Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/September 2010

= September 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 September 1


 * 1) Is Athens monarchy still around in current times?
 * 2) 20 July plot
 * 3) university book store chains in the English speaking world.
 * 4) Ending world hunger
 * 5) Reliable Mexican Biofuel Statistics
 * 6) Works by Pieter de Hooch
 * 7) That thing behind you...
 * 8) Flying Cow
 * 9) Workers who unload boats
 * 10) Sonnets to Sundry Notes of Music
 * 11) Hamlet's tonal issues
 * 12) People can distinguish neighbour's origins?
 * 13) Most Novels with same Hero
 * 14) Roman dates
 * 15) what literal "mistakes" of Jesus does the bible imply
 * 16) The American Flag
 * 17) Accomplices, accessories and complicity
 * 18) How is gorget pronounced?

= September 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 September 2


 * 1) Engstrom quote source?
 * 2) What would Thomas Jefferson have said about Somalia?
 * 3) Jews and automatic citizenship in Israel
 * 4) Democracy
 * 5) What is this story?
 * 6) Religion vs. Science
 * 7) Physical Exercises on Sabbath Day
 * 8) Vagrancy Act 1824 (5 Geo. 4. c. 83)
 * 9) Am I a character in a novel?
 * 10) MLitt/MSc (Scotland)
 * 11) Crest on UK royal proclamation
 * 12) "Are you living in a computer simulation?"
 * 13) Town and country parks from urban sprawl?

= September 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 September 3


 * 1) The Question Above...
 * 2) A story from Sunday school, when I was a Christian
 * 3) Capital punishment
 * 4) Star Trek Voyager
 * 5) Monarchy of the UK using pwoers unilaterally
 * 6) Name of that amazing 'head dancing' seen in India

= September 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 September 4


 * 1) Absolute pitch
 * 2) ʃ
 * 3) Family Fable
 * 4) Greatest disparity in standard of living between neighboring countries
 * 5) Selective service system
 * 6) wysiwyg vs. wysiwym
 * 7) national anthem
 * 8) If Google is owned by two Jews, why does it include links to antisemitic and racist websites?
 * 9) Theory of knowledge
 * 10) Passport types
 * 11) Disease in the age of exploration

= September 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 September 5


 * 1) Addressing a noblewoman
 * 2) Chinese Marriage
 * 3) Sad classical piece
 * 4) No changes
 * 5) Cannibalism
 * 6) Does everyone eventually fall in love with someone?
 * 7) What is a special commission
 * 8) Information on participation in Class Action lawsuits?
 * 9) War
 * 10) Monarchies

= September 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 September 6


 * 1) Alone on a quest narrative
 * 2) ACT/SAT
 * 3) Prostitution
 * 4) Family of William of Gellone
 * 5) Winston Churchill - had to earn a living?
 * 6) Homemade pomander
 * 7) Biblical quote
 * 8) Correlation between Oil Prices and Bond Yield.
 * 9) Finding "modest" feminine attire
 * 10) Maj.Gen.Ashmore
 * 11) Pregnancy Frog Test
 * 12) Sociology
 * 13) Purchase Ensure at PX?

= September 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 September 7


 * 1) "Impossible Symphony"
 * 2) What a president once said
 * 3) Is There Symbolism
 * 4) Lebanon, Syria and Iraq
 * 5) history greece
 * 6) medicine chinese
 * 7) Mansfield Park: Modern novels to compare with
 * 8) Query as to name of British Raj Culture
 * 9) Amsterdam's flag
 * 10) 'Ethnic' restaurants and the people they employ - can they discriminate on race? (in a UK context)
 * 11) how to start accounting or being the least bit organized
 * 12) Joint portraits of William and Mary
 * 13) I demand my money back
 * 14) Life imprisonment for bedwetting?
 * 15) anti cow slaughter bills in india
 * 16) Prison boats
 * 17) The Cold War
 * 18) United States Code and half mast during wartime
 * 19) Freud in modern Psychology

= September 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 September 8


 * 1) Age of enlistment -- US history
 * 2) human mentality after a worst incident
 * 3) 20 years to life
 * 4) Protection and care of the community
 * 5) classical sheetmusic
 * 6) When is someone considered to be "running for office" in the US, legally?
 * 7) Angels in the Bible
 * 8) Ask instead what you can do for your country.

= September 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 September 9


 * 1) Cricket cages
 * 2) Conversion rate for ancient French franc
 * 3) Brecht Remark on War and Modernism
 * 4) Does Prayers for Rain have any sequel info related to Gone Baby Gone
 * 5) Theoretical economic system
 * 6) Book and swearing
 * 7) e-mailing
 * 8) Black Death bon fires
 * 9) ID cards and the Holocaust

= September 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 September 10


 * 1) Colard, Belgium
 * 2) Roman Admiration/Adoption of Greek Culture
 * 3) QI
 * 4) Please help: My husband doesn't understand me; I have PTSD and was sexually abused from age 2-12
 * 5) Congress ratification of treaties
 * 6) Victim of fanaticism - Search for a painting
 * 7) Berlin pre-war buildings
 * 8) gov.
 * 9) gov  2
 * 10) De-sanctification of Barbara?
 * 11) opening a rehab center
 * 12) What's the catch?

= September 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 September 11


 * 1) One- and two-movement works for solo piano
 * 2) singapore dollar notes
 * 3) Blonde stag film
 * 4) What would the Milesians of Irish mythology have worn at the time of their invasion?
 * 5) Normal
 * 6) KIDNAPPING BUSINESS
 * 7) pre-1974 Coat of arms of Burma
 * 8) The Godfather part I's language
 * 9) Precolumbian Civilisations
 * 10) Date of creation
 * 11) Bill Gates / Warren Buffet visit to China

= September 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 September 12


 * 1) Lady of Mann
 * 2) Differences
 * 3) Amendments to the US constitution
 * 4) Der Prasident Des Landesbezirk Baden Heinrich Kohler Weihnachten 1947 1948
 * 5) is it still rape after the murder?
 * 6) Culture of poverty traits
 * 7) Painting based on Petrarchan conceit

= September 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 September 13


 * 1) American Citizenship
 * 2) Why tax capital gains less?
 * 3) Biography Request
 * 4) Philanthropy
 * 5) Irrational attachment to prior investment
 * 6) Ethics - are they universal or only species-dependant?
 * 7) Mosque near 9/11 grounds

= September 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 September 14


 * 1) Buying yourself out of the British Army
 * 2) did this guy get fired?

= September 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 September 15


 * 1) What other countries elect their president via an electoral college?
 * 2) Adoption by persons of same sex
 * 3) Gene Wolfe short story?
 * 4) Indian Partnership Act
 * 5) US senators
 * 6) Bronze-Age Spanish clothing?
 * 7) Melting down swords in Japan...?
 * 8) Inobtrusive classical music

= September 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 September 16


 * 1) Julian dates v Gregorian dates
 * 2) What do Los Angeles folk eat for breakfast?
 * 3) Valois in South America
 * 4) Dating in America
 * 5) How tall was Éamon de Valera?
 * 6) Voting in Dáil Éireann - or not
 * 7) Hannah Boone Pennington
 * 8) Unknown play

= September 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 September 17


 * 1) US$ to £—help me get the most out of it
 * 2) Plausible age for child to take "living together" (or any euphemism) literrally
 * 3) Papal Visits to Britain?
 * 4) On Eagle's Wing
 * 5) Translations of Beowulf
 * 6) Check over answers
 * 7) Holidays for dates

= September 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 September 18


 * 1) Open access?
 * 2) Unlicensed Driver
 * 3) Real Eastern European nation
 * 4) $20 in Taxi Driver
 * 5) Why no German empire?
 * 6) where can I listen to just this basic melody?
 * 7) Piano music
 * 8) Looking for identity of Poet and Poem circa 1920s

= September 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 September 19


 * 1) Musical question
 * 2) Trying to identify a film
 * 3) Trogia Gazzela
 * 4) What's this supposed to mean ?
 * 5) Balliols and the Infanta Alicia
 * 6) nina simone vs. jihad
 * 7) Tischreden online?
 * 8) How is the African union funded?
 * 9) Catholic Church List of Banned Books
 * 10) Japanese Invasion of  Alaska in World War 2
 * 11) No Kings
 * 12) Soviet Wartime (?) Song
 * 13) Medieval Paleographic “Identifont”
 * 14) Corporate personhood in Canada

= September 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 September 20


 * 1) Marx's ecclesiastic friend?
 * 2) Plainclothes nuns
 * 3) Chinese Christians
 * 4) What's the smallest element copyrightable/trademarkable?
 * 5) US City in Canada

= September 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 September 21


 * 1) Name of This Byam Shaw Painting
 * 2) Using representation other than a Native Title Representative Body
 * 3) Graduate Medical Education

= September 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 September 22


 * 1) Parallel tracks on seafloor? File:2003-3d-hawaiian-islands-usgs-i2809.jpg
 * 2) Dutch West India Company.
 * 3) Russian Motorways
 * 4) Super-Injunctions in the UK
 * 5) advice for starting a wiki with porn images
 * 6) Any examples of successful legal ban that has eliminated a crime-ridden "social problem"?
 * 7) 2 questions

= September 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 September 23


 * 1) Religion
 * 2) American Revolution
 * 3) What police incident was this?
 * 4) question about if america ever had a planned invasion of Europe in case their relationship turned hostile??

= September 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 September 24


 * 1) Assonance Picture
 * 2) Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the UN General Assembly
 * 3) Bicep chain
 * 4) Republicanism in Australia versus Canada
 * 5) Identify Thing
 * 6) London Mayoral Elections
 * 7) Archie and anti-Oshoism
 * 8) Military might of Iran compared to Iraq
 * 9) Difference between Cape, Mantle and Cloak ??

= September 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 September 25


 * 1) Numbers Game
 * 2) Medieval Italian town map - Pavia
 * 3) I believe I am a relative of the founder of Miller Arkansas

= September 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 September 26


 * 1) Business day
 * 2) Reopening a closed corporation in California
 * 3) Is it even True ?
 * 4) Rosenberg map
 * 5) Where did a bishop "reign" ??
 * 6) academic citation
 * 7) Founding documents of other nations inspired/derived from the U.S. Constitution?

= September 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 September 27


 * 1) Lost license
 * 2) What makes a musical performance great?
 * 3) Rate of growth: population vs. investment
 * 4) is a zippo lighter supposed to turn on when you open it?
 * 5) Ideology
 * 6) Normal types of WHAT?
 * 7) Global banding

= September 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 September 28


 * 1) Germanian People's ( tribes )
 * 2) Tiptree titles
 * 3) Portrait identification
 * 4) Countries
 * 5) can you give a company money?
 * 6) Muslims of Southeast Asia
 * 7) Mr. Speaker
 * 8) Socrates on Melos?
 * 9) America entering the downside?

= September 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 September 29


 * 1) Moscow's former mayor
 * 2) Visas For Medical Treatment In the United States
 * 3) Kitty Kiernan
 * 4) Geography/Travel question
 * 5) Use of 'Indian' to refer not only to natives of the Americas, but other indigenes
 * 6) Choosing a 1950s standard of living
 * 7) India visa
 * 8) cars industry maps
 * 9) cuban history
 * 10) Clock in tower bongs 13 times

= September 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 September 30


 * 1) Polygamy in Jamaica
 * 2) Acceptance of pedophilia
 * 3) Question on source
 * 4) Geography/History Question
 * 5) Is Feminism and Misandry one and the same thing ?
 * 6) MEPs affecting who can become president of Hungary?
 * 7) Ayodhya Verdict
 * 8) Alternate names for the Kingdoms of England and France in fiction. Any suggestions?
 * 9) International Court of Justice advisory opinion on Kosovo's declaration of independence#Public_hearings
 * 10) famous examples of parents who abused or neglected their children?
 * 11) Akihabara massacre
 * 12) SAT essay writing
 * 13) Trial of adolescents as adults
 * 14) Motto of the Netherlands
 * 15) CEGEP Curriculum