Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/September 2014

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 * 1) Meaning of the saying "The irish pray on their knees; the scots prey on their neighbors."
 * 2) Why Christians don't want Jerusalem?
 * 3) spinoza's ethics
 * 4) Durdane Series - Age of The Land of Shant
 * 5) How is American Lutheranism different from German Lutheranism theologically?

= September 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 September 10


 * 1) The Indonesian Tree of Life
 * 2) Japanese art/ Chinese history question
 * 3) Sughauli treaty
 * 4) was Spinoza an atheist, i.e. pseudo- theist (by analogy with 'pseudorandom', i.e. not at all random)
 * 5) American astronauts' fluency in Russian
 * 6) Degrees
 * 7) Oliver-boy?
 * 8) Most police officers killed by one person

= September 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 September 11


 * 1) Name of dictator?
 * 2) What is the British side of the American Revolutionary War?
 * 3) Bridge cultures
 * 4) Are there Muslims that proselytize in Asian countries?
 * 5) Is it true that Australia and Africa offered land for Israel after WW2?

= September 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 September 12


 * 1) Greek orthodox bible
 * 2) Length of a court appearance
 * 3) Do speakers of Kansai dialect feel pissed off when someone speaks awkward Kansai dialect?
 * 4) Soviet violations of US borders
 * 5) Mike Tyson rape case
 * 6) Private communities and HOAs

= September 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 September 13


 * 1) Need entry: James T. Hackett
 * 2) Male film actors portraying female characters or vice-versa

= September 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 September 14


 * 1) Baby bottles - a teat at each end
 * 2) German interrogator/torturer in the Second World War - Bonner
 * 3) Is it true that the UK will lose its nuclear weapons if Scotland goes independent?
 * 4) Is it true that Reagan's policies made the USSR's economy too sparse and limited to manage?

= September 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 September 15


 * 1) What will happen if Scotland becomes independent again?
 * 2) $100K (1987) vs today's dollars
 * 3) What is the first human to be settled in mainland China?
 * 4) Famous quote
 * 5) Compulsory release of works in the public domain?

= September 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 September 16


 * 1) Do Eastern Orthodox kids go trick-or-treating with their Western Christian counterparts?
 * 2) Scottish independence

= September 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 September 17


 * 1) religions based on values and practices of Islam
 * 2) Is there any reason to keep cigarettes legal?
 * 3) Questions related to Australia immigration
 * 4) Christian fundamentalism/modern opposition to the teaching of evolution outside the United States
 * 5) Duty managers
 * 6) Was anyone ever crazy enough to shoot at a vice-president?
 * 7) Are men/women's face just as beautiful as the opposite sex?
 * 8) I have some interesting questions regarding ethnicity/cultures in United Sates and Canada
 * 9) Why do some women hold their fork like this?
 * 10) Cars driving into houses and shopfronts - what the hell is going on?

= September 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 September 18


 * 1) Roger Touhy
 * 2) Oculus
 * 3) Grand Ducal Highness
 * 4) human Ecology

= September 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 September 19


 * 1) 10 different qira'ats in this audio
 * 2) German stereotypes
 * 3) History of progressive income tax

= September 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 September 20


 * 1) Collective term for "Indian-ish" people
 * 2) Playing sasa

= September 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 September 21


 * 1) Christians in Iraq and Syria
 * 2) British (most likely) coat of arms identification
 * 3) Daughtes of Tsars

= September 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 September 22


 * 1) Historically speaking, what did people with gender dysphoria do before the sex reassignment surgery was ever performed?
 * 2) "Duke of Half-"

= September 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 September 23


 * 1) Shanty houses in Hong Kong
 * 2) ...burgh
 * 3) American birthday or lunar birthday
 * 4) solar power plant
 * 5) Do men ever join the YWCA in the same way women join the YMCA today?
 * 6) Multiplier of covering a progression losses
 * 7) why do few academics study ayn rand

= September 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 September 24


 * 1) Why does the United States support Israel?
 * 2) arabic and persian names
 * 3) Atimia
 * 4) Topic of discussion: World Recycle
 * 5) What is the thing that makes this company's service so un-doable by others?
 * 6) Is there still a place in modern philosophy for qualitative or non-mathematical philosophy?

= September 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 September 25


 * 1) Can you give the names of some contemporary Asian philosophers who focus on the eastern tradition? Is eastern philosophy taken seriously in the 21st century?
 * 2) Are Holland and the Netherlands exactly synonymous?
 * 3) Germany in the 1920s
 * 4) Painting of Autumn Woman in Leaves - seeking artist name

= September 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 September 26


 * 1) What ever happened to the Puritans' religion?
 * 2) Property in the Enlightenment
 * 3) Are we still living in a world dominated by the western civilization?
 * 4) boat on dry land
 * 5) List of religions and spiritual traditions
 * 6) Ezra Pound's Envoi (1919) (Hugh Selwyn Mauberley): Who was the woman "that sang me once that song of Lawes"?
 * 7) She really "went to town" then

= September 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 September 27


 * 1) Nudes in early 20th century France
 * 2) Julius Streicher and the German Democratic Party
 * 3) Arabic name abbreviation
 * 4) Can anyone find a source for this graphic? (UK European Election results)

= September 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 September 28


 * 1) followup on what did trans people do before modern surgery
 * 2) American Civil War Veterans

= September 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 September 29


 * 1) Gender ratio in 1967 Miami ?
 * 2) Alternative Searches for Employment
 * 3) Bedaux belts
 * 4) Moses:
 * 5) Anabaptist, Baptist, Puritan, and Congregationalists . ..

= September 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 September 30


 * 1) Queen Elizabeth II christmas broadcast in 1969.
 * 2) Inside the United Nations headquarters in recent years before the renovation