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March 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 March 1

1. United States Citizenship Policy
2. Marxist analysis of the Pacific War
3. Age restrictions on drinking alcohol
4. Songs about drugs and rehabilitation
5. How many Nazis, how many Allies?
6. Treaty of Versailles
7. Sport - Currie Cup Cricket Statistics
8. Britain and the EU
9. Wanda Coleman Poet
10. Treatment of Irish Catholics compared to that of other people in the mid-1800s?
11. Out of retirement: did any European monarchs return after abdicating?
12. Purgegate
13. Strasser, Goebbels and the Nazi left
14. Date of the ordination of Rev. John Williams D.D.
15. how to refer to the Book of Genesis
16. Musicianship and IQ: any correlation?

March 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 March 2

1. Effects of Late-19th Century Imperialism
2. a resident gentleman in every parish, continued
3. "On the rory"
4. Dates: what are CE and BCE?
5. China will end one child policy
6. "There’s a whole world beyond this field of dreams we’re all dancing in, and I want to see that world"
7. Agreement or pact of so called "Congress of Vienna in 1939"
8. Dictatorship of the Proletariat
9. What happened in Fall 1913?
10. Crimean War
11. Sexual Imagery in Gaskell's North and South
12. Kapp Putsch
13. 'Tips for a Beginner'
14. Hitler statues
15. Pork in the Bible

March 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 March 3

1. Educational facilities in Louisiana: Technical College part of Tech University?
2. New Zealand parliament dates
3. Castle to Castle
4. Mussolini and socialism
5. Franco a fascist?
6. Where to find Frank O'Connor's Downfall of Heathendom in print?
7. history in mass communication
8. Crowds and Power
9. Navvies: are they Irish?
10. Anna Louise Strong on Mao
11. Adam Smith
12. ethics and values?
13. Constitutionality of referring to God in schools
14. Is flirting illegal in New York?

March 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 March 4

1. FARC and uranium
2. Africans: how many kinds are there?
3. What does this quote mean
4. A list of Catholic converts to Evangelicalism or Protestantism?
5. Quote from van Gogh letter
6. Origin of the Australian word "pohm"?
7. Red Cross Societies
8. Burgermeisters in Latvia
9. Drumbeats
10. Iconoclasts from Iran in Holy Land in 614
11. U.S. Congressional term limits
12. Atatürk's Societal Impact
13. my question about israel and palestine

March 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 March 5

1. How is Lani Guinier's name pronounced?
2. University degrees: why year of graduation, not age at graduation?
3. Murder assignment
4. mao voluntarism
5. Clio the Muse?
6. Glasgow 1915
7. Churchill and Goebbels
8. Rodney King and the LA Riots 1992
9. After Flodden
10. Jung and the Nazis
11. managing figures in a Company
12. Chinese discovery of America
13. Sartre and 68
14. Byzantium and the Crusades
15. Mongol invasions of Japan
16. Texas primary, Texas caucus
17. Difficulty or impossibility of proving the absence of an item
18. Dickens and Utilitarianism
19. Nazis and gays
20. Stamps: turning stamps into blind dogs
21. WHY Bill Clinton got 80% of the Jewish vote in '92????

March 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 March 6

1. Latin Americans forms of government
2. Christianity in Europe
3. Spinoza "On the Improvement of the Understanding"
4. Tourism: what are the advantages?
5. Daylight savings time zones, Canada

March 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 March 7

1. Afghanistan, Sri Lanka and Iran
2. why was correction to caption rejected?
3. Judicial Terror and the Third Reich
4. Ben Mathews and the Bakewell tart: source for this?
5. Nineteenth Century Battle, won against the odds?
6. Another Dickens question: his political views?
7. The Glorious Revolution
8. Max Income Before Taxed
9. Wizard Weir
10. What the...? Joseph Goebbels' flamboyant "camp" uniform
11. All Bones? The Road of Bones, Siberia
12. Most powerful woman in the Soviet Union
13. Smokie Norful song with birds singing

March 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 March 8

1. Different Types of Karma in Buddhism
2. Colonies: why did Europeans discover and colonise?
3. European intervention: why so little, in American Civil War?
4. Who is "Lady Ann Byron"?
5. Tabligh Jamaat
6. Mixed black/white Arab
7. Structure of Roman Army
8. Of Human Bondage
9. Versailles and the end of democracy
10. Does this kind of collar have a name?
11. Canceling an adoption
12. Change of names of religions - Mohammedan to Muslim
13. MP3 law question
14. Khmer rouge
15. Daeg Faerch
16. Saladin's wife

March 9

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March 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 March 9

1. Architecture and Music
2. Music and emotion
3. Ragging (in India, especially)
4. Identifying classical piano piece. Please have a listen!
5. Nutty Nazis?
6. The word "Beastorn"
7. Wild Geese: "Flight of the wild geese"
8. Singing: what is this "quivering" of the voice?
9. Britain, UK, British Isles, etc.
10. A Dutch patriotic song
11. The estate of Anna Nicole Smith
12. Question regarding loan talks (germany post war)
13. Discographies: Alberto Ginastera's "Danzas Argentinas"

March 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 March 10

1. Artificial Competition
2. People Who Were Important in Establishing Bilingual Education Programs in the United States
3. Battle of Chancellorsville
4. 2008 US presidential Campiagn
5. The Confederate Emancipation Proclaimation
6. Naming babies after dead siblings
7. Lorna Doone
8. Accounting practises for branch accounting
9. Discrete and Insular Minority
10. Digital copy of House Bill 775?
11. Machiavelli-the devil?
12. Southern States: which US states are "southern"
13. Disraeli and Jewishness
14. Classical or pastiche? Dido and Aeneas
15. Replacing a superdelegate
16. Books on Sexual Practices & General Sexuality in America 1900-1940 Needed

March 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 March 11

1. Philosophy of Law
2. history of languages - a 'taxonomy'
3. Napoleon in 1813-14
4. Being and Nothingness: political commentary?
5. Henry Rudolf de Salis, UK, businessman and author, 1866-1936
6. Saints: Black Madonna of Częstochowa
7. EEUU: meaning of this abbreviation?
8. Dickens on Social Class
9. Any heaven in Judaism? If not, why bother?

March 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 March 12

1. human flagpoles
2. Enjoyable, readable ancient classics?
3. When someone pulls your credit report, what do they see? (For USA)
4. Document on American perceptions of federalism
5. Sex, drugs, and ethics
6. Stability: most stable country or culture, for longest time?
7. Creative Commons: license for van Gogh letters
8. Adam Smith and intellectual property
9. Arthur, earl of Essex
10. Greatest political leader, last century?
11. Military Covenant
12. Philosophy: who are the six greatest philosophers?
13. U.S. Congressmen in WW II
14. Why Isn't Bartholomew Sharp getting credit?
15. SS UNITED STATES Ocean Liner
16. London the socialist: was Jack London a socialist?

March 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 March 13

1. Media violating copyright?
2. Gwine to ride up in the chariot (early in the morning)
3. Heart of Darkness
4. Black soldiers: German propaganda campaign, 1920s
5. Isaac Asimov's street address in Somerville, Mass.
6. HISTORY: compulsory in school systems in how many countries?
7. Charities combating racism
8. Spread of religions
9. Schopenhauer's Will and Representation
10. Understanding the failure of monetary policy in Japan
11. history of tanzania
12. Government spending
13. Greatest English king
14. german guns of ww2
15. Definition of Political Correctness
16. Naming of military units

March 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 March 14

1. Details about Columbia River
2. Service that is still missing on the internet
3. Insurance: what sort do stunt-people purchase?
4. Trans Holocaust victims: any details on transgender victims?
5. Zita, death: 13th-century Saint Zita's clothes
6. Doing a history PhD in the UK
7. My PhD/Doctorate question
8. Beastorn report: see archives
9. Paul de Lagarde
10. Latin Empire
11. Sociology question: selective affinity?
12. Advice on moving to Belfast
13. Tertullian and the definition of heresy
14. Trajan and the First Dacian War
15. Computer as a Judge?
16. British Monarchy - Line of Succession
17. How does economics explain the earnings of supermodels?

March 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 March 15

1. How religious was Benjamin Franklin?
2. Obligatory rights
3. white, black and hispanics community
4. Why did the Government do this? (Australian Government vetoing Oliphant's US Medal)
5. Did Milošević plan to attack Montenegro?
6. Conscripted African soldiers
7. Champange with raw egg
8. Cawnpore Massacre
9. Bahai
10. Chester U.K. Laws in Tudor(?) times
11. Facts on the History of the community of Pudur Dravidians
12. Opium and Kubla Kahn
13. abuse of women, forced fat
14. Stalingrad
15. Term for stuff characters do that we don't see, during other parts of their lives
16. Can I edit?
17. British throne taken by monarch from elsewhere - what happens?
18. Women in the 18th century
19. Churchill and Russia
20. Who demanded 1914 borders in east of Germany in German political scene after World War 2

March 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 March 16

1. Trial court procedures: documents and their filing?
2. The Peloponnesian War
3. College football season: US and Canada
4. From my textbook: Hitler, racism, and "Anglo-Saxon supremacy"?
5. Glorious Revolution
6. Syrfia
7. Practice for Lawyers, Doctors, Etc. - Derivation of Term
8. Fragrence ın Sultan Ahmed Mosque, Istanbul
9. Athiest pope
10. Titanic
11. Do religious israelis in israel think god gave them the land they're settling?
12. [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 March 16#|]]
13. request for summary of suicide bombings by palestinians.
14. May you live in interesting times of Chinese origins?
15. Pictorial difference between hieroglyphs and cuneiform scripts?
16. Jewmasters
17. Worst military defeat
18. did early europeans (colonial times) in America believe America was given to them by God?

March 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 March 17

1. 6 month old news article
2. [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 March 17#|]]
3. American artist - PEAKE, CHANNING (1910-1989)
4. is this woman for real?
5. Nazi questions
6. The Founding Fathers and religion
7. Marsh Creek Springs, California
8. What if the south had won?
9. Edward I and the Edict of Expulsion
10. US and PLA Marines
11. Bankruptcy of mutual fund company: what happens to the fund?
12. Greatest Knight
13. Gold ownership
14. Any National banks selling gold bullions?

March 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 March 18

1. Tahitian surfer with same last name
2. Laundering money
3. An explanation of the Jews
4. Technical colleges
5. global warming
6. Need help finding melody
7. First World War in Boys' Books (British)
8. Buster Keation - related to Diane or Michael?
9. Carr, Thompson, and Hobsbawm
10. Russian Jews in London
11. What's the geographic centre of Chinese politics?
12. Not sure...
13. Iran
14. Please tell me this is a joke!
15. Inflation, It's cause
16. old testament
17. Leadership of Muslim communities/mosques
18. Ark of the covenant and Tablets of stone
19. First black woman mayor in the United States

March 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 March 19

1. Lutheran Hymns
2. farm animal as pet animal B.C. Canada
3. History assigment-help please
4. Purchasing power of US dollar circa 1900
5. Most prolific fathers
6. Agricultural commodity prices
7. bible, talmud etc other books
8. The Light
9. Popes and Emperors
10. Enjoyable eastern and other non-western ancient classics?
11. grandville sharp rule
12. Chinese instrument
13. Who owns the freehold of London's roads & why
14. Term Limits
15. Vehicle registration and inspections
16. Bharata Janata Party West Bengal and Tripura leaders

March 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 March 20

1. H Donald-Frith H Donald Smith, portrait painter
2. Homelessness
3. Divorce and women in the Middle Ages
4. Medieval crime and punishment
5. North and South
6. Is the Swiss Franc still immune from inflation?
7. A picture of Wilhelm Liebknecht, Karl Marx and three of their comrades
8. agriculture,writing
9. Frederick the Great and religious belief
10. Heroes of their time
11. Case study on Anonymous
12. University Applications
13. Daring medical rescue

March 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 March 21

1. Economies of the Home Countries
2. Paul Scofield and Sir Thomas More
3. Percentage of scientists
4. What would "THE" original battle of iwo jima flag raising photo be worth?
5. Communication technology and economics
6. Israel and ISM
7. [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 March 21#|]]
8. Iranian Minority
9. Arab Christians
10. Punjabi-speaking Pakistani scholars
11. Indian bengalis
12. Fall of the Directory
13. [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 March 21#|]]
14. Proving residency in a State
15. Francis Fowke and George Fowke
16. Smoking Law In UK

March 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 March 22

1. Cult Definition
2. Moral philosophy of evolution
3. Burma, Laos, Cambodia, and Thailand: Indosphere or Sinosphere?
4. Princess Anastasia
5. Does the Christian celebration of easter have its origins in the Hindu Bahagavad Gita ?
6. Philosophers Wealth
7. Population
8. Art Work
9. Stalin's father
10. What do interest rate cuts have to do with inflation?
11. The Devils
12. ebooks
13. Depression in students

March 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 March 23

1. About a photograph
2. Huang Yong, Chinese serial killer
3. Do Jews believe in hell and the devil?
4. Supply and demand in the labor market
5. must religious stereotypes be bigotted???
6. Who is the earliest known person?
7. does the California State Military Reserve allow gays
8. The Date Of The New Moon Visible In Jerusalem Nearest The Spring Equinox 2008?
9. Lord Jim and Imperialism
10. Aklavik
11. Demonology trivia
12. State first to throw a million men into war?
13. Douglas MacArthur
14. What were Sazonov's Thirteen Points ?
15. why dont citizens of other countries get to vote in U.S. elections
16. what's the MOST number of people that could be hidden and unaccounted for without anyone realizing it?
17. Paintings of the Popes in the Vatican
18. Gay Nazi Officer
19. The largest resistance in the WWII
20. 2010 quarter
21. Different strokes for different fokes

March 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 March 24

1. Hitler's "compassion"
2. American economic history
3. Break-up of the Soviet Union
4. Nazi justice and foreign workers
5. Attitude towards disabled people in Buddhism
6. Analyzing "bog land" by Seamus Heaney
7. Looking for any information on Harold Johnson, 60s-era jazz pianist
8. Time Capsule
9. Musical instrument learning resources (Piano in particular)

March 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 March 25

1. Nation and Ethnic Group
2. translators/interpretors salary
3. Deletion of "list of automobiles - makes with histories.
4. 1937 Soviet census
5. Absurd Philosophical Notion
6. Conquest of the Desert and the 1982 war for the Islas Malvinas (Falklands)
7. help plz
8. Things People Have Crossed Canada In
9. Critique of Dialectical Reason
10. War of the Two Matildas
11. gear vehicle
12. Sony vs. Casio
13. Scriabin's Sonata in E-Flat Minor (1889)
14. SS
15. Rubles at turn of 20th century
16. Unreasonable and outdated dissatisfactions
17. Changing fortunes of the Nazi Party
18. Kublai and Genghis
19. Authorship and publication of Wikipedia
20. Republic of Ireland: Income tax liability for actors
21. stores in history
22. H Donald Smith
23. A painting by Picasso of Modigliani
24. Strories set in the Deep South

March 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 March 26

1. legal age for...
2. Mexicans in the US
3. Folk illnesses
4. Windows
5. The Don Flows Home to the Sea
6. Is it true that the best Guillotine blades were made by Gillette???
7. Mulatto - White and Black perspectives
8. Question about Niger
9. Kant's Categorical Imperative
10. Marriage in the Canterbury Tales
11. Land Usage in U.S.
12. Agitate. Agitate, Agitate!

March 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 March 27

1. A war between Japan and China, 1880-83?
2. info on an artist
3. George Washington,Did he have investments in British Banks?
4. Commonwealth war graves during WW2
5. Centurion
6. Against the Ustase
7. Shia majority
8. US Medal of Honour
9. Economy and outsourcing
10. Native Indian population of Americas
11. Arts and Crafts
12. Religion
13. Kenya - sustainable development project
14. Famous Canadian Color guard photograph

March 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 March 28

1. scrabble replays
2. big buildings in pre-Columbian America
3. 9/11 Lawsuit
4. Thomas Jefferson
5. Irish short story
6. Roger Casement's poem entitled The Nameless One
7. State to first throw 500,000 men into war?
8. State to first rule over 1 million people?
9. philosophy
10. Scotland and the Wars of the Roses
11. Letters of Danish parties
12. IQ and career success
13. Missing vessels

March 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 March 29

1. Floating Castles
2. war poems
3. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values
4. Agitprop
5. Patrona Halil
6. Law question: title of party
7. Dance in UAE
8. Somalis in Bangladesh
9. Philosophy: career options
10. Katie Cruel
11. Murdered Greek actress Eleni Papadaki, denounced by envious rival?
12. 1974 Jazz organist/keyboardist
13. Hillary: The Movie
14. Did Nazis execute old people??
15. Name of song
16. Legal systems

March 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 March 30

1. Holocaust denial
2. Judaica
3. Gayelle
4. Holocost
5. Title and Artist?
6. Pyramids, Ice Ages and The End of the World.
7. Cold War liability
8. Neonazi ideology
9. Civilization and barbarism
10. Largest light festival of Europe
11. Naturist children
12. Republic of Korea's (South Korea) Stance on Disarmament Topics
13. 1937 Soviet Census
14. Cottage names in 19C England
15. Christian selling to Muslims
16. Neo-Nazi, Aryan Brotherhood and Islam

March 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 March 31

1. gayelle
2. Penelope's suitors
3. racist
4. Stub Articles
5. diplomatic missions and foreign policiy
6. International Business
7. Wilde and Salome
8. removing money in circulation
9. April Fool
10. references (insecure life in pakistan)
11. The English Gentleman
12. Carbon emissions and locally produced food
13. microeconomic development
14. wife's college
15. CHRONOLOGICAL AGE
16. Minimum wage and working on comission in Saskatchewan
17. Eupean Slavery Between the 1500-1800
18. Wavell the viceroy
19. Origin of the South Atlantic Medal
20. Non-Formal Education