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May 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 May 1

1. Wendi Deng
2. Taiwan politician wearing vests?
3. Prince William's medal
4. Oxford Group
5. Encouraging diplomats to defect
6. Time travel - becoming a historical figure
7. Smokey Clegg
8. Painting in The Other Guys

May 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 May 2

1. List of locations of polling places in last Czech Parliamentary elections?
2. Teen views on same sex marriage
3. Time Urgent-- help us find a list of companies that supported Jim Crow?
4. Online Korean Language courses - where, please?
5. Why are christians happy that Osama Bin Laden is dead?
6. Dulle Griet/Dull Gret
7. Double Jeopardy
8. Forts / Fortresses in Medieval Europe
9. Princess Royal
10. Middleton's money
11. Bay Area US Peace Index
12. People in the situation room last night

May 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 May 3

1. What happened to Mauro David?
2. Family tree: Should mother-in-laws & father-in-laws (and their family) of my cousins, uncles and aunts be added?
3. Smallest winning vote in Canadian election
4. denim brands
5. Medieval fiction - English capital
6. Geography question
7. Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech
8. Bucklin voting/Borda count in Oklahoma
9. Legal Rule of Cool?
10. Ambition

May 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 May 4

1. Princess Kate?
2. Danish-Norwegian elections
3. Girls with guns
4. Canadian Conservative Party
5. non-pornographic cover of a pornographic video
6. Obama photo
7. Not reinforcing bad behavior
8. Background of homophobic violence - studies?
9. History Of Harold E Monser
10. 4th Avenue?

May 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 May 5

1. Excuse me sir!
2. Democratic party propaganda PR strategy of the 60s or 70s
3. Hitler
4. Is the killing of Osama Bin Laden legal?
5. Safia Farkash
6. Did the citizens destroy any tanks during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989?
7. Almost a saint, but stumbled on the last hurdle?
8. Searching for a hymn
9. Fort Knox

May 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 May 6

1. Need book title
2. Men marriying rich and older women
3. UK styles
4. Scottish National Party policy regarding independence
5. Cut-backs during a time of austerity
6. Best covert/special forces?

May 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 May 7

1. U.S. troop levels in Iraq and Afghanistan in recent years
2. Most children
3. law: Recanting
4. Baptism
5. Identify the logical fallacy
6. Why do American supermarkets still count out pennies?
7. UK referendum results: a record?
8. UK High Court Judges
9. Copyright question
10. Question on logical fallacies
11. True or myth: Nazi dog with a label 'dog' on it.
12. Sex question
13. Mixed Number Proportional Representation
14. National debt
15. Russian jews
16. Dalia Rabin-Pelossof

May 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 May 8

1. Richardis of Schwerin-Wittenburg or Richardis of Schwerin or Richardis of Lauenburg
2. Counts of Schwerin
3. Bentley ad - truth or hoax?
4. Presidential Cocaine Use At The White House
5. Was Ibrahim bin Laden one of the bin Ladens flown out of the U.S.?
6. Why have a president?
7. Ontario Legislative Assembly seating plan
8. "Phoenix Four" report (UK)
9. Why did Soviet ideology reject the steady-state theory and what was their alternative?

May 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 May 9

1. Why is Pres. Obama so disliked?
2. Most marriages
3. French colonial empire and others
4. Rahner and Man as Transcendant Being
5. Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in Canada
6. Pierre Trudeau Bangladesh 1971
7. Monarchs of Portugal
8. Hungarian central office for book revision
9. Seceding from the Union
10. Does anything matter in the big picture?
11. Prank calls in Germany
12. Spirituality for non-religious people
13. Seek Author, title(s) english children's book(s) circa 1940's
14. Inauguration of presidents
15. Police procedure
16. An excess of apostles

May 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 May 10

1. Michelin guides in English
2. Daniel Ortega
3. Help with identifying an artist
4. Pepper spray and the Chemical Weapons Convention
5. War vs Criminal Justice and nonstate actors

May 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 May 11

1. Carlsberg Special Brew
2. babies and Christian baptism
3. muslim sex in india
4. Pipless US
5. When democracy failed
6. Per-capita millionaires
7. Number of policepersons in the UK
8. Does the Queen ever make a decision or refuse to sign?
9. Wales Split from the Kingdom of England?
10. Rosh Hashanah in Israel
11. The purpose of stock exchanges
12. Pakistan and Afghanistan, ISI

May 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 May 12

1. Where I am From analysis
2. Hansard and superinjunctions
3. People's Republic of China Language Census
4. What's the best online stock-trading application?
5. Lithium company stocks
6. Overcrowded refugee ship in WWII - the "Navamar"
7. Forensic Investigation:
8. Sprechen Sie Deutsch... or Hebrew?
9. Stanley Spencer balloonist and parachutist
10. How could their be a divorce?
11. Competitive advantage for becoming a financial center
12. To all certified public accountants and/or auditors out there, i've got a question for you.
13. What was the name of the place?
14. 1980 referendum

May 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 May 14

1. Gemstone rings
2. Another Judaism question
3. Illiterate Americans
4. Jane Austen by G.F.Maine
5. London Gazette search
6. Which philosopher or scientist?
7. A video series like Zimbardo's "Discovering psychology" (1990)

May 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 May 15

1. Draw France
2. Canadian politics
3. Life expectancy in the Soviet Union
4. St George statue at the UN Headquarters
5. First President
6. Logical positivism
7. Films filmed all over Europe like Bourne series?
8. 5th fleet in Middle East since when?
9. Scotland Economy and Independence
10. Diplomatic missions of Canada
11. Canada-Bangladesh
12. American mail boxes
13. understanding a religious concept
14. WB elections
15. Racial segegration
16. Did she ever truly rule?

May 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 May 16

1. Royalty and "style"
2. Bomb threats and codewords
3. The invisible pink unicorn
4. Conditional ordinations and conditional confirmations
5. I would like some book recommendations
6. Most Beautiful/Most Handsome?

May 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 May 17

1. Why do Rastafarians smoke marijuana?
2. Can anyone name any mermaid fiction books for adults?
3. Person synonymous with brevity?
4. U.K. Elections
5. Length of time of feelings of jealousy
6. Should Empress Jingū be included in :Template:Monarchs of Japan?
7. Respect Party candidates
8. Whole history of humankind in one narrative.
9. Looking for a specific image depicting the Enlightenment
10. Women banned from performing

May 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 May 18

1. Documentary about textile industry in South East Asia
2. the most "Transgendered" (by population) place in Usa Canada? and Europe?
3. Money as a means of communication
4. Stories from Nazi Germany
5. Jamaat Shibir (Bangladesh)
6. Edmund Burke on James Mackintosh
7. Wesley Snipes & The Sovereign Citizen Movement
8. UK Law:The Wildlife and Countryside act 1981 with respect to Natrix natrix
9. 1099 tax form
10. lead bullets illegal in US
11. How does money work, exactly?

May 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 May 19

1. Will they ever lower the drinking age in Las Vegas and the rest of the united states from 21 to 19 or 18?
2. Finance: Fictional bank account scenario
3. The history of Vaageshwari Maatha temple in Rajasthan
4. Name the book
5. Is it illegal for the police to carry a backup gun ?
6. Alcohol in candy
7. Major Dundee questions
8. Why people with no needs would network with people with needs
9. Constitutional Rights and religious Freedom
10. Extraterritoriality
11. Chinese economics, American debt

May 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 May 20

1. Slovenia influence on U.S.?
2. online books
3. The Wall Street Journal
4. Loans to unsuccessful factions
5. Extradite between US states
6. "Penny Schools" in the United Kingdom
7. Thirty pieces of silver
8. What time will I be raptured?
9. Old street in Belfast
10. Psychology questions
11. Historical French Flags?
12. graduate attitudes towards education and honesty
13. 12/21 or 12/23?
14. @ What time should I be raptured
15. Princess Nora Univ. faculty and grad student numbers

May 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 May 21

1. Name of bias
2. Is 3% the usual number of people?
3. Airline industry
4. Schwartzenneger bodybuilding tips
5. Data about the inflation of the Portuguese escudo
6. Boeing
7. updates on two international societies
8. I have a wikibook submission
9. University in Brega
10. German volunteers in the Spanish Civil War
11. citizenship of my hypothetical (but likely) child
12. Appropriate gift
13. Billionaires break laws of economics?

May 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 May 22

1. Literature related references
2. sci-fi science - human / animal hybrid
3. UK courts conniving with the immoral?
4. Political ideology and corporate donation
5. Lancers /Light Cavalry /Hussars/Mounted Rifles / Horse Artillery?

May 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 May 23

1. What if the internet broke tomorrow?
2. Thought Experiment
3. Welsh novels
4. Fantasy books
5. Monbushu/MEXT policy on Japanese names
6. John Maynard Keynes and pedophilia
7. Who cares about Iowa?
8. Air France plane on US soil
9. Nemesis
10. Political affiliation of superheores
11. Millard Fillmore's religious beliefs
12. US languages
13. Judges and Wikipedia
14. word counting
15. Constitution of San Marino
16. New invention, new money?

May 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 May 24

1. Latin
2. Use of civilians on trains during the Anglo-Boer War
3. Intellectuals without formal education
4. Reviewing the Troops
5. Fashionably late
6. Cannes Film Festival
7. London Boulevard
8. Monthly billing

May 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 May 25

1. What is the most northern community in Sierra_leone?
2. Grains for breakfast
3. Pro-Communist bias of Wikipedia
4. Music identification
5. Poor man's copyright and email
6. About how much money total in 2011 dollars to go to the moon the first time
7. "Hap" poem
8. lottery and taxes in the US
9. Indian caste system

May 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 May 26

1. Third parties in the US
2. Correct etiquette
3. Rupert Murdoch
4. Business Cycle Graphs
5. Did George Washington whip his slaves?
6. complete list of "common" urban services and memberships
7. Printing of the one dollar (USA) bill.
8. Looking for a book
9. Should simple living / minimalistic living seen as liberal or conservative?
10. Do you know why Surigao del Sur is one of the poorest province in the Philippines?
11. Ralph Waldo Emerson
12. Ivy League Colleges

May 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 May 27

1. Detailed unspecified music
2. Copyright
3. Murder in space
4. what financial transaction would on any level (even farcically) seem to imply a negative valuation (market capitalization) of a company?
5. religion
6. Nearest Relative rights
7. Singers' accents
8. Intellectual/scientist cum businesspeople
9. Paris Hilton
10. Gilliam Asperger's Disorder Scale (GADS)
11. Requirement for signatures to be consistent?
12. Copyright question
13. Grandville artwork

May 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 May 28

1. American journalist who brought the existence of black supremacism to the general public
2. Murder on a plane
3. "Ministry of Helth"
4. are there people with no citizenship?
5. why is london on weird time?
6. cost and time between London and Paris
7. TIPS and U.S. Sovereign debt
8. Environmentalism
9. Chinese Calligraphy Help
10. Thomas Hepburn: miner, unionist, social reformer

May 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 May 29

1. Net worth of billionaires
2. Prince El Darago of Italy
3. Nevada
4. copyrights
5. Tallest building in the US
6. Black Saturday Bushfires
7. Name of the philosopher
8. Was bush sr the last US president to have any sons?
9. Castilian Spanish, revisited
10. Foreigners in Japan during WWII
11. is it easier to do laundry if all your clothes are dark/colored?
12. norwegian book

May 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 May 30

1. Which Android apps help users make money the best?
2. Think thank in the US
3. Most wanted non-Muslim terrorists
4. Empires
5. Are there any sacred texts outside the Judeo-Christian tradition that include history books?
6. Help identifying aircraft
7. Tolkien: "Balin" and the Poetic Edda
8. adoption in England
9. World War II deaths by year

May 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 May 31

1. Business in North Korea
2. Fact and opinion question
3. How many brands do The Coca-Cola Company and PepsiCo operate?
4. Double pricing at gasoline stations
5. Consistent college rankings?
6. Science is wrong, so I'm going to use science to prove it!
7. Sir Thomas Gates portrait
8. Borderline personality disorder
9. Soviet Trade Fair in Los Angeles, 1980s?

May 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 May 25