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September 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 September 1

1. Is Athens monarchy still around in current times?
2. 20 July plot
3. university book store chains in the English speaking world.
4. Ending world hunger
5. Reliable Mexican Biofuel Statistics
6. Works by Pieter de Hooch
7. That thing behind you...
8. Flying Cow
9. Workers who unload boats
10. Sonnets to Sundry Notes of Music
11. Hamlet's tonal issues
12. People can distinguish neighbour's origins?
13. Most Novels with same Hero
14. Roman dates
15. what literal "mistakes" of Jesus does the bible imply
16. The American Flag
17. Accomplices, accessories and complicity
18. How is gorget pronounced?

September 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 September 2

1. Engstrom quote source?
2. What would Thomas Jefferson have said about Somalia?
3. Jews and automatic citizenship in Israel
4. Democracy
5. What is this story?
6. Religion vs. Science
7. Physical Exercises on Sabbath Day
8. Vagrancy Act 1824 (5 Geo. 4. c. 83)
9. Am I a character in a novel?
10. MLitt/MSc (Scotland)
11. Crest on UK royal proclamation
12. "Are you living in a computer simulation?"
13. Town and country parks from urban sprawl?

September 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 September 3

1. The Question Above...
2. A story from Sunday school, when I was a Christian
3. Capital punishment
4. Star Trek Voyager
5. Monarchy of the UK using pwoers unilaterally
6. Name of that amazing 'head dancing' seen in India

September 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 September 4

1. Absolute pitch
2. ʃ
3. Family Fable
4. Greatest disparity in standard of living between neighboring countries
5. Selective service system
6. wysiwyg vs. wysiwym
7. national anthem
8. If Google is owned by two Jews, why does it include links to antisemitic and racist websites?
9. Theory of knowledge
10. Passport types
11. Disease in the age of exploration

September 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 September 5

1. Addressing a noblewoman
2. Chinese Marriage
3. Sad classical piece
4. No changes
5. Cannibalism
6. Does everyone eventually fall in love with someone?
7. What is a special commission
8. Information on participation in Class Action lawsuits?
9. War
10. Monarchies

September 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 September 6

1. Alone on a quest narrative
2. ACT/SAT
3. Prostitution
4. Family of William of Gellone
5. Winston Churchill - had to earn a living?
6. Homemade pomander
7. Biblical quote
8. Correlation between Oil Prices and Bond Yield.
9. Finding "modest" feminine attire
10. Maj.Gen.Ashmore
11. Pregnancy Frog Test
12. Sociology
13. Purchase Ensure at PX?

September 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 September 7

1. "Impossible Symphony"
2. What a president once said
3. Is There Symbolism
4. Lebanon, Syria and Iraq
5. history greece
6. medicine chinese
7. Mansfield Park: Modern novels to compare with
8. Query as to name of British Raj Culture
9. Amsterdam's flag
10. 'Ethnic' restaurants and the people they employ - can they discriminate on race? (in a UK context)
11. how to start accounting or being the least bit organized
12. Joint portraits of William and Mary
13. I demand my money back
14. Life imprisonment for bedwetting?
15. anti cow slaughter bills in india
16. Prison boats
17. The Cold War
18. United States Code and half mast during wartime
19. Freud in modern Psychology

September 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 September 8

1. Age of enlistment -- US history
2. human mentality after a worst incident
3. 20 years to life
4. Protection and care of the community
5. classical sheetmusic
6. When is someone considered to be "running for office" in the US, legally?
7. Angels in the Bible
8. Ask instead what you can do for your country.

September 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 September 9

1. Cricket cages
2. Conversion rate for ancient French franc
3. Brecht Remark on War and Modernism
4. Does Prayers for Rain have any sequel info related to Gone Baby Gone
5. Theoretical economic system
6. Book and swearing
7. e-mailing
8. Black Death bon fires
9. ID cards and the Holocaust

September 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 September 10

1. Colard, Belgium
2. Roman Admiration/Adoption of Greek Culture
3. QI
4. Please help: My husband doesn't understand me; I have PTSD and was sexually abused from age 2-12
5. Congress ratification of treaties
6. Victim of fanaticism - Search for a painting
7. Berlin pre-war buildings
8. gov.
9. gov 2
10. De-sanctification of Barbara?
11. opening a rehab center
12. What's the catch?

September 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 September 11

1. One- and two-movement works for solo piano
2. singapore dollar notes
3. Blonde stag film
4. What would the Milesians of Irish mythology have worn at the time of their invasion?
5. Normal
6. KIDNAPPING BUSINESS
7. pre-1974 Coat of arms of Burma
8. The Godfather part I's language
9. Precolumbian Civilisations
10. Date of creation
11. Bill Gates / Warren Buffet visit to China

September 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 September 12

1. Lady of Mann
2. Differences
3. Amendments to the US constitution
4. Der Prasident Des Landesbezirk Baden Heinrich Kohler Weihnachten 1947 1948
5. is it still rape after the murder?
6. Culture of poverty traits
7. Painting based on Petrarchan conceit

September 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 September 13

1. American Citizenship
2. Why tax capital gains less?
3. Biography Request
4. Philanthropy
5. Irrational attachment to prior investment
6. Ethics - are they universal or only species-dependant?
7. Mosque near 9/11 grounds

September 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 September 14

1. Buying yourself out of the British Army
2. did this guy get fired?

September 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 September 15

1. What other countries elect their president via an electoral college?
2. Adoption by persons of same sex
3. Gene Wolfe short story?
4. Indian Partnership Act
5. US senators
6. Bronze-Age Spanish clothing?
7. Melting down swords in Japan...?
8. Inobtrusive classical music

September 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 September 16

1. Julian dates v Gregorian dates
2. What do Los Angeles folk eat for breakfast?
3. Valois in South America
4. Dating in America
5. How tall was Éamon de Valera?
6. Voting in Dáil Éireann - or not
7. Hannah Boone Pennington
8. Unknown play

September 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 September 17

1. US$ to £—help me get the most out of it
2. Plausible age for child to take "living together" (or any euphemism) literrally
3. Papal Visits to Britain?
4. On Eagle's Wing
5. Translations of Beowulf
6. Check over answers
7. Holidays for dates

September 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 September 18

1. Open access?
2. Unlicensed Driver
3. Real Eastern European nation
4. $20 in Taxi Driver
5. Why no German empire?
6. where can I listen to just this basic melody?
7. Piano music
8. Looking for identity of Poet and Poem circa 1920s

September 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 September 19

1. Musical question
2. Trying to identify a film
3. Trogia Gazzela
4. What's this supposed to mean ?
5. Balliols and the Infanta Alicia
6. nina simone vs. jihad
7. Tischreden online?
8. How is the African union funded?
9. Catholic Church List of Banned Books
10. Japanese Invasion of Alaska in World War 2
11. No Kings
12. Soviet Wartime (?) Song
13. Medieval Paleographic “Identifont”
14. Corporate personhood in Canada

September 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 September 20

1. Marx's ecclesiastic friend?
2. Plainclothes nuns
3. Chinese Christians
4. What's the smallest element copyrightable/trademarkable?
5. US City in Canada

September 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 September 21

1. Name of This Byam Shaw Painting
2. Using representation other than a Native Title Representative Body
3. Graduate Medical Education

September 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 September 22

1. Parallel tracks on seafloor? File:2003-3d-hawaiian-islands-usgs-i2809.jpg
2. Dutch West India Company.
3. Russian Motorways
4. Super-Injunctions in the UK
5. advice for starting a wiki with porn images
6. Any examples of successful legal ban that has eliminated a crime-ridden "social problem"?
7. 2 questions

September 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 September 23

1. Religion
2. American Revolution
3. What police incident was this?
4. question about if america ever had a planned invasion of Europe in case their relationship turned hostile??

September 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 September 24

1. Assonance Picture
2. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the UN General Assembly
3. Bicep chain
4. Republicanism in Australia versus Canada
5. Identify Thing
6. London Mayoral Elections
7. Archie and anti-Oshoism
8. Military might of Iran compared to Iraq
9. Difference between Cape, Mantle and Cloak ??

September 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 September 25

1. Numbers Game
2. Medieval Italian town map - Pavia
3. I believe I am a relative of the founder of Miller Arkansas

September 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 September 26

1. Business day
2. Reopening a closed corporation in California
3. Is it even True ?
4. Rosenberg map
5. Where did a bishop "reign" ??
6. academic citation
7. Founding documents of other nations inspired/derived from the U.S. Constitution?

September 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 September 27

1. Lost license
2. What makes a musical performance great?
3. Rate of growth: population vs. investment
4. is a zippo lighter supposed to turn on when you open it?
5. Ideology
6. Normal types of WHAT?
7. Global banding

September 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 September 28

1. Germanian People's ( tribes )
2. Tiptree titles
3. Portrait identification
4. Countries
5. can you give a company money?
6. Muslims of Southeast Asia
7. Mr. Speaker
8. Socrates on Melos?
9. America entering the downside?

September 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 September 29

1. Moscow's former mayor
2. Visas For Medical Treatment In the United States
3. Kitty Kiernan
4. Geography/Travel question
5. Use of 'Indian' to refer not only to natives of the Americas, but other indigenes
6. Choosing a 1950s standard of living
7. India visa
8. cars industry maps
9. cuban history
10. Clock in tower bongs 13 times

September 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 September 30

1. Polygamy in Jamaica
2. Acceptance of pedophilia
3. Question on source
4. Geography/History Question
5. Is Feminism and Misandry one and the same thing ?
6. MEPs affecting who can become president of Hungary?
7. Ayodhya Verdict
8. Alternate names for the Kingdoms of England and France in fiction. Any suggestions?
9. International Court of Justice advisory opinion on Kosovo's declaration of independence#Public_hearings
10. famous examples of parents who abused or neglected their children?
11. Akihabara massacre
12. SAT essay writing
13. Trial of adolescents as adults
14. Motto of the Netherlands
15. CEGEP Curriculum