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September 1[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 September 1

  1. Creating a new page
  2. Life in the Soviet Union
  3. the galveston hurricane
  4. The ultimate timeline?
  5. Time served in Polish Prisons
  6. Rise and fall of French protestantism
  7. question
  8. local question - global view
  9. 1930s press agencies and magazines
  10. "Talisman" painting by Henryk Siemiradzki (1843-1902)
  11. Can rhetoric silence truth?
  12. Prora the Nazi holiday camp
  13. The ox in the belfry. (il bue nel campanile da Giotto)
  14. nougat,almonds - european culture
  15. St. George and England
  16. Picture of General Knyphausen
  17. US BANKING System Structure
  18. Appalachian State v. Michigan
  19. Are there any chromatically tuned brass or woodwind instruments?

September 2[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 September 2

  1. Trying to identify a painting
  2. Germany's arrival in haiti.
  3. Russia and the German French War of 1871
  4. Site with radio frequencies
  5. Third Cousin
  6. 1637 Siege of Breda
  7. history: bristol members of parliament
  8. Cossack Dance
  9. Baptistry of the Duomo in Spoleto, Italy
  10. Art destroyed by War / Il Campo Santo di Pisa
  11. Mind-Shattering Things

September 3[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 September 3

  1. To know me is to be me.
  2. Defeat of the Confederacy
  3. Catholic split: English and Scottish lines?
  4. Tordesillas
  5. Weathercock on churchtowers
  6. Social changes in the philippines during spanish colonizers?
  7. Egypt GDP
  8. Siena Duomo Mosaic Pavement
  9. What if someone pays a no-limit credit card's monthly payments with the same credit card?
  10. Diary of a Farmer's Wife 1796-1797
  11. Utopia fonts
  12. Spanish word
  13. What is this gaping tomb?
  14. Company owners
  15. Union of the Crowns
  16. Politics
  17. GOP?
  18. Pont de diable - south france
  19. IS the Little Red Book in Public Domain?

September 4[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 September 4

  1. Royalties from book publishers
  2. Paintings by Mary Shecut Sease
  3. Generation Y
  4. literature - notability - serious question
  5. romanians
  6. literature - notability - serious question (re ask)
  7. A Man's a Man for A' That
  8. Ambassadors' Plot
  9. Ireland and the English
  10. ALL CAPS legal disclaimers
  11. Russian women in the Second World War
  12. HDI for N Ireland
  13. When Were the Nuremberg Trials Televised?```Momynym
  14. Religious Studies vs Religious Education
  15. Perception of Sociology
  16. Duke Of Wellington - what did he forbid his men to take into battle?
  17. Obligation vs. Responsibility vs. Duty

September 5[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 September 5

  1. The Greatest Audio Dramas
  2. World War II weapon "superiority"
  3. India after the Mutiny
  4. toyota in Europe
  5. What does the Dept. of Agriculture have to do with my gas?
  6. Templates
  7. Size of American home
  8. Cleopatra
  9. Parents of Suresh Peters
  10. Hearts and Minds
  11. European baby
  12. Why did the Ku Klux Klan burn crosses?

September 6[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 September 6

  1. How democratic were the colonies? (And in particular: Algeria during the Fourth Republic)
  2. HISTORY
  3. Also a question on French Algeria
  4. arbitration Act... India...
  5. Song ID help
  6. bookish question (trivia)
  7. "African-American"
  8. Philhellenism
  9. Adamantios Korais
  10. Consolidated city-counties
  11. Michel Tournier researchers' forum
  12. Body Thievin'
  13. Political Theory National Schizophrenia
  14. Nelson Mandela's terrorism
  15. Mussolini's corpse
  16. Paintings depicting battle, death and war
  17. Humanities-Religious-Locations of SAKTI PEEDAMS IN INDIA.-How many are there ?
  18. Oxford
  19. Famous Piece of Clarinet Music
  20. Smooth guys in the classical world...
  21. Hitler's entrance music
  22. Wikipedia sociology experiment
  23. Americans studying in Cuba.

September 7[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 September 7

  1. carjacking
  2. What flag is this?
  3. Mythology
  4. William Peverel's family
  5. Melodic death metal
  6. Oliver Cromwell in the Caribbean
  7. Under Milk Wood
  8. Kublai Khan
  9. Why is Lyon no longer called Lyons?
  10. Futurism and Fascism
  11. Russian art in the 1920s
  12. meditation
  13. The Boyhood of Raleigh (Moved from computing desk)
  14. Denying the Middle Ages (the time period, not the stage of life)
  15. Eagles Song?
  16. Famous virgins
  17. Hesse-Darmstadt in the War of the Austrian Succession
  18. Augustus of Prima Porta
  19. Canadian music awards
  20. What kind of careers are availible in Chinese Law?

September 8[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 September 8

  1. transverse juror
  2. Changing attitudes towards Communism/ideology
  3. Propaganda in the war of the Roses
  4. 17th century wedding costume
  5. Bulgarian Massacres
  6. business communication
  7. "Roman chair" history
  8. Finding a person looking for a job
  9. Little witch girl
  10. PA State Law
  11. Civil rights vs. civil liberties
  12. Electric bike specification limits in California
  13. US Governors
  14. What's this painting?
  15. art history

September 9[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 September 9

  1. US States by Percent Urbanized
  2. Skin name?
  3. Finland and Crimean war
  4. France and Communism
  5. What is the cheapest Law school in the United States?
  6. Alyssa Monks
  7. Women and the Easter Rising
  8. Ancient Egyption Activism
  9. Languages of the Pope
  10. Applying for a credit card
  11. Attack on U.S. soil
  12. Does anyone know the name or artist of this painting?

September 10[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 September 10

  1. Stalin and the system
  2. Shakespeare and the Third Reich
  3. Follow up on the credit card question above.
  4. Capodociens ?
  5. Questions about sinicization and Han expansion within China
  6. Judaism in the Greco-Roman world.
  7. St George and English nationalism
  8. Religious Beliefs of Albert Gallatin
  9. Shiva
  10. U.S. military decorations
  11. Quotation
  12. Quotes by Romans on Christianity
  13. Democratic party membership

September 11[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 September 11

  1. Computer Virus Attacks
  2. Project Help!!!
  3. People's unwillingness to reveal their salary figure
  4. attribution of well known quote
  5. Gender Differences
  6. Romania
  7. Explaining Average Annual Growth Rate and Percentage Change
  8. What is the population of Southern Asia, and the population density?
  9. Rochester, MN 2007 Population
  10. folded cloth
  11. what does Koninia mean other then to be together or love one another.
  12. DOES ONE HAVE TO BE BAPTISE IN ORDER TO GO TO HEAVEN.lIKE TO KNOW YOUR TAKE ON THIS QUESTION.
  13. Beethoven/Public Domain
  14. 1898
  15. Jessica Ann Hargreaves Murder
  16. Can't find something
  17. Palmyra and Rome

September 12[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 September 12

  1. Traumerei
  2. Gustav Stresemann
  3. Thomas More
  4. corresponding address of the presidents and the prime ministers of the world
  5. Man in the iron mask
  6. Map
  7. Garibaldi and South America
  8. The 'average' Wikipedia user
  9. "The Violin"
  10. Toronto neighbourhood

September 13[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 September 13

  1. Ion Perdicaris#The Perdicaris incident
  2. Sad poems
  3. Britain and the road to war
  4. Can you open a bank account without an address?
  5. scientology inventor
  6. Partition of India 1947
  7. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Time Line
  8. Government Information

September 14[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 September 14

  1. Divine Comedy
  2. Victor Emanuel II
  3. researching novels
  4. More on the Massacre of Glencoe
  5. Flying Spaghetti Monster Followers
  6. Composer/Songwriter
  7. Driver's license
  8. Violin and Clarinet duos
  9. Holy grail
  10. Book About Restaurant Kitchens
  11. Construction Law terminology
  12. BLOWBACK
  13. Thames Festival
  14. Scientology
  15. Short selling

September 15[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 September 15

  1. Chinese Communist Insults
  2. High resolution scans of portraits
  3. Karafuto
  4. Green in non-western cultures
  5. Holocaust order
  6. Tudor gender politics
  7. clickimin
  8. Female editors
  9. Medieval calendars
  10. Satan Star
  11. Nude celebrities!
  12. Total number or Americans in uniform in 2007
  13. Humans and Iambic Pentameter
  14. Intellectual Property/Copyright
  15. Red China's aid from defeated Japanese

September 16[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 September 16

  1. Name of Canadian river?
  2. Japanese in Manchuria
  3. How much does a vintage world war 2 plane cost?
  4. Medieval Hunting
  5. Views of 'Otherness' in Medieval Europe
  6. Beyond the Known
  7. Legal interpretation (Canadian law)
  8. Films with plots based around other films.
  9. Spanish Language, Accents, and Podcasts
  10. How can music be scary?
  11. What is the all-time biggest MASSACRE, ever, of ALL MASSACRES
  12. I need DETAILED info on Édouard Lalo
  13. Paupers graves in New York, 1950s
  14. Primary Presidential Elections
  15. What is the secret behind the success of American agriculture?
  16. Hero or villain?
  17. New driving laws
  18. Floating a note (singing, not monetary)

September 17[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 September 17

  1. Longest Serving Democratically Elected Leader?
  2. Legal case results citation
  3. Beard-stroking to express disbelief?
  4. religious recognition at the UN
  5. Suicide in Sweden
  6. driver license suspension in Arkansas and Texas
  7. Roman Mythology during the Renaissance
  8. So name the tribes that the haitians came from as slaves?

September 18[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 September 18

  1. War of 1904
  2. Iwakura mission
  3. Justice Today
  4. earley cars engines compared to curent egines
  5. More on female editors
  6. Beer Flood
  7. Political rivalry
  8. Fouad Siniora
  9. Who is this economist?
  10. "Lord/Lady of the Manor"
  11. Bicycle Day
  12. A soldier's declaration
  13. Sloane Rangers
  14. A people's contest

September 19[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 September 19

  1. Marching Band
  2. egypt battles
  3. Music schools and academics
  4. Odd/amusing articles on Wikipedia
  5. Prolific birth year
  6. Fencing
  7. Westward Ho!

September 20[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 September 20

  1. Dutch notary system
  2. 16th Century Quote
  3. "Two chicks at the same time"
  4. Stephen Gammell
  5. Where to find an accurate! English account on Cossack mass suicide in Drautal, Carinthia, Austria at the end of World War 2?
  6. Greek mythology.
  7. Australian tax law.
  8. Colonial control of Africa and the Middle East
  9. Writers of English literature
  10. List of amicus curiaes...

September 21[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 September 21

  1. Japanese in Shanghai
  2. myth in eugene o'neill's plays
  3. British kings
  4. DLC
  5. Comparative analysis of prison conditions
  6. Morris and Orwell
  7. Germany and Vichy France
  8. If you guys don't mind.
  9. William IV's heir
  10. a specific inquiry after reading "Cinema of Korea"
  11. Child Support in Canada

September 22[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 September 22

  1. Mussolini an anti-semite?
  2. [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 September 22#|]]
  3. Two Rebellions
  4. Sala Nova del Papa
  5. André Antoine Bernard
  6. IGCSE history question on why did some industries not share in the 'boom'? this is during 1919-1941
  7. Fenya- Russian Slang amongst Criminals.
  8. professions that historically were not paid
  9. African Boy at the 1904 World's Fair
  10. Adrianople 378
  11. Samples of Middle Norwegian
  12. Jena Six and Sacco And Vanzetti

September 23[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 September 23

  1. Wikipedia and Google searches
  2. Scotland and the Stuarts
  3. First Civilisation
  4. Difference between Lutheran and Hindu
  5. Empedocles
  6. Wales and the Civil Wars
  7. Painting Identification
  8. The oldest borderline?
  9. Helen Gahagan Douglas
  10. Highland regiment forgotten in Africa?
  11. There was any battle going on the year 142?
  12. G.W Cooper
  13. Population change

September 24[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 September 24

  1. excise tax
  2. Mexico's view on Palestine
  3. Elizabeth I
  4. Switch from Information Technology to History.
  5. Cambridge Five
  6. Business Environment
  7. label for Eber
  8. Animals native to France?
  9. Totalitarianism
  10. José Antonio Primo de Rivera
  11. corporal punishment related to students with disabilities
  12. William of Rubruck
  13. Trade secret depending on patent
  14. Greatest German Writers
  15. Fubbs
  16. Japanese Invasion of Manchuria
  17. commerialism
  18. colonization and forced slavery in North America
  19. newspaper circulation statistics

September 25[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 September 25

  1. Sir Fergus Woodward, Scottish explorer?
  2. Felons voting rights
  3. Ahmadinejad and Columbia
  4. EU Constitution
  5. Boer Sympathsers
  6. Land grants
  7. Australian independence
  8. HR & PM
  9. Women in Iron Age Britain
  10. Can Anyone Help?
  11. Question
  12. Help me to identify an Andy Warhol piece
  13. safety glasses
  14. Self-Refrencing Art
  15. Contemporary diarists
  16. Copenhagen 1807
  17. Passport issued by the Governor of Georgia (state)
  18. Oldest historical event passed down by word of mouth alone
  19. Quandary on Sudreys and Sundries

September 26[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 September 26

  1. buy stocks
  2. History
  3. Reasons of Supremacy
  4. Migration of Jews to Palestine after Holocaust.
  5. Modern plays?
  6. What kind of king?
  7. Health insurance
  8. Why is Facebook worth $10billion?
  9. South American incident
  10. How were women slaves treated in the Ancient world?
  11. question that has no answer
  12. Public opinion in Stalin's Russia
  13. Manchurian Human Rights
  14. [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 September 26#|]]
  15. History of U.S. photography
  16. Exclusivism
  17. Where is Silyum?

September 27[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 September 27

  1. Canadian Government
  2. directed change
  3. legal fiction
  4. Effect of China's one-child policy on the world
  5. Decline of the Papacy
  6. middle english punctuation?
  7. role of women in history
  8. Are human logical?
  9. Getting a Law degree in Canada
  10. Decline
  11. Egyptians?
  12. Hildegard of Bingen
  13. Perception of Byzantines in the West
  14. Hanover
  15. I need the title for a book
  16. history
  17. big company that lets people develop child pornography pictures
  18. Foreign Leader Who Is U.S. Citizen
  19. Ancient Mayan game pokatok

September 28[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 September 28

  1. New Nation formed from Peaceful Secession:
  2. Underground newspaper
  3. First modern war?
  4. Alfred Redl
  5. FORMATION OF MUNCIPALITY (MUNCIPAL CORPORATION) IN INDIA?
  6. Questions
  7. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM)
  8. name of a phonomon in cultural cusine
  9. Quote from G.W.Bush,"some people call you the have mores..,I call you my base"
  10. Alexander and revolution
  11. Sample Confucian Exam Questions in English
  12. Polish memorial to Jewish Communists?
  13. Fantasy Story Submissions

September 29[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 September 29

  1. Logic will get you from A to B - Imagination will take you anywhere...
  2. Judaic theological support of the metaphoric meaning of Torah
  3. The Good, The Evil, The Neutral, and The Neutral Evil, and The Neutral Good...
  4. directed change (2)
  5. Death in the Middle Ages
  6. can bye-law of the society force us to remove my pet dog from my own flat
  7. Horst Wessel
  8. THE ILLINOIS UNIFORM PEACE OFFICERS' DISCIPLINARY ACT
  9. American presidents going to church in popular culture
  10. Fox on Barbados in 1671
  11. In the haitian history of Saint Dominigue, Where did they get the tuaregs from?

September 30[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 September 30

  1. Ayn Rand
  2. Jabez Balfour and Argentina
  3. Unionist in the Confederacy
  4. The original crucification cross
  5. I can prove that doubt exists
  6. Collaboration in the Netherlands
  7. Continental banners of the Magi
  8. FCC regulations
  9. Reason
  10. King James Bible and other versions
  11. Would this make me a paedophile?
  12. Overweight shields
  13. Too much reading causes loss of imagination?
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