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June 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 June 1

1. Was Mirza Ghulam Ahmad vegetarian?
2. when did the reichstag fire start?
3. Hypothetical philosophical question
4. elimination of advanced culture
5. Cold War histories
6. George Orwell quote
7. Rev 1
8. Native Americans in US Politics
9. Robert Mugabe
10. British Petroleum

June 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 June 2

1. Two short stories
2. Defending Macbeth
3. free speech mini forum
4. Is China a manufacturing leader
5. Tan authors of literature
6. Steady customers
7. Capital punishment
8. Relationship between "France" and "Frog"
9. Music
10. Buddhists taking offense
11. Any sports/games where the player is drowned in vegetables/salad etc
12. non-fiction books
13. Capitulation during WW2

June 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 June 3

1. Jamaica (W.I)
2. French Revolution
3. Derrick Bird
4. 2 questions about J.D. Salinger
5. How old may be that Penguin book ?
6. how do I not talk so much?
7. "Accessory before or after the fact"
8. What Was the First Gun Invented For?
9. How many Bs make five?
10. where did Fox argue the right to lie?
11. is there any way to "own more than 100%" of a company?
12. Walter v. Lane [1900]
13. handguns in the b.w.c.a.
14. authoritarian and libertarian nations
15. Ancient Mongol tax
16. One vote makes a difference?!
17. History of the Identification Card

June 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 June 4

1. More on unusual time signatures
2. Qiu Jin book
3. Prejudice and discrimination against Aspies

June 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 June 5

1. Economics question
2. Happiest communist country ever
3. when to take meds discreetly?
4. Drugs in athletics
5. Consumer rights in the EU
6. Bourbon Dauphiné
7. Liberty leading the people help
8. magnets

June 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 June 6

1. People who look like their distant ancestors
2. "X is just a tool; it's value/morality depends on how it is used"
3. French Revolutionary Wars - Did upper class people still travel between North Wales and Transylvania in 1795?
4. Ambulance passenger(s)
5. Bangladeshi sovereign territory within India, and vice versa
6. Hitler - Not a Typical German Surmame?
7. Supreme Court
8. Effects of child sexual abuse

June 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 June 7

1. Orange County where?
2. humanities
3. Hardback fiction kept in print
4. LGBT prejudice/discrimination against Aspies
5. Glorious! Victorious! One pint of beer between the four of us...
6. journalising payroll deductions
7. need quick statistics on environmental degradation and conservation!
8. Who was Chingi Chkhana?
9. Multinational companies treating differently people from different countries
10. Book written by Henry VIII
11. What's this guy's name?

June 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 June 8

1. comprehensive list of ways a child can help a family
2. Analysis of Israel's recent international/diplomatic strategy
3. Details of the Saxbe fix
4. Romeo and Juliet
5. I need to find if someone has died, and this is tricky...
6. Geography/GK question
7. Two-up, two-down council house
8. Welfare programs as incentive for wealthy to reduce earning gap
9. Balance of evidence in UK civil courts

June 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 June 9

1. Maimonides quote
2. Indian Constitution
3. What is this?
4. Dutch monarchy - regent?
5. friendships among one another

June 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 June 10

1. Fact check on Supreme Court case Berghuis v. Thompkins
2. Pirates and Scots Accents... What Gives?
3. Hunger and poverty
4. Organ action
5. generation
6. USA first time homebuuyer $8,000 tax credit
7. Indian nationality law
8. US/UK Relations
9. Is Kansas a 1-party consent state?
10. Earl of Angus
11. "Most free" country

June 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 June 11

1. Minimum copyrightable length of original works
2. urgent requirement to airlfit from india
3. which wars
4. Is modern art (visual) simply a gimmick?
5. british army ranks
6. Irish Copyright Law
7. Indian nationality law
8. esquire
9. Dwight D. Eisenhower

June 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 June 12

1. Future world superpowers

June 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 June 13

1. criminal sociology 1
2. Alert-detached philosophy
3. Authors and the ref desk
4. Most played national anthem in the world
5. Bertha of Kent
6. Vitamin eh?
7. Doré's methods
8. First Notable Person
9. Any public studies ranking burnout by country among students
10. Looking for painting

June 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 June 14

1. Hands in the jacket?
2. How many Jews didn't they kill?
3. The Akhmetchetka camp in WWII Transnistria
4. indian nationality law
5. War between the states of the United States of America
6. Looking for book

June 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 June 15

1. Formation date of Black Hand
2. Ralph Klein, Paul Martin and private healthcare
3. Free Mesothelioma Information Packet.
4. Lap dogs

June 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 June 16

1. Marca Hispanica
2. charge nurses
3. Geography/GK question
4. Help me figure out what this song was....
5. Challenging predjudice

June 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 June 17

1. Who was the abroad friend?
2. First woman assassinated in Serbia
3. Hunting Act 2004
4. Let there be light
5. obsession with truth
6. BP

June 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 June 18

1. Assassination or murder
2. history of flag
3. BP's >=$20bn fund
4. DOHSA
5. Hymn to identify
6. Oklahoma bombing and Northern Ireland Troubles.
7. Winston Churchill wartime speeches BBC broadcasts
8. Icelandic Modern Media Initiative
9. Breastfeeding in public

June 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 June 19

1. Why is Battle of Fort Myers referred to as southernmost battle of the American Civil War?
2. value proposition of believing scientists about things you can't understand vs. believing marketers about things you can't tell are true or not.
3. The Rings of Saturn by WG Sebald
4. Free violin sheet music
5. Does this quote really belong to Nietzsche?
6. War which caused the most deaths in history
7. Ethical master morality
8. Churchill Says...
9. address of oriole lodge
10. Moral relativism, nihilism, and utilitariansm

June 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 June 20

1. Elizabeth II
2. Ancient Bull Worship in the Mediterranean Basin and Middle East
3. Marconi shares
4. Lovecraft - Cool Air -strange language
5. County of Falkenstein
6. First novel
7. european cars in Egypt
8. Cars in Bangladesh

June 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 June 21

1. why is the USA more right-wing than europe and the rest of the westrn world?
2. Hochschule fūr Kunsterzeichnung, Berlin 1933-1937
3. Leo Tolstoy
4. Judge Laughlin or McLaughlin
5. The queen of Frederick the Great
6. Catholicism in the Old South
7. American military bases
8. Samuel Ealy Johnson, Jr.

June 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 June 22

1. Law question (Not advice)
2. Search warrant for 1000 pieces of stolen luggage (not advice)
3. Negro slaves
4. Aleksander Sochaczewski
5. House MD and the law
6. Winged victory of Samothrace in 3D online
7. Princess Victoria
8. On Bertrand Russel
9. Surname of the Dukes of Norfolk
10. Dwight David Eisenhower biography
11. Randolph jefferson, brother of thomas jefferson
12. Legal jargon

June 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 June 23

1. Princess Maria Christina of Saxony (1770–1851)
2. Arguing about women's pay vs. men's pay in US
3. what is the oldest bottle of wine anyone has been verified to drink?
4. Brandt Report and American/British foreign aid policy
5. Kovchitsy Vtoryye, Belarus
6. ACT
7. Final Exams
8. major historical events of the era 1988-2000
9. SMPs
10. What did Aristotle tell us about Plato's life?
11. U.S. Gen. McChrystal
12. Westboro Baptist Church "scripture"
13. Michelangelo Quote

June 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 June 24

1. A young lady from ____?
2. The Meaning of this joke ?
3. Painting transfer
4. A Short Story that Franz Kafka May Have Written
5. Forms of trade other than barter or monetary
6. Film industry lucrative?
7. Bankrupt in Venus, wealthy in Mars
8. Charges against company accounts
9. Plot of the novel "Bunny Lake Is Missing"?
10. Looking someone in the eye
11. The origin of the hajduk
12. Lyndon Johnson
13. predecessor of WAAC
14. old testament
15. is human murder part of natural selection
16. Female vs. male body painting models
17. Ancient Human Metropolis Found in Africa!?
18. Demyanka River

June 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 June 25

1. Birthdate of Ellen Watson
2. When something is "nationalized" like Chavez has been doing, what exactly happens?
3. Selective Service in the United States
4. Common set of citations for portions of text
5. Are "Class of "Graduation Year"" (class levels) organizations?
6. Identify a song
7. Buddhists excelling in something

June 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 June 26

1. female politician in recent American election who got her cue cards mixed up on live TV and said nothing for at least a minute?
2. Question regarding Trotskyism
3. Shot in the head
4. UK CGT PPR
5. where can I find a list of stylistic nuggets
6. Why can't a Marriage Registrar under the German Civil Code be a single person?
7. The "unnecessary" curve of JFK in Dallas
8. Did the American revolution affect Britain's access to tobacco?
9. Odds of marriage
10. USA saved Europe?
11. ship memorabilia
12. Oz

June 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 June 27

1. Devising property in a will
2. German Monarchies
3. Judaic question
4. What are these men doing?
5. South Africa
6. Buddhist Study Guide
7. ---shire
8. Tamilnadu or Tamil Nadu

June 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 June 28

1. Sigmund Freud
2. BCG study on millionaire households across the world
3. Of a politician's death
4. Balcony scene in Romeo and Juliet
5. Number of executors for an English will
6. How did Robert Byrd keep getting re-elected
7. Israel
8. Facing Qiblah in hotels

June 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 June 29

1. Hispanics in California don't support pot legalization
2. Help finding a photograph?
3. Cool Eskimos
4. "Bombs bursting in air"
5. interest groups
6. FDR in a wheelchair
7. Timeline of WW II
8. Giants in Greece.
9. Greek in Gaudy Night
10. religion
11. US House Committee on Claims
12. Question for Liszt fans

June 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 June 30

1. Investing in Chinese currency
2. Jesus Christ
3. buying a copy
4. Competition from the Chinese and other international markets
5. JFK in Dallas 22.11.1963
6. UK planning objections and appeals
7. New Martinsvile Glass, Dates and Designers ?
8. What are "household effect" in context of family law?
9. Historical comparison of Portugal and Spain
10. Economic index
11. Who said "Bullshit, love is the only weapon with which I've got to fight."
12. Something blue
13. Has anyone really "stopped the presses", why