Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/September 2012

= September 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 September 1


 * 1) Does a smoker cost more or less for public healthcare than a non-smoker?
 * 2) Navarrese colonial empire?!?
 * 3) ROMNEY  /  RYAN
 * 4) Where does Hamid Karzai's clothing come from?
 * 5) trying to remember a term - Someone's Syndrome
 * 6) Holocaust
 * 7) Political Debate
 * 8) how did people choose colors for technicolor?
 * 9) UK and Eire police  cars
 * 10) NRA codes
 * 11) Is nuclear power competitive without huge government subsidies?

= September 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 September 2


 * 1) Yemen and Iran
 * 2) Urban-rural linked to liberal-conservative
 * 3) How come there has been so few female dictators throughout history?
 * 4) Odd coat of arms
 * 5) De Vrije Katheder, Nazi-occupied Netherlands
 * 6) Southern vs. Northern Whites in the U.S.
 * 7) filtering coffee by pouring from one cup to another
 * 8) How many Countries worldwide?
 * 9) Chinese surnames and ancestry
 * 10) Swedish House of Holstein-Gottorp
 * 11) How Come the U.S.S.R. Didn't Annex Mongolia Like It Did WIth Tuva?
 * 12) Blue Stripe in the Red South
 * 13) Was the Cuban intervention on african independence wars an act  of solidarity or something else?
 * 14) Historical Religion Data for the U.S. Before 1948

= September 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 September 3


 * 1) Freemasonic influence on the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, Moscow?
 * 2) CIA headquarters in Alabama, or at least offices
 * 3) Cost of a burial plot at Willesden Jewish Cemetery (UK)
 * 4) TICLAUDIUS CAESAR
 * 5) Breasts and kissing

= September 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 September 4


 * 1) Recycling cans and bottles in California
 * 2) Have there ever been a killer in history with down syndrome?
 * 3) Did Kevin Mitnick made an internet-accessing device from a radio receiver when he was in jail?
 * 4) Religion and the U.S. Census
 * 5) Legality of the Awlaki Killings
 * 6) Synchronization of calendars between civilizations throughout history
 * 7) How Come France Was Extremely Angry at Germany for Taking Alsace-Lorraine in 1871
 * 8) Category for the President of Pakistan
 * 9) Ganesh Chaturthi
 * 10) Calculus

= September 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 September 5


 * 1) Marriage rights and religion
 * 2) African Americans in rural Nevada
 * 3) Possible HK Bone Marrow Foundation article.
 * 4) Monogamy
 * 5) Statute of limitations and extradition in Germany
 * 6) What's the main difference between massacre and shooting spree
 * 7) Religious Violence
 * 8) How can people who were born deaf learn to read?
 * 9) Preference for sex-based nudity
 * 10) Longest European constitution
 * 11) Papal influence
 * 12) Understanding Intelligent Design/Creationism?
 * 13) Written record

= September 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 September 6


 * 1) Genre painter "Aimé Dalleizette" of Switzerland.
 * 2) Grass hula skirts
 * 3) Is there a link between no photography policies and freedom of panorama (or lack thereof)?
 * 4) Can't the U.S. send drones to destroy the Iranian nuclear facilities?
 * 5) Sources of Law
 * 6) A question about the Westroads Mall shooting
 * 7) Did Queen Victoria ever wear a Crinoline?
 * 8) The post of early modern spies
 * 9) First Indian reservation in the United States
 * 10) Are serial killers smart or just lucky?

= September 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 September 7


 * 1) How Come it Took Until WWI for African-Americans to Start Moving Out of the Southern U.S. in Large Numbers?
 * 2) Sumerian burial
 * 3) Canada severs ties with Iran, where to put this
 * 4) Who's militarily stronger?
 * 5) Seperate civilian and military departments for national defense
 * 6) Status of the princesses of Japan
 * 7) Changing course of the river Thames over the last 1000 years

= September 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 September 8


 * 1) Societies/Countries with Voluntary Child Support
 * 2) Liberal nation

= September 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 September 9


 * 1) Shinnoke and Oke
 * 2) Greatest Age Difference Between Meeting a Famous Person and One's Own Death
 * 3) Converts to Judaism in Areas Under Nazi Control During World War II
 * 4) Minorities in France
 * 5) Widest river bisecting a city?
 * 6) Reform, Conservative parties in Israel
 * 7) Cory Monteith
 * 8) Question about the Columbine massacre
 * 9) Books on Indophobia and anti-Pakistan sentiments
 * 10) Good, reliable articles/online pages about the 2004 and 2008 U.S. presidential elections

= September 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 September 10


 * 1) Title of WW2 novel
 * 2) US post-WWI "trench-war litterature" ?
 * 3) Could a former two-term President run for election if a repealing of terms limits was also on the ballot?
 * 4) History of capital gains tax long-term holdings discount
 * 5) Rationale behind women-only chess touraments?
 * 6) "Hey girl... you look as though you have no Boutroses - and it happens that I have one to spare..."
 * 7) Prince of Nassau Siegen
 * 8) Should Canadians fear Iranian response to the severance of relations?

= September 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 September 11


 * 1) Since the internet and public libraries have everything theoretical that's taught in college
 * 2) Why is it Considered Indecent for a Woman to Expose Her Nipples?
 * 3) Can't "Insider trading" rules be easily evaded?
 * 4) Infant formula -> To Autism? Why no study?
 * 5) Sexual attraction and ethnicity
 * 6) All the world's geniuses
 * 7) Twelve Tables
 * 8) Who took this picture?

= September 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 September 12


 * 1) Edward G. Robinson + feeding pigs = in what film ?
 * 2) International waters on the Great Lakes?
 * 3) Why do most republics have ceremonial presidents?
 * 4) Russian patronyms
 * 5) Religious police in Saudi Arabia, do they carry firearms?
 * 6) Is the economy a "renewable resource"?
 * 7) John Nash 's "Over the top" : what precise date ?
 * 8) What were the methods of collecting public housing rent in the 1960s/70s in the UK?
 * 9) Euro/US dollar comparison
 * 10) Protestants majority nations
 * 11) Roman Catholic majority nations

= September 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 September 13


 * 1) Hanging Gardens of Babylon
 * 2) compositional balance vs composition
 * 3) Can I be Regarded as a Philosopher being an Autodidact?
 * 4) Baja California and the Mexican-American War
 * 5) Does Anyone remember his Name ?
 * 6) Cory Monteith and categories
 * 7) How many Canada's and UK's soldiers have died in Afghanistan?
 * 8) Ethiopian
 * 9) Best performance by a Communist party in a free election
 * 10) EU border crossing rule
 * 11) Looking for a novel
 * 12) The "wandering Arabs and Tartar hordes" of 1869 Pennsylvania

= September 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 September 14


 * 1) Finance fraud- - bank account fraud not located
 * 2) Has al Qaeda ever threatened Canada or not?
 * 3) What keeps homeschooling parents in the US honest when grading kids' work?
 * 4) Tax laws and system in Canada
 * 5) Remarriage to the same person
 * 6) Who's a stronger ally of the U.S. in the Middle East
 * 7) Coptic/Ethiopian Church
 * 8) Innocence of Muslims
 * 9) Ghost stories

= September 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 September 15


 * 1) Refs for Citizens United backfire?
 * 2) Slave trade of women in Mexico
 * 3) Historical evidence for religious founders
 * 4) Searching Historical USSR Censuses
 * 5) How much $/credit-hour are the cheapest online courses in the United States?
 * 6) Why hasn't the euro's value plunged?
 * 7) If you join the U.S. Army, can you choose to stay at home
 * 8) NASA has archaeologists on the payroll?
 * 9) Canada's foreign policy, Iran, Israel ...
 * 10) YouTube question
 * 11) majority seats Knesset
 * 12) What's the most accurate death toll for serial killer Ted Bundy?

= September 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 September 16


 * 1) PDFA and tobacco and alcohol money
 * 2) US Marine guards at embassies
 * 3) Queen Emma and King Kamehameha IV
 * 4) List of seats of lower house of the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, Denmark, Iceland, Belgium, and Knesset
 * 5) Could there be another Ted Bundy in these times with all the technology and criminal profiling?
 * 6) September 11 attacks, did the hijackers carry firearms?
 * 7) How many people died on board the flights on the September 11 attacks before the planes crashed
 * 8) Foreign interventions
 * 9) Prince Alemayehu
 * 10) Archive of historical North-South conflicts?

= September 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 September 17


 * 1) Norwegian and Danish crime writers' works in English
 * 2) "Let him speak up now or be silent for ever"
 * 3) Martin Luther and good husbandry
 * 4) If Ayman al-Zawahiri were killed or caught, would it mean the end of al Qaeda?
 * 5) Can we replace the purely mathematical technical language and concept in dealing with philosophical logic which is not symbolic?
 * 6) The ethics of increasing medical school positions when # of residency positions guarantees many won't match
 * 7) How does a person preach the gospel to someone else?
 * 8) Book on feminism/gender equality?
 * 9) Alien nationals in a warfaring country in the early modern era?
 * 10) unknown ranks

= September 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 September 18


 * 1) Large modern conflict zones
 * 2) Crato descendants
 * 3) Source for use of "race" in U.S. ouside Census
 * 4) How is propositional, formal, mathematical, etc., different to philosophical logic?
 * 5) "The AF PX Spring Sale! Buy One, Get One Hundred Free! All-You-Can-Eat Sushi Bar!!!!! While Supplies Last!"
 * 6) Canonical Works of Literature
 * 7) USATEMCOM
 * 8) Sidewalk with roof?
 * 9) Political parties of Israel mizrahi sephardi reform conservative non-zionism
 * 10) Either the Calendar is wrong or the Clock is.  It's that simple.
 * 11) famous & mean book reviews
 * 12) UN General Assembly Chamber
 * 13) Honolulu in 1840

= September 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 September 19


 * 1) Was Dewey defeats Truman retracted?
 * 2) Public and private Campaign financing
 * 3) Jewish Holy Sites in an Israeli-Palestinian Peace Treaty
 * 4) What kind of shark saves a human?
 * 5) A ring of forts

= September 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 September 20


 * 1) Is the difference of philosopher to metaphysics/ethics/epistemology writer just lies with the entitlement
 * 2) City planning and trees that line the street
 * 3) 'combo' copy of the LDS Doctrine and Covenants and Pearl of Great Price - use?
 * 4) passage about locomotives mating (in the carnal sense) from Samuel Butler?
 * 5) Homer
 * 6) The American fighting machine
 * 7) Is there a deadline to stop persecuting investigatin the whereabout of any nazis?
 * 8) hedge fund

= September 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 September 21


 * 1) Majority number of seats in Chamber of Deputies
 * 2) What should I write for more specific citations of this text?
 * 3) Can anyone identify this 'barbarian-warrior' engraved artwork?
 * 4) Another Lou Gehrig's disease ?
 * 5) Duchess of Windsor
 * 6) Were Native American tribes able to start fires before Europeans arrived?

= September 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 September 22


 * 1) remembering a fallen hero in an American national memorial
 * 2) A symbol to denote Adjusted for Inflation?
 * 3) July 19 1937 as the start of WWII
 * 4) Buddhism sources.
 * 5) Economic Sources
 * 6) Identifying an old Irish Abbey from picture/pictures I took and you could keep of an Irish Abbey not listed in your county list of abbeys
 * 7) Non-Hispanic Black & Non-Hispanic Asian Populations for U.S. Cities Since 1970
 * 8) Football Coach quote "I'm not growing [type of flower] I'm growing men"

= September 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 September 23


 * 1) Corporate tax rate and hiring costs
 * 2) Evangelicalism in the US
 * 3) Who made this curse? (shown on PBS about 10-15 years ago)
 * 4) Names with ordinal numbers
 * 5) Capital punishment
 * 6) Critique of Jared Diamond
 * 7) Laudabiliter
 * 8) could i pay for internet tv like satellite tv
 * 9) Newfoundland Act 1949
 * 10) United States Politicians With Notability in Other Fields
 * 11) Full metal jacket, the film, and real training

= September 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 September 24


 * 1) Early voting and changing votes in the U.S
 * 2) Hitler's Pope and The Myth of Hitler's Pope
 * 3) For term or traditional logician; Can term logic be sufficient to be the content of philosophy in dealing with central philosophical topics?
 * 4) Interpreting the old testament
 * 5) Monogamy as part of culture
 * 6) Gadsby copyright concern
 * 7) Laughter

= September 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 September 25


 * 1) Thucydides on religion
 * 2) Question on history of aviation
 * 3) A new or an old social class?
 * 4) Embassy premises sharing

= September 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 September 26


 * 1) Muslim dominated neighbourhoods in Europe
 * 2) Lockouts in general
 * 3) UK wealth tax proposal
 * 4) Relative frequency of male prostitution
 * 5) Free speech vs fair elections
 * 6) how dual licensing works
 * 7) First African Woman Novelist is from Imo state
 * 8) Ndlovukati
 * 9) Charitable contributions
 * 10) Relevance in Buddhism

= September 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 September 27


 * 1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shahada
 * 2) Possible to buy New York Times in Seattle in 1910?
 * 3) European Defence Agency - estimated savings
 * 4) @ recipient
 * 5) What exactly does pragmatism states of logic?
 * 6) Infanta Mariana Francisca of Portugal and Infanta Maria Doroteia of Portugal
 * 7) Peace, man
 * 8) Book about bees

= September 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 September 28


 * 1) Math
 * 2) Emergency dispatchers
 * 3) Property Rights Question
 * 4) Bart Simpson's grossest foods
 * 5) Handly's Lessee v. Anthony
 * 6) United States electoral college system
 * 7) Intrinsic vs. Extrinsic religiosity
 * 8) British royals and languages

= September 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 September 29


 * 1) Mizrahi and sephardi jews neighbourhoods in Israel
 * 2) candidates Israel election Shas and Meretz Parties
 * 3) candidates each political parties last elections Sweden Norway Denmark Belgium Netherlands Italy Spain Portugal
 * 4) Government opposition to a private member's bill in the Parliament of the UK
 * 5) Pain in babies

= September 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 September 30


 * 1) Soviet Census
 * 2) name for a research paradigm
 * 3) Scottish independence
 * 4) Advertising Model of Cable and Satellite TV