Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/January 2015

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January 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 January 1

1. new brunswick place names
2. Did European Christian families eat the best foods only on big holidays?
3. Median height of world population?

January 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 January 2

1. Were the ancient Egyptians Coptic
2. Cities not connected to transportation network
3. Triple portals in Gothic architecture
4. Prince Louis of Luxembourg
5. Modern Egyptians

January 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 January 3

1. Virgin martyrs
2. Could poor Italian peasants during and around Pope Alexander VI's time enter the clergy and rise to bishop?

January 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 January 4

1. Can anyone help me identify the subject of this painting?
2. Now We are Free
3. Number of married people
4. Napoleon in Russia
5. Who proposed this theory?
6. Saints in the Roman Catholic Church

January 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 January 5

1. Really old tallest buildings
2. Elizabeth I and Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester
3. This is my Indonesian brother Darryl, and this is my other Indonesian brother Darryl.
4. Gaokao questions
5. Religion of Robert Kirk

January 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 January 6

1. Titles and authors of novels
2. Tsar's children
3. Two term limits in Rwanda and DR Congo
4. "Rescuing" a pirate
5. Hakaristi
6. Deaths/Punishments of Prophets/False Prophets, Apostles, Messengers, Oracles, Gods, Goddess, Demigods, Messiahs/False Messiahs…
7. WW2 Eastern Front Morale
8. Alteration of winter solstice content.

January 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 January 7

1. Why did Roosevelt support Taft in 1908?
2. Kabbalah or Qabalah
3. God, Animal, Fruit and a Baby
4. What does "damsel dark" signify in "There is a Tavern Town"?

January 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 January 8

1. Why is marijuana illegal?
2. How is the world's religious population changing?
3. Angel article understanding problem
4. How can you calculate if something has hit bottom?
5. Tim Cole

January 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 January 9

1. Need help finding a short story
2. Organization whose initial is C
3. Keeping Faith
4. Suborning sin?

January 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 January 10

1. Where is Hammeliski?
2. Percentage of US citizens with family members in another country
3. Largest cities in mountain passes?
4. Battle of Klyastitsy

January 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 January 11

1. Apotheca - is it part of ancient roman houses?
2. Jose Serrano 22nd amendment?
3. Sources on a historic U.S. bank
4. Holocaust & the Kadoshim
5. USA politics
6. Name of non-monetary transaction
7. What Should She Have Said?
8. Murder Most Contradictory

January 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 January 12

1. Rob Fisk
2. image of Muhammad
3. 20 year employment and capital stock projections

January 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 January 13

1. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
2. funny or else
3. Where can I find a copy of Charlie Hebdo in the US?
4. Thanks

January 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 January 14

1. Coins and their colours/colors
2. Evangelical Lutheran Church in America - what is the culture like?
3. Hackers and Internet Security
4. Trying to understand Western views on Charlie
5. Best (survey-type) phrasing to self-select out non-respondents
6. Apology
7. Ranzo?

January 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 January 15

1. Who was the "Prince of Braganza" involved in 1938 Brazil coup?
2. singing totally different roles
3. insane multiphonics (whistle-hum)
4. Does Eagleton ever refer to Spinoza?
5. Are Scottish Sheriffs (Judges) overpaid?
6. How did tofu become associated with vegetarianism and veganism in the western countries?
7. Disbarred for failure to pay some clients

January 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 January 16

1. Another SDA question
2. Cities whose borders and administrative divisions remained the same since the 1800s or earlier than the 1800s (all the way up to today)?
3. How far does legal snapping turtle discrimination go?
4. Sought: study on a certain group of entries (fiction)

January 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 January 17

1. Effects of hate speech
2. 1) (although I believe he's the son of God, for this purpose let us instead assume he is a historical figure as explained below.) Please describe historical jesus's biography
3. recent apocrypha

January 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 January 18

1. The ravages of deflation.
2. Is there a gospel tract that gives more significance to Mary, mother of Jesus?
3. why does my vitamin B have 6000% percent of this stuff
4. Information about artist F. Tayler
5. Estimate of compensation to Britain for loss of 1776 USA.
6. Architectural terminology

January 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 January 19

1. "body of a bird surrounded by 72 virgins"
2. Chinese immigrants in the mid-20th century and marriage
3. Quantitative easing
4. what would a chinese person explain if we could talk?
5. do we have an article comparing contemporary human cultures?

January 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 January 20

1. Golfan/Khalfan tribes in Sudan
2. Were 1950s American colored drinking fountains safe?

January 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 January 21

1. Carpet bombing
2. What was the justification for morality in antinomianism?
3. Tracking down a cite to "The Consensus Opinion" artwork
4. Book Reviews, Ex-Inmate In Exile
5. Henryk Dobrzański - Confirmation in respect of his son
6. Reference in the Brundtland Report
7. "one of the most valuable things about history is that it teaches us how things do not happen"

January 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 January 22

1. FAMOUS PAINTINGS
2. Medicaid expansion in PA without legislative approval?
3. Harvard in-text citation
4. Do Muslim converts and Hare Krishna adherents have to choose Arabic and Indian names?
5. What would be the name of both choices?
6. Human microphone
7. Biographical information for a translator

January 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 January 23

1. allegiance obligation
2. Espousals of the Blessed Virgin Mary to Saint Joseph

January 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 January 24

1. Evolutionary history/Origin of Mythologies
2. Cultures / ethnicities which have never developed religion

January 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 January 25

1. Scipione Rota, a Prince of Acherontia
2. Dafydd ab Owain Gwynedd
3. Jo Indian, Adirondack Mountains
4. African Union languages template

January 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 January 26

1. Relationship between relative age of students and their academic performance
2. what if the USA, the EU-Countries, Russia, China and India suddenly disappared?
3. Judaism
4. Questions about Black people in Britain
5. Red Army personal firearms in 1918-1921
6. australian aboriginals

January 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 January 27

1. Is it illegal anywhere to surgically assign sex at birth?
2. What Happens Next ?

January 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 January 28

1. Apostasy in the Jehovah's Witness denomination
2. about drama
3. "Al-Mrrajjam", Jordan
4. Agnes of Rome
5. Third Crusade
6. ‘Out-of-body’ and ‘Inside the body’ Experience
7. Exchange of prisoners with ISIS

January 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 January 29

1. What style of architecture is this?
2. other proposed Taiwanese flags
3. Legal voluntary euthanasia and life insurance policies
4. Godparent
5. UK Fraud Investigation
6. Book recommendations for Roman Republican history
7. Perpetual stew vs pottage

January 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 January 30

1. Alternatives to Bible Gateway?
2. Third Crusade and people on ships
3. Everlasting punishment
4. Colonialism in Africa

January 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2015 January 31

1. Both the president and vice president attending the White House Correspondents' Dinner
2. Lady Windermere's Fan
3. Japanese Buddhist underworld
4. How are patron saints supposed to work in practice?
5. Videos of ISIS hostage beheadings