Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/October 2012

= October 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 October 1


 * 1) Sir Anthony Knyvet
 * 2) Views on the afterlife
 * 3) Never give a sword to a man who cannot dance
 * 4) anti-zionism

= October 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 October 2


 * 1) What makes a country "independent"? (e.g. Curacao)
 * 2) creative common licensing for the work already in public domain
 * 3) About Indian independence fighter in INA malaysia
 * 4) Did communist forces use civilians as cannon fodder in Menglianggu Campaign?
 * 5) Karaite Judaism vs. Fundamental Christianity
 * 6) Historical Violence
 * 7) A Winged Horse
 * 8) Criminal law in a US private bill
 * 9) Line of Descent from David
 * 10) Representation in the Dutch Senate and House of Representatives?
 * 11) UN conventions and Denmark, Greenland and the Faroe Islands
 * 12) Bruce Coville Story
 * 13) Last Will and Testament
 * 14) Death
 * 15) Kant and Nietzsche's views

= October 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 October 3


 * 1) Mombasa History
 * 2) Muslim nations mizrahi and sephardi jews
 * 3) Jews in Bangladesh
 * 4) Republic of Georgia building
 * 5) Notorious lawyer known for defending war criminals, drug lords, terrorists, etc..
 * 6) Red, yellow, and green lights on the UN General Assembly podium
 * 7) Dates of LaSalle's 1st (Ohio River) expedition
 * 8) US presidential TV-debates
 * 9) Paramilitary education institutes in US
 * 10) Maria Francisca of Portugal
 * 11) Which part of the paperclip product chain is, on average, the most profitable?
 * 12) Alternatives to devaluation in the euro zone
 * 13) Examples of universities confronting the media
 * 14) Are fewer people selling their homes because of the financial/housing crisis?

= October 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 October 4


 * 1) Would "Howl" have been known if it hadn't been subject to a court action?
 * 2) Bangladeshi diaspora North America
 * 3) Bangladesh recognition map
 * 4) historic flag lapel pin
 * 5) German (Nazi) Army 3-finger salute
 * 6) Roosevelt's quote
 * 7) Naming discretion in academic publishing
 * 8) Unsolved problems
 * 9) Alan Watts Audio Recording
 * 10) Secret self-haters

= October 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 October 5


 * 1) Presidential debate myth
 * 2) Gender neutral for John Doe and Jane Roe
 * 3) Citation for Advance Directives
 * 4) Speaking English in America
 * 5) Whats it like to be a beautifull woman?
 * 6) left-wing party ideologies
 * left-wing parties Europe
 * political rivals Denmark, UK, France, Italy, Sweden, Norway, Netherlands, Belgium Spain and Portugal
 * normative but absolute scales of left and right
 * 1) Lesbians and short hair
 * 2) Federal language vs national language
 * 3) No Presidential debate in 1964
 * 4) Afghanistan and Terrorism
 * 5) Does predestination (calvinism) explain why some people are just naturally more religious than others?
 * 6) Count of Barcelona
 * 7) Railways in Ireland: two questions
 * Southwestern Ulster
 * Changes of trains

= October 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 October 6


 * 1) NYT & Blair
 * 2) AM
 * 3) Study for a Caricature by Leonardo da Vinci
 * 4) Black Forest ham and PDO
 * 5) First royal to visit US

= October 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 October 7


 * 1) Paul Guilfoyle
 * 2) Mental institutions
 * 3) Green Card Lottery
 * 4) Bob Hoover anecdote - urban legend?
 * 5) Inhibitions and intelligence
 * 6) John Merbecke memorial?
 * 7) Record number of dowagers in Europe

= October 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 October 8


 * 1) Follow-ups on Suaad Mohamud
 * 2) Boni & Liveright : cowled monk ? soviet posters ?
 * 3) Does this have a name?
 * 4) "your mind is always on your music"!
 * 5) Voter registration requirements in New York in 1864
 * 6) "Sleepy suburb"
 * 7) British Marines' right to search US cities and arrest British deserters after the Revolutionary War

= October 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 October 9


 * 1) Yongle Encyclopedia online
 * 2) Arveprins
 * 3) Why is Angela Merkel visiting Greece?
 * 4) The 4 top dogs are ladies
 * 5) Oliver Cromwell and malaria
 * 6) Recognize a track
 * 7) How did Charles Darwin earn a living?
 * 8) latch-hooking

= October 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 October 10


 * 1) French Guiana
 * 2) Jefferson's views on government
 * 3) Occurrence of Demonic Possession
 * 4) Domestic Twinning
 * 5) Exactly how does Rebecca Black get to maintain composure better than Jason Russell?
 * 6) Israeli PM's red line for Iran
 * 7) Could I buy Greek debt?
 * 8) Federal Penitentiary Service (Russian prison) death rate
 * 9) Who were the 2 Mass. House members who voted against Romney Care?
 * 10) Question about copyright notice wordings by publishers
 * 11) proportional representation
 * 12) looking for japanese communities in thailand, northern thailand and southern china and throughout china

= October 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 October 11


 * 1) RMS Titanic
 * 2) Calculate risk of variable-rate interest loan/mortgage
 * 3) Party registration in the United States
 * 4) Secularization
 * 5) The creation of the Hebrew calendar
 * 6) Luka Magnotta
 * 7) Luxury retailers profit protection
 * 8) Danish throne in 1863
 * 9) Why is marginalism such a big improvement over subjectivism in economics?
 * 10) American railroads in WWII

= October 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 October 12


 * 1) RMS Titanic and American Civil War veterans question
 * 2) big face rock
 * 3) History:The recall of Colonel Amherst and smallpox
 * 4) EU Nobel Peace Prize
 * 5) American Civil War veterans' families benefits
 * Living children of both Union and Confederate soldiers
 * 1) Peerage: pregnant widow of a childless peer
 * 2) Denmark in Second Schleswig War
 * 3) Conflation of totalitarianism with collectivism.

= October 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 October 13


 * 1) Does the Queen own Canada?
 * 2) People on the image
 * 3) Duchy of Cornwall and changes to the British succession law
 * 4) Incomplete information

= October 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 October 14


 * 1) Electoral College - United States
 * 2) Wild Lands Project Corridor system
 * 3) "Hate crime" laws and crimes against women
 * 4) Polarization in US politics
 * 5) World Trade Center target long before 9/11
 * 6) Autism & Mercury - Government Conspiracy for Population Control?
 * 7) Arlen Specter's middle name
 * 8) Brazil HDI
 * 9) Bernhard Caesar Einstein

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= October 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 October 30


 * 1) When did the US and the UK become allies?
 * 2) Two questions about the Japanese military
 * 3) Support for Romney's healthcare plan
 * 4) Winner-Take-All - Part 2
 * 5) Postponing elections?
 * 6) can the same person be chairman and president with a different ceo?
 * 7) Questions about Ted Bundy
 * 8) Journal Officiel des Établissement Français de l'Océanie
 * 9) Austro-Hungarian newspapers
 * 10) Work week in Hong Kong
 * 11) Structure of Petition
 * 12) Of Mice and Men lonliness
 * 13) Russian law about computer crimes
 * 14) CREATING   A   MEDIEVAL   BARONY

= October 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 October 31


 * 1) Mizrahi president of Israel
 * 2) 1912 franc
 * 3) "On the Reasons of Jewish Noxiousness"
 * 4) Why were Indira Gandhi and her son Rajiv so unpopular among the Sikhs?
 * 5) Freemasonry and youth
 * 6) "The New Evangelization"
 * 7) Economic impact of natural disasters
 * 8) Parenthetical parentheses
 * 9) NYPD firearms and bullets