
 * 3) Pakistani Muslim Scholars by language
 * 4) Indian Languages in Tafsirul Quran
 * 5) Rigorous Education System
 * 6) this talk attributed to Noam Chomsky
 * 7) How many US presidents are of at least partial British descent?
 * 8) Religious council declaring excrement "Holy"
 * 9) (still open question) about the title of a Song I played in FMEA symphonic band
 * 10) TANFF

= November 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 November 24


 * 1) Typical meal for famine-type people
 * 2) I need; Free, Real Time, Level 1, Stock and Comodity Quotes, Streaming or otherwise.
 * 3) Muslims and pork-based medicines
 * 4) which orchestra instruments play chords?
 * 5) I have a question about a strange word

= November 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 November 25


 * 1) The Cross Section Of The Zeit-Geist
 * 2) Political Figures
 * 3) Left-Hand Path and Deism
 * 4) Double standards about marriage
 * 5) God and Free Will
 * 6) What does this saying mean
 * 7) Sirat al-Mustaqim/Sirat al-Jahim/As-Sirāt - is it in the Quran?
 * 8) Why was a Spanish princess called "of Austria?

= November 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 November 26


 * 1) West Bengal November 2008 election
 * 2) Mythology
 * 3) What do smart lottery ticket winners do with money?
 * 4) please help
 * 5) Punishment for Incest in 18th century
 * 6) Hardly any witches in Portugal - what about the exeptions?
 * 7) Turkey pardoning
 * 8) TV listings of US war dead in Iraq and Afghanistan
 * 9) Kierkegaard quotation--Sealed orders
 * 10) Crete
 * 11) Czech party name
 * 12) Hudibrastic poet named Green
 * 13) Why is Christianity considered monotheistic?
 * 14) Questions about Martin Luther King article.
 * 15) MLA style

= November 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 November 27


 * 1) Iraq Christians
 * 2) how much money would the US have to print to make the dollar lose 80% of its value?
 * 3) Last King of Rapa Nui?
 * 4) French history -early christianity
 * 5) If Ireland left the UK...
 * 6) Continental Aspects of American Constitutional Theory
 * 7) Libertarian Socialism is a contradiction in terms.
 * 8) Origin of trash talking?

= November 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 November 28


 * 1) I Have a riddle
 * 2) explain my spam
 * 3) Radar Base in the Czech Republic
 * 4) Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District
 * 5) Literary "cycles"
 * 6) First human - according to Bible
 * 7) Do American universities really give credits for appearing in porn?
 * 8) In which historical period did Orlando and Marmaduke marry?
 * 9) Another history question - inns in 16th Century Venice

= November 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 November 29


 * 1) Famous quote
 * 2) A shadow detaching from its owner, and turning into an evil being
 * 3) Hate poems
 * 4) Otto Nadolski
 * 5) British police operation
 * 6) National Bankruptcies..
 * 7) Pakistan
 * 8) Bad Company song
 * 9) Where does stereotypical 'gay' behavior originate?
 * 10) European citizen outside the EU

= November 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 November 30


 * 1) Barcode Tattoo Scenario
 * 2) Person mentioned in Letters to Olga''
 * 3) Hungarian language query: Dolgozók vs Munkás
 * 4) Authenticity of a history doctrate
 * 5) How to deal with weasels?
 * 6) Marriage in the New Testament Bible