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March 1[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 March 1

  1. Matt Morrison
  2. Article about a London park with a "protected" view
  3. Restaurant Laws in Western Australia
  4. US Politics - Definition of "top tier candidate" or "first tier candidate"
  5. Figure Skating
  6. Sexuality images in Wikipedia
  7. Roller Skates
  8. Robert Service books
  9. what caused the 1962 Burmese coup in the first place?
  10. Econ question
  11. "creative accounting"
  12. Last U.S. Vice President to rule from the Chair of the Senate
  13. Art
  14. Coffe With Puree

March 2[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 March 2

  1. Sheriff's house an official residence?
  2. As I Lay Dying
  3. BMX?
  4. Fake Snake Loop Earring
  5. Incest among animals
  6. Real estate bubble effect on the larger economy
  7. Monopoly game used during WWII
  8. Gregorian Calendar
  9. Copyright Status of E.E. Cummings Poetry
  10. File:Disputation.jpg
  11. Legal status of embassy-related building
  12. man-in-the-waiting-room theory
  13. Conjoined twins and the law
  14. The origin of knee-slapping
  15. Media regulation during elections in the U.S.A.
  16. Tiny countries' defense
  17. Footballers good, bankers bad
  18. Mother-son marriage in South Korea
  19. Divorce and Credit Card Debt

March 3[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 March 3

  1. Prussian regiment in painting
  2. Succesful towns that look horrible?
  3. It's "for religious reasons"
  4. Iranian surnames
  5. hijab summer olympics
  6. Debt and Countries
  7. The Age of Enlightenment in Russia and Scandinavia
  8. About 19 century churches
  9. War
  10. novels
  11. looking for artist/painting name
  12. finance: Surrogate debt definition
  13. what on one's person counts as a status symbol in Southern Germany? (man's)
  14. Typesetting in the 1960s
  15. private detectives
  16. Lord of the Rings
  17. Tit fucking, scholars, and doctors
  18. Religion

March 4[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 March 4

  1. Historic US census reports
  2. 350000 Allied POW escapes in WW2
  3. Conquered subsuming conquerers
  4. Who coined "wild west"
  5. Trans-Atlantic Telegraph Cables in World War Two
  6. Humanities
  7. Pornstar
  8. Second time the Sacred Cod went missing
  9. two articles declined
  10. life of himba tribal women
  11. what influenced hitler (esp when hes young) to be so anti semtic?
  12. "Blue-skying"
  13. aerocraft
  14. Henry Darger
  15. What is "vulgar Marxism?"
  16. LGBT issues in Iran and Saudi Arabia
  17. Educating Esme

March 5[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 March 5

  1. Tort
  2. Word War
  3. Bestsellers lists
  4. The War
  5. Livestock
  6. Deflation
  7. Style of play from a chess computer opponent?
  8. Strait of Gibraltar during WW2?
  9. Ownership of Language

March 6[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 March 6

  1. Violence in Congress?
  2. billion
  3. Information on Instant Messenger Use
  4. History Channel Documentaries
  5. Novel
  6. Jesus' connotation with David
  7. Space fiction
  8. Dreaming
  9. Sunday shopping in Germany
  10. Iceland debt
  11. what prophecies about the Messiah did Jesus fill?
  12. Sunday shopping in Poland

March 7[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 March 7

  1. All Nippon Airways headquarters
  2. Immediate family in the military
  3. Help identifying this person
  4. Forbidden Books
  5. Deer species in the Bambi translation
  6. would someone modifying Mosaic Law today still be subject to the death penalty under it?
  7. Where is the Icesave money now?
  8. Creating and destroying money
  9. Arthur Leslie Salmon - Author
  10. Where does Riyadh get its water?
  11. Historical Chinese gender imbalance
  12. Etymology question: Ptah *ph₂tḗr
  13. Music
  14. Single, Young African-American Moms and Fornication
  15. Same Sex Marriage in the UK

March 8[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 March 8

  1. Marijuana Intoxication
  2. Novels, books and novella
  3. Former Air France headquarters in Montparnasse
  4. What is truth?
  5. Mystery poem
  6. AA Flight 11 passengers.
  7. Swear words
  8. Name question
  9. Detroit
  10. Postage Due

March 9[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 March 9

  1. Marriage prospect of Nicholas II's children
  2. Skates
  3. Cock
  4. Selling a banned product
  5. Third Anglo-Burmese War
  6. Flag of British Burma
  7. Last line of a novel or short story
  8. Moses
  9. Jewish shops in Germany
  10. Merchant Marine Vessels of Scotland and Great Britain

March 10[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 March 10

  1. Bram Stokers Dracula was lost and found in a barn in Pennsylvania
  2. WWI photograph identifications
  3. The Father of Beatrix Potter
  4. Dekotora
  5. Warrington & Co.
  6. Fit For Performance
  7. Online Dictionary
  8. Principality of Neuchâtel
  9. Why people cry when they are happy
  10. Canada's role in producing energy for the world
  11. Reason for the POETICS list protest of Billy Collins's appointment?
  12. becoming millionaire
  13. Lords of Toron
  14. Prince Ernst August of Hanover
  15. in what part, as a percentage, was world war 2 caused by an unjust peace agreement following world war 1?
  16. I need some knowledge of Pearl Harbor attack
  17. Pulp-like novels
  18. Warren Buffett
  19. Sexual content in Lolita

March 11[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 March 11

  1. Star Trek: TNG episode "The Inner Light" refers to a Japanese folk story?
  2. What's the probability that the Icelandic debt repayment referendum could lead to war?
  3. How to deal with Bullies
  4. Difference between straight male and female's reactions to homosexual people who have crush on them
  5. Ave Caesar, morituri te salutant
  6. Operation Helmand Spider and relation to Operation Moshtarak
  7. was Iraq an unprovoked attack like Pearl Harbor?
  8. Normative Economics
  9. Spanish Don
  10. Strait of Gibraltar compared with English Channel in WW2
  11. Financing high risk business through options etc?

March 12[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 March 12

  1. Has there ever been an actual, verifiable (or even strongly suspected) case...
  2. Styles of authority or power
  3. Paying mortgage off early
  4. Dehra Dun
  5. AMERICAN GRAND FATHER/BRITISH FATHER!
  6. Does Russia Railways observe daylight saving time? Need clarify.
  7. Menstrual extraction
  8. Knee/leg movement; vibrating

March 13[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 March 13

  1. Is Microsoft a Monopoly?
  2. Is it only me?
  3. How can there be a tie if you need 60 votes?
  4. 山楂酪
  5. King of Leon (in Spain, not the band)
  6. writer completing studies abroad
  7. Possibility of a Spanish default
  8. Regimental Combat Team
  9. Kievan Rus and the Black sea
  10. Why do some do-rags have a cape?
  11. Blasphemy

March 14[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 March 14

  1. Shandong cuisine
  2. Group psychology
  3. FOX News babes
  4. Auto Insurance
  5. artist tao lengyue (1895-1985)
  6. Harassment of Italians in World War II United States

March 15[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 March 15

  1. Ethical Eating- GM, meat, non-organic, chemicals, hormones...
  2. Communism
  3. Ecclestistic court decision on Indians having souls
  4. Nonagenarians who died before 1900
  5. rise if the third world
  6. Simple leadership questionnaire
  7. Name in Khmer
  8. Women and music, throughout the ages
  9. Foreign language names of school district
  10. What would have been the historical effects if Hitler had been successfully assassinated?
  11. Who was the editor of the Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands
  12. Angry or depressed at a disapointment?

March 16[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 March 16

  1. From where does the strength of the pro-Israel lobby come in American politics?
  2. Supreme Court of India appealing before itself
  3. Corsets for men in the 19th century
  4. Banksy
  5. Asatru
  6. Information about the artist Ib Geertsen?
  7. bigfoot
  8. Splitting Nigeria
  9. Africa (Petrarch)
  10. Short stories dealing with sexual abuse

March 17[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 March 17

  1. How to cite The New York Times - under T or under N?
  2. Communism 2
  3. Seventh-Day Adventist in China
  4. Can someone explain this please? Finding out who you are...
  5. Ping Fu
  6. Authorising use of logo
  7. cynicism overload
  8. UK and Ethnicties
  9. Versailles
  10. For Whom the Bell Tolls
  11. Marriage

March 18[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 March 18

  1. Looking for a science book...
  2. traditional Francophone elite
  3. fishing sector of Canada
  4. Jeffrey Dahmer's mugshots

March 19[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 March 19

  1. King of Tavolara
  2. Crown Prince of Denmark
  3. Original & Translation version of Gilgamesh
  4. services industries
  5. sales revenue and employees
  6. drum beat in music
  7. Free Churches Moderator
  8. "it isn't _____ if you don't get caught"
  9. The imminent resignation of Hillary Clinton?
  10. Olympics question
  11. Falkland War -- Thatcher Speech
  12. History of the bound book

March 20[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 March 20

  1. "Realistic" Visual Art Outside of the West
  2. Parting one's hair
  3. Step Will
  4. Payment in cash
  5. Voice-over
  6. Campus radio
  7. Slovakia during WWII
  8. Medicinal brandy
  9. Warren Buffett valuing a business
  10. Why did Argentina run its trains on corn when there was world famine after WWII?
  11. American Culture

March 21[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 March 21

  1. Religion
  2. Any truth to reports of Chinese people making cooking oil from sewage
  3. Life of Moreshwar Ramchandra Kale
  4. Israel and the Palestinians
  5. Kabul Times
  6. fishing sector of Canada 2
  7. Uganda-Tanzania War press conference
  8. Why was France so weak militarily during WW2?
  9. News orgs using "Mr. Obama"
  10. Death penalty law wording
  11. Is this a real photo of Hitler?

March 22[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 March 22

  1. Height and weight of Hitler
  2. Lil Rob
  3. US health care reform - pre-existing conditions
  4. Evolution and redemption
  5. Fascism and obedience
  6. Why pay banks to lend to the Fed when the largest risk is they aren't lending to their customers?
  7. How much income equality is optimal?
  8. Politics
  9. Looking for a book I read about five years ago
  10. Charles Manson

March 23[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 March 23

  1. mining industry in Canada
  2. Housewife
  3. Health Care Bill
  4. OFEX stock market, UK
  5. what qualifications can you get overnight
  6. is there a psychological condition where people hear themselves being narrated?
  7. Name the fallacy
  8. Indigenous people of the United States
  9. Longevity of political systems or forms of government
  10. Marahasta
  11. Violin Sheet music for "hey soul sister" by Train

March 24[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 March 24

  1. Health care law
  2. procrastination trick
  3. Break Even
  4. Date
  5. fund for ferry crash victims
  6. developement of criminal law
  7. Spoke Zarathustra
  8. Architecture Copyright
  9. death penalty and insanity

March 25[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 March 25

  1. Arab world mineral industry
  2. minerals Canada
  3. Obama
  4. Currency manipulator
  5. is it true that...
  6. Racists everywhere?
  7. U.S. Recess appointments
  8. bankruptcy
  9. Incubus ?
  10. citation help
  11. "Book Within a Book" Title
  12. Psychopaths
  13. passport notation

March 26[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 March 26

  1. Meyer Lansky never went to trial because...?
  2. Can a professional not be humane also?
  3. Dying so that someone else may live
  4. Scottsboro Boys
  5. Response to inflationary pressure of full employment
  6. Allowing someone dearly loved to die for someone else

March 27[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 March 27

  1. Health care bill opposition
  2. Rail Spur construction cost
  3. Ownership of foreign companies
  4. What's worth a pound?
  5. magic and witchcraft

March 28[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 March 28

  1. what does the bible actually say about pedophilia on part of priests?
  2. Prostitute tea
  3. "Hand car"--means of transport
  4. Correlation between the Sharpeville Massacre and Cato Manor Massacre
  5. History of writing out currency amounts on checks
  6. damaged aircraft auction
  7. Source of quotation, probably from W.B. Yeats
  8. Hypothetical scenario
  9. How are nurses who kill caught?
  10. (Business Valuation) Sales / Headcount -- a meaningful statistic?

March 29[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 March 29

  1. Why is wikipedia possible?
  2. what atheism
  3. Sovereign Debt Defaults
  4. Is this group against the law?
  5. Illustrious 14 Romans
  6. Medical staff, Civil War
  7. Oldest people in Rome?
  8. advance reading copies
  9. How usual is it to have no friends?

March 30[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 March 30

  1. Proper Way to Observe a Baptism
  2. Chinese male face with political tentacles
  3. FAA Violations
  4. Angel(?) Danyal
  5. Unknown Asimov book?
  6. Moral terpitude

March 31[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 March 31

  1. Aryan vs. Japanese racial superiority
  2. primal fear and catatonia
  3. An Interesting GK Question
  4. Has the UK population become very much more intelligent in recent decades?
  5. Impossible feats of heroism?
  6. What happened to old Chinese coins when dynasties fell?
  7. Did Bill Gates start Microsoft with his parents' money?
  8. Find board of directors of california corporations
  9. Bach cantatas
  10. What's the point of learning Irish?
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