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July 1

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Miscellaneous/2006 July 1

1. Boats
2. US Army Ranks
3. Somathencialence
4. Triple-elimination tournament
5. How can I sign my name if nothing happens when I try to type where that is called for.
6. Advertising in Switzerland
7. Bullet-proof bodies?
8. running out of gas with a diesel engine?
9. Italics Eureka
10. project steps
11. Tactical reasons
12. Canada day wiki
13. nokia series
14. Name of the guitar solo played by Lisa in the Simpsons
15. Contracts
16. U.N.
17. Song on SBS movie ads
18. Hoodie
19. England tune
20. new wiki's

July 2

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Miscellaneous/2006 July 2

1. Toroid graphics
2. Jimbo Wales and Scientology
3. TV Projector Lenses
4. Pantheism
5. looking for a toy
6. Poker
7. Is there a safe and efficient method of penis enlargement?
8. intending international students enquiry
9. Page Title Case Problem
10. Searching for contact info. for Mwenge High School in Singida, Tanzania
11. battlefield weapons
12. Security printing
13. Everlong
14. How to work in a gymnasium instructor?
15. Recycling Scandal - From Bag & Box To Landfill
16. Hp Printers

July 3

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Miscellaneous/2006 July 3

1. Mixed Ethnicity
2. Will AV switcher boxes reduce signal quality?
3. Help setting up component cables.
4. Aspirin dosage - quick help needed !
5. Best Place to Take a Bullet
6. Panentheism
7. Do airship or blimp envelopes have cabins in them?
8. Deletion of Articles
9. Name for strips of paper
10. Will Wikipedia, if it continues to grow for 200 years, become sentient?
11. IRC
12. account is being hacked
13. DVD authoring
14. Pokémon store in NYC
15. forestry and wilidlife
16. Marking routes in Google Maps
17. An articol in roumanian language for roumanian people -
18. how to demagnetize a steel shaft
19. "Cyber" or "Online"?
20. Erythrulose
21. Sport novice
22. Investor Stuff
23. TERRENCE HOWARD

July 4

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Miscellaneous/2006 July 4

1. CD-MP3
2. 1956 cheverlot engines
3. Links & Underlines
4. Witchcraft
5. Solar Power!
6. Twilight Zone Episode !!!!
7. Help
8. Can't open Realplayer
9. Nuovo Cinema Paradiso
10. Music videos
11. Tour de France question
12. limes (fruit)?
13. Fahrenheit 9/11 :scene with singing people on fox+man on tank
14. Average Height for Kurds, Turks, and Persians

July 5

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Miscellaneous/2006 July 5

1. logging!
2. former name of a city in Manchuria
3. phantasy star
4. what is this show
5. computer self-awareness
6. Where can I read more about quick logic?
7. black holes
8. size of the universe
9. US University
10. Carol Thatcher's Middle Name
11. history of stadiums
12. Conscience
13. How to Win Friends and Influence People?
14. win27B0.tmp.exe
15. PE4 & PE4A
16. The Highest Degree

July 6

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Miscellaneous/2006 July 6

1. unix file permissions
2. acess to piks
3. football
4. A question
5. Tarn (disambiguation) and Tarn
6. First programme?
7. names of rodent community
8. Color
9. Common Assault
10. Profit Margin
11. craigslist.com
12. Dragonfly?
13. Schnecztor-Konstanz
14. How to Edit Capitalization of Title
15. Anime Manga
16. How to qualify to play in a tennis tournment
17. NYC street
18. beneficiary of insurance policy
19. How do you make user boxes?
20. raccoons, pigs and bears

July 7

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Miscellaneous/2006 July 7

1. Please help settle a dispute between myself and my wife
2. Winrar didn't work
3. excel sheet in power point slide?
4. Looking for ........................
5. masturbation
6. Downloading with Firefox
7. Links to businesses
8. H.M.S. Antrim
9. geography question
10. history question
11. Moscow
12. Road test - car
13. So Sue me
14. Free web host that supports javascript
15. massively multiplayer game
16. Jesus handles?

July 8

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Miscellaneous/2006 July 8

1. Naming conventions consumer products
2. Islamic clothing
3. HFF
4. US traditional state abbreviations
5. Vegito & Gogeta
6. One massive night
7. Army insignia
8. Finding family
9. How is WW2 and Nazi-related material perceived in modern Germany?
10. symbolic meanings of rock colors/types
11. logging out on Amazon.com
12. secondary bond market
13. Help ID man in photo
14. Where can I buy...
15. What do we understand for "shredding" a guitar solo?
16. nude mayor

July 9

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Miscellaneous/2006 July 9

1. subculture 1
2. subculture 2
3. House Selling under Scottish (Scots) Law
4. Weird Question
5. MegAtomiX Media
6. Group Stations
7. Capital
8. Translation
9. What movie, TV episode, or videogame is this?
10. 1984
11. Doorknob
12. Songs similar to Iggy Pop's "Nightclubbing"
13. Sources for a stupid question
14. Bedshaped
15. Sports timer
16. Since people on wikipedia know a lot about copyright stuff
17. On being the last person alive in the country...
18. Listening a song backwards
19. MSN Emoticon Stored?
20. webcam support for mac

July 10

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Miscellaneous/2006 July 10

1. moths!
2. Keyboard Remapping/Macros
3. Google Wikipedia
4. Deutsche Mark / German Money
5. What is Emulsifier 481 ?
6. Vonnegut story
7. movie mystery
8. Is this a phobia?
9. Adding / Editing Articles in Wikipedia
10. Royal Salute and Gibraltar by Richard Waterer
11. Is the use of amphetamines for college entrance exams common?
12. Copyright
13. Chineese article
14. Place question
15. Language question
16. Computer Storage capacity
17. Carry On films
18. swear
19. tracking down Dmoz editors from user boxes
20. working in the US
21. who sings it?!
22. TrueSkill Ranking
23. Coke Zero
24. Help with music video artist/title from 1980s MTV
25. I just did my first article and is getting deleted. please help
26. Headlights
27. Computer Problem
28. Windows Media Player codec
29. Nielsen Ratings question
30. finance question about U.S. national debt
31. Space=Water?

July 11

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Miscellaneous/2006 July 11

1. Chronological order on internet...
2. Concealed carry
3. Lip synch?
4. STAMPS OF THE U.K
5. ballistics gel
6. the life cycle of an resort
7. 2 homers 2 stolen bases same game
8. Sunni and Shia
9. Online Gaming
10. Warhammer calendar
11. How can I prepare mango sauce?
12. Urinal Design
13. Newspapers
14. Can someone recommend some nice instrumental rock?
15. Inefficent goverment
16. My new account is not being recognized!!
17. least expensive
18. Driving in America
19. How do I....
20. Number of Stores nationally that sell liquor
21. An Average Question
22. spicing food
23. Downloading Streaming Videos
24. Mattress sizes
25. old stock
26. Creature Inhabiting Blackpool Tower
27. Utilizing old photographs in marketing and advertising
28. GIF Resize

July 12

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Miscellaneous/2006 July 12

1. Date format
2. Framegrabbing
3. Best study method for content-heavy courses?
4. 1950 Census Missouri
5. Picture of Bill Randle and Elvis Presley in the Pied Piper Of Cleveland
6. Pantheism,Natural Order,"Magic", and the Origin of the World
7. Ferry service to Madagascar
8. Fart Smells
9. Automatic Downloads
10. I would like to know the original colors of the Oliver #11 horse drawn ploes.
11. Residential Sewage Treatment Plants
12. Car Sales
13. national crime squad badge/emblem
14. 26 = L T C S
15. Music in Master and Commander

July 13

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Miscellaneous/2006 July 13

1. Automatic Downloads
2. code???!!!!!!!
3. Albert Einstein's Connection with Greenville, SC.
4. Q: financial indecies
5. After the World Cup
6. Vandalizing Wikipedia
7. I want flags
8. Tampon Usage
9. Zeenat Aman
10. name that tune
11. why is there such a stigma against homeschooling in america?
12. What is the name of this cryptid?
13. What are the bendable stick figure toys made out of?
14. epoch o civilization
15. starter motor
16. Orchid Classification using foliage
17. Adding an article rather than editting one
18. Looking for very very repetitive Japanese Power Rangers-like show
19. Unpassed UN Security Council Resolutions
20. Adrenaline
21. Using Rifles at School
22. rape + incest
23. Purpose of Yahoo!IM spam?
24. As I was going to St Ives, I met a man with seven wives...
25. Too Hot to Handle
26. sale of car

July 14

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Miscellaneous/2006 July 14

1. Necro Porn
2. Handkerchief on head
3. Military service/boot camp question
4. Free-for-all
5. Women on Wikipedia - or lack of them
6. Automatic Downloads
7. where?
8. Chewetel Ejiofor
9. Why are Wasps?
10. oilblock
11. Married... with Children 80s or 90s
12. hispanic names
13. Question
14. Baseball Trivia
15. Yellow flags in American Football
16. Childless marriages, Speyed bitches and Geldings
17. Halo: Custom Edition
18. News
19. Cheat code files for Gameshark 2 (Build 1437)

July 15

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Miscellaneous/2006 July 15

1. naked singer
2. hairstyles
3. Military Testing Village
4. What's this movie!
5. power electronics converter
6. In the news: Report of Alan Colmes' death
7. back pain
8. A Jazz question: Who wrote this song?
9. Banks: Capital requirements: Risk weight of first mortgages on single family homes
10. Emigrating from Australia to the US?
11. Gardening questions
12. Bob Roll
13. How many dogs are there?

July 16

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Miscellaneous/2006 July 16

1. Transactional Focus
2. Weird abundance of Israeli/Hebrew commercials on MTV Europe
3. Apocalypse level
4. Tagalog Babel
5. A doubt on firearms
6. Better Male Orgasm
7. Safe parts of Manhattan
8. looking for a club/bar to drink/dance manhattan
9. The Land of Aluminium or Titanium
10. A riddle I can't quite solve..
11. Mix
12. Audrey Tautou
13. U.S. elections
14. Haircolour
15. pastry/bakery
16. music
17. Fargo
18. X I Initials

July 17

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Miscellaneous/2006 July 17

1. Trying to find an old book
2. Question about Vic Mackey's Sunglasses from The Shield
3. Friday night lights TV Show theme
4. Azalah Grid, Templars & Shamir
5. Geomagnetic/Magnetic North Pole
6. Call Centres
7. KPA's and KPI's
8. whistle-blowing
9. Question about YouTube
10. redirection
11. Terrible spyware infestation
12. Cannelton Statuary Co.
13. Housing Bubble
14. Longest Beach
15. Using hide/show in articles?
16. Reference
17. Article Naming
18. DJs, scratch DJs, and records
19. APA
20. Jackson, Wi
21. Tour de France
22. Statistics on male viewers for typically female-interest shows
23. Opium Pipes
24. Explosive Devices
25. Sega Genesis video game
26. Beginning of Augusta GA Riverwalk

July 18

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Miscellaneous/2006 July 18

1. Making links
2. Beirut
3. Nixon's famous "V"
4. Tricking bank into thinking I have direct deposit
5. Liberal-Libertarian
6. Antlion
7. Longest winning streak against a different opponent every time
8. hello? I need some answers
9. US County latitude longitude
10. Brett Favre
11. Suggestion
12. What is the greatest number of countries you can visit in an hour/day?
13. Ice-cream Vans
14. How is a person's nationality stated on Wiki
15. Tracer Fire
16. Maps
17. dress
18. Hezbollah Rockets
19. Vicksburg

July 19

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Miscellaneous/2006 July 19

1. Genealogy research - Frederick Rogerson
2. Recording a DdoS attack.
3. Open-source book classification?
4. Meaning of the konkani family name Karvy
5. Kevlar, Ceramic, and Titanium plates in Body Armor
6. The Pidgeon
7. SOLUTION TO POV WHEN IT COMES TO IMAGES
8. Storage for LPs
9. All results from Wimbledon
10. biology
11. mails
12. Title for a school magazine
13. Psalm 129
14. Video Games
15. Changing keyboard shortcuts
16. Wikipedia policy on strong language
17. Question about Geography
18. Policy on links (Style or Formatting)
19. diving
20. Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
21. When is a person considered a diabetic
22. Longest/shortest odds winner?
23. Sound file for "CNN's The Situation Room" intro
24. gmail

July 20

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Miscellaneous/2006 July 20

1. IT related
2. Numeric keypads
3. Funerals
4. Blood donation questionaire
5. MICROBIOLOGY
6. Zero gee combat.
7. dna
8. biology
9. realtors - use the same one for buying and selling?
10. New computing reference desk
11. Orange advert actor
12. MATAHARI
13. Drifting/Rambling
14. Westfield High School, Jefferson County AL School System,
15. Heart Attack

July 21

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Miscellaneous/2006 July 21

1. Projects/Tenders that can be bidded worldwide
2. It
3. antique balalaika
4. "Management for Beginners"
5. venice canal
6. When was the first RPG Play-by-post (PBP)?
7. music question.
8. topic suggestion
9. The McDonald's (MacDonald's) from th Isle of Skye, Scotland
10. Modernist houses of worship
11. fast food place?
12. Friday Night in San Francisco
13. The Longest Day - crickets
14. SEALS Vs. Triatheletes
15. WNEW AM

July 22

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Miscellaneous/2006 July 22

1. 1967 ny mets
2. Broadway tix
3. Flying out
4. Captain going down with the ship
5. Decay Teeth
6. How is irrigation done in 3rd World Countries?
7. free sample
8. Sensible World of Soccer
9. 'a' for 'apple' ....
10. History of the (wedding) garter
11. furniture-where is is from
12. Drinking and gambling age in Holland (Netherland)
13. Hunchback Actors
14. SC replays
15. An Albino koala
16. Streamers on fans
17. Great apes vs. Humans

July 23

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Miscellaneous/2006 July 23

1. Quick question...
2. Pokemon Yellow
3. Contacting an antarctican
4. Binding Keyboard Keys to Joystick Axis'es
5. Edible Croc Shoes?
6. How great is Australia?
7. Creepy whirlpool location.
8. Ricochet
9. Any dumb wives on the tube?
10. family tree
11. Management theories
12. NCAA Football
13. WTF?
14. I have a problem.
15. Games for Senior Citizens
16. 60s era Australian legal statute, 'having unlawful carnal knowledge'
17. Jumping Spiders

July 24

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Miscellaneous/2006 July 24

1. Martial Arts
2. Super Smash Brothers
3. Urination Arrangements
4. What's an Al Gore ithm
5. riddle
6. Selling my own GPL photos
7. Jeremy(?) Baxter(?)
8. FEDERAL REGULATIONS
9. Some quickies
10. Bernard Cardinal Law
11. Removal of Relatives
12. "mapping" of regions inside US area codes

July 25

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Miscellaneous/2006 July 25

1. Army
2. Does an app like this exist?
3. American west fireamrs
4. Didelphimorphia (Oppossum) diet?
5. legends ,tlales
6. Difference between tax terminologies
7. Using Wikipedia's contents while using others?
8. need help in senior project
9. "Hunter's style" food
10. Thumb: digit or finger
11. Eviction law
12. Delete account
13. Who's a Peach?
14. Just a Minute, Theatresports and Organisation
15. Article Hits
16. Techno Music
17. Stripper game
18. Cool Userpage Table
19. What's the name of that game....
20. Infectious_mononucleosis

July 26

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Miscellaneous/2006 July 26

1. Animals
2. Someone help me identify this song please :3
3. The day after (movie)
4. What happened to my posting?
5. Faith Lehane
6. Stubs
7. Looking for a PC game
8. Another game
9. supplies
10. hEY
11. where is the page for articles that need creation/editing?
12. ADD on the back of a music CD?
13. address and phone # of CKC
14. Neon Bulbs and Mercury?
15. William J. Pointdexter
16. please help asap
17. 3D viewer eye-misfire
18. Insignia - Duke of Rothesay
19. For Screening Purposes Only
20. Interest Rate Increases

July 27

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Miscellaneous/2006 July 27

1. looking for map of Manhattan
2. Does Wikipedia provide any kind of Parental Controls?
3. Airplane lights
4. Annual economic growth.
5. Jewish Holidays
6. Simple and stupid question...
7. automobiles
8. XBOX 360
9. muscles
10. Prayer
11. I hate salads!!
12. mug shots
13. Name of this music
14. 2 Films my Dad remembers - can anyone help?
15. help choosing a game
16. Obesity
17. Adding a new entry
18. Perfect crime
19. World's shortest reigning monarchs?

July 28

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Miscellaneous/2006 July 28

1. Meow. Question about cauterization of wounds...
2. do restaurants not have websites?
3. World's shortest reigning monarchs?
4. signing the back of a credit card
5. A mystery question
6. Can someone please tell me what this is?
7. A philosophical problem.
8. football books
9. may i boy from kentucky ask you big city folks some questions
10. Cargo ship off the coast of Perth
11. New British Passport and Identity Service?
12. Vandal
13. Most viewed article?
14. Adding an Entry with the Exact same title as an Existing Entry
15. competency-based education
16. Image troubles
17. The Idatarod
18. M/Sgt. Hewitt T. (Buck) Dunn
19. mimosa tree
20. Captains performing marriage
21. Native American Bushcraft
22. Catalytic Converters
23. Names
24. Intelligence Quotients: Changing Ratios
25. deck of cards

July 29

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Miscellaneous/2006 July 29

1. Boat Odometers
2. What are "Architectural plants"?
3. North American Union
4. Peak Oil
5. History of Headstones/gravestones/tombstones
6. Art owned by Rita Hayworth
7. Australian larrikin
8. My dog got skunked
9. I </3 peanut butter
10. Charged for postage twice
11. Buisness practices
12. website dilemma
13. Time zone in Alaska before the present one came in to bing.
14. sports
15. animal
16. Haircut clipper lengths
17. Turks and Caicos joining Canada
18. Racko
19. Homebrewing
20. Termites?
21. insects
22. Criss Angel: Mindfreak
23. What are the USA's busiest airport by departing passengers only?

July 30

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Miscellaneous/2006 July 30

1. WikiLibel
2. Fastest Military Aircraft?
3. Puzzle
4. User Page Template
5. Graphical modification of existing product images
6. Question on editing the Marka Ragnos Picture
7. Dairy products
8. Non-physical cultural heritage
9. 70's Interior Design
10. Petite vs. Teenybopper
11. Dragon Flies vs Pine trees
12. I wouldn't have to work at all, I'd fool around and have a ball?
13. Sequential manual gearbox
14. Image hosting
15. Concerning Allergy (RAST test)

July 31

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Miscellaneous/2006 July 31

1. Maine
2. Fireflies
3. help
4. Bubble era
5. Brute force and code breaking
6. sloths
7. Lunar Rover
8. Proper Pronunciation
9. Binary dual
10. Coffee
11. Timeline for admission to law school
12. The European e-mark
13. Rechargeable Batteries
14. the time of day of Zidane's headbutt?
15. Re: Criss Angel
16. kung-fu actors' attire
17. bible question for a prisoner
18. Statistics of average earnings in parts of London?
19. DVD-R Shelf-life?