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March 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 March 1

1. Chychkan State Zoological Reserve / Chychkan Wildlife Refuge
2. Nautical superstitions
3. Viktorin Hallmay(e)r
4. Top5 Libraries in the world by stock?

March 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 March 2

1. Telemann vs Vivaldi
2. passing along ideas
3. Economist building, london
4. Christian Values

March 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 March 3

1. Members of Association of Arab Universities in English
2. Arab Universities in La Francophonie
3. How would an orphan get a birth certificate?
4. independence through referendum
5. Wycliffe's "On Civil Dominion"
6. Koran burning
7. Attacking communism in China
8. Military flank
9. Fatty Arbuckle and arrests

March 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 March 4

1. The only woman in Margaret Thatcher's government besides her
2. Solo artists who have played with all four Beatles
3. behavioral economics
4. Hollands Land reclaimation
5. Indian National Congress provincial affiliates
6. Arab nation relationship
7. differences between national dresses
8. Jesus as a name
9. US Constitution
10. Mary Macleod (painter)
11. Kitty Ussher's husband
12. Reason behind separate race question in corporate surveys
13. Nicholas Sarkozy and African leaders ceremony
14. spirituality question
15. international shipping

March 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 March 5

1. Rock star whims
2. Contemporary erotic painting
3. What was the ideology of the Republican Party in the South after Reconstruction 1877-1928?
4. West-gate of Moria
5. Incident in early Islam
6. "The cry was no surrender" - The Siege of Derry
7. Numbering systems in the West?
8. Death penalty in Texas
9. Chester Bowles Asian Fellowship
10. Painting by Milon
11. Sir Henry Arthur Blake
12. Use of UK libraries restricted to local residents?
13. Looking for an ancient poem or song

March 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 March 6

1. negotiation
2. Help in identifying subjcts in photo
3. italian poetry, read, online
4. things fall apart
5. PLUTONOMY MEMO

March 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 March 7

1. Young adult novel where boy hears dead mom in fan?
2. different "Wake Up America" poster
3. The two Universities shall kiss at Stamford
4. Lieutenant Governor (question about the word)
5. UK Social Services
6. Money Market savings account vs. standard savings accounts
7. Flatulence as torture method?

March 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 March 8

1. Livonian fashion
2. Which Are The 4 Publicly Funded Art Universities?
3. Hound names
4. Mayan Calendar, Leap Days & The Winter Solstice
5. Will EU be like SO?
6. When does crown copyright expire in Australia?
7. The Black Duke's Hand

March 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 March 9

1. Capability of the UN regulating the internet
2. Queen Anne Boleyn's polydactyly
3. ECB liquidity boost for banks
4. politcal eating
5. Gustave Le Bon and Plato
6. tulpa
7. How long would it take a wealthy student to reach New York City from Princeton, New Jersery, in the year 1772?

March 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 March 10

1. The rights of illegitimate children
2. Who was the highest ranked servant?
3. Books about Socialist Party of France
4. Francophonie Prime Ministers of Belgium
5. Documents showing amendments
6. contravarsy about indian national anthem!
7. Marriage of clerics in medieval times
8. meditating

March 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 March 11

1. Leopold I of Belgium
2. Registration in a community
3. Largest coin
4. Driving in Italy quote
5. American (US) ambassadors of Chinese descent/heritage? -- the most recent being Governor Gary Locke, now US Ambassador to China.
6. best selling authors

March 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 March 12

1. Entrepreneur at old age
2. Looking for a doozy of a really lame journal to publish in
3. Liberal Iran
4. UK legal question - not advice
5. Can the past bills and legislative actions be found in a comprehensive and chronological list?

March 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 March 13

1. Hindenburg
2. Lollards
3. Most dog-loving country

March 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 March 14

1. Schools of economics
2. Really confused about song origin
3. Where did Anna Doyle Wheeler give her 1829 "Rights of Women" lecture?
4. German nobility titles
5. European Court of Justice
6. mail costs
7. Soldier age during the Civil War

March 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 March 15

1. producer to consumer ratio
2. bette davis

March 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 March 16

1. USSR's occupations in WW2
2. Collections
3. Wycliffite's "staff"
4. On what charges?
5. Anthony J. Selin
6. Lollard protectors?
7. Americans in the Second Opium War?
8. FIFA criticism of being too European

March 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 March 17

1. Peace treaty between Italy and Japan?
2. English-speaking class in Western Europe?
3. RE;Helmer Hanssen (South Pole)
4. Indian Muslim surnames used
5. Butterfly Lovers

March 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 March 18

1. More questions about Parliamentary privilege
2. Im trying to figure out what this is
3. St. Aloysius' queen
4. Great Lakes battlefleets
5. Is Flight of the Bumblebee bravura?
6. Dragon King temple in Oregon
7. Newspaper "LA Times"
8. PNG geographic name
9. Delegates?
10. Magazine monthly dating scheme
11. Argentina and Brazil in Bengali culture
12. Colonial police force
13. Procrastination and politics
14. White African Americans and black non-African Americans and the one drop rule

March 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 March 19

1. Share devalue to cover losses
2. Bermondsey Palace
3. Looking for a book/story
4. is tim cook innovative

March 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 March 20

1. Engaging in prostitution? Is it possible?
2. Thinking only thinkable thoughts
3. The Chinese "political intelligence" network abroad
4. President and privacy

March 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 March 21

1. Libertarian figures in science
2. Where does the money in securities arbitrage and high frequency automated trading come from?
3. Do all 401(k) accounts lock participants into a small set of mutual funds?
4. Effective date of UK Budget changes
5. Ron Paul
6. The use of WEDGE - FORMATION on horse (in the Middle Ages)
7. US federal court cases skipping the circuit courts of appeals
8. English Parliament
9. British budget process
10. Were there any historical socialist movements that the Nazis approved of?

March 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 March 22

1. Ripping up Kim Jong-un's portrait at Panmunjom's JSA - can it start a war?
2. The Eternal Jew
3. Preists
4. national anthem
5. A roving Lollard preacher

March 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 March 23

1. Bail bonds
2. Così fan tutte
3. population...What if?
4. How long are detentions allowed to be in England High Schools?
5. Wikipedia entry for Timothy Township, Crow Wing County, Minnesota
6. foreign universities

March 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 March 24

1. Herr Gauck
2. (Japanese Looking) Print
3. How many Lollards?
4. Looking for portrait by Sir Henry Raeburn of "mrs louisa mackay of bighouse" (sic)
5. Looking for a modern "The Story of Civilization"

March 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 March 25

1. Halawa, Kohala
2. Tuareg edits, real or hoax?
3. General strikes in Greece
4. Excluded middle
5. link to video?
6. how to not talk so much
7. Austria-Serbian aggression

March 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 March 26

1. Surnames derived from country names
2. Musical D-BeatD-beat Notation
3. Raining while burning at the stake
4. What's this music?
5. Funding a Campaign in the United States pre Super PACs
6. what is the annual donatinos for the tory, labout, lib dems?

March 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 March 27

1. Banquet of Chestnuts
2. Why haven't most Commonwealth realms abolish the death penalty if the UK has?
3. Longest serving pope
4. Genres of writing
5. Did a lot of people who had the same surname as but were unrelated to Adolf Hilter change their names after WW II?
6. Chinese time zone
7. american indian
8. Where can I find the name of the author of an antique art print?
9. Birmingham Bangla arab somali iranian turk afghani
10. Why'd rank-and-file soldiers in the Syrian army attack fellow Sunnis?

March 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 March 28

1. French cities with significant population Muslim African francophonie arab
2. What does this Eton College statement mean?
3. Yoenis Céspedes travel documents

March 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 March 29

1. watch trials in florida online
2. Looking for a specific legal term
3. humor production under Marx
4. YouTube
5. Beryl Cicely Cholmeley Tyacke
6. all planets shine, right?

March 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 March 30

1. Pleading "not guilty"
2. Old Testament
3. Japanese strike
4. The Journey audiobook
5. A man called Jesus
6. Costs for the government to defend itself in cases regarding the Establishment Clause

March 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 March 31

1. Reasons for Italy's Unification
2. before the merger with Delta Air Lines
3. Nyamdorj, Mongolia
4. American penny magazine
5. Psychology of lynch mob