Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/October 2007

= October 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 October 1


 * 1) blend, puree ...
 * 2) Humanities
 * 3) Winter works
 * 4) need help figuring out what this jazz song is....
 * 5) How Do I Build Credit?
 * 6) impact
 * 7) herman melville
 * 8) net and gross income
 * 9) Theft of a legend
 * 10) economy of nauru
 * 11) Microsoft/aQuantive deal, Google/DoubleClick deal
 * 12) Football Factory-Best English Film ever??
 * 13) schopenhauer and eastern religions
 * 14) Pollution in Victorian Britain
 * 15) Populations of Colosse, Ephesus, and Rome circa 60 AD
 * 16) Covenant
 * 17) De Heretico Comburendo
 * 18) Copyright
 * 19) Using national flags to represent languages
 * 20) Wright Amendment Argument
 * 21) Sumer question

= October 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 October 2


 * 1) French and Arabic names
 * 2) Prisoner Execution
 * 3) British Empire
 * 4) Poland and the Holocaust
 * 5) Masked Balls
 * 6) Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 October 2
 * 7) Economics
 * 8) Knights Templar
 * 9) India and the railways
 * 10) Word
 * 11) History Writer Adrienne Koch

= October 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 October 3


 * 1) The success of Harry Potter
 * 2) Homosexual Unions
 * 3) Pakistan
 * 4) Nazi social policy
 * 5) Due diligence phase of a takeover?
 * 6) King of sex
 * 7) Christmas battle?
 * 8) LA Gear
 * 9) Ships vs. Submarines

= October 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 October 4


 * 1) Tron riot
 * 2) Norwegian Dialects
 * 3) Franco from the Canaries
 * 4) Franco and the rebellion
 * 5) First Battle of St Albans
 * 6) Types of Colony
 * 7) accounting terminology
 * 8) Inventor of the balance sheet
 * 9) Lord Haw Haw
 * 10) Cotton mill process
 * 11) Terrorism then and now
 * 12) Electoral Administration Act 2006
 * 13) Military Attire
 * 14) biggest modern british killer
 * 15) divorce services
 * 16) as for taxes

= October 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 October 5


 * 1) purpose of Vietnam War
 * 2) Cultural Make-up of Paris, France
 * 3) Spanish fleet at Trafalgar
 * 4) England and Islam
 * 5) Novel as a present
 * 6) Sex as a "food"
 * 7) Is there...
 * 8) Ruling Ideology
 * 9) Deputy Leader of the Labour Party
 * 10) Henry VII and Wales
 * 11) Burma
 * 12) The Merchant of Venice
 * 13) Hannibal
 * 14) nazi voters
 * 15) Pope Benny

= October 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 October 6


 * 1) What poem
 * 2) During the Break/When we Come Back
 * 3) Camprio - painter, biography
 * 4) Renting.
 * 5) What are Tories?
 * 6) Kilsoo Haan
 * 7) About Agrawal and Agrahari Vaishya
 * 8) Wearing of surgical masks
 * 9) Does Frank Tyger exist?
 * 10) UK service industry size in relation to UK GNP
 * 11) Austrian navy in the first world war
 * 12) Philosophy and revolution
 * 13) Thermidorian reaction
 * 14) Georgian era ship travel, and post
 * 15) Virginia question

= October 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 October 7


 * 1) Surfing the web
 * 2) Number of Colleges/Universities in the US
 * 3) Boxer shorts
 * 4) Legal question
 * 5) Ok If haitians are mostly descended from West Africans, Why did half of the slave population descended from the congo's?
 * 6) Catholic and Orthodox
 * 7) English Catholics after the Reformation
 * 8) wise leaders
 * 9) Terrorism then and now-part II
 * 10) Ronald Reagan's Legacy:  Did He Intentionally Bankrupt the Soviet Union?
 * 11) French Franc 1965
 * 12) Edward and Piers
 * 13) Cooking, Children and Church
 * 14) history
 * 15) difference between the mercantilist and the liberal perspectives on IPE
 * 16) And Christ said, "Don't bite me!"?
 * 17) European Domesticates

= October 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 October 8


 * 1) Felix Mendelssohn's The Resurrection
 * 2) siblings
 * 3) Lyrics for Mata Oh Ah Eh.
 * 4)  -stan countries
 * 5) Slavery in Brazil
 * 6) book - runes etc
 * 7) Renaissance
 * 8) Society
 * 9) Machiavelli's Prince
 * 10) Enlightened despot?
 * 11) Lloyd George
 * 12) memorization
 * 13) Vienna and Versailles
 * 14) Opponent process theory as applied to emotion
 * 15) 1968 Draft Notice
 * 16) Exact date of Foundation of New York City by the Dutch
 * 17) Criticism of F A Hayek's Why I Am Not a Conservative?

= October 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 October 9


 * 1) Three Capitals
 * 2) the role of DTI in the economic situation of the philippines
 * 3) socio-cultural demographics
 * 4) fascism in britain
 * 5) If a woman hits a man, can he press charges like how a woman can press charges when a man hits a woman?
 * 6) Hegel and History
 * 7) H. L. Hunley
 * 8) Female murderers in victorian britain
 * 9) Reclaiming the past
 * 10) vintage belly machine for losing weight
 * 11) Welsh coat of arms
 * 12) The John/Jane Doe Memorial "insert disease or affliction" Research Foundation

= October 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 October 10


 * 1) William Shakespeare
 * 2) The married name of the violinist Maria Soldat
 * 3) Meal Monday at Edinburgh University
 * 4) Leaving Cuba
 * 5) Moray and Huntly
 * 6) Dnieprostroi Dam
 * 7) Religion
 * 8) slave trade
 * 9) A tale of two putsches
 * 10) Okay, but you have to work with the loser....
 * 11) Ontario ballot history
 * 12) Town Commons of Tarboro, NC
 * 13) Sheep in literature
 * 14) Nuremberg/Hitler Picture
 * 15) Conducting

= October 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 October 11


 * 1) Is there an advanced search engine?
 * 2) Bengali-Canadians politicians
 * 3) Electricity rationing in Britain during WWII
 * 4) Discovery Process - Civil suits in Canada
 * 5) Wool suit as art
 * 6) Maslow's Human Needs
 * 7) war in the church
 * 8) war in the french countryside
 * 9) Unknown piano piece
 * 10) Looking for Annual Distribution of Vacation Taken in America
 * 11) War Novel
 * 12) manifesto
 * 13) Historical Education Method
 * 14) Rosas and Peron

= October 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 October 12


 * 1) Chinese and New Zealand Holiday
 * 2) Hymn 166
 * 3) Hindu Sufis
 * 4) Comparison of Tito to Saddam
 * 5) Saddam or Hussein?
 * 6) Valuation
 * 7) Saddam and Stalin
 * 8) "role of women in india's struggle for freedom"
 * 9) English crown jewels
 * 10) Operation Sealion
 * 11) Walter Darre and the environment
 * 12) Mithramat
 * 13) Legal penalty for women who seek abortions
 * 14) Ranks in the PLA
 * 15) Guantanamo Bay Naval Base

= October 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 October 13


 * 1) philosophy and metaphysics
 * 2) punishment as the right of the criminal
 * 3) Town Commons of Tarboro NC (Again) New
 * 4) Spain and Franco
 * 5) Derby and Tories
 * 6) Millionaire
 * 7) Annual Budget of the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation
 * 8) philosophy
 * 9) Voluntarism with Mao
 * 10) I need help understanding the short story named "The Birthmark." written by Nathaniel Hawthorne
 * 11) Nigel Hawthorne and Jaques Loussier

= October 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 October 14


 * 1) Voting intentions.
 * 2) MBA in Australia
 * 3) For Islamic Scholars: You cannot remove a despotic ruler if he is muslim
 * 4) Ethics of the bomber offensive
 * 5) Alexis de Tocqueville
 * 6) Quality of life in hell
 * 7) Propaganda
 * 8) Terrorist?
 * 9) Is there a search engine that will search for a shape or monogram
 * 10) The Questionnaire
 * 11) policy and procedures
 * 12) Legend about someone attacking the sea with a sword

= October 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 October 15


 * 1) Global Warming/Climate Change
 * 2) Trying to identify a piece of music
 * 3) The juridic problem of "The Double Murder"
 * 4) The "i" in iPod and iTunes
 * 5) Saint Isidore of Seville
 * 6) Billeting Affair?
 * 7) 2007 Australian federal election
 * 8) Legal principle
 * 9) religion/King James Bible
 * 10) Manditory fine arts training for anybody interested professional degree (law, medicine...) - Where, when and how many years.
 * 11) James I and England
 * 12) "On", a novel
 * 13) Gnostic Gospels
 * 14) Gorky and Lenin
 * 15) Musical Instruments Invented by Americans
 * 16) Modern Dance Picture
 * 17) "Hello"
 * 18) Glass Harmonica tune - Phantom/Haunted Fairground?
 * 19) Something, something else and another thing, Oh My!

= October 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 October 16


 * 1) Bass Set
 * 2) Women Guitarist
 * 3) Slum fiction
 * 4) History
 * 5) Cultural pessimism
 * 6) British Identity Cards
 * 7) On the Marble Cliffs
 * 8) Austro-Hungary
 * 9) Voting
 * 10) Diplomacy: ways of not answerering a question
 * 11) Pirates of the Early 20th Century
 * 12) Transference of a soul from body to body
 * 13) Low Income and Equity

= October 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 October 17


 * 1) bangladesh iran
 * 2) Beginning of Christian liturgical calendar day?
 * 3) Caspar Contarini
 * 4) Battle of the Somme
 * 5) Success and failure
 * 6) Foreign policy of Elizabeth of England
 * 7) Citing a historical marker
 * 8) First Zeppelin Flight
 * 9) Someone...?
 * 10) Dalai Lama
 * 11) Islamic calendar and agriculture
 * 12) Ghosts
 * 13) Tatarstan Airlines  logo
 * 14) The Old Testament and afterlife

= October 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 October 18


 * 1) Norwegian Dialects
 * 2) British military commissions and regiments
 * 3) 101
 * 4) The original Jews in Palestine and the proclamation of Israel
 * 5) Communist slowdown
 * 6) Crimes against the Germans
 * 7) Hardwicke's Marriage Act
 * 8) White House coup
 * 9) White people
 * 10) Punctuation with numbers
 * 11) First European Union
 * 12) private music theory website
 * 13) What currency
 * 14) Fitzhugh Brundage: American Historian
 * 15) reasons why america entererd wars

= October 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 October 19


 * 1) How many of the traditional cultural icons of Britian are actually imported?
 * 2) Genesis:  You shall desire your husband
 * 3) Relation between index futures and underlying index?
 * 4) industrial pollution
 * 5) Are Holocaust deniers cranks?
 * 6) Oliver Cromwell
 * 7) Proffesions
 * 8) Chinese Scholar Question
 * 9) Congressional Medal of Honor
 * 10) Old Nick
 * 11) Pius XII-Hitler's Pope?
 * 12) Korean War
 * 13) Becoming an officially recognized state religion
 * 14) Request for admission into medical by an international student
 * 15) Parerga and Paralipomena
 * 16) sensitive index

= October 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 October 20


 * 1) Pakistan People's Party arch-rival
 * 2) Spontaneous Unwanted Thoughts
 * 3) Apostrophes
 * 4) Who were the Liberated Africans?
 * 5) Accessible books on socialism?
 * 6) sex ratio in public events
 * 7) Product mix/Product assortment
 * 8) What do you call this phenomenon?
 * 9) Board of associated loyalists
 * 10) David Irving
 * 11) Adolf Hitler
 * 12) People's convention
 * 13) Life in Stalin's Russia
 * 14) Jewish clothing
 * 15) Two tunes
 * 16) Sabotaging Relationships
 * 17) Edits Needed - Angelina Grimke

= October 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 October 21


 * 1) Need help interpreting St. Augustine
 * 2) Judge's options
 * 3) India National congress
 * 4) Sri Lanka political arch-rivals
 * 5) CIA in Tibet
 * 6) William Walsingham
 * 7) Robert Reston
 * 8) Cawnpore Massacre
 * 9) Madaba map (mosaic)
 * 10) Pronanciation of a Sanscrit word
 * 11) Fascist Poland?
 * 12) Nazis and Christians
 * 13) Austerlitz
 * 14) Royalty and Passports
 * 15) discrimination of Germans in Norther Ireland
 * 16) A doubt that I can't find answer!!!
 * 17) Reading aloud in the 19th century
 * 18) Muslim women in 19th century Egypt
 * 19) Born at sea
 * 20) linking to other wiki articles

= October 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 October 22


 * 1) Religion and Excuses
 * 2) Virginia elections.
 * 3) Meaning of saying
 * 4) Gustav Mahler. . . Violin Concert?
 * 5) What day is it?
 * 6) Male-female sex ratio using Social Networking Sites
 * 7) Giulio Genoino
 * 8) Winter War
 * 9) Spanish Armada
 * 10) Attitudes to slavery
 * 11) Hearing my native language spoken abroad
 * 12) (long title moved by ⁪ffroth )

= October 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 October 23


 * 1) Here is a silly question
 * 2) Iranian Numerology
 * 3) Influence of abolition
 * 4) Denikin's Moscow Offensive
 * 5) humanities
 * 6) Roman salute
 * 7) James I of Scotland and Pope Eugenius IV
 * 8) Ecna or Ecne
 * 9) National Vocational Competition
 * 10) Hanlon's Law
 * 11) Fernão Mendes Pinto
 * 12) MBA
 * 13) Low Equity

= October 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 October 24


 * 1) $3000 in 1849
 * 2) Tumbo, 3rd son of Shiva
 * 3) Help with an origami envelope
 * 4) taxes for international travelers
 * 5) kabballa
 * 6) Schattendorf Incident
 * 7) Oleksh Rozumovsky
 * 8) editing an entry
 * 9) spatula/scapula
 * 10) Confederate armory
 * 11) A legal question
 * 12) Motorway cult
 * 13) Montrose's Highland War
 * 14) The Purges
 * 15) America and Americas
 * 16) Attendees of the Roman Colloseum
 * 17) Single parent
 * 18) Peter the Great

= October 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 October 25


 * 1) Fleetwood Mac Everywhere song
 * 2) Divorce in Protestant Christianity vs. The Christian Bible
 * 3) Liberals versus Tories
 * 4) Bess Meyerson
 * 5) Black heads of state
 * 6) taxes for international travelers
 * 7) pentecostal
 * 8) Lloyd George Protest
 * 9) Czar Nicholas in London
 * 10) Deja vu dreams?
 * 11) What happened to the monks
 * 12) Truckle/trundle bed (history of)
 * 13) searching for article describing neocon 'plot' to affect a permanent Republican Presidency and Congress
 * 14) The progress of "economics."
 * 15) U Boats and Ireland
 * 16) Feminist critique of Sociology
 * 17) Wife of the neurologist Dr. Moritz Benedikt
 * 18) Sliding average of economic growth
 * 19) German short story
 * 20) The Needles
 * 21) Republican Presidential Races
 * 22) SIngle Parent

= October 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 October 26


 * 1) Another legal question
 * 2) A different path?
 * 3) Efficiency in Europe vs the US
 * 4) Tudor supremacy
 * 5) Stephen Gardiner
 * 6) Comic Books and Law
 * 7) Daniel Halévy-the politics of disillusion
 * 8) Kent miners' strike of 1942
 * 9) Nazi studies
 * 10) Assault
 * 11) megans law

= October 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 October 27


 * 1) Finding visual and audio sources
 * 2) Aircraft Carrier Question
 * 3) Searching for "that" word
 * 4) What about Trotsky?
 * 5) Philip the fanatic
 * 6) Chaucer and Hawkwood
 * 7) Elizabeth II-Descent from William I-closest relationship to other Kings and Queens.
 * 8) Betrayal in Spain
 * 9) how do I alternate two colors for the sides of a triangle
 * 10) Race thoughts
 * 11) Stocks
 * 12) Henry IV Part II
 * 13) Capital of Holy Roman Empire
 * 14) Low Income and Equity
 * 15) Leather reds
 * 16) Ambigramic song

= October 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 October 28


 * 1) "Greetings"
 * 2) The costume of a French physician in 1650
 * 3) Where is the fallacy in this proof?
 * 4) Nazi war criminal
 * 5) Black loyalists in the Bahamas
 * 6) What is meant by the 1848 revolution of the liberals
 * 7) "Spanish Galleon" by Brittni
 * 8) Sir Richard and Catholic Emancipation
 * 9) Strasser and Goebbels
 * 10) National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
 * 11) Can terrorism be legally justified?
 * 12) Napoleon's legacy
 * 13) Angkar-Kampuchea
 * 14) Norway at the end of WWII
 * 15) Strengths of the UK Constitution
 * 16) Lost works of Liszt
 * 17) Concise Oxford English Dictionary vs Oxford English Dictionary
 * 18) Relationship of King Stephen to Elizabeth II

= October 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 October 29


 * 1) Modern Princesses
 * 2) British House of Commons - Prime Minister Questions - Standing and Sitting
 * 3) Impacts of the 23rd Amendment
 * 4) Elizabeth II-Descent from William I
 * 5) A somewhat unethical inquiry...
 * 6) Why does the South (especially rural) dominate the American literary imagination?
 * 7) Ultimate goals in Religion
 * 8) Charles of Habsburg
 * 9) Angels On a Pin
 * 10) German field executions
 * 11) the sword in the stone
 * 12) Edward VI, Mary I, Elizabeth I, relationship to Queen Elizabeth II, Descebt from William I
 * 13) Bhutan
 * 14) Civilized War?
 * 15) Rome HBO series
 * 16) Lazy Hitler
 * 17) Sun King

= October 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 October 30


 * 1) Charles II and Tiberius
 * 2) 'Port corn' & 'sound corn' in 16th century English agriculture, trade and markets
 * 3) British immigration legislation
 * 4) Who suggested the idea of scientific journal for the first time?
 * 5) Why did they fight?
 * 6) Wives and Daughters
 * 7) Why did they kill Louis XVI?
 * 8) Jerzy Kropiwnicki, President (Mayor) of Łodz
 * 9) William III in the descent of Elizabeth II from William I
 * 10) Best DOW Index Direction Indicator
 * 11) Source of quotation
 * 12) French Anti-Semitism
 * 13) Lockerbie Kick
 * 14) Where is this from?
 * 15) EU oil imports
 * 16) search engines

= October 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 October 31


 * 1) Dooyeweerdian Modal Scale Library Categorization
 * 2) How to check someone's academic credentials?
 * 3) Russian ambassadors to King Louis XIV
 * 4) Bangladeshi Television networks
 * 5) Criminal Justice
 * 6) Drink Driving Cost To The Public
 * 7) Criteria for Last Will and Testament
 * 8) Your friendly annoying neighborhood park pigeon is tasty...
 * 9) Witchcraft
 * 10) More Angkar
 * 11) 9-gun salute?
 * 12) Cattle and stairs
 * 13) management/external environment of an organisation
 * 14) Christchurch College, Cambridge?
 * 15) The It Girl
 * 16) Prisoner of the Vatican
 * 17) Mary
 * 18) Washington D.C.
 * 19) Invasion 1805
 * 20) Post revolutionary economics
 * 21) Camp Siegfried
 * 22) Lady Jane Grey
 * 23) Maximal distance between two places visited by one person : who broke what record?
 * 24) Hafiz-e Shirazi
 * 25) Fuller and the Red Army
 * 26) Gerald Laverne? Jerrold Laverne?
 * 27) Enlish word that means "sound of tires on a wet road"?
 * 28) What is controversial about the book 'How the Mind Works'?