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February 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 February 1

1. MONA LISA
2. Second Amendment historical background
3. Ten Lost Tribes
4. Contacting the Israeli Government
5. Do district attorneys belong in the executive branch or the judicial branch?
6. What is the phobia of not being able to speak
7. Princess of Orange
8. Yet another question on Japanese culture
9. Is Queen Elizabeth II a Commander?

February 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 February 2

1. US Presidential Staff
2. Painting/painter identification
3. Is there any reason to believe a country will leave the Eurozone in the near future?
4. Would the U.S. support us?, I am concerned.
5. American Airlines Flight 11
6. Manu Sarren
7. The Price of Victory

February 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 February 3

1. Nuclear Weapons Stockpiles by Country in 2020
2. Hikikomoris again
3. Conservative cities in Arab World
4. Is the Chinese Empire older than the Persian empire?
5. red state to the east
6. "he is infact better than remo"
7. Superdelegate
8. how to get spies out of your life
9. Number of planes on 9/11
10. blue eye preference
11. Airports
12. Consensus of the effects and impacts of the Affordable Care Act after full implementation
13. Who is the FTSE 100 holdout against the Big 4 Auditors?

February 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 February 4

1. Holocaust
2. Technology arms race in low-latency trading
3. Art/Chinese Brush Painting
4. Mizrahi and Sephardi Jew denser city
5. Lenten season
6. Is the metal in a U.S. penny worth more than $0.01?
7. Relationships being redefined in France

February 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 February 5

1. Question for authors
2. Bed and Breakfasts being sued
3. has there ever been a lego in space?
4. Market cap of Japanese companies
5. Royal illegitimacy
6. Moses pictures as "white" skinned...
7. What's Al Qaeda and Islamists' stance on Japanese citizens?
8. Clockwork Orange plot and Ian Paisley
9. Ontario terrorism plot
10. What is postmodernism
11. Mythical animals in national symbols
12. Diplomatic mission with extraterritoriality

February 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 February 6

1. Historic income tax revenue - United States
2. Flag of the Qing Dynasty
3. Mandora, Western Australia
4. What are the most inspiring uses of Wikipedia content?
5. Black history month question: When was the term "Black American" coined acceptable by the United_States_Census?

February 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 February 7

1. NFL and MLB "interstate commerce"
2. Most valuable professional sports trophy by raw material content?
3. joseph conrad's short story " Il Conde"
4. Edwin Black Birth Date
5. Fallacy
6. Origin of social conservatism, sex-negativity, and modesty
7. Holocaust revisionism

February 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 February 8

1. How to make a new religion?
2. JIHAD IN ISLAM
3. U.S. Role in 2011 NATO Libya Intervention
4. spanish american war
5. Companies paying for university degrees
6. Austrian Archdukes
7. Auguste Doriot death date
8. any great inventions that were thought up while high?
9. Sexual harassment lawsuit
10. Top 20 Destinations by Road in the UK
11. Alcoholics Anonymous and "God"
12. Why do China and North Korea hate us?
13. As I Lay Dying
14. Denmark
15. Mark value in the fourteenth century

February 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 February 9

1. Teddy Roosevelt and National Parks
2. Did Hitler really say that?
3. Procedures/Circumstances for reporting someone missing
4. Early arrow-making
5. War crimes during World War II
6. Is a ship safer than a plane?
7. Is my country the only developed country to have the death penalty
8. Scam?
9. neo-cyber-punk

February 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 February 10

1. Muslim contributions to geography and science and mathematics
2. Son of Francis II, Duke of Brittany
3. AFP anonymity question
4. Meat traceability etc.
5. Is it why Japan didn't deploy major troops in Iraq?
6. How many bus driving hours between Michigan and LA?
7. Royals who visited Hawaii in the 19th century

February 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 February 11

1. Golden Rule buyout in fiction
2. what was Robert Ludlum writing about when he died?
3. where can I sign up to be the next Pope?
4. Seven Deadly Sins Citation Question
5. 9/11 conspiracy theories
6. Is this provocative?
7. St Andrews Sarcophagus
8. Priesthood

February 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 February 12

1. Horst Wessel
2. Poem from a mother to her daughter (?)
3. Why isn't the Pope an Archbishop/Why is Rome a diocese instead of an archdiocese?
4. Edward I of England
5. salary scale of professors in Xiver university school of medicine, Aruba
6. The word "Apothem"
7. The mayors of Benahavis, Spain
8. "Bible believer"
9. Recent popularity of the term "rape culture" in internet searches

February 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 February 13

1. Ethnic makeup of Ottoman imperial spouses
2. What were the biggest bluffs ever made?
3. Lavon Affair accounts
4. Copyright in Canadian films?
5. Nazi Germany question
6. Worst Popes ever?
7. Royal inbreeding
8. Battle of Lewes
9. Religious conversion to Catholicism

February 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 February 14

1. Are the people from Equatorial Guinea in the U.S Hispanics?
2. Jewish population
3. What is the difference between political philosophy and political theory? Or, is there?
4. Other ethnic-dominanted gang in Europe
5. Pope Benedict XVI's Name
6. Why have I not heard of a single lady composer before 1900?
7. Why is SPY trading at 13 cents above the index?
8. who discovered air
9. Occultism / Vril
10. Nazi Germany question
11. Heinz merger and shareholders

February 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 February 15

1. What is this game called in English?
2. Cost of execution vs cost of life in prison around the world
3. Holocaust question
4. Is there any nihilist thinker today?
5. Religious order for scientifically minded
6. Five American presidents
7. Manhattan Phone Number 1942
8. Category German murderers of children
9. Janez Kenzer, oil painter
10. Anne of Brittany
11. Princess Augusta of Cambridge
12. Llywelyn the Last
13. Sale with rebates up to 75% or more even for shoes, where's the logic and where's the arbitrage?

February 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 February 16

1. Italian Monopoly on Papacy
2. Itschory - Itsyursk - Itsiursk
3. Sesquialtera
4. Favorite pastime of the Eskimo (also known as Inuit)
5. raytheon stock
6. Jewish Law of Unclean Things
7. jewish law
8. Restoration of dignity of Anne Boleyn
9. Did Norway have native actors in the 18th century?
10. Nazi salute
11. UK Parliamentary select committee composition
12. House of Hanover
13. Deheubarth

February 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 February 17

1. What is the meaning of the term "methodology" in "political theory and methodology"?
2. Books for modern political theory
3. Nazi secret weapons
4. historical growth and development of administrative law England
5. :Category:Robertian dynasty
6. Portuguese hat
7. A portrait by George Frederic Watts
8. Empire City Repository
9. Missing byline?
10. Name of a heresy

February 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 February 18

1. Presidential Insanity ?
2. Can Futurists Hypothesize when the human race will end and if China will ever become more powerful than the Western_world?
3. Intelligence and shyness
4. Earliest mention of Mount Kailash and the word Shiva
5. Is anime the cause of hikikomori?
6. Are there any contemporary authors that compare to Charles Dickens?
7. Oldest person to survive Holocaust at the time of liberation

February 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 February 19

1. Is Wilson Jermaine Heredia is he ethnically of Afro-Dominican decent?
2. IDF air strikes in Lebanon, Jan 1988
3. History paper 5
4. Peng Dehuai's letter to Mao
5. a verse of galatians
6. Old school report cards
7. rejection of other books from biblical compilation
8. Did Gikeiki mention the appearance of Minamoto no Yoshitsune?
9. About the Italian army in WW2
10. Moralistic therapeutic deism
11. Paye & NIC

February 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 February 20

1. 9/11
2. Oscar Pistorius trial
3. Understanding GDP by example
4. How to practice Chinese folk religion?
5. budget of american states on intrastate defense, border control, intelligence etc
6. Stupid laws
7. UK princesses
8. Birth of religions

February 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 February 21

1. INS
2. Which Buford and Bedford are referred in the Beale ciphers?
3. United States and Russian Colonization of Africa
4. Chris Christie Being Popular in NJ
5. Russia legal tender
6. Any obligation to correct a commercial misunderstanding?
7. Constitutional right to bear arms
8. Hanging of black americans in flippin arkansas
9. How is political science independent from law according to some political scientists?
10. Working as an expat in China...or not?

February 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 February 22

1. Golden Rule buyout in fiction
2. Anna Christine Lofstedt responsible for housing and education for Pasadena Mexican Americans
3. Need help
4. I have alot
5. Politics left right wing strongholds Italy France Netherlands Belgium Spain Portugal UK Israel
6. Gerhard Heilmann
7. Criminal charge for serious poisoning
8. How often do Christians pray or are supposed to pray in public?

February 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 February 23

1. Ethnicity in Harvard
2. Legal status of Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands
3. USPS clothing line
4. Maharam
5. Does Vatican have an intelligence agency
6. Terrorism in Canada
7. Washington (and others) in the Confederacy
8. Is Wilson Jermaine Heredia considered black?
9. Passport control
10. Immanuel Kant and German idealism

February 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 February 24

1. Ludovic Kennedy - review of Mark Peel's The Land of Lost Content
2. Searching for a lost reference
3. Was Horst Wessel a capitalist and the first capitalist Nazi?
4. Conditions of Oscar Pistorius' bail, or lack thereof
5. Do price gouging laws not apply to the health care industry?
6. trying to understand international politics
7. Arthur I, Duke of Brittany
8. Why does my country execute three prisoners at the same time?

February 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 February 25

1. Psychology, unemployment and culture
2. Atheistic religions
3. Most successful parent-offspring pair ever
4. How many people die per year in the World?
5. Is honor important in your culture?
6. Nazi sleepwear ?
7. Why wheren't Ike & Louis St. Laurent friends ?
8. Psychology - what really is going on when people say that they are "saved"?

February 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 February 26

1. Umm al Fahm Muslim Arab city in Israel
2. Israeli ballot paper letters
3. something to remember DHL by
4. former airline alliance member
5. ethics
6. Third Servile War 73-71BC
7. Lega Nord, National Front, British National Party, Geert Wilders party regions strongholds
8. UK Respect Party councillors
9. Was the Great_Sphinx_of_Giza based on the sphinx in Oedipus in Sphinx#Greek_traditions or Sphinx#Egyptian_sphinxes?
10. right on red turn
11. Solution(s) to the is-ought problem

February 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 February 27

1. Odyssey
2. has israel ever considered buying land for somewhere else for palestinians?
3. Explorers
4. Japan and North Korea relations
5. Indian and Pakistani Muslims 90-100% places in UK

February 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 February 28

1. How much power do the Northern Ireland Assembly, the UK Parliament, and the European Parliament have over Northern Irish law?
2. Name of "Detective story" book
3. Savile Town border map
4. cruise line alliances
5. Mahmoud Asgari and Ayaz Marhoni
6. Multiple valid visas
7. Covenant (biblical)
8. Buyeo kingdom
9. Reliable statistics about books read/year