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January 1[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 January 1

  1. US Court of Appeals 9th Circuit decisions
  2. The Bordeaux Diligence revisited
  3. "Forces of darkness"
  4. Augustus word game
  5. Julius Caesar
  6. Domitian
  7. Gaius Julius Alpinus Classicianus
  8. Marcus Claudius Marcellus Aeserninus
  9. Ava Gardner article in Esquire Magasine

January 2[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 January 2

  1. "FDR HIDES PLANE"
  2. English governance
  3. Ku Klux Klan and the Decendent Line of Cain
  4. Utilitarian value of existence
  5. Antarctica and the freedom of panorama
  6. Mercury-vapor lamp usage
  7. long live king who?

January 3[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 January 3

  1. Startup license
  2. Why you removed certain material that made the US look bad but was true?
  3. Is NEW Delhi really the capital of India
  4. Taj Mahal - True History?
  5. Uninterpretable question
  6. African writing or literature from early 19th. century
  7. Book about entire human race existing to give an alien/robot a piece of metal
  8. New Journalism
  9. Lyrics too leadbelly song
  10. musical instrument key/scale

January 4[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 January 4

  1. Leveraged Buyout (LBO)
  2. Interactive fiction
  3. Why is Chess popular geographically in some areas but not others?
  4. meat, trial, manufacturer, 1906-1910
  5. Marshall Plan
  6. Where can find a list of nations by gender income gap?
  7. Economics Prize + John Forbes Nash, Jr.
  8. Cnut the Great in Flandern
  9. Social class
  10. ritual video
  11. John H. Johnson's wife
  12. anyone recognize this movie?
  13. DAN BROWN NOVEL HINDU THOUGHT EXERCISE

January 5[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 January 5

  1. Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence
  2. Lance Ito's wife
  3. Chairman and CEO
  4. Who decided to count decades beginning with "0"
  5. Why do troubled British football clubs face tax bills?
  6. Anonymous famous writers like Salinger and Pynchon
  7. Old Passenger Ships/ SS BUTNER and SS PATCH
  8. civil appeal motions
  9. Iraq's war of independence

January 6[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 January 6

  1. Coughing while standing at attention
  2. History of Salerno, Italy defense in WW 11
  3. Cursus honorum
  4. Grampian Hotel, Stevenage, UK
  5. Retail level stock and bond transactions
  6. Questions?
  7. Is it an insult, or is it right to call somebody a "mercenary"

January 7[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 January 7

  1. Geoffrey Chaucer and John Wycliffe
  2. Terrorism indictment
  3. Retail
  4. Worst kind of torture ever discovered or documented?
  5. Deistic Gnosticism
  6. JC1- H2 English Language and Linguistics
  7. Fourteenth century scholar
  8. GK Questions
  9. Reader's Digest prize draw
  10. Songs with a Blues Beat
  11. Songs with a Swing Beat

January 8[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 January 8

  1. How many official Dictators to time of Roman Empire
  2. Painting identification
  3. Magazine called the Nineteenth Century, for March 1890, concerning bookshelves.
  4. how similar/different are anglican and methodist?
  5. Allport's 1935 paper "Attitudes"
  6. How authentically Buddhist is...
  7. Wrongfully executed people
  8. In theory, Quebec is part of Latin America
  9. lex Junia Licinia
  10. Socialism and communism
  11. Customhouses far from borders?
  12. Malawi's (two) term rule

January 9[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 January 9

  1. Foreign Presidents Buried in the USA
  2. Hamlet and Catholicism in England
  3. How to make academic journal version of the Economist exactly follow the organization of the original version (printed or online)
  4. Can someone please find anything about Josef papirnikov?

January 10[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 January 10

  1. Sneaking undesirable items into a proposed bill
  2. Productivity of men vs. productivity of women worker
  3. sister city of Compton, California and East Los Angeles, California
  4. Systematic relationship between and examples of controversy and issue

January 11[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 January 11

  1. Name or term for philosophical line of thought - morals
  2. International Dutch Judicary
  3. Letters to the Editor section in the Economist
  4. Heil Churchill
  5. Paying for other people's children
  6. Place in California with the most populate multiracial groups
  7. Prisoners of war and civilian police
  8. diffs between cohabiting (unmarried) couples and married couples

January 12[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 January 12

  1. Today's Judaism Tanakh versus the Bibical Old Testament
  2. 10th Amendment and State Laws
  3. Internet enabled Air condiontioning unit
  4. Harlem renaissance Songs
  5. Weather under ground
  6. Marriott connection
  7. How much of the Vatican Library has been catalogued?
  8. Would Woods have been so cruel ?
  9. What is solar system
  10. Project on 'Discrimination of Homosexuals'
  11. List of terms for gay in other languages
  12. John Kufuor's govt policies
  13. French Law on Public Rights of Way

January 13[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 January 13

  1. Alcohol laws in France
  2. Dick Cheney - Go f yourself
  3. arthur vellosy
  4. How many UK taxpayers?
  5. Earliest legislation regarding public footpaths in the UK?
  6. General knowledge questions
  7. Connie Chung

January 14[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 January 14

  1. Haiti earthquake and Dominican Republic
  2. Which of these books is longer?
  3. Publius Cornelius Rufinus
  4. Principle of law in Nigeria
  5. Andrew Cunanan's pic
  6. 15 African first lady in LA
  7. Speech act theory; Perlocutionary act
  8. Battle of Arausio

January 15[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 January 15

  1. Should I be able to sing in a Tenor voice?
  2. Gaius Maenius
  3. ideas
  4. The fourth Indiction in the month of April in the year 6589.
  5. Geography question
  6. patent law
  7. Burma election
  8. snow
  9. Vietnamese and white
  10. Where Is Malamute Located?
  11. gene patents

January 16[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 January 16

  1. Quote's author?
  2. Does presentism imply nihilism?
  3. William Penn and Indian languages
  4. Jagrata and Vyala motifs in Indian Art
  5. Geoffrey Chaucer's words
  6. Prince of Neuchâtel
  7. Who did Nixon shove?
  8. Neglected estate in England

January 17[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 January 17

  1. Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky
  2. Iqbal poem
  3. Henry O Studley obituary in the Quincy Patriot-Ledger
  4. Questions about "counterfeits"
  5. Death rates in prisons

January 18[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 January 18

  1. Situation in Haiti
  2. :File:Flag of Australia with Aboriginal flag replacing Union flag.svg
  3. What's wrong with moderate inflation?

January 19[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 January 19

  1. Financial Time's article emailing
  2. Voltaire quotation
  3. Targino-Flensburg
  4. Will without living beneficiaries
  5. Will for people not yet born
  6. Who owns who
  7. The Duke of Norfolk's Case
  8. FamilyName Firstname
  9. cohabiting and marry status
  10. average marriage age
  11. Zineb Jammeh
  12. Sylvia Ajma Valentin
  13. Dents in the border between New South Wales and Queensland

January 20[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 January 20

  1. two CNN specials
  2. strong sexual urges
  3. American education quality: University of (state name) vs. (state name) State University
  4. Suspended sentences
  5. Massachusetts_health_care_reform and federal reform in house+senate
  6. Public domain
  7. Fair use in Australia
  8. zits
  9. FRANCE - IN RIGHT OF ENGLAND VS NAVARRE
  10. US Court case nomenclature
  11. Hinda Deby
  12. THE QUEEN'S RELIGIOUS TIES
  13. Germans in France,1945 to 1947
  14. chords over standard musical notation
  15. Living people on UK postage stamps

January 21[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 January 21

  1. Classics
  2. The Operation, Art, Painting
  3. The Art of War in The Great Book Burning
  4. Concerning a Previous Question - POW Pay Rates
  5. Shootouts not as often as in the Movies
  6. History of consumer movement in Bangladesh
  7. canadian-Guatemalan ambassadors
  8. The vigour of the American people lies with its African-Americans
  9. Nazi Germany child-naming
  10. did the Greeks know their legends were bullshit?

January 22[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 January 22

  1. Baseball Rule Question
  2. fourth auction by Jay Leno
  3. "modern" technological differences in everyday life at any time before, say, 1600 (back to, say, 450 BC)
  4. Who was the British Romantic poet who committed "metaphysical suicide" by reading Kant?
  5. Randal Keynes
  6. 18th century diplomacy, envoys, royal letters
  7. Child support. How about elderly parent support?
  8. Religious restrictions on the consumption of pork and Christianity
  9. how US Census does calculations

January 23[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 January 23

  1. Controversies around Christianization of Scandinavia
  2. Human nature
  3. If I'm Conon O'Brian
  4. Betty Ong's call on 9/11
  5. Phyllis Simons
  6. candidates for hottest picture on the internet?
  7. Correlation between inflation and social mobility
  8. Capital and Labour
  9. Is 'A man's a man for all that' mostly liberal or socialist?

January 24[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 January 24

  1. Julius Caesar and The Netherlands
  2. Dalmuir (Gaelic: Dail Mhoire) : Farms: Dalmuir and Loretto in Limpopo, South Africa.
  3. Comic strip
  4. Edward Barber, Barbour, Barbor, British sailor 1703
  5. musicians and drugs
  6. What is this?
  7. You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours
  8. Unidentified batallion
  9. Income inequality
  10. Priamary and Secondary qualities
  11. Why did the movement to create Grammar Shools (in North America = 'Public Schools') arise?
  12. Double entry bookkeeping described in scientific terms

January 25[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 January 25

  1. Copyrights and linking to URLs
  2. Is Finnegans Wake in the public domain?
  3. A Dessert That Looks Like Turkish Delight
  4. Significance of "z"
  5. Royal Inbreeding
  6. WW2 Casualty Rates by type of land unit? (infantry / tank / artillery)
  7. Archives
  8. prime minister
  9. Crown Lands of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
  10. Australian recipe
  11. The cons have it
  12. Calendar epoch at Easter?

January 26[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 January 26

  1. Charity idea
  2. Hurricane Katrina special
  3. Print a verse of a poem.
  4. Joseph or JOSFH camp in Vavuniya
  5. Geography Question
  6. Say if it really was so, Joe.
  7. Finance: Comparing exchange rates and import-export data
  8. What percentage of anti-abortion Americans oppose the death penalty?
  9. Vital statistics down through the ages ?!?

January 27[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 January 27

  1. Registered Agent
  2. Communism
  3. Which Bank?
  4. Swazi Cultural Costume
  5. Re edits
  6. the political and spiritual persecution to me for Chinese and HK people
  7. Economic theory explaination for the earning power of bankers?
  8. Port Elmina
  9. Name my poison: question about alcoholic beverages
  10. white and Japanese
  11. African American Muslims
  12. "A celebrity is a person who is well known for his well knownness." Daniel J. Boorstin
  13. Turkish/Afghanistan/Pakistani Anthems
  14. Population of German Empire
  15. What protestant sect did the Diggers belong to?
  16. When did the Chionites begin invading (eastern) Afghanistan?

January 28[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 January 28

  1. Flag Ratios
  2. Eating the gross
  3. Federalism, Banking, etc
  4. Why has human nature changed so much?
  5. Nazis targets
  6. are couples that have anal sex more likely to stay together?
  7. Health insurance
  8. Philip Pullman's Sally Lockhart novels
  9. Socialism and the United Kingdom
  10. Who owns the copyrights to Alberto Vargas playing cards?
  11. HELP: Bond prices
  12. 3 types of interracial marriages
  13. Mein Kampf
  14. Copyright violations for unauthorised sequels

January 29[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 January 29

  1. Victoria and Albert- a serious question
  2. Statute of Westminster 1931
  3. Gestalt Laws of perception.
  4. list of things that are real and notreal at the same time
  5. Ryan White Care Act voters
  6. UK Companies
  7. Human motivation through stigma
  8. Great Awakening sermon/essay
  9. Employment prospect for Bachelor of Arts in History
  10. Creationism and the Flat Fish Eyes
  11. generation values
  12. Requesting reference books or other available material for ""Impact of Culture in negotiations"

January 30[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 January 30

  1. Business plan
  2. Copyright question
  3. Electors of Hesse
  4. Chastity belt question.

January 31[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 January 31

  1. apparel and shoes in Super Bowl opening
  2. Elected Officials in Jail
  3. redheads
  4. George Kennedy Britz Hospital in Mumbai
  5. USA's consumer price index data
  6. Grammar schools converted from chantries
  7. Brandenburg-Kulmbach to Brandenburg-Bayreuth
  8. Papal fiefs of England and Ireland; France, Isle of Man
  9. Longshanks in Scotland
  10. Vince Cable twins, Liberal Democrats, UK
  11. Double entry bookkeeping
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