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August 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 August 1

1. Why Did the U.S. Make it Much Harder for Soviet Jews to Move Here in 1990?
2. Young Philsophers
3. Mandatory gun ownership
4. French Polynesian royal stamps
5. Polynesian Pele
6. Plagiarism lawsuit
7. Olympia
8. what is a "televised play"?
9. how do I get in touch with a good opera critic as opposed to a voice coach
10. Bad Fiction
11. "As long as there are slaughter houses there will always be battlefields"

August 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 August 2

1. Olympic Tie
2. What are the Closest Olympic Race Wins Ever?
3. Jesus in Roman records.
4. Execution Scene
5. Maps of Past Congressional Districts?
6. Adult Diaper Statistics
7. Heyy :D
8. What is the basis of considering somebody a political philosopher?
9. About accounting and :please tell me the relationship between the Audit risk and Materiality?
10. Only normal profit in a perfectly competitive industry?
11. Differences Between Colonialism and Imperialism?
12. Marriage in the United States
13. Historical weather records

August 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 August 3

1. Would Creating a List of Goldman Sachs Research Papers Article be a Good Idea?
2. Hinduism
3. jesus and figs
4. Eva Braun
5. Halbstadt
6. is nationalism collectivism?

August 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 August 4

1. Why did JFK Threaten to Put Sanctions on Israel For Building Nukes?
2. French cities with Walloon population
3. Malik Joyeux
4. Immigration Policies of European Countries in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries
5. Frederick of Austria (Habsburg)
6. After over 4 years, what happens to my unpaid Softbank cellphone bill?
7. Where is Jason Russell now?
8. History of religion
9. Agatha Christie story/play
10. Ancient tear stain

August 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 August 5

1. HMS Challenger (1858) in Tonga
2. Quote of Karl Marx on (classical) liberalism?
3. Luxembourg Continuation
4. Olympic "rivalry" between Britain and Australia
5. How many men commit rape?
6. How can anyone get Jimbo Wales to speak at the Landon Lecture series?
7. Polynesian researches, during a residence of nearly six years in the South Sea Islands' Volume 2
8. Why only 2?
9. Jehovah's Witnesses
10. Locations for Olympics

August 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 August 6

1. Countries where nationalism or patriotism is/was discouraged.
2. United States Population Growth By Region
3. Urban legends or real?
4. I want to create a page for a sculptor
5. Bonaly skating video, what is the music?
6. Presidents of the Congress under the Articles of Confederation
7. U.S. Urbanization Data By State Before 1900 and in 2000-2010
8. Riots in Belgium
9. Think and Grow Rich and The Law of Success + The Law of Success In Sixteen Lessons by Napoleon Hill

August 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 August 7

1. US Consuls to Tahiti
2. Paintings by John Cleveley the Younger
3. United Kingdom Government
4. Arcadia, South Sea Islands
5. list of marriages of famous people which took place in a particular year
6. Buddhism, meditation and illusion

August 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 August 8

1. Oceania
2. Nazi plans for the occupation of the US
3. Why Are Druze Much More Patriotic Than Other Israeli Arabs?
4. Kaliningrad Oblast
5. do all humans have synesthesia?
6. National anthems that are fanfares.
7. Badges on UK numberplates
8. Bach Cantata #4
9. Michigan legal weirdness
10. East Jerusalem Arabs and Israel
11. When did Russian unmarried women reach legal majority?

August 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 August 9

1. Partition of india- Boundary Comission members
2. Burma Reforming
3. French codes in Oman's History
4. Why did Nixon resign
5. Philosopher studying philosophies of other men
6. Can i entitle myself as a moral philsopher
7. unidentified symbol
8. Person that signed most bills into law in the U.S.

August 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 August 10

1. Code of Pomare 1819

August 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 August 11

1. Gold reserves and currency
2. U.S. Census Bureau Classification of Asian
3. Paumotu and Tuamotu
4. Maro ʻura
5. Current on-the-ground status of Azawad
6. Non-sovereign monarchy in Easter Island
7. Right to Privacy
8. Is government debt spending on infrastructure, education, and preventative health care inflationary?
9. Why did the U.S.S.R. not Invade Yugoslavia when Tito left the Soviet Bloc in 1948?
10. American Army uniform colors
11. Pashtun Awakening vs. Sunni Awakening

August 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 August 12

1. British crown dependencies and global intercourse.
2. Caliphate system during Rashidun Caliphate
3. Statue identification
4. Timing of VP candidate announcement

August 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 August 13

1. Michael Phelps
2. Most Reliable Pre-1948 Unemployment Rate Estimates for the United States?
3. Nazis with atomic weapons
4. French Directory

August 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 August 14

1. Ruintia
2. Responding to Prayer Requests
3. Question about the validity of marriage

August 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 August 15

1. Hawaiian feather cloaks
2. IS ABOUT USS NIMITZ CVN 68 SHIP CARRIER
3. Scottish Parliament and Scottish independence referendum
4. David Davis and the 1876 United States presidential election
5. Henri, comte de Chambord and the French monarchy
6. Candidates for the Greek throne
7. Russian film-maker, Battle of Stalingrad & Battle of Dien Bien Phu
8. CANFORCE ONE
9. Meo = Hmong?
10. Viktor Yushchenko's dioxin poisoning
11. Name of a Washington official brought down for petty theft

August 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 August 16

1. How Come the West Opposes the Partition of Kosovo?
2. What is the raw number of total import entries into Canada in 2011?
3. Entering an embassy to detain a person
4. What is the statute of limitations in Sweden for what Assange is accused of there?
5. Democracy in India
6. Joseph Spiess date of birth?

August 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 August 17

1. Sales pitch
2. Question about the psychological/sociological perception of someone to a given situation in a Culture
3. Yet another Assange question... Why Ecuador?
4. Most married monarchs
5. Religious implications of extraterrestrial contact
6. Why would a business operate this way?
7. Something to ask about Italia?
8. unsecured personal debt

August 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 August 18

1. Common Law/Modern law
2. President Dole and his Cabinet
3. History of lockable doors - who had them?
4. Eyelashes stuck behind the eye
5. What classical(?) wallpaper pattern is this?
6. Who is responsible for introducing bills in U.S. congress?
7. Puyi's apple
8. Mayans and Aztec
9. The Taliban, al Qaeda and the U.S.
10. Additional questions about Italia
11. U.S. and serial killers

August 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 August 19

1. Total number of nuclear reactors ever constructed?
2. how many airplanes are up in the air right now
3. The United Nations General Assembly Resolution 2758
4. Hitler and horses
5. Aftermath of the US Civil War for Confederate leaders

August 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 August 20

1. Most male-dominated industries
2. Dharmachakra guidelines?
3. Corruption in US !!!!!
4. Fictional characters of Swedish and Danish businessman
5. Can map data be copyrighted?
6. Westley Allan Dodd
7. Fiscal projections/estimation
8. Capture of Guam

August 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 August 21

1. Islam
2. Romley
3. Punishment for having caused monks to break their vows
4. The punishment for having broken the vows of celibacy
5. Was the French inquisition abolished in 1772?
6. The authority of the Papal Avignon in France
7. Iraq-Afghan relations pre 9/11
8. Using chains to block rivers
9. Why doesn't Israel have the right to the Gaza Strip and West Bank
10. children's book
11. Religion in Saxony

August 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 August 22

1. Partition of South Africa
2. Incest Exception for Abortion
3. Utility Maximisation
4. Athabaskan Indians
5. Satish K. Kappor
6. In WWII, did the Allies not use encryption? Did Axis powers not bother trying to intercept messages?
7. Ted Bundy's interview
8. French working hours
9. Questions about the Columbine shooters
10. Full Style of King of Saxony

August 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 August 23

1. Are they any books or movies with a villain with Aspergers_syndrome in it?
2. So technically are Mormons polytheist?
3. Gentleman with curls, 2nd half of 19th century
4. Need a Demon or Spirit Example

August 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 August 24

1. How is this possible
2. Voting Patterns in Poland and Romania
3. Roman legio and the Kings of spain
4. What does abbreviation "Phoeb. Fig." stand for?
5. Can the OEO get specialized credentials for professionals who enter witness protection?
6. Question about celibacy in the Roman Catholic Church
7. Ward Cunningham

August 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 August 25

1. Bribery rejected
2. Appearance-enhancing cosmetics as disqualification
3. Bad future for Wikipedia
4. What source says. Zeus returned Asclepius and the Cyclopes from Hades.
5. Visual art breaking the cyber "fourth wall"
6. China vs United States economy
7. Previous death sentences and re-introduction of the death penalty in the US in 1976
8. Largest bunker by population ?
9. Canada and Islamic fundamentalism, terrorism

August 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 August 26

1. How many men are in Canada's jails for child support?
2. Why don't Muslims know what day Eid-ul-Fitr is?
3. Jewish Immigration to the Americas Over Western Europe
4. who are considered to be the 3 most greatest men who ever lived?
5. Who from wikipedia wrote the Cyclops page. Also Who wrote Asclepius on Wiki Doc.
6. Is a Unitarian Universalist church a religious organization or an interfaith organization?
7. Colton Harris-Moore
8. Most Evil
9. I want to better understand where Wikipedia's sources come from.
10. Race/Ethnicity/Religion in Historical National Censuses
11. Release Date of Newest U.S. Population Projections?

August 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 August 27

1. Audiobook for . . .
2. Questions about law in the Victorian period
3. Countercultures
4. Why does the United States have relatively more shootings than most developed countries?
5. The children of Marie Juliette Louvet
6. Can a full blooded African American can be as light or lighter?
7. Charles Thompson , a friend of Ernest Hemingway during his first East Africa safari ?
8. What went wrong with Turkey?
9. There's a business in New York that's closed on weekends.
10. where could I email
11. What academic field studies volunteerism?
12. 0-bedroom housing units
13. Canadian Equalization Formula
14. US presidential debates

August 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 August 28

1. The "treasonous act" of Georgy Malenkov
2. Kurds of Iran
3. Which U.S. Presidential autobiographies are in the public domain (or at least free to read and save completely)?
4. College question
5. Most Significant Event Since the Industrial Revolution Which Doesn't Involve Nuclear War
6. nazi views on meritocracy?
7. Don't stand if you drive?
8. Negative painting

August 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 August 29

1. Prince of Eichstätt
2. Prussia in the German Empire
3. Ex-convicts in 1880s
4. Iran, its nuclear program, and a nuclear weapons free zone in the Middle East
5. In male dominated times, places and cultures how do we explain the presence of Queens?
6. If 3 Wikipedia Articles all say the same thing on a claim.
7. Gaius Julius Hyginus
8. Accidental Kidney Donation
9. Problem and solution creation? in politics and business
10. Edward Roderick Davies

August 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 August 30

1. Raymond of Cabannis and Philippa the Catanian
2. Cultural influences on relationships
3. Who in India speaks English?
4. Kimveer Gill's journal
5. Is there any link between the murder of the Afghan war lord and the World Trade Center attacks?

August 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 August 31

1. Heavenly Theology
2. Wright Enrichment's Logo-with-motto
3. Michigan and Virginia Presidential Vote in 1884 and 1888
4. Blaming Jews for Jesus's Crucifixion
5. Federal crowns
6. Longest finite term length for an elected official
7. Was Hamid Karzai on the Taliban's side before the World Trade Center attacks?
8. Who was the first US President to have an official Presidential email address?
9. Kikuanoki or Kikuanohi
10. Bordertown capitals
11. Kimveer Gill's journal
12. Library Cataloging
13. Kalakaua on the Kaimiloa
14. De Beers advertising