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August 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 August 1

1. A law-related question: what's the difference between a motion and a pleading?
2. Youngest General
3. Religion vs The Truth
4. Manifest Destiny (Sea to Shining Sea, Westward Ho!)
5. 2010 Census Bureau on ancestry, apart from race and also racial classification
6. Freedom of panorama
7. Canadian secession from America
8. Where's London?
9. (UK) Coalition pledges
10. more specific ancient roman questions

August 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 August 2

1. newspaper souvenirs
2. Forts
3. who am I?
4. Zhang Yi
5. Pomander
6. Bradley_Manning's access to information
7. how many American troops are still..
8. what percent of the area of Earth be Europe?
9. Is it true...

August 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 August 3

1. Shakespeare and Italy
2. Whence "Incest is best"?
3. Question about attention whores
4. Flag or emblem of Ancient Egypt
5. Were The Indigenous people, the Taínos, farmers and hunters?
6. Book question
7. Colonel Grantham
8. Stealing Power
9. Can Romans be considered Italians?

August 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 August 4

1. "Frazer River"
2. Where's The Stream
3. United Countries of America
4. Automaton and law
5. Why is San Francisco such a popular destination for French tourists?
6. Lies of the U.S. federal government to the American people
7. estates-general
8. Bells and smells

August 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 August 5

1. Orwell quote
2. Question on serial killer Herbert Mullin
3. Rosary beads
4. British Prince
5. Thomas L. Blanton
6. Availability of blood for cooking
7. Why was the British Empire just a kingdom?

August 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 August 6

1. Descendants of John of Gaunt
2. Justifications for peacetime promotions in the military?
3. 16 districts of Bangladesh
4. British vs. U.S. Table Manners
5. Am I not God speech
6. what english word expression
7. Difference between total capitalization and market capitalization
8. Films showing elms in the English landscape
9. Black African Canadian Population
10. Berlin Wall and "Peaceful Coexistence"
11. Winter burials
12. Jesus

August 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 August 7

1. Ockham's razor
2. Winding up a failed state
3. Article on Comparative Geography

August 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 August 8

1. Do humans have a natural language?
2. 18th century Anglophone accents
3. Is this womb envy?
4. American Revolutionary War
5. Unnamed sculpture

August 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 August 9

1. time frame between Numbers 21 and 2 Kings 18?
2. Questions on the plot of the Literature text: Richard iii, Shakepeare. ^[1]
3. Can a nation state aquire ownership by way of adverse possession?
4. Perjury in court
5. Traditional Depictions of Witches and Wizards
6. What is the stereotype for the people in the North, East, West & South?
7. geneology of king david
8. Il duce, Silvio
9. Unknown territory

August 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 August 10

1. What is a city in which...
2. Streibel or Striebel?
3. how did Jesus convince a billion people he's the messiah?
4. Social values as to respect to mother and father: Western vs. Eastern
5. World Health Organization Structure
6. The Dream of Gerontius (poem)

August 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 August 11

1. Jeremy Bamber
2. Perpetual virginity of Mary
3. Something like Netflix for books
4. Did Hiltler do anything good?
5. England's National Day?
6. Sculpture identification

August 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 August 12

1. Faith
2. Western attempts to "destabilise" USSR
3. SAT vs ACT
4. school
5. inception
6. difference between medieval SURCOAT AND TABARD?

August 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 August 13

1. St. John of the Cross
2. Religions without written texts
3. Irish Military Logo as Lyre With Shield?
4. were there any advanced ancient cultures that left no traces?
5. Sir Percy Blakeney's Title Confusion
6. Legal question

August 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 August 14

1. North York Federal Ridings Canada
2. Consecration of Nero
3. "... Alienated from... " in 17th century English history
4. Question about miscegenation
5. Free Movement, Work and the Schengen Area?
6. Some questions from someone not that knowledgeable in economics.
7. RANKS WITHIN THE CHURCH
8. where can I read John Wayne Gacy's petitions from death row
9. Name change after Hajj?

August 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 August 15

1. Is this Mongkut or Chulalongkorn?
2. Revisionism
3. Stop signs
4. prenatal influence
5. Abraham Lincoln
6. St James
7. how divorce will affect childern?
8. World War One and the Russian Revolution
9. U.S. county borders
10. Hugo metaphor

August 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 August 16

1. related by marriage
2. Carrier Strike Group: the exclusion zone
3. link between Octavia Hill and Frederick Leighton
4. Husband/Wife teams in politics
5. Persian 'Ustad' (teacher)
6. Expulsion of the moriscos
7. Car used for bombing FLQ
8. more than dual citizenship
9. Can you identify this picture from my poor description, please?
10. Stray cow problem in India
11. "I knew he was a Commie because he didn't drink"
12. WWII
13. Federal System

August 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 August 17

1. White paper on indians
2. Odd canal layout near Holland River
3. Anglicanism, John Calvin, the Bishop of Rome and George Fox
4. Baptists & Quakers
5. Confusion with the first few statments of the Tractatus
6. First-past-the-post system in Canada
7. Stray cow "problem" in India
8. Someone running for state senate office a notable person to write about?
9. Turkish Embassy Incident

August 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 August 18

1. 9-1-1 on a cell phone
2. Imperial Valley, CA

August 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 August 19

1. Hero
2. John Jacob Niles
3. Nazi Ovens
4. "Evidences for biblical accuracy" questions
5. Passports from Cameroon
6. Eugene Peterson's The Message
7. meaning of oshan caste in india (punjab)
8. Roger Clemens

August 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 August 20

1. why did mike myers and Robin Ruzan divorce?
2. American search and rescue dogs
3. Weiyang Palace
4. Australian election count television?
5. Leaving Berlin mid-1945 - going where?
6. Blimp/Zeppelins
7. Shakespeare's Sonnet 12
8. PLA Woman
9. Gini coefficient of a commercial entity

August 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 August 21

1. When did basic human society begin? Can that even be defined?
2. directions towards the debate
3. Is it harder to get laid if you have few friends?
4. cars in St.Pierre and Miquelon
5. Straw Dogs

August 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 August 22

1. Building Identification
2. History of Shepherd's Crooks
3. Austro-Hungarian Studies at university in the UK
4. Saddest Oscar film
5. (not a request for legal advice!!) legally, will two women get in trouble in sweden if they collude to defame someone by inventing rape stories but then abandon the same when the jig is up?
6. Logic train
7. on what date did the reason for invading Iraq switch from being about their WMD to their freedom?

August 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 August 23

1. Gold and silver are money...
2. Electronic form of negotiable instrument
3. Knights/dames who have sex changes
4. Mogadishu & Mercer Island - how would the residents feel about each other's cities?
5. Population
6. Plaque near William Wallace plaque in St. Bartholomew Hospital in London

August 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 August 24

1. Piano Music
2. Greatest English-speaking orators of the 20th Century?
3. Shakespear
4. Barry Ronge
5. Compare and contrast the state governments of Virginia (USA) and Victoria (Australia)
6. 1854 Broad Street cholera outbreak
7. History of France, 16th century
8. Children's Science Fiction Collection

August 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 August 25

1. Racist French law?
2. Stray Cow "Problem" in India
3. 2010 China National Highway 110 traffic jam
4. brief wherein Nike argues the right to lie.
5. Hard-boiled detective novel with an amnesia story within the story
6. Fiction about controlling people with language
7. Election campaigns of people with gimmick names (intentional or not) or just strange names
8. What Science Fiction Novel Is It?
9. Who is this princess?
10. Is social class about income and wealth, or about education and behaviour, or perhaps a combination of both?
11. Red flag above London GLC building
12. The freedom/seclusion of royal women in ancient Greece
13. American Indian Facial Hair
14. Word process a novel?

August 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 August 26

1. slaughterhouse 5 and The Things They Carried
2. Modern Day Grand Tour
3. Separation of Church and State
4. Chilean Miners
5. UK Tax Law
6. Trying to remember the name of a book...
7. The thirty-two types of personality

August 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 August 27

1. jewelry from gulf oil disaster
2. Heir presumptive of Thurn and Taxis
3. Credit card questions
4. Are there any Africans with only African ancestors?
5. rice paper block print
6. Where in the world for the best standard of living for the least money?
7. 1066 - victory or defeat?
8. Jogging Kilburn, London
9. Fictional medals for a WW2 military themed website...
10. New Netherlands

August 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 August 28

1. Crime in Denver
2. Hitler as a Surname
3. Crusades
4. Creation of Pashtunistan and consequences for NATO
5. killing
6. We need Peace, no ?
7. Human Height Over History

August 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 August 29

1. Who painted the iconic "The Sad Clown" painting?
2. 1907 pogrom in Poland
3. mma fighter
4. Highly classified US government information — only for the president?
5. Rawsons
6. Wills' letter to Lincoln
7. Strange colon
8. Joseph Ratzinger "subsequent illness" during Wehrmacht service
9. English language with most speakers

August 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 August 30

1. Historical population continent statistics - these seem highly suspect to me
2. U.S. National Defense
3. Patent - General Question
4. Pledge of Allegiance
5. Medieval distillation of perfume

August 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 August 31

1. Proving file sharing in court
2. 2010 census info
3. Drug Cartel organizational structure
4. GDP deflator question
5. Christian apologetics in the early 16th century
6. A Walk over water
7. Distribution of oil/aid money ....
8. Abbey of St. Juste
9. Isn't it Against Wikirules?
10. fishing
11. Flag colors
12. Dante and physics
13. Historical dominatixes
14. For Whom the Bell Tolls