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June 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 June 1

1. Canadian girls as prostitutes
2. Military Discharge and Land Purchase
3. Historical Business Cases
4. High resolution scenes of the Bayeux Tapestry

June 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 June 2

1. Hu Jintao's family
2. Swine flu in Antarctica?
3. Need The Following Census Information On Religion Within The United States
4. Jaroslav Seifert Poetry
5. Cicero on Plautus
6. Treasury Stock
7. The "Art Deco" PAGE [Photo of black car bottom right of page]

June 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 June 3

1. Why a slow rise but a sudden fall in the economy?
2. Pro-Indian Sri Lankan Party
3. Career In Photoshooting
4. Chinese online communities / discussion forums
5. Rapa Nui mythology
6. Deportation laws (~1945) Alaska => Soviet Union
7. liberalism and journalism
8. Gay Adoption Statistics
9. Joe Biden resigned as Senator in January 2009. Was this unconstitutional?
10. Getting rid of the National Debt by a period of inflation?
11. Cop search legality and marijuana suspicion
12. Socialist/communist locales in the United States
13. Question About A Song

June 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 June 4

1. Trading spaces
2. What does a bronze star mean?
3. Name of English Industrialist
4. Paul Harvey Essay

June 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 June 5

1. Amadou Toumani Touré's wife
2. Ship Access during Siege of Boston
3. China's new censorship tool?
4. Oldest Holiday
5. Massacre of 1804?
6. Empress and Queen of Haiti
7. cdl
8. which aria
9. Narayan kavacham
10. Obama's Cairo speech

June 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 June 6

1. European Parliament election, 2009
2. I have lots of question about western culture....thanks for your help
3. Khrushchev's ethnic background
4. Oded Golan
5. moral rights of the author
6. Freelolita101 Talking
7. Population of Istanbul in 1400's

June 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 June 7

1. Can anyone recognize these two famous authors?
2. philosophical analogy forgotten
3. Norse or Roman Prometheus
4. "Working with Liam Byrne"
5. European elections - proportional representation or what?
6. UK MP's expenses - which political party had to pay most back?
7. Where to find detailed election voting statistics in the UK?
8. Blanche Parry - Lady Troy - Elizabeth I of England
9. Litany of the Saints
10. Terminator
11. Unusual classics such as Thus Spake Zarathustra, Against Nature
12. New York parking violations scandal - article?
13. Lebanon general election 2009 candidates
14. Pakistani constituencies
15. Bangladeshi politicians

June 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 June 8

1. Britain and EU parliament
2. Supply-side economics
3. Assassination in World War II
4. Women ruler of the Roman Empire
5. The last execution of heresy in Europe
6. examples of common charity causes?
7. Cost of food?
8. benefit concert
9. Uganda and Tanzania guys in divorce??

June 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 June 9

1. Hard labor
2. Hate speech provision of Canadian criminal code
3. Dracula in the public domain
4. Credit cards and currency
5. Schleswig-Holstein
6. Taxi Cost - Charles de Gaulle Airport to the Louvre
7. National portrait gallery and copyright
8. New Age " Movement "
9. Lebanon and Iran: Which nation are most democratic ?
10. South Asian riots in UK

June 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 June 10

1. Rosa Parks and Alice Walker
2. U.S. Treasury bonds
3. Concept problems
4. Quantum computer company
5. Labour conditions of Israeli Jews and Israeli Arabs in Israel
6. Who was the Confederate leader who wrapped himself in the CSA flag and shot himself?
7. Where can I find Drug Use/Production statistics for years earlier than 1988/9?
8. Do difficult people exist?
9. Very first election in Iran
10. Equivalent of the Independent Police Complaints Commission in the US?

June 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 June 11

1. Succession plan
2. How big is the world energy market?
3. Airline pilots
4. Why isn't it illegal to sell concert tickets at more than face value?
5. Are most kids in China taught English?

June 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 June 12

1. Can anyone recognize these three philosophers?
2. JK Rowling's sources of income
3. Verifying a Goethe quote

June 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 June 13

1. Where did the United States take their missles after pulling them out of Turkey?
2. Harkavy edition of Holy Scriptures
3. Ilinka Crvenkovska
4. Reign Dates
5. Rose of Lima as the patron saint of India
6. The sun never sets...
7. I have a strange question regarding US Presidential succession...

June 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 June 14

1. United States draft exceptions
2. Alcohol sale in Finland
3. Strange stone structure
4. Are all sunglasses sold in the UK UV-protective?
5. Alcohol vs drugs
6. What is the largest US city without a McDonalds?
7. Were the Original Egyptians Black?
8. Oldest Holiday (Part 2)

June 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 June 15

1. Cricket scoring
2. Was the Harkavy translation of Holy Scriptures changed in later printings
3. Landy, Derek series Skullduggery Pleasant discrepancy
4. Bathtub Portrait
5. WWII Switzerland
6. Communism Judaism
7. Iran
8. Gotai
9. Olive Lembe Sita and Chantal Biya

June 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 June 16

1. Finding School Histories
2. Japanese Divinity
3. Joseph's decree
4. Were Adam and Eve the first humans?
5. Vulgate Sources of Alexander the Great
6. Population of Canada over 50
7. Bible sales
8. Therapeutic Communities in Female Prisons in the US

June 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 June 17

1. Sociological topics
2. Judaism versus Nudism and Homosexual
3. Benjamin Franklin - Illegitimate Children
4. help this guy out (short story ID)
5. Iran protests
6. Mount Rushmore
7. Matilda of Tuscany's marriage to Welf II
8. Polygamy and demographics
9. Lebanon general election 2009 results
10. Mahmoud Ahmedinejad hijab crackdown
11. Newspaper of General Circulation
12. German heel-click salute
13. Religion and violence

June 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 June 18

1. Zimbabwean presidential election, 2008 and Sabina Mugabe
2. One for the historians
3. fact or something else?
4. Arresting a head of state
5. Jewish influence in Ethiopian Christianity
6. British Law/ Prisons
7. Visible submerged shipwrecks
8. Tosca
9. latest on shooting suspect

June 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 June 19

1. Electoral fraud in Iran
2. Japan 2 : 0 Germany - Why?
3. Economics: what happens with an essential good that is almost too expensive for people to afford?
4. theocracies
5. Bangladeshi Jatiyo Sangsad (national assembley) Women Reserved Seats election 2009 results
6. Pan-Arab news
7. Newt in 2012?
8. Credit/debit card security code vs signature
9. Latvian socialists in Geneva, 1905
10. Has there ever been a serious consideration of the use of LSD as a chemical weapon?
11. Arabic-English translation book
12. South Asian writers
13. A Name for Babylon

June 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 June 20

1. Getting cancer and our destiny
2. Translation
3. V for Vendetta
4. Designer of the SS uniform
5. Purity
6. Name the throne
7. Finding a topic for research masters degree in social work
8. Dis Chord Discord
9. List of billionaires in jail
10. Type of "curtain" in coat of arms
11. An African-American janitor and his homemade basement kingdom
12. History of History

June 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 June 21

1. Painting, can you identify?
2. What inmates do in prison in U.S
3. Copyright
4. Russian medals: Order of St.Vladimir - What class might this be?
5. Julia of Aragon/Sicily
6. Reference to Germany in the title of the Prince of Liechtenstein
7. What situations to use letters after your name?
8. wannabe professional musician, 1940 vs. today
9. Oliver North's Medals

June 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 June 22

1. Term for non-voter who is counted in apportionment
2. Where is this stained glass window located, and who created it?
3. Federal subjects of Russia
4. Squamish Nation
5. Authoritarianism and Cronyism
6. Two Short Stories - I think they were in the same book
7. Iranian electoral system
8. Dog that bobs for beer...
9. Supposed early Scottish kings
10. need digital images/templates/early canonical lists
11. Non-Catholic President of France
12. wheel in prehistoric America
13. Book burning quote by Umar
14. Azeb Mesfin

June 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 June 23

1. John Trevor (speaker) portrait oddity
2. Causes and Manifestations of Discrimination
3. Waffle Frolics
4. How many signatories
5. Meaning of Non-Human Life
6. Revolution in Martinique 1790
7. D-Day: Canadian & British troops
8. Why do Asians often make kind of a peace-sign with their hands on Photos?

June 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 June 24

1. How long do average national leaders hold in power?
2. Scottish Parliment taxes
3. International Standards
4. army
5. Life in Frederick II's Sicily
6. Indian Population in Victorian London
7. Ghanaian presidential election
8. English Bible translation for Catholic Lectionary

June 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 June 25

1. Army inflation/deflation
2. Fidel as Roadkill?
3. Photo composite
4. First Queen of Jordan in public
5. Nobility and royalty in witch trial
6. holocaust denial

June 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 June 26

1. Feeling personal attachment towards footwear
2. A different Richard Southern?
3. Can countries declare bankruptcy?
4. Most prolific Britannica author
5. conservative Catholic bishops
6. Salary on Think tanks
7. Zanele Dlamini

June 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 June 27

1. Popular reaction to antisemitism in nazi germany
2. Pretty dresses
3. Have John Kufuor met Daniel Arap Moi ?
4. books or films which significantly contributed to social change?
5. Indian man/child who, though alive, was officially dead in public records as a result of a family member trying to scam money
6. Ceremony when a tribe wants the new technology of an explorer by praying to god/gods

June 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 June 28

1. Earlier ancestors of the Families of Brabant and Hesse
2. How do germanic and latin europeans 'behave differently'?
3. Who discovered coffee?
4. Trieste Rivers
5. A question about the FBI, CIA and the Armed Forces
6. Finally - B.E.M.
7. Hitchens parents
8. Constitutions
9. What is the population of Tierra del Fuego?
10. WWII London Bombings
11. Model for sales in a market
12. Canadian Nobility
13. This Woman in the Ordeal by Fire

June 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 June 29

1. Jesus as myth?
2. Visual Bible
3. Witch trials in Ortodox countries
4. contemporary classical music question
5. Truman = War Criminal?
6. Woman giving virginity to another woman
7. Acts of parliament/congress - differences between UK and US terminology
8. Paul Kagame's master in university
9. Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Bangabandhu / Kemal Mustafa Ataturk

June 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 June 30

1. Gnosticism
2. Jervis Bay Territory's reason for existing
3. 1st person hanged
4. Living standards measure
5. Queen of Iraq
6. Madoff's life
7. legal advice
8. Eddie Van Halen's race
9. Tolkien -Turin's tale - dragon origins
10. Andes flight disaster - Can someone please provide me with the exact co-ordinates of the Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crash site? Article has possible discrepency.
11. International Society of Krishna Conciousness
12. Tanzanian general election, 2005