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January 1[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 January 1

  1. The Federation
  2. The Night of the Vanities.
  3. Punishment for family member's crime
  4. Mughal Empire
  5. Tamara Summers
  6. Countries that use leaded gas
  7. Trying to identify classical piano piece - music fans, please help! [Solved]

January 2[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 January 2

  1. Phillip Roth's libido
  2. Is this illegal?
  3. Identification of a musical instrument or style
  4. Spinet Grand Piano
  5. Culture differences and effects on Wikipedia developement
  6. Pakistan Muslim League(N)
  7. What Colonial Emperors Were There?
  8. If the United Kingdom attempted to abolish the monarchy
  9. Germans: rudness vs openness/honesty
  10. German XXII Corps(es?) in 1939
  11. stocks and bonds
  12. What happened to the tribes in Rwanda during the Rwandan Genocide?
  13. Why do paparazzi not require model releases?

January 3[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 January 3

  1. GPL vs GFDL vs CC-BY-SA-3
  2. Utah caucus?
  3. Shared parenting
  4. The Time of her Life, The Time In Between and The Memort Man
  5. Iowa caucuses
  6. Nuremberg War Tribunals

January 4[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 January 4

  1. Ursula K. Le Guin recommendations
  2. Justice Potter's birthday?
  3. How do you draw a supply / demand curve for public radio and non-profits?
  4. Is it true that USA let a lot of Japanese WW2 war criminals go free/covered up war crimes in return for money?
  5. Witness information

January 5[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 January 5

  1. Average number of friends
  2. WWII alternate history
  3. McCain/Giuliani
  4. Religious-use of cannabis by Buddhists
  5. Process of suing Wikipedia for copyright infringement
  6. Election tresholds
  7. Delegate anomaly
  8. United Statesian caucuses/primaries etc.
  9. getting a physical stock certificate to hang on a wall

January 6[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 January 6

  1. us wars
  2. Orion
  3. US presidential election
  4. Law Citations
  5. information about a female activitist mentioned in Noam Chomsky film "Manufacturing Consent"
  6. Most requested US military job
  7. Teen Money
  8. 2 door disel car in NA?
  9. Alberta Law Schools

January 7[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 January 7

  1. Best city in the US for a bootstrapped startup
  2. Treason in the U.S.
  3. Midweek Bible Class and Sunday Night Services
  4. Back-weighted primary victory - historically precedented?
  5. Magazines
  6. Oldest continually functioning democracy
  7. Detective Author
  8. Treaty of Servres
  9. MAJOR help Needed. Guarani Primary Sources!

January 8[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 January 8

  1. The Memory Man (novel)
  2. Avoiding USAs indpendence
  3. Searching a place to live
  4. Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male--prosecution of doctors?
  5. Cost of Living increases the U.S. over the last 10 years
  6. Source of Quotation from Spenser
  7. a simply question.
  8. British government department naming
  9. Viet Nam War Memorial: Funding
  10. City Smoke Commissioner
  11. Expelled from the party

January 9[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 January 9

  1. "Fingerings of a piano"
  2. Modern Torah scrolls
  3. Louis G. Kaufman
  4. Martial Arts Instruction
  5. Economists: How do I draw indifference curves?
  6. How are the relatonships between centre and states in USA?
  7. michigan law
  8. Wally dugs
  9. The oldest map
  10. "Gay" vandalism
  11. lovesickness
  12. Yates
  13. Gnashing of teeth: some questions

January 10[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 January 10

  1. Mistakes in the Qu'ran?
  2. Death watch beetle and nativity song
  3. Imperialism
  4. How do I lead a double life?
  5. NON PROFIT FOUNDATION
  6. Killing in the name of...
  7. Christian or Jewish name
  8. About Panchatantra
  9. Bara bröst

January 11[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 January 11

  1. Travel across the Mediterranean Sea in ancient and medieval times
  2. Obtaining sculpture
  3. Fiction books about Pankration?
  4. Voting twice in U.S. primaries
  5. Short articles on various topics
  6. NON PROFIT FOUNDATION IN GREAT BRITAIN
  7. Are we constantly lying?
  8. Is there someone with a subscription to Highbeam research? I want to know the name of the third hijacker of Ethiopian 961
  9. Ancient religious symbols
  10. Some questions
  11. discharge under mental health act

January 12[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 January 12

  1. Meaning of “Jailed”
  2. PAGE NEEDS YOUR HELP!!!
  3. how do i outsource on a small scale
  4. calculation of Easter 1808
  5. Happily Married Philosopher?
  6. Tabula Gerlandi
  7. Gays in Bangladesh?
  8. Poems written by Alexander Scriabin

January 13[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 January 13

  1. cult cure
  2. Obesity/popular culture
  3. Principles of Feminism
  4. Dolly Madison
  5. Is the name "Goldstein" a Jewish family name?
  6. wife taking husband's name
  7. Military garb
  8. Living Gods
  9. Non-fiction recommendations
  10. Tikkun

January 14[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 January 14

  1. "Wars have begun that way"
  2. How Many Bills has Bush passed into law?
  3. Beaver testacles as medicine?
  4. Public library use in the UK
  5. Recipe website that gives recipes according to what ingredients you have?
  6. Origin of the name
  7. China Factories - Foriegn Ownership
  8. India Real Estate - Foreign Ownership
  9. Buyouts by GM & Ford
  10. History of Buckingham Palace
  11. Canada recognizing independent states
  12. Sultana disaster 1865
  13. Yummy plain white rice

January 15[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 January 15

  1. What East, West and North africans race belong to?
  2. Irish Senate and democracy
  3. American talk radio
  4. Greek history accounts
  5. Formalitate
  6. [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 January 15#where in what country is cocaine legal like .5Bin the same way as.5D cigarettes and alohol .5Bare.5D in america?|where in what country is cocaine legal like [in the same way as] cigarettes and alohol [are] in america?]]
  7. list of objects that on or in the vicinity of your person make you sexy
  8. "Doing the ultra-violent"
  9. How can yo tell the difference between criticism and abuse?
  10. Oreboat Workers

January 16[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 January 16

  1. how many people were killed by UN forces since WWII?
  2. Hello
  3. Metaphorical winter
  4. Republic of Blank
  5. MOU
  6. Similar sites to Amazon Mechanical Turk
  7. humanity
  8. Basic JC-1 H2 Economics help needed
  9. Was the Roman conquest of Britain a major strategic error - in retrospect of course?
  10. What is a "good economy" defined by economists?
  11. Relation / Correction of Tanakh page with Ketuvim page

January 17[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 January 17

  1. Primaries & caucuses
  2. Book Review for The Memory Man
  3. Inflation
  4. Southern California
  5. Arab leaders
  6. Western Africa
  7. Metal buildings
  8. Palestinian Media influence on
  9. Art relative?
  10. Kutuzov and Napoleon
  11. United States Political Appointments
  12. Dick Cheney quote
  13. Declaration of Independence rough drafts!?
  14. Colonial Rhode Island Religion

January 18[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 January 18

  1. FDNY Memorial flag
  2. Hermes, Plato and Manichaeism
  3. Roman decline
  4. Literature / Poetry
  5. Theologians
  6. Journalism/reporting
  7. Married U.S. Congresspeople
  8. finding a bunch of cash on the pavement.

January 19[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 January 19

  1. Votes for Women
  2. Delegate counts
  3. Popular landscape artist
  4. Personality and external appearance
  5. Information about Yeoiju in Korean culture.
  6. Painting depicting a Boy with a Monkey on His Shoulder - Probably Dutch Genre Painting - 17 th Century.
  7. Dr Albert Schweitzer
  8. Per capita income and living
  9. England in the Middle Ages
  10. Crusade route
  11. A Medieval War
  12. making her feel I've spent a lot of time on her...
  13. Spanish erotic novel
  14. Where are knife rests placed in tablesetting?
  15. driving laws USA
  16. 1848 Rvolutions
  17. 19th Century Politics
  18. Vivicide

January 20[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 January 20

  1. psychologists who were murderers.
  2. What is a "Buckeye Christian"
  3. Versicle and response at the end of Evensong
  4. Urban legend concerning McDonald's following the Kent State Massacre
  5. French law, adultery and homicide
  6. Did Jesus learn his teachings from India?
  7. Politics
  8. Old Testament Bible
  9. Arabic words
  10. female somali dress
  11. business classes relevant to development coop./int'l org's/NGOs?
  12. Correct Name of Month Celebrating African-American Heritage in the U.S.
  13. What is a "formative essay"?
  14. "no animals were harmed during the making of this film"
  15. where did Jesus go to school?
  16. Business Ideas
  17. M.L.K.

January 21[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 January 21

  1. Stradivarius violin authentication
  2. Basic JC-1 H2 Economics help needed (again)
  3. an american bank in budapest
  4. History of South India
  5. Who said it?
  6. BIBLE commentary needed
  7. Who is more evil, Macbeth or Lady Macbeth?

January 22[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 January 22

  1. Attraction between cultures
  2. MMORPGs and philosophy
  3. sexual orientation
  4. Philosophical Question
  5. Arts-Comics-golden age- 'Jane' strip cartoon
  6. Compatibility of GFDL with Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported
  7. Last British soldier killed in World War One
  8. "Question"
  9. A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
  10. Chapter-verse notation styles
  11. Somali-Canadians
  12. Australia and New Zealand

January 23[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 January 23

  1. Les Miserables Quote on Communism
  2. senators
  3. Food and Wine in Plays
  4. Could Congress change the result of a presidential election?
  5. Literary device name
  6. Rome and China
  7. Religion and the End of the World
  8. Art Painting UN Security Council
  9. Corpus Glossatorum Iuris Civilis
  10. Egypt vs Thailand
  11. Coat of arms of Nepal
  12. Does the Nazi flag fly in German memorials?

January 24[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 January 24

  1. Santa Fe Trail
  2. LDS
  3. JC-1 H2 Literature texts
  4. Gerard Winstanley
  5. Oldest city in Oklahoma
  6. Mandate of Palestine
  7. Am I right in saying the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut is certainly NOT "the oldest constitution in the Western World"?
  8. United Nations and genocide
  9. Irish or British??
  10. Is there a philosophy that ....
  11. Aqiqah

January 25[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 January 25

  1. DPS
  2. Editor of The Hindu
  3. American Casualties
  4. Price of milk around the world
  5. Subconsciousness
  6. Child porn laws
  7. photographic history of Sandgate, Newcastle New South Wales, Australia
  8. Giovanni Boccaccio's exact birth date
  9. Origin and interpretation of the phrase 'Mercenaries, Missionaries, Misfits'
  10. Why weren't flamethrowers used durring the American Revolution
  11. What are some movies that depict gunpowder warfare?
  12. Catholic Polygamy
  13. Psychology of terror
  14. Tall Romans? (ancient)
  15. Introduction to Hegel
  16. British Empire

January 26[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 January 26

  1. Using a freely-licensed work inside a work that is not freely-licensed
  2. Protectionism in the E.U.
  3. Strange Book
  4. James Thurber's eye color
  5. Is this greatest debate performance ever audio recorded?
  6. Ragnarok now?
  7. Nice map showing evolution internal structure of Soviet Union : Wikipedia doesn't have it anymore

January 27[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 January 27

  1. The New Bohemia
  2. Evidence for Christianity as the One True Religion?
  3. Charles Manson and popular culture
  4. Convention Conventions
  5. how does this relate to the menorah?
  6. Man of Tahitian culture
  7. Military rules, discipline
  8. Global Warming
  9. world bank
  10. Animals of Kenya
  11. U.S. Presidential Election this year
  12. Unpopular King?
  13. books on how cult members are recruited

January 28[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 January 28

  1. Khobalus?
  2. 7 day week
  3. Court fools
  4. Lifespan of book and album covers
  5. Why are psychedelic drugs illegal?
  6. United States Military - science & tech inventions
  7. First of the modern conqurers
  8. Hullo Central
  9. strange land formation in northern quebec?
  10. Sneaker Pimps
  11. Desteni?
  12. The Roman Empire
  13. cole scego
  14. A high resolution picture of a Lenin painting
  15. Constantine and Christianity
  16. Musicals: "The Red Mill" vs. "Moulin Rouge!"
  17. Defection
  18. Oil Exploitation

January 29[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 January 29

  1. Regulation of the high seas
  2. John Edwards' Delegates
  3. Public domain government reports
  4. Contactless payment cards in various cultures
  5. Real or Fake
  6. How can we consider them as rapists and criminals?
  7. Black Death
  8. Officialy the best sporting nation
  9. Translations of Plato's Republic
  10. Proper names
  11. Odon von Horvath
  12. How important is $100 to an average American?
  13. Corporate jet setters
  14. South America: Homicide Information
  15. Dark Complexion?
  16. Nurse capill

January 30[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 January 30

  1. Florida primary
  2. JC-1 H2 Literature texts
  3. Assassination or murder?
  4. Public Hangings in the United Kingdom and France
  5. Coat pulled over the head
  6. Al Gore
  7. Amtrak v Miller
  8. Pronunciation: Ayn Rand
  9. Use of IPA in education?
  10. Giving your staff shares as part of salary arrangement
  11. Greats of Martial Arts
  12. City of Vice
  13. The Red Tsar
  14. What is معلاي
  15. Highland Army
  16. source for Pindar's 7th Olympian Ode
  17. Filling gaps in the CV

January 31[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 January 31

  1. African languages
  2. Mystery code.
  3. Horse Racing and Women's Hats?
  4. Finding legislative bills on the net
  5. Commercial Underwriter
  6. deciding my major
  7. Democracy
  8. Imperialism
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