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September 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 September 1

1. What are the "elements of national power?"
2. The Soviet Union - reality vs bias
3. Adolf Hitler
4. Photo identification question
5. Have I the right to write to each director of some company?
6. Ecumenical/secular monasteries
7. What are the "ramps" in the Vltava at the base of the Charles Bridge
8. Caesar's mother

September 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 September 2

1. What are the top 100 economic powers rated by GDP
2. Exorcism
3. Athabaskan people
4. working with one another
5. books with multiple authors of the same name?
6. Native American Origins
7. Amendments

September 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 September 3

1. Renaissance Etiquette
2. Hindus in BNP
3. BNP and Awami League
4. Dates for the Tower of Babel/ Nimrod
5. Familiar Man
6. Wee solid?
7. Use of the phrase "United Kingdom"

September 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 September 4

1. Name of a conceptual error
2. PEnnsylvania 6-5000
3. gore vidal
4. Principles of Economics
5. If We Hold On Together
6. Dionysus name
7. riot

September 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 September 5

1. Suicide as a criminal act?
2. World War III
3. Rats
4. help
5. Corsican given names
6. The worst witch trial?
7. Early computer animation I dimly remember
8. abortion support in private health insurance
9. French encyclopedic conventions (present/past tense choice)
10. Does the copyright of a dead artist pass to his next of kin?
11. Shading

September 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 September 6

1. Julius Caesar as tribune
2. Political views
3. Descent of Lothair III, Holy Roman Emperor
4. number of merchant ship calls in La Valetta Malta
5. Jesuit Missions of the Chiquitos
6. Victoria and Albert Museum
7. Old Finnish man's logic

September 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 September 7

1. song lyrics
2. August 1727
3. People's Crusade...?
4. shakabuku
5. Axe and hoe songs
6. Municipal recycling in the UK - profits?
7. Addison Whithecomb Debate Quote Origination

September 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 September 8

1. Statistics on sleeping rough in England
2. Making love rather than making war to win
3. Premiere performances
4. People who were unknown in life but became famous after death
5. US motivations behind stopping Zahir Shah becoming the Afghan head of state.
6. Ernest Hemingway Cover Art
7. Who is the author of the bible?
8. Gay and lesbian studies
9. Is lying ever mandatory?
10. Bureaucracy and "Bureaucratise"
11. Countries in Africa without two term limits
12. British/German Meetings in Finland in WW2

September 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 September 9

1. staggering consuls
2. insurance
3. Referencing
4. Nineteenth-century artists
5. Role of mistresses in royalty
6. Birth certificates and surnames in the US
7. "Cbtfcbmm Cvft"[sic] (Languages vs. dialect, round 3)

September 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 September 10

1. Obama speech comparison
2. Why Alexander the Great didn't conquer Rome?
3. Hate crimes committed by LGBTs
4. Jerome Tobar
5. Western (wannabe) Buddhists
6. Evidence that Jesus existed
7. How do US children treat their parents?
8. Flag of Kosovo
9. Damages wrongfully won in libel court
10. Green and Blue inverted triangles (Nazi Germany)
11. White men in the fields of women or Black studies

September 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 September 11

1. Searching For A Particular Extract From A Novel Be Richmal Crompton
2. 1992 Los Angeles riots
3. Beethoven - Six Ecossaises
4. Portrayal of Jewish women during Third Reich
5. extermination
6. Pharos Lighthouse & Nice (France)

September 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 September 12

1. Symbols
2. Help identifying a sci-fi story...
3. Cleopatra Thea and Cleopatra III
4. Education to work in corporate finance?
5. two more USPHS songs
6. Neoptolemus I of Epirus
7. Caster Semenya

September 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 September 13

1. How many US Army Colonels have been killed in combat/from combat-related injuries, ever?
2. Islamic factoids in Borges
3. Dhani Harrison
4. Will raising the Fixed Deposit rate induce in more savings?
5. Struggling to be published
6. 'Acquittal' from a death by hanging charge
7. Meleager (general)
8. Celibacy
9. Money Markets & Financial Institutions
10. Just wondering...
11. Qing Dynasty
12. Getting Seed Capital
13. First Person

September 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 September 14

1. Marriage
2. Rough approximation of text length
3. BLR ?
4. Photo of child Holocaust victim
5. Central Africain trade unions; C.G.A.T.
6. Biological rythmns in schooling
7. Cognitive (dis)abilities and Down syndrome
8. BA (HONS) BUSINESS FINANCE & BSC(HONS) BUSINESS FINANCE
9. Inheritance
10. Cadmus-Harmony painting ID request
11. Historicity
12. Iran and North Korea
13. Text lengths of notable documents
14. Usama bin Laden new audio tape
15. London theatre tickets - where is a safe place to buy on the day?

September 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 September 15

1. Conflict thesis?
2. Famous critics of university
3. Non-resident American able to drive in America?
4. Welsh History grants
5. Historical person obsessed with synchronizing clocks
6. Falsely claiming to have been awared medals/decorations in the armed forces...
7. Pact with devil - story
8. Ramadan fasting at extreme latitudes
9. What are the names of Charities owned by African Americans?

September 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 September 16

1. lens-less glasses worn for fashion
2. Finance
3. A question on postmodern depiction in literature....
4. leftovers worth today
5. Christopher H. Clark
6. Star ratings for novels, like those for movies
7. 3 worst dictators in Africa
8. Shape of writing tablets
9. match.com
10. The physics of money
11. Debate on healthcare reform

September 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 September 17

1. Converts to Judaism in Nazi era
2. Isabelle Urquhart bio?
3. Incorruptible FBI
4. HEALTH CARE REFORM
5. US Congress eligibility
6. Are NJ municipalities statutorily required to provide fire protection
7. Eliminations of two term limits
8. is it possible for Israel to commit terrorism?

September 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 September 18

1. ironic beauty
2. unintelligent design
3. musical doctrine of affections
4. objective measure of whether a company, country, etc. is evil?
5. Identifying terms
6. Seraching for the reference of a Buddha quote
7. Rosh Hashana Shofar

September 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 September 19

1. Participation of wealthy people in WWI - conscription
2. Irish vs Germans in America
3. Germanic derivative of Celtic, Celtic derivative of Italic, Italic derivative of Greek, etc.
4. quran tafsir comparison

September 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 September 20

1. Wives of Margraves of Tuscany
2. translation new constitution of ecuador
3. Australian Immigration law
4. Gods etc
5. Italian view on WW2 today?

September 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 September 21

1. French language requirements in Canada
2. Battlefields Used More Than Once
3. Mexican Army

September 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 September 22

1. Unknown Painting
2. Which philosopher has made the biggest personal difference to contemporary life?
3. JFK and the Légion d’honneur
4. querelle de la rose
5. possilbe to put back two-term limit rule
6. Mamadou Tandja

September 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 September 23

1. Letter to Mr. Obama.
2. Bullies and authoritarians
3. Private Question
4. Gaddafi's tent
5. Arts: Trying to learn more about a sculpture
6. husbands and wifes over 30 years apart in age
7. Size of the bourgeoisie
8. Historical person obsessed with synchronizing clocks - request for references
9. "Statues" in the water in Lake Washington

September 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 September 24

1. Romani Archaeology
2. German-American relations
3. background check
4. Hispanic-American views on LGBT rights
5. Consent
6. Moving to the country
7. Industry study
8. Nearest agnatic relative of Emperor Charles VI
9. Who am I to blow against the wind?

September 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 September 25

1. Interpol under the Nazis
2. Legal usage: "in witness whereof"
3. German perspective on the bombing of Dresden
4. National Debt - someone is laughing somewhere
5. R.I.P. Rosemary Stasek needs article
6. Money transaction life cycle
7. Chinese Agriculture Propaganda Photo
8. 2 questions
9. Wartime repatriation
10. Chocolate

September 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 September 26

1. Chernyshevsky's opinion on Marx
2. hi
3. Who was the first woman swimmer in history?
4. Economics question
5. Who designed the IAEA flag?
6. Benjamin Disraeli's and Benjamin Franklin's attituds to war?
7. What is the Communist Party of China's current position on Stalin?
8. Is this a pithy statement in literary criticism?
9. Psychological immune system

September 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 September 27

1. Body building
2. Nearly topped at Little Round Top
3. This game: "telling objects from a collection"
4. Where can I find the transcript of the recent Larry King Ahmadinejad interview online for free?
5. Muslims ruling over non-Muslims and Christians ruling over non-Christians

September 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 September 28

1. Religion in Pre-Islamic Arabian Peninsula
2. Clarke's 3rd law and Western esotericism
3. Scansion
4. Financial Estate Planning:Credit Sharing Trusts
5. Bible Verses/Stories illustrating the importance of christian friendship?
6. What is the Protestant view of the history of Christianity between Peter and Luther?
7. Black-whites
8. Sindjely Wade
9. Money in Communist Russia
10. Why are both left and far-right politics associated with the working class?
11. Why the U.S. didn't use the Atomic Bomb on Nazi Germany?

September 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 September 29

1. Voting intention polls
2. Anyone rem Australian radio show the Argonauts Club?
3. Educational Pioneer
4. UK/US drug bust in South America
5. Louis, Rhineland-Palatinate
6. Naval presence on lakes
7. meal frequency

September 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 September 30

1. Famous Composers
2. Value of diamonds
3. Number of classroom hours per year by students in various countries
4. DNA Testing of "Hitler's" Blood on Sofa & Remaining Relatives
5. Help with an author?
6. Law that prevents Military personnel from acting as domestic police officers
7. African Flag Portraying Decapitation
8. Letter Z and Native Americans
9. Ukranian composer
10. Tactical bombing during world war ii