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April 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 April 1

1. Question or Query
2. Will there ever be a boy born, who can swim faster than a shark?
3. Bellic reasons
4. Finding the names of my grandfather's parents
5. About my grandmother
6. Who was the first US president to refer to the USA as a democracy?
7. Racial comment
8. Sitting US Presidents as field commanders
9. Is there a difference between didactics and pedagogy?
10. Why is music from the Baroque period so good?
11. Da Pope
12. Communism
13. Did Wikipedia pull an April Fools?

April 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 April 2

1. Virginity-Backed Security
2. Destroyed and rewritten manuscript?
3. best health inssurance for preexistent nose trauma/need of reconstruction
4. When did the majority of the US South convert from Episcopalianism to Baptists?
5. Quraysh religion
6. Branches of law

April 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 April 3

1. If Japan attacked Russia instead of the USA during WWII
2. Question related to capital punishment in British India
3. American Revolution
4. Personality Disorder Name
5. RGB color ranges for human skin, nails, hair, and eyes
6. Consanguinity
7. Freedom of Speech during American Civil War
8. is it true if you're poor you can't keep a really expensive gift or won item, you have to sell it?
9. What Protestant denomination does Obama currently belong to?
10. What city is this?
11. Christopher Columbus spoke Arabic?
12. When will things in the U.S. seem to have been improving the most?
13. Are there school and university classes in the USA

April 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 April 4

1. V-shaped job creation diagram
2. major convention deadlock in the U.S. - provisions?
3. satyagraha
4. Rabindranath Tagore and canvassing for Noble Award
5. The word 'Robotics'.
6. the history of massage and prayer and ritual
7. How was Ulric of Denmark murdered in 1633?

April 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 April 5

1. Quotation about vampires credited to "Rousseau"
2. Experimental psychology effect - can't remember name
3. Legal question
4. "In every generation" quote
5. Two writers, Same name.
6. Welfare, race, and the drug war
7. australian war medal/hat medal found
8. small wooden huts off Miami
9. 10, downing street
10. Reference letter vs. Recommendation letter compared to German system
11. War of Attrition original speech by President Nasser
12. Baroque music
13. What happens ad the end of The Ax by Donald Westlake?
14. Loathing of the USA
15. How managers are motivated?
16. Christianity, Judaism, Islam

April 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 April 6

1. Wearing opossums?
2. Minority Concentrated Districts in India
3. Bach for bass
4. the idea of 'question and answer' as elements of classical Indian architecture
5. What painting is this?
6. Mail-Order Brides Relationship
7. When does the speed limit apply?
8. "Band of Brothers" at Mont Saint-Michel on 2009-06-05?
9. The Nature, Origin And Purpose Of Man On Earth
10. Rates of abject poverty in the past

April 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 April 7

1. Sexual assault
2. Names for Different Positions in Companies
3. Table for comparing religions - similarities and differences
4. Name for economic concept ?
5. Hemidemisemiquaver
6. effect of monopoly power on price discrimination
7. business law
8. Heir whatsoever?

April 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 April 8

1. sales etiquette
2. Motorcycles
3. online newspaper subscription?
4. immigrations
5. US Government budget
6. Abrahamic religious texts
7. vote pairing
8. Trying to source a quotation about economics.
9. Politics

April 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 April 9

1. Traditions About Moving Into A New Home
2. Question on epistemology
3. Dutch people carrying passengers on bicycles - allowed in England, too?
4. Hair styling: just what is meant by "strand by strand"? Is such literally possible?

April 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 April 10

1. imitation of advanced cultures
2. Scottish Road Sign
3. The white van?
4. governing power
5. Citations and copyright infringement
6. Penis sizes in statues and paintings
7. Tail gunner
8. cars in Egypt
9. With a little help...

April 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 April 11

1. Daughters of Rebekah
2. displacement
3. The Holly And The Olive?
4. Cargo Cult cooking and manufacturing
5. Online poker in the USA
6. Chief Rabbi of Yugoslavia, 1938
7. What goes on a person meditating?
8. Percentage of non-white blood in American whites?
9. Climate

April 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 April 12

1. most affluent city in sub-saharan africa
2. Oldest card game still played today?
3. heritage
4. Albert III of Saxe-Wittenberg, Duke of Lüneburg
5. how do I make a work of art that is epic, hyper-novel, groundbreaking, ambitious, engrossing, a world unto itself, without becoming a parody of itself?
6. Reichsmark Conversion
7. William "Bart" Bush
8. Co-signer removal ____?
9. Homosexuality = Paedophilia? Studies?

April 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 April 13

1. Muslim clothing
2. America doesn't have a government?
3. history - John Wilkes Booth, a white supremacist?
4. WTO, World Bank and IMF
5. The Catholic church's influence on pedophilia statistics
6. Masturbation
7. K.L. Lebenau, 1945
8. Attica in the Threepenny Novel
9. Has there ever been an atheist Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court?
10. On Killing (philosophy)
11. Monomyth
12. Medieval married names
13. White people in Africa
14. Copyright or restrictions on PDF-scans of old, now public domain, texts?
15. Blue food
16. Popularity of the EU within the EU
17. William Warham, by Hans Holbein the Younger drawing
18. Tablets of stone
19. Vote counting
20. Queen Elizabeth (Bowes-Lyon) visited France in 1938

April 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 April 14

1. Why are Irish folk songs so sad
2. Global business network
3. Can't remember what book this is...
4. Series vs. Trilogy (et al.)?
5. Roman corn
6. Guarding the Tomb of the Unknowns
7. Knowlege
8. Bathing after eating
9. Alice Bailey
10. short stories dealing with books/literature/reading
11. dandelions as weeds
12. Morita Therapy Programs
13. What is it?
14. GK History Geography question
15. Advantages of big countries over numerous small countries?

April 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 April 15

1. Zoning
2. Who this in this picture?
3. Wittelsbach heir of the Kingdom of Greece
4. Sculpture of Cleopatra - is that what she really looked like?
5. Hello Wikipedia Administrators
6. Free business cards
7. balloon tying school tuition
8. Keeping us free
9. War
10. USA states - economy question
11. dust cloud
12. "Redmans Hall"

April 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 April 16

1. Occupations and musical preferences
2. White people in Caribbean
3. Aircraft accident lists
4. Best thing to say to vagrants in stores
5. Protestant Crusaders
6. Das Kapital Translation
7. Looking for books on employee empowerment in software development companies

April 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 April 17

1. Brian of Brittany
2. Months
3. college/university England
4. Lyon King of Arms heraldry question
5. 18+ pubs, discos, etc.
6. Tory party mailing list

April 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 April 18

1. No life in the oceans
2. Where should this wikilink point?
3. Norman invasion of 1066
4. Name of a logical fallacy?
5. Practical Aspects of Time Travel
6. Collector of the Port of New York

April 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 April 19

1. Where In The World
2. Boy Scouts of America and Evolution
3. Rocky Marciano
4. Wittelsbach heir of the Kingdom of Greece
5. economic growth
6. What do Atheists swear to in court?
7. Reasons for anti-immigration?
8. Applications of involuntary sterilization in the United States in the 1900's, including cases of coerced sterilization.
9. What's the name of this psychological phenomenon?

April 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 April 20

1. Who funded McVeigh?
2. Socialism and capitalism (USA vs. world)
3. Socialized schooling and policing in the US
4. The Turtles 1965 line-up
5. GK Question
6. The Chinese ban against google and wikipedia.
7. Why people live where they live
8. how do I develop a sense of rhythm?

April 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 April 21

1. modern lifestyle bring more harm than good to us?
2. Native American Culture without European Involvement
3. Immaculate conception of Elizabeth?
4. Gendered unemployment question

April 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 April 22

1. Defendants showing up in court
2. What are the big issues in the UK election?
3. what do you call this literary device?
4. Alison FitzEustace's mother
5. Political elite in totalitarian countries
6. UK political journalist, pundit, editor or author?

April 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 April 23

1. online psychopath test?
2. Expulsion of fugitives from embassy properties?
3. Why is it inappropriate for children to sleep with their parents?
4. embassy guard question
5. Indian Reservation
6. US of A (counties)
7. award for entrepreneurs

April 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 April 24

1. Blue porn
2. Germanic Rome (Modern Rome) versus Ancient Rome
3. Homeless people in UK
4. The Lord of the rings
5. Economy questions - Greece
6. Party support for UK identity cards
7. constableville,ny
8. can someone explain "everybody draw Mohammed day"?
9. all white canadian place
10. A weirdly specific question regarding the Byzantine empire...
11. "Eastern" and "western" religions
12. United Kingdom General election, 2010

April 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 April 25

1. Are laws banning same sex marriage sexist rather than homophobic?
2. Christianity and Evolution
3. Why is St george the patron saint of Tamworth ?
4. Forecasts of interest rates
5. Ordnance Survey OpenData
6. Genealogy of Nawab Family of Baroda
7. any way to develop rapidfire speech?
8. Recent lack of credit card balance transfer offers, UK
9. Billy conrad
10. Gold Olive Branch on the Moon sculptor
11. Are authoritarians such because they have discontinuous minds?
12. More about North Korea
13. Nepal - what kind of republic?

April 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 April 26

1. Death of Asclepius
2. countries that are not labelled as Socialist, but pretty much are... can anyone help me find examples?
3. about: article titled "Hidden within Technology's Empire, a Republic of Letter "
4. Dahmer's grandmother and father
5. Ideas for presentation on teamwork
6. Why is pedophilia so reviled?
7. Hungarian language
8. Philosophical debate
9. why do words change? why is there lexical change?
10. Why is there so much Euroskeptism?
11. How did some Native Americans migrate to the Bahamas?
12. Language Variations
13. Knight, Death, and the Devil question

April 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 April 27

1. Why are people (namely, the majority of Americans) content with being ignorant?
2. Mesopotamia versus Egypt
3. Historical Macbeth Versus Shakespares Macbeth
4. Worship of dogs
5. Use of the word "Kamikaze"
6. Geography question
7. Psychology and careers
8. When did involuntary sterilization practices in the US end?
9. Ashes in cremation

April 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 April 28

1. After 6000 years
2. Germans in colonial Louisiana
3. how to read the koran
4. Original source of "I prefer rogues to imbeciles, as rogues sometimes rest" (Dumas)
5. United church of christ
6. Marsh land in Southern Iraq
7. Can you help me with a sonnet?
8. Alexander the Great
9. GK question
10. February 1974 Queen's Speech
11. In a million years time
12. Identity of Roman statues

April 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 April 29

1. Utensils used for writing in the 1890's
2. Attaining Siddi (or Siddhi)
3. Worship of the snake

April 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 April 30

1. Breaking the law
2. List of oil spills
3. Girl Scout question
4. Was China ruled by Africans?
5. corn
6. Triumphal Way
7. UK election results?
8. Chinese poems, direction of reading
9. Upside down maps
10. religious compass
11. French (?) people who lost their jobs to machines
12. Comparison of railway travel times from central London
13. Antichrist quote... what does Nietzsche mean?