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September 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 September 1

1. Does a smoker cost more or less for public healthcare than a non-smoker?
2. Navarrese colonial empire?!?
3. ROMNEY / RYAN
4. Where does Hamid Karzai's clothing come from?
5. trying to remember a term - Someone's Syndrome
6. Holocaust
7. Political Debate
8. how did people choose colors for technicolor?
9. UK and Eire police cars
10. NRA codes
11. Is nuclear power competitive without huge government subsidies?

September 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 September 2

1. Yemen and Iran
2. Urban-rural linked to liberal-conservative
3. How come there has been so few female dictators throughout history?
4. Odd coat of arms
5. De Vrije Katheder, Nazi-occupied Netherlands
6. Southern vs. Northern Whites in the U.S.
7. filtering coffee by pouring from one cup to another
8. How many Countries worldwide?
9. Chinese surnames and ancestry
10. Swedish House of Holstein-Gottorp
11. How Come the U.S.S.R. Didn't Annex Mongolia Like It Did WIth Tuva?
12. Blue Stripe in the Red South
13. Was the Cuban intervention on african independence wars an act of solidarity or something else?
14. Historical Religion Data for the U.S. Before 1948

September 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 September 3

1. Freemasonic influence on the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, Moscow?
2. CIA headquarters in Alabama, or at least offices
3. Cost of a burial plot at Willesden Jewish Cemetery (UK)
4. TICLAUDIUS CAESAR
5. Breasts and kissing

September 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 September 4

1. Recycling cans and bottles in California
2. Have there ever been a killer in history with down syndrome?
3. Did Kevin Mitnick made an internet-accessing device from a radio receiver when he was in jail?
4. Religion and the U.S. Census
5. Legality of the Awlaki Killings
6. Synchronization of calendars between civilizations throughout history
7. How Come France Was Extremely Angry at Germany for Taking Alsace-Lorraine in 1871
8. Category for the President of Pakistan
9. Ganesh Chaturthi
10. Calculus

September 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 September 5

1. Marriage rights and religion
2. African Americans in rural Nevada
3. Possible HK Bone Marrow Foundation article.
4. Monogamy
5. Statute of limitations and extradition in Germany
6. What's the main difference between massacre and shooting spree
7. Religious Violence
8. How can people who were born deaf learn to read?
9. Preference for sex-based nudity
10. Longest European constitution
11. Papal influence
12. Understanding Intelligent Design/Creationism?
13. Written record

September 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 September 6

1. Genre painter "Aimé Dalleizette" of Switzerland.
2. Grass hula skirts
3. Is there a link between no photography policies and freedom of panorama (or lack thereof)?
4. Can't the U.S. send drones to destroy the Iranian nuclear facilities?
5. Sources of Law
6. A question about the Westroads Mall shooting
7. Did Queen Victoria ever wear a Crinoline?
8. The post of early modern spies
9. First Indian reservation in the United States
10. Are serial killers smart or just lucky?

September 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 September 7

1. How Come it Took Until WWI for African-Americans to Start Moving Out of the Southern U.S. in Large Numbers?
2. Sumerian burial
3. Canada severs ties with Iran, where to put this
4. Who's militarily stronger?
5. Seperate civilian and military departments for national defense
6. Status of the princesses of Japan
7. Changing course of the river Thames over the last 1000 years

September 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 September 8

1. Societies/Countries with Voluntary Child Support
2. Liberal nation

September 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 September 9

1. Shinnoke and Oke
2. Greatest Age Difference Between Meeting a Famous Person and One's Own Death
3. Converts to Judaism in Areas Under Nazi Control During World War II
4. Minorities in France
5. Widest river bisecting a city?
6. Reform, Conservative parties in Israel
7. Cory Monteith
8. Question about the Columbine massacre
9. Books on Indophobia and anti-Pakistan sentiments
10. Good, reliable articles/online pages about the 2004 and 2008 U.S. presidential elections

September 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 September 10

1. Title of WW2 novel
2. US post-WWI "trench-war litterature" ?
3. Could a former two-term President run for election if a repealing of terms limits was also on the ballot?
4. History of capital gains tax long-term holdings discount
5. Rationale behind women-only chess touraments?
6. "Hey girl... you look as though you have no Boutroses - and it happens that I have one to spare..."
7. Prince of Nassau Siegen
8. Should Canadians fear Iranian response to the severance of relations?

September 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 September 11

1. Since the internet and public libraries have everything theoretical that's taught in college
2. Why is it Considered Indecent for a Woman to Expose Her Nipples?
3. Can't "Insider trading" rules be easily evaded?
4. Infant formula -> To Autism? Why no study?
5. Sexual attraction and ethnicity
6. All the world's geniuses
7. Twelve Tables
8. Who took this picture?

September 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 September 12

1. Edward G. Robinson + feeding pigs = in what film ?
2. International waters on the Great Lakes?
3. Why do most republics have ceremonial presidents?
4. Russian patronyms
5. Religious police in Saudi Arabia, do they carry firearms?
6. Is the economy a "renewable resource"?
7. John Nash 's "Over the top" : what precise date ?
8. What were the methods of collecting public housing rent in the 1960s/70s in the UK?
9. Euro/US dollar comparison
10. Protestants majority nations
11. Roman Catholic majority nations

September 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 September 13

1. Hanging Gardens of Babylon
2. compositional balance vs composition
3. Can I be Regarded as a Philosopher being an Autodidact?
4. Baja California and the Mexican-American War
5. Does Anyone remember his Name ?
6. Cory Monteith and categories
7. How many Canada's and UK's soldiers have died in Afghanistan?
8. Ethiopian
9. Best performance by a Communist party in a free election
10. EU border crossing rule
11. Looking for a novel
12. The "wandering Arabs and Tartar hordes" of 1869 Pennsylvania

September 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 September 14

1. Finance fraud- - bank account fraud not located
2. Has al Qaeda ever threatened Canada or not?
3. What keeps homeschooling parents in the US honest when grading kids' work?
4. Tax laws and system in Canada
5. Remarriage to the same person
6. Who's a stronger ally of the U.S. in the Middle East
7. Coptic/Ethiopian Church
8. Innocence of Muslims
9. Ghost stories

September 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 September 15

1. Refs for Citizens United backfire?
2. Slave trade of women in Mexico
3. Historical evidence for religious founders
4. Searching Historical USSR Censuses
5. How much $/credit-hour are the cheapest online courses in the United States?
6. Why hasn't the euro's value plunged?
7. If you join the U.S. Army, can you choose to stay at home
8. NASA has archaeologists on the payroll?
9. Canada's foreign policy, Iran, Israel ...
10. YouTube question
11. majority seats Knesset
12. What's the most accurate death toll for serial killer Ted Bundy?

September 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 September 16

1. PDFA and tobacco and alcohol money
2. US Marine guards at embassies
3. Queen Emma and King Kamehameha IV
4. List of seats of lower house of the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, Denmark, Iceland, Belgium, and Knesset
5. Could there be another Ted Bundy in these times with all the technology and criminal profiling?
6. September 11 attacks, did the hijackers carry firearms?
7. How many people died on board the flights on the September 11 attacks before the planes crashed
8. Foreign interventions
9. Prince Alemayehu
10. Archive of historical North-South conflicts?

September 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 September 17

1. Norwegian and Danish crime writers' works in English
2. "Let him speak up now or be silent for ever"
3. Martin Luther and good husbandry
4. If Ayman al-Zawahiri were killed or caught, would it mean the end of al Qaeda?
5. Can we replace the purely mathematical technical language and concept in dealing with philosophical logic which is not symbolic?
6. The ethics of increasing medical school positions when # of residency positions guarantees many won't match
7. How does a person preach the gospel to someone else?
8. Book on feminism/gender equality?
9. Alien nationals in a warfaring country in the early modern era?
10. unknown ranks

September 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 September 18

1. Large modern conflict zones
2. Crato descendants
3. Source for use of "race" in U.S. ouside Census
4. How is propositional, formal, mathematical, etc., different to philosophical logic?
5. "The AF PX Spring Sale! Buy One, Get One Hundred Free! All-You-Can-Eat Sushi Bar!!!!! While Supplies Last!"
6. Canonical Works of Literature
7. USATEMCOM
8. Sidewalk with roof?
9. Political parties of Israel mizrahi sephardi reform conservative non-zionism
10. Either the Calendar is wrong or the Clock is. It's that simple.
11. famous & mean book reviews
12. UN General Assembly Chamber
13. Honolulu in 1840

September 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 September 19

1. Was Dewey defeats Truman retracted?
2. Public and private Campaign financing
3. Jewish Holy Sites in an Israeli-Palestinian Peace Treaty
4. What kind of shark saves a human?
5. A ring of forts

September 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 September 20

1. Is the difference of philosopher to metaphysics/ethics/epistemology writer just lies with the entitlement
2. City planning and trees that line the street
3. 'combo' copy of the LDS Doctrine and Covenants and Pearl of Great Price - use?
4. passage about locomotives mating (in the carnal sense) from Samuel Butler?
5. Homer
6. The American fighting machine
7. Is there a deadline to stop persecutinginvestigatin the whereabout of any nazis?
8. hedge fund

September 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 September 21

1. Majority number of seats in Chamber of Deputies
2. What should I write for more specific citations of this text?
3. Can anyone identify this 'barbarian-warrior' engraved artwork?
4. Another Lou Gehrig's disease ?
5. Duchess of Windsor
6. Were Native American tribes able to start fires before Europeans arrived?

September 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 September 22

1. remembering a fallen hero in an American national memorial
2. A symbol to denote Adjusted for Inflation?
3. July 19 1937 as the start of WWII
4. Buddhism sources.
5. Economic Sources
6. Identifying an old Irish Abbey from picture/pictures I took and you could keep of an Irish Abbey not listed in your county list of abbeys
7. Non-Hispanic Black & Non-Hispanic Asian Populations for U.S. Cities Since 1970
8. Football Coach quote "I'm not growing [type of flower] I'm growing men"

September 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 September 23

1. Corporate tax rate and hiring costs
2. Evangelicalism in the US
3. Who made this curse? (shown on PBS about 10-15 years ago)
4. Names with ordinal numbers
5. Capital punishment
6. Critique of Jared Diamond
7. Laudabiliter
8. could i pay for internet tv like satellite tv
9. Newfoundland Act 1949
10. United States Politicians With Notability in Other Fields
11. Full metal jacket, the film, and real training

September 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 September 24

1. Early voting and changing votes in the U.S
2. Hitler's Pope and The Myth of Hitler's Pope
3. For term or traditional logician; Can term logic be sufficient to be the content of philosophy in dealing with central philosophical topics?
4. Interpreting the old testament
5. Monogamy as part of culture
6. Gadsby copyright concern
7. Laughter

September 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 September 25

1. Thucydides on religion
2. Question on history of aviation
3. A new or an old social class?
4. Embassy premises sharing

September 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 September 26

1. Muslim dominated neighbourhoods in Europe
2. Lockouts in general
3. UK wealth tax proposal
4. Relative frequency of male prostitution
5. Free speech vs fair elections
6. how dual licensing works
7. First African Woman Novelist is from Imo state
8. Ndlovukati
9. Charitable contributions
10. Relevance in Buddhism

September 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 September 27

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shahada
2. Possible to buy New York Times in Seattle in 1910?
3. European Defence Agency - estimated savings
4. @ recipient
5. What exactly does pragmatism states of logic?
6. Infanta Mariana Francisca of Portugal and Infanta Maria Doroteia of Portugal
7. Peace, man
8. Book about bees

September 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 September 28

1. Math
2. Emergency dispatchers
3. Property Rights Question
4. Bart Simpson's grossest foods
5. Handly's Lessee v. Anthony
6. United States electoral college system
7. Intrinsic vs. Extrinsic religiosity
8. British royals and languages

September 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 September 29

1. Mizrahi and sephardi jews neighbourhoods in Israel
2. candidates Israel election Shas and Meretz Parties
3. candidates each political parties last elections Sweden Norway Denmark Belgium Netherlands Italy Spain Portugal
4. Government opposition to a private member's bill in the Parliament of the UK
5. Pain in babies

September 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 September 30

1. Soviet Census
2. name for a research paradigm
3. Scottish independence
4. Advertising Model of Cable and Satellite TV