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February 1

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 February 1

  1. I'm looking for the artist of an image, of which I have no information whatsoever
  2. {{USS|Connecticut|BB-18}}
  3. What is the convergence theory, and who were some of its advocates?
  4. Gays in Iran
  5. Is Christianity white?
  6. Japanese Mythology - Yokai for the Dying
  7. Identifying people and the picture
  8. Disabled monarchs
  9. Chip Implants
  10. squatters rights
  11. Common Professional Examination in/around London
  12. Openly gay

February 2

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 February 2

  1. How does the US Army go to Afghanistan?
  2. name this song
  3. Mary II of England
  4. Hadith about Wolves
  5. Co regents
  6. First woman Ballet master
  7. Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution
  8. origin of the meme "yo dawg, heard u like ____ so I put some ___ in your ___ so you can ___ while you ____"
  9. Candidates of The 2005 Lebanese Elections
  10. non-existent people?
  11. The Jeordie's

February 3

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 February 3

  1. [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 February 3#|]]
  2. Aspects of Baroque in today's music?
  3. Japanese Gagaku/Religious Paraphernalia
  4. The most important people you've never heard of
  5. Self-limitation of the Bible
  6. Translation
  7. [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 February 3#|]]
  8. Cameroon Estate
  9. Druze marriage
  10. Nudist dating website
  11. Punjabi lyrics with transliteration
  12. Battle of Dogger Bank.
  13. Norman Rockwell Prints

February 4

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 February 4

  1. The man who saved pimperdale
  2. Portrait of Samuel Adams
  3. "Kahn Lectures" at Princeton (on art, architecture)
  4. Speeding safety
  5. Looking for a coin I bought that I cant find. online
  6. Sources on women in Islam
  7. Is tea ever smoked?
  8. What parts of the constitution overrules the Ten Commandments?
  9. World illiteracy before 1970
  10. Dr. Paul Chitwood

February 5

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 February 5

  1. Bal Thackeray's cartoon oeuvre
  2. Justification of text in typesetting
  3. Grapheme-color synesthesia and the four colour theorem
  4. Where do "I" go when I'm asleep?
  5. Modest Mouse at 9:30 club in DC -- how much?
  6. Unlisted savings banks
  7. Toronto District School Board teacher semester
  8. need help finding a yurei/yokai
  9. Iraqi Provincial Elections, 2005 political parties based on ethnicity and religious sect

February 6

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 February 6

  1. The fact that English is an international language is like rape of people whose only language is English
  2. Question about Zoroastrianism?
  3. a method of drawing
  4. Creationists' beliefs
  5. Bangladesh Upazila elections
  6. Lebanese Election 2005
  7. Find yourself literature
  8. How to tell when censorship is fascist
  9. Defining "Universal Health Care" for the U.S.
  10. drew memorial church,grosvenor road,belfast
  11. What's this short story? (or) Who wrote this short story?

February 7

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 February 7

  1. Youth and Young Manhood
  2. Law : Appellant's Costs
  3. Case on Partition
  4. Bangladeshi Islamic Magazines
  5. Place de la Concorde obelisk
  6. WWII Aerial photos
  7. Does Poland have an 'official' national bird?
  8. arab city neighbourhood

February 8

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 February 8

  1. Diocesan structure of Roman Britain
  2. is it true that all the big hollywood name stars (A-list) have fake teeth?
  3. Christian-dominant nations as members of Organization of the Islamic Conference?
  4. Mozambique as Commonwealth Nation member
  5. Black History Month vs. Arab Nations
  6. How does a safe bill feeder know the money is fake?
  7. Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions by James Madison?
  8. Waterboarding
  9. How did street vendors sell apples during the Great Depression without getting fined or arrested?
  10. Can anyone translate for me?
  11. "Not fit for a particular purpose"
  12. Hinduism

February 9

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 February 9

  1. United Nations Involvement in a War Between 2 Countries
  2. Matylda of Brandenburg
  3. Admitting to it
  4. History: Hilter/ Jews etc
  5. Herostratus
  6. Oldest ruling royal family
  7. Wallace Bridge Railway Station
  8. The movie "Dita Saxova"
  9. 19th Century Chinese Art
  10. Immigration to Europe from America

February 10

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 February 10

  1. Wyszesława
  2. Oda of Meissen
  3. Vancouver, BC as "Lotus Land"
  4. Yaroslav I the Wise
  5. no more room in hell; the dead shall walk the Earth
  6. Pictures of Parliament
  7. Cthulhu copyright?
  8. WWII
  9. members of parliament
  10. Indian cinema etiquette

February 11

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 February 11

  1. Psychological conditions.
  2. Anne Bonny & Mary Read: Bisexual?!
  3. Renovation for Disabled children in Armenia-grant
  4. Bic's main competitors in the disposable pen market
  5. Needing to read up on finance
  6. Judith Arpad
  7. Przecława

February 12

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 February 12

  1. The quality of democratic leaders
  2. Ganges River Water
  3. New Year's Eve Celebrations
  4. Resolving Present Day Depression
  5. Inventories
  6. Lebanon seating plan
  7. What is the punishment for piracy in the modern era?

February 13

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 February 13

  1. Native American Names in English
  2. John Kufour's wife
  3. Are Myra Soble and Jack Soble still alive?
  4. Facebook and intellectual property
  5. KALORIES
  6. Sex Slaves, Juarez, Mexico or Laredo??
  7. Reparations for Slavery in US
  8. Samuel Beckett quote in Deleuze & Guatarri...
  9. Native Americans/African Americans
  10. Charles Bowen,Baron Bowen
  11. Saudi Arabian anti-communists
  12. Forcing government to pay debt
  13. How is it possible for your mind to learn something?
  14. Student association constitution: "not for profit"

February 14

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 February 14

  1. Arab World political rivals
  2. Strange Book
  3. Disfigured Head of Ukrainian State
  4. Reveille plush toys and other items
  5. poker for 2?

February 15

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 February 15

  1. Why is the Holocaust always cited as the primary example of genocide?
  2. do siamese twins have ONE or TWO ID's?
  3. Terrorist attacks.. why do most of them take place in the morning?
  4. what is the ratio of Palestinian to Israeli civilian deaths?
  5. book title
  6. Poetic Forms
  7. Oil prices in Canada
  8. Good topic for an argumentative paper
  9. WWI Survivors

February 16

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 February 16

  1. Ismaili Mustalis and Nizaris
  2. Boiling to Death
  3. Historical forms of address
  4. Australian Floods
  5. 16th-century Latin
  6. What is this story?
  7. Who owns a car dealer's cars?
  8. Constitutional question

February 17

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 February 17

  1. Why is the gov't obligated to help people get out of foreclosure?
  2. Australian Passport
  3. Travel Europe To Australia
  4. Comparative religion: Jesus
  5. Ivan Vasilievich
  6. Finnish War Film & German War Film
  7. US Democrats and US Republicans
  8. Legal question regarding polygamy.
  9. Guns for roses
  10. Looking for a Science Fiction book I read ~17 years ago.
  11. Chateauneuf castle
  12. LGBT holidays

February 18

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 February 18

  1. Cambodian Kings.
  2. Percy Shelley's politics
  3. phil? plato dubois douglas ect. ideas related in america today
  4. Poetic Technique
  5. NYSE and NASDAQ
  6. Judaism and the Second world war
  7. Latin American Human Rights Award?

February 19

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 February 19

  1. "Reciprocal" marriages
  2. Is it true that the Mongols never lost a battle to a European force?
  3. mount everest
  4. Frozen assets
  5. Castle inheritance
  6. Teenage behaviour

February 20

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 February 20

  1. Please Help!
  2. Chinese Catholics
  3. Terrorist Attack on Big Ben
  4. China
  5. Cavemen in literature
  6. Succession
  7. Pamphleting cars
  8. "Seven of the top 20 millionaires in the Sunday Times Rich List owe their fortunes to online gambling"
  9. Saw question on conjoined twins and had a thought
  10. Identify the crown

February 21

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 February 21

  1. When did Kitty Lange Kielland die?
  2. Questions related to the development of civilization
  3. Pre-Socratics
  4. First Legal Tender Approved by US Congress
  5. Ancient Irish state of Ulaid
  6. Did Barack Obama's daughters ever get their puppy?
  7. has any work in philosophy ever caused historical change?
  8. Vietnam war interview
  9. Name of science fiction story
  10. Louis Font, Donald Duncan, and Howard Levy
  11. inflation

February 22

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 February 22

  1. British Royal Crest as displayed on the locomotive Duchess of Sutherland when the royal family is aboard...
  2. New York/Law & Order blue paper
  3. Hindus in Rome
  4. Bi bigamist
  5. Bahrain- Music and Clothes
  6. Alternatives to drone attacks
  7. Indian Buddhists
  8. Hindu, Christian and Buddhist President and Prime Minister of Bangladesh
  9. IDENTITY OF SANJOY, A CHARACTER OF THE MAHABHARATA
  10. Looking for a chart of Canadian stock (index) performance before and during the Great Depression

February 23

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 February 23

  1. United States and the Impending Canary Island Disaster
  2. Cross-state sexual issues
  3. Doing what's best for the economy
  4. Children and Women of India
  5. Oppression due to gender/skin colour

February 24

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 February 24

  1. Recovery from Narcisstic Nurturing (or lack of)
  2. Maslow's hierarchy of needs
  3. Allegory of the cave
  4. homosexual
  5. Quotation wrongly attributed to Paul Valéry
  6. Leviathan
  7. World Leader's role in 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War
  8. Christianity
  9. The punishment of nuns who broken their celibacy
  10. Lebanese Nationalism
  11. List of restrictions imposed on Jews by Nazis
  12. [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 February 24#George, King of England, Scotland, Ireland, France<.2Fs>, etc.|George, King of England, Scotland, Ireland, France, etc.]]
  13. When and where did judaism begin?

February 25

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 February 25

  1. Did Zionist political violence stop in 1948?
  2. What book is this?
  3. animal rights quote
  4. Do I pay Sales tax
  5. Natural disasters/wrecked environment in literature
  6. Jewish MPs (UK)
  7. looking for a book I read 10 years ago

February 26

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 February 26

  1. Universal Healthcare in the United States
  2. You're committing a crime
  3. Title of Dante's Commedia
  4. Speech made by the Australian Prime Minister
  5. What's this philosophical belief?
  6. Cairo talks, February 2009
  7. Question
  8. Syria as non-member of Francophonie
  9. Movement Along the Supply/Demand Curve
  10. Bangabhumi
  11. Nationalism
  12. Flag draped coffin photos
  13. The Garden of Death
  14. Easy places to emigrate to
  15. Literature: slim classics
  16. Book by old-time, non-notable British author
  17. Episcopal shield (Image) vs Anglican shield
  18. Teddy Bear DJ comic

February 27

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 February 27

  1. Presidential inaugural address which is said by heart
  2. Life in the Papal States
  3. "Authorized to brief reporters on condition of anonymity"
  4. Legality of Nazi Germany as a state/government
  5. Is Elizabeth II's coronation footage in the public domain
  6. How many people have ever lived?
  7. Question: how do i go about doing a search for information on a legal data base for a particular issue?
  8. Dickens character
  9. men vs. women
  10. Byzantine empress regnants
  11. Alexandrian and Augustan empires

February 28

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 February 28

  1. Can free newspapers be stolen?
  2. Is the Ganges River drying up?
  3. World War II. Home Defence. Stopline Red.
  4. Roman Empresses
  5. Defense of a kingdom in 8th or 9th century Britain
  6. Israel and the Holocaust
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