Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/November 2013

= November 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 November 1


 * 1) Aftermath of the Great Society
 * 2) sponge brain
 * 3) assignment
 * 4) Legality of castration in the UK
 * 5) Nirvana
 * 6) Condensed Readers Digest
 * 7) Are there any negative connotations to "respecting elders"?
 * 8) Dwight D. Eisenhower and African Americans
 * 9) Euphemia of Pomerania and Christopher II of Denmark

= November 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 November 2


 * 1) Are there any atheists that loves religion
 * 2) The Queen and security clearance
 * 3) Complexity of creation and creator
 * 4) Plato's politics
 * 5) the longest walk in Keds
 * 6) Identification in Simultaenous Equation Models

= November 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 November 3


 * 1) Regions of Population Growth/Decline in France
 * 2) summary of the world political situation, snowden revelations

= November 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 November 4


 * 1) Importance of F-117A shootdown? Greatest victory in the history of warfare?
 * 2) Why doesn't the Army fake Taliban chatter?
 * 3) search for the meaning of life
 * 4) Survivors of the Holocaust
 * 5) Arthur C. Clarke
 * 6) Case citation help needed

= November 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 November 5


 * 1) Restoration of the Monarchy after the English Civil War
 * 2) This continues to bother me.
 * 3) Does the Korean War which started on 25 June 1950 continue thru this day?
 * 4) "Eleventh hour" armistice
 * 5) Okay this time for real
 * 6) Novel ridiculing a character convinced of his self-importance
 * 7) Joesph McCarthy HUAC hearings
 * 8) Why no special elections for US executives (president, governor...)

= November 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 November 6


 * 1) Someone in ancient times predicting cars & airplanes.
 * 2) Old Shoreham
 * 3) centuries
 * 4) What is the origin of represent getting an idea by a light bulb?
 * 5) unusual spy stories?

= November 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 November 7


 * 1) Arguments from authority
 * 2) African Americans dressing up for church
 * 3) Napoleon French Language
 * 4) "Essential Health Benefits" in Obamacare
 * 5) Looking for information on hosting e-archives in the cloud.

= November 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 November 8


 * 1) Deities
 * 2) Legislative vetoes in the USA
 * 3) Different exchange rates
 * 4) The smartest entity  ever,  with the exception of Spike Jones (or Peter Cook) eating alone.
 * 5) How did lawyers earn a bad stereotype of being immoral and being liars?
 * 6) Contemporary War Titles

= November 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 November 9


 * 1) Do some primitive diet people really try to acclimate to rotten meat?
 * 2) Looking for someone to verify the contents of an article
 * 3) website problem
 * 4) Is the Constitution of Brunei the Basic law of Brunei?
 * 5) Did the value of Iranian dinar coins grow tenfold in 1932?

= November 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 November 10


 * 1) Alternatives to the capitalism-socialism scale in political theory
 * 2) Rulers which conquered the most
 * 3) High Anglican use of the Ave Maria
 * 4) Questions about World War 2: How old were some of the youngest cadets in Canada in the war at the time

= November 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 November 11


 * 1) Indirect consequentialism and general human irrationality
 * 2) Divorce in Ireland
 * 3) Man who battled the sea

= November 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 November 12


 * 1) help me identify this (traditional?) melody.
 * 2) Does anyone have any idea what Akrit Jaswal does now?
 * 3) emily warren paintings
 * 4) Fatimah
 * 5) Suicide of Amanda Todd
 * 6) What does Muslim proselytism look like?
 * 7) Do well-educated American Black people lose their African American Vernacular Accent?
 * 8) Black towns and cities in North Africa
 * 9) Crossing the Bering Strait

= November 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 November 13


 * 1) Volcanism
 * 2) Good book on the development of the canon
 * 3) Anglican Latin and Byzantine Church Bazaars
 * 4) 6¼¢ in 1815
 * 5) Do Roman Catholics have a higher tendency to engage in social justice than other types of Christians?
 * 6) Sir Sandford Fleming (surveyer) & Ian Fleming (James Bond & British Intelligence Officer)
 * 7) Can a non-Black person who is adopted into a Black family at a young age be considered part of the "African American" culture and thus ethnically "African American"?
 * 8) Are churches racially segregated?

= November 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 November 14


 * 1) Orthodox Jewish women wearing sandals
 * 2) Yugoslav leader/politician actually  offering independence to Slovenes and Croats in 1920s?
 * 3) Translations of the Missale Romanum

= November 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 November 15


 * 1) Speaking in the House of Lords
 * 2) Speaker of the House - power over introducing bills
 * 3) Telephone manners
 * 4) Second most painted person in history
 * 5) International trade in the 17th century

= November 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 November 16


 * 1) Who is an "officer" of a corporation? Is there a formal definition?
 * 2) Commonwealth and the United States
 * 3) Scientific research on the formation of correct theories that had too little information
 * 4) "Satan" (1829) - painting by John Partridge, English artist

= November 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 November 17


 * 1) totila's siege of rome
 * 2) Is Islamism typically considered right-wing...
 * 3) equal temperament math question.

= November 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 November 18


 * 1) Islamic scholars giving lectures in French
 * 2) James Le Jeune date of death etc.
 * 3) Neolithic revolution vs Industrial Revolution...Which demographic explosions for a given territory?
 * 4) Private property a new phenomenon
 * 5) Is it possible to be a theologically liberal Fundamentalist Christian?
 * 6) Where are the real ten commandments?

= November 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 November 19


 * 1) Medical "norms" and the thought of inhering natural rights advocates?
 * 2) Are Stephen Schwarzschild and Henry Schwarzschild brothers?
 * 3) Summer vacation of US Congress
 * 4) Saudi Arabia
 * 5) Philosophy
 * 6) PD-USGov satellite images
 * 7) The Boundary Between Judaism and Christianity

= November 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 November 20


 * 1) Historical Statistics of/for Various Large Countries
 * 2) Prehistoric Europe article
 * 3) corruption of boardmembers in a non-profit organization-SPCA
 * 4) Name for a human position
 * 5) Obamacare and job loss

= November 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 November 21


 * 1) Handgun handle angle
 * 2) logistically, what difficulties would moving Israel entail?
 * 3) Verified cases of passenger landing commercial jet
 * 4) Is there a Sir Quiller-Couch character in J.M. Barrie's book Peter and Wendy ?
 * 5) The official list of most interesting things
 * 6) Important figures buried in present-day Israel
 * 7) Which Pope worshipped Satan?

= November 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 November 22


 * 1) Products "shipped" vs "sold"
 * 2) What if the King dies before the heir apparent is born?
 * 3) Does this economic data on "Arabs" involve Chaldeans?
 * 4) Charles Martel of Anjou

= November 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 November 23


 * 1) Former sovereign citizens
 * 2) Sunni Muslims into Shi'a Muslims
 * 3) Missing in article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_College,_Colombo

= November 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 November 24


 * 1) German Invasion musical themes
 * 2) Importing an article to be used as a basis for a television series

= November 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 November 25


 * 1) Countries With (Attempted) Large-Scale Territorial Expansion/Enlargement Since 1800
 * 2) Sharecropping
 * 3) Presidents/statesmen featured on US dollar bills
 * 4) Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale
 * 5) "Against God's will"
 * 6) Final scene / climax in Hamlet
 * 7) What Iran sanctions are these?
 * 8) Geneva interim agreement on Iranian nuclear program

= November 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 November 26


 * 1) Presidential laws
 * 2) Ambassador Berlusconi
 * 3) General citing style used in the hard sciences
 * 4) Maldives Greater India

= November 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 November 27


 * 1) Ottoman invasion of Italy
 * 2) Jain encyclopedia
 * 3) Unknown Concept/Philosophy
 * 4) Algerian cuisine other influence

= November 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 November 28


 * 1) Leased Vehicles crossing US border
 * 2) Recruitment during war and peace
 * 3) the lynx
 * 4) When will an article of "The Economist" become a public domain piece?
 * 5) Emperor Franz Joseph I's Cause of Death

= November 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 November 29


 * 1) Scholarly article on religion and horror vacui?
 * 2) Missing U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI) Census Records for 1917/1920
 * 3) Alchitrof, Emperor of Ethiopia
 * 4) Security camera - what does the law say?

= November 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 November 30


 * 1) Is the Chinese government trying to increase the death rate of its own people to cope with overpopulation?
 * 2) Professional domination services in Sweden