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May 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 May 1

1. Merovingian bloodlines
2. British Army - Essex Regiment in 1944
3. G SUMIT
4. Ancient ruins- location and/or name?
5. ancient indian quilt image search
6. famous literary writers of the 16th century and before
7. why don't jews eat pork?
8. french women -- urban legend?
9. The Mongols
10. Children's Laureate
11. Critques of Status in Anthropology

May 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 May 2

1. re: Robert Williams (psychologist)
2. IIPA (Institute of Incorporated Public Accountants) Ireland www.iipa.ie
3. Checking credentials
4. does any country accept israeli citizens as their own?
5. East European equivalent of "Frank"
6. Legality of preventing sports fans of rival team to attend games

May 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 May 3

1. [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 May 3#|]]
2. How to get displayed in an Art Gallery
3. Bank interest rate
4. finding out the year of publication
5. Which Nowe Miasto?
6. What is a criminal?
7. california trespassing
8. Emperor of the Franks
9. squeemish ancient history question
10. Best way to make money
11. What would happen if New York was attacked with a nuclear weapon?
12. Japan's religous demographic
13. have any antisemites converted to judaism?
14. Bootmakers to Kings

May 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 May 4

1. University Suicide
2. Infinite Perception
3. Mainstream bibles around the world
4. Proto-Helladic period
5. world heritage sites
6. Projects marred by human rights allegations?
7. Fact checking, educational system
8. when was oral sex invented?
9. Follow up based on findings from Tango's response above

May 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 May 5

1. Voletta Wallace
2. Long Hair Merovingians
3. NYSE and NASDAQ listed stocks
4. Single superpower, single party
5. When welfare in the US runs out
6. Women and the internet
7. Have I broken the law?
8. Bridge types
9. Stafford Hospital scandal, UK
10. Strange fertility pattern of Anna of Bohemia and Hungary
11. US foodstamps
12. John Hersey's Books
13. Great x ? uncle
14. Renaissance handwriting

May 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 May 6

1. Monetary Reform Act
2. UK hereditary peers
3. Is Apportionment of cost necessary for control?
4. Paintings in the White House
5. Masters thesis or master's thesis?
6. Michael Savage and Britain
7. Heritage Month
8. English libel law
9. A bank with triple purposes

May 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 May 7

1. Elected official from a disenfranchised group
2. Did the USSR ever use the term "New Soviet man"?
3. Primary sources about the holocaust
4. Gitmo detainees released
5. Native Americans?
6. Reasons For Opposing Slavery In The North?
7. Manifest Destiny?
8. What's this novel?
9. Two Unknown Books
10. "Ten Pound Court"
11. cousin marrying
12. GSP and past mayors
13. English
14. weighing and drying process

May 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 May 8

1. Subsidies instead of tariffs
2. More on gender of internet use
3. Islamic inheritance jurisprudence and will
4. Cutting the hair during sickness
5. Is Urdu a Semitic language?

May 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 May 9

1. French King/Duke of Aquitaine
2. Nothing to do with the old or new Coke
3. Muslim achievements
4. Did the recent Euromillions lottery have a positive expectation?
5. Websites that do stock market predictions using Collective Intelligence
6. The symbolic significance of the 5th. of May in Chaucerian times
7. The hazard rates for popular activities
8. French passes
9. Paintings in the White House 2
10. What different ways can money be created in finance?
11. Price of a cow?
12. Bassoon Music
13. Fed funds
14. Trinity vs Hindu polytheism

May 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 May 10

1. Yemen's water system
2. Which flag is this ?
3. Arab Mulatto
4. Footballs before the air pump
5. Roman Catholic Church and IVF
6. HIV and the U.S. Military
7. Question about perception biases in art
8. New and/or growing Markets
9. Do animals have nationality?
10. New Jersey Airports
11. Music genre port city

May 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 May 11

1. Joe Wicks (not the fictional character)
2. Do you know of any ancient Cossa's
3. Old SCOTUS opinions
4. Mystery bread deliveries
5. The Mall, London
6. driving distance time from Brussels to Paris
7. Institutions and people in developed Asian countries
8. Pakistan and counterinsurgency
9. Tracking down a Heinlein novel from one snippet of information
10. FAMOUS GREEN WOODCUT-STYLE ARTIST
11. Racism?
12. In the humanities, what are the applications and benefits of a tree structure?
13. Potok's Asher Lev sees Picasso Crucifixion work
14. did the Pope give any reasons for Palestinians having a state?

May 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 May 12

1. Modern architecture
2. More 1904 SCOTUS
3. Sinhalese-speaking Muslims
4. Penehupifo Pohamba
5. Communism
6. Churchill and national anthem
7. Group of people mutally agreeing to will wealth to each other - hypothetical question
8. Time line
9. Turn of the century Italian painter
10. Pope Pious XII
11. Psychology "taking offense"
12. Marriage Laws for Muslims
13. WWII Slovenia
14. Commoning and Community Building

May 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 May 13

1. Kings of Aquitaine
2. Abdoulaye Wade's wife
3. Denis Sassou Nguesso's wife
4. Conservative/Green alliance?
5. Autocracy and despotism - difference?
6. Is there a name for this?
7. Civil rights in Japan and South Korea
8. Derek Bok Quote
9. Words in the World
10. Looking for building pictures

May 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 May 14

1. Zoological Society of London - Presidents and Secretaries
2. Artefacts made by Jesus
3. biblical question
4. christian gods?
5. gods mother?
6. moderation
7. can Americans do "illegal drugs" in places where they're legal?
8. Aeroplanes and jurisdiction
9. Is this wrong?
10. Bank of England
11. Non-resident Indians in Caribbean statistics
12. Contradicting laws
13. What article am I thinking of?
14. Singularity
15. English "legalese" meaning of assign (moved from languages)

May 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 May 15

1. Which ethnic group is the wealthiest in India?
2. Which Christian denominations believe that evolution is compatible with their beliefs?
3. WWI censorship (UK)
4. Heir to the title of Duke of Suárez?
5. Regent of Monaco at the French court
6. Identification in Britain
7. Aung San Suu Kyi popularity
8. Western hemisphere politics
9. Annual review of operations / management report
10. World War Two Weapons

May 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 May 16

1. articles on Ireland economics
2. Accidental leaks
3. Coats of arms
4. Utah Lieutenant Governor
5. Administrators of Zilla Parishad
6. THE BOOK OF THE NEW SUN MOVIE
7. Who is this woman?
8. Terminator franchise

May 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 May 17

1. updates on shooting suspect
2. "unit pricing" in retail markets, esp. Grocery stores
3. Draw duel
4. Atheism, Evolution, Human Nature, and Capitalism
5. Old Man River
6. 21st century monarchism
7. How to contact an author
8. Vatican pornography
9. cemetary
10. Researching my MP, in the UK

May 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 May 18

1. Minsk Historically
2. "It is illegal to rob police cars"
3. name of a modern country
4. Name that tune
5. Armed civilian v. cop
6. Church talk...
7. Novel about woman who thinks cary grant is god

May 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 May 19

1. latest baggage updates
2. Dangerous Animals in South Korea
3. Modular part-time university courses in the UK
4. what percent of Europe's jews were killed in the Holocaust?
5. Harvard Referencing query
6. Why don't Baptists celebrate Ascension Day?
7. deflation & inflation
8. Who's the artist? What's the name of the painting?
9. Parimutuel betting

May 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 May 20

1. Translation
2. Request for a mathematical term name
3. Orthodox Bibles
4. Atheism, Evolution, Human Nature, and Capitalism (cont.)
5. Politicians and nudity
6. Monastery on top of rock pillars in Asia?
7. Can someone with a common surname be of Jewish descent?
8. Economical crisis = business school crisis?
9. Pursuit of low inflation one of the causes of the economic crisis?
10. history recomendations for non native speaker
11. The man with the rifle shoots...
12. mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroup of Stone Age peoples?
13. Behavioral modernity and Great Leap Forward?

May 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 May 21

1. Robert Mugabe's siblings
2. Symptoms?
3. Difference between Compatibilism and Pessimistic Incompatibilism
4. Identity of murderers/criminals
5. Buddism in theWest: most common sect
6. Modernisation/Westernisation and political spectrum
7. Europhile Socialists?
8. Relationship between "Mosaic" (tiles) and Moses (Biblical Prophet)?
9. Landscape
10. Straight ticket voting states
11. Largest Empire Ever
12. Listing the "virtual/emotional parent" in a wedding program

May 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 May 22

1. paul Biya's first wife
2. Arduin of Irvea's wife
3. Utilitarianism and Human Nature
4. Disclosure of expenses of British Members of Parliament
5. European Hockey Skate Manufacturers
6. Bills Signed Into Law By U.S. Presidents
7. Bharatiya Janata Party Buddhism Zoroastrianism Jainism
8. Wikipedia's use of the GFDL
9. does anything you whip pass the sound barrier?
10. List of Big Brother / Police State developments in the United Kingdom
11. What is this mask called?

May 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 May 23

1. Inconsistency in the European title of (hereditary) "Prince"
2. Lalla Salma of Morocco
3. Language of Haakon VII of Norway
4. Roman mosaics pattern
5. Picture containing 3-D objects
6. Art

May 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 May 24

1. Startup banks get pledges
2. canteens and cafeterias
3. Race question?
4. Baron and Count
5. Australia
6. rejecting the Nicene Creed
7. Like political compass - but for EU parties

May 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 May 25

1. Jeremy Bentham and Human Nature
2. Running museum joke in letters to The Guardian
3. art history
4. Byzantine crown jewels
5. Coronation of Byzantine Emperors and Empresses
6. Kongeluns (?) in Denmark
7. Biblical prohibition of fornication
8. Doubling Polonius and Fortinbras
9. Lawyer trade mag
10. Finding county-level US census data for 1960, 1970, 1980 and 1990

May 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 May 26

1. Mini Monkey in Amber
2. Music Website
3. What does an introductory logic class actually involve?
4. Finnish Sniper - WW2
5. Conflicting rights
6. Tiananmen Square protests of 1989/The Internationale
7. post-WWII Disarmourment Cartoon
8. gold coins again
9. 'Dug-out' officer
10. medical condition from beauty procedure
11. Book title....

May 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 May 27

1. Daniel Arap Moi's wife Lena
2. Government departments non-profit?
3. Wrong pilot credited with Bf 110 first flight
4. Supply and demand
5. Human resource functions
6. Being raped in the subway
7. Personal Royal Mottoes (UK)
8. history
9. Galloping Major scandal
10. Financial Times front page for 1993 Bishopsgate bombing
11. Ahmad Tejan Kabbah's second wife

May 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 May 28

1. Did WWII tanks ever resort to physically pushing enemy tanks?
2. Ernest Bai Koroma's wife Sia
3. Does anyone care about the big picture?
4. Salma Kikwete
5. Que Sarah Sarah?
6. Learning to sing
7. Election results in Sweden?
8. Rapture
9. Address of Emmy Rossum
10. UK Councillors/local councils by party
11. The title of a book from my childhood

May 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 May 29

1. U.S. Spelling Bee & participant race
2. North Korean Infantry - Main Weapon
3. Which Buddha Statue ? (done)
4. Marcus Favonius date of birth
5. What is the contribution of coal (percentage) to the total energy consumption in Poland?
6. Cabbage
7. Abatement
8. Which was worse the First or Second Red Scares?
9. Ancient Documents
10. Jewish hymn
11. Hello
12. Black Death quote

May 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 May 30

1. Myrna Colley-Lee
2. Earth's Other Satellite
3. Any other famous latin phrases like "carpe diem"?
4. Canada GM Car Clearance
5. Section 3 of the 25th Amendment under VP absence
6. Ruben's "History of Constantine the Great" series
7. Giveaways and antitrust
8. What is right and what is left?
9. communion faux pas?

May 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 May 31

1. Full version of "JANA GANA MANA/INDIA'S NATIONAL ANTMEM"
2. Economic slowdown causes
3. "Holocaust Theology" sources