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February 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 February 1

1. Percentage of felons who claim they are innocent and appeal their conviction (U.S.)
2. Gonzaga name
3. Cost for a water pump including labor and materials in Bangladesh in us dollars...
4. Bengal Daily Wage
5. Tax not being paid by British royals
6. Ethnicity of Europe's royals
7. Effects of U.S. government shutdown
8. A logical answer to these questions?
9. Newt Gingrich instead of Newton Gingrich
10. 17/12/93
11. Oil shocks with low inflation
12. President of the US stopping a death sentence of a state government
13. Bashing of Religion
14. Malaysia and Muslim population of Philippines and Thailand
15. What makes a song catchy and danceable?

February 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 February 2

1. what is the name of this artwork?
2. Egypt's Revolution >>>>Europe
3. Last names
4. Thriller writer called Patterson
5. Belfast's Little Italy
6. Russian Orthodox question: "first" and "second" resurrections
7. Family Guy
8. Why is it that Sub Saharan Africa is so primitive?
9. Any democratic royalty?
10. "Top secret"

February 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 February 3

1. Veiling under Atatürk
2. Nelson A. Boylen
3. David and Mary Thompson
4. US Presidents unpopularity
5. ACT/SAT prep
6. Land
7. Ancestors of Qais Abdur Rashid
8. Edward Carpenter Poetry
9. The first actress in Italy and Europe
10. history

February 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 February 4

1. Killer kings
2. World population pyramid
3. Primer to List of Philosophies?
4. Abbreviation for Senior Sergeant
5. Egyptian protesters
6. Geography question
7. Jerusalem and Thailand/Cambodian border
8. He might be a motherfucker, but he's our motherfucker.

February 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 February 5

1. Lawyer on trial defends himself
2. Stella!
3. More currency - the loonie
4. Former British Empire not in the Commonwealth?
5. Royal jewlery
6. Art with a gamma camera
7. Cop says: "Don't leave town"
8. Famous Ancient Chinese Common Women
9. William Poole House
10. Christian deism? Jesuans?
11. Northern Irish Citizenship?

February 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 February 6

1. Antonyms
2. Gentle males
3. Execution of Jesus during or after Passover
4. What on earth are justice?
5. how helpful is being a fluent speaker of modern Greek, to learning ancient Greek?
6. California-Arizona desert murders
7. innocuous do not disturb sign
8. Identify painting/Greek myth

February 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 February 7

1. Do servicemen have multiples of the same uniform?
2. Plead error
3. City of London
4. Looking for statistics on Life Imprisonment in Florida
5. about annasophia robb
6. Why is Sweden more likely than UK to extradite Julian Assange?
7. Wikipedia Policy against giving Legal Advice.
8. commentary of The Cask of Amontillado

February 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 February 8

1. Vocal range
2. Sunan Airport and Air Koryo
3. Peers and Knights
4. Florida Property Taxation
5. Pachelbel's Canon
6. food to buy
7. Quote
8. Drawing ability

February 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 February 9

1. pilgrim(s) in an unholy land
2. China
3. Brussels Intercommunal Transport Company
4. Reconciling one's idols with one's ideals
5. Einstein Religious Views Article
6. Armed bodyguards
7. metals
8. crossbow and archery equipment
9. Interdependence quoted by Tom Harris
10. Correct information about the marriage and exile of a princess?
11. Sartre quotation
12. What is the source of a quotation about wit and humor?
13. US Military Bases on Foreign Soil
14. Underage rape
15. Odd State Names
16. Mürur tezkeresi in Arabic
17. "pressure from bond markets"

February 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 February 10

1. Buried in prison after life imprisonment
2. Chinese citizenship
3. The Vietnamese adult film industry
4. Kindle Buddhism Book Rec? More principles, less New Age garbage
5. WW2: Russia vs. Japan: Ongoing?
6. Is this the "Batiment Banque Congolaise"?
7. attachment of soul in Christian theology
8. James Murdoch (media executive)
9. if I knew what I would believe -- i.e. that I don't believe now -- if I were smarter...
10. NY Times 11 nov. 1918
11. List of ship casualties

February 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 February 11

1. Psychologist treating themselves
2. Best book on the Louvre
3. GMT + ? - Eastern U.S.
4. uncovenanted king
5. List of Christian Nations of Europe
6. Oscar Wilde story about Jesus
7. Human eye colour
8. Visiting churches and cathedrals
9. Colonial and State Establishments of Religion
10. What is the copyright status of books published by the Soviet state?
11. Barry Bonds Steroids Trial
12. Einstein's image
13. Roman Britain's importance
14. Fixed costs for airliners
15. Business = evil
16. Renew Chinese passport
17. King Tut Expedition

February 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 February 12

1. Social advice - conversations
2. Fuad II of Egypt
3. Buddhism -- ok to feed a starving animal?
4. Vikings in Cornwall
5. Who is an "eminent jurist"?
6. "do you think people are against you" as a assessment question
7. riddle: something rather heavy someone would always have with them, where-ever they go
8. Origin of the surname 'Lust'?
9. Relationships in The Moonstone
10. Reverend Innes and dinosaur denial
11. case law resource for self-representation

February 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 February 13

1. Trade Secret
2. Technology is the devil's work?
3. relationship names
4. Nuclear bombs at home
5. Leprosy in the Roman Empire
6. Does suicide send them to Hell? Mom told me this, but where in religious text does it say so?
7. My Generation
8. What was the combined total area of the USSR and its satellite states?

February 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 February 14

1. Grand Mosque Tirana
2. Egypt's dissolvement and suspension
3. Demand curves (and supply curves)

February 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 February 15

1. Computer question-answering
2. Why were the Europeans successful in colonizing North America and not Sub-Saharan Africa?
3. Cable Car funicular
4. Israel's supposed possession of atomic weapons
5. I don't understand this joke
6. How many times did Labour take Britain to war?
7. "District Miss'y"
8. The Walsgrave triangle,Coventry.
9. Where can I find the laws governing public facilities like a city recreation center?

February 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 February 16

1. Source of citation
2. History of Vision and Mission Statements?
3. Politics and war several in 1
4. what type/field of logic is used when thinking in...
5. Who originally said "good judgment comes from experience ... experience comes from bad judgment"?
6. vulnerability to radicalization
7. Protests in Middle East and North Africa
8. Crescent Moon
9. Generation identity
10. Breastfeeding
11. advanced question: how to play honorable poker

February 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 February 17

1. King Charles' Letter of Thanks to the Cornish
2. Michel Foucault geopolitics view
3. What could that number of gold coins buy in the 1300s?
4. Living in Beijing with only $550 US a month
5. M1911's small magazine size
6. Cold war
7. 1970s-era photos
8. JSF, GE & UTX

February 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 February 18

1. Presidential bodyguard
2. Help needed to identify type of fallacy
3. How best to make known political policy wishes from the grassroots in the UK?
4. Copy-and-paste PhD
5. Symbol cask of amontillado

February 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 February 19

1. Name this genre
2. Trying to remember a Gogol story
3. Parallel time
4. UK Gift aid
5. "All men are created equal" and slavery
6. Proceedure for issuing palaces to the royal kids/grandkids
7. images of Indian nationalist movement
8. A section in the Bible
9. German hazmat team in orange?
10. Which Irish party?

February 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 February 20

1. Wisconsin brouhaha: article?
2. So how is Belgium functioning?
3. Revenge and inner peace
4. collective bargaining
5. Whispering columns of Jerash
6. poem that C. S. Lewis referenced
7. Dieter Dengler
8. The destruction of the Temple of Artemis.

February 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 February 21

1. Directors of Turism for San Juan Puerto Rico
2. The Omnivore's Dilemma
3. peace and harmony
4. Michael Grade
5. The ease of accessing each of the Mayan Ruins in Central America
6. Missionaries and near-naked/naked tribes
7. MLA
8. Why isn't Egypt invading Libya?
9. airport scanners
10. Population of U.S. if there was no Civil War
11. 1963 Mona Lisa visit
12. How And where Thomas Ellis Hardee was Murdered?
13. Women musicians in antiquity
14. do freelance coders or graphics designers or translators who basically just "use" their laptop and sometimes phone ever travel the world while doing so?

February 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 February 22

1. Books on arguments against I.D. and Young Earth Creationism
2. is this stuff true?
3. Cross of nail.....coventry cathedral
4. Antony Flew (former atheist)
5. Bryony Worthington, Baroness Worthington
6. Poem written in response to "House by the Side of the Road"
7. Trust fund kids
8. Freemasonic countess in the 18th-century?
9. Ancient Symbols of Hyrule
10. HMS Joanna

February 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 February 23

1. Hill, James B. (1945). Autobiography
2. Illegality of unapproved drugs in the United States
3. Prediction by comparison to fiction?
4. Pendolino trains in the UK
5. merchant of venice willam shakespeare
6. Age of majority in Israel
7. Early 13th century song: Edi Beo
8. Iran Hostage Crisis response
9. 2010 local level census data
10. End of the Iran-Iraq War
11. Getting an investor interested in a particular project.

February 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 February 24

1. Animorphs 37 reference
2. Hitler
3. Yuon
4. Semi-structural economic model
5. Correct pronounciation of "ICE"
6. Please answer
7. Mutual Fund vs Index Fund
8. APY
9. Line-item vetoes and what?
10. Multiple social classes?
11. Avoiding stagflation despite oil price increases
12. Royal lineage of Alimi's royal family from Ilorin in Kwara State
13. High-speed train in the US (or lack thereof)
14. What version of the bible would Inazo Nitobe likely have used?
15. Red Square

February 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 February 25

1. Makkin wor Cheryl tak proper like
2. Old motto of the University of Bologna?
3. Anti-Mullah compaign by Khaksar movement not mentioned in the article.
4. seed capital demand curve
5. King's College and the police
6. France invading Spain/UK
7. Literature & fear of death
8. Gnome in the Lord of the Rings
9. death
10. British military bases in US

February 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 February 26

1. Poland
2. OMG
3. W. M. mason
4. Front bench changes after Irish general elections?
5. 2011 Libyan uprising
6. German speaking Metallica-like bands?
7. "permission to speak freely"
8. Middle East
9. Pistol Packing Mama

February 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 February 27

1. Modern presidents
2. 16 syllables
3. Nonsignatories to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation treaty?
4. Help finding a Desert Storm photo
5. Pendolino trains - why?
6. Where can I find the following online courses for under $220/credit-hour?
7. Islamic view on ancient Egypt
8. NM Native American Lands

February 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 February 28

1. Proportion of soldiers at the sharp end
2. can private companies sell shares with restrictions that they not be resold within a time?
3. Reason(s) for absence of Historical Buddha scholarship?
4. Copyright question
5. Street Called Straight
6. Providinig reference to wikipedia article that is new
7. Information regarding street in Belfast
8. Horace Mann(s)
9. Anything like National Writing Month?
10. hitler in conversation
11. Grand Western Canal - route through Taunton
12. PPF - proof that a point is productively inefficient.
13. Where do Noahides worship?
14. Italian citizenship
15. Where did Attila die?
16. Memorize music