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June 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 June 1

1. "Critical context"?
2. Great Expectations
3. Who said this
4. Helen Keller The_Frost_King
5. Shabia (Eritrea)
6. Fruit Jar Company Enters Aerospace Industry. Huh?
7. "upside down" and "right side up"
8. Stalin
9. Alexander the Great's conquests

June 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 June 2

1. Source and artist of painting of Alexander, Bucephalus and Diogenes?
2. Muslims vs. Quebec Referendum
3. Help identify a poem
4. What Are The Branches

June 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 June 3

1. Number of Buddhists in the world?
2. Book of logical fallacies?
3. Honorary doctorate
4. How to refer to a woman married to a British earl
5. US National Spelling bee
6. Citing a US Supreme Court case
7. Sharpe's Diet
8. Operatic languages
9. How to do the bump?

June 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 June 4

1. Swearing
2. House de la Cerda
3. Bestselling author
4. Politics, and qoutes about political action
5. Political economics, UK
6. Danish law on preventive home visits
7. did Tennyson (Alfred, Lord) know Greek?
8. Nerang National Park IUCN
9. US higher education institutes
10. To Kill A Mockingbird
11. Germany, Anchluss and the Spanish Civil War
12. Difference between "clean bill of health" and "unqualified statement of assurance"

June 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 June 5

1. Large scale memorial events
2. broadcasters' estates
3. Noam Chomsky
4. did George Orwell study Ancient Greek at Eton?
5. Conservative regions in Liberal Canada
6. Appiani d’Aragona
7. Overthinking the ACT Science section?
8. so when you raise money for a startup, is it your money or investors' (the company's)?

June 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 June 6

1. Yevgeny Zamyatin's We
2. Private vs public
3. Help indentifying a piece of music for string quartet
4. A graphical timeline of world history
5. Winston Churchill
6. Frozen economy
7. What's that called?
8. Looking for a name
9. Armband vs armlet
10. Police differences
11. US Debt Limit & Quantitative easing

June 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 June 7

1. What did the NYSE and Euronext merger achieve?
2. Marxist/socialist view of robotics
3. Plessy vs Ferguson -- unanticipated disaster?
4. Work Accident Claim
5. Simion Tavitian, Lascu Stoica: reliability
6. Inflation
7. Nazereth to Jerusalem
8. Photo from federal prison

June 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 June 8

1. Queen Victoria's diaries
2. Pierre Albuisson
3. Mixed capitalist-communist system
4. Bible version(s) used/referenced by Henry VIII in his dispuute with the Vatican
5. Homosexuality in Israel, need lots of info
6. Western Europe 1453
7. Ownership of Royal Graves

June 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 June 9

1. Genealogy in Australia
2. Palin and Paul Revere
3. Length of sentence: EU vs. US
4. 16th century ports
5. Most impressive speech against U.S. Policies

June 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 June 10

1. YHWH
2. Pensions and salaries in occupied France
3. Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
4. Difference Liberal Party and New Democratic Party
5. Marx in mainstream economics?
6. Shimon Peres
7. Benjamin's wife

June 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 June 11

1. support vehicle
2. When will this case be heard?
3. Marriage alliances with Portugal
4. Robert Kiyosaki
5. Somalis in Canada
6. Looking for b/w photo
7. Photos of non-'rectangular'-star-pattern United States Flags?
8. Countries offering citizenship for anyone
9. "Reading" people

June 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 June 12

1. Baron Hirsh suicide rumors
2. significant Muslim population in Ontario and Quebec
3. A sovereign power unilaterally vacating it's sovereignty?
4. Novels about Canadian inuit
5. Can anyone name of any notable LGBT Inuit or Native Alaskan people?
6. Status of the princesses of Japan

June 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 June 13

1. iParty with Victorious Premiere
2. Aristotle on proving that which is more certain by that which is less certain
3. Utilitarianism
4. Brooke Shields touching the heart of Henry IV of France
5. Utilitarian view on torture
6. A question about copyright?
7. Legit Libyan rebels?
8. Così fan tutte
9. Is there a loophole in Jante Law?
10. As You Like It
11. Oldest son of King Abdullah

June 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 June 14

1. George Washington and cost being a factor
2. Are all people who are of Jewish descent descended from Israelites?
3. Ethical foundation of democracy
4. International News Photographic Service
5. why are people wrong
6. Coat of arms of Singapore
7. Truth and reality
8. The King on the Radio
9. Empress of the ottoman empire?
10. Archaic Globalization
11. The nature of keys in fire department lockboxes
12. Avoiding restructuring of Greek debt
13. Free living wage distribution
14. Greece's rating
15. mythology questions

June 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 June 15

1. The "Doom Book"
2. Wives of Vasili IV of Russia
3. Measuring a civilization by the lowliest members
4. Utilitarianism revisited
5. Typefaces with monospaced digits?
6. "the usual coffee maker business" -- Belle Epoque prostitution
7. question on Yugoslav republics

June 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 June 16

1. Arab Ships sewn with thread
2. Ethical egoism vs rational egoism
3. With fuel prices these days, could it be cheaper to ship gasoline from Venezuela?
4. Land worth negative value
5. When did a sitting president last lose a primary challenge?
6. online translator
7. Comparison from 2011 v 1991 & 1991 v 1971
8. British monarchy

June 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 June 17

1. A nymph in mythology
2. Barangay
3. Searching for copyright renewal
4. Spanish language
5. Most respected contemporary Muslim religious leaders
6. Business ethics
7. Waste in healthcare systems
8. Atheist-turned-Christian

June 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 June 18

1. Forsaken saint
2. Calling parents by their name
3. Washington haGadah
4. Oshima Island
5. what things make something look like an office?
6. breast enhancement
7. Editable Text of Confucius Quote

June 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 June 19

1. Athletic shoes hanging from power lines
2. pronunciation of Arthurian names
3. When random people talk about the same thing
4. History question: ancient Roman Vulcanal (Volcanal)
5. "Unwritten rules" of interpersonal interactions

June 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 June 20

1. a quotation attributed to Maxim Gorky: really his?
2. Who is the oldest author still writing?
3. Jewish cities in Europe
4. Carthaginian parrot tattoos
5. Chinese Character Variants and Section Headers (Radicals?)
6. A Question of Etiquette
7. Immigration Officer in Inception
8. Booker possibilities
9. Voice Types in Articles about Singers
10. trademark for "the (generic)"
11. Etching/engraving style
12. landlocked nation
13. Attitudes by GW Allport, 1935
14. politics in the home counties v. new england
15. Greece's debt to Germany and France

June 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 June 21

1. Thurber question
2. Hitler's mustache
3. Is there a Facebook App game that lets us play on a simulated stock market?
4. "British" as an exclusive nationality
5. Weak countries leaving the Euro - could it work at all?
6. When does a winning lottery ticket count as income?
7. Donegal Ireland / Enya
8. Japanese school schedules
9. Freeview (UK) for graduates
10. Royal Marriages Act 1772
11. Debt
12. films based on Latin American wars of Independence
13. Henry VIII on trial

June 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 June 22

1. Jackie Kelly MP Marijuana Smokers Rights Party
2. Documentaries regarding Canadian history
3. China gender gap vs. Government stance on pr0n, prostitution
4. Philosopher's essay on diachronic conception of personal identity
5. Chinese restaurant
6. Cost of transportation
7. Law re children playing prize bingo
8. Maps of Windsor, Dearborn and Hamtramck City with borders
9. Canadian cities affect by Canada-America Free Trade agreement
10. is it true you have to pay taxes on things of value you 'win' by chance? (autos etc)
11. RMS Titanic
12. From which painting is this?

June 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 June 23

1. Late 80s fantasy novel depicting a eunuch's erection
2. The Slattery Report on Alaska
3. yellow fleet compensation
4. Catholic Marriage After Rejected Annulment
5. American attitude towards Japanese during WW2
6. Shinto sea gods Ryūjin/Watasumi
7. Ordnance Survey map font - Ye Olde writing

June 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 June 24

1. Nature of ownership and consent
2. US Presidents and Illegal Drugs
3. Judgment in the Wilders case
4. Cooking / culture question
5. Bangladeshi american enclaves

June 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 June 25

1. list of countries which face economical crisis.
2. How to wear a dhoti/lungi
3. Low inflation the cause of our problems?
4. The only witch trial of Portugal
5. Column 5
6. Chicago and Houston
7. Historical UK sovereign debt defaults

June 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 June 26

1. how to satisfy two women
2. Source of lyrics
3. Samoa
4. 1 billion hungry
5. The Book of the Dead

June 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 June 27

1. What is the most northern community in Alaska?
2. St. Clive?
3. what happens if you don't preheat?
4. Difference between New York City's boroughs and other city boroughs, such as Mexico City's boroughs
5. Discrimination of women
6. Betting in court
7. Pay until you're sick in China a true story?

June 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 June 28

1. William Lafayette Strong
2. Interpretation of Canadian Charters of Rights and Freedoms
3. Rights in Canada
4. Types of rights in Canadian Charter Rights and Freedoms
5. War poets
6. Downtown New York City?
7. White House thrill seekers

June 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 June 29

1. Sichuan Migrant Workers in China
2. Could the U.S. hock Taiwan?
3. house of Hanover
4. "divers Abuses"
5. In the EU, but not in the NATO
6. history quotes
7. Aqueduct in Israel near Lohamei HaGeta'ot
8. Taxes - Good or Bad?
9. What are the consequences of 9/11 on government policies all around the world regarding terrorism?
10. wouldn't it be fair to charge next-of-kin?
11. war disease deaths

June 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 June 30

1. Declaration of Independence
2. Route 101 collectibles
3. Inflatable rats at strikes
4. Submarine enemies
5. ordinary in South Carolina
6. Bride kidnapping
7. Referendums on independence from sovereign states
8. Mountain north of Mexico City
9. Loki
10. what do the Germans and Japanese have in common?