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December 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 December 1

1. Romanticism: Literature
2. Who is the author of this painting? / Unrecognizable signature
3. Did America ever get it's 'garden hose" back?
4. Why the black population is still growing in Sub-Saharan Africa?
5. Christmas
6. Marius, or The Fugitive - in English?
7. Stalemate in World War One
8. Wilderness years
9. Anjirō
10. What kind of dough to use?
11. Frederick the soldier
12. painting as a response to flowers
13. Socio ethnocentric
14. An Allegory
15. Seasonal quiz help

December 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 December 2

1. Can someone write me some poetry
2. The Potato and France
3. Catholics under Elizabeth
4. Ratification of international treaties by France
5. Fair use
6. Switzerland military
7. Rendition by US Authorities (non terrorism cases)
8. Problems in the aboriginal communities??
9. Franco and the fugitives
10. Baghdad in Afghanistan?

December 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 December 3

1. findings map that shows northern european tribes reach into england and ireland
2. Mad monarchs
3. Kosovo
4. Rabbi Kook and the Shemittah year
5. Ireland from a historical point of view
6. John Maynard Keynes quote on tedium of stock-trading
7. Swiss wars
8. Taifa and Almoravids
9. Medical/Cosmetic Tourism Lawsuits
10. Reading comprehension - Harry Potter

December 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 December 4

1. Russian Music
2. Name of artist for Blood Money cover art
3. George Sand
4. texas native american tribes
5. Catholic Saint and the Holy Spirit
6. Analysis of Emily Dickinson Poem
7. "A Charlotte Zolotow book"
8. French failing
9. Chinese Belief
10. Why war?
11. first generation entrepreneurs
12. Oh hell, I just screwed something up!
13. Assurance
14. What role did Caeso Malleus participate in for the Second Punic War (about 200 BC +/-)?
15. Alexsander Eiduk
16. Can someone explain this video?
17. Need a German type name for a German shepard puppy
18. Entering Heaven -
19. Cromwell and parliament
20. Hanafuda cards
21. Hindus wearing Karakul caps
22. Is this right?

December 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 December 5

1. Somalia Arab League?
2. Removal of church/god from public education system
3. Tom Driberg
4. Article about the Mongol Invasion of Persia is needed
5. Movie Based on Tolstoy Book
6. Urban Warfare in world war one
7. Divorce in the UK
8. Near death experiences and heaven
9. Origin of Government
10. T. Roosevelt letter to Edwin Arlington Robinson
11. SS recruitment
12. Indemnity payments during the Russian Civil War
13. Beowulf
14. One child policy and Islam
15. Tanks
16. Leprosy in Europe
17. military as an alternative to prison
18. Tkachyov and Lenin

December 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 December 6

1. Gabroo
2. A name from Beckett/Berio
3. Does any work by Marx or Lenin desribe Communist society?
4. Cold Chills / "Heilige Schauer" or "Holy Shiver" in German Romanticism
5. Kalizi, Assyria
6. Sign languages
7. Famous last words
8. Tudor poor
9. Serving military officer should hold a political office. Any supporter?
10. stamps -- north rhodesia, pre-independence
11. War spy doll maker
12. Generation Y
13. Muhammed
14. rectangle flag of nepal
15. Fernão Mendes Pinto
16. [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 December 6#|]]
17. Syphilus in Europe
18. Nationalist objectives
19. Relient K and homosexuality
20. Executions in the Past

December 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 December 7

1. Jesus as a given name
2. UK Scale in Maps
3. One Spartan
4. Weird historical coincidences
5. Shipping drama set in Bermuda
6. Art of Lighting
7. Dutyless Daughters
8. Caligula's horse
9. Leopold III
10. Looking for the title and artist of a French painting
11. Impact of Terrorism
12. Historians and travellers from antiquity
13. Christmas Pudding
14. Economics book
15. More music like this?

December 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 December 8

1. Ghost story
2. The Catholic Church's position on the undead?
3. Romanticism:music
4. What is the USA equivalent of the UK Companies House
5. English Inn Signs
6. F. Saunders
7. Mazarin and Machiavelli
8. The Two Tenors
9. German invasion of Russia
10. Danger! kidney beans!
11. Business research in the US, starting with owner name.
12. Lifestyle//Literary style of the 1800's...
13. Study of Lighting
14. Government regulation of the economy
15. Philip of England and Ireland, disowned unlike the Orangist William
16. Germans in England

December 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 December 9

1. What do MBA's do ?
2. Scottish and German colonies compared with the Anglo-Irish and French, in North America
3. Mysterious felony
4. Louis XIV
5. Kant, Schopenhauer and the Will
6. Anglo Catholic?
7. Slovenian Liberation Front
8. Relationships with Jesus
9. What is "The porheron statement"?
10. Mary Tudor and Edward the Sixth
11. Darfur conflict
12. The Second World War in America
13. Zheng He ( Author's)
14. British state opening of parliament
15. A strange Irish custom?
16. American citizens and Puerto Rico

December 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 December 10

1. Masque of Anarchy
2. Throne speeches
3. The Alamo
4. George Brown College General Science and Arts Schedule Arts
5. Reconstruction and its results on former slaves
6. Interfaith sex in medieval Europe
7. Jeopardy quiz show
8. Russia at the end of WWI
9. Identifying a piece of music
10. Art
11. Leagal or not leagal? That is the question
12. Kierkegaard and third-best
13. Waterloo and after
14. Mass Suicide

December 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 December 11

1. Emancipation laws in Texas
2. International Literary 1992-2007 Prize winner or nominees
3. 3 types of Hajj
4. A Doll's House questions
5. Buchner and atheism
6. european explorers
7. Future imperfect
8. Art and urban regeneration...
9. Italian partisans
10. What are Christmas in Sweden?
11. Victorian occupations
12. Story of Civilization by Will Durant
13. Cold Chill or Holy Shiver

December 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 December 12

1. Has George Bush ever met Osama Bin Ladin
2. Smallish Countries
3. Mechanism design theory and environmental regulation
4. Napoleon and the Marseillaise
5. Question appearing on my final
6. Jean Pierre Pellissier
7. The health of FDR
8. Montaigne on memory
9. Charles Edward, Duke of Coburg
10. What's My Sign?
11. How are judges assigned in the Los Angeles County Superior Court?
12. The Balkans and their language
13. Escapes from the Soviet Gulag
14. Malaya and Indo-China
15. On how one addresses saints
16. Philosophical concept

December 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 December 13

1. Industrial Revolution
2. Mediaeval Royal Descendents of the Byzantine Emperors
3. Zheng He
4. Did Germans in WWII believe they were fighting a defensive war?
5. Mary
6. Italian wars
7. Suez Canal Sculptures - Two Monumental Harpies - Sphynx-Like Women
8. Driver's licenses
9. Cranford
10. Another Soviet question

December 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 December 14

1. Will to Power
2. Philip, King of England
3. A true story?
4. Mohammad Ali JInnah VS Mahatma Gandhi
5. Army of Paraguay
6. Thoughts
7. Find a Book
8. Super Furry Animals
9. Who wrote this bit of verse?
10. Petain the defeatist

December 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 December 15

1. Equivalent before the invention of computers
2. Did George W. Bush hit his father?
3. Why is there no Engelist or Engelism?
4. Credit card security
5. Latin Empire compared to Holy Roman Empire
6. Wagner a Nazi?
7. King Billy

December 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 December 16

1. Financing the revolution
2. HIndi and Tamil
3. Belgium
4. Source for this verse about Thermopylae
5. Is knowledge over-managed? Evaluate the accuracy of this statement
6. Templars in England
7. Plead the 5th
8. Oldest person to be referenced
9. NAFTA and Customs duty for shopping in US
10. What is the current duties?
11. Defending the empire
12. War Writing
13. Old Swiss Confederacy
14. Are Hegelians bound by the Categorical Imperitive?
15. Pound sterling

December 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 December 17

1. how would you draw a gondolier
2. The Rise of Western and European Civilization
3. Today's equivalent of one pound sterling in 1978 in Britain
4. Doggy story
5. Kinship terminology
6. First Naval Victory?
7. German Names
8. Tale of Two Cities - question about sequel(s)?
9. (Very) Christian names
10. Headlam and Christian Socialism
11. Constitutional Law
12. USA Presidential Candidates
13. Henrik Ibsen

December 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 December 18

1. A few questions about world trade.
2. Tamo tigers?
3. Industrial Revolution
4. Karl Marx Young and Old
5. Examples of Conflict/Irony in "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"
6. Is cream cheese and lox kosher?
7. Plate armor worn during the American revolutionary war and napoleonic wars
8. British constitution
9. Modern swords?
10. Cultural Relations
11. Differences between abaya, burqa, and jilbab?
12. Sex scandals
13. Christians?

December 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 December 19

1. Ancient Greek architecture
2. Where did it come from?
3. Bible
4. American colonial contact and discovery films
5. Quatre-cent vingt et une (hope I got this right)
6. Napoleon's downfall
7. Nazism / Hatred
8. Valeri - Curious about Latin Translation
9. Mad all his life
10. Cultural Diffusion
11. Looking for study or news item about zoning in Los Angeles that is hurting food consumers

December 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 December 20

1. Cosmetics and culture
2. Fine arts
3. Use of logaritms in economics
4. GRE in the UK
5. Nazi voters
6. What did the Marxists get right?
7. More on the crusades
8. Domestic life in Georgian England

December 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 December 21

1. Countries
2. Hair dyeing and straightening cost
3. Parents Rights
4. Theories about Values and Ethics in Youth Work
5. Livy in english
6. Lasting legacy of our greatness
7. novelists getting published in C17 Europe?
8. Captives in the war of the kingdoms

December 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 December 22

1. 1964 World's Fair
2. Bob Considine
3. Jahangir nanak
4. What is the income range for middle, upper middle and upper classes in America?
5. Looking for source of quote.
6. Sole Proprietorships and Partnerships

December 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 December 23

1. Mistakes in Holy Books and Proving Religions False
2. Fox on Barbados
3. Hamilton and Montrose
4. the promised one of Islam and the Seal of the Prophets
5. Italian army in WW2
6. Cruelty reduced disposal

December 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 December 24

1. Bourgeois charms?
2. Why do Canadians shop in US?
3. The Iron Guard
4. Why was simi banned?
5. explain process of putting up a picture for explanation
6. American Indian Declaration of Independence
7. what is the commercial law?

December 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 December 25

1. Six Questions To Norman Mailer
2. Looking for a photography project about a modern second coming.
3. Angels

December 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 December 26

1. Smallpox erradication and the soviet union
2. Angela Lansbury - Contact Information
3. 250 pages book prize winner and finalist
4. Music video I saw

December 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 December 27

1. Re Angels and wings or no wings.
2. Names
3. Harrods
4. [Latin] Is the link the work cited? Is it worth linking?
5. Joe Keeper
6. Marie Antoinette's children
7. Civil war in Pakistan
8. Eating the Salad with his Fingers -- famous person who defies etiquette and the sheep who follow... (SOLVED)
9. Louis XIV at war

December 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 December 28

1. UNAM student population
2. Aesthetics, etc
3. Somebody wanna decipher this site for me?
4. Governing Structure - officers - ranks of British Raj, East India Company
5. watercolour artist possibly spanish
6. Charisma in U.S. Presidental elections
7. Bombardier Q Series
8. Joshua Gianavel
9. Napolean and the 1812 invasion of Russia

December 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 December 29

1. Looking for pics - help
2. logrolling--has anyone heard of corrupt dealmaking betw.public defenders and
3. GDP in the 70-s
4. Asaish - Kurdish secret police?
5. Textbook use in the US
6. What Dutch painter signed with "ploos"
7. Bangladesh provincial government?
8. DMV in south carolina website

December 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 December 30

1. Thought experiment
2. Sonata in G Major (Haydn)
3. Men's Penis size
4. Undercover cops...
5. Postcodes in Upminster
6. Androboros

December 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 December 31

1. Where do/did Yugoslavia's external and internal borders come from? When were they first drawn? By whom?
2. Elam, Pennsylvania
3. The Guaraní people and the Jesuit Reductions PRIMARY SOURCE
4. W. German coins: just for W. Germany or for all of post 1990 Germany?
5. Is all economic regulation "socialism"?
6. William Bunce - At the Battle of Trafalgar
7. Benazir Bhutto's manner of death