Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/April 2009
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April 1[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 April 1
- Cultures that don't bow (kneel/ prostrate)
- Company revenue, net income, and GDP
- (Un)employment in the Netherlands
- TREATMENT
- Frank Hodges
- Armenia
- Slavery in ancient times
April 2[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 April 2
- Cost of a gondola ride in C16 Venice
- A Story....Is It True? If so, where can I find the article here on wikipedia??
- The eyes of a Buddha statue
- "Patriotic retirement"
- Comparative Wealth of North America versus South America
- Mace of the House of Delegates (Virginia)
- atheism
- Does Robert De Nero play the violin?
- Accounting General Ledger
- capital punishment
April 3[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 April 3
- Magnuson Moss Act New Zealand equivalent
- Turn of the Century French Ultra Conservatism
- How to get into the US?
- e-commerce
- Troops Attacked By Cavalry
- Simulation hypothesis and Gnosticism
- Michelle Obama and First Ladies Generally
- British unparliamentary language list
- Economics question on CDs
- What are some Structuralist books that elaborate on binary oppositions?
- Muslims celebrate Christmas
- U.S. Congress
- Old leaders, young leaders
April 4[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 April 4
- Dnepropetrovsk maniacs
- Napoleon I on his Imperial Throne
- Online questionnaire that tells me who to vote for
- Shakespeare Biography
- Powers of US President to influence the Senate
- Can Fed or State Government seize insurance benefits from inmates?
- Industrial Relations and Labour Laws
- ella fillmore lillie
- Should the whole population of the earth go and settle in the US and Canada, what would be the density there?
April 5[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 April 5
- Muslim nations ruled by Christians
- Significance of blue in Pashtun culture
- Jungdemokraten interwiki?
- list of genocides
- South Asia
- Pyne's royal residences
- Jonestown
- What was Jesus' last name
- National character studies
- Motion of no confidence
- Automobile
April 6[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 April 6
- How wide were the sandy beaches when Columbus, etc. came?
- Tengu
- Sheikh Hasina and Benazir Bhutto
- why do religious groups have the right to associate etc etc but we don't have the right to ostracize them.
- Another Venetian question - the canals
- Port Arthur
April 7[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 April 7
- Joke or anecdote about tiger-repelling stone
- Ancient Japanese & Chinese's thoughts of the Pacific Ocean
- i am smashed with a baby in a room
- Where did I read that there are only N types of joke?
- The White House and Art
- Another Köchel question
- Google Street View
- Accounting in Europe
- Falun Gong and the Boxers
April 8[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 April 8
- Pakistani reserved seats
- What are the ROI or ROCE for various business sectors?
- IPRED effects
- what are some of the worst things the united states has ever done?
- Deal capture
- US Senators
- Dutch government agency for drug approval?
- charity vs government
April 9[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 April 9
- Can someone explain Zimbabwe's inflation for an incredulous layman?
- I'm thinking of a book...
- Why there isn't any Northeast Indian Independence Protest?
- what was the first recorded birth
- Czech Lands
- has the United States ever done anything of which international opinion is as condemning as it is of the Holocaust committed by Nazi Germany?
- Trains 'beeping' as they approach stations
- "Teorema" - dog's name?
- Sea angling rights
- British colonization in Hong Kong
- Christianity misconceptions
- The future will be better tomorrow
- Pakistani-Canadian
April 10[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 April 10
- Next president of Kenya
- Phoenicians trading with (Great) Zimbabwe?
- is there a psychological reason for "code names" at companies?
- Poem
- Population of Egypt
- is ninja blinding powder permanent?
- Baseball Team
April 11[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 April 11
- Painting: Victorian lady having tea
- Is there a god of elections?
- removed question on Obama
- Historical interest rates for CHF and USD
- Protestantism
April 12[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 April 12
- Rodearmel v. Clinton
- Living long as possible
- shemale
- How much Christians were killed during the Holocaust?
- Is it legal - Not a legal advice, just a question.
- Problem with Delhi Page
- William Crookshank - Died 1865
- 19th Century German Metaphysics
- Need to write down Hindi script
April 13[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 April 13
- New South Wales
- Legend with Hakon and Sigrid?
- Bible as book
- Opinion of Sudan People's Liberation Army
- Fable About Thinking Ahead
- native american population history
- Placing blame elsewhere
April 14[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 April 14
- Kufuor family
- magazine archives
- under the gold standard, is it much easier to launder money?
- Puritan Pilgrims
- voting machines
- Normandy
- UK or European equivalent to paleoconservatism?
- presidential power and executive orders
- Portugese traders in the 16th and 17th centuries Japan
- Public bathroom etiquette
April 15[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 April 15
- Sindhi new year
- Goethe Quotations in "The Edge of Heaven"
- "GC" in a date?
- Spring has sprung, the grass has riz
- How many independent countries are there in the world?
- how do the amish make money?
- Wage-earning in colonial Spanish America
- Thatcher's Childen
- Japan and Germany
April 16[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 April 16
- police secrets -- so effective it's censored even in the report?
- Revealing a Psychopath
- Green Hindu figure
- First cousins once removed's child
- Afghanistan History between 1983 and 2000
- How Many people are evangelical?
April 17[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 April 17
- Taxation in the United States
- Lebanese politics
- Anyone knows of The History of the Nation?
- Why red shirts?
- English royal standard
- St. George's Day
- Cooking practices of the Tarahumara - do they bake, roast, or fry much?
- Which is the best type of Gladiator?
- Religious leaders who have converted
- Media bias study about Vietnam
- American Obsesssion with tax
- Material
- speeding ticket myth?
- Functional form of von-Neumann Morgenstern utility function - any help much appreciated !!!
- Parents' Relations
- Nuns
- Nationalities on Titanic?
- FTSE 100 Index - recent history of
- Ethics of Parenting
April 18[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 April 18
- Which crowns are these with Richard III and family?
- assignment help needed
- Genesis - Creation
- What are the chances of a nuclear war in the next 100 years?
- Why is there no article Islam and communism?
- Status of post-War German states
April 19[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 April 19
- Website for finding theme (literature)
- Best way to stop a prima donna behaving as such?
- Acronyms in American legislation
- Opinion polls for European Parliament election, 2009 (Sweden)?
- Multiple wives/first ladies?
- Male succession through females
- American Gothic
- Peerages of the British Royal Family
- graph of snowboard sales
- Queen murdered by soldiers?
- Why exactly do animal rights organisations campaign for animals that are only born for meat?
April 20[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 April 20
- military "uniforms" in middle ages
- Two bank company questions
- Distribution of non-English Banknotes of the Pound Sterling in the UK
- what is middle market lending?
- how do those Somali pirates find ships to hijack?
- Law: Example of Habeas Corpus
- Who spoke what language in medieval/Early modern England?
- Diplomatic immunity
- religion and philosophy
- Why do Finns, Poles, Hungarians and Romanians look like white people with a bit of the Mongoloid race added?
- Long-term treasury bonds
- benefit concert for commuter airplane crash memorial
- certainty
April 21[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 April 21
- galley?
- Deity as personified concept
- Racism
- How do bureaucracies know to act on contracts that are set hundreds of years in the future?
- Two dynamite trucks on a narrow road
- Second-hand music sales
- Freedom of Movement in Hong Kong, Macau and Mainland China
- German and Soviet clashes in Poland, 1939
- Lolladoff Plate
- Hiawatha
- US Fifth Amendment
- Successful economic sanctions?
- Short story about problem-solver that invents nuclear shield, saving earth from potential MAD instigated by alien life-forms to prevent them evolving beyond their control
- Questions
April 22[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 April 22
- Working in a foreign country
- when did people realize Italy was shaped like a boot?
- Belgium
- Dystopian Fiction
- "What If" Book
- Hamlet and the Oath of the Horatii
- Size of historical battles
April 23[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 April 23
- obligations of trustee holding bare title in a deed of trust
- Film Form vs. Content?
- "Rosies" and hard hats
- United Kingdom
April 24[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 April 24
- To refuse ones book in a library
- State
- Paying for oneself
- Payment Terms
- Commonwealth Navy ship prefixes
- Afro-Arabs
- A Religious Protestant Symbol
- Puerto Rico
- Request for on-line copy of Galileo's Dialogue
- Bassoon trios by Julius Weissenborn
- Transfer payments within the EU
- Copyright of Derivative Works of Public Domain Information
- Mixed culture musical instruments
April 25[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 April 25
- don't mess with the binding
- are some kinds of extortion legal?
- Confucius "With only plain rice to eat and only my elbow for a pillow I find delight in all"
- Zionist parties outside of Israel?
- Is there an official list somewhere of areas of inquiry that are not welcome here at the reference desk?
- English History Question -- What's a Cord Maker?
- Is Britain already a police state?
- How do you write with a southern accent from the 1900 in Alabama?
- Cold War
April 26[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 April 26
- a colonnaded portico
- Hadith
- WESTERN US rail development 1850/1860
- Sisyphus
- Robin Cook
- Peerage and Titles
- 247
- Has globalisation replaced God?
April 27[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 April 27
- 20 Points of Law
- Barbara Everard
- Children With 'Illegal' Names
- Federal Reserve and Bureau of Engraving and Printing
- sociological metrics/research on racism?
April 28[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 April 28
- College
- Board of directors question
- Where to search online for legal precedents
- Cities in Guangdong
- Torture?
- Painters/artists with the last name Seaman
- Pork law
- Sarah Onyango Obama
April 29[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 April 29
- how to (not) throw out a tenant?
- Northern regiments and recruits for Confederate military
- King of the Franks
- Kurt Grunwald
- d-day
- disintegration of soviet union
- Goliath (WW2 weapon)
- King Otto of Greece
- Heiresses apparent to peerage titles
- Actress from 'Slumdog Millionaire' (the older girl)
- Japan's Civil War