Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/October 2009

= October 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 October 1


 * 1) Dominica
 * 2) First-rate on a lake
 * 3) Marrying Adopted brother/sister or cousin
 * 4) Western influence in Africa
 * 5) "That is so gay"
 * 6) The name 'European Union'

= October 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 October 2


 * 1) Health Care Prices
 * 2) A women-only Swedish city
 * 3) IOC and Barack
 * 4) Foreign currency reserve requirements
 * 5) Criminal organisations in Russia
 * 6) APA Publication Manual errors
 * 7) Urdu as Muslim World's Second language?

= October 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 October 3


 * 1) Art and money
 * 2) Murder in a gay couple.
 * 3) Is there a word for Oriental/Asian/Mongoloid that is politically correct, accurate, and non-offensive?
 * 4) Left-wing unionism
 * 5) Brit honors
 * 6) Royals of Multiple birth
 * 7) The Importance of Punctuation
 * 8) Is there any technique to defend yourself from a shark attack?
 * 9) Looking for newspaper articles
 * 10) Religion of Lithuania before the Teutonic Knights

= October 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 October 4


 * 1) Funding political parties
 * 2) Aid and relief
 * 3) A thought experiment of sorts...
 * 4) Needed for urgent problem facing before debate!!!!!
 * 5) testifying in death penalty cases
 * 6) John de Bohun, 5th Earl of Hereford

= October 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 October 5


 * 1) Divorce in Interracial Marriage
 * 2) Alternatives to market price
 * 3) Market price in the Bible
 * 4) Evolution theory and Bible
 * 5) Magda Goebbels in <>?
 * 6) World Bank loans.
 * 7) Constitution convention

= October 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 October 6


 * 1) Help! How to suggest an article to add to Wiki.
 * 2) What are you opinions?
 * 3) A page that used the color red as an example
 * 4) Privately owned land tracts
 * 5) testifying at death penalty trials
 * 6) Copyright claim in a US telephone book?
 * 7) Mary Plantagenet, a daughter of Edward I of England
 * 8) company takeover
 * 9) English upper class attitudes to working and money
 * 10) Who is the richest Wikipedian?
 * 11) Trenches In Gallipoli WW1
 * 12) Why is Associated Press calling Charles Kao American?
 * 13) Religious Jews
 * 14) Palindrome music

= October 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 October 7


 * 1) Who were some pre-Marxist Communists?
 * 2) Common personality  traits of wikipedians
 * 3) are there secret laws in the united states?
 * 4) What kind of logical fallacy would this be ?
 * 5) Great Examples of Apologies in History
 * 6) Politics
 * 7) Is there a term that define apparent  small edit wars with big meaning?
 * 8) Justices entering courtrooms from behind curtains

= October 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 October 8


 * 1) Aftermath Gandhi's assasination
 * 2) Sindhi shia
 * 3) Persecution of homosexuals in the Nazi Germany
 * 4) 1971 liberation war a religion-based civil war
 * 5) IS there really a presidents book?
 * 6) Social criticism in poems/songs
 * 7) Roman Polanski
 * 8) Public Use of Research Papers
 * 9) Jury Duty

= October 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 October 9


 * 1) 1971 Pakistani Military figures
 * 2) Christopher Columbus influences and experiences
 * 3) Princess of Serbia
 * 4) Pro-LGBT bias on Wikipedia
 * 5) gymnast 1889 world championship Paris
 * 6) Henry Tucker (composer)
 * 7) does the bible show Jesus losing his temper?
 * 8) Speeches
 * 9) Stability of interfaith marriages
 * 10) Which countries has the Westboro Baptist Church organised pickets in?
 * 11) How long do libraries retain records? - Herbert N. Foerstel
 * 12) Evaluations of how-to-get-organised and time-management books
 * 13) Mosaic Law

= October 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 October 10


 * 1) Inbreeding
 * 2) Nobel Peace Prize 2009 - taxed?
 * 3) Comparative Constitutional Engineering: An Inquiry into Structures, Incentives and Outcomes
 * 4) Mid-day
 * 5) Can President Obama keep the Nobel Prize Money
 * 6) What tools do you need to know to test a theory?
 * 7) Can the State breach a plea bargain and sentence the criminal?

= October 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 October 11


 * 1) Biblical name meanings
 * 2) stereotype/prejudice-fighting film
 * 3) US Civil war records

= October 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 October 12


 * 1) Violent crime in Saudi Arabia
 * 2) Difference between Marginal Utility and Marginal Benefit
 * 3) The Boleyn Ground
 * 4) Civilian Security Force in U.S.
 * 5) Milne: fear and boredom of war
 * 6) Ukrainians
 * 7) 'Ovnt Lid' by Itzik Manger
 * 8) Julius Caesar (the play)

= October 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 October 13


 * 1) Aging in cartoons
 * 2) Free lightweight bookkeeping software
 * 3) Who won the Second Anglo-Afghan war?
 * 4) factors of production
 * 5) ATBLA subject matter, No conflict of interest
 * 6) Two masjids in one?
 * 7) Girlfriend trouble
 * 8) What happened to the Okies?
 * 9) "Seagull wine"
 * 10) Where to live in the world?
 * 11) Christ myth theory
 * 12) India and preparations

= October 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 October 14


 * 1) Where are the Soviet scientists?
 * 2) Sundays in Israel
 * 3) Mamma Mia
 * 4) world  history
 * 5) searching for architectural information
 * 6) Geography question
 * 7) BeKoF intro.....
 * 8) MEITEISM
 * 9) Youngest voting age
 * 10) Martin Luther King's wife
 * 11) black and white
 * 12) Chinese "culture" question (maybe it's not really about culture)
 * 13) Pay Palestinians
 * 14) Fear of one's betters

= October 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 October 15


 * 1) Tahiti
 * 2) What is the annual budget of the US Department of State Office of the Legal Adviser?
 * 3) Israeli terrorists
 * 4) Interesting Geography / General knowledge question may be some history
 * 5) two victims nowadays
 * 6) Copyright restrictions on Olympic photos

= October 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 October 16


 * 1) what is the hookers, escorts, and masseurs association?
 * 2) Odd abbreviation
 * 3) John Dee on the colours of angels
 * 4) If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he lucky?
 * 5) Missing reference to primary source in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papier-m%C3%A2ch%C3%A9_Tiara
 * 6) Henry Kissinger and the Turkish invasion of Cyprus
 * 7) Question regarding the entry "China" in Wikipedia's database.

= October 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 October 17


 * 1) which type a plant of miswak is used for these important person? Prophet Muhammad P.B.U.H, Prophet Isa Aliah Salam and Prophet Musa Aliah Salam for cleaning the teeth?
 * 2) William and the Nasties
 * 3) Hadith about killing anyone who insults Prophets of Islam?
 * 4) Chinese People
 * 5) Victoria of the UK + George V of Hanover?

= October 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 October 18


 * 1) Black Brazilian President?
 * 2) Victoria vs. Tzu Hsi
 * 3) Ganga and Brahmaputra - Are they tributaries of each other?
 * 4) Why has the European clothing style spread throughout the world?
 * 5) Oriental vaginas
 * 6) How too write a "diary" in the proper language of "tone" of the late 18th centurey
 * 7) Common sense vs women's intuition

= October 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 October 19


 * 1) About a ID
 * 2) Scottish independence
 * 3) Jesus genealogies
 * 4) For how many years was mahjong officially banned in China?
 * 5) Hamlet rejecting Ophelia
 * 6) Cost of Dissolution of Czechoslovakia?
 * 7) What is word for "crescendo" but with just complexity (no. Voices etc)
 * 8) What is love?

= October 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 October 20


 * 1) File:Old sculpture.jpg
 * 2) Interesting Moral/Ethics Money Question
 * 3) benefit concerts for Pacific islands earthquake clean-up efforts
 * 4) Brades Cockatoo Axe
 * 5) Academic Residency
 * 6) Image location?
 * 7) Japanese presense in southeast asia: c1920s
 * 8) What was the first battle that firearms (small arms) was widely (or almost widely) used?
 * 9) Copyright on Norwegian stamps?
 * 10) mormons in the  military
 * 11) Oisiu-Eiseu and the Tomb of the Unknowns
 * 12) Corporate vs Personal Income Tax

= October 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 October 21


 * 1) LORD OF THE FLIES QUESTION
 * 2) Anatomy of a sonnet
 * 3) Grapevine restraint
 * 4) Christianity In Nagaland-India
 * 5) Benjamin Franklin quote
 * 6) What is on most maps this massive landform (one of the largest of its type in the world) is dissected by a dashed imaginary line?
 * 7) does anyone write with two hands?  (simultaneously, for speed)
 * 8) Literary device like a prolepsis.
 * 9) Why does Jane Austen (and other 19th century authors) use a letter followed by a series of hyphens in lieu of some names and places?
 * 10) Origin of the word "sweetheart"
 * 11) What is the man-made wonder of engineering that required so many workers to complete that a town was built just to accommodate them?
 * 12) What seperates two continents and has many names?
 * 13) What is one of the four largest cities within a familiar geographical shape found by a man with controversial religious beliefs?
 * 14) if gore won the election in 2000
 * 15) Year a bust (art) was made
 * 16) what's a word for something that's sneakily but cleverly pretending it's something it's not?
 * 17) No confidence in presidents?
 * 18) Mocking murderers - Can they receive a harsher punishment?

= October 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 October 22


 * 1) Running dogs of capitalism
 * 2) why is copyright set in the future
 * 3) Ethical VS Aesthetic Free will argument  (author? text?)
 * 4) Why are Kathmandu and the Chatham Islands not on the same hour as the other time zones?
 * 5) What's the name of he phenomenon?
 * 6) Quote regarding Military Generals vs. Musicians
 * 7) Origin and explanation of common definitions of Atheism
 * 8) Oedipus the King (Sophocles)
 * 9) What consumers and audiences like and want?
 * 10) Who were the earliest aethiests, going back in history?
 * 11) correct income level of dominican republic?
 * 12) Travel time Bloomsbury to Southease railway station in the mid 1920s

= October 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 October 23


 * 1) Scholars Cited on Wikipedia
 * 2) How can fines be cheaper than parking?
 * 3) US (state sizes)
 * 4) British Princes and Princesses
 * 5) Command and control still used by the military despite being very outdated in management or business?

= October 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 October 24


 * 1) Jeffrey Dahmer and his homosexuality
 * 2) Six degrees of separation
 * 3) update on "I Love the Islands"
 * 4) Nancy Parkinson
 * 5) Why are rights part of deontological ethics?
 * 6) Jeff Bezos---Amazon---Seattle
 * 7) Historic stock prices
 * 8) Quality at the Centre
 * 9) which public school did James Jordan go to?
 * 10) The Best Of Mrs Beeton's Kitchen Garden

= October 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 October 25


 * 1) colonies in Bangladesh
 * 2) Thought exercise: Banning Divorce in California
 * 3) the belief that human ancestors were giants
 * 4) Case/event question relating to international child abduction.
 * 5) Evolution and the Lemon test
 * 6) Russia Fresh Water
 * 7) Electors and the US Electoral College
 * 8) Active Roman Catholic cathedrals
 * 9) Ethics of Cocaine use.
 * 10) Is the Child Support Agency ( CSA) UK Unconstitutional and,therefore, illegal?

= October 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 October 26


 * 1) Jesus and Muhammed
 * 2) Do people of other religions than christianity use their god to swear as commonly?
 * 3) Clock Question
 * 4) How TALL was King George IV ?
 * 5) Galeros
 * 6) UK House of Commons - Opposition Day Motions
 * 7) Governor-General of the United Kingdom
 * 8) DOCTOR WHO QUESTION

= October 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 October 27


 * 1) Founder of Wikipedia
 * 2) Justices of the UK Supreme Court
 * 3) Rod Blagojevich gag order?
 * 4) SABAM and the freedom of panorama
 * 5) Identify this book
 * 6) MIT's budget
 * 7) Napoleon's relative
 * 8) Washington, D.C.

= October 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 October 28


 * 1) Poor people as an engine of economy
 * 2) Origin of Surname "Karasarlidis"
 * 3) Subramaniam v. Public Prosecutor
 * 4) Time signatures, why do some feel more natural (to me) than others?
 * 5) Top Ten Controversies in US History?
 * 6) Unaware Prophesied Messiahs, Saviors, Redeemers, etc
 * 7) Province of Punjab, Pakistan
 * 8) samurai really cut peasants?
 * 9) Can a psychopath know right from wrong?
 * 10) USA airplane crash records from the 1950s
 * 11) Recent article on loss of sense of self following brain injury
 * 12) memorial to Flight 990
 * 13) why isn't "atleast" one word?
 * 14) Vatican City and the freedom of panorama
 * 15) Investing in precious metals
 * 16) Challenge to the Reader novels

= October 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 October 29


 * 1) comparison and contrast on multiculturalism in USA and multiculturalism in Canada
 * 2) final total from benefit concerts
 * 3) Th. Roosevelt and John Davis Long - conflicting versions
 * 4) Need names of specific theories or names at play here
 * 5) Israel and the swastika
 * 6) Non-Black, Asian, Hispanic ethnic minority American literature

= October 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 October 30


 * 1) does everyone hear the days music while going to sleep
 * 2) The Sweet Trinity
 * 3) Corporate Finance Question
 * 4) 16th century units of length in Venice
 * 5) Docetism
 * 6) Contemporary books
 * 7) color or non-standard black peoples marry whites
 * 8) Art print wanted
 * 9) Did Marx show high regard for India's past?
 * 10) Sainthood of Edward the Martyr

= October 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 October 31


 * 1) Religious stance on origin of life