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[edit] July 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2007 July 1

1. Space Invaders!
2. Re.: Coast To Coast Question :
3. Wikipedia: Accolades
4. amor leopards
5. Mosques and Carpets
6. Timeline
7. Prime Minister Gordon Brown
8. topics for mechanical engineering research

[edit] July 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2007 July 2

1. London Banks or Finance Companies
2. Mansion Floorplan
3. ER SIGNS
4. Native Systems of Writing to Latinized Transliterations
5. International text messaging
6. How many grains of sand are there on all the beaches on Earth?
7. Nameless, faceless guard types?
8. Unusual Laws
9. Fireworks (for agricultural use)
10. Hand-held computer game from the 80s
11. Saving Private Ryan Morphine
12. No carriers based at Pearl Harbor?
13. "propaganda" song
14. What is a "Rolling Chassis"?
15. Re.: Unusual Laws

[edit] July 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2007 July 3

1. Adjusting knobs on a sniper rifle
2. Live Free or Die Hard
3. Diesel/Petrol
4. Wikipedia as volunteer activity?
5. Military escorts
6. Minors' criminal records (USA)
7. Who was P. J. Gaffney?

[edit] July 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2007 July 4

1. Noah's Ark
2. Getting shot in torso
3. Moses
4. Bible
5. Bible 2
6. Paul
7. About Mail order business
8. MONARCHY
9. Ten Commandments
10. Royal Mail
11. Buying an anteater
12. Fido as another term for dog
13. Madison Column Garden
14. Penn Station (New York)
15. What do I need to compost at home?

[edit] July 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2007 July 5

1. Mail
2. Drinking and Blurred Vision
3. Bindweed
4. Bathrooms in single sex schools
5. Journalism college - fake stories
6. Exchange Rates
7. Any Diplomacy players out there? I'm Austria
8. Mar Saba
9. Sheets for a non-standard-size mattress
10. Squirrels
11. Seagulls

[edit] July 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2007 July 6

1. Small cars in the states?
2. Advertising watches/clocks
3. Feeling left out
4. hen & egg story
5. learning persian in pakistan
6. is japan expensive
7. Eye signals to the brain
8. Advertising Stats
9. GAndhiji's title
10. weight of earth
11. Shell-Mex buildin
12. Company-- 'Agility First Support",Madison,Ala.
13. wendy williams article
14. translation

[edit] July 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2007 July 7

1. Morality of Investing
2. Image
3. Holes for mobile phone straps
4. Teaching material
5. What is an "undergraduate master's degree" in the UK?
6. Grave subsidence.
7. Shower Mirror That Does Not Fog Up
8. Truth?
9. Police & What You Have to Do

[edit] July 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2007 July 8

1. Dead rockstar?
2. SHIA LITERATURE
3. paranormal
4. Credit Report history
5. help out
6. Church of Scientology building exaggeration?
7. Plane Keys?
8. entrance halls
9. CLIPIOLA PRODUCER HELP HELP HELP
10. Criss Angel
11. Peter Snows and his Sandpit, footage?
12. SAS or special forces
13. Fruit Flies
14. Black and white pattern

[edit] July 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2007 July 9

1. Speedy Deletions
2. Why cant medical advice be given here?
3. Black U.S and U.K sprinters
4. Silent animal
5. Why does the U.S seem to be more religious and socially conservative than the U.K and some other developed western nations?
6. Mirror not swapping up and down
7. Differene between stepping on clutch and shifting in neutral
8. The element song
9. Elephant Onomatopoeia
10. Evil Overlord
11. Precarious Pants Problem
12. North Carolina residential building codes
13. South-West Ireland - advice on cost of living would be appreciated.

[edit] July 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2007 July 10

1. file linking website question
2. Real or fake Lacoste shirt?
3. Black people swimming
4. How much Wood
5. Why are iPods so popular?
6. Recording announcements at JFK Terminal 4
7. Ottawa A-channel
8. weird laws
9. Text on website
10. 911 / 999
11. Paris train station announcements
12. The state with the most classic cars
13. holidays
14. GB Plates
15. auto windshield installation instructions
16. New oak

[edit] July 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2007 July 11

1. Picture tracer...!
2. Hemispheric Heat Waves
3. Dutch / Flemish "brouck"
4. Music from "Carnal Knowledge"
5. How much can an image be blown up?
6. missing text
7. Tobacco
8. Domain Name Trademark Laws
9. name this image process
10. SatNav Speedometer

[edit] July 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2007 July 12

1. Picture tracer...!
2. Hemispheric Heat Waves
3. Dutch / Flemish "brouck"
4. Music from "Carnal Knowledge"
5. How much can an image be blown up?
6. missing text
7. Tobacco
8. Domain Name Trademark Laws
9. name this image process
10. SatNav Speedometer

[edit] July 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2007 July 13

1. Animal cruelty = law?
2. Power peak in cars
3. Maximum acceleration and towing
4. genral
5. my car
6. Switching Power Supply Blues
7. Photogenicity
8. montgomery ward retirement fund

[edit] July 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2007 July 14

1. Sexual Psychology
2. Wikipedia passing viruses ?
3. Torque vs Horsepower
4. Quick bible question
5. Criminals in the states
6. What do you think this object is?

[edit] July 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2007 July 15

1. Name origin
2. knockdown or push over
3. I.Q.'s of risk takers
4. Shopattack
5. Robert Falcon SCOTT, (Scott of the antarctic), FAMILY TREE ???
6. Most number of steps in a building
7. About making a video montage...
8. Law
9. Why isn't England's population all royal??
10. Sunflowers
11. Virginity test
12. Vexillology question
13. Why is India populated more than Syria?
14. graveyards?
15. stipend!
16. what is this? photographs unknown to me but would like to know?

[edit] July 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2007 July 16

1. What about the flaps of skin?
2. Air India Lost Baggage
3. Offensive olfaction
4. U.S. Military clothing - green pants strap
5. FROM WHAT SOURCE IS THE REFENCE MADE?
6. Backpack purchase

[edit] July 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2007 July 17

1. OP??
2. Paranormal/Religious Source:
3. GI-Joe Movie:
4. Oversalted Meat
5. What is a smurf-jack? I heard it was like a jumping jack? I'am not making this up.
6. What are these photographes to you? I got three. Please help me out
7. MBA with an Australian University
8. Walt Mossberg Jewish
9. Refilling a refrigerator with coolant
10. Poker website commercials

[edit] July 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2007 July 18

1. Cats
2. motorcycle classes
3. Multiple hair out of one pore
4. Nameless trailer help.
5. Dreams and food
6. Antartica a penal colony
7. Are there any other programs?
8. distance between cities in Brazil
9. New Non Lethal weapon
10. What disease is about the gull bladder?
11. What are these?
12. Why is liquer spelled like this or is the otherway around?
13. Cost-of-living comparisons
14. Several wiki-questions
15. Blood Brain Barrier

[edit] July 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2007 July 19

1. What does this flag mean?
2. SAT II Math 1 vs Math 2
3. Car Scratches
4. Browsing History
5. crack
6. alternator project
7. Citation needed
8. Copyright Protection - Policies
9. Copyright Protection - Piracy countermeasures
10. Vandalized roadside attraction
11. Gene Therpay VS. Genetic Engineering
12. Vegetarian cats and dogs

[edit] July 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2007 July 20

1. Article with the longest name
2. Dog defense
3. Internet problems
4. Professional movie effect
5. Runescape
6. Campfire game
7. Board Elections
8. Mood Ring Color Chart
9. Huge MSN font
10. Difference between a scone and an english muffin
11. Dolphins
12. Question answered>

[edit] July 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2007 July 21

1. Supermarket fruit
2. Feasibility of LA-Vancouver
3. What other US states.................
4. Trolleys
5. Pay per hour
6. Math riddle
7. Harry Potter - Deathly Hallows - not a spoiler - instead a question about book-pricing.
8. Those little plastic monster fingerpuppets from the 90s
9. The meaning of life?
10. What is faster mph jaguar or bentley?
11. grading Alevel papers with absent in a component
12. Trying to identify a smoking pipe.
13. Kangaroo Leather - Interstate Commerce
14. shia population
15. green tea?
16. Humans vs Dogs again
17. Will cleveland become to city to be?
18. Prevention of Hoaxes (Reference Desk queries) Act 2007

[edit] July 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2007 July 22

1. Data mining and wikipedia.
2. Criminology-forensic science
3. Dating
4. Drawing
5. Inflating vacuums
6. A Dream I had
7. Purchasing a bong
8. Long term vandals and ISP
9. Arzhaan & Zulkifil
10. Determining the illegality of a drug
11. Unknown coal/coke burning parlor stove
12. 1979 Chevrolet 1/2t 4wd "Chevy Sport" truck
13. Drifting
14. Wikipedia policies regarding articles about laws
15. hobbies
16. painters
17. car fuel consumption
18. Almost good football club

[edit] July 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2007 July 23

1. Moth's legs stuck together
2. desiiiiiiiiiiiire (hot hot heat maybe)
3. I need to learn fighting styles...
4. Automobile engineering
5. Freezing Flowers
6. Pork Bones in Montreal
7. Albin Countergambit
8. High revving cars
9. Yamaha Jog RR LC
10. sleeping pills?
11. my wikipedia
12. The "fag voice"

[edit] July 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2007 July 24

1. Translation problem: Is "patron" the right word?
2. Political Elections
3. Buzz magazine (Los Angeles)
4. Identifying the watch in this picture?
5. citizen operated radio stations.
6. Who owns the Federal Reserve Bank of New York
7. calibrate an oven
8. crime investigation
9. Villages and Boroughs
10. About M.I.T
11. picture insertion
12. cheers
13. The Netherlands Coastline
14. Sponsor of a warship
15. War and Peace
16. "time and strike" clock
17. Moderately skilled depression-proof trade
18. Synonym of "potential"
19. Dishonesty
20. what is the meaning of "pan's out"
21. Dead Body
22. Smoking Marijuana
23. Cricket test match in 1951
24. Filling out own death certificate?
25. Simon Bolivar
26. Proper manner to refer to Man and Animal heights

[edit] July 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2007 July 25

1. Gomboc.
2. What to say in court over ticket
3. Registering New Products
4. food
5. Firing guns in the air to celebrate
6. smoking and obesity
7. weird road signs
8. Mysterious Screw
9. nonesuch sailboat
10. Won-Ton soup
11. transferring driver penalty points
12. Argentina - US relations
13. Questions...yet unanswered
14. CIA's NCS
15. Shoe sizes

[edit] July 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2007 July 26

1. Previous image on main page
2. Negrodamus
3. Vintage
4. Piece of Music From Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
5. Morse code
6. Maintaining Healthy Urban Enviroments
7. models and eye colour
8. Union for soldiers
9. Help
10. Runways and airline traffic capacity of airports
11. Michelin Star Restaurants - France
12. punch line
13. Does the U.S have a law forbidding incitement to murder?
14. US military's tendency to overwear camo
15. Working in the United States

[edit] July 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2007 July 27

1. movie review website
2. Why aren't tractors fast?
3. Free Image question
4. Question
5. Used 12.3M, Total 3.0G
6. Toyota Hilux SW4 (fortuner)
7. Translation
8. The active hours of Shueisha
9. The kind of city Tampa is
10. Objectivist thought on Art
11. Renting an apartment in or near Barcelona.
12. NBC Studios
13. Olympic Rings
14. Traditionall manual vs SMG, Sequential,. etc...
15. TV Game shows
16. meat and onions?
17. How random is the Random article button?
18. refrigerate lemon meringue?

[edit] July 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2007 July 28

1. Lily Potter's eyes
2. River-resectioning
3. Can someone explain me...
4. narayana murthy
5. Aboriginal History
6. Diploma Dimensions
7. Monkey
8. Mythbusters episode
9. Piano Music
10. Marijuana vs Tobacco
11. Kayak in thunderstorm
12. Hand gesture

[edit] July 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2007 July 29

1. Does This Energy Drink really work?
2. soccer terms
3. What Kind Of Knife
4. Effects of larger rims
5. Teleconverters
6. radisson sas?
7. Crow
8. Gardening
9. Biggest Pinecone
10. Sweden and Switzerland?
11. Where is Roger Federer in atp standings?
12. baby's umbilical cord
13. Interesting Question Requiring Very Diverse opinions
14. First successful cesarian section
15. Unknown wasp!!
16. Boarding pass online check in

[edit] July 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2007 July 30

1. Garlic good for health?
2. BBC copyright enforcers
3. heys
4. river resectioning.
5. Travel insurance
6. NBC Studios in New York
7. Transpacific flight questions
8. Celebrity Alien Abduction!
9. Paper recycling
10. flange coupling
11. Legal question
12. Poison Dart Frogs & Communication
13. Igniting fighter jet

[edit] July 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2007 July 31

1. Manual vs CVT
2. Invisible friends
3. Can private people e-mail Shueisha?
4. Iwant to know about tulsi plant?
5. Blackmail
6. Stephen King's writing It
7. Motion activated lights
8. A dangerous deer in Cameroon...
9. iNVOICE TAX
10. dsl
11. Egg Plant
12. Title of a Book?
13. Longest highway