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February 1

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 February 1

  1. U.S. utility patent expiration
  2. How do I avoid this economical Tsunami
  3. Immigration
  4. Medical and legal questions
  5. Patent law
  6. Twenty-Ten Redux
  7. Was Bamiyan always part of the Kabul-Shahi
  8. french composer
  9. Comparison of Samoa and American Samoa
  10. Successful people reared in rural surroundings?
  11. Leaving a will contingent on an act of chance
  12. Details of Catholic polity
  13. Communion in Christian Churches
  14. Little People in Little Houses
  15. where whites and asians get marry
  16. lottery taxes
  17. Pre-modern Jews who speak and read a foreign language
  18. Islam and images
  19. Why is my analogy unpopular?
  20. Firm diversification

February 2

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 February 2

  1. Economy Growth
  2. Bail Bonds companies
  3. Where do the intelligent/ well-informed people get their news?
  4. MicroWarehouse and Felix Dennis
  5. Scientific misconduct in social science
  6. Fobana
  7. Writer of book (or article) falsely reporting Iraq War atrocities by US troops
  8. A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present

February 3

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 February 3

  1. Female and Male Population of India
  2. Does "Hand Vagina" appear in the literature?
  3. Which nationality did she have?
  4. Zen Calendar 2/2/2010 explanation please
  5. Speed limits
  6. Handling of wannabe tough guys (Psychology)
  7. Post Office Investigation Branch
  8. Changing last names

February 4

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 February 4

  1. Did Paul von Hindenburg ever give the Nazi salute?
  2. Greeting someone without addressing the person's name
  3. organizational behaviour
  4. Did anybody ever really try this ploy?
  5. Attractiveness
  6. does/did noam chomsky drive, and if so what kind of car
  7. King Arthur and English royals

February 5

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 February 5

  1. Personal qualities admired in others by criminals etc?
  2. equity yheories
  3. Book recommendations for Spanish learner
  4. does steve job wear the same thing to work as his public appearances?
  5. To be able to get in Whitehouse or government office

February 6

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 February 6

  1. rate of margin growth or decline
  2. Agent of the Queen?
  3. Christopher J. Alden
  4. Different terms for different houses of bicameral legislatures
  5. Golden Nymph
  6. updated funds total from charity telethon
  7. Causes/motivations of boasting
  8. Why was the Salvation Army anti-union?
  9. barrak obama born in kenya???
  10. History of attitude toward farting
  11. Books critical of Marxism
  12. if I knew of an easy way to get FREE money ...
  13. Duke Of Lugo
  14. Hermann, Margrave of Brandenburg-Salzwedel
  15. Painting where the national spirit teaches a slave child to read?
  16. origin of wilton ct. phone number prefix - porter 2

February 7

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 February 7

  1. Flight 180
  2. Wealthy village in Rajasthan desert India
  3. book publishing
  4. Typo in Bold

February 8

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 February 8

  1. Meaning of CDT 00120
  2. Find relatives of Miguel Rebeiro in portugal
  3. Where do Mennonites live in Canada
  4. bridges
  5. Marxism, communism, socialism, whatever it is called question
  6. Is it possible to be proud or ashamed?
  7. Writer of book (or article) falsely reporting Iraq War atrocities by US troops
  8. chinese lending
  9. legal routing number on check
  10. Possible qualification to claim title of Emperor

February 9

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 February 9

  1. Extant Mayan And Aztec People
  2. Democratic socialist countries ranked at 2nd and 3rd highest GDPs in the world
  3. Explain the concept of music licensing for online broadcasting to me
  4. Transport with horses in China
  5. Prussian East India Company
  6. How much of the US's wealth due to its natural resources per capita?
  7. Where did the iron ore for battleships come from?

February 10

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 February 10

  1. Where can I find information of people killed per person
  2. religion questions
  3. pacific island cult
  4. Forgotten weapons of the Cold War
  5. Suilliac
  6. Selling owned office building and leasing it back
  7. Arab World university history
  8. Ludwig Freiherr von und zu der Tann-Rathsamhausen
  9. Worst electoral result for a sitting President
  10. Need help finding a couple pieces of provincial legislature from the Ontario archives / e-laws
  11. Betting on the underdog ... always

February 11

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 February 11

  1. Who's the head of government
  2. Finding what an LA Times article says
  3. British royalty mostly descended from the fifth-century Saxon King Cerdic?
  4. origin of term "the good war"
  5. Average length of service for current US house of reps
  6. German Empire education

February 12

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 February 12

  1. Guantanamo Terrorists
  2. Medellín v. Texas
  3. Enforcement powers of the European Union
  4. 2nd undefeated German commander in World War I?
  5. Looking for a children's book that ...
  6. Sierra Leone painting
  7. Philosophers and translations
  8. Kennedy and his leg
  9. Everyone at least 50th cousin to everyone else
  10. Suicide rates for various occupations and lifestyles

February 13

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 February 13

  1. monopoly of physical force in a state
  2. Côte d’Ivoire Coat of Arms
  3. Coat of arms of Burma
  4. Jewish law
  5. British royal family
  6. Debunking JFK conspiracy theory
  7. Statistical data on career motivation
  8. children of prostitutes
  9. Nicotine as a Schedule I
  10. Indo-Pakistani war of 1971 -- speech by Indira Gandhi

February 14

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 February 14

  1. SAR dogs in Hurricane Katrina
  2. Other Royal families with British members
  3. Where do the Lufthansa executives work out of?
  4. When was World War I first called World War I?
  5. Finding a poem

February 15

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 February 15

  1. British Queen consorts
  2. Where is F5?
  3. Head of State Citizenship
  4. Colorado Springs mayor Robert M. Isaac
  5. Double Entry Bookkeeping
  6. Theology: Literary-Historical Method
  7. Time traveling
  8. M.I.A not allowed into the U.S.A

February 16

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 February 16

  1. When did the majority of western women become stay at home housewives?
  2. how is the iraq war significant to the civil rights movement?
  3. Reuben James Burial Place?
  4. Inge Bongo
  5. When was AD year numbering first used?
  6. Tri-lateral War?
  7. The Poggle who had no toes
  8. Anna Cirksena
  9. Government response to 1990 recession
  10. Napoleon, Oldenburg, and Russia
  11. Carbon economics
  12. Ludwigshafen memorial installation, 28 October 2008
  13. Côte d’Ivoire: Population Pyramids
  14. Why are people so sexually minded on the internet, but not in real life?
  15. Meaning of "progressive" as an adjective in music
  16. Zingh empire
  17. Murder rate by income level
  18. US armed forces demographics
  19. Ma Ying-jeou and the European Union
  20. quake memorial
  21. ebook site like Amazon?

February 17

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 February 17

  1. foreign literature in schools
  2. working together
  3. Name of long book then movie, author died in obscurity without publishing it
  4. Need help identifying people in this picture (Reagan-related)
  5. When was this village created
  6. AFRICA HOME
  7. Kitzmiller v. Dover
  8. Twelve Apostles in Sub-Saharan Africa
  9. Driving East Coast
  10. Capital Controls
  11. Papal Assassinations
  12. Fish on Ash Wednesday

February 18

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 February 18

  1. Affair
  2. Friendships
  3. biographies of presidents
  4. Copyright for Oklahoma state song?
  5. psychology/psychiatry of Jesus of Nazareth
  6. What causes dark ages
  7. Statute of limitations
  8. "Australia's First Fleet" printed medium by Jonathan King.
  9. The Times archive
  10. UK Chief Rabbi
  11. Texas plane incident
  12. Flatiron Building, New York
  13. Thinking outside yourself
  14. What state lotteries allow winners to claim in total anonymity?

February 19

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 February 19

  1. Indifferent to and ignorant of topics like taxes, insurance, social security, political activities, economics, etc.
  2. PHYSIOLOGY
  3. Automatic writing
  4. Tribe in Northern India
  5. Diptych of novels?
  6. MMMMMMD
  7. Source/authenticity of MKULTRA photo?
  8. Why do Bermuda and Greenland have the same net worth?

February 20

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 February 20

  1. Mardrus-Mathers translation
  2. lgbts and communists
  3. antarctic
  4. Ever seen a 2008 model Audi RS6 Avant in the wild outside Europe?
  5. british royal succession
  6. What % of the Roman empire was Jewish?
  7. Parental rights of a rapist
  8. Can someone link to (or create) a map of countries of Europe as for a child?
  9. Move to commons tag for other-language Wikipedias?
  10. Danger of the "you can, if you want, attitude"
  11. Hypothetical monarch numbering
  12. Fall of Dutch government
  13. Who were the Knights of Anara?
  14. youkai wearing a mask or a veil

February 21

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 February 21

  1. No Winter Olympic boycott 1980-84
  2. Available poems of David Diop
  3. Crossing over from one Indian state to another Indian state
  4. Indian defaultsort 1
  5. Percentage of Americans who have been abroad
  6. Burma-Bangladesh border
  7. Which Christian theologian said "there are infants a span long in hell?"
  8. 1984 (Orwell's book)
  9. Inequalities of "equal" primogeniture
  10. Dante Alighieri translation
  11. Financial Times article this weekend

February 22

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 February 22

  1. Australians' high rate of travel
  2. Law Creating/Eliminating Postal Police
  3. Is the level of inequality greater now than any time in history?
  4. Slang Words for A WW2 German Solider
  5. US illegal farm worker wages
  6. Conjoined Twins and Murder
  7. USA BOP deficit
  8. Rasputin's effect on russia
  9. Plato's epistemology: how is knowledge of others possible?
  10. Malines Belgium
  11. How to refer to Dutch people in 18th century
  12. ken Carey, author of the third milinium

February 23

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 February 23

  1. General of Volunteers
  2. History of RAF Molesworth
  3. Where is English Poetry Now ?
  4. Energy Suppression Conspiracy
  5. Dress code of wearing a veil
  6. Midrash available in translation, online
  7. School Project.
  8. Arabic surnames
  9. possibly offensive question -- don't read if easily offended: Does slavery make business sense?
  10. A fell 5% with respect to C, B fell 4% with respect to C, does it mean that B gained with respect to A?

February 24

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 February 24

  1. british royal family
  2. signed white house passes
  3. For goods and services for which supply is equal to amount demanded, where do the signals for equilibrium come from?
  4. Wikimedia Foundation
  5. Nobody wins if there are more than 3 candidates
  6. boiler explosion memorial fund
  7. Future president quote
  8. Wikipedia statistics
  9. Ellis Island passenger records
  10. Bully = gang with one person in it?
  11. Economics of Treasury Consumers Bill of Rights
  12. What powers does an Associate of ILEX hold?
  13. How do I run for THE GOV in The 2010 Gubernatorial California Elections?
  14. Why don't 1099-B forms just tell you what your capital gain/loss is? (U.S. tax question)

February 25

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 February 25

  1. Crosscountry Skiing Cross
  2. self-determination vs territorial claims
  3. Statistics of first names by ethnicity
  4. Left wing vs. right wing
  5. Lionel Arbuthnot
  6. Political polling in the UK
  7. a great and effective lie to get someone to stop smoking?
  8. Cost of proposed UK Identity Cards
  9. Felling trees in Conservation Areas, UK
  10. PhDs in Christian theology

February 26

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 February 26

  1. How many layers of government in the UK?
  2. Socially awkward/inept mentor
  3. The Holocaust & Compensation
  4. Disputes over ownership of art works that went to litigation?
  5. Japanese police procedures
  6. DuPont market shares in India
  7. can dead people be fined?
  8. Trade directories and trade organisations in the UK?
  9. Sodomy in Dante's Inferno
  10. Look up telephone number tariffs, UK?
  11. Erskine May Parliamentary Practice
  12. Correlation between Sloboda, Slobodan and Slobodian
  13. Music Sales Data
  14. Help about ships
  15. Seigneurs of Sark

February 27

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 February 27

  1. US Federal Government pay scales
  2. Proportion of the population (not households) of the UK without car transport
  3. Highest award for successful entrepreneurs
  4. Metric city blocks in Melbourne?
  5. £ v. $
  6. Adding another user to work on the same new article
  7. May '68 - Quotes
  8. What book?
  9. is the bit of water in the Pope's ...

February 28

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 February 28

  1. carrier
  2. New police in Spain
  3. NAACP/NAAWP
  4. Sand art
  5. Achievement seen as insubordination
  6. Obama and Palin dancing photo
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