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[edit] July 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 July 1

  1. Navarre Witch Trials
  2. How did the name "america" originate?
  3. Jewish saying/blessing?
  4. Banking and money
  5. Brother of Petrarch
  6. Cold side of the moon
  7. Mindfulness
  8. British military death toll in Icland during WW2
  9. Petrarch's children
  10. Prince of England
  11. What did Surrealists like Andre Breton and others think about Zionism?

[edit] July 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 July 2

  1. The exact middle of the year
  2. about Jesus Christ
  3. Plekhanov and Lenin
  4. Artist J.V. Beke
  5. Waiters Minimum Wage
  6. God
  7. Painting
  8. Royal Navy rank and ink colour.
  9. Car Chase
  10. Russian army in france 1914-1916

[edit] July 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 July 3

  1. Two lines from Shakespeare:
  2. Hume and History
  3. Japanese Fascism
  4. What did Surrealists like Andre Breton and others think about Zionism?
  5. humanities, Economics.
  6. Alison Brimelow
  7. Murder rate in Ancient Rome compared with modern cities
  8. Linguistic situation in Eastern European Slavic countries/Russia
  9. American gangsters

[edit] July 4

Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 July 4

  1. Lewis Libby
  2. Mexicans and Roman Catholicism
  3. European Orphanage education (ca 1900)
  4. A Worldwide Council of Islam
  5. The Enchantments of Monks
  6. Surname Distributions
  7. How did one greet a cardinal in the middle ages?
  8. Food Crops
  9. Gibbon and the Antonines
  10. Russian Orthodox Domes
  11. Music theory question
  12. Westfield, Mass car hop drive-in restaurant 1960
  13. Edward Aetheling

[edit] July 5

Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 July 5

  1. most prolific classical composer
  2. Music and soldiers
  3. British Monarch missing presumed dead
  4. Facial hair
  5. Professor Albert Brackmann
  6. Question about the UNSC
  7. search not plugged and new entry
  8. A People's History of the United States
  9. WHAT?
  10. Ulysses-help!!!
  11. New York Blue Sox
  12. Asian child militants
  13. American Psycho .357 Magnum Question
  14. Defending Pierre Laval

[edit] July 6

Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 July 6

  1. attribution of a passage on Coleridge
  2. Slaughterhouse-five
  3. Salary
  4. typeface
  5. Anyone with a recent Guinness World Records book?
  6. How US associate degrees compare with british degrees
  7. Opposition to Churchill
  8. What have Islamic terrorists got against the west?
  9. Tour de force, ... er ... France

[edit] July 7

Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 July 7

  1. chinese lunar/solar calendar
  2. How much is a cello?
  3. British, Scottish, English?
  4. Marriage in the 18th Century
  5. Michaelangelo
  6. Schooldays in Ancient Rome
  7. Famous people
  8. Pre-history
  9. Trebitsch Lincoln
  10. Statute of Limitations
  11. Searching the authors of the following quotes

[edit] July 8

Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 July 8

  1. Internet law
  2. The meaning of the abreviation clav.
  3. Socialism
  4. What is the world oldest's dead religion?
  5. Religion of New Testament scholars
  6. $12.99
  7. Japanese literature questions
  8. The Boy Flood notability
  9. trans formers
  10. Can foreigners give donations to U.S political parties and presidential candidates

[edit] July 9

Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 July 9

  1. Is there an order to the Arts? If so, what is it?
  2. 1745 Jacobite Rebellion
  3. "Die at the flagpole"? From which verse?
  4. German atrocities in the First World War
  5. The Devil to Pay in the Backlands
  6. Regarding "cutting and pasting"
  7. Interesting people in history
  8. unconditional love and free lunch
  9. The Dow Jones Industrial Average
  10. I'm looking for an unusual (English) word I can't find anywhere
  11. Benjamin Disraeli

[edit] July 10

Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 July 10

  1. Unions and Villages in Bangladesh
  2. What is the definition of ?
  3. Association of social and economical beliefs
  4. Stalin and Hitler
  5. Waiting lines for NHS
  6. Uhaw ang Tigang na Lupa
  7. Crime in Victorian England
  8. Spanish Civil War
  9. Queen Elizabeth II's "Uncle Dickey"
  10. Wrongway Corrigan's flight and Clifford MacGregor's North Pole Expedition
  11. Communication in Behavioural Science
  12. Greatest Book of All Time
  13. post ww2 spheres of influence

[edit] July 11

Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 July 11

  1. Colonies in Antarctica?
  2. political gender
  3. Louis Dembitz Brandeis's relationship with Jacob Frank
  4. "Political" as noun
  5. Possession by ancestor spirits in mythology
  6. Napoleon on St Helena
  7. duc d'Enghien and Mohiloff
  8. Charnock the Alchemist
  9. Statistical agencies
  10. Khadijah and Muhammad
  11. Question concerning Roman administration of Gaul?
  12. Another goddamn speeding ticket
  13. Play based on Macbeth
  14. Sartre, Existentialism, and Atheism
  15. Do Ipods store any mp3 files?

[edit] July 12

Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 July 12

  1. Cultural variations in the perception of past & future
  2. Font ident please
  3. Is CNN wrong or am I?
  4. Henry VIII and Scotland
  5. Anyone from Chicago know...
  6. Jean-Christophe Napoléon
  7. Satan
    1. Another question
  8. Name of a concept
  9. serious quest- not crazy
  10. percentage
  11. History and evolution of Shaivism

[edit] July 13

Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 July 13

  1. punjabi songs lyric translation
  2. "C'est pire qu'un crime, c'est une faute."
  3. Plot to kill Mussolini
  4. "Any more for the Skylark?"
  5. Coat_of_Arms_of_Irkutsk.png
  6. Management Theory
  7. Civilian internment during WWII
  8. Value of the dollar
  9. Matthias Corvinus
  10. German propaganda posters
  11. Meadville, MS in American Civil War
  12. Prosecuting a witness?
  13. Speeding ticket from hell
  14. Constitutional question

[edit] July 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 July 14

  1. French night clubs
  2. Was Hitler a weak dictator?
  3. HEPA = Humanist group ?
  4. poem/riddle Castaway (anon)
  5. Wycliffe Bible dating
  6. Interpreting old music
  7. Speeding Penalties (and other fines)
  8. John Wycliffe
  9. Administrator abuse
  10. Spanish Inquisition
  11. Pakistanis and beaches - did I commit a faux pas?

[edit] July 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 July 15

  1. Zinoviev and Kamenev?
  2. Current rate of extinction
  3. Woman and sports
  4. Trireme marines
  5. Captain Hook and Wendy's father in Peter Pan
  6. can you name some brave famous policemen
  7. Louis XII
  8. Richard Sharpe
  9. How many people believe in a god
  10. Was Malcolm X Wahabi?
  11. How were the classes of U.S. Senators initially decided?
  12. The British Empire David05121970
  13. Who is the figure on the reverse of the Iraq Campaign Medal—Preceding unsigned comment added by Willy turner (talk • contribs)
  14. Two short stories by Ray Bradbury
  15. Reasonable Doubt

[edit] July 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 July 16

  1. Last menu on Titanic
  2. GDP of Qing
  3. Girl Pope
  4. Nietzsche
  5. Lenin and Stalin
  6. unification of germany in 1871
  7. Religion and careers
  8. references for gopi krishna
  9. Avignon papacy period
  10. Banknote

[edit] July 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 July 17

  1. The idea that imperfect law enforcement is good
  2. Honorary consul
  3. Anarchism and business
  4. Decline of the French monarchy
  5. French army before World War II
  6. Jesus the Logos
  7. Al Qaida
  8. What is the negative and positive effects of globalization on Indian farming sector?
  9. Versailles
  10. Bill gates, larry page and sergey brin
  11. Pope Urban V - first in 46 years
  12. Benjamin Robert Haydon bronzework

[edit] July 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 July 18

  1. how are WTO and globalization corelated?
  2. Napoleon and Poland
  3. Print of Mrs Duff
  4. Nicolas Poussin
  5. Entente Cordiale
  6. Mein Kampf still copyrighted?

[edit] July 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 July 19

  1. Indo-Caribbeans
  2. Capitalization question
  3. Heart of Atlanta Motel
  4. First gay knight
  5. The Lionheart
  6. Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla and Mexican Independence
  7. French National assembly
  8. British India’s political status.
  9. Alien abduction.
  10. Fast Track Authority
  11. The average ethnicity/original nationality of the (white?) USA-er
  12. Google earth blocked area
  13. Forklift certification
  14. Good intro to British history?
  15. Iraqi Civil war
  16. Pirates
  17. Francophobia?

[edit] July 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 July 20

  1. fidel
  2. making money
  3. Song title and artist?
  4. PROOF USA FOUNDED ON JUDEO CHRISTIAN PRINCIPALS
  5. John Toland
  6. Putney Army Debates
  7. China catching up with USA as world top-dog

[edit] July 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 July 21

  1. The Hells Angels 'wing system'?
  2. C.A. White - Author
  3. Neville Henderson and Appeasement
  4. Camelin
  5. Who is Charles F Horne, author
  6. Is the electoral college system used in U.S presidential elections irrational, illogical, undemocratic and perverse?
  7. Are there any individuals, organisations or political parties calling for an upper house in a bicameral legislature to be made up of professors?
  8. Law - Finding U.S. Federal and State Code Sections
  9. Why are Scots disproportionately vastly over represented in the U.K armed forces?
  10. How many indigenous people have been murdered in the area currently constituting the U.S, and does it constitute genocide?
  11. Funerals in Nottingham
  12. Fourth Panzer Army
  13. Britain and Germany 1933 to 1939

[edit] July 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 July 22

  1. Robbie and the 2nd Law of Robotics
  2. Maritime costume circa 1290
  3. Uncle Tom's Cabin
  4. examination of management
  5. English Poor Law
  6. influnce of environment on industries
  7. Communism during WWII
  8. Bangladesh provincial government?
  9. Bangladesh municipal government
  10. Left-wing
  11. right-wing
  12. Some question about ethnic divisions in Europe

[edit] July 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 July 23

  1. "In God We Trust" on our money
  2. World War I Newspaper archives?
  3. Judges
  4. long books
  5. Khruschev's denunciation of Stalin
  6. Walt Streightiff - who is he?
  7. Voting Rights of US Citizens
  8. De Natura Deorum and the Infinite Monkey
  9. Killing slaves
  10. Mad Old Men

[edit] July 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 July 24

  1. Global Electricity Statistics
  2. philosophy and time
  3. Which ammendment to the Constitution gives Americans freedom of religion, freedom of the press and the right to assemble?
  4. local radio
  5. African Hunters
  6. WW2 "no bomb" uni-town pact?
  7. Painting a sky on the ceiling
  8. Vietnamese Generals in French Army
  9. There was a chinese story...
  10. Hevenu Shalom Aleichem and the Catholic Church
  11. real estate boom
  12. Who signed for North and South Dakota?
  13. DC demographics
  14. Nazi Press
  15. Thomas More
  16. What is a dabouke?
  17. Collateral Trading
  18. alcoholics's
  19. BUILDING A REFERENCE BIBLIOGRAPHY ON WORLD CULTURES
  20. CFA Exams discontinued in India

[edit] July 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 July 25

  1. Mon (japanese badge/ family crest)
  2. Bangladeshi Parliamentary seats
  3. imperialism
  4. Anglo German Naval Agreement of 1935
  5. Trying to recall the title of a novel about life in the Gulag
  6. Are there examples of jokes told by the founder of a religion?
  7. Questions about Germans Bundestag election system (and the article about it)
  8. picasso
  9. Misscarriage, corpses and criminality of not buring the dead aborted child

[edit] July 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 July 26

  1. wedding
  2. Conlon Nancarrow's Boogie-Woogie Suite
  3. Death of the Prince Imperial
  4. Transfusions in sport
  5. Marx in London
  6. Do you want to live forever
  7. Verizon Wireless
  8. Moscow metro station named after Royal Family murderer
  9. All China Youth Federation

[edit] July 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 July 27

  1. Long hair
  2. Saint Pol conspiracy
  3. symbol for justice
  4. Dvorák Cello Concerto and Brahms Double Concerto
  5. Rich vs Poor
  6. Goya
  7. Chamberlain and Appeasement
  8. O'Keefe and Merritt
  9. women in history
  10. Partition of Germany
  11. Christopher Columbus voyages
  12. Eliminating the Penny Coin
  13. Toronto 1
  14. Toronto 2
  15. Toronto 3

[edit] July 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 July 28

  1. origin of expression "Aha Erkenntnis"
  2. Noshir S. Gowadia
  3. Death of the Russian Royal Family
  4. On height
  5. Intuition in Arts...
  6. Teutonic Order
  7. European economy in 15th century
  8. Legal status of steroid use in the US
  9. Rime of King William

[edit] July 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 July 29

  1. criminal charges
  2. THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD
  3. Eastern European
  4. Franco and the war
  5. White Australia

[edit] July 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 July 30

  1. Food booth
  2. Hapless page
  3. American artist who put things in little showcases
  4. Nuremberg Trials
  5. Size of the academic papers
  6. Largest mall
  7. Victorian Era
  8. Cult books

[edit] July 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 July 31

  1. What religion am I? help me
  2. Sri Lankans tamil Toronto
  3. Stock market
  4. separation
  5. Christmas was killed at Naseby fight
  6. Hello
  7. Corporations
  8. Ahmadinejad's Attire
  9. Marshall Petain
  10. More Vichy questions
  11. Japanese election system : what's wrong (Tokyo Block?)