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[edit] July 1

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Humanities/2006 July 1

  1. A Place for Political Questions
  2. Philanthropy to Corruption
  3. How? Why?
  4. Asset Registration Before Marriage
  5. soccer
  6. Kingdom Halls of Jehovah witnesses
  7. history and facts about st. josephs (all girl) academy in st paul,mn.
  8. Alaska purchase a conspiracy?
  9. Is it true that houses in USA deteriorate faster?
  10. Wild Thing
  11. Hussein of Jordan, a 'good' ruler?
  12. Help linking an orphaned article about culture
  13. New North Wales
  14. Doctor Who

[edit] July 2

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Humanities/2006 July 2

  1. "Meanings" sections
  2. was america the first free country
    1. New Zealand was the first free country
  3. Which country has the highest rate of...
  4. Nintendo DS Lite European/German Version In English?
  5. Actors
  6. Image of St. Peter Claver
  7. Song about Sharm el-Sheikh
  8. A tour-de-force of culture
  9. Casinos

[edit] July 3

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Humanities/2006 July 3

  1. Becoming Dutch Nationa;
  2. Sentence re-writing
  3. Indigenous of Britain
  4. Pantheism,Creation, and Evolution
  5. What self repspecting terrorist would send money through banks controlled by the evil Zionist conspiracy?
  6. English in the Netherlands.
  7. Time cause of motion?
  8. Yellow River Concerto.
  9. UK Conservative Party
  10. Berengar
  11. Zoroastrian attitude to alcohol
  12. Theories on Aryan race?
  13. Pilgrimage
  14. Macbeth
  15. New Jersey Gross Income Tax
  16. False Claims Act
  17. Flutes

[edit] July 4

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Humanities/2006 July 4

  1. Oboe
  2. Prices in Mexico
  3. Socrates, Plato, Aristotle
  4. Accidental Death
  5. Sunni versus Shitte
  6. Afterlife in Islam
  7. homosexual and Confucianism
  8. Polygamy
  9. Hot Digital Songs
  10. Charles Stuart Parnell & Katherine O'Shea
  11. Mozambique
  12. Study on overzealous anti-drug education
  13. Capitalaztion
  14. Songs Associated with Catholic Worker
  15. Johann Sebastian Bach
  16. United States in World War I
  17. Were any of the original Nazis skinheads?
  18. Woodwinds

[edit] July 5

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Humanities/2006 July 5

  1. War of 1812
  2. Eras of History
  3. What's a Jelly Date?
  4. Bach
  5. both world wars started in the balkan?

[edit] July 6

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Humanities/2006 July 6

  1. who is the artist
  2. Israel, Gaza, and Palestine walk into a bar...
  3. Tempo
  4. Death = Get out of jail free card
  5. Ari Setya Ardhi - category: Indonesian poet
  6. Lord Chancellor of Great Britain
  7. Basis of the Wikipedia
  8. Karl Marx's Position on the Iron Curtain
  9. garnetted stock in relation to textile
  10. In search of a Poet
  11. number of copies sold
  12. Views on "No Child Left Behind".
  13. Looking for Fictional Vampire Book
  14. Historical GDP statistics

[edit] July 7

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Humanities/2006 July 7

  1. Which bands of rock'n'roll belong these logos?
  2. Pronounciation of Caedmon
  3. Music Terminology
  4. Budgetting
  5. US aid to Great Britain during WWII on condition of becoming 49th state
  6. False photos
  7. Seinfeld
  8. EU human rights in the UK
  9. Biography
  10. US casulties at desert one Iran hostage resuce

[edit] July 8

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Humanities/2006 July 8

  1. Mayor
  2. Post-Industrial revolution religions
  3. Kilmainham Jail (Goal)
  4. Are the USA and Canada nation-states?
  5. Pantheism
  6. Panentheism
  7. Thomas Jefferson
  8. double nuclear blast survivor : an urban legend?
  9. The Next Video Medium
  10. House Selling under Scottish (Scots) Law
  11. ronald "winky" wright
  12. Platinum Weird

[edit] July 9

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Humanities/2006 July 9

  1. Most religiously diverse country
  2. Non-metric systems around the world
  3. The Cartesian Subject?
  4. Marcus Garvey
  5. Diet of Plains Indians
  6. domestic corn?
  7. Is the Bible really just about the origin of the Jews?
  8. Julius Caesar
  9. longest lasting governments
  10. Altitude of Franco's head
  11. indonesia old laws
  12. Joke
  13. Southampton walls
  14. Francisco Franco
  15. Nature of god

[edit] July 10

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Humanities/2006 July 10

  1. Renoir's Gabrielle Jean and Little Girl
  2. Cross-over Gospel music
  3. philosophy ? : "regional inquiry - formal logic"
  4. Where can I demographics for the Schutzstaffel?
  5. South Korea Backing North Korean Tyranny
  6. Musical Difficulty
  7. Radio Play
  8. Sealab 2021 DVD
  9. Philosophy, Nietzsche's quotation on vanity:
  10. Xinhua News Agency
  11. Eritrean book
  12. Schengen implementation date applicable for Malta
  13. purpose for building Stonehenge
  14. Anyone have any insights into gulls' opinions of humans?
  15. what do you have on constance smedley aka mrs maxwell armfiels
  16. Religious Beliefs of Socrates
  17. Samus Aran

[edit] July 11

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Humanities/2006 July 11

  1. Eugene V. Debs
  2. christianity exclusive?
  3. Can a footballer pick up the football with his feet?
  4. Name of poem?
  5. Depression
  6. new legal client
  7. where is this place?
  8. most expensive?
  9. Business or pleasure or should I mind my own beeswax (didn't want to use the word 'business' again...)
  10. Develop of Biblical canon
  11. Kingdom of Bhutan
  12. Sir Ector's wife
  13. Pub Kitchen Working Age
  14. Help Identify Latin American Author
  15. 1776
  16. Eritrea
  17. ali
  18. Sheet music
  19. New Jersey Bankruptcy Bench Bar Conference
  20. Questions
  21. Current Event
  22. looking for a number one country songon a specific date
  23. Wikiversity project for learning German?
  24. help w/Revels (images, audio clips...) A special plea to BOSTONIANS.

[edit] July 12

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Humanities/2006 July 12

  1. Great Depression and Britain
  2. George Washington's conversion
  3. Celts
  4. the number 11
  5. movie filming location
  6. Ethical living
  7. Sturmabteilung
  8. Ichpuchtli Goddess Table.
  9. Former appointed Church of Ireland Bishops of Cork and Waterford
  10. Demise of Soviet Union
  11. de in Jaap de Hoop Scheffer
  12. Vanity/Autobiography pages
  13. cannot find article back which neatly explained names of Asian capitals
  14. strahov stadium
  15. Controversies - New Kadampa Tradition
  16. Great Gatsby Question
  17. SORIN CERIN BIOGRAPHY
  18. single mph increases gas mpg ?
  19. Heidegger

[edit] July 13

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Humanities/2006 July 13

  1. Possible violation of HIPAA or attorney-client privilege
  2. Irish Involvement in World War 2
  3. capitalisation in medieval texts
  4. ancient place?
  5. Strong central government? what the hell is it really good for anyway?
  6. Jogging or biking in Central Park or on Brooklyn Bridge (NY) : not an African-American thing?
  7. Kundalini variants in a tantric perspective
  8. Misrepresentation

[edit] July 14

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Humanities/2006 July 14

  1. Torture on 24
  2. Pantheism
  3. Military Channels all over the world
  4. What is the meaning of the tamil word 'Thamban'?
  5. Vodafone song
  6. guardian angels
  7. Dike nameday
  8. Persians
  9. A question about Judaism and Christianity.
  10. Death penalty
  11. Biblical quote : Ask and you shall receive."
  12. Sexual Assault in Prison
  13. Name this tool used in moviemaking
  14. Israel

[edit] July 15

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Humanities/2006 July 15

  1. Initiatives of US President
  2. plato's symposium
  3. Spanish Wine Denominations
  4. Dracula's Chermosese
  5. Age at childbirth
  6. Two Similar Wars
  7. A mistake in article about Mohammad.
  8. Origin of Name
  9. Posession

[edit] July 16

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Humanities/2006 July 16

  1. What is the copyright status of Zorro?
  2. canadian elections
  3. History of Bankers
  4. History of the garter?
  5. Yvon Neptune
  6. Supreme Court in Australia
  7. Abstract Art
  8. Common tree in California
  9. Does Rich People care about getting max benefit for their money for small value items?
  10. Nasrallah's Investments
  11. Book shown in Napoleon Dynamite
  12. Calendar system
  13. Damnatio memoriae- Hatshepsut
  14. Aircraft Identification
  15. Title of second of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes novels
  16. How best to (realistically) become a millionaire?
  17. drinking law
  18. Ralph Nader
  19. Name of a music
  20. Last American slave?
  21. science fiction story
  22. Which mummies?

[edit] July 17

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Humanities/2006 July 17

  1. Adolf III. Von Berg
  2. 16th century Japanese culture
  3. 2006 - 1 AD : 1 - ## BC
  4. P.G. Wodehouse "Good Morning Bill"
  5. WW1 Calendar Confusion
  6. Religions opposed to medicine
  7. BBC quote "Lebanese Shia Sunni union would make Bin Laden proud"
  8. Confused about Iranian Revolution.
  9. Phrase
  10. State Birds

[edit] July 18

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Humanities/2006 July 18

  1. Military School
  2. Hitler
  3. 1870s Danish clothing
  4. Liberal-Libertarian
  5. sheetmusic from the movie "legends of the Fall"
  6. The original Addams Family show
  7. The origin or history of the phrase "Punchers Chance".
  8. Postmodernism equals Neoconservatism
  9. VD and doorknobs
  10. monograph on michaelangelo
  11. European film where a boy sits on the roof of a church
  12. Brian Peppers
  13. Continuation of blood line in British royal house.
  14. Floor plan of the US Capitol?
  15. Youngest Presidential nominee from a major party?
  16. How do you use the redirect function?
  17. scientology...
  18. Ethnic Name
  19. VCR problem
  20. Artist Barry Oretsky
  21. Government Defense Agencies and tv
  22. Education
  23. Celebrity
  24. Military College

[edit] July 19

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Humanities/2006 July 19

  1. President? Dictator!
  2. A room with a view (poppies)
  3. recent docu:Palestinian rappers on beach full of flags?
  4. Holistic living
  5. Pirates on film
  6. definition of a religious welfare organisation
  7. Influential Australians
  8. british royal family
  9. Which country does not have any movie theaters.
  10. Democracy in Saudi Arabia
  11. Celtic Marriage
  12. Last Jewish Pope
  13. rock throwing
  14. The source of the soul of life.
  15. Conflicts between Aphrodite and Poseidon?
  16. Cycling
  17. the history of marriage
  18. Hudson, New York
  19. List of groups referred to as cults
  20. Darwin, The Descent of Man
  21. Hollanders

[edit] July 20

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Humanities/2006 July 20

  1. Village of Stebbe, Marienwerder, West Prussia.
  2. 'Classic' Albums
  3. legends and rituals
  4. Words Make You Feel
  5. Israeli citizenship
  6. eyelets
  7. Need reliable source that USA changed stance on Halabja gas attack responsibility
  8. Name of a song...
  9. Leonardo Henrichsen (cameraman shot in 1973 in Chile) : where is the footage
  10. Trying to expand Native Americana
  11. Question about inflation, incomes

[edit] July 21

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Humanities/2006 July 21

  1. Searching for a Hero of the Soviet Union
  2. Ada Bike Rodeo
  3. New Here: need something edited
  4. Peer Review of My Flowchart
  5. Superman - interesting quote
  6. Article of questionable validity about Albania
  7. samoan fa'afaline
  8. Definition of "caravan halt"
  9. Court Reporter
  10. JFK, Jr.
  11. Juan d' anyelica?
  12. Supertramp's "Fool's Overture" - Who's the Fool?

[edit] July 22

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Humanities/2006 July 22

  1. Raw materials for medieval siege weapons
  2. Telephone Protocol
  3. I have $1000,000 to give away
  4. Peope who made the most (and least) contributions to human happiness?
  5. Did Hitler have children?
  6. Poetry - Gary Snyder
  7. Where in UK to invest £750000 in buy-to-let property?
  8. dry docked and hurt'en
  9. Largest Singaporean corporations?
  10. Vietnamese Superstition
  11. Hizbollah : surprises
  12. Sculptor Sir William Reid Dick
  13. space/time
  14. European cities and towns: good west end and poor east end
  15. Attorney-General's Reference
  16. Questions about white Rastafarians

[edit] July 23

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Humanities/2006 July 23

  1. Baseball Illustrated Magazine
  2. How do i learn
  3. Hezbollah Rockets
  4. Why are nunchakus illegal in so many places?
  5. Free Born Society

[edit] July 24

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Humanities/2006 July 24

  1. Flip Wilson joke
  2. Definition of Holistic Living
  3. History of Street names
  4. Battles won against overwhelming odds
  5. Common Date
  6. Why is Israel hated in the Middle-East
  7. Exclusionary rule
  8. LGPL
  9. Israel vs. Arab
  10. LAURYN HILL FANS...I NEED LYRICAL HELP!!!
  11. folio incognito: E. F. Schumacher
  12. Why is Israel attacking Beirut? Or Lebanon for that matter?

[edit] July 25

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Humanities/2006 July 25

  1. i need help please sir !
  2. Did AC/DC play at a high school in Northern California?
  3. legends,stories
  4. diversity
  5. Artist
  6. Numbers & letters written above doors
  7. West Virginia - unusual borders
  8. most revered?
  9. More prestigious?
  10. MPAA approval numbers
  11. Query re Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
  12. ITAR and Computers
  13. Tons of explosives dropped in bombing during World War II
  14. Muslim
  15. Girlfriend becoming a lesbian?
  16. Republic of Macedonia
  17. No skiing in Africa?
  18. Looking for a painting

[edit] July 26

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Humanities/2006 July 26

  1. German movie tax shelters
  2. African Music
  3. Reading Quickly
  4. Music ID
  5. relationships
  6. Rowlatt Bills
  7. contrafactum (musical term)
  8. Oscar winners
  9. stone age
  10. Late night Guest who does not sleep
  11. Oscars and #1s Quiz Question
  12. How the Hell
  13. names of Department for Culture
  14. Black Americans
  15. Pol Pot Finds a Power Vacuum
  16. World at peace
  17. Leonardo da Vinci

[edit] July 27

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Humanities/2006 July 27

  1. 19th Century Portrait Custom
  2. General Pershing and the uprising in the PHILLIPINES
  3. You can't spit on the right side of the sidewalk every other Tuesday
  4. Lucille Lund
  5. nakshatra diamonds
  6. Number of Drinkers Compared to Non-Drinkers
  7. Amount of Vegetarians compared to Meat Eaters in US
  8. John Entwistle died on July 27 or June 27
  9. Information management systems
  10. rate this
  11. USSR Building
  12. GODZILLA
  13. Sturmtruppen
  14. Atalaya
  15. historical time line
  16. Book claiming that events of Bible took place in British Isles
  17. Laws governing the British Navy
  18. History WWII Combatants
  19. What's the title of this film?

[edit] July 28

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Humanities/2006 July 28

  1. Chinese resturants
  2. Origin of the phrase "Blackmailer's Charter"
  3. Information Management Systems
  4. Cyanide and Happiness
  5. Guomingdang and the CCP
  6. Running unopposed for US Congress (Robert Wexler)
  7. Criticism of emerging middle class during age of guilds
  8. Romanian Gypsies
  9. Mythological creatures with multiplying extremities/progeny/whatever
  10. 2 questions about broad (UN) coalitions : USA involvement and tensions
  11. Who is Pappy Mason?
  12. Location of Seas

[edit] July 29

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Humanities/2006 July 29

  1. History of science question
  2. Successful Jews
  3. Union of England and Scotland.
  4. Local government in Britain
  5. is hen a halaal.
  6. Religion
  7. How to stop dreaming?
  8. poetry
  9. Early american photographers
  10. Christian Music
  11. origins of anti slavery movement
  12. Evangical Churches of Prussia (Bremen,Colleda,Bachra,Sachsen, Thuringen, and KleinNeuhausen Thuringen
  13. Alice Eliza Ball bio
  14. Internet usage
  15. Adjusting guitar intonation
  16. Chaturanga pieces

[edit] July 30

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Humanities/2006 July 30

  1. Is this song about masturbation (Generation X - Dancing With Myself)?
  2. Logic question
  3. Nephirim (title added)
  4. The ancient history of billiards
  5. Which country does not have any movie theatres?
  6. Is a seagull a 'vulture'?
  7. History question on civilisations....NEed HeLP>>>>
  8. Kingfisher Tower
  9. Who was this performer at Di's funeral?
  10. Horse Cav Combat
  11. Wars Timeline
  12. 6th Generation iPod
  13. Kataeb in governing alliance??
  14. Six days war : When was the picture of Yossi Ben Hanan taken?

[edit] July 31

Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Humanities/2006 July 31

  1. Michel Pêcheux Biography
  2. Extravagant club
  3. Lost painting from WWII Nazi Loot
  4. Song
  5. Camera
  6. "Generation"
  7. Calendars
  8. Jerusalem for dummies :Wikipedia contradcition about ascension to heaven, Christians and what exactly is Western Wall?
  9. Judgments in a 1967 case
  10. WANNABE blackjack player
  11. S.S. Teachers' Combination Bible 1895
  12. Religious obituary
  13. Trousseau
  14. finding the movie
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