Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/November 2009

= November 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 November 1


 * 1) Holocaust
 * 2) Why are American textbooks so verbose?
 * 3) May You Help Me?
 * 4) Cats, drawings of
 * 5) New York Times Crossword
 * 6) Racial attitudes toward children
 * 7) multiple names for Middle Eastern figures
 * 8) Who in the Obama Administration determines U.S. WTO policy?

= November 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 November 2


 * 1) Countries that have never lost a war
 * 2) Odin
 * 3) Two questions about Julius Caesar (the play)
 * 4) Battle of Reimerswaal
 * 5) FX Question
 * 6) EU President

= November 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 November 3


 * 1) Ted Bundy Lawyer?
 * 2) World Series -- 3 losses followed by 4 wins
 * 3) Why is communism thought to be a bad thing?
 * 4) No girlfriend
 * 5) Unaware Prophesied Messiahs, Saviors, Redeemers, etc II
 * 6) Red roses
 * 7) Playing classical music on the piano
 * 8) Nazi Concentration camp

= November 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 November 4


 * 1) Hiroshima apology?
 * 2) Negative view in U.S. multiculturalism
 * 3) Negative view in Canada multiculturalism
 * 4) Turkic World in Toronto
 * 5) John II's nephew?
 * 6) John I of Avesnes
 * 7) did Hitler know allied countries would consider his murderous actions evil?
 * 8) Looking for the outcome of a legal case (if it's publicly known)
 * 9) payment
 * 10) Title and Composer of Music in NFL TV Follies

= November 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 November 5


 * 1) Multilingual legislatures
 * 2) Orlando Navy Exchange
 * 3) Unable to afford shoes
 * 4) School comic book
 * 5) Inaccuracy of Sub-Saharan African Population
 * 6) Does Yoda have the FOXP2 gene?
 * 7) Question about Jeffrey Dahmer's conviction

= November 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 November 6


 * 1) Picture of Thomas Pynchon
 * 2) Name that magazine article
 * 3) cult religion
 * 4) US military deployment policy

= November 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 November 7


 * 1) What were the basic personality types listed by Charles Fourier?
 * 2) Business law: What does (KG) mean in bankruptcy filings?
 * 3) Billionaire lifestyle
 * 4) Lewis Carroll quote
 * 5) Guardianship of Floris V (1258-1266)
 * 6) Richard Ramirez's execution date?

= November 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 November 8


 * 1) Reasons for moonshine being illegal? (in the U.S.)
 * 2) Baron and Count of Thurn and Taxi
 * 3) Einstein's last theorem
 * 4) Klimt
 * 5) What was my salary in the year 19XX worth now, in the UK?
 * 6) Which Saint Rose?
 * 7) Iambic pentameter
 * 8) death sentence  and president approval
 * 9) Christian Democratic Parties
 * 10) Antigone

= November 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 November 9


 * 1) Begrüßungsgeld
 * 2) what is the relationship between truth and reality?
 * 3) Romantic friendship
 * 4) World War II British submarine sonar operators
 * 5) Sstock markets
 * 6) Humans arguing with God
 * 7) State Visit
 * 8) Evolution
 * 9) god
 * 10) DC Sniper's Execution
 * 11) TICAD
 * 12) crackdown on fakes

= November 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 November 10


 * 1) Citizenship of the Queen
 * 2) Creeds
 * 3) Another question about DC Sniper
 * 4) middle-eastern and white american interracial marriage

= November 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 November 11


 * 1) History of neutering
 * 2) Gastric pressure needed to vomit
 * 3) Legality of To Catch a Predator
 * 4) Very interesting geography question
 * 5) Another tantalizing geography question
 * 6) One more challenging Geography teaser
 * 7) Most comprehensive search engine for second-hand books in the UK?
 * 8) When did the changes in pre-trial Small Claims Court procedure in England and Wales come into effect?
 * 9) Place in Lincolnshire, name of Tid
 * 10) Hitler
 * 11) Refusing to testify in death penalty cases
 * 12) The separation of church and state
 * 13) Gelatin, whey, and lard vs. Islam
 * 14) Black immigrants in the USA
 * 15) Communism

= November 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 November 12


 * 1) The Difference Between Sunni and Shia Islam
 * 2) Another challenging geography question
 * 3) symbol
 * 4) Show trials
 * 5) Sacha Distel
 * 6) Victor Hugo's religion
 * 7) How do you call something that you assume to be true, but it is not a dogma for you?
 * 8) Who are the Elfs of Tolkien
 * 9) food prices

= November 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 November 13


 * 1) What is the correct number of figures in Rodin's “Gates of Hell”?
 * 2) History of Volkswagen
 * 3) Interest rates and money flow
 * 4) Health Insurance Costs in the 1960s
 * 5) Man and God
 * 6) 380 villages destroyed by Ottoman Syrian Druze?
 * 7) Ships used in the Battle of Lake Erie
 * 8) History: how horrible was it?
 * 9) Newton’s dark secret

= November 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 November 14


 * 1) Town
 * 2) Greek/Roman statue copy?
 * 3) What percentage of people stopped from committing suicide make a second attempt?
 * 4) american college costs

= November 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 November 15


 * 1) Richest prostitute
 * 2) Infante Pedro
 * 3) Civil war in 60's America
 * 4) How pauper burials are organised
 * 5) question about the law
 * 6) Swiss automobile laws
 * 7) GDP + PPP
 * 8) Late blooming millionaires and billionaires
 * 9) Where to download historical daily values of UK stock market indicies?
 * 10) Trying to find mining court case
 * 11) Third Reich as successor state

= November 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 November 16


 * 1) Business Question
 * 2) Origins of football
 * 3) Legitimacy
 * 4) Highest paid prostitute
 * 5) Picture of Meister Eckhart
 * 6) templetax in the present times
 * 7) What's the average cost of storefront rental at US airports?
 * 8) Very challenging geography question
 * 9) US-PRC trade imbalace
 * 10) Odinga and Moi story in the 80s
 * 11) Description of the library in the Doge's Palace, Venice
 * 12) Literacy rate

= November 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 November 17


 * 1) Polygyny in the Bible
 * 2) update on benefit concert series
 * 3) History of the ball and chain
 * 4) Jade
 * 5) Art style in poster
 * 6) Tutsis and Hutu
 * 7) Where is Mike Nifong now, late 2009?
 * 8) Beauty-subjective or by choice?
 * 9) What would happen here?
 * 10) Seeking references for article improvement
 * 11) What aspects of mainstream Neoclassical economic theory does the Austrian School reject?
 * 12) Addiction, a cure that is lasting.
 * 13) Art question

= November 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 November 18


 * 1) King George III
 * 2) Jesus teaching at a Temple
 * 3) Can A professional Accounting Qualification can be considered as equal to Masters Degree
 * 4) Azeri anthem
 * 5) need an interesting building
 * 6) LGBT and crime
 * 7) Most Inbred European Royal Family
 * 8) Films in the public domain

= November 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 November 19


 * 1) Regulation D
 * 2) One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest - Criticism of Liberalism?
 * 3) Residency and public records
 * 4) Just Compensation in Kelo v. City of New London
 * 5) Fair exchange between buyer and seller - so how come some people accumulate wealth?
 * 6) economics
 * 7) Coughing
 * 8) Victorian Revivals
 * 9) Presidential Middle Names
 * 10) Are there any states or countries where the seat of government is not in that state or country?
 * 11) Can diplomatic bags be sniffed?
 * 12) Maritimes (Nova Scotia, PEI, New Brunswick) Article
 * 13) Whatever happened to Learning Machines?
 * 14) Tiger Woods
 * 15) What is that rhombus-shaped strip of land between Iraq and Saudi Arabia in this map? (just west of Kuwait)

= November 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 November 20


 * 1) Ismailis
 * 2) The Language of Wine Reviews
 * 3) Deleted Yoga Articles?
 * 4) Early Black-rights campaigner
 * 5) General knowledge question on capital city
 * 6) Another geography question
 * 7) Link between St.Louis IX's 5th son and the Royal Dutch family De Graeff
 * 8) Herman Van Rompuy
 * 9) Is Obama Conservative?
 * 10) Correct colors in the Flag of Bhutan

= November 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 November 21


 * 1) Corporate Legal rights
 * 2) Bar Club discrimination
 * 3) Heinrich von Treitschke
 * 4) another geography question
 * 5) Yet another general knowledge question
 * 6) Was my grandmother jewish?
 * 7) Book/website on modern US life in the tradition of Alexis de Tocqueville
 * 8) The Christian Bible is the most successful book of all time

= November 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 November 22


 * 1) Richest & most qualified wikipedian
 * 2) Changing a patron saint?
 * 3) update on international societies
 * 4) Which empire's imperial expansion resulted in the most colonial deaths between 1492-1914
 * 5) Why is science not kept secret?
 * 6) Ferrara, Modena, Reggio and Parma
 * 7) Tik-Tok of Oz and wireless telephones
 * 8) Bondage
 * 9) VIP and VVIP
 * 10) year naming

= November 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 November 23


 * 1) Graham
 * 2) Eugenics today
 * 3) 4 Island Groups
 * 4) NPOV analysis of US federal legislation
 * 5) Inheritance for pets
 * 6) Copyrighted US state laws?
 * 7) Victorian Revivals
 * 8) "Jacksonian mode of discourse"
 * 9) Please indulge my speculation for a moment (naturalistic view of monotheism)
 * 10) How does special education use funding they receive from the gov?
 * 11) What is the best book on Alexander the great?
 * 12) Galileo's fingers
 * 13) Science-fiction novel with literary merit?
 * 14) How could the US fine an overseas cartel?

= November 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 November 24


 * 1) Old "high-tech" font
 * 2) 10 plauges of Egypt
 * 3) Macabre mishaps at sea (literary?)
 * 4) Interesting geography/history question
 * 5) Free money promotions by online casinos

= November 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 November 25


 * 1) Largest parliament buildings
 * 2) Using animation to recreate news?
 * 3) Is this really Romanesque?
 * 4) geeks,freeks,and freekshow a famous artist
 * 5) Psychological effect I: suicide on the train track
 * 6) Psychological effect II: trauma after torture
 * 7) Soundtrack on this video
 * 8) Searching for a quotation
 * 9) Germany question
 * 10) Searching for a quote on writing

= November 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 November 26


 * 1) Tashan Family- Turkey
 * 2) ACORN
 * 3) Sherlock Holmes' sexuality
 * 4) Funding a genocide

= November 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 November 27


 * 1) Muslims and Homosexuality
 * 2) Difference between personal per capita income and per capita income
 * 3) UK law/crime question
 * 4) I have an interest in this field, what is it called?
 * 5) Hungarian Forint *Certificates*?
 * 6) psychology question
 * 7) Port city moved to another country
 * 8) The Women liberation reform of Peter the great
 * 9) Battle of Magnesia

= November 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 November 28


 * 1) The First Indo-European Tribe in Europe
 * 2) Tartars of the Rhyn-Sands steppe (Nikolai Leskov)
 * 3) Why do so many names of British branded medicinal products begin with the prefix "ben-"?
 * 4) Name for type of joke

= November 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 November 29


 * 1) Does Islam forbid football?
 * 2) exact date in 1980
 * 3) Diana Spencer
 * 4) Germany Double Summer Time in the Second World War
 * 5) What name was J R R Tolkien known by?
 * 6) Map of International humanitarian aid given, by country
 * 7) Song
 * 8) Christadelphian and Advent Christian Churches in Sydney

= November 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 November 30


 * 1) Research on Social Interaction / Craving
 * 2) Roll/Role Credits
 * 3) Sense of Time and Space when driving
 * 4) Swiss judges/neutrality
 * 5) Epic battles in 16th and 17th centuries
 * 6) Looking for good fiction/non-fiction about female messiahs
 * 7) Importance of good grades after some years
 * 8) Article on and term for "reading to" (e.g. children)
 * 9) ambassadorial appointments
 * 10) Asian Indians and US Born Pacific Asians
 * 11) Marcus Baebius Tamphilus (tribune of the plebs 103 BC)