Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/October 2010

= October 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 October 1


 * 1) Reminiscing the dictatorships
 * 2) Proof of identity in antiquity
 * 3) Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union and the United Kingdom
 * 4) RUNNING HORSES WITH RAINBOW IN THE SKY
 * 5) Ethics in Law
 * 6) Who started WWI?
 * 7) Switzerland
 * 8) Sci-Fi story mystery
 * 9) Flags at half-mast

= October 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 October 2


 * 1) RCMP
 * 2) Why do American businesses accept Canadian coins?
 * 3) cuddly gourds
 * 4) Number Plates on cars being blanked-out on TV
 * 5) Vatican City
 * 6)  Republics Democracies
 * 7) Baralongs - Southern African ethnic group
 * 8) The term "public subscription"

= October 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 October 3


 * 1) English Conquests
 * 2) Differences between performances of the same opera
 * 3) Did the trains really run on time?
 * 4) Second-Year CEGEP or Freshman University
 * 5) List of -woods
 * 6) WW II Hugarian History
 * 7) Passport when out of State
 * 8) Unknown object
 * 9) English idioms and proverbs game
 * 10) Idioms and Proverbs
 * 11) Welsh queens/princesses

= October 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 October 4


 * 1) Calculation of NBN rate of return
 * 2) Old World sorcery
 * 3) Social classes
 * 4) Trying to find a quote...
 * 5) First person to declare the earth mostly ocean
 * 6) Unto You our Prayers Arise—Gustav Gottheil
 * 7) Royal marriages
 * 8) US supreme court ties
 * 9) Flowers of the Forest
 * 10) Conculation
 * 11) Painting of Arius
 * 12) Condoleezza Rice
 * 13) How many unborn inheritors?
 * 14) Fork from Science desk question

= October 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 October 5


 * 1) Can you end the recession by sabotaging the gold market?
 * 2) Prison in Sweeden
 * 3) Poetry ref. in the film "The Good Sheperd" (by de Niro, 2006)
 * 4) Most Controversial Bills in American History
 * 5) Is deflation evil?
 * 6) Trying to remember a science fiction novel from the 60's
 * 7) Roman Emperor Julian II
 * 8) Articles of Confederation
 * 9) safety on the floors and grounds

= October 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 October 6


 * 1) Writing games with video game characters
 * 2) Origin of "Going to the john"
 * 3) Gift man
 * 4) Looking for sci-fi novel set on the moon in a socialist society
 * 5) Thirteen Original Colonies
 * 6) SAT essay revisited
 * 7) English noble families

= October 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 October 7


 * 1) FLOSSIE
 * 2) Which country is the best to live in?
 * 3) Chinese Geneaology
 * 4) Famous Santorini (?) painting
 * 5) SCOTUS rulings.
 * 6) Life Insurance claims India
 * 7) Legality of Prescription medicine purchases in Canada by Americans
 * 8) Infringement of persona -- astronaut sues singer
 * 9) "bootmakers to the kings" in the film The Good Shepherd (by R.De Niro, 2006)
 * 10) Looking for plays that...
 * 11) State Designations
 * 12) Why hasn't Iran nuked the US?
 * 13) Life Insurance companies in Bermuda

= October 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 October 8


 * 1) Infante
 * 2) property question
 * 3) Museums
 * 4) Crown Court
 * 5) whatever happened to the author of the imponderables books
 * 6) Interesting phenomenon
 * 7) Flagged 1
 * 8) Two men named David J. Pelzer

= October 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 October 9


 * 1) Muslim accessories to sin?
 * 2) A chronicle of the reversals of thought by the major religions in matters of science
 * 3) Poisoned Eucharist
 * 4) Shanghai, Missouri
 * 5) Which country has the fewest restrictions on free speech?
 * 6) Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in Hamlet

= October 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 October 10


 * 1) Dutch? Artwork
 * 2) Parsippany, NJ and the 1st and 2nd Amendments
 * 3) Kim Jong-il's fashion
 * 4) Tie vote in the U.S. Supreme Court
 * 5) "Block prints of the Chinese Revolution"
 * 6) How are prepayments treated in cash basis accounting?
 * 7) Workplace Use of e-mails Sent From Home.
 * 8) Dissolution of the Nederlandse Antillen
 * 9) How to find a record of a sealed conviction

= October 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 October 11


 * 1) family
 * 2) Why have the rich been acting against everyone's interest?
 * 3) The Great Depression
 * 4) Average Life Expectancy of African-American Single Mother
 * 5) pauline bienvenue "free men of color buying slaves in 1860 in new orleans"
 * 6) 1930s Depression, 1950s abundance
 * 7) Water supplies during the Berlin airlift
 * 8) costs of things
 * 9) Lookup ancestry.co.uk ?
 * 10) The Road by Cormac McCarthy
 * 11) The Big Clunking Fist
 * 12) Roosevelt and the Depression
 * 13) how did rome fall

= October 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 October 12


 * 1) Bengali version of haiku
 * 2) Good things Nazis did
 * 3) Italian comic
 * 4) obviously impossible
 * 5) 19th Century English diction
 * 6) Siamese Twin Terminology
 * 7) Capital punishment in Venezuela

= October 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 October 13


 * 1) Legality of Prescription medicine purchases in Canada by Americans (No. 2)
 * 2) Custodial award statistics by state
 * 3) U.S. federal death row for women?
 * 4) Serbian football team salute
 * 5) Industrial disasters in Venice?
 * 6) Do we have an article on this?

= October 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 October 14


 * 1) Iranian president
 * 2) Arrogant American court?
 * 3) Prison ID of Valerie Suzette Friend
 * 4) Americans ancestry
 * 5) Scholarships
 * 6) Voting record - Canada's election to Security Council

= October 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 October 15


 * 1) How did Albert Battel escape punishment?
 * 2) Most evil female in history

= October 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 October 16


 * 1) website english singular plural
 * 2) Name of a fictional Native American Tribe
 * 3) Confused about my rights in Europe
 * 4) Pretoria - official or administrative?
 * 5) St. Louis Gateway Arch
 * 6) Maratha people with Jain Surname
 * 7) French texts
 * 8) Marshall Field and Co.

= October 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 October 17


 * 1) Name of Science Fiction Novel
 * 2) moral relativism
 * 3) Interactive Theatre gone Awry
 * 4) Levels of communication and identity
 * 5) list of languages sorted by the number of people in the world currently studying them (not as a Native language)
 * 6) Saints excommunicated?

= October 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 October 18


 * 1) Looking for a film
 * 2) New Saints
 * 3) Caspar David Friedrich - Tetschen Altar
 * 4) tax breaks
 * 5) Basic story themes.
 * 6) Find private collectioniers
 * 7) African American history month
 * 8) Presenting one's credentials

= October 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 October 19


 * 1) Kid -- the young of the goat and the young of the human, are they related somehow?
 * 2) Law
 * 3) Why are Greek bonds more expensive than other Euro-bonds?
 * 4) Uplifting classic novels?
 * 5) "Delivery" in telling jokes - how to perfect it?
 * 6) Council houses in the UK
 * 7) Cro-magnon stature

= October 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 October 20


 * 1) Law question:  If gay soldiers come out now, is their fate simply a question of whether or not the injunction is overturned on appeal?
 * 2) U.S.A. Commonwealth of Nations
 * 3) Civilizations for which we don't know their name for themselves
 * 4) 17th or 18th century statesman quote
 * 5) Couplet des enfants

= October 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 October 21


 * 1) Lots of homeless people die due to cold weather each year. I DON'T UNDERSTAND.
 * 2) Eastern Orthodox names
 * 3) can a company sell a piece of stock outside the market?
 * 4) House of Commons bill introduction

= October 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 October 22


 * 1) Incognito
 * 2) Ouellette → Willard surname change in Ontario (1850s–1940s)?
 * 3) Jesus
 * 4) DPRK succession
 * 5) Australian wowserism
 * 6) expiration of order
 * 7) How many Indian millionaires are there in India?
 * 8) safety issues among motorists
 * 9) Dangereuse L'Isle Bouchard
 * 10) Irish refugee appeals tribunal case law
 * 11) kasakhs, azerbaijanis, turkmen...
 * 12) UK council house tenants - do they pay full council tax?
 * 13) Ballet drawings, sketches, paintings during the 1400's
 * 14) How does State v. Federal criminal law enforcement work?
 * 15) Is the Internet making what I learned in Econ 101 obsolete?

= October 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 October 23


 * 1) Paranormal Activity 2
 * 2) Is there an Anime-style Gospel cartoon?
 * 3) American writers abroad
 * 4) 'Currency wars'
 * 5) ninteenth century stocks
 * 6) were witches really wiccan as conceived today
 * 7) kurt f. stone
 * 8) Ray Comfort degree?
 * 9) Presidents of the United States

= October 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 October 24


 * 1) "Retirement age"
 * 2) First Recorded War/Event
 * 3) Street in Bratislava
 * 4) North Africa in WW2; petrol; amount of people and equipment wins battle?
 * 5) do church services cause epileptic seizures?
 * 6) What school recently made D grades failing?
 * 7) Monetary value of framed reproduction of La Fragua De Vulcano Velazquez,Museo Del Prado
 * 8) New Hamborough
 * 9) Marxian economics

= October 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 October 25


 * 1) Man Is Absurd, Says Who?
 * 2) Best book on Mesoamerica
 * 3) India politics question
 * 4) Statistical distribution of income and also wealth
 * 5) Killing of Lee Harvey Oswald
 * 6) UN General Assembly 2010 logo
 * 7) novation
 * 8) $500 billion being taken away from Medicare
 * 9) Studies of the connection between The Ten Commandments and capitalism
 * 10) Has anyone developed a way to measure the rate of legal change?
 * 11) Rank of United Nations President of General Assembly
 * 12) how do I protect my utopia's constittution against corrupt judges?

= October 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 October 26


 * 1) Jhalan and Lohoni
 * 2) US Military and industrialization aid
 * 3) Choosing a spouse: criteria
 * 4) Ayn Rand's definition of "force"?
 * 5) Every Man for Himself
 * 6) CABTC = ___ Basic Training Camp?
 * 7) Et voila! Food platter lid thing
 * 8) Canadian independence
 * 9) Israel
 * 10) Concentration Camp Protocol
 * 11) Nasserism vs. Baathism
 * 12) Watch system in modern times
 * 13) In general, which country is the most progressive/liberal?
 * 14) Albert Einstein, magnetism, and romance

= October 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 October 27


 * 1) Retirement ages and Feminism - logic vs cultural norm
 * 2) Linguistic maps of Latin America
 * 3) Miliband's memo about PMQs
 * 4) Mark Twain's Short story
 * 5) Universal language
 * 6) books about a guide dog on 9/11
 * 7) Dates and location of a festival in Ghana
 * 8) Sarah Palin
 * 9) Most Stupid thing you've ever heard anyone say

= October 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 October 28


 * 1) separation of church and state
 * 2) Western Union memo
 * 3) French military
 * 4) The authors of the bible
 * 5) Marriage in the three Abrahamic religions
 * 6) Other notions of good and evil
 * 7) Statue of George III in Weymouth

= October 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 October 29


 * 1) Death certificate of an executed criminal
 * 2) Who does Rambo fear?
 * 3) Why does psychological trauma exist?
 * 4) Wand of Horus/Pharaoh's cylinder
 * 5) Bottom of the copyright page in Philip Pullman's Once Upon a Time in the North
 * 6) Queen's Regulations
 * 7) Gambling addiction and depression: similar or opposite?

= October 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 October 30


 * 1) Piano music
 * 2) The dying words of Caius Gracchus, Roman Tribune, and his imitation of a Greek heroine:  to whom does C. Gracchus allude?
 * 3) Longest gap between serving as governor in the U.S.?
 * 4) US state secession
 * 5) Which buildings are the Singapore Airlines headquarters?
 * 6) About a sweater bearing motto "Nine out of ten" & a rose
 * 7) Aerial Bombardment
 * 8) The history of patents -- as an incentive to skilled immigration?
 * 9) Flesch–Kincaid readability test
 * 10) Charlemagne's tablecloth

= October 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 October 31


 * 1) Erskine May's Treatise on the Law, Privileges, Proceedings and Usage of Parliament
 * 2) Halloween
 * 3) Scholarship essay on college application
 * 4) Broadcasting receivers in Italy