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October 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2011 October 1

1. Riviera Country Club, Pacific Palisades, CA
2. Interior of the Westgate Bridge
3. place name
4. Addressing a professor properly
5. Who are these people?
6. mystery item of german WW2 uniform

October 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2011 October 2

1. Carmen on ice - Katarina Witt
2. Wingdings
3. Food coloring
4. 2010 DST iPhone Bug in the EU and Economic Costs?
5. Dr Michael BAden
6. Requests for financial help
7. History of Wachovia Bank-slave dealing?
8. Marshal Tolbukhin boulevard, Sofia

October 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2011 October 3

1. myth creatures
2. What is this Rwandan Snack?
3. How to find a girlfriend?
4. slimes dam
5. Enviroment Channel
6. EEC in 1960, colonial preferences, UK and "The 6"

October 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2011 October 4

1. Installing a ceiling fan on a drop ceiling
2. Best absinthe commercially available in the US specifically DC, CT, or NY
3. What is a segment saw?
4. handhels sensors
5. US towns with identical names
6. 2004 world population conference
7. Traditional Japanese music

October 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2011 October 5

1. 4 Chords
2. Hiding the entire 'pedia
3. Quran app and tafirs app
4. cutting concrete strips on highway
5. Automobile
6. Silicon Valley Job Statistic
7. Has the popularity of kasher food increased in the United States?

October 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2011 October 6

1. Chargeable interstate vs. non chargeable interstate
2. seminar help
3. Tampa Bay Buccaneers
4. should these be in humanities?

October 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2011 October 7

1. Hanging_Rock,_Victoria
2. University of Wales
3. baked French fries?
4. Two-pin plug in the UK

October 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2011 October 8

1. yamaha 125 tzr motorbike engine
2. What kind of pet collars are popular in Europe and the United States?
3. Bridal Showers
4. internet acronyms
5. pre-mature ejaculation
6. string theory
7. Specification for Bell & Howell Micro Plus ?
8. Hat etiquette in 1935

October 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2011 October 9

1. Hupp Motor Car Company
2. Growth in the number of archaeologists in the Middle East and North Africa besides Israel and Egypt
3. Spare change
4. Each year, about how many of NYC’s tourists will actually leave Manhattan to see and go to the popular tourist destinations in the outer boroughs?
5. Lights in fridges
6. For experts in magic

October 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2011 October 10

1. Articles that link to an image
2. Lack of beef hot dogs in Israel
3. 1906 NYT articles
4. EU highe education funding

October 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2011 October 11

1. call center agents
2. Pythagorean Theorem
3. Sherlock Holmes and tobacco usage
4. How is prostitution defined, when it's illegal?
5. Houses towed by cows on QI?
6. Shaving, polishing the shoes, and marching in the army
7. Basketball team 1980-1981
8. Edible grapes and wine grapes

October 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2011 October 12

1. song in youtube video at 8:24
2. Prisioners numbers

October 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2011 October 13

1. Asbestos procedure vs. mould procedure
2. References
3. Komodo Dragons
4. Looking for halloween costume
5. Rachel Heyhoe Flint
6. Stone tool cultural association
7. Connecticut and the death penalty

October 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2011 October 14

1. berglas effect
2. Jacob Bronowski glasses
3. Birth Certificate in Papua New Guinea
4. Apollo 1 Space Suits
5. Possible scam or casing?
6. Cafe design- teenagers' opinions
7. What car is this?
8. Egg grades
9. WTF 3D!?
10. Flags and the First Amendment
11. personal question for you

October 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2011 October 15

1. Craggy Island
2. Seeming obsession with the rich and famous
3. Where have all the moors gone?
4. personal question again
5. marine electrical engineering
6. Chinese Orchestra scores
7. Brinks Armored Truck Ballistic protection
8. List_of_National_Parks_of_the_Republic_of_China
9. What can someone do with an surreptitiously obtained ESN or MEID?

October 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2011 October 16

1. Spittoon
2. Defective Premises Act 1972
3. Standing (presenting a case)
4. Travel time from Rome Fiumicino to Barberini
5. Luxury cars
6. Has "normal" spam disappeared?
7. My fog machine is spitting out the juice instead of fog, how can i fix this?
8. refrigerators
9. American potatoes

October 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2011 October 17

1. Environment, Natural Resources, Species of Trees & Shrubs To Remove Pollution(s)
2. What are the coordinates of San Antonio de Choatalun, San Martin de Jilotepeque, Chimaltenango department, Guatemala.
3. Currency conversion
4. Astronomy

October 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2011 October 18

1. Alternative to Google Fast Flip
2. When 3 digit interstates is allow to renumber
3. I can't find the puppy?
4. Bus bias
5. International certifications
6. eating wild boar

October 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2011 October 19

1. Glass-lid cookware
2. Building buster in the Batman: Year One film
3. Dragonfly identification

October 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2011 October 20

1. US interstate highway auxiliary numbers
2. US local government severance pay
3. 10/19 coincidence?
4. What address should I use if I were to mail or write to someone in the western part of the Bronx?
5. Country with greatest difference between most populous settlement and second most populous
6. Media markets vs. "viewing areas"
7. That dead Libyan guy

October 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2011 October 21

1. Figuring out familial social status
2. Use of DNA to Prove Someone is Dead
3. Things to do in New Orleans
4. Video of Ariane 5 Flight 501
5. Pick my next job please
6. Things happening in London this weekend
7. (Formerly) Sulfur-Rich Island in South Pacific
8. Breast shape description
9. Birth date for living person - Glen P. Robinson
10. Easter services

October 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2011 October 22

1. retrograde amnesia
2. copy of diploma

October 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2011 October 23

1. What is the bike wheel part where the air goes in called?
2. Archbishop of Canterbury Summer Residence
3. Jean Michel Jarre's laser harp
4. Can I live in the US while working in Canada?
5. Online credits?
6. What's with the "Sir"?

October 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2011 October 24

1. Value of book
2. Voice in the middle of a song
3. RCMP breeches
4. What percent of ebay items for sale are stolen?
5. webcam
6. Looney Tunes-style trapping
7. How quickly do Courier Services work?
8. Cases files in Manhattan Federal Court
9. Why is the New Haven Line so darn slow?

October 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2011 October 25

1. Globe and anchor insignia direction
2. chain weapons?
3. plant food
4. facial parts
5. Bounce Tv Kick READ

October 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2011 October 26

1. Who's minding the store?
2. wut if terrorists invent plastic and ceramic handguns
3. Vanishing mobile phone credit
4. Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness
5. how much influence does a member of board of directors have
6. are we EXTERMELY luck we have not had terrorist attack
7. Foreign language education in North Korea
8. BBC TV

October 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2011 October 27

1. Presdential interviews for sale
2. What's so special about the 787?
3. Would you believe that the last few cups' worth of fuel is worth bickering over?
4. We're fucked.
5. Crisis? What Crisis?
6. Relating to TV programs (in England)
7. UK: NHS certificate to proof that I am insured in the UK (needed for my German health insurance company)

October 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2011 October 28

1. This statement is false.
2. Modern texas
3. hospitals in karnataka following triage system
4. Cloture in the US Senate
5. US president with math degree?
6. Over the bounding main
7. Paradox
8. Sodexho foods prior locations
9. What is this puzzle please?
10. PETA

October 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2011 October 29

1. 2011 Thailand floods
2. Anyone aware of 'The Theory of Dissimilar Sub-consciousness in Molecules' by Nin Ka Umpup, Rahenar, Adishon?
3. Freemdom of information act/
4. Polished cotton
5. Bokassa family - farflung French citizens

October 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2011 October 30

1. Onions
2. Could I get any compensation for filming crimes in progress?
3. Why do we save old keys?
4. Milwaukee prohibition era news article -- chief won't fix dry agents' parking tickets
5. Can people spread a venereal disease, if they have never had sexual contact?

October 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2011 October 31

1. contractor in need
2. The Black Adder TV Series
3. Another landlubber question - the Channel crossing
4. Sink in Laundry Room
5. Changing plea = perjury?
6. microwave ovens