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January 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 January 1

1. Christianity, America, and Capitalism
2. Christianity, America, and Capitalism (cont.)
3. "Rigged" U.S. Presidential Elections
4. Which is the city up side down on the map at 1:13 in this music video?
5. Aristotle and acoustics
6. Is praxeology dependent to mathematics and formal logic?
7. Polish Armoured trains in Britain
8. Prussian King turn German Emperor
9. Pride

January 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 January 2

1. A book by Rabani Mauri, 1532, de Clericorum institutione et Ceremoniis ecclesiae:
2. Anencephalic Infants and Citizens
3. Is Ordinary language philosophy a philosophical school of thought or a philosophical movement?
4. Did a billiards player commit suicide because of a fly?
5. Gateless public transit
6. Source for quotation
7. Conducting and musicianship
8. British citizens, House of Lords
9. equal capital gains taxation theory

January 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 January 3

1. Battleship Potemkin
2. What book is good for political philosophy graudauate study
3. United States Going To War And Then Backing Out
4. Dhanyawadi state
5. Author of phrase?
6. Feminism question
7. Houghton Hall, Norfolk, UK
8. House numbering in Britain

January 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 January 4

1. French Revolutionaries
2. How do Encyclopædia Britannica verify their contents?
3. Secular Humanism and Communism
4. Communism and Socialism
5. God and the Devil
6. Same social class or different?
7. All the Heinrichs in the Reuss family
8. Name for that effect: personality test alredy biased by the person's self-assessment?
9. Origins of the spoiler warning
10. Friedrich Nietzsche quote

January 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 January 5

1. Hair and grooming in historical Venice, Italy
2. Relation between William Perry and Matthew C. Perry
3. Classical vs. medieval armies
4. Once King Abdullah dies, can a young Prince become King?
5. Famous actors, musicians or artists who have received the Order of Canada
6. Catholicism, priests, and reproduction
7. Democratic elections where one party wins all the seats

January 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 January 6

1. Atheism and the Devil
2. Nontheism, the Devil, Good, and Evil
3. His Dark Materials, God, the Devil, Good, and Evil
4. Older name for the "Korean peninsula"
5. Reginald Brentnor
6. 3rd, 4th and 5th and other largest Bangladeshi Americans
7. Alternatives to London ca. 1900
8. XKCD comic
9. What medal is Alexander wearing?
10. 2012 Inflation Data release?
11. The "only two cars in Ohio" story
12. Why do flight attendants insist that in case of crashing into the sea you open the lifebelt once you got off the plane?
13. Is it true that god is present ?
14. Jonasson
15. Same-sex marriage and the persecution of Christians
16. Primary Education in the United States

January 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 January 7

1. She named a crater on Venus - but who was she?
2. How accurate are home appraisals?
3. St. Jude Children's Hospital
4. Why is communism still tried?
5. Sodom and its sexual interpretation (or lack thereof)
6. Easter
7. What is a legacy payment system?

January 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 January 8

1. Drawing conclusions from the wrong experiment-fallacy
2. What trivias about Tokugawa Ieyasu is verifiable?
3. Pastafarian Minister Honorific?
4. General studies
5. Colonization of the Americas as a good thing
6. Columbine High massacre
7. Did Jesus have a family name?
8. proportional representation party list why not full
9. Was KwaZulu a monarchy?
10. What is the concept in political science or philosophy that speaks about the political autonomy of a private property and what is the technical term for that?

January 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 January 9

1. What is the status of the legal dispute between HarperCollins and Open Road?
2. Sharia in specific area of Muslim majority nation
3. Are prisoners' brains extracted in Security Prison 21?
4. Completely stumped.
5. First RAF 'kill' of second world war
6. I'm wondering why there is no patent on financial instruments?
7. The very first dilly bar maker
8. Israeli election
9. Religious conversion
10. 1st and 2nd largest Bangladeshi, Arab, Somali, Iranian, Afghan and Turk communities in United Kingdom
11. Lambastide
12. Belief-oriented religion vs. Tribal religion
13. Trillion dollar coin and Matthew Yglesias

January 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 January 10

1. Why not wall off Pakistan to stem the flow of Taliban?
2. Article request
3. Could Piers Morgan be deported because of the petition of one person?
4. Münster Rebellion

January 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 January 11

1. What is the maximum legal age limit for adoptive parents in the United States?
2. American-Vietnamese children
3. The Roe v. Wade baby
4. Scottish independence referendum, 2014
5. Paranormal phenomenon involving the collective unconscious.
6. Methods to analyze sacred texts?
7. Gun control

January 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 January 12

1. Sunni and Shia majority provinces of Iraq
2. SOE rogue op
3. Fred Burnham
4. Is being a homosexual punishable by the sword in Saudi Arabia as well?
5. Gender ratio in biblical studies and theology?
6. Mr Fiebig and his Kallifthongon
7. When will I be able to upload it?

January 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 January 13

1. God, the Devil, and Gender
2. Environmentalism and the Fall of Communism
3. Jurisdiction of Hawaiian courts
4. B?
5. Trajan's column
6. Indian Judiciary
7. Steam clock
8. Land of Punt
9. Women's breasts

January 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 January 14

1. What was her full name and the year of death?
2. Ranking of US presidents - background?
3. Looking for information about a person in the 17th century
4. 613 Commandments
5. Average yearly income of a faimly who owns a coastal house

January 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 January 15

1. Marquess of Reading
2. Proving common sense
3. Europe's taxing artists
4. Palmistry of Tokugawa Ieyasu: can it be verified?
5. OCD
6. Mapping of the entire earth
7. London bombings during WW2
8. Finding Forrester
9. Milk, bread, sandwich, winter weather?
10. Religious schools in Christianity, Hinduism and other religions
11. Thinking of fiction in terms of how it was created
12. symbolic gesture at NCAA football game

January 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 January 16

1. Far Spain
2. Iraqi Kurdistan
3. Offices affected by the Weather Service Modernization Act of 1992
4. How can it make sense to issue mortgages now?
5. Why is this article placed under Irreligion?
6. If my country were ever attacked, could we attack their soil?
7. The legitimacy of Azawad as a state (Malian conflict)

January 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 January 17

1. Question about crime
2. Marriage Validity
3. Succession to the Crown Bill logic
4. Poverty in Korea
5. psychological reasons for granting last meal
6. Congo rubber

January 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 January 18

1. Famous travelers of Tahiti
2. Battle of Ivy Hill
3. The Lords Haden-Guest
4. Nerds and penises
5. Hikikomoris in my country Japan
6. Society and Relationship
7. Mouthwash
8. Famous (nazi?) quote

January 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 January 19

1. Human worshiping
2. Lenin
3. PSU sex scandal
4. Obsolescence of the Military drummer boy?
5. Signing of the constitional amendments (United States)
6. e. battiglia/titled pieces

January 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 January 20

1. Searching for origin of quote about armies going to war over pieces of land not big enough to bury the dead
2. What kind of Fiat?
3. Economic value of a phd
4. Crime and otakus in Japan
5. I've got blisters on my fingers
6. Percentage of disabled people in the UK accessing the countryside annually
7. Bank of Montreal questions

January 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 January 21

1. Hereditary Democracy article?
2. Are there any sources about Tokugawa Ieyasu's palmistry?
3. West and Johnston publishers

January 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 January 22

1. Orient vs Occident
2. Moral panic and societies of the World
3. When did semiconductor manufacturing in China first overtake manufacturing in the US?
4. Julian Lloyd-Webber
5. Is there a deadline for U.S. troops in Japan or not?
6. I,m looking for a political word, partially defined below

January 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 January 23

1. French laws regarding police, riots, and crowd sizes.
2. Hohenzollernsche Lande
3. Origin of work
4. A poem that is at first gentle but then becomes transfigured, dissonant.
5. French Probate
6. History of processed carbohydrate
7. Same articles in a different media
8. Outgoing Pres. Clinton briefs Pres. Geo Bush about al-quaeda
9. How many Secrtary of States have been grilled after an attack on Americans in foreign countries

January 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 January 24

1. Roy Raymond (businessman)
2. rival package companies with smaller aircrafts
3. Being attracted to / impressed / fascinated by the incomprehensible
4. Copyright law UK
5. Projecting Americanism abroad -- standard of living
6. Weird video of hostage
7. sleeping in two cycles
8. circumcised
9. Ancient Somalia & Macrobia
10. Based on what did the Canadian PM say this?

January 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 January 25

1. High-ranking transsexual officials
2. Looking for a book
3. Options for a family's family names in the USA
4. What was the original language?
5. Death of Adolf Hitler
6. The Wart
7. Indigenous people
8. Secular humanism
9. Opportunity of a Lifetime
10. Creationists
11. Israeli Elections Party Lists
12. emo/goth

January 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 January 26

1. Nations with free tuition?
2. Cheapest colleges for a Kansas resident
3. Legitimate or scam?
4. Could some tell what the following Italian Surnames mean: Collura D'alfonso Deniro Milano Pacino Ciccone?
5. bonfire commemoratives
6. Historical prices of iron compared to other goods
7. Typical starting out of convicts arriving in Australia
8. History Question: what are some famous before 17th century Lesbian couples listed in history? Also have any lesbian couple remains ever been found?
9. Corbreuse census around 1944

January 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 January 27

1. What do you call the mongrel half science/half memoir genre
2. Vidal
3. Identify composer
4. Ralph Nader and 2000
5. Jacobite Succession
6. List of well known Americans living and working in Africa
7. post card DVDs
8. The first actress of her country - does any one know more?
9. What is the best death?

January 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 January 28

1. Programme for International Student Assessment
2. Why does Hollywood depict American twenty-somethings so poorly?
3. These wretched times of ours
4. Pre-fire buildings in Chicago
5. Age of Consent versus Orientation
6. Is my country, Japan, the strongest ally of the U.S. in Asia?
7. Algeria hostage crisis and Japanese citizens
8. old train designs/pictures
9. Waterloo painting

January 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 January 29

1. archives-Wettenberg, Germany
2. Roy Raymond
3. Finance Sector for beginners
4. My lucky day, or not
5. Study that confirms that emotion and reason are intertwined...?
6. Stock splits' effect on prices
7. Is this racial profiling?
8. Kosovo
9. Why does Canada intervene in Mali?
10. Julian, Lord Fellowes

January 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 January 30

1. How to find how many translations a book has?
2. Modern-day descendants of Julius Caesar
3. Alleged proposed constitutional amendments
4. Is it possible to reconstruct a currently spoken language (grammar, vocabulary, phonology) given it's parent language and sister languages?
5. Copyright status of WW2 propaganda poster
6. Rechtsfähigkeit/権利能力 (Kenri Nōryoku)
7. Is a Governor General a commander or not?
8. Divorce rates in places and times

January 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 January 31

1. Saying grace (for Mormons)
2. Ancient prayers in Odyssey
3. Silverites and the U.S. Democratic Party
4. Epitaph
5. 9/11 conspiracy theories
6. Can you at least comprehend this?