Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/October 2014

= October 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 October 1


 * 1) Women on boats
 * 2) Identifying an author

= October 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 October 2


 * 1) A Sexual Odyssey: From Forbidden Fruit to Cybersex
 * 2) Ebola transmissibility
 * 3) Greek mythology question
 * 4) Mythology and Religion:
 * 5) Queen Elizabeth II and her different realms

= October 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 October 3


 * 1) Arc of Life
 * 2) Immigrants in Russia
 * 3) Patton quote
 * 4) Order of the seven days of the week vs. order of the seven Ptolemaic planets

= October 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 October 4


 * 1) Products sold with contracts
 * 2) Surname of Prophet Moses, Jesus and Muhammad?

= October 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 October 5


 * 1) Error mitigation:
 * 2) Assurance required.
 * 3) Binge drinking in young people

= October 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 October 6


 * 1) Jimmy Dore said that a study determined that cops (when they were younger) were either bullies or were bullied
 * 2) Public domain in the UK

= October 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 October 7


 * 1) Is there a formula for how much rent to charge?
 * 2) Einstein quote

= October 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 October 8


 * 1) What counts as a "native language" or "native speaker" in a bilingual household?
 * 2) Numbering of English kings

= October 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 October 9


 * 1) elected Cabinets?
 * 2) World Wide Win

= October 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 October 10


 * 1) Humor identification
 * 2) Election of the Philippine Senate through Panachage
 * 3) How/why/when did "European civilisation" become the global default?
 * 4) US Presidents, having won only a minority of states
 * 5) Names of the Drekkanas, and/or other decans

= October 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 October 11


 * 1) Sci-fi story about life-forms from the Earth's mantle
 * 2) What was the form of village government in Imperial China?
 * 3) Poverty and resource rich countries
 * 4) Is the slogan "We are the 99%" trademarked or in the public domain?
 * 5) How can you possibly be libertarian and socially conservative at the same time?
 * 6) Lesbia - Clodia
 * 7) OECD and Romania, finding data on economy
 * 8) David Roediger, editor of The Little Red Songbook, compilation of Wobbly songs
 * 9) Diminished capacity to consent and sexual assault
 * 10) Marxist Theological Dialectic
 * 11) How successful were ostiaries in keeping non-Christians out of the church during the Eucharist?

= October 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 October 12


 * 1) Why isn't the US in the Inter-Parliamentary Union?
 * 2) EU's CEFR English Profile availability and licensing
 * 3) When, Where and Who ?
 * 4) South America
 * 5) James Francis Edward Stuart
 * 6) Study and practice of modern medicine in China between 1940-1985?

= October 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 October 13


 * 1) Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof
 * 2) Distances in Orange County
 * 3) Stock Market Investment class
 * 4) Is the name "Citizen Four" a reference to anything?
 * 5) Kwaggaberg
 * 6) Painting seen in a TV episode

= October 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 October 14


 * 1) Free buffalo
 * 2) Do I want to move to Milton Keynes?
 * 3) Vehicle towing/recovery industry (A history): South Africa
 * 4) Economic, social, and cultural rights
 * 5) Blood types and how it relates to race and ethnicity
 * 6) Pollution and privatization
 * 7) Police Driving Through Red Lights
 * 8) "Blind Corporation"
 * 9) Error needs fixing
 * 10) Scopus-archived journals for ethnomedicine article
 * 11) Age at which an IRA / Roth IRA is started
 * 12) Were African Americans allowed to vote in the 1960 US Presidential election?
 * 13) MJ's ambulance
 * 14) Development of neopaganisms in a post-Christian environment and ancestor worship

= October 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 October 15


 * 1) Gothic short story with lady in white
 * 2) Pluralism and distribution of power.
 * 3) Museum of Berlin
 * 4) murderers and  communion
 * 5) Is it true that Singapore is the only surviving citystate in the world?

= October 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 October 16


 * 1) possessives
 * 2) Question about WW1 and WW2.
 * 3) Is Jane Eyre a Quaker, or is she Quaker-like?
 * 4) Are Jewish converts who happen to be transmen circumcised?
 * 5) I have a wiccan question

= October 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 October 17


 * 1) Why are horoscopes drawn backwards?
 * 2) Is a nurse allowed to date a (former) patient's child?
 * 3) Albert Pearse
 * 4) Comparison: Movie '300' with 'Da vinchi code' Book

= October 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 October 18


 * 1) Cavalry
 * 2) Historical name
 * 3) Did segregation in the 1950s America affect Asian-Americans and Asian immigrants?
 * 4) "Poor people (in 1st world countries) are poor because they are not aspirational"
 * 5) Regarding Rabindranath Tagore
 * 6) Goodwill (accounting)
 * 7) Did Chisso executives really go to jail?
 * 8) WW1 Question (I think)
 * 9) 'Living on air' fairy tale

= October 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 October 19


 * 1) Does Confucianism fall under Secular Humanism?
 * 2) Mediatrix of All Graces
 * 3) Anonymous sources and journalism ethics

= October 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 October 20


 * 1) Easter Island:  Historical Low Temperatures
 * 2) Old Chinese object
 * 3) History of the motto of the Royal Society
 * 4) Khwarazmian dynasty and "work unions"
 * 5) Difference between a Credit Union and a Building Society

= October 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 October 21


 * 1) England expects that every man etc. Why not Britain?
 * 2) Peirce and Bergson
 * 3) Why does the CIA World Factbook consider South Africa a developed country which by their definition means 'high income or 1st world' economy?

= October 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 October 22


 * 1) Question about Iliad and Odyssey
 * 2) Ben Bradlee and the Iran-Contra affair
 * 3) Is there death sentence for first-degree murder in Iraq?
 * 4) Bren Gun

= October 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 October 23


 * 1) West African burial practices
 * 2) drunk Shakespeare scenes
 * 3) Jewish early childhood ritual
 * 4) Pluralism and Politics
 * 5) Celtic painting
 * 6) Problems of literature
 * 7) How many people are secular and atheist in the Western sense of the term in East Asia?
 * 8) Intra-NATO war

= October 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 October 24


 * 1) Abstracting electricity in Scotland

= October 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 October 25


 * 1) Hop on - Hop off cruising
 * 2) Caliphate after Ottomans
 * 3) First European to set foot on modern-day USA
 * 4) How much formal logic and mathematics would you have to study if you focused on continental philosophy?
 * 5) Heaven and Hell: Judaism

= October 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 October 26


 * 1) Viewers?
 * 2) MADELINE O'MALLEY
 * 3) Sodom and Gomorrah considered from the obvious, down to Earth, atheist view?
 * 4) Bill Gates' philanthropy partly to keep litigation against Microsoft at bay

= October 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 October 27


 * 1) Ida Scott's singing teacher
 * 2) Gambling with other people's money
 * 3) Value of French livre in mid-17th century
 * 4) Lion, Falcon and the Wolf/Jackel
 * 5) Is there a time boundary between a new religious movement and an older religion?
 * 6) Have there been attempts to secularize Christianity?
 * 7) Domesday Survey Map

= October 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 October 28


 * 1) Israeli ministers Mizrahi sephardic 1948
 * 2) Muslims and the Koran
 * 3) Panda are Tibetans
 * 4) New York Times West Side Plant
 * 5) Account registry of Louis XIII's household

= October 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 October 29


 * 1) third largest diplomatic mission
 * 2) ISIS recruits
 * 3) Social class just prior to the Communist era in China?
 * 4) Talmudic (?) quotation

= October 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 October 30


 * 1) Architectural terminology

= October 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 October 31


 * 1) Fiction story ID