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January 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 January 1

1. Bahá'í religious choice
2. 1810
3. Female immigrants to the US
4. voting
5. Crime cost effectiveness study
6. Nuclear War
7. Former Governor of California

January 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 January 2

1. Unusual given names of movie characters
2. Old children's story
3. "American" style wedding
4. Mechanical copyright
5. When did January 1 become a bank holiday in England?
6. House of Reuss

January 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 January 3

1. Federal reserve comic books in public domain?
2. Base and superstructure, Dialectical materialism and historical materialism
3. California law
4. Statistics on Egyptian tourism
5. regarding Rajaraja chlan
6. Buying French Guiana and France's Oversea Islands
7. Logic as basis of system
8. UK TV drama, about 25 years ago

January 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 January 4

1. Where are the true facts about the Ark?
2. Fashionable colours of clothing in 12th century England
3. Confused Aspie guy here
4. Gun control
5. Bookkeeping transactions

January 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 January 5

1. Enlgihtenment
2. Mariner's Mirror 1926
3. A crime even if committed unknowingly and with innocent intent?
4. Beatriz Galindo; which years?
5. Accepted in to high society in the 18th-and 19th-century
6. James Bond Advert Soundtrack

January 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 January 6

1. Action of 8 December? 18 December? 28 December?
2. Logical publication of the law
3. brachy-brown
4. Offspring of mixed Muslim-Christian Marriages: Muslim or Christian
5. Frankly, I cann't figure it out
6. Where can I find old comparative population figures for Australia?

January 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 January 7

1. hope this is not a request for legal advice, asking out of curiousity
2. Straddle (naked or not)
3. Character from folklore or legend who rides a wheeled grasshopper?
4. 'The Garden' (Joan Miró)
5. Worse local authority services that cost more, UK
6. List of US presidential election results by county
7. Quote
8. Games and songs from Commonwealth countries
9. London cholera, oral-fecal transmission, politics/morality

January 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 January 8

1. Missing people who were later found alive
2. Princess Frederica Charlotte of Prussia - when did it hapen?
3. What is likely to have happened?
4. Federal Governance of Washington, D.C.
5. I'm looking for the closest civilian analogs to Basic Training. Help?
6. Name for a typical library-use desk light
7. Any studies showing long term benefit / disadvantage of keeping job salary public/secret
8. Bo's brother, Rico
9. White female captives of Native Americans
10. What can you analyze about this essay?
11. Different calendars in use in modern times?
12. Marilyn Monroe sex tape
13. Tamil Muslim language
14. Community service
15. Employees choose own salary and hours
16. Jacksonville, Florida city map with borders

January 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 January 9

1. Walmart statistics
2. desert rats
3. The Royal Park in the UK and The Crown
4. "Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand." - Baruch Spinoza
5. Pathology of confusing "you" with "me"
6. Ulster Volunteer Force
7. Travelling with children
8. industrial cleaning'
9. Mexican chocolate in UK
10. Rote memorizing in US vs UK pedagogy
11. Old Venezuelan bolívar
12. Why aren't vows of consecrated life considered one of the 7 Catholic sacraments?

January 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 January 10

1. Purpose of the British monarchy
2. hindu pork
3. Mosques in Jacksonville, Florida and other southern cities
4. Mosques in Buffalo, New York
5. Is there a way to find the others ?
6. Liberal education
7. First Dog fan mail
8. What'll it take to enter the Korean Air Force?
9. Grudges?
10. Baroque music
11. Mississippian Language
12. Pricing of world oil
13. Percentage of American households without guns?
14. CNN report on politics vs sports

January 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 January 11

1. Study
2. Joane Martin's dimensions (perspective) of the organizational culture
3. Bibliography required

January 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 January 12

1. Old coin
2. poorest city in USA
3. Charity Organizations that might assist with funeral expenses.
4. Einstein's last will and testament?
5. Sumerian King's Palaces
6. London capital city status
7. Actualization of disgust
8. Japanese style toilet and toilet paper
9. Correction and embarrassment

January 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 January 13

1. Pinter quote from an introduction to one of his works
2. "Through Jesus Christ Our Lord, Amen" and its acceptability to different Christian denominations
3. Why is it a bad thing if the Jews killed Christ?
4. Anatomy of the Soul
5. Artist, Oil Painting
6. Is there any historical proof that Cleopatra would stick pins in her slave-girls' breasts?
7. Very strange concentration camp badge

January 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 January 14

1. Do Catholic bishops reign?
2. Ben-Hur:_A_Tale_of_the_Christ's prison
3. Wikileaks abstracts for geopol students
4. Noble titles
5. Childhood fingerprinting, adult conviction
6. Cuba
7. build your own car

January 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 January 15

1. Rabelais and his fruit
2. How old, most likely, is the oldest military secret?
3. external link change on semi-protected page
4. Children's Book: Orphan Girl in Ursuline Convent, New Orleans
5. Cemetery lot brain teaser
6. Did Lysenko believe in genes? Was there an alternative term?
7. Looking for a quote
8. the many daughters of Robert Arden
9. Afro-Arabs

January 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 January 16

1. Stigma around things that are a part of life
2. Culture trickles up?
3. Chinese poet Li Po's biography
4. Sub-Saharan African Admixture of Black Jamaicans
5. J. B. Herr
6. Congressional plurality?
7. new old cars
8. Drug laws, state by state.
9. College education

January 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 January 17

1. French food
2. HOW TO KEEP BALANCE ENGLISH BETWWEN CHINESE INCULCULTURE
3. Tang-era Nanzhao sword
4. Countries ordered by level of centralization
5. Did Columbus really underestimate the size of the Earth by 30 percent?
6. WW2 British Home Fleet
7. Declaring war
8. Sephardic Jews in Latin America
9. Psychological label
10. "What should one's life be?"
11. Reading the Bible in English -- a book?
12. Kansas in the American Civil War
13. Large Greek Island Invaded by Greeks, Displacing Landowners in Classic Times

January 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 January 18

1. Is fiction a means of mental ventilation?
2. Largest democratic country with many parties
3. In Search of Giovanni Antonio da Brescia
4. Other cities surrounded by water
5. Slashed zero
6. Correction by schoolteachers
7. baby doc

January 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 January 19

1. I'm in a Predicament
2. A specific kind of very important city...
3. Discrepancy in The King's Speech?
4. speakers and connections
5. Non-coalition democratic governments
6. Lists of dates books published on
7. Allusions in Prose Literature

January 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 January 20

1. Worlde War 1 medals
2. Epifanio Garay - English Language References
3. Multiculturalism in Quran and Hadith
4. Lipstick
5. Who has declared war lately?
6. can someone explain this joke?
7. Daily online cartoon?
8. Who are Haddanites?
9. "Shield of arms" for surnames?

January 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 January 21

1. Impromptu speaking
2. Loss of citizenship
3. Bicycle races, brakes
4. Manunda
5. The specific term for a legal clause
6. Safest country to live in
7. UK police fudging crime figures?
8. Headstone Foundation
9. Bhagavad Gita Translation
10. The dangers of pregnancy and childbirth

January 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 January 22

1. Patent/Copyright Paradoxes
2. What is "the fall of the Synagogue"
3. HMT means HM Trawler or HM Troopship?
4. Albert Terhune's parents
5. Irish politics question
6. What psychological problems are likely to be faced by North Koreans upon unification?
7. Der Golem
8. UK tax deductable amounts for small businesses

January 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 January 23

1. Incest laws in Israel
2. ancestry.co.uk
3. IMDB title
4. The everyday calendar in Islamic countries
5. Why the large growth rates in developing countries?
6. Korean Racist Slurs

January 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 January 24

1. Firing Squad Regulations - German Army - WW2
2. Religious fiction cliche
3. Roman numbers
4. US presidential line of succession - who becomes Speaker of House?
5. how many trees needed to make A4 paper?
6. Tea Party Movement/2010 US Mid Term Elections
7. Is there an International Day for Physically Disabled / Special Needs people?

January 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 January 25

1. Immunity for diplomats' children
2. cancelled coins of denomiation of 25 paise coins by R.B.I.w.e.f.June2011
3. World War Two
4. would it be considered wrong to deceive someone in poker or part of te game?
5. Arnulf
6. is it true that japanese, when recycling, sort their trash into 10+ categories?
7. bbc iplayer
8. Definition of partial lot legal description
9. Is low inflation the highest goal of economists?

January 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 January 26

1. Bangladeshi visits by Mahatma Gandhi
2. Puccini v. Andrew Lloyd Webber -- copyright term?
3. Who are these people?
4. Precedents on this game
5. Austrian Empire vs Kingdom of Hungary
6. Guns in the Bible
7. Permanent states of emergency
8. I would like to find out the approximate size of the outdoor sporting industry in the US? How much $$$...

January 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 January 27

1. The oldest piece of music
2. Seclusion of upperclasswomen in Imperial China
3. Noblewomen criminals in the old age
4. Current account + Capital and Financial account = 0
5. Patron gods and patron saints
6. Little Ice Age and rise in infant mortality
7. The Stone Diaries
8. Resignation from the House of Commons (UK)
9. History of randomly selected jurors?
10. lapel ribbons with accompanying letter
11. Why can't I remember my pre-life?

January 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 January 28

1. French noblewoman
2. 1963 Philippine Scouting tragedy
3. "The Crown" and God
4. Four Loko
5. What Do Turks newspaper say about Germany?
6. Denmark in Iraq/Afghanistan
7. Sell off the royals
8. Exempting judicial review

January 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 January 29

1. UK Monarch's religion
2. Presidential signature
3. Quacks
4. Information collected by banks
5. Double entry bookkeeping and bank statements
6. Bank statements forsee the future
7. How much of our knowledge of history is modern
8. Gunfight at the O.K. Corral

January 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 January 30

1. Standard of review on appeal in Bangladeshi courts
2. Clarification on terms - India, 1946
3. Please provide a list of notable people on the Autistic Spectrum who hold any leadership positions.
4. Is there a way to punish Fitch Ratings for opposing democracy?
5. The current riots in Egypt and their coverage in US media
6. Investment as a share of GDP
7. Oymyakon
8. What is correct: Bavaria or Simmern?
9. If there are no stupid questions
10. Self-declaring a republic
11. Greek and Maltese WW II refugees in India
12. Latest populated country
13. Italian Prisoners in World War Two
14. isbrandsten shipping company.
15. Isabella of Mar's burial site
16. I've heard of ads placed on cars to earn the owner income. How can that happen to me?

January 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 January 31

1. What has changed?
2. Black Spot (Treasure Island)
3. Syria and Egypt
4. sharing money vs. sharing time + information
5. Is it true that Australians are descended from criminals?