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March 1

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 March 1

  1. United States Citizenship Policy
  2. Marxist analysis of the Pacific War
  3. Age restrictions on drinking alcohol
  4. Songs about drugs and rehabilitation
  5. How many Nazis, how many Allies?
  6. Treaty of Versailles
  7. Sport - Currie Cup Cricket Statistics
  8. Britain and the EU
  9. Wanda Coleman Poet
  10. Treatment of Irish Catholics compared to that of other people in the mid-1800s?
  11. Out of retirement: did any European monarchs return after abdicating?
  12. Purgegate
  13. Strasser, Goebbels and the Nazi left
  14. Date of the ordination of Rev. John Williams D.D.
  15. how to refer to the Book of Genesis
  16. Musicianship and IQ: any correlation?

March 2

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 March 2

  1. Effects of Late-19th Century Imperialism
  2. a resident gentleman in every parish, continued
  3. "On the rory"
  4. Dates: what are CE and BCE?
  5. China will end one child policy
  6. "There’s a whole world beyond this field of dreams we’re all dancing in, and I want to see that world"
  7. Agreement or pact of so called "Congress of Vienna in 1939"
  8. Dictatorship of the Proletariat
  9. What happened in Fall 1913?
  10. Crimean War
  11. Sexual Imagery in Gaskell's North and South
  12. Kapp Putsch
  13. 'Tips for a Beginner'
  14. Hitler statues
  15. Pork in the Bible

March 3

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 March 3

  1. Educational facilities in Louisiana: Technical College part of Tech University?
  2. New Zealand parliament dates
  3. Castle to Castle
  4. Mussolini and socialism
  5. Franco a fascist?
  6. Where to find Frank O'Connor's Downfall of Heathendom in print?
  7. history in mass communication
  8. Crowds and Power
  9. Navvies: are they Irish?
  10. Anna Louise Strong on Mao
  11. Adam Smith
  12. ethics and values?
  13. Constitutionality of referring to God in schools
  14. Is flirting illegal in New York?

March 4

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 March 4

  1. FARC and uranium
  2. Africans: how many kinds are there?
  3. What does this quote mean
  4. A list of Catholic converts to Evangelicalism or Protestantism?
  5. Quote from van Gogh letter
  6. Origin of the Australian word "pohm"?
  7. Red Cross Societies
  8. Burgermeisters in Latvia
  9. Drumbeats
  10. Iconoclasts from Iran in Holy Land in 614
  11. U.S. Congressional term limits
  12. Atatürk's Societal Impact
  13. my question about israel and palestine

March 5

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 March 5

  1. How is Lani Guinier's name pronounced?
  2. University degrees: why year of graduation, not age at graduation?
  3. Murder assignment
  4. mao voluntarism
  5. Clio the Muse?
  6. Glasgow 1915
  7. Churchill and Goebbels
  8. Rodney King and the LA Riots 1992
  9. After Flodden
  10. Jung and the Nazis
  11. managing figures in a Company
  12. Chinese discovery of America
  13. Sartre and 68
  14. Byzantium and the Crusades
  15. Mongol invasions of Japan
  16. Texas primary, Texas caucus
  17. Difficulty or impossibility of proving the absence of an item
  18. Dickens and Utilitarianism
  19. Nazis and gays
  20. Stamps: turning stamps into blind dogs
  21. WHY Bill Clinton got 80% of the Jewish vote in '92????

March 6

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 March 6

  1. Latin Americans forms of government
  2. Christianity in Europe
  3. Spinoza "On the Improvement of the Understanding"
  4. Tourism: what are the advantages?
  5. Daylight savings time zones, Canada

March 7

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 March 7

  1. Afghanistan, Sri Lanka and Iran
  2. why was correction to caption rejected?
  3. Judicial Terror and the Third Reich
  4. Ben Mathews and the Bakewell tart: source for this?
  5. Nineteenth Century Battle, won against the odds?
  6. Another Dickens question: his political views?
  7. The Glorious Revolution
  8. Max Income Before Taxed
  9. Wizard Weir
  10. What the...? Joseph Goebbels' flamboyant "camp" uniform
  11. All Bones? The Road of Bones, Siberia
  12. Most powerful woman in the Soviet Union
  13. Smokie Norful song with birds singing

March 8

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 March 8

  1. Different Types of Karma in Buddhism
  2. Colonies: why did Europeans discover and colonise?
  3. European intervention: why so little, in American Civil War?
  4. Who is "Lady Ann Byron"?
  5. Tabligh Jamaat
  6. Mixed black/white Arab
  7. Structure of Roman Army
  8. Of Human Bondage
  9. Versailles and the end of democracy
  10. Does this kind of collar have a name?
  11. Canceling an adoption
  12. Change of names of religions - Mohammedan to Muslim
  13. MP3 law question
  14. Khmer rouge
  15. Daeg Faerch
  16. Saladin's wife

March 9

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 March 9

March 9

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 March 9

  1. Architecture and Music
  2. Music and emotion
  3. Ragging (in India, especially)
  4. Identifying classical piano piece. Please have a listen!
  5. Nutty Nazis?
  6. The word "Beastorn"
  7. Wild Geese: "Flight of the wild geese"
  8. Singing: what is this "quivering" of the voice?
  9. Britain, UK, British Isles, etc.
  10. A Dutch patriotic song
  11. The estate of Anna Nicole Smith
  12. Question regarding loan talks (germany post war)
  13. Discographies: Alberto Ginastera's "Danzas Argentinas"

March 10

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 March 10

  1. Artificial Competition
  2. People Who Were Important in Establishing Bilingual Education Programs in the United States
  3. Battle of Chancellorsville
  4. 2008 US presidential Campiagn
  5. The Confederate Emancipation Proclaimation
  6. Naming babies after dead siblings
  7. Lorna Doone
  8. Accounting practises for branch accounting
  9. Discrete and Insular Minority
  10. Digital copy of House Bill 775?
  11. Machiavelli-the devil?
  12. Southern States: which US states are "southern"
  13. Disraeli and Jewishness
  14. Classical or pastiche? Dido and Aeneas
  15. Replacing a superdelegate
  16. Books on Sexual Practices & General Sexuality in America 1900-1940 Needed

March 11

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 March 11

  1. Philosophy of Law
  2. history of languages - a 'taxonomy'
  3. Napoleon in 1813-14
  4. Being and Nothingness: political commentary?
  5. Henry Rudolf de Salis, UK, businessman and author, 1866-1936
  6. Saints: Black Madonna of Częstochowa
  7. EEUU: meaning of this abbreviation?
  8. Dickens on Social Class
  9. Any heaven in Judaism? If not, why bother?

March 12

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 March 12

  1. human flagpoles
  2. Enjoyable, readable ancient classics?
  3. When someone pulls your credit report, what do they see? (For USA)
  4. Document on American perceptions of federalism
  5. Sex, drugs, and ethics
  6. Stability: most stable country or culture, for longest time?
  7. Creative Commons: license for van Gogh letters
  8. Adam Smith and intellectual property
  9. Arthur, earl of Essex
  10. Greatest political leader, last century?
  11. Military Covenant
  12. Philosophy: who are the six greatest philosophers?
  13. U.S. Congressmen in WW II
  14. Why Isn't Bartholomew Sharp getting credit?
  15. SS UNITED STATES Ocean Liner
  16. London the socialist: was Jack London a socialist?

March 13

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 March 13

  1. Media violating copyright?
  2. Gwine to ride up in the chariot (early in the morning)
  3. Heart of Darkness
  4. Black soldiers: German propaganda campaign, 1920s
  5. Isaac Asimov's street address in Somerville, Mass.
  6. HISTORY: compulsory in school systems in how many countries?
  7. Charities combating racism
  8. Spread of religions
  9. Schopenhauer's Will and Representation
  10. Understanding the failure of monetary policy in Japan
  11. history of tanzania
  12. Government spending
  13. Greatest English king
  14. german guns of ww2
  15. Definition of Political Correctness
  16. Naming of military units

March 14

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 March 14

  1. Details about Columbia River
  2. Service that is still missing on the internet
  3. Insurance: what sort do stunt-people purchase?
  4. Trans Holocaust victims: any details on transgender victims?
  5. Zita, death: 13th-century Saint Zita's clothes
  6. Doing a history PhD in the UK
  7. My PhD/Doctorate question
  8. Beastorn report: see archives
  9. Paul de Lagarde
  10. Latin Empire
  11. Sociology question: selective affinity?
  12. Advice on moving to Belfast
  13. Tertullian and the definition of heresy
  14. Trajan and the First Dacian War
  15. Computer as a Judge?
  16. British Monarchy - Line of Succession
  17. How does economics explain the earnings of supermodels?

March 15

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 March 15

  1. How religious was Benjamin Franklin?
  2. Obligatory rights
  3. white, black and hispanics community
  4. Why did the Government do this? (Australian Government vetoing Oliphant's US Medal)
  5. Did Milošević plan to attack Montenegro?
  6. Conscripted African soldiers
  7. Champange with raw egg
  8. Cawnpore Massacre
  9. Bahai
  10. Chester U.K. Laws in Tudor(?) times
  11. Facts on the History of the community of Pudur Dravidians
  12. Opium and Kubla Kahn
  13. abuse of women, forced fat
  14. Stalingrad
  15. Term for stuff characters do that we don't see, during other parts of their lives
  16. Can I edit?
  17. British throne taken by monarch from elsewhere - what happens?
  18. Women in the 18th century
  19. Churchill and Russia
  20. Who demanded 1914 borders in east of Germany in German political scene after World War 2

March 16

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 March 16

  1. Trial court procedures: documents and their filing?
  2. The Peloponnesian War
  3. College football season: US and Canada
  4. From my textbook: Hitler, racism, and "Anglo-Saxon supremacy"?
  5. Glorious Revolution
  6. Syrfia
  7. Practice for Lawyers, Doctors, Etc. - Derivation of Term
  8. Fragrence ın Sultan Ahmed Mosque, Istanbul
  9. Athiest pope
  10. Titanic
  11. Do religious israelis in israel think god gave them the land they're settling?
  12. [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 March 16#|]]
  13. request for summary of suicide bombings by palestinians.
  14. May you live in interesting times of Chinese origins?
  15. Pictorial difference between hieroglyphs and cuneiform scripts?
  16. Jewmasters
  17. Worst military defeat
  18. did early europeans (colonial times) in America believe America was given to them by God?

March 17

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 March 17

  1. 6 month old news article
  2. [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 March 17#|]]
  3. American artist - PEAKE, CHANNING (1910-1989)
  4. is this woman for real?
  5. Nazi questions
  6. The Founding Fathers and religion
  7. Marsh Creek Springs, California
  8. What if the south had won?
  9. Edward I and the Edict of Expulsion
  10. US and PLA Marines
  11. Bankruptcy of mutual fund company: what happens to the fund?
  12. Greatest Knight
  13. Gold ownership
  14. Any National banks selling gold bullions?

March 18

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 March 18

  1. Tahitian surfer with same last name
  2. Laundering money
  3. An explanation of the Jews
  4. Technical colleges
  5. global warming
  6. Need help finding melody
  7. First World War in Boys' Books (British)
  8. Buster Keation - related to Diane or Michael?
  9. Carr, Thompson, and Hobsbawm
  10. Russian Jews in London
  11. What's the geographic centre of Chinese politics?
  12. Not sure...
  13. Iran
  14. Please tell me this is a joke!
  15. Inflation, It's cause
  16. old testament
  17. Leadership of Muslim communities/mosques
  18. Ark of the covenant and Tablets of stone
  19. First black woman mayor in the United States

March 19

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 March 19

  1. Lutheran Hymns
  2. farm animal as pet animal B.C. Canada
  3. History assigment-help please
  4. Purchasing power of US dollar circa 1900
  5. Most prolific fathers
  6. Agricultural commodity prices
  7. bible, talmud etc other books
  8. The Light
  9. Popes and Emperors
  10. Enjoyable eastern and other non-western ancient classics?
  11. grandville sharp rule
  12. Chinese instrument
  13. Who owns the freehold of London's roads & why
  14. Term Limits
  15. Vehicle registration and inspections
  16. Bharata Janata Party West Bengal and Tripura leaders

March 20

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 March 20

  1. H Donald-Frith H Donald Smith, portrait painter
  2. Homelessness
  3. Divorce and women in the Middle Ages
  4. Medieval crime and punishment
  5. North and South
  6. Is the Swiss Franc still immune from inflation?
  7. A picture of Wilhelm Liebknecht, Karl Marx and three of their comrades
  8. agriculture,writing
  9. Frederick the Great and religious belief
  10. Heroes of their time
  11. Case study on Anonymous
  12. University Applications
  13. Daring medical rescue

March 21

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 March 21

  1. Economies of the Home Countries
  2. Paul Scofield and Sir Thomas More
  3. Percentage of scientists
  4. What would "THE" original battle of iwo jima flag raising photo be worth?
  5. Communication technology and economics
  6. Israel and ISM
  7. [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 March 21#|]]
  8. Iranian Minority
  9. Arab Christians
  10. Punjabi-speaking Pakistani scholars
  11. Indian bengalis
  12. Fall of the Directory
  13. [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 March 21#|]]
  14. Proving residency in a State
  15. Francis Fowke and George Fowke
  16. Smoking Law In UK

March 22

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 March 22

  1. Cult Definition
  2. Moral philosophy of evolution
  3. Burma, Laos, Cambodia, and Thailand: Indosphere or Sinosphere?
  4. Princess Anastasia
  5. Does the Christian celebration of easter have its origins in the Hindu Bahagavad Gita ?
  6. Philosophers Wealth
  7. Population
  8. Art Work
  9. Stalin's father
  10. What do interest rate cuts have to do with inflation?
  11. The Devils
  12. ebooks
  13. Depression in students

March 23

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 March 23

  1. About a photograph
  2. Huang Yong, Chinese serial killer
  3. Do Jews believe in hell and the devil?
  4. Supply and demand in the labor market
  5. must religious stereotypes be bigotted???
  6. Who is the earliest known person?
  7. does the California State Military Reserve allow gays
  8. The Date Of The New Moon Visible In Jerusalem Nearest The Spring Equinox 2008?
  9. Lord Jim and Imperialism
  10. Aklavik
  11. Demonology trivia
  12. State first to throw a million men into war?
  13. Douglas MacArthur
  14. What were Sazonov's Thirteen Points ?
  15. why dont citizens of other countries get to vote in U.S. elections
  16. what's the MOST number of people that could be hidden and unaccounted for without anyone realizing it?
  17. Paintings of the Popes in the Vatican
  18. Gay Nazi Officer
  19. The largest resistance in the WWII
  20. 2010 quarter
  21. Different strokes for different fokes

March 24

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 March 24

  1. Hitler's "compassion"
  2. American economic history
  3. Break-up of the Soviet Union
  4. Nazi justice and foreign workers
  5. Attitude towards disabled people in Buddhism
  6. Analyzing "bog land" by Seamus Heaney
  7. Looking for any information on Harold Johnson, 60s-era jazz pianist
  8. Time Capsule
  9. Musical instrument learning resources (Piano in particular)

March 25

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 March 25

  1. Nation and Ethnic Group
  2. translators/interpretors salary
  3. Deletion of "list of automobiles - makes with histories.
  4. 1937 Soviet census
  5. Absurd Philosophical Notion
  6. Conquest of the Desert and the 1982 war for the Islas Malvinas (Falklands)
  7. help plz
  8. Things People Have Crossed Canada In
  9. Critique of Dialectical Reason
  10. War of the Two Matildas
  11. gear vehicle
  12. Sony vs. Casio
  13. Scriabin's Sonata in E-Flat Minor (1889)
  14. SS
  15. Rubles at turn of 20th century
  16. Unreasonable and outdated dissatisfactions
  17. Changing fortunes of the Nazi Party
  18. Kublai and Genghis
  19. Authorship and publication of Wikipedia
  20. Republic of Ireland: Income tax liability for actors
  21. stores in history
  22. H Donald Smith
  23. A painting by Picasso of Modigliani
  24. Strories set in the Deep South

March 26

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 March 26

  1. legal age for...
  2. Mexicans in the US
  3. Folk illnesses
  4. Windows
  5. The Don Flows Home to the Sea
  6. Is it true that the best Guillotine blades were made by Gillette???
  7. Mulatto - White and Black perspectives
  8. Question about Niger
  9. Kant's Categorical Imperative
  10. Marriage in the Canterbury Tales
  11. Land Usage in U.S.
  12. Agitate. Agitate, Agitate!

March 27

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 March 27

  1. A war between Japan and China, 1880-83?
  2. info on an artist
  3. George Washington,Did he have investments in British Banks?
  4. Commonwealth war graves during WW2
  5. Centurion
  6. Against the Ustase
  7. Shia majority
  8. US Medal of Honour
  9. Economy and outsourcing
  10. Native Indian population of Americas
  11. Arts and Crafts
  12. Religion
  13. Kenya - sustainable development project
  14. Famous Canadian Color guard photograph

March 28

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 March 28

  1. scrabble replays
  2. big buildings in pre-Columbian America
  3. 9/11 Lawsuit
  4. Thomas Jefferson
  5. Irish short story
  6. Roger Casement's poem entitled The Nameless One
  7. State to first throw 500,000 men into war?
  8. State to first rule over 1 million people?
  9. philosophy
  10. Scotland and the Wars of the Roses
  11. Letters of Danish parties
  12. IQ and career success
  13. Missing vessels

March 29

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 March 29

  1. Floating Castles
  2. war poems
  3. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values
  4. Agitprop
  5. Patrona Halil
  6. Law question: title of party
  7. Dance in UAE
  8. Somalis in Bangladesh
  9. Philosophy: career options
  10. Katie Cruel
  11. Murdered Greek actress Eleni Papadaki, denounced by envious rival?
  12. 1974 Jazz organist/keyboardist
  13. Hillary: The Movie
  14. Did Nazis execute old people??
  15. Name of song
  16. Legal systems

March 30

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 March 30

  1. Holocaust denial
  2. Judaica
  3. Gayelle
  4. Holocost
  5. Title and Artist?
  6. Pyramids, Ice Ages and The End of the World.
  7. Cold War liability
  8. Neonazi ideology
  9. Civilization and barbarism
  10. Largest light festival of Europe
  11. Naturist children
  12. Republic of Korea's (South Korea) Stance on Disarmament Topics
  13. 1937 Soviet Census
  14. Cottage names in 19C England
  15. Christian selling to Muslims
  16. Neo-Nazi, Aryan Brotherhood and Islam

March 31

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 March 31

  1. gayelle
  2. Penelope's suitors
  3. racist
  4. Stub Articles
  5. diplomatic missions and foreign policiy
  6. International Business
  7. Wilde and Salome
  8. removing money in circulation
  9. April Fool
  10. references (insecure life in pakistan)
  11. The English Gentleman
  12. Carbon emissions and locally produced food
  13. microeconomic development
  14. wife's college
  15. CHRONOLOGICAL AGE
  16. Minimum wage and working on comission in Saskatchewan
  17. Eupean Slavery Between the 1500-1800
  18. Wavell the viceroy
  19. Origin of the South Atlantic Medal
  20. Non-Formal Education
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