Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/October 2013

= October 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 October 1


 * 1) Occupational Hazards
 * 2) Real name suing Nom de Plume
 * 3) How much does it cost the US government to run a website?
 * 4) Prison deaths
 * 5) Biblical family tree
 * 6) Vindication of national debt
 * 7) Question on determining Hispanic/Latino identity

= October 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 October 2


 * 1) What was the former national anthem of Luxembourg that is based on To Anacreon in Heaven?
 * 2) Islam in bible
 * 3) Omaha World-Herald
 * 4) Japanese Wikipedia and semi-protection
 * 5) muhurtham ceremony
 * 6) lombards and native italians.
 * 7) Scotland's population density

= October 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 October 3


 * 1) have there ever been studies of large numbers of people doing something for a very short time?
 * 2) What does Barack Obama drink?
 * 3) Jimmy Carter's cabinet
 * 4) Question about Hamlet
 * 5) How did parents toilet-train their kids before the invention of flushy toilets?
 * 6) Asian Americans in government and politics
 * 7) Canadian-USA Border Laxity?
 * 8) Financial and economic costs of anti-gay efforts?
 * 9) Jakob Lorber museum?
 * 10) What happened after the other financial bubbles?

= October 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 October 4


 * 1) Favor Bank
 * 2) Glasgow and Edinburgh census 2011
 * 3) Quote on master/slave relations in pre-civil-war US
 * 4) Advent and Christmastide
 * 5) East african nations Ismaili nizari population
 * 6) Succession of the U.S. Speaker of the House

= October 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 October 5


 * 1) French-Speaking Black/Sub-Saharan African Countries Being More Pro-Homosexuality Than Their (African) Neighbors
 * 2) Noise
 * 3) Who transforms gold scraps into gold bars, if at all?
 * 4) Shakespeare in French literature
 * 5) Unification Canada - US

= October 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 October 6


 * 1) Has there been a German term "Judendot"?
 * 2) Writers who are Ismaili nizari and Canadian and write about Ismaili Nizaris in East Africa
 * 3) Ismaili nizari surnames

= October 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 October 7


 * 1) Verhoeven's sneaking sympathy for RAH?
 * 2) Signing of constitiunal amendments (USA)
 * 3) North/South split in Italy
 * 4) Law
 * 5) Use of the Romansh language in Swiss, legal citations.

= October 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 October 8


 * 1) Hypothetical US law question - Illegal spying?
 * 2) Disturbing images in Revelation
 * 3) Number of nonreligious people who study the Bible
 * 4) Woman president
 * 5) Salaama Hut in Toronto
 * 6) Australia census by ethnicity and religions and by cities and divisions in the federal government
 * 7) How easy is it to get a low paying job?
 * 8) Entering a hotel via the window
 * 9) German Argentinians in Europe
 * 10) Are ISBN numbers in the public domain?

= October 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 October 9


 * 1) What about Peake?
 * 2) Recommendations for graphic novels
 * 3) A Rhetorics introduction textbook?

= October 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 October 10


 * 1) It's drafty in here.
 * 2) King James Version and the Apocrypha
 * 3) Why do Jewish people look white?
 * 4) What proportion of Americans were raised in Christian households?
 * 5) Deregulation in 2000s in the US
 * 6) UCAS

= October 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 October 12


 * 1) Other Examples of Colonial Partitions
 * 2) Was a Comprehensive Encyclopedia like Wikipedia Ever Imagined in Science Fiction or Fantasy?
 * 3) 18th-century Spies
 * 4) Nuclear tridents

= October 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 October 13


 * 1) The Geography of Thought
 * 2) New towns in the United Kingdom, Scotland specifically
 * 3) Against "nationalism"?
 * 4) Scotland Secession Question

= October 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 October 14


 * 1) Percent of the world's urban population living in slums
 * 2) Why are negative attitudes about adultery so widespread?
 * 3) What topics are censored on the Chinese internet?
 * 4) utilities forced payments to itself from customers
 * 5) A free trip to North Korea?!

= October 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 October 15


 * 1) Korean peace treaty
 * 2) Irish surnames
 * 3) When did the horses were observed in India first?

= October 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 October 16


 * 1) source for 1 dead englishman = 10 dead germans= 100 dead chinese
 * 2) Buildings in France
 * 3) Acceptable role of government in society
 * 4) Looking for critique of Dooyeweerd
 * 5) Had there been any confirmed or suspected cases of "citogenesis" on Wikipedia?
 * 6) Style of warfare in the Star Wars milieu
 * 7) A political question about Brunei?

= October 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 October 17


 * 1) Pre-electronic and/or telephonic/telegraphic international trade.
 * 2) Suspicion of possessing a destructive device
 * 3) Visa US bank gift card
 * 4) Invasiveness
 * 5) Walking in the parent's footsteps as a career path...
 * 6) Christian X of Denmark

= October 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 October 18


 * 1) Stephen Fry - Out there
 * 2) Why is Santa Muerte a saint rather than an angel?
 * 3) Earliest written record of the leg transplant of Saints Cosmas and Damian

= October 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 October 19


 * 1) Chinese zodiac
 * 2) Use of OL in German politics
 * 3) Time limits on conditions in wills

= October 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 October 20


 * 1) Liking children
 * 2) Abdication of King George III of Great Britain
 * 3) When and where was William Samuel Henson born?
 * 4) Robbery of medals etc in London
 * 5) Was there any attempted cooperation between Napoleonic France & USA in the War of 1812?
 * 6) What is 'hitting rock bottom' in economics
 * 7) are any foods made of apple seeds?

= October 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 October 21


 * 1) explanation of famous picture: lunch during building skyscraper (workmen sitting down on a beam)
 * 2) Confusion about the Time Line of Events in Hamlet
 * 3) Perfect competitive market
 * 4) File:England Adminstrative 2010.png
 * 5) Washington Coat of Arms Verification
 * 6) Titanic violin fetched £900,000 in 10 minutes at auction - why didn't they wait  for the price to go up further?
 * 7) Since when did the French language drop out of the English tongue?
 * 8) Difference in "right-wing" definition stateside and across the pond
 * 9) Name these stories - two Chinese and the other Spanish
 * 10) Which bible version has the most contributions to literature?

= October 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 October 22


 * 1) 16th/17th century French book describing medieval Paris
 * 2) Whatever happened to Joanne Jacobs?
 * 3) Looking for a good explanation of literacy problems
 * 4) What would be the consequences...

= October 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 October 23


 * 1) humanities
 * 2) Identifying source Journals..
 * 3) Any Info on Jessie Willcox Smith?
 * 4) Wu Sangui (another story)
 * 5) Speed of transport in 1810s Europe
 * 6) Referring to civil unrest and violence in Northern Ireland

= October 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 October 24


 * 1) Relationship between foreign services
 * 2) Fishing dependent communities in Spain and Portugal
 * 3) Is Christianity just more intertwined in African American culture?
 * 4) Andrew Brown

= October 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 October 25


 * 1) The town of Bulembu and the Bulembu clan
 * 2) Editable
 * 3) I would like you to add my books to your references
 * 4) Why does the US spy on its  allies?
 * 5) Sweden
 * 6) Need reference about inspiration of Tolkien

= October 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 October 26


 * 1) Towns called Verdi
 * 2) Tit for Tat (Does the US spy on Americans in Israel?)
 * 3) Information regarding legality of file use and file format propriety
 * 4) Brighton Rock

= October 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 October 27


 * 1) How to get ISO/IEC and ANSI to release the C, C++ and Common Lisp specifications under a free content license?
 * 2) Prince Felix of Bourbon-Parma

= October 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 October 28


 * 1) Prayer Book recommendations
 * 2) Pentecost Island, Vanuatu
 * 3) House of Lords laughter
 * 4) Wikipedia Founder
 * 5) Death of Phaethon
 * 6) The ole switcheroo
 * 7) Getting to the bottom of things

= October 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 October 29


 * 1) Research paradigms in business research
 * 2) Sewel and the Synod
 * 3) King cobra
 * 4) Desk pen holders in the Oval Office
 * 5) Letter for England
 * 6) WW2 musical themes

= October 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 October 30


 * 1) Stock buyout: why include a dividend?
 * 2) Motive(s) and volunteer work
 * 3) Taliban killings of Hazara people
 * 4) Is there a way to tell how dark the skin color has to be in order to be considered "colored"?
 * 5) Where to find papers from the United States Naval Institute Proceedings
 * 6) Older people in the wee hours of the morning in church...
 * 7) USS Haven (AH-12)
 * 8)  Macchiavelian, Machiavellian Kafkian, Orwellian
 * 9) Blood type

= October 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 October 31


 * 1) Picasso painting
 * 2) Iraq war
 * 3) Question about history on courtesy and manners
 * 4) Televangelism outside of the United States
 * 5) In mystery/detective stories
 * 6) Valdemar III's seal
 * 7) Assisted suicide