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[edit] August 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 August 1

1. Type C Personality
2. Wikipedia
3. Laval the scapegoat
4. More on Vichy
5. Assembly on Federal Property?
6. Looking for an article #1
7. Third Hellenic Civilization
8. Information on an scaffold-accident
9. "Stupidity or treason" speech
10. Glorious Revolution
11. Germany-Poland relationship
12. Which musical instrument is this?

[edit] August 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 August 2

1. A Moving Transcription
2. William Frederick Cody "Buffalo Bill"
3. World War II
4. Folly and Madness
5. The Secret Royal Bunker
6. Bogdanov and immortality
7. Hogarth and London
8. Ancient Greek Oracles
9. Western mercenaries in Muscovy

[edit] August 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 August 3

1. whos responsible for bridges
2. Battle of Arsuf
3. Vichy question question
4. A justification for times zones
5. Vichyssoise
6. Austria after the anschluss
7. Finding books that cite a specific book
8. Why do people hate mimes?

[edit] August 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 August 4

1. A question of the law...
2. Southern Literary Journal and Monthly Magazine
3. Washington, D.C.
4. Clumsy people at art museums
5. Admiral of the Fleet
6. Hundred Year's War
7. Need help finding health issues
8. Population control: effect on economics
9. Hymn of hate
10. Fitzpatrick French Norman Kings & Ireland

[edit] August 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 August 5

1. Tiananmen Square memorial
2. Spread of the Reformed faith in Scotland and France
3. Health food legal definition
4. Why humans eat meat?
5. Request for Mantra Rajapada Stotram & Sri Narasimha Prapadye
6. Do cavemen cut their fingernails and how?
7. Any more on Richard Rumbold?
8. Bonnie Dundee
9. History of fasteners
10. Who said this quote?

[edit] August 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 August 6

1. Is there a resource that shows what types of human faces correlate with certain nationalities?
2. Argentina land act of 1867 and the conquest of the desert
3. religious freedom in israel
4. Shivaji film- Tamil song
5. Out of their element means?
6. Mothers' Movement
7. Duke of Wellington
8. Density of historical timelines

[edit] August 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 August 7

1. "The Super Bowl"
2. Some Copyrights
3. Relationship?
4. White Countess
5. Religion
6. Transitoriness
7. Re: Mudambe Iyengars
8. Future figures in past eras
9. Pyschological and Sociological Impact of Mass Media
10. Britain and the war between Poland and Russia
11. One office / One person
12. Epicurus' teachings
13. Legal status of paintings lost during WWII
14. Fictional character w/ same first and last name

[edit] August 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 August 8

1. politically ethically legally ok to do
2. Mother tongue study
3. Was Theodor Herzl's wife Jewish?
4. Winston Churchill
5. Winston Churchill the historian
6. plz help me wid dis topic ....
7. Prodigies in philosophy or literature
8. looking for Artist
9. Pushkin the African
10. Looking for Wikipedia animation showing evolution of German linguistic area
11. 20th Century Revolutionary Chinese Woodblock Prints
12. Identify Chanting

[edit] August 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 August 9

1. Consequentialism vs Utilitarianism
2. History of Goofy Ridge,Illinois located near Sand Ridge National forest and Chautauqua Lake
3. Community Economic Development
4. [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 August 9#Källkritik, Quellenkritik and ... "source criticism"?|Källkritik, Quellenkritik and ... "source criticism"?]]
5. Vietnam War Image
6. The "Jefferson cup"?
7. The Nightmare Republic?
8. "Spaniards" and "Jack Straws Inn",Hampstead
9. Fraternizing with the journalists

[edit] August 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 August 10

1. Cuban Missile Crisis
2. pebbles for The Rose
3. Shaftesbury and the Popish Plot
4. I didn't raise my boy to be a soldier
5. London-Doncaster
6. More questions about Lausanne treaty and Kurds in Turkey
7. Burial Traditions
8. Consistency in law within a nation
9. "Mrs. Jane Barker"
10. Was Stalin's Foreign Policy a Failure?

[edit] August 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 August 11

1. Imbalance of women and men on dating sites and clubs
2. pashtuns in pakistan
3. The Toledo Incident of 1925
4. Date of Battle of Thermopylae
5. Prison
6. Alexander the Great
7. bankruptcies
8. Central bank interventions
9. monetary system.
10. Scandal rags of the Bay Area
11. Suicide in Greece and Rome
12. How did Stalin industrialize Russia?

[edit] August 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 August 12

1. Secularism vs. opposite
2. Tilf?
3. how much was lost
4. Asian ideologies
5. Argentina and the Perons
6. UK Public in determining qualification for fancy awards (e.g. knighthood)
7. nyc threat
8. Hobbes the atheist
9. Durable goods which have a chance to appreciate?
10. English poem

[edit] August 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 August 13

1. [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 August 13#|]]
2. The Siena Duomo's Pavement
3. [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 August 13#|]]
4. Oldest (stone?) house in Europe (Knap of Howar is Northern Europe)
5. Air war over Japan
6. Bias depending on sexual preference
7. Glasgow
8. England and France
9. Andorra and WWII
10. Economics: United States Department of Defense Budget
11. Oscar Enckell
12. Did Aristotle know that Earth is round?
13. Alan Seeger

[edit] August 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 August 14

1. How much does a bilingual interpreter make?
2. How is Stalin viewed today in China?
3. Schmokers
4. hindi provinces
5. How can you compare price index data pre- and post-reweightings
6. Book with no Es
7. human rights
8. Europe and the Thirty Years War
9. sister-in-law-in-law
10. Urgent
11. Crime and Punishment '2'
12. have your speedometer callibrated
13. How Likely is a Draft?
14. Orator Hunt
15. Stalin and the Purges
16. Plato on 'third region' and fuzzy logic
17. Whats' the difference between heavy and light industry?

[edit] August 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 August 15

1. Economics
2. fatmouse
3. the occurence
4. financial sector regulator
5. Who is Jane McManus Storm Cazneau?
6. Partition of India
7. Religion
8. Randomness (Philosophy)
9. Battle of Naseby
10. the obfuscating squid
11. bicentennial print of Tn

[edit] August 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 August 16

1. American Idol owner FremantleMedia Inc. North America sent a letter to me to stop the use of Amerian Fashion Idol and its registration as a service/trade mark
2. Kaharingan (religion)
3. Where in Europe do freelance English teachers make the most?
4. St Anthony of Martkofeli
5. Looking for a poem...
6. Politics and Religion
7. Eton school song
8. Nightmare for investors...
9. Cult of the personality
10. afganistan
11. Greatful Dead
12. What type of source is the Associated Press?

[edit] August 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 August 17

1. Banknote
2. Extispicy
3. Parliament and the Tudors
4. Attila
5. Thelema Mini-Forum
6. Bohemian, Czech, Slovak folklore
7. bank of america credit card
8. Breast Cancer Patient Anonymity
9. I've always wondered...
10. Co-ordinates
11. Islamic Emirate of Albania

[edit] August 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 August 18

1. In what order should one read Asimov's Greater Foundation series?
2. Economics -- Inflation / The Cost of Living
3. Baptist views of homosexuality.
4. Since Congress went to the five day work week at the beginning
5. Forgetting something you hate
6. Martin Luther and Anti-Semitisim
7. financial regulatory agency
8. Mary Tudor's persecutions
9. devaluation of currency
10. Swords
11. Economic history of the Great Depression in Great Britain
12. Hunt the source: Fergus Mór and St Senán
13. Insanity

[edit] August 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 August 19

1. nude picnic
2. Literature in Textbooks / Anthologies
3. Song
4. regressive sentence
5. women's role in mass media
6. Resistance to the Brazilian Military Dictatorship
7. Falklands crisis of 1770
8. The Humanities Desk
9. CONTROVERSIAL NURSERY RHYMES
10. a project on ' womens role in history;
11. Lizzie McGuire Movie
12. Charles Dickens
13. United States GDP calculation: Fisher vs Laspeyres
14. Renting apartments
15. Propaganda and music
16. Anthropology question

[edit] August 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 August 20

1. Major P. P. Malcolm (character in Leon Uris's "Exodus")
2. Napoleon complex?
3. german detective series
4. Austria and Serbia
5. What was this guy's name?
6. Does "presential" exist?
7. "Bought In"
8. Custody of children who's parents never wed
9. Sophia Alekseyevna
10. Tsar Alexi

[edit] August 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 August 21

1. Rhapsody in blue clarinet solo
2. British Empire question
3. Dock leaves
4. Magna Carta
5. Summer School
6. Novel name
7. A book named "THE GENIE"
8. what is the financial regulatory agency? waht is also their function?
9. Administrative divisions of Bangladesh
10. I'm looking for a discussion of the torturer as victim.
11. Prague c. 1911
12. Commodities Market for Flash Chips
13. Russia in 1812
14. Are haitians of both North and Western african descent?

[edit] August 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 August 22

1. Go Like Who-Dray-Gah
2. Interest Rates and Trade
3. Media Against International aid
4. William of Ockham and Existence
5. Technology and the end of the Cold War
6. Map of wealth distribution
7. Difference between Five Year Plan and Great Leap Forward?
8. Are you sure Haitians are just of African descent, no mixing with indians or anything? while DR is mixed but the haitians are just of pure non mixing north & western african descent?
9. Telecommunication Industry
10. Batista and cuba
11. Actors' Pay

[edit] August 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 August 23

1. main issues for the political bases
2. state caucuses
3. Trotsky or Stalin?
4. A US base in the USSR
5. communications pre-telegraph
6. Can British Tourist become a criminal?
7. God and nuclear war
8. Che!
9. US Coins

[edit] August 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 August 24

1. Counties of Iran
2. Is science Infinite?
3. Has there never been a full-length bigraphy of Tristan Tzara?
4. What piece of classical music is this?
5. Article finder?
6. United States to invade Iran?
7. Art versus science
8. [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 August 24#|]]
9. german violent videogames ban
10. Eastern European Fashion
11. Dog tags of Jewish soldiers in the Allied armies during World War II
12. Shias in Lebanon
13. Since haitians are just of West African descent, does include all the countries of west africa?

[edit] August 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 August 25

1. Recent NYtimes Article
2. property rights on banned things
3. OKAY im confused ,please answer this!!
4. Iran
5. 21 grams
6. Ward Office in Japan
7. Mozart's laughter
8. Weddings
9. A book named "THE GENIE"-a reply
10. Fidel Castro just died?
11. Muslims of Spain

[edit] August 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 August 26

1. Video footage of communal exercise
2. Socrates Vs. Solomon 44 and Solomon 49
3. Dixon-Yates contract -- 1950's controversy
4. [History] The Righteous and Harmonious Society Movement: The Boxer Rebellion
5. The Dali Lamas Sex Life
6. song id
7. Zeitgeist
8. Life expectancy in South Dakota
9. Canadian Joke

[edit] August 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 August 27

1. The Problem with Interconnectivity
2. Battle of Crecy
3. Grand Muftis and Ayatollahs
4. Iranian surnamnes differences
5. Picture identification
6. who was tien B
7. If a tree falls in the woods, does it make a sound?
8. Third French Republic
9. Tax increase penalty
10. After death, Does everything goes back to the way it was like before u were born?
11. Safety in Enugu, Nigeria
12. License
13. ----
14. Novel discourses

[edit] August 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 August 28

1. Porn
2. Slander/ defamation of character
3. Trying to trace Hamilton heritage between American and Scotland/Ireland/England
4. Dire Straits Song
5. Who called the shots?
6. Mein Kampf-a reading
7. Jane Eyre (2006 TV serial) Soundtrack listing
8. Greatest [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_drama Radio dramas]
9. Hypothetical Politics Question
10. Civil service illustration
11. Music in Youtube video
12. Economics and Business
13. Cobweb Theory
14. Bad checks
15. "outed" politicians
16. Spanish Guerrillas
17. Palace of Peace
18. Another anthropology question
19. Is there a term for paying off loans with new loans?

[edit] August 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 August 29

1. Exploited children
2. IG Farben
3. English Public Schools
4. Changing Titles?
5. Algernon Sydney and the English Republicans
6. Mythical World
7. Central Business District...
8. Tacitus and the end of freedom
9. Germans then and now
10. Spandau Ballet
11. PDEA
12. Fletching arrows

[edit] August 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 August 30

1. Copyright
2. Government Regulation of raisins in Rasiain loaf bread?
3. Khubilai Khan
4. getting a work permit in Switzerland (Hungarian citizen)
5. Gorbachev and the fall of Soviet power
6. Do all year-numbering systems commemorate some sort of historical and/or mythical event?
7. Freedom
8. OK fine, A vast majority of slaves predominently came from the Slave coast and the Gold coast, so all of them are of ghanaian, togolese, beninese and western nigerian descent?
9. Previous Name of Chicago's McKinley Park Neighborhood on the near south side
10. Great depression in Europe
11. Glencoe Massacre
12. Interested in a style of work

[edit] August 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 August 31

1. [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 August 31#Malingering vs. sinistrose|Malingering vs. sinistrose]]
2. Visionary Writing
3. Jesuits in Beijing
4. You are embarrassing yourself
5. Edward the first
6. English tourists in Italy 1856
7. Leaving money to pets
8. double barrelled inherited names
9. pls help me
10. Prodivian
11. Mythological god with the ability to impregnate women with his stare
12. Capitalism and Communism
13. Gemstone Healing and Christianity
14. e-pol
15. What's the difference?