Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/November 2010

= November 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 November 1


 * 1) History of voteing, I.E. New commers flooding in to effect the outcome.
 * 2) Possible effects of castration
 * 3) Co-Princess consort of Andorra
 * 4) Bronze age axes
 * 5) Richard Adams (Watership Down) bio inconsistency
 * 6) German urban planner working in the US?
 * 7) Copyright issue
 * 8) Native American face paint / piercings

= November 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 November 2


 * 1) carol o'connor
 * 2) Shooting yourself in the foot - US Senate seniority and pork
 * 3) Stock Markets -- Quite Safe?
 * 4) What was Duong Van Minh's religion?
 * 5) The Vatican during World War II
 * 6) Utility of Stock markets
 * 7) riddle
 * 8) Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)
 * 9) U.S. Bill of Rights
 * 10) Poppy day
 * 11) Appeal
 * 12) electric guitar canon!
 * 13) Model of the US government
 * 14) Royal Saints

= November 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 November 3


 * 1) Roger Corman saying of himself that he's not an artist, but a businessman
 * 2) ACTUAL poll results of the Delaware Senate race?
 * 3) Canterbury Tales
 * 4) Guitar technique question
 * 5) Serving process on un-sue-able defendants
 * 6) Out sourcing support services
 * 7) Bonds: maturity and interest
 * 8) What is an International petition?
 * 9) NY Elections
 * 10) What states allow voting on taxes?

= November 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 November 4


 * 1) US State declaring bankruptcy
 * 2) Help in identifying found necklace for unknown deity (possibly Germanic in origin?)
 * 3) North & South Indian migrants in Northeast India
 * 4) A political science question on violence in some areas
 * 5) Eugene O'Neill play with "Ape II" yacht and rowing crew race?
 * 6) Male and female accents (?)
 * 7) Thanksgiving more important than Christmas?
 * 8) How did Russian billionaires get rich?
 * 9) People's Republic Of China - no longer communist?
 * 10) Identity of subjects in 19th century painting
 * 11) Bio on Stephane Gauthier, a French Economist who received his PhD from MIT?
 * 12) divorce rates with and without prenuptial agreements
 * 13) is there a published account that Wikipedia *can't* work and will go down in flames?

= November 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 November 5


 * 1) cal/osha
 * 2) Le Pont de l'Anglois
 * 3) Westboro Baptist church
 * 4) Coin or Fiddle (Antonín Dvořák)
 * 5) why is an idea a deeply worthless thing?
 * 6) Darn this infernal machine!
 * 7) Old Testament believers
 * 8) Fornication in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
 * 9) Secret Police in Eastern Europe, after 89-91
 * 10) Skinner v Freud
 * 11) "Tell it in Gath" (Biblical reference)

= November 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 November 6


 * 1) Pope Paul VI's views on feminism

= November 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 November 7


 * 1) US law protecting the Swiss arms
 * 2) Charles E. Whitmeyer
 * 3) Identify this novel
 * 4) Sourcing Nietzsche
 * 5) in this PDF what was the "December 25th incident"?
 * 6) Alternate history
 * 7) Quote from Rabbi Joseph H. Hertz
 * 8) what is fat people's psychology?
 * 9) "Experimental" suicide
 * 10) kjv paraphrase?
 * 11) Montreal Airport Bus
 * 12) American south

= November 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 November 8


 * 1) Gender stereotypes in toys
 * 2) persian in south asian languages
 * 3) New york accent
 * 4) other explanations
 * 5) When seagulls follow the trawler

= November 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 November 9


 * 1) Skinner
 * 2) Oldowan tools experiment
 * 3) Word for three joint rulers
 * 4) Nabokov on Dostoyevsky
 * 5) Early literary examples of time travel
 * 6) Ernest Coffin - English illustrator
 * 7) Native American tactics

= November 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 November 10


 * 1) Why is Scandinavia so liberal?
 * 2) L'internationale
 * 3) Titans v. Olympians
 * 4) Who is "sworn auditor"?
 * 5) Children's City Maps in Canada
 * 6) Pronunciation of Norman surname
 * 7) Homosexual panic
 * 8) Is it rape?
 * 9) Woodrow Wilson Quote
 * 10) approximate ticket cost form Paris to Brussels or vice versa?
 * 11) Book about an Italian Priest
 * 12) Childhood novels

= November 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 November 11


 * 1) Burial at Church of the Holy Apostles
 * 2) Philip Glass
 * 3) Prez/PM
 * 4) Secret Ballot of Hobbyist Society in UK
 * 5) Millions paid for art
 * 6) Medal?
 * 7) Religious conversions in Northern Ireland
 * 8) Armistice Day
 * 9) Racial homogeneity and liberality?

= November 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 November 12


 * 1) visa question for short story
 * 2) East york and york
 * 3) Scandinavian flags
 * 4) successful therapy per Freud
 * 5) Health Insurance Premiums
 * 6) Is child prostitution really being ignored in the U.S.?
 * 7) Treason in medieval England
 * 8) Is the English flag a Nordic Cross flag?
 * 9) Did Isidore Gluckstein enclose a park?
 * 10) The missing Louis
 * 11) What is the history behind Christmas programs?
 * 12) Mosque
 * 13) separtion of family
 * 14) United States Balance of trade

= November 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 November 13


 * 1) US Libel Laws and the Truth
 * 2) Who  introduced the horse in India?
 * 3) Jackson / Rosas
 * 4) difference between a king and a bully
 * 5) Cats and mirrors
 * 6) Askers and guessers
 * 7) Economic growth, least unemployment, and inflation in the 20th. century
 * 8) What type of marketing is this?
 * 9) US federal law based on changing facts
 * 10) Poltava

= November 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 November 14


 * 1) Stieg Larsson's Millenium trilogy
 * 2) What caused the Netherlands to become so liberal?
 * 3) Revolutions and Demagogues
 * 4) Wealthiest Nations in History
 * 5) Looking for a quote by a medieval
 * 6) Dahrendorf's work on law schools' students
 * 7) Is it legal to publicly carry a spear in Oregon?
 * 8) "Mad Men" and smoking

= November 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 November 15


 * 1) UK Candidate Selection Process
 * 2) Alleged offender, accused, indicted accused, defendent, etc
 * 3) Invasions
 * 4) Literary characters like Uriah Heep
 * 5) Sex lives of the mentally disabled
 * 6) 4th amendment and the TSA
 * 7) How do homeless people die?
 * 8) Marine accident?
 * 9) National Debt
 * 10) Catholic Eucharist for unbaptized ones
 * 11) antisemitic?
 * 12) if you're arrested by the sergeant-at-arms for avoiding call of the house, does it go on your criminal record?

= November 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 November 16


 * 1) Czechoslovakian party organization
 * 2) Ancient demolition
 * 3) Nation Names
 * 4) Death penalty
 * 5) What's the best country to live in?
 * 6) Prince William & Kate Middleton
 * 7) Russian living in Thailand tried by an American court?
 * 8) Short story by Hemingway(?)

= November 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 November 17


 * 1) Eleonor of Mendoza
 * 2) Second-Hand Society
 * 3) Freeport Doctrine article
 * 4) Surviving Nazi architecture
 * 5) Geese and moving on
 * 6) question on public domain works
 * 7) Medal of Liberty
 * 8) Working hours of US president

= November 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 November 18


 * 1) Sin Tax on Goods of Inelastic Demand
 * 2) Footwear for speedsters
 * 3) Dinamo Zagreb
 * 4) Retail Merchandise Performance Hedging
 * 5) Antisemitism and Israel
 * 6) Links? We don't need no stinkin' links!
 * 7) Lions Clubs
 * 8) Learnt depression
 * 9) Stock split and derivatives
 * 10) Identification of painting
 * 11) Do the US Marines really kick recruits out of basic training at the drop of a hat?

= November 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 November 19


 * 1) Why a special interest in bacon around January 30, 2009?
 * 2) Getting out of the military via wetting yourself?
 * 3) When did the 1960s really begin?
 * 4) Albanians pro-American
 * 5) Capital of the Kingdom of Dalmatia
 * 6) Children of Mary the mother of jesus
 * 7) Are we still capitalists?
 * 8)  Baseless accusations Allegations against Julian Assange
 * 9) Bess, you is my Woman now
 * 10) On Royal Titles

= November 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 November 20


 * 1) Mystery Medal
 * 2) Atheist's Golden Rule
 * 3) hi
 * 4) First English child in The New World
 * 5) say you have an eye for real estate and renovation... and $10k
 * 6) Swiss military

= November 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 November 21


 * 1) Elective Monarchy to Hereditary Monarchy
 * 2) Do most people admire their boyfriend/girlfriend?
 * 3) European Union legislation: How much is codecision, how much is consultation?
 * 4) Classic autobiographies
 * 5) In Christian Theology, why do we have hiccups?
 * 6) Heresy trials in Scandinavia

= November 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 November 22


 * 1) European anti-hate laws
 * 2) Time line of Robert Graves life
 * 3) Stronger economy = stronger army?
 * 4) something humanity related
 * 5) Most popular U.S. president worldwide
 * 6) Measures in lieu of criminal prosecutions
 * 7) Travelling from France to England in 14th century
 * 8) Helping yourself
 * 9) What is the point of huge discounts on big-ticket items?
 * 10) Atheist rules
 * 11) facebook
 * 12) Is there an optimum theoretical level of income inequality?

= November 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 November 23


 * 1) Quotation question
 * 2) Extreme penalty for collaboration?
 * 3) do Filipinos worship chicken bones?
 * 4) What do you call this life stance?
 * 5) "We will wear Bally's"
 * 6) What's a runekjevle?

= November 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 November 24


 * 1) Complacency and South Korea
 * 2) Communication between America and England in the 18th century
 * 3) Lee Harvey Oswald's guilt
 * 4) Problems with Optimum Currency Area: Models and differing GDP exposure
 * 5) The surname Griffin
 * 6) International debts
 * 7) where can I change the source
 * 8) Saxe-Coburg-Kohary and Bragança Line
 * 9) OECD tax haven treaty
 * 10) History of the colonial history of Nigeria
 * 11) Lenin

= November 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 November 25


 * 1) Musing about nonconsecutive terms
 * 2) would someone take being cheated on any better if the person their spouse cheated with was ALSO married?
 * 3) Korea - UK's obligations?
 * 4) Longest gap in service
 * 5) If you suffer from dislexy
 * 6) Thanksgiving
 * 7) I just saw The Matrix!
 * 8) British Monarchy
 * 9) Chinese

= November 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 November 26


 * 1) Are gov. bonds traded through the stock exchange?
 * 2) James Cook R.N.
 * 3) Architectural History
 * 4) Question for sword makers
 * 5) how well do celebrities with new names or stage names wall off the same?

= November 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 November 27


 * 1) Katyn
 * 2) Which queen is Elizabeth II?
 * 3) Royal Surnames
 * 4) Most sexually conservative Europeans
 * 5) Selves that argue within oneself - illusion or not?
 * 6) God Bless Anguilla
 * 7) Credit cards
 * 8) In Judaism, were Adam and Eve Jewish?
 * 9) World Leaders
 * 10) Did the earliest Carved Stone Balls have knobs on?
 * 11) Christian Art history, Protestant Reformation

= November 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 November 28


 * 1) why do latin americans like spain so much?
 * 2) Identity according to Palahniuk (Fight Club)
 * 3) Hearing the Virgin Mary
 * 4) Is the Queen Greek?
 * 5) Hans Christian Andersen
 * 6) UK Law
 * 7) History
 * 8) when does the trololo guy say "trololo"?
 * 9) King of England
 * 10) Queen of England
 * 11) Muslim marriage
 * 12) Sartre wanted prize money anyway?
 * 13) WikiLeaks
 * 14) Any Human Heart vs. Earthly Powers

= November 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 November 29


 * 1) website to calculate inflation adjustment
 * 2) Saving the Euro
 * 3) Argentine peso
 * 4) Ten Commandments <=> Book of the Dead
 * 5) Vatican and democracy
 * 6) Broad/flattering self-definition
 * 7) First mentions in fiction

= November 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 November 30


 * 1) Cables about Chinese diplomats
 * 2) Conservative vs. Liberal states of United States of America
 * 3) 'Incoming!' 'To arms!' and other such cries
 * 4) Can someone find a better reference?
 * 5) China blockade
 * 6) Government Grants
 * 7) Regent Princess Isabel and the scandal of the ball
 * 8) Powerful industries suppress health advice in the US?
 * 9) Calgary and Toronto mayors vs. U.S. cities mayors
 * 10) India conservative liberal
 * 11) Sales Tax