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August 1[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Humanities/2006 August 1

Lord Rosebery
Sculptor Sir William Reid Dick
Bruce Lee's diet
sean paul
Tresaure Hunters Question
Counterfeit Money
Lebanon vs Israel
Health Insurance Netherlands
Oil Painting question
Jacksonville mayor age requirement
Secularism vs. Laïcité
A Painting that we own
American dead in World War II
Did US pay to dismantle Russian nuclear weapons?
Iraq
Post office for Zip Code
Argumentum ad hominem
uncertainty records
Israeli modern history for dummies : UN partition plan and other matters
police commissioner qualifications

August 2[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Humanities/2006 August 2

Roof on this building.
Famous Painter
POLITICTS
Where is Peterborough Lift Lock
Lebanese Army
Lou Gehrig
Growth in Body Art?
who invented the hokey-pokey?

August 3[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Humanities/2006 August 3

Euroipods?
movie industry
Vitriolist? vitrioliste?
Roman Doctor
George Washington as a Mason
lithograph
is darwins theory against Islam and christianity
Portrait rights
Blue Paper/Envelopes For Airmail
Messianic prophecies of Jesus
cartoon about raccoons stealing a garbage truck
WWII era hair oil
What does six figures mean?
Corporate Titles
"Resistance/Terrorist" organizations that provide social services?
Use of PIM in Navigation

August 4[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Humanities/2006 August 4

Linda Fisher
can canines be halal?
WHERE CAN I DOWNLOAD FROM
Words in "The Stand"
chinese civilization.......NeEd HeLp:(PlEaSe)
Twelve Oaks Plantation
Richest City
Please may I have the E-mail of the person who wrote article
Lizard Rant Flash Movie

August 5[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Humanities/2006 August 5

AUTHORITY OF US SECT.OF DEFENSE OVER SENIOR MILITARY
porn actors/actresses
Tetragrammaton
Did David Foster Wallace rip off Douglas Hofstadter?
Can seagulls be Halal?
Cutural factors
Criminal Subpoena versus Civil Subpoena
Do you know where this particular mountain range is?
Magazine
Gyms, mirrors, body-image
Bonnets
Sinai and Arabian Peninsula

August 6[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Humanities/2006 August 6

Jewish Beliefs
Question about the Beaker culture
"All Is Vanity"-- C. Allan Gilbert-- What does it mean??
Music videos
Religious question, marriage between Roman Catholic and Lutheran
Our ancestors looked like this?
Explaining various political systems to a child.
Saturday Night Live Sketch
Porn cave paintings
Spy novels abbreviated titles
quote from nietzsche
Tittitainment
Muhammad Ali
16th century latin poet
Humanity: Extinction of Indegenous Languages
Titanic
WAR AND HUMANITY
Jews under Romans for dummies
Big Brother UK question...
Lines from Literature
RECALL OF A MAYOR
Rastafari and views on masturbation

August 7[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Humanities/2006 August 7

Cartoonists of Kerala
Historical Jesus
language
myths
Recognize this piece?
MUSIC LINK!!!!!!!!!
China's debt relief policy
Skyline
Love Resurrection
John steinbeck
Rabindranath Maharaj
Now that is incredible!

August 8[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Humanities/2006 August 8

4 suites cards
Gaza
Ethiopian Symbology
mother teresa
International Borders
please include my bipo in your data base. thank you. john dayal, india
Borroloola
Citizenship by birth
Antarctica
Obsessive compulsive personality disorder
Victorian Era Portraits
Looking for decent maps throughout (modern) history
Everybody Hates America
Boyfriend in the Nickelback video 'Far Away'
rumination disorder

August 9[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Humanities/2006 August 9

Is there any mention of a 4 toed creature or god anywhere?
Tommy Roe Singer Songwriter
CD transfer
Pianists
Sort of a law question
ARTICLE OF ASSOCIATION
Get down tonight!
Bounty hunters
Parliament
Incas
Age
Where is somewhere really remote?
Elizabeth Schwarzkopf's Desert Island Discs
Ex-presidents of the U.S.
Complete Studio Recordings
President of Argentina
Fidel Castro's real age
longest serving american general officer
When Castro dies, who are likely contenders for the leadership?
LLM programs
Crest
wiki for opposing viewpoints?
Movie with a big car crash?
19th century medal
semetic Nazi's
Davy Crocket
Congressman whose service goes the farthest back?
police departments
foriegn minister of Cuba

August 10[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Humanities/2006 August 10

Right to Property
Information about 'The Lucy Nation' (band) ??
Skyline (2)
Significance of 11th day of the month for terrorism
Battle of Seven Oaks with the metis
mystery of UK in sport participation
transport and communication
Victor Hugo Quote
What's that song?
Killing non-muslims during offensive warfare

August 11[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Humanities/2006 August 11

Founding documents and happiness
A Mouse In The House!
Big ideas
mens fashion icons
Jesus in other religions?
Obscure question involving the defense of gay-bashing in the courts
Is shares a Giffen good
An Artist Named Tsugonham Fonjita
Music identification (again)
Shortest film
Castro : studied in New York and congratulated Roosevelt?(+language)
Papal succession
Malcolm Miller Chartres Cathedral, France
Acquiring English accent possible?
Squatters

August 12[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Humanities/2006 August 12

Graditude
Writing a Page and Adding a Photo
Strange pic floating around...
research on levels of processing approach since year 2000
Where can I find a list of Canadian Number 1 hits?
Old School in London Fifty years ago
Mysterious Rock Circle
Robert Heinlein/Mormons
The Art of The Prehistoric Aegean
Does anyone know if Malcolm Miller is still alive?

August 13[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Humanities/2006 August 13

Largest city..
釘宮理恵
ingrown toenail and the military
Social Cultural
Roof Replacement
Spartacus
Play it like...
Tattooing
Homeless In The Netherlands? Find Out Next Week!
Are Jews more Intelligent?
BMD
Saturday
foreign ambassador's benefits
Latin's death
Overview of Belgian ambassadors
what living actor has been in the most films

August 14[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Humanities/2006 August 14

Who funds "The More You Know" ads on NBC?
sources greek mythology
politics
When did Klingons become a big deal
Discovered Berlioz composition
John Alford, Landscape painter
German Empire 1871 (Poland)
Citation in Edward Mitchel bannister article
Iran
Music download
Cost of World War II
Safe Air Travel
Britsh and american accents
1. Jo Swinson
lawyer doctor degrees

August 15[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Humanities/2006 August 15

Fred Phelps
Republic of Poland Gold bond
Iranian Jews and Christians
Brazil
Gay lisp
George W Bush
medical and law degrees
Seth Macfarlan
New age music
Who is the greatest currrent world leader
can you identify this song
Lost tribes of Israel
Holy spirit
When was the first airline ticket created?
Geography in France
History
Semi colon usage
vandals
races of the the bible
Shambala
Response
U.S. Violations of U.N. Resolutions
police jobs
Chief Justice of Banglisdesh
the wikipedia is communism vandal
The Electoral College
Jimbo Wales
articles on wikipedia
people editing
article experiance
lawyers and copyrights on Wikipedia
White people

August 16[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Humanities/2006 August 16

Hitler's "Ultimate Ambition"
illegal housing
Licensing question
Son of The Buddha
department of federal government
Deliverance of Saints
Statutes
why moses crossed the red sea??
printing query
Looking for a songname and artist
Dictatorships
A mother's dislike
Shangrala and Shambala
police state
Figurine
Alfredo Stroessner
Sex
Boer war
principal
Greatest Polyglot
Jimmy Page
wealthy
Franz Müntefering
london society

August 17[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Humanities/2006 August 17

street prostitutes
Mandatory retirement age
Wearing white after US Labor Day
black sheep
Katrina prison
Book sales
americans- more dollars than sense?
Queen Anne's Revenge
Kissing on the cheek
Activism
Tickle Torture
Serjeant
wikiversity
Israel
Is there a name for this architecture?
NY Times Crosswords
Understanding Nietzsche
Wikiversity

August 18[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Humanities/2006 August 18

General Mike Jackson
Mr. Cameroon
Hoder of university degrees.
Locke'd Up
Number of share holders neccesary to charter a corporation.
Columbus
Baghdad building
Why does everyone hate Ben Gurion?
Artemesia Gentileschi
U S Government
Template:RD header
Searching for a book called "Plucked Shaved and Braided"
Roman Legend?
Chuck Norris' Birth Name
Syd Barrett: Sybarite?
KFA

August 19[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Humanities/2006 August 19

Knights
Jo Swinson
beauty
Help
Coat-of -Arms
Boccacio's De Viris Illustribus
Statue in Helsinki, Finland of Russian tsar who "wasn't that bad".
Jon Benet Ramsey
How to calculate the total human population
European Law as it relates to work.
William Bradford
How to be nice and/or charming?
DJ Sattva

August 20[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Humanities/2006 August 20

Jewish Song
Maureen McGovern Question
Sumerian Religion vs. christianity
Spanish alien?
Examples of 1980's clothing
Industrial Relations
Cohen v. California jacket
Why do some models get paid such a lot?
John 'Jock' 'White Hat' Willis, the Cutty Sark
chicken noodle soup
A list of the pragmatic reasons for the success of Christianity
polytheism
Syrian president had close ties to Saddam Hussein before and after Gulf War II?
Between the U.S. and the Commonwealth of Nations...

August 21[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Humanities/2006 August 21

August 22 - Iran
History ?
Figure
Physical differences between Japanese/Chinese/Koreans
Obesity
public board proceedings Canada
Alternative outcomes from WW2
The best philosophy to live by?
Records of NZ Communist Party
Complex synthesised music
Who is that Hizbullah parliament member + Lebanese parliament for dummies
Pre-Euro European Currency

August 22[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Humanities/2006 August 22

commode use
Total World Population
Name of a song
The Neanderthal Parallax
Prince or King
Young adult time-travel book
"WE BELONG TOGETHER"
Can the queen of England kill somebody?
Sound of the 808 drum machine
Obtaining an online copy in Latin of the Papal Bull "Ad Extirpanda" issued in 1254 by Innocent IV
Category:Accuracy disputes
Classical music
Vietnam War Sept 1966 - Sept 1967

August 23[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Humanities/2006 August 23

Beatles Record Sales
Dowager Princess of Wales
Psychiatry outlook
Huursubsidie Applies To?
Ideology
resource on reknown historical persons with disabilities who were either Christian or Non
Politics
Joining a monotheistic world religion
Trancedentalism in poetry
Torture Scenario
Hotel scriptures
INXS Song
A few random questions...
Is he a Christian or is he not a Christian?
Life is .....
JACKIE CHAN
Cemetery in Milano, Italy
Earl Rivers
Shakespeare in Asia
north korean won, wrong currency in your encyclopedia
Source and meaning of Latin phrase "in cauda venerum."
Racist society
John Fogerty of Credence Clearwater Revival
Car Companies and Public Transit
Euros
Silver bands
the hundred yeras war
Wiki.
Choosing a religion...