Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/September 2008

= September 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 September 1


 * 1) Death rate
 * 2) The American concept of rags to riches. Does it still apply?
 * 3) Shepard tone in chopin's etude?
 * 4) Venetian spies
 * 5) Georgia and the European Union
 * 6) Two international societies
 * 7) Monopolies

= September 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 September 2


 * 1) Crinoline staircases
 * 2) U.S. Census - counting people on wagon trains?
 * 3) 1901 Anarchist Exclusion Act
 * 4) Indian politics and US politics
 * 5) definition of DUI
 * 6) Barter vs. sell/buy
 * 7) I have soul "X" I am not a soldier
 * 8) Human Rights - Workplace thru the Decades
 * 9) Alcoholic drinks
 * 10) religion
 * 11) Grapes of Wrath

= September 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 September 3


 * 1) VPs in the USA
 * 2) granny smiths
 * 3) Czechoslovak Communist Exiles
 * 4) soranus
 * 5) Etiquette question
 * 6) Different Amounts for Different Charges?
 * 7) Amazonian tribe
 * 8) Preclassical statuary depictions of masturbation
 * 9) Too much of a good thing?

= September 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 September 4


 * 1) Hockey Moms
 * 2) Perceived taste relating to expectation
 * 3) Weird hearing
 * 4) Looking for unbiased website to compare US presidential candidate's positions
 * 5) I did an online IQ test at http://www.iqtest.com
 * 6) What percentage of British people would know the difference between Slovakia and Slovenia?
 * 7) Why are Hungary, Finland and Estonia anomalous in Europe as well as Romania?
 * 8) Spies?
 * 9) France, England and classical music
 * 10) Which books did Sarah Palin seek to ban from a local library?
 * 11) When British police take the cars of people charged with motoring offences; why dont they sell them rather than crush them?
 * 12) Reliability of CliffsNotes, etc
 * 13) Hamlet plot query

= September 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 September 5


 * 1) Vaudeville hat
 * 2) Czechoslovak hijacking
 * 3) Limitation on electing Presidents?
 * 4) pre-marital sex
 * 5) Does Barack Obama speak a language other than english?
 * 6) Queen Victoria's funeral cortège: Edward and Wilhelm?
 * 7) Could a minor face life imprisonment if committs murder in the UK?

= September 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 September 6


 * 1) Renaissance police?
 * 2) Britian and soldiers
 * 3) Nonstop US war
 * 4) Czech Population in Hong Kong
 * 5) Nathaniel Woodard painting
 * 6) Has anyone read the book 'Tales from Ovid' by Ted Hughes?
 * 7) Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 September 6
 * 8) Politician’s position on the issues
 * 9) The most important authentic relic?
 * 10) Technicolor effect

= September 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 September 7


 * 1) Is United States of America Bankrupt?
 * 2) Need Chinese History Expert
 * 3) Palin and polar bears
 * 4) ABOUT OLD FOLKS
 * 5) People famous for hand-to-hand combat
 * 6) Plight of Charter 77 Signatories
 * 7) Racism or learning from experience?
 * 8) Pink Houses at the DNC?
 * 9) Hurricanes and Guantanamo Bay detention camp
 * 10) 'Securitised mortgages'
 * 11) Rabbinical Judges in Israel Supreme Rabbinical Court
 * 12) Timeline of the Sinking of the HMHS Britannic

= September 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 September 8


 * 1) philosipher who theorized that mandkind was created by "children gods"
 * 2) Loans from banks being sold
 * 3) Religious symbology
 * 4) Another religion question
 * 5) Short Story where people have a limited number of words per day
 * 6) artist of this work?
 * 7) FTSE 100 opening and closing figures
 * 8) Masochistic behavior...What is this?
 * 9) North Korea
 * 10) Secular Humanism -Dead or Alive? (Insert spinning joke here)...
 * 11) Qur'an and the term "we"

= September 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 September 9


 * 1) DSM and masochism.
 * 2) Reconstructed literary and musical works
 * 3) The Catholic Church and death before Jesus
 * 4) religion
 * 5) Is there an unwrapped mummy in the British Museum
 * 6) Conspiracy Theorist
 * 7) donating internationally

= September 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 September 10


 * 1) Modern Phillis Wheatley
 * 2) Are the Russian Nuclear Missile Silos safe?
 * 3) A faith-based Christian experience.
 * 4) NZ discovery
 * 5) Copyright on speeches by American politicians
 * 6) Articles in constitutions
 * 7) Gulbenkian collection images
 * 8) Are multiple-murderers rare?
 * 9) Dating My Dentist
 * 10) "jus primae noctis" on a tropical island
 * 11) [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 September 10#Candidates .5Bhttp:.2F.2Fwww.ontheissues.org on the issues.5D|Candidates on the issues]]
 * 12) Is it natural to feel this way?
 * 13) Credited with Introducing Potatoes into Ireland?
 * 14) Urgent requirement!
 * 15) Oath of Allegiance
 * 16) Woman Vice President
 * 17) American Helping Everyone
 * 18) primary historical memories

= September 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 September 11


 * 1) Midrash Ecclesiastes Rabbah
 * 2) Nastia Liukin's Religion
 * 3) Korea's Major Accomplishments
 * 4) Who is the global authority on undergraduate research?
 * 5) Walter Ralegh's middle name
 * 6) Plume etiquette
 * 7) The middle-class in US elections
 * 8) Moral question: Discriminate or avoiding conflict
 * 9) Hypothetical Questions Only - How to Address the US President
 * 10) "There is a crack on the structure of the universe"

= September 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 September 12


 * 1) T. W. Wood
 * 2) DVDs about British society
 * 3) 1 dollar a day
 * 4) Early Christianity
 * 5) ADVERTISING SMALL  SCALE BUSINESSES
 * 6) Marriage Locations
 * 7) Vice-Presidential election in the U.S. Senate
 * 8) Follow-up question
 * 9) Antireligion and atheism
 * 10) damaged steel from the Pentagon
 * 11) Sir Charles Russell QC MP

= September 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 September 13


 * 1) What is this type of illustration called?
 * 2) How can I find a list of winners of this award?
 * 3) A ship's "stemhold"
 * 4) Eckhart Tolle and Scientology
 * 5) Listening to Piano Music - Where to Begin?
 * 6) American Painter: Ray Musselwhite

= September 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 September 14


 * 1) constitution
 * 2) impending economic depresion of the US
 * 3) religion
 * 4) a curious hypothetical side-effect of Edward VIII's abdication
 * 5) Medieval Europe Demographics
 * 6) J.J. Horak, Netherlands ambassador to Israel in 1993?
 * 7) Question
 * 8) Putin's ancestors and Stalin
 * 9) philosophy
 * 10) Adolf Hitler and helicopter travel
 * 11) Toll free numbers and postage-paid envelopes

= September 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 September 15


 * 1) Cloak
 * 2) Why would a Georgian minister say this?
 * 3) Stadium music
 * 4) Recession and Depression
 * 5) History of science question
 * 6) Erm, what was that British battle?
 * 7) Ovo vegetarians
 * 8) Consequences to acceptance of risky or bad debt by Federal Reserve
 * 9) Wasn't Charles Ponzi's operation illegal even without the Ponzi scheme?
 * 10) Voting in Indiana
 * 11) Why does it say North Korea is a socialist republic?
 * 12) Gandhi's hair
 * 13) Returning to a Room from Childhood, How Small it Seems...
 * 14) I need to write a geography essay on Rio de Janerio.
 * 15) Travelling with friend
 * 16) Country Names-- Czechoslovakia
 * 17) Constitutional Paradox
 * 18) Religion's Description of God/Universe

= September 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 September 16


 * 1) Mexico's Independence
 * 2) pattern of human
 * 3) Fed's balance sheet
 * 4) Bible
 * 5) Help me identify my vacation photos
 * 6) Thread bookmark
 * 7) US Constitution on creating new gov't departments
 * 8) The Holocaust

= September 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 September 17


 * 1) World Food Prices
 * 2) Xidan
 * 3) Regional Government in England
 * 4) poem by douglas macarther
 * 5) Goverment buying bad debt
 * 6) First Survey of Wikipedians
 * 7) Elton John
 * 8) 20 most important world dates
 * 9) Followup to the Holocaust Question From Yesterday
 * 10) The Grim Reaper
 * 11) What happens if the electoral college ties?

= September 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 September 18


 * 1) How long have "Humans" been on the earth?
 * 2) Poetry by Federica Garcia Lorca
 * 3) Australian author Paul John Radley
 * 4) Honorary academic degrees
 * 5) obama and 9/11

= September 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 September 19


 * 1) Michigan History Magazine 8, no. 29 October 1924
 * 2) Gender, race and class in the Cthulhu Mythos
 * 3) Grade level for Twilight Book Series
 * 4) Barack Obama terrorist links?
 * 5) CliffsNotes
 * 6) Former Yugoslavia: Agreement on succession issues and PD
 * 7) William Donaldson
 * 8) Atomic Energy Act of 1954
 * 9) Mysterious stone object
 * 10) Entrance to the Public Park in Arles

= September 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 September 20


 * 1) Henry VIII
 * 2) Is Sarah Palin a creationist?
 * 3) $100,000 deposit guarantee for accounts
 * 4) Discriminating the fat and ugly
 * 5) Are textbook questions copyright?
 * 6) women's breast size
 * 7) Chaplain of First Continental Congress
 * 8) Immersive personality disorder

= September 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 September 21


 * 1) Mestizos
 * 2) Were Ancient Egyptians Black?
 * 3) If the JNA was Europe's third or fourth largest army, which armies larger?
 * 4) Mount Olympus artwork?
 * 5) Why does the US want to build a missile shield in Poland?
 * 6) First advertisement on soccer teams shirt.
 * 7) What about that whole "no two democracies has ever gone to war" thing?
 * 8) Ned Myers
 * 9) Consequences of US government bailout of financial sector

= September 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 September 22


 * 1) bombing investigations
 * 2) Voter registration
 * 3) Rendezvous with Destiny by Eric F. Goldman
 * 4) Identify a (possibly heraldic) symbol
 * 5) Success stories of autistics
 * 6) Flag question
 * 7) Lumber mill in Prescott, WI c. 1880
 * 8) Rasta belief

= September 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 September 23


 * 1) Heaven and all that
 * 2) Sarah Palin
 * 3) events happening on this date in history
 * 4) The Secret Society
 * 5) Mr Whippy
 * 6) Kitten care
 * 7) Subprime Loans Expire?
 * 8) Ron Paul's assessment of bailout
 * 9) YOP

= September 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 September 24


 * 1) Islamic dietary law question in relation to bird food...
 * 2) Top 10 supreme court decisions?
 * 3) art as a source of knowledge
 * 4) price differences in the UK
 * 5) Dating unemployed men
 * 6) Blessed virgin Mary
 * 7) Absentee ballot
 * 8) Name of a fallacy..
 * 9) NSDAP, 1930s
 * 10) Philisophical term

= September 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 September 25


 * 1) Question!
 * 2) US: $700 billion bailout
 * 3) Mr. Musharraf ... will he die?
 * 4) Types of banks in the U.S.
 * 5) Sultan of Oman and race
 * 6) Muammar Ghaddafi
 * 7) Personal Investmant  stat's
 * 8) Skin colour of Jesus
 * 9) Did they have quilted jackets in middle ages? And in general what other clothes did they wear?
 * 10) Which logical fallacy is this?

= September 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 September 26


 * 1) Did China ever declare war on Germany during WWII?
 * 2) UK General Election - who runs the country?
 * 3) U.K. LOTTO
 * 4) Death penalty in Madagascar

= September 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 September 27


 * 1) Gone With The Wind
 * 2) Co-Pilot  Lt. Robert L. Hite Dead or Alive?
 * 3) Good books on basic economics
 * 4) bridge collapse memorial
 * 5) Thames Williamson
 * 6) P G Wodehouse
 * 7) Signature laws
 * 8) Samuel L. Gompers' middle name

= September 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 September 28


 * 1) Would Burma(Myanmar) launch a war against Bangladesh or India?
 * 2) Stock markets/securities listing
 * 3) Ritualistic (celtic) oath involving blood
 * 4) Buying full scale crown jewel replicas
 * 5) Religion regarding cosmic powers?
 * 6) Please identify the author of this poem?
 * 7) Descriptions of Christian Artwork

= September 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 September 29


 * 1) Airplane security
 * 2) UK Redundancy Entitlement
 * 3) Disappearance of libraries
 * 4) Cheap bailout
 * 5) What were women's role in the Southern Colonies of British Colonial Americas.
 * 6) How did members of congress vote on the bailout today?
 * 7) Jewish Dietary Law Regarding the Consumption of Insects
 * 8) American military history, 1943
 * 9) "Anthropocide?"

= September 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 September 30


 * 1) Nikkei
 * 2) Selling sheep in ancient Israel
 * 3) Legal principle
 * 4) Famous French saints in Ireland
 * 5) stone cave
 * 6) States giving electoral votes to national popular winner
 * 7) State vs. federal waters
 * 8) Obstacles for woman in todays society.