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May 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 May 1

1. Is it possible that North Korea torpedoed Deepwater Horizon?
2. Holy Roman Empire
3. Lame duck PM?
4. Source of quotation: "Dance like no one's watching"
5. Finite afterlife
6. Cult of Padre Pio
7. Opposition to proportional representation
8. BNP but not Greens on TV in UK
9. Overseeing a small amount of house renovation
10. November 22, 1963
11. Why in the past decades has there been violence against missionaries working in Turkey?
12. Are court-ordered psychological evaluations privileged?
13. Modern missionary practices and criticisms
14. Greek austerity protests
15. hindues

May 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 May 2

1. negative eugenic practices in the united states
2. mourinho's unbeaten home record
3. The EU and Greece
4. Supreme Court case on copyright
5. First israeli Ambassador to the UK
6. Women's magazines
7. monarchy power
8. Caliphate of Córdoba
9. censorship in China
10. When was the women of Korea unveiled?
11. Royal women of old Korea
12. One so-called legal name at a time in USA?
13. Comparative chart and article
14. Roman Catholic Festival - Feast of the Dead
15. Young David in I Samuel
16. Jehovah witnesses
17. double standards

May 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 May 3

1. Handing out titles of the Peerage of England - how was land involved?
2. Wife of George VII of Imereti
3. More people recognized Ronald McDonald than George Washington
4. An Ashokan Farewell
5. Estate agents aggregation websites for finding property
6. Copyright of FTSE index figures
7. African American
8. Heuristics for doing difficult and complicated things?
9. a term for ivory or bone jewelry
10. Over time how has ......
11. Kant and kairos

May 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 May 4

1. Simeon Sakskoburggotski
2. Pope's apartment
3. When did the medieval day begin?
4. Talent<->Denarius exchange rate
5. flea in flea market --- what does it mean?
6. Times Square bomber + Freedom of Information
7. Safe deposit boxes after death
8. dried up river beds

May 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 May 5

1. Law of Consanguinity in the Royal Families of Medieval Europe
2. Changes in human morphology
3. What would happen if Greece defaulted on their debt payments?
4. Codification of interpolations in Bhagvad-Gita
5. B type blood and its arrival in Europe
6. Identifying a mislabelled sound file on Wikipedia, probably by Handel
7. Evil
8. Post military-model
9. HIV/AIDS

May 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 May 6

1. Probable cause
2. Judge knowingly permitting perjury?
3. UK election polling times
4. Too Big to Fail
5. Why was jesus executed?
6. Voting
7. Government-run drug research
8. The Bluebelle
9. France Gini question

May 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 May 7

1. April Fool's Day
2. Race
3. ways to represent ones art
4. Polish-Soviet War  : is the soldier on the left a woman ?
5. UK election results: "others"?
6. Conducting business meetings on wikis
7. The Wives of Henry VIII
8. Elected
9. Anonymous reviews in The New York Times
10. Social proximity — jargon terms for types of propinquity? (Sociology/Social Philosophy)
11. Robert Simon Telfer Scott DSM and HMS Havelock Norway 1940
12. Anne Boleyn
13. any sex symbols who worked as a pair?
14. If the U.S. Government stopped printing paper money tomorrow, what would happen?

May 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 May 8

1. English Democrats in Wales
2. Short Story Collection
3. Classical buildings with asymmetric pediment
4. First French national anthem
5. The Destruction of Bruchsal in 1945
6. The idea of Mankind waging war against God
7. Karaite attitude towards adoption
8. Size of the Forbidden City
9. Helping poor students
10. Was Tiberius a vegetarian?

May 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 May 9

1. Al-Qaeda / bin Laden Manifesto
2. Communist founders in London
3. William Robson translation of The Three Musketeers
4. Service of process
5. Homelessness resources in London
6. Bernard Werber - 『Paradis sur Mesure』
7. Sousa marches during religious ceremonies
8. "Know Thyself" by Dr John Arbuthnot
9. The Twelve Caesars
10. Forbidden artifacts
11. John Wilkes Booth's fiancée
12. Notable Virginia Politicians
13. Does abject poverty exist in Western Europe and/or the USA?
14. Notable Virginia Attractions
15. Searching for a short story title and author
16. For Whom the Bell Tolls

May 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 May 10

1. dedicatee's last name
2. Identifying flags - The Hippodrome Theater, 1905
3. Great-great-great grandparents of Charles II of Spain
4. UK Election
5. Soviet dissidents - quoting and denouncing
6. UK election results
7. Parallels of the Prime Ministerial situation
8. how is it possible to GET a patent (directly or indirectly) without being associated with it in any way?
9. Ways to go as allegory
10. "The Judas Tree"
11. Using an Alias for your Surname?
12. Legal status of part of Kashmir

May 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 May 11

1. late 1950's embossed images on paper
2. Electoral reform in UK
3. tourism statistics
4. Genocide
5. Kechemeche
6. Roman empire vs Chinese three kingdoms
7. Portuguese economy
8. U.S. Constitution law
9. Jewish Heaven
10. Question on Henry VIII
11. Air ambulance costs
12. Hitler
13. Betting to lose

May 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 May 12

1. Maastricht Pact
2. Greek word for doorstep poem
3. Question about the concept of the "soul"
4. question about "Ford T model" being an essential item in US citizen life
5. Drusus Julius Caesar, son of Tiberius
6. does every voice type sing the same?
7. monarchy form of government
8. Cyril of Alexandria image
9. Capital gains tax, UK
10. Bylaws
11. Correct Usage of a title
12. safety mirrors
13. Musica notturna delle strade di Madrid, movements
14. Choice of musical genre

May 13

Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 May 13

1. real or fake newspaper?
2. Shia rituals
3. buildings
4. Daguerreotype Union Cases
5. UK constituencies
6. is there any more leveraged "long selling" (betting stock will rise) than options?

May 14

Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 May 14

1. Sport Spectation
2. Short story, poem, picture, etc. about teamwork
3. English and British Duchesses of Normandy in the Channel Islands
4. United States geography
5. British India - Army and Navy chiefs
6. Asha Rose Migiro
7. Cases of Judgment notwithstanding verdict
8. SDLP & British Labour
9. Why did European colonists want to go to India so badly?

May 15

Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 May 15

1. Henry Corbin essay
2. "Out"
3. Government/executive boycott election?
4. Regnal number of future Spanish monarchs
5. Islamic or Sufi quote
6. Sugarloaf Mountain, New Brunswick memorial crosses
7. Arthur Kemp and his idea of the "indigenous peoples" of the British Isles

May 16

Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 May 16

1. sunglass removal and the police
2. Bengali surnames
3. US spending a lot on military aid
4. Robin Hood: infernal blood in the Angevins
5. Novel in Heaven
6. UK coalition government
7. Scandinavian Military Defense

May 17

Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 May 17

1. Released Confederate Prisoners in the US Civil War
2. Which date was which ?
3. Extremely pro-choice philosopher
4. Responsibilities of an LDS prophet
5. national emblem of United kingdom
6. Marcel Duchamp
7. School Years For UK & America
8. Economics qualifications of UK chancellors
9. Kappa Sigma motto
10. Who was Leibowitz in A Canticle for Leibowitz?
11. Was Agatha Christie Anglican or Catholic?
12. Oldest U.S. National Parks

May 18

Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 May 18

1. Mystery Location
2. What is the opposite of a pyrrhic victory?
3. Old Road Maps of the US
4. God
5. majority government Canada
6. Romeo and Juliet Project
7. Kurt Vonnegut
8. Chronic diseases in medieval times and such
9. Henry VIII of England's wife
10. God and free will

May 19

Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 May 19

1. Legal freedom in the US, UK
2. Sales tax on auto purchases?
3. Was a crime comitted here?
4. Citizenship
5. 100% inheritance tax, UK
6. literature:critical essays about Ernest Hemingway's short stories
7. Modern Morality
8. is there anyone who spends $100,000,000 a year on their lifestyle?
9. Questions waiting to be answered.
10. how much would it cost to buy all the music on iTunes?
11. North Korea and Iran

May 20

Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 May 20

1. Public school class size reduction advocacy organizations
2. Shakespeare scripts
3. Correct way to ask permission from Author for making use of instrument
4. Israel losing a war question
5. What is the bare minimum to give a 2010 Census worker?
6. Shakespearean actors
7. Not legal advice, just curiosity
8. Ancient music
9. lonely hearts club
10. Learning artificial languages
11. Double Cross double agents
12. St. Louis vs. Saint Louis
13. when was the pop-up box (of tissues) invented?
14. Jasmine Macdonnell
15. Eric Illsley
16. Citable Charlottetown Accord
17. Arahabaki
18. Attorney in the United States.
19. Which British Prime Ministers belonged to Dissenting Non-Conformist Churches?
20. Bubba

May 21

Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 May 21

1. Painting of a woman with butterflies on her eyes and mouth
2. Upper class
3. Did the Western Allies ever consider sending ground troops to fight on the Eastern Front during WW2
4. 13th century feminist writer?

May 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 May 22

1. net debt vs. accumulated deficit
2. Vietnam War Question
3. Italianate or Stick-Eastlake?
4. Heavy breathing
5. Israel and Mossad
6. The typical Wikipedian
7. Germany, post 1945
8. Euro vs. US dollar and UK sterling
9. Unknown oil painting artist
10. Getting money for US Healthcare

May 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 May 23

1. Term for calendar-related structure?
2. Historical Elected positions in Imperial China
3. Six degrees of separation
4. China pegs the dollar. Can America peg the yuan? What would happen?
5. are there any aspie politicians?
6. Looking for a Russian poem
7. architects
8. what do you call political views
9. Name this unhappy fellow...
10. My theory on the meaning of life
11. Millionaires in the UK cabinet
12. Adulterous princess imprisoned
13. Identifying Isaac Asimov short story
14. Church attire

May 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 May 24

1. Anthony Hayward BP CEO
2. Agnate of the Stewart line
3. Schools of law
4. necklace for men
5. Offshore accounts
6. Rain musical contraption
7. Wet nurse
8. Molly Malone
9. First Year Kickout Rate
10. KECHEMECHE
11. Business communication with limited English
12. Dominant woman
13. Are Houyhnhnms bigender?

May 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 May 25

1. Trying to track down a Daniel Patrick Moynihan quote
2. Food policy
3. "Stereo Love" video location
4. Passport fraud
5. American Gold Eagle coins
6. Medieval illustrations
7. in the united states, can you write a newspaper article calling for the eradication of black people (a la klu klux klan)
8. Recessions and inflation
9. Biblical prostitutes

May 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 May 26

1. Victorian court case about Calvinist Priest not seated in Anglican Church?
2. honorary doctorate
3. What is Victorian Government?
4. Why aren't Mathematicians starving?
5. how many people have nickel allergies worldwide?
6. Typography in Shakespeare
7. ROKS Cheonan sinking
8. A problem with an article
9. Hofstadter Allegorical Bundles
10. no longer by boat

May 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 May 27

1. Jew gold
2. 3D movie impact?
3. The Best Party (Iceland) joke party?
4. Coroners Court of Victoria and changes to law
5. Definition of "episcopal list"
6. Impregnable fortresses
7. Jaikie Galt real-life antecedent in John Buchan book
8. St. Petersburg
9. Yami no Waru
10. A city in Iraq
11. Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk
12. World War III
13. shared revenue

May 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 May 28

1. Nuclear Bombs
2. home or self schooling
3. When was my house built?
4. Difference between debt and deficit
5. Internet and television advertisement
6. Luxembourg v. UK
7. Capitalization in legal documents
8. Capitalisation in songs
9. Honorary degrees

May 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 May 29

1. Restriction imposed on Jewish population of Nazi Germany
2. Number of Italian governments?
3. "Legitimate" descendants Peter I of Portugal
4. Vietnam War responsibility
5. Ambitious oldies
6. Abbreviations in a Catholic litany
7. Forbidden Fruit
8. recognition of Palestine

May 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 May 30

1. Shakespeare's Sonnets
2. Penal Code by/for Religion
3. Historical Herbs And Spices
4. constitutional convention
5. why do tennis players wear such short skirts?
6. A trademark/logo with four hearts
7. Unemployment rate by Cities in Russia
8. Politicians writing novels
9. Pay-Per -View
10. British noble the father of Swedish 19th-century actress
11. Eurovision Song Contest

May 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 May 31

1. icing but not the cake (metaphor for gaining qualifications without having knowledge)
2. Iran
3. African folktales
4. Is it legal to circumvent privacy settings on facebook?
5. Translating an author's original text into another language, without the author's permission
6. Details of the burning of the Jaffna library
7. architecture of Domitian
8. How do I attach my curtains to my curtain rings?
9. Name of prominent anti-Semitic Jewish conspiracy theorist