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July 1

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Humanities/2006 July 1

1. A Place for Political Questions
2. Philanthropy to Corruption
3. How? Why?
4. Asset Registration Before Marriage
5. soccer
6. Kingdom Halls of Jehovah witnesses
7. history and facts about st. josephs (all girl) academy in st paul,mn.
8. Alaska purchase a conspiracy?
9. Is it true that houses in USA deteriorate faster?
10. Wild Thing
11. Hussein of Jordan, a 'good' ruler?
12. Help linking an orphaned article about culture
13. New North Wales
14. Doctor Who

July 2

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Humanities/2006 July 2

1. "Meanings" sections
2. was america the first free country
   1. New Zealand was the first free country
3. Which country has the highest rate of...
4. Nintendo DS Lite European/German Version In English?
5. Actors
6. Image of St. Peter Claver
7. Song about Sharm el-Sheikh
8. A tour-de-force of culture
9. Casinos

July 3

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Humanities/2006 July 3

1. Becoming Dutch Nationa;
2. Sentence re-writing
3. Indigenous of Britain
4. Pantheism,Creation, and Evolution
5. What self repspecting terrorist would send money through banks controlled by the evil Zionist conspiracy?
6. English in the Netherlands.
7. Time cause of motion?
8. Yellow River Concerto.
9. UK Conservative Party
10. Berengar
11. Zoroastrian attitude to alcohol
12. Theories on Aryan race?
13. Pilgrimage
14. Macbeth
15. New Jersey Gross Income Tax
16. False Claims Act
17. Flutes

July 4

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Humanities/2006 July 4

1. Oboe
2. Prices in Mexico
3. Socrates, Plato, Aristotle
4. Accidental Death
5. Sunni versus Shitte
6. Afterlife in Islam
7. homosexual and Confucianism
8. Polygamy
9. Hot Digital Songs
10. Charles Stuart Parnell & Katherine O'Shea
11. Mozambique
12. Study on overzealous anti-drug education
13. Capitalaztion
14. Songs Associated with Catholic Worker
15. Johann Sebastian Bach
16. United States in World War I
17. Were any of the original Nazis skinheads?
18. Woodwinds

July 5

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Humanities/2006 July 5

1. War of 1812
2. Eras of History
3. What's a Jelly Date?
4. Bach
5. both world wars started in the balkan?

July 6

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Humanities/2006 July 6

1. who is the artist
2. Israel, Gaza, and Palestine walk into a bar...
3. Tempo
4. Death = Get out of jail free card
5. Ari Setya Ardhi - category: Indonesian poet
6. Lord Chancellor of Great Britain
7. Basis of the Wikipedia
8. Karl Marx's Position on the Iron Curtain
9. garnetted stock in relation to textile
10. In search of a Poet
11. number of copies sold
12. Views on "No Child Left Behind".
13. Looking for Fictional Vampire Book
14. Historical GDP statistics

July 7

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Humanities/2006 July 7

1. Which bands of rock'n'roll belong these logos?
2. Pronounciation of Caedmon
3. Music Terminology
4. Budgetting
5. US aid to Great Britain during WWII on condition of becoming 49th state
6. False photos
7. Seinfeld
8. EU human rights in the UK
9. Biography
10. US casulties at desert one Iran hostage resuce

July 8

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Humanities/2006 July 8

1. Mayor
2. Post-Industrial revolution religions
3. Kilmainham Jail (Goal)
4. Are the USA and Canada nation-states?
5. Pantheism
6. Panentheism
7. Thomas Jefferson
8. double nuclear blast survivor : an urban legend?
9. The Next Video Medium
10. House Selling under Scottish (Scots) Law
11. ronald "winky" wright
12. Platinum Weird

July 9

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Humanities/2006 July 9

1. Most religiously diverse country
2. Non-metric systems around the world
3. The Cartesian Subject?
4. Marcus Garvey
5. Diet of Plains Indians
6. domestic corn?
7. Is the Bible really just about the origin of the Jews?
8. Julius Caesar
9. longest lasting governments
10. Altitude of Franco's head
11. indonesia old laws
12. Joke
13. Southampton walls
14. Francisco Franco
15. Nature of god

July 10

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Humanities/2006 July 10

1. Renoir's Gabrielle Jean and Little Girl
2. Cross-over Gospel music
3. philosophy ? : "regional inquiry - formal logic"
4. Where can I demographics for the Schutzstaffel?
5. South Korea Backing North Korean Tyranny
6. Musical Difficulty
7. Radio Play
8. Sealab 2021 DVD
9. Philosophy, Nietzsche's quotation on vanity:
10. Xinhua News Agency
11. Eritrean book
12. Schengen implementation date applicable for Malta
13. purpose for building Stonehenge
14. Anyone have any insights into gulls' opinions of humans?
15. what do you have on constance smedley aka mrs maxwell armfiels
16. Religious Beliefs of Socrates
17. Samus Aran

July 11

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Humanities/2006 July 11

1. Eugene V. Debs
2. christianity exclusive?
3. Can a footballer pick up the football with his feet?
4. Name of poem?
5. Depression
6. new legal client
7. where is this place?
8. most expensive?
9. Business or pleasure or should I mind my own beeswax (didn't want to use the word 'business' again...)
10. Develop of Biblical canon
11. Kingdom of Bhutan
12. Sir Ector's wife
13. Pub Kitchen Working Age
14. Help Identify Latin American Author
15. 1776
16. Eritrea
17. ali
18. Sheet music
19. New Jersey Bankruptcy Bench Bar Conference
20. Questions
21. Current Event
22. looking for a number one country songon a specific date
23. Wikiversity project for learning German?
24. help w/Revels (images, audio clips...) A special plea to BOSTONIANS.

July 12

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Humanities/2006 July 12

1. Great Depression and Britain
2. George Washington's conversion
3. Celts
4. the number 11
5. movie filming location
6. Ethical living
7. Sturmabteilung
8. Ichpuchtli Goddess Table.
9. Former appointed Church of Ireland Bishops of Cork and Waterford
10. Demise of Soviet Union
11. de in Jaap de Hoop Scheffer
12. Vanity/Autobiography pages
13. cannot find article back which neatly explained names of Asian capitals
14. strahov stadium
15. Controversies - New Kadampa Tradition
16. Great Gatsby Question
17. SORIN CERIN BIOGRAPHY
18. single mph increases gas mpg ?
19. Heidegger

July 13

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Humanities/2006 July 13

1. Possible violation of HIPAA or attorney-client privilege
2. Irish Involvement in World War 2
3. capitalisation in medieval texts
4. ancient place?
5. Strong central government? what the hell is it really good for anyway?
6. Jogging or biking in Central Park or on Brooklyn Bridge (NY) : not an African-American thing?
7. Kundalini variants in a tantric perspective
8. Misrepresentation

July 14

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Humanities/2006 July 14

1. Torture on 24
2. Pantheism
3. Military Channels all over the world
4. What is the meaning of the tamil word 'Thamban'?
5. Vodafone song
6. guardian angels
7. Dike nameday
8. Persians
9. A question about Judaism and Christianity.
10. Death penalty
11. Biblical quote : Ask and you shall receive."
12. Sexual Assault in Prison
13. Name this tool used in moviemaking
14. Israel

July 15

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Humanities/2006 July 15

1. Initiatives of US President
2. plato's symposium
3. Spanish Wine Denominations
4. Dracula's Chermosese
5. Age at childbirth
6. Two Similar Wars
7. A mistake in article about Mohammad.
8. Origin of Name
9. Posession

July 16

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Humanities/2006 July 16

1. What is the copyright status of Zorro?
2. canadian elections
3. History of Bankers
4. History of the garter?
5. Yvon Neptune
6. Supreme Court in Australia
7. Abstract Art
8. Common tree in California
9. Does Rich People care about getting max benefit for their money for small value items?
10. Nasrallah's Investments
11. Book shown in Napoleon Dynamite
12. Calendar system
13. Damnatio memoriae- Hatshepsut
14. Aircraft Identification
15. Title of second of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes novels
16. How best to (realistically) become a millionaire?
17. drinking law
18. Ralph Nader
19. Name of a music
20. Last American slave?
21. science fiction story
22. Which mummies?

July 17

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Humanities/2006 July 17

1. Adolf III. Von Berg
2. 16th century Japanese culture
3. 2006 - 1 AD : 1 - ## BC
4. P.G. Wodehouse "Good Morning Bill"
5. WW1 Calendar Confusion
6. Religions opposed to medicine
7. BBC quote "Lebanese Shia Sunni union would make Bin Laden proud"
8. Confused about Iranian Revolution.
9. Phrase
10. State Birds

July 18

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Humanities/2006 July 18

1. Military School
2. Hitler
3. 1870s Danish clothing
4. Liberal-Libertarian
5. sheetmusic from the movie "legends of the Fall"
6. The original Addams Family show
7. The origin or history of the phrase "Punchers Chance".
8. Postmodernism equals Neoconservatism
9. VD and doorknobs
10. monograph on michaelangelo
11. European film where a boy sits on the roof of a church
12. Brian Peppers
13. Continuation of blood line in British royal house.
14. Floor plan of the US Capitol?
15. Youngest Presidential nominee from a major party?
16. How do you use the redirect function?
17. scientology...
18. Ethnic Name
19. VCR problem
20. Artist Barry Oretsky
21. Government Defense Agencies and tv
22. Education
23. Celebrity
24. Military College

July 19

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Humanities/2006 July 19

1. President? Dictator!
2. A room with a view (poppies)
3. recent docu:Palestinian rappers on beach full of flags?
4. Holistic living
5. Pirates on film
6. definition of a religious welfare organisation
7. Influential Australians
8. british royal family
9. Which country does not have any movie theaters.
10. Democracy in Saudi Arabia
11. Celtic Marriage
12. Last Jewish Pope
13. rock throwing
14. The source of the soul of life.
15. Conflicts between Aphrodite and Poseidon?
16. Cycling
17. the history of marriage
18. Hudson, New York
19. List of groups referred to as cults
20. Darwin, The Descent of Man
21. Hollanders

July 20

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Humanities/2006 July 20

1. Village of Stebbe, Marienwerder, West Prussia.
2. 'Classic' Albums
3. legends and rituals
4. Words Make You Feel
5. Israeli citizenship
6. eyelets
7. Need reliable source that USA changed stance on Halabja gas attack responsibility
8. Name of a song...
9. Leonardo Henrichsen (cameraman shot in 1973 in Chile) : where is the footage
10. Trying to expand Native Americana
11. Question about inflation, incomes

July 21

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Humanities/2006 July 21

1. Searching for a Hero of the Soviet Union
2. Ada Bike Rodeo
3. New Here: need something edited
4. Peer Review of My Flowchart
5. Superman - interesting quote
6. Article of questionable validity about Albania
7. samoan fa'afaline
8. Definition of "caravan halt"
9. Court Reporter
10. JFK, Jr.
11. Juan d' anyelica?
12. Supertramp's "Fool's Overture" - Who's the Fool?

July 22

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Humanities/2006 July 22

1. Raw materials for medieval siege weapons
2. Telephone Protocol
3. I have $1000,000 to give away
4. Peope who made the most (and least) contributions to human happiness?
5. Did Hitler have children?
6. Poetry - Gary Snyder
7. Where in UK to invest £750000 in buy-to-let property?
8. dry docked and hurt'en
9. Largest Singaporean corporations?
10. Vietnamese Superstition
11. Hizbollah : surprises
12. Sculptor Sir William Reid Dick
13. space/time
14. European cities and towns: good west end and poor east end
15. Attorney-General's Reference
16. Questions about white Rastafarians

July 23

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Humanities/2006 July 23

1. Baseball Illustrated Magazine
2. How do i learn
3. Hezbollah Rockets
4. Why are nunchakus illegal in so many places?
5. Free Born Society

July 24

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Humanities/2006 July 24

1. Flip Wilson joke
2. Definition of Holistic Living
3. History of Street names
4. Battles won against overwhelming odds
5. Common Date
6. Why is Israel hated in the Middle-East
7. Exclusionary rule
8. LGPL
9. Israel vs. Arab
10. LAURYN HILL FANS...I NEED LYRICAL HELP!!!
11. folio incognito: E. F. Schumacher
12. Why is Israel attacking Beirut? Or Lebanon for that matter?

July 25

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Humanities/2006 July 25

1. i need help please sir !
2. Did AC/DC play at a high school in Northern California?
3. legends,stories
4. diversity
5. Artist
6. Numbers & letters written above doors
7. West Virginia - unusual borders
8. most revered?
9. More prestigious?
10. MPAA approval numbers
11. Query re Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
12. ITAR and Computers
13. Tons of explosives dropped in bombing during World War II
14. Muslim
15. Girlfriend becoming a lesbian?
16. Republic of Macedonia
17. No skiing in Africa?
18. Looking for a painting

July 26

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Humanities/2006 July 26

1. German movie tax shelters
2. African Music
3. Reading Quickly
4. Music ID
5. relationships
6. Rowlatt Bills
7. contrafactum (musical term)
8. Oscar winners
9. stone age
10. Late night Guest who does not sleep
11. Oscars and #1s Quiz Question
12. How the Hell
13. names of Department for Culture
14. Black Americans
15. Pol Pot Finds a Power Vacuum
16. World at peace
17. Leonardo da Vinci

July 27

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Humanities/2006 July 27

1. 19th Century Portrait Custom
2. General Pershing and the uprising in the PHILLIPINES
3. You can't spit on the right side of the sidewalk every other Tuesday
4. Lucille Lund
5. nakshatra diamonds
6. Number of Drinkers Compared to Non-Drinkers
7. Amount of Vegetarians compared to Meat Eaters in US
8. John Entwistle died on July 27 or June 27
9. Information management systems
10. rate this
11. USSR Building
12. GODZILLA
13. Sturmtruppen
14. Atalaya
15. historical time line
16. Book claiming that events of Bible took place in British Isles
17. Laws governing the British Navy
18. History WWII Combatants
19. What's the title of this film?

July 28

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Humanities/2006 July 28

1. Chinese resturants
2. Origin of the phrase "Blackmailer's Charter"
3. Information Management Systems
4. Cyanide and Happiness
5. Guomingdang and the CCP
6. Running unopposed for US Congress (Robert Wexler)
7. Criticism of emerging middle class during age of guilds
8. Romanian Gypsies
9. Mythological creatures with multiplying extremities/progeny/whatever
10. 2 questions about broad (UN) coalitions : USA involvement and tensions
11. Who is Pappy Mason?
12. Location of Seas

July 29

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Humanities/2006 July 29

1. History of science question
2. Successful Jews
3. Union of England and Scotland.
4. Local government in Britain
5. is hen a halaal.
6. Religion
7. How to stop dreaming?
8. poetry
9. Early american photographers
10. Christian Music
11. origins of anti slavery movement
12. Evangical Churches of Prussia (Bremen,Colleda,Bachra,Sachsen, Thuringen, and KleinNeuhausen Thuringen
13. Alice Eliza Ball bio
14. Internet usage
15. Adjusting guitar intonation
16. Chaturanga pieces

July 30

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Humanities/2006 July 30

1. Is this song about masturbation (Generation X - Dancing With Myself)?
2. Logic question
3. Nephirim (title added)
4. The ancient history of billiards
5. Which country does not have any movie theatres?
6. Is a seagull a 'vulture'?
7. History question on civilisations....NEed HeLP>>>>
8. Kingfisher Tower
9. Who was this performer at Di's funeral?
10. Horse Cav Combat
11. Wars Timeline
12. 6th Generation iPod
13. Kataeb in governing alliance??
14. Six days war : When was the picture of Yossi Ben Hanan taken?

July 31

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Humanities/2006 July 31

1. Michel Pêcheux Biography
2. Extravagant club
3. Lost painting from WWII Nazi Loot
4. Song
5. Camera
6. "Generation"
7. Calendars
8. Jerusalem for dummies :Wikipedia contradcition about ascension to heaven, Christians and what exactly is Western Wall?
9. Judgments in a 1967 case
10. WANNABE blackjack player
11. S.S. Teachers' Combination Bible 1895
12. Religious obituary
13. Trousseau
14. finding the movie