Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/September 2017

= September 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 September 1


 * 1) Byzantines unable to stop the Lombards
 * 2) Polynesian cultures and styles
 * 3) Importance of STEM education for jobs

= September 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 September 2


 * 1) Novels with different titles in the US and UK
 * 2) drawing blood
 * 3) statistics on direction of transition for transgender people
 * 4) Coming back to an abandoned embassy
 * 5) Why did the CCC mandate that its participants send $25 home to their dependents?
 * 6) I can't find sources on the Guinness Website about "largest gay/lgbt pride parades"

= September 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 September 3


 * 1) Kaiser San Francisco

= September 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 September 4


 * 1) Why do some provincial housing societies in Canada require a birth certificate in order to apply for subsidized housing?

= September 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 September 5


 * 1) Date of birth for a sitting U.S. Governor (Lolo Matalasi Moliga)
 * 2) Tourism and Dutch disease
 * 3) Are there any impediments to U.S. underground nuclear testing?
 * 4) History textbooks in the UK

= September 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 September 6


 * 1) Arab numerals replacing Roman numerals

= September 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 September 7


 * 1) An odd scene in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar
 * 2) "If it was a snake it would have bit me" phenomenon

= September 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 September 8


 * 1) Community certificate for an OCI

= September 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 September 9


 * 1) Travel to US on a one-way ticket
 * 2) Why did Greece stay Christian?

= September 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 September 10


 * 1) House arrest
 * 2) PRINCE2 governance
 * 3) Pre-Modern Knowledge of What Was Underwater

= September 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 September 11


 * 1) Mythological Inventors of Numbers
 * 2) Myers-Briggs question
 * 3) Scots' attitudes towards independence across the sectarian divide
 * 4) Tropical storms and hurricanes: codes and numbers

= September 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 September 12


 * 1) How many small claims courts are there in the US?
 * 2) Two questions about climate change denial
 * 3) One over the eight
 * 4) Equifax

= September 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 September 14


 * 1) Hanoverian succession
 * 2) Russian hat

= September 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 September 15


 * 1) Anthony Weiner
 * 2) Is rape about power and control or sexual gratification?
 * 3) Evaluating religious bias and affirmative action

= September 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 September 16


 * 1) Textual lacunae and a Gnostic text
 * 2) Hand signal?

= September 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 September 17


 * 1) Stereotypes of Indians/Pakistanis in the UK

= September 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 September 18


 * 1) Basque Flag with wyvern
 * 2) Some one told me the Nazis were socialist.
 * 3) Events noted as happening on election days

= September 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 September 19


 * 1) How did the struggle between Buddhism and Brahminism created the Dalit/untouchables in Indian society?
 * 2) Battleship aiming
 * 3) Is The Onion fake news?
 * 4) Driving a stationery vehicle
 * 5) Criminal sentencing and deterrence
 * 6) MS-13 initiation question
 * 7) Yahweh and his Asherah

= September 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 September 20


 * 1) How exactly do other countries figure out how to make nuclear weapons?

= September 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 September 21


 * 1) Country formation past and present
 * 2) Are there countries where gay military members are allowed but gay sex isn't?
 * 3) Employees on large capital programmes
 * 4) Old age: 55-58 years
 * 5) Southeast Asian country with no last name but a lot of Biblical names

= September 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 September 22


 * 1) Is St Stanislaus' College (Bathurst) the same as the Stanislaus Military College, as mentioned in this video about Georges Guynemer?

= September 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 September 23


 * 1) Non Aggression Principle
 * 2) Unconscious bias
 * 3) A judge's mistake

= September 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 September 24


 * 1) What happened to people in Kenya whose land was expropriated to British settlers?
 * 2) Somalia on Crisis in Palestine/Islamic Extremism
 * 3) Enki and Yahweh
 * 4) Precisely what is a "collegiate dictionary"?

= September 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 September 25


 * 1) How exactly do countries assert control over land when the land is evolving?
 * 2) Why is sound body in the will formula?

= September 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 September 26


 * 1) Are Afghani people Arab?
 * 2) Narendra Modi
 * 3) Why is the Christ myth theory popular among many atheists?
 * 4) Why do Christians find it necessary to translate the Bible in other people's languages instead of preserving the original tongue?
 * 5) Richard Dawkins and Eastern religions
 * 6) What was the first ship too big to use New York Harbor without the help of harbor deepening while fully laden? Similarly for London.
 * 7) What country has the highest rate of death by violence?

= September 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 September 27


 * 1) How do people know how old a civilization is?
 * 2) lunatics
 * 3) 2 Questions on global statistics
 * 4) Are there countries where Colin Kaepernick is white?

= September 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 September 28


 * 1) Uncontacted peoples
 * 2) Conservative support for marijuana legalization
 * 3) First amendment
 * 4) Shantou

= September 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 September 29


 * 1) Arizona Republic
 * 2) Name of psychological sales trick

= September 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 September 30


 * 1) A Sex guide, which was it?
 * 2) Thomas_Adams_(politician)