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April 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 April 1

1. Why are TV commercials telecine'd?
2. Lenticel's law
3. Manager to be or not
4. Dr Pepper
5. Any judges on our board?

April 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 April 2

1. Guanabenz
2. Rigid sleep cycle
3. Serial Killers
4. Dual licensing of GFDL and CC-BY-NC-ND?
5. Are Gambling Winnings taxable in the UK
6. Photographing without a lens
7. LaGuardia Airport
8. Rod Blagojevich

April 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 April 3

1. Largest jackpot in Asia
2. Michael Caine Joke
3. Cuban peso exchange rate outside Cuba
4. Lotteries
5. Astrology
6. Translatability or otherwise of humour
7. Search Engines
8. 2008/09 newfoundland budget
9. which way?

April 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 April 4

1. Zulu War Campaign Game
2. Academics
3. dreaming while under anasthesia
4. Are Penn and Cornell Good Universities?

April 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 April 5

1. Most Prestigious Oxford College
2. When was the sandwich invented?
3. height of territories?
4. How to gain weight ?
5. crazy electronics kit catalog
6. Very cheap watch

April 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 April 6

1. Making a "wiki"
2. Rape & Progress
3. Newspaper copyright
4. Shoot Up Hill
5. Installing a preamp and pickup into an accoustic guitar
6. work on quantum mechanics

April 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 April 7

1. Extrapolating Free Speech To Allow Political Donations
2. english language
3. Oh my
4. Pack of dogs and cat
5. Push-ups
6. PHD on a subject
7. animal trivia
8. Goats in Paris
9. News pictures aggregator
10. Story Ending?
11. seth bullock's family history

April 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 April 8

1. protectionism
2. Royal Mail's Red Rubber Bands
3. 'Institute' Definition
4. Why is land advertised as "x acres, more or less"?
5. street names of detroit
6. Forbidden versions of the German coat of arms?

April 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 April 9

1. 19th Century Scottish Towns
2. Thai Wedding
3. White out
4. Anti-trust
5. Longest red light
6. The Easter/Christmas road toll and the media

April 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 April 10

1. What's the background music in this video (and where can I get it?) ?
2. banking and finance.
3. Benylin in France
4. CSAT
5. Pay scale for government employees
6. How to Print a few More Pages from Ink Cartridges (Q moved from RD talk page)
7. Boys and Girls Club Logo
8. Santa Monica Freeway widening project
9. Car noise
10. Global Power Consumption:

April 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 April 11

1. List of world newspapers
2. Date and money
3. Autonomic alarm clock?
4. Do you get use-once credit cards in the UK?
5. query on article about the SPETSNAZ
6. Learning shorthand
7. seeds/spices
8. rephrase of the last question.. (seeds)
9. Bugs on my car!
10. International news programs website
11. Elephant and Mouse
12. Vodka in plastic bottle
13. Site that will show you your picture as the opposite gender

April 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 April 12

1. Sneezing in the light
2. Artificial moonlight...light
3. International knowledge of American suburban lifestyle
4. What is Zalgo?
5. UK PS2 in Barbados?

April 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 April 13

1. Kate Gosselin's Hair
2. Bobbi McCaughey
3. Becki Dilley
4. Millennium clock at Pompidou Centre
5. Oral sex
6. Traffic Light Frozen on RED in Scotland UK..
7. History
8. Divorce records
9. Applying for Student Visa US

April 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 April 14

1. A phantom in the Ala Napoleonica
2. List of countries by GDP per capita (nominal) from 1999
3. Salary of US Soldiers
4. Arms of Zara and Peter Phillips
5. Attraction
6. Over-winding a watch?
7. cummins n 14 celect plus

April 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 April 15

1. Do I have cancer?
2. Greatest martial art
3. Granny Smith apples
4. F1 in Books by Sven Hassel
5. Railroad schedules
6. Open Source and Piracy Keywords
7. New Yankee Stadium Satellite Photo
8. A sticky situation

April 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 April 16

1. Why do the phrases 'fat chance' and 'slim chance' both mean 'little chance'?
2. Longest discussion page
3. Historical value of sterling
4. Gunshot wounds
5. Which state has the most boats?
6. Can Cubans legally emigrate from Cuba?

April 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 April 17

1. Technology - most important factor in determining the outcome of war?
2. Etiquette on use of letters after your name
3. Entire office in a PDA?
4. car speed
5. Can I get a list of ACTUAL American made/designed military aircraft?
6. Barnstar up for grabs!

April 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 April 18

1. us federal grants
2. dessert
3. "Discoverer" of values of chess pieces
4. Did/do librarians get as many weird questions as you guys?
5. Trying to identify a plant.
6. Why do I enjoy smelling my own farts?
7. Lord of the Rings- the Hobbits
8. The 4chan meme "dat ass", who is it parodying?

April 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 April 19

1. Getting a water resistant watch battery replaced in Cambridge, MA
2. Colin/Pollock
3. Under-3 Mortality Rate
4. e-books (pdf format)
5. Wikipedia view/edit/revert ratios
6. Sleeping away from home
7. Two White Doves Flew to my balcony
8. Cycling through a red light in the UK
9. What eye colour am I?
10. Railway Enforcement Officers APU Melbourne Victoria Australia
11. US Military Water Bottles
12. How common is it for people never to have been to an island?
13. Good meat sausages
14. Cured meat products saltier in the US than elsewhere?
15. A concern about weighted clothing

April 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 April 20

1. An Unpopular or Discontinued Manga
2. Paladium manufacturing companies
3. Soldiers' helmets
4. Does Sir Alan choose who to fire in The Apprentice?
5. Information lost when only passed down verbally?
6. Possible Einstein quote? Else who?
7. code
8. heads of state
9. Not Dropping an in-text citation of Wikipedia

April 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 April 21

1. Dragon Blood Tree
2. Your article on Steinbach Department Stores
3. Hitler, Einstein and The Fonze

April 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 April 22

1. Why isn't there a help desk section where sociology and anthropology would actually fit?
2. US schools and allegiance/flag ceremony?
3. Has anyone's penis been bitten off during oral sex?
4. Drinking Cold Coffee
5. y = mx + b

April 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 April 23

1. U.S. Geography, locating a city
2. non ox furnace
3. defects in hot dip galvanizing
4. please help me find this ebook!!
5. Securing income as employee
6. Victory by resignation of one's opponent

April 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 April 24

1. Deprivation = Naïveté?
2. Value of poker glassware set
3. Statistics on Age of Loss of Virginity
4. Salute in propaganda poster
5. Utah street names, or lack thereof
6. Movie poster on airplane
7. What is this?
8. Romantic acronyms
9. Vandalism Reversion
10. Wild chickens.
11. Trivia Question
12. Ease of Manufacturing Meth from Scratch

April 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 April 25

1. Poker without cards.
2. Casio watch
3. Video of nuclear tests
4. I am addicted to porn, it's stopping me from doing anything else
5. Morning doves

April 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 April 26

1. Pancakes
2. CAPITAL CITIES
3. Which US prof promises math students the NYT front page if they solve famous uncracked code?
4. Is heterosexual fat fetishism a form of misogyny?
5. All-state selection
6. Working from home
7. I'm looking for a username
8. Rates for photos used in advertising

April 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 April 27

1. very old 1880's electric cure machine
2. masseuse
3. Customer Service
4. A guitar newbie's SOS
5. Company Of Heroes

April 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 April 28

1. Is secret ballot secret ?
2. Weighing
3. Line of Presidential Nominee Succession?
4. Air Conditioners
5. Normal profit
6. Steinway Fountain Pen - needs third-party sources
7. Is this a scam?
8. Why was it classified?

April 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 April 29

1. Dominoes [game] in the UK
2. Buying Stocks and Shares (UK)
3. I still don't have any girlfriends
4. question
5. Sports
6. Google Maps satellite images and Finland
7. How do I scout a baseball game?
8. Sunday Time Rich List 2009
9. 1885 US trade dollar

April 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 April 30

1. swine flu
2. Evil Corporation
3. James Bond as rapist
4. What is the name of this town in the middle of nowhere?
5. medicare / medicaid
6. Photos of hookers
7. FOX
8. Caffeine
9. Toastmaster 1BB5