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December 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2006 December 1

1. Dan Rather
2. Foreign educated lawyers and the Hawaii Bar Exam
3. Shakespeare- out, out
4. Collaboration in the UK. Late 90's
5. Red Collar Crime
6. usic Question
7. Propaganda In The Cold War
8. epeated question
9. History
10. Who is the first recorded human by name?
11. apology.
12. eibniz Theodicy - objection III
13. Shakespeare quote
14. Sections of a page
15. ection
16. Subsection
    1. Subsection
       1. Sub-subsection
17. fernand pelez 1843-1913
18. countries the US has helped
19. Constitutional law and constitutional theories
20. The lady's not for turning

December 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2006 December 2

1. Religious emblems
2. Averting Nuclear War
3. Titles and Duties of crew members on a ship
4. Canada in WWIII
5. The Seven Worlds
6. Falkland Islands
7. Lebanon and March 8
8. Workers owning their factory
9. Rudeness
10. Proof for God's inexistence
11. american law
12. irection to story?
13. Government
14. Only $19.99!

December 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2006 December 3

1. Wa-wa-wa sound effect
2. Cara Black
3. Spiro Agnew Science Fiction
4. Saladin and Europe
5. arriage Question
6. can queenEII be sued under the law of Tort in a matter in which she personally had direct involvment
7. Online Translations
8. Thomas Kuhn/History of Scientific Development
9. Music from Bedazzled
10. Were wheels known in ancient Egypt?
11. Life in Japan immediately following Japanese Surrender (under American Occupation)
12. Antipater
13. How goes the battle?
14. Iliad translation

December 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2006 December 4

1. British American football teams
2. Crime and Punishment Translations
3. End of WWI Trenches
4. Longest and Shortest Wars
5. Colors associated with Christmas
6. What is the term?
7. Use of a Dremel on a gemstone.
8. Cost of food in Sierra Leone?
9. SWORDS and metals : what swords were made of
10. Advent
11. Criminal Law: Bail/Suicide
12. MiddleAge-swords : various questions
13. justice
14. Wheat Berry substitute
15. Dutch employment law
16. Name of the List of "Best Universities
17. Right to a telephone call on arrest

December 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2006 December 5

1. East Indians and Caucasians
2. old photographs
3. What does Catholicism say about certain types of sexual deviance/behaviour?
4. Musical Modes
5. Inclusion into the list of developed countries
6. Musical modes and The Beatles
7. Registers of the saxophone
8. Moderation
9. Progression of Ideals
10. informations
11. Origin of no meat Catholic days
12. Duck Test
13. An ancient Jewish sect.

December 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2006 December 6

1. CS Lewis- ethics and philosophy
2. Interview as Stalin
3. story of a giraffe with shrunken neck
4. Marx and the individual
5. Marking students for artistic ability in other subjects?
6. hat was the name in the Beslan school hostage event in Russia?
7. us/soviet casualties during post wwii occupation
8. Sunni vs. Shi'a
9. Shipping Corporation of India
10. fernando emmanuel pelez de cordova posters of saltimbanque
11. 28 Billon Dollars Net Worth
12. Trafalgar Square, London
13. Islam
14. Mount Rushmore update
15. 'North by Northwest
16. Propaganda In The Cold War
17. Silly Organisations Locating Themselves In London
18. Riverboat gambling
19. locations
20. The UK Times newspaper
21. How are political borders defined
22. Twelve Olympians
23. Omni curious

December 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2006 December 7

1. Which Songs Are These?
2. xtended Quotes from Iraqis about war
3. Is there any other christian country that still have murder sentence except USA?
4. Christians and the Old Testament
5. Foreigners in the American Revolutionary War
6. ative Americans in Congress
7. Anglo-Dutch Wars?
8. Macbeth
9. The only place I can be free on earth
10. history

December 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2006 December 8

1. Renaissance euphemisms for the phallus
2. How do you taxi a B-17 backwards?
3. ody Matherson
4. odeo
5. nternational Trade
6. Song info
7. History
8. Dominatrix - how to?
9. US residency after 5 years
10. iron man

December 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2006 December 9

1. 2006 Mississippi Senate Race
2. Religious Rights For women
3. Jewish Marriage
4. complete details about Girish Karnad, Mr.Rohinton Mistry , MrVijay Tendulkar and Mr.Vikram Seth
5. Unknown Novel
6. Negative Criticism of Jane Austen
7. Bach and Whiter Shade of Pale
8. Milk and poultry
9. Atomic bomb

December 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2006 December 10

1. Food/Clothing for Mexican/Inuit children
2. The reason behind Islam's rapid spread?
3. Incentives for accepting refugees
4. 1950s - 60s movie name spoken in the movie caused an audience reaction, what was the reaction, cheer?
5. Judaism
6. Does Hong Kong contribute only financially in the Asia-Pacific Region?
7. newspaper delivery costs in the USA
8. Belfry of Mons, Belgium
9. Can anybody "translate" the 20/20 section for people who are married 20 yrs, 20 yrs of service are comleted, 3 years of marriage was active duty and the rest while retired
10. US Supreme Court cases and constitutional theories
11. "Falklands War" v "Falklands Conflict"
12. US Military Expenditures
13. Elected communists/Marxist leaders in democratic governments
14. 1916
15. APUS HELP

December 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2006 December 11

1. Pinochet and the Devil
2. sc laws on probation violation
3. experimental constitutional provisions
4. State allegiances in the civil war
5. materanal
6. judical review in the federalist number 78
7. uciano De Crescenzo
8. Western democracy
9. Immigration Policy in North America (specifically Canada)
10. Fancy wording
11. Poke center?
12. Hello!
13. American History

December 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2006 December 12

1. what did elisabeth kinsolving write?
2. Name of fiction book with a quantum twists
3. UN Charter regarding military action at the time of the Korean War
4. Percentage of a TV series
5. Rodeo
6. Original Grant of Land from John Ingram dated 1416 A.D.
7. Public conversation
8. our more years!
9. Where was Morgoth during the Third Age?
10. Boney went to Elbow
11. horsemen and marshall on Parthenon
12. Comba Tai in America
13. rab immigration to Palestine in the 20th century
14. Law: my band releasing songs to public domain
15. Is the killing of foriegn sitizens in a foreign country against their will an act of war?
16. Culture: What do Poor Canadians Eat?
17. Adam and Eve - Who misguided who?
18. ww1 poet ..in the ****ing firth of forth

December 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2006 December 13

1. Acronym for significant other + roommate
2. Jesus being prejudice
3. what is the oldest form of the handfasting ritual?
4. Agatha Christie
5. Persian inscription
6. Political Activist Organisation
7. Christmas in Islam
8. Memory
9. Why didn't Austria join NATO?
10. Federalists vs. Democratic-Republicans
11. The bible and history
12. Who is charles switzerland?
13. Antique furniture Gainsborough chairs
14. quote in front of book
15. Ancient people
16. Identify Piano Music
17. Salem witch trials
18. Real Estate LAW
19. Bible inventions

December 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2006 December 14

1. Japanese Nukes
2. rticles of Confederation
3. step parents
4. Eucharist
5. fforts of congress to secure fundamental rights
6. history american
7. history 202
8. Films featuring the British Royal House of Stuart
9. Sleigh ride
10. archetypes in world religions
11. Reliable source for used book prices?
12. Rebuilding of cities
13. Who killed Laura Palmer? (Twin Peaks spoilers)
14. no shows
15. numbers in orchestration
16. raq / Vietnam US deaths
17. Anorexia nervorsa patience's relation to her mother
18. hose son was shot?

December 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2006 December 15

1. Pantheon
2. Pantheon building maintenance ?
3. PS3 odds
4. A society ruled by smart people?
5. News montage
6. irst time I added content
7. Why does Vesper *** in Casino Royale the film?
8. Fines in Football
9. Blue things in Tangier
10. British drama trivia
11. hat was the name of General Charles Gordon's batman at Khartoum?
12. Real-life consequences of new Quebec status
13. Justice system of gold rush mining towns.
14. Race car accident where the driver's brother was killed by a racetrack ambulance?
15. Euripides

December 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2006 December 16

1. German philosopher quotation
2. hy is there no page about Juggy Gales from the Brill Building era?
3. Nick Cave/Wings of Desire
4. What are "Santa Fe pants"?
5. Title of the Book
6. Nobel Prize Laureate....(Women)
7. Holocaust guilt
8. An Iowa event

December 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2006 December 17

1. Survivor (TV series) theme song
2. Who invented the hand pump for basketballs?
3. achel from Another World
4. Jamaican Government
5. Frilly, Late '60s, British Psychedelic Rock Garb
6. What are Parish records? Rugbyball 11:26, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
7. Painter
8. nformation on the life of Sculpture P H Mourey 1840 - 1910
9. capital punishment court cases
10. Muslims
11. Article III District Courts of the United States
12. What Time Should Kids Open Presents?
13. the Gospel of Mary Magdalene
14. Action To Take To Avert Cake-spill Catastophe?
15. Anderson Snow who was he?
16. Jews

December 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2006 December 18

1. Who recorded the song "Kiss My Irish Ass"?
2. Islamic law against depiction of the human form
3. trying to find info on my father, dale hodson, who served in vietnam
4. extra-territorial organizations
5. Literature
6. Few details regarding 'Metro' - the free daily newspaper
7. Eucharist: How do Catholics receive on the tongue?
8. Question about citing a person's ethnic identity on Wiki
9. The film "Barfly"
10. Where did "18" as the age of adulthood come from?
11. Kashmir's Boundaries

December 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2006 December 20

1. olish-Soviet War 1939
2. hat fallacy is this?
3. ARGENTINA OPINION ON NORTH KOREA
4. Staten Island
5. Tenor clarinet?
6. niara
7. Re. "Goodbye, Mr. Chips"
8. Reference
9. Film identification
10. ussian philosophers
11. ro-Chinese American Communist Party 2006?
12. Which Azumanga Episode Am I Thinking Of?

December 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2006 December 21

1. hich ghost movie
2. hristian Research Institute and WP:RS?
3. Schellenberg's use of Nostradamus in invasion of France 1940
4. Greek Myth? Maybe.
5. Which Jackie Chan movie?
6. Song artist
7. Irak oil industry before and after 2003
8. name for a specific ethnic group
9. Tangier Ville Rail Station
10. My hand hurts!?!
11. FA Premier League
12. diagrams or maps of egyptian pyramids (inside showing chamber locations)
13. Checking surname for Sept or Clan affiliation
14. Rock the Casbah
15. Leeds Castle
16. Items found in public places
17. The Experience Machine
18. Anti-kosher foods
19. Questions about Palestinian elections system

December 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2006 December 22

1. People of Waterloo?
2. Crowd conundrum
3. Eurasian Pole of Inaccessibility
4. Cresh?
5. "Irrepressible Sister Miriam" by Wilfrido Ma. Guerrero
6. Looking for a dance
7. equest for information on painter known as J. Lettwil
8. Customs laws in Australia

December 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2006 December 23

1. 02 Governor's race in Wisconsin
2. sex education
3. Asian or Aboriginal?
4. How to get projects from company/ or making clients?
5. The Riddle Song (Traditional)
6. Name this book
7. Why does the world seem to hate Saddam Hussein?

December 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2006 December 24

1. Ande Ande Lumutan
2. Initial Public Offering
3. CEO Salaries & Bonuses
4. Cultural Assessment

December 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2006 December 25

1. New Testament
2. Changing date from BC to AD
3. Appius Claudius Caecus
4. Scipio Cornelius Africanus - defeated Hannibal
5. novel about black boy written before 1960
6. Appius Claudius Caecus ("the blind"; c. 340 BC-273 BC) relationship to Philip II
7. Free Trade of Human Organs
8. Francesco Petrarch - De Viris Illustribus
9. Pope Vigulus and Oregans.
10. what was used as winter-clothes in the old days ?

December 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2006 December 26

1. Sunken Ship
2. use of pictures on the wikipedia-reference page ?
3. Inequality?
4. Why do Westerners use green color for positive and red color for negative in stock market?

December 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2006 December 27

1. US influence on UK entry into the Eurozone
2. Style of future husbands of Princesses of York
3. Abstention from pre-marital sex
4. Balaam's ass
5. Jerome: De Viris Illustribus (On Illustrious Men)
6. help me with the months ?
7. A Problem With Statistics
8. buenos aires argentina police
9. Is there a concise, fact-based web site that provides summary information on both sides of controversial issues?
10. Fastest growing religion
11. Samuel Reichmann

December 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2006 December 28

1. Globalization letter by economist
2. looking for a specific sheet music website
3. Why does society seem to find the idea of prisoners being sodomized amusing?
4. Did Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes say this?
5. politcal opinons of the royal family
6. Father Christmas
7. The Odyessy - Comparing Pages 124 - 141 in the book to the movie
8. Bank closures in the US

December 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2006 December 29

1. Existence of my own mind
2. The Black Sea ?
3. Cargo ship v/s Cargo airline ?
4. Old Middle English spelling for Jesus
5. Biblical Name meanings
6. British territories sold to the US in WWII
7. Miami Beach
8. A question of psychology
9. Money / Banking / Investing
10. Calling the UK England
11. Monocular Blindness
12. Saad EL hariri
13. Cloth in Europe on the 1100-1300's
14. "Heavy Manners"
15. [Burgas Port]]

December 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2006 December 30

1. Avignon papacy - 46 Years
2. Question on the Buddha's first sermon
3. Who is this?
4. Law: accidental overhearing of confession
5. Town twinning
6. Reserve requirement of Canadian Banks
7. Open market operation
8. Medieval currency
9. Re. "Goodbye, Mr. Chips"
10. Shoes on or off ?
11. Sha'biyat question
12. what exactly was diefenbaker's achievement?
13. Big Booty Song Lyrics
14. psychology
15. A Somerset Maugham short story about a man and an elephant
16. Hanging Saddam's dog - truth or WP vandalism?
17. Where can I find a good archive of videos/pictures of American soldiers violating human rights in Iraq?
18. God being Jesus's father

December 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2006 December 31

1. Anyone else go like Saddam?
2. Humans and Monkeys?
3. Conflicting information on U.S. currency
4. The Bible as the word of God
5. Resolves of the Pennsylvania Assembly on the Stamp Act
6. Do Objectivists support prison rehabilitation?
7. Rome travel guide
8. Colour-madness
9. or Blok
10. Defunct UK magazine - nothing here and little elsewhere