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October 1

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Humanities/2006 October 1

1. Ancestor
2. Truman's letters
3. Missing posts
4. Coat of Arms of India
5. engagement rings
6. Requesting help for article on Jean-Marie Le Pen : did he speak to(and support) Russian extremists, who went to fight in Iraq in 2003?
7. Unknown Audio
8. New brunswick culture
9. Cholera
10. English in Europe
11. Are eyeglasses considered a machine?
12. Sigmund Freud and Nathaniel Hawthorn
13. What is the proper pronunciation for...
14. Who painted this and what is the piece called?

October 2

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Humanities/2006 October 2

1. Religion
2. neuro-esthetics
3. Place name in Nepal
4. Short form for engineers
5. Replacing your victim
6. In what key did Victoria originally write his "O Magnum Mysterium"?
7. Gambling in the US
8. Mit Hitler in Polen
9. i need help!!!!!!!!!!!!!
10. Politics and Science

October 3

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Humanities/2006 October 3

1. Symbols on a WWI French artillery shell decorated as "trench art"
2. Voting ages
3. Journeyman painters
4. book title
5. define " non-theist "
6. The definition of "Strike Suit"
7. Marketing
8. Freeza
9. Recitative
10. Moral Standarda
11. political struggles of the seminole indians?
12. Beer Tastes Bad
13. political science-international relations+international organizations
14. ALL PROBLEMS SOLVED!
15. How Much Do You Expect To Be Paid?
16. Women and sociology in the 19th century

October 4

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Humanities/2006 October 4

1. 1920's vs 1930's
2. Straight head to head viewship comparsion (??)
3. MLA Citation
4. cuban culture, specifically calle ocho
5. The highest IQ
6. fashion law
7. UK Devolution
8. Why are unrelated things allowed to be put on unrelated bills?
9. Famous Sayings
10. Holding out for a hero percussion
11. insignia origin and meaning
12. Sourdough History
13. Song
14. We had the captain for our meal (poem)
15. Why did the Netherlands last for so little against the Wehrmacht in WW2?
16. US calling code
17. Cyprus climate

October 5

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Humanities/2006 October 5

1. First Christian Church
2. social work
3. Left-handed protagonist named "Dexter"
4. Drag 'n Drop
5. Game in cognitive sciences
6. See-through Shirt
7. British Medieval Gilt Plate
8. SIGHTILL CEMETARY
9. Dickens
10. road traffic signs- London local authority obligations.
11. Moe Kauffman
12. School Year Calendars for Latin American Countries
13. Westboro picketing at Amish funerals
14. Underage Drinking
15. "Owner's equity" in non-profit organizations
16. Near-monopoly

October 6

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Humanities/2006 October 6

1. Attributive Monism & Pantheism
2. Help about the UN!
3. name of a music
4. Musical Coincidence?
5. Knife Law in California
6. Indigenous people of the Aleutians Islands
7. Beastie Boy's music
8. Poem by W B Yeats
9. Which one is Sima Zhao
10. Sanitation and hygiene throughout history
11. Analyzing Piano Pieces

October 7

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Humanities/2006 October 7

1. types of espresso drinks
2. Average age of goverments, based on goverment form
3. Sarah Vaughan
4. Death penalty
5. French distrust
6. Answer these questions
7. About france
8. Article Search
9. Oil Painting by Alexandre Jacobs
10. Name this song & artist
11. Nostalgia Collection
12. Deletion of New Artist Stub 'Lee Woods' Artmaid 20:36, 7 October 2006 (UTC)Artmaid
13. Conjoined twin autobiography
14. If the Germans had won WWII and the Final Solution had been completed

October 8

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Humanities/2006 October 8

1. Phone Q
2. Your Characterization of the Oxford Philosopher J.L. Austin's work
3. No age limit for drinking alcohol in Australia
4. Why is it called mizuhiki (water pulling)? history? process?
5. women having sex
6. Nazi Germany military achievements
7. Jean Stretchers
8. World War One
9. law
10. Is neopaganism really a religion?
11. Ban of veil in UK Jack Straw's remarks about the veil
12. plodweaver
13. Question about the movie Bend it like Beckham
14. Question about Germany
15. Help linking an article
16. About great tragedies(in both war and peace)
17. Flaming and regular

October 9

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Humanities/2006 October 9

1. Are There Any Wikipedia Articles That Discuss The Mistranlastion Of Homosexuality In The Bible?
2. Representations of left as back and right as forward
3. Social Class and Voting Behaviour
4. Sahara Desert turned to glass
5. Michealangelo
6. On citizenship and guilt
7. Relieving A Superior Of Their Command
8. Gun Control in the US
9. What is cultural diversity?
10. Upcoming movie
11. The origins of Frere Jacques
12. Why a particular order in google?
13. Female mystics and musicians, AD 600 to 1600?

October 10

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Humanities/2006 October 10

1. Top 22 Terrorists
2. United States Civil War
3. Age of Sexual Consent
4. The prevelance of female pedophiles?
5. hester prynne
6. Mr Plow episode of Simpsons
7. Was Rudolf Hess murdered?
8. gandhian ideology
9. movie review
10. are car prices increasing or decreasing
11. Vestica Veca
12. XM, Sirius, and MTV
13. sherman's march to the sea
14. The Maki Maki language
15. Political science/ Micheal Manning I.E.M.P model
16. political sicence/federalisum
17. How do I see the answer to my question?
18. Medieval Christian heretics?
19. Concept of playboy/playgirl
20. WWII : First soldiers on German soil, first Russian soldier in Korea
21. President of the United States election
22. social order

October 11

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Humanities/2006 October 11

1. Tony Toni Tone
2. Louisiana purchase benefit?
3. Poison gas in WW2
4. economics
5. name this swedish film
6. Sir Joshua Reynolds
7. Was the Weimar Republic doomed from the start?
8. Swadesh lists
9. "Convicted pedophile"
10. Edexcel

October 12

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Humanities/2006 October 12

1. Islamic Naval Technology
2. Communication aided by seeing a face
3. PROPOSED CHANGES TO THE REFERENCE DESK
4. Why does the word "Nazi" appear so often in this reference desk?
5. North Korea's legal system
6. Next war-time use of NUCLEAR weapons most likely to happen
7. Legal tender status of Jersey coinage in the UK
8. "Homophobia"
9. Marketing
10. Flag Desecration Act
11. Holiday
12. Universities in Vermont
13. TV sets
14. Soviet recognition of Irish Republic
15. Developing Nuclear Weapons
16. HM Prison Service
17. Barking dogs
18. 2 Questions

October 13

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Humanities/2006 October 13

1. flute music term?
2. What is Marriage?
3. I've Seen Art History, But Where's Fashion History (Or Maybe Costume History?) And Literature History?
4. Minimum wage
5. Reunification
6. monuments
7. Brazil
8. Never Knows Best
9. indian American woman
10. Why do some people sneeze when they look at the Sun?
11. Jewish mob
    1. jewish mob2
12. US Presidents who have been killed
13. Icons in Russia
14. Point Spread Format
15. Right to life founders
16. Help!
17. LAPD
18. fire marshal in NY
19. Computer addiction

October 14

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Humanities/2006 October 14

1. An american failure...
2. Sonic Youth's DAYDREAM NATION
3. US inciting Sunni-Shi’ite strife in Iraq
4. video game music
5. Major causes of death as percentage of the population
6. Why does Wikipedia apply "Jewish-American/British Jew etc" and Jewish hyphenations with nationalities?
7. Sex in Disney
8. Springed Seat Thing
9. what's so special about humans?
10. medical malpractice
11. Jamaican reggae artists search
12. Art feedback.

October 15

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Humanities/2006 October 15

1. Soccer question
2. Communist China
3. Homosexuality and evolutionary psychology
4. The end of the world as we know it
5. American Dreams
6. French wars
7. Unknown German soldier

October 16

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Humanities/2006 October 16

1. In the future, will Che Guevara be venerated as a Christlike figure?
2. Tattoo History
3. movie sex scenes
4. 127th Street Ensemble
5. Cara Hyder
6. Historical Whitewash
7. Were Saints Gervaise and Protasus Cro-Magnons?
8. religion
9. Brazilian Children's Television
10. Support in an Experiment - Urgent
11. Did the Jews really kill Jesus?
12. Sex in Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse
13. cloaked in glory
14. lawyers
15. Religious freedom
16. How does one go about initiating a romantic relationship with a celebrity?
17. Is there a "God of Sound"?

October 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2006 October 17

1. Matthew 27:11-26
2. UNO
3. politics in Niger
4. Making a lasagne
5. Lamp Post Planet
6. The root cause of Anti-semitism
7. Pictures of women
8. You may help answer this
9. Europe
10. Nuclear War
11. how do people survive on $1 per day?
12. Reiher pass
13. William Henry Harrison's Political Ideas...

October 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2006 October 18

1. Money Terms
2. "B"
3. So "snuck" is a word now?
4. Zaidis
5. Auction Date
6. Shiny Shoes
7. Buddhism and War
8. shaka
9. Ballad of Three Black Crows and a Slain Horse
10. Borat
11. Number of entrepreneurs per 100 working people
12. Question about the Holocaust
13. to what extent did Weimar Germany experience a golden age c1924 -29?
14. Hazard management strategies
15. A certain Jewish ritual, not static at all, all men
16. University California Berkeley and Affirmative Action
17. Chinese monarchism?

October 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2006 October 19

1. Theology
2. prison and sex
3. Are we going to be able to roll back the damage?
4. Music
5. Republicanism in Japan?
6. Waiting time
7. who wins cards or mets? ASAP
8. Too Drunk to remember.
9. Celebrity adoption spree
10. Ngelle Gorbitu School in Ethiopia
11. Some kind of soundtrack in my head
12. Nazi Germany Vandalism
13. Ritchie Blackmore
14. female rapists
15. oral sex
16. Blacks and crime, intelligence - political correctness

October 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2006 October 20

1. Need information about translated novels of French author Nicolas des Escuteaux
2. Where to find cost of food statistics for Rep. of Korea?
3. Bradford Connection
4. science fiction books
5. the sauna
6. Nudity in commercials?
7. Bewitched
8. Bush approval ratings in NYC
9. Administrative law judges
10. Mystery or Mystary?
11. plagerism in the family
12. US Branches of Military
13. Dates of specific events during Vietnam War
14. philosophy
15. Adolf Hitler
16. Jesus after his resurrection
17. historical origin and date of "why did the chicken cross the road."
18. Guitar
19. Fluent or near-fluent Russian/English speaker, please.
20. Lithuanian liquor called Viritos

October 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2006 October 21

1. How old
2. U.S presidents who did not have a ship named in their honour
3. Looking for a school in the Washington area in 1906
4. Gettin' Busy
5. Definition of a Theist and an Atheist
6. Fola
7. Information about family courts?
8. What interesting family relations in monarchies are there?
9. King Arthur

October 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2006 October 22

1. Naming Royalty
2. Racism
3. Factual basis in psychology for claims about the power of the imagination
4. Celebrity Religion

October 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2006 October 23

1. Strange battleship-like game...
2. searching a link on Product review page
3. Hindu fasting calculation
4. RMS Titanic
5. Recommended Tenchi Muyo series?
6. Venezuela in UN Security Council
7. California Real Estate Exam
8. Question about Music Production

October 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2006 October 24

1. magazine ownership
2. Great civilizations
3. Literature and art dealing with the question, "What makes a man?"
4. Origin of the phrase 'violence begets violence'
5. GREAT KANTO EARTHQUAKE
6. Thomas Ivan Scanlen (Captain) 1886-1941
7. The Mona Lisa
8. Why were typewriters invented for the blind?
9. Apostle Paul, Sexual Orientation
10. politics

October 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2006 October 25

1. Comparing prizes for common goods and services
2. All about Persia
3. > IT WAS A JOKE! <<
4. Albert RN
5. FlickBook
6. Bosch, the last judgement.
7. Is it legal for the British Secret Service to assasinate Dodi Al-Fayed ?
8. French franc in 1910? (take two)
9. I want to study law and qualify as an attorney, but dont want to practise
10. American history
11. "Degrees of Protection" of a currency
12. need help urgently
13. Ann Coulter
14. Highest paying profesions

October 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2006 October 26

1. oncerning This Photograph
2. Manneken Pis
3. Name that tune
4. Worlds Most Powerful Institutions
5. The First Sports Car
6. Night of wilding in Central Park
7. Dora Maar au Chat
8. The Death Star in ROTS
9. I need information about online colleges that offer Juris doctor degree that you can accelerate
10. Shareholders Suing Company
11. Desperate Housewive
12. Military to military relations and military culture in Ghana
13. What does free will mean?
14. Southern Presidents?
15. different attitude towards surveys in different countries

October 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2006 October 27

1. King Henry VIII
2. hey
3. Spoof splurge?
4. religion
5. politic lingo
6. Dr. Walter Bailey
7. Derek Bentley and Christopher Craig court case
8. Film title needed
9. Mood amoung soldiers towards the end of WW2

October 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2006 October 28

1. Sodomy in Ancient Bologna
2. Japan's Foreign Policy Toward Vietnam
3. RENE DES CASTES
4. Chinese propaganda
5. PLEASE!! HELP ME, Polar-experts!!
6. Exemptions for Warriors About to Wage Holy Jihad
7. Is There Such a Thing as a Tribal Godfather?
8. The concept of 'fringe' (in UK politics)
9. difference of wizards and magicians in society
10. Help with an un-identifiable memorial coin
11. What does "obdurate" mean?

October 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2006 October 29

1. Treason question, based on last night's Battlestar Galactica
2. World War I
3. Re: Is There Such a Thing as a Tribal Godfather?
4. Moritz Hochschild (aka Don Mauricio)
5. Death Penalty
6. Chief Wasatchaka
7. Alternative strategies not violating human rights
8. British Liberal party between 1906-14
9. Hitler, Goebbels, Joe Lou--Charlene 01:34, 31 October 2006 (UTC)is, Max Schmeling, radio Broadcast 1938
10. kbar
11. Civil marriage
12. Mathematics
13. Princeton University

October 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2006 October 30

1. ld Movie
2. ost Paid
3. Bicycle ONLY village/city/town
4. Getting broader shoulders
5. What are the differences between Job Evaluation and Work Evaluation?
6. Myall Creek Massacre
7. CHARACTER BUILDING AND MORAL VALUES
8. What is the equivalend of a corpus fund for charities in the UK?
9. The whipery in the Cuban parliament
10. Mulberry Harbours
11. budapest
12. Respect
13. Song with lyrics "come to papa"
14. Clash of civilisations
15. Willie Lynch entry
16. [Bold and the Beautiful]] history question
17. Thanksgiving Women
18. What is the name/author of an artwork?
19. Passport

October 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2006 October 31

1. itler's eye/hair color
2. lected Assemblies and Canada
3. Sword history
4. Has there ever been a movie entirely produced by children that was shown in theaters???
5. Victorian Theatre
6. Poland and Adriatic Sea
7. Music Suggestion Request
8. Literary Criticism
9. Japanese Art
10. Companies Buying Shares In Other Companies
11. Turkey Pop Out
12. U.S. State Issued Marriage Licenses
13. Hostory; kings with names Rudolph
14. Nautical Poetry
15. Can a person who has entered the country illegally become legal by marriage to a U.S. citizen?
16. nstrument learning!
17. Movements that dispute the legitimacy of a reigning monarch
18. Usefulness
19. Atheists and Halloween