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April 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 April 1

1. Biblical figures whose existence is confirmed by contemporary non-Biblical sources
2. Should we kill all humans to save the Earth's ecosystem?
3. Why are there still OLD people in OLD pictures?
4. travel routes and times
5. Cost Overheads
6. Being the owner of yourself
7. Historical Alliances

April 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 April 2

1. Greek Mythology Question - Tantalus
2. High-net-worth individual
3. Hölderlin poem - "The gods have fled"

April 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 April 3

1. jaded teams
2. Katherine Swynford's mother
3. Gustavo Durán at Darlington Hall in 1939 ?
4. Name of Brunei in Jawi alphabet
5. Looking for detailed historical maps of India from 1350 to 1880
6. Liberalism/conservatism
7. Republican ballot in Pennsylvania
8. Where do these pieces of cloisonne come from?
9. Humanities may the be most neutral

April 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 April 4

1. Shouldn't incumbents want their own party's presidential candidate to lose?
2. Monogrammed Third Reich cutlery
3. Adding detail for a completely new topic (Roman ruins in Anatolia)
4. Are human rights a technology?
5. On the origins of the Easter bunny (and Easter in general), and laying eggs.

April 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 April 5

1. Rimatara Tombs
2. Quote attributed to Nina Totenberg
3. length of correspondence
4. World Map North_ South_ Divide_4.png
5. Do archeologists or historians really believe that Jesus rose from the dead?
6. Hebrew Bible

April 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 April 6

1. Passover Greeting
2. Completion of a spiritual / song sought
3. Music video with duck hand puppets
4. Tung Tusham Island
5. John F. G. Stokes
6. richard stallman
7. Cook Islands and Niue

April 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 April 7

1. President Banda and Vice-President Banda
2. Was Frank Glasgow Tinker a member of the Yankee Squadron ?
3. What was the average US neurosurgeon pay in 2009?
4. parents and sexuality-advice wanted

April 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 April 8

1. South Indian Muslims surname
2. Legal question
3. Ya Chang
4. Similar sayings reference
5. tweeting location
6. Sketching: what pencil?
7. Portuguese Escudo and Slovenian Tolar
8. Canada USA UK ethnic groups largest

April 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 April 9

1. Nisan and Nissan
2. North Korean satellite launch
3. BNP and Amami League foreign policy
4. Battle of Hong Kong 1941
5. Jehovah's Witnesses
6. Iran and nuclear weapons
7. Economic theories as political views

April 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 April 10

1. "Purple prose"
2. What invention will North Koreans need to start their own regime change?
3. UK History - the high notes
4. Value of company internal titles
5. Bill clinton scandal ussr issue
6. Sindhi and Gujarati language similarities
7. Freedom in the World 2012
8. Polygamy two types

April 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 April 11

1. Is it ethical for a doctor to lie about Homeopathy even it helps the patient?
2. Where does money come from?
3. cloves
4. Common civil law interaction
5. U.S POW's
6. How does/did Instagram make money?
7. Examples of Vikings in Artwork Contemporary to the Time
8. Irish language in Dublin
9. Americans

April 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 April 12

1. Witchcraft
2. what generic alternatives are there to the Nikon rear cap type F?
3. Graduate unemployment
4. Doctrines or beliefs unique to the Jehovah's Witnesses
5. Why hasn't anyone sued Amazon for dumping?
6. Two Dardan Gashi's or one?
7. Church of England history & Dissent
8. Switzerland of the East
9. Handel and Bach
10. Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's death conspiracy
11. Can someone explain the super high capital gains tax on the savings bonds I cashed?
12. Ranking of metropolitan populations of biggest cites as percentage of state/province population?

April 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 April 13

1. US Arson Statistics?
2. Understanding Wikipedia from a philosophical, sociological, politico-economic... viewpoint
3. TP question
4. Anonymity
5. Happiness and pain
6. Conscription in Canada
7. White Light/Black Rain
8. garden of pure ideas
9. East title
10. Office in the EU repronsible for media freedom

April 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 April 14

1. Women on Facebook
2. Where was this video filmed?
3. Why do Muslims think that God is dead?
4. Jane Austen: an Aspie???
5. Painting of a galloping black horse, nude female rider
6. Bramladesh
7. New year in the Malayalam Calendar
8. "All science fiction is about evolution"
9. what makes someone gay?

April 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 April 15

1. Great Inflation of 17th Century Europe?
2. "S.S." Titanic
3. China aid to North Korea
4. fit to fly as passengers
5. What the geographical surnames of Gate of Tears
6. Revenge and Punishment
7. Qualitative research vs. case-based research vs. grounded theory
8. MIT study on Motivation
9. European Population 1976-1980
10. 1099
11. U.S. Government non-dollar debt
12. Concubines today
13. Founding of the Republic of South Africa
14. Titanic (1997 film)
15. Inflation 0 rate?

April 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 April 16

1. Which former Confederate, Southern U.S state would currently best represent the phrase “the New South?”
2. Constitution of the United Kingdom
3. Bill of Rights
4. Anything common between Winston Churchill US president Franklin Roosevelt
5. Aren’t German students allowed sleep in class?
6. Italian accountability in WWII
7. is it okay to pick lint balls off wool sweaters?
8. What is "all payer" health care?
9. Capital punishment in USA

April 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 April 17

1. Tariffs
2. Why don't they just suspend states from the United Nations?
3. Omero
4. Bamoidōkishin
5. Canterbury Cathedral height of nave
6. Memoirs of Henry Obookiah
7. Mein Kampf no longer banned in 2016?
8. Good poets borrow, great poets steal
9. oldest known man-eating animal
10. Ho Chi Minh
11. White tie
12. Deism

April 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 April 18

1. Famous equal lonely?
2. Deism and the Devil
3. Photo of Bill Clinton walks in on Obama
4. First aid kit color/graphic and the Geneva Conventions
5. use of the word BHATTINI to address a goddess or a princess in the ancient himalayan kingdoms such as kashmir,Bhutan,Nepal etc.this is with reference to the Pattini festival of Kerala
6. Norrey
7. TV Licence after the Digital Switchover ?
8. The Sheep and the Goats criteria in the Book of Revelation?
9. Vice president
10. Communist manifesto
11. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf's hat
12. President term

April 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 April 19

1. Leaders of republics who proclaimed themselves emperor
2. why 35+
3. Jesus
4. United Nations
5. European Union
6. Was Frank Glasgow Tinker a member of the Yankee Squadron ?
7. Surname Hanna
8. Why isn't there an article on Privilege (Sociology) in general? Or am I not finding it?
9. Term: "for example"
10. Billion-Dollar Congress
11. What architectural style
12. Multi-millionaire authors
13. US Pledge of Allegiance

April 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 April 20

1. Not social and yet successful
2. Why IRBMs are not used anymore?
3. Emperor Muzong of Tang
4. Germany in 1970-1990
5. religious teachings against contraception
6. Scientists and mental disorders
7. Evaporative cooler
8. Why are the Olympic Games such a nationalistic display?

April 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 April 21

1. Italian Pope
2. Common names of far-right
3. Flickr vs Wikimedia Commons
4. Economic Inequality
5. Laissez Faire
6. Hair colour eye colour germanic people
7. Great Wall of China in Korea
8. John 4:38

April 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 April 22

1. Proposed titles for Prince Harry
2. Industrial Democracy
3. Green Parties
4. TechWeek archives?
5. Abu Qatada
6. Veteran Memorial Days
7. Arabic into Somali names
8. Largest Muslim population in Europe

April 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 April 23

1. "ST"
2. "Greatest country in the world"
3. Is Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead out of copyright in Canada?
4. George S. Messersmith and William Phillips
5. Unimpeachable source - yea or nay?
6. Patron "saints" of England?
7. French legislative election, June 2012
8. Rivals in Europe politics
9. Some law questions
10. Repsol
11. Anarchism
12. Feminism and Sexism

April 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 April 24

1. Treasury Department Award to a Writer?

April 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 April 25

1. Secretary-General of the United Nations
2. Did a mischievous golfer destroyed the Benin Air Force?
3. Japanese prime ministers
4. Definition of theft
5. Canada South Asian Chinese election politics vs USA African Americans and hispanics
6. What is the longest book written that is NOT a novel?
7. Anonymous music critics

April 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 April 26

1. Winning the Presidency with only a quarter of the popular vote!
2. What happens if Obama quits the election ?
3. Republican Party presidential primaries, 2012
4. SS Ottowa or Ottawa?
5. American schools
6. Saint Agostina Petrantoni

April 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 April 27

1. Fantasy and sci-fi hottest spot
2. Polygamy in US and Canada
3. Shia Islam in Pakistan and India
4. Messianic Secret
5. In debt – in credit?
6. Is the bible a novel?
7. Were the Neanderthal human?
8. List of countries by life expectancy
9. Corporate lawsuit/criminal records

April 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 April 28

1. The Serbs in the Yugoslav wars
2. Why are women beautiful?
3. Jorge Borges quote
4. Printing The Gideons Bible
5. Kantor question
6. Islam in Italy population
7. Spain Muslim population
8. Charles Stuart the pretender

April 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 April 29

1. Battle of Berlin
2. Mildred Harris Chaplin and Edward VIII - an affair, or a Wikipedia myth?
3. What are the legal measures in place on an international level to deal with internet pornography, gambling, and others? Twirp2012 (talk) 18:44, 29 April 2012 (UTC)
4. Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court appointed from academia
5. Women as the fairer sex?
6. Mayor of London

April 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 April 30

1. Textbook coverage of the Cold War
2. Neighbors ATV racing Noise Unbearable
3. Pocket veto
4. Stories that "predicted" the destruction of the WTC
5. how tall is the Lexington Building (London's exclusive new Flakturm)
6. Is the bank of Norway losing money on the destruction of the 50 øre coin?
7. Black population in Europe
8. to train my dog to walk next to me, can I grab its tail
9. ALA accredited schools
10. Inflation or already deflation?
11. Secondary liability
12. How to...