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[edit] November 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 November 1

  1. What are the findings of studies investigating correlation between a persons perceived attractivness and the wealth of their parents?
  2. Planchet?
  3. English ambassadors to France
  4. Le Conte de Guiche
  5. Mademoiselle de La Valleire
  6. Information about Amy Bjork Harris, Co author of Staying OK
  7. Louis More' pronounced -MORAY
  8. Personal income
  9. Tudor solutions to the problem of vagrancy
  10. Ancient grudge
  11. Why PicaSSo and not PicaSo?
  12. Spencer Perceval
  13. Second and Third
  14. statute of limitations
  15. Rosina Bulwer-Lytton
  16. Psychology
  17. Hy Little - Lancaster
  18. The concept of "war"
  19. France-Russia
  20. L'Abbe Tramblay

[edit] November 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 November 2

  1. George Bush speech and history
  2. Were the Carribean people part of the Black Mafia? Black gangsters or just African Americans?
  3. Government Bonds and Interest Rates
  4. Short story about the study of logic versus love
  5. meaning of a name in latin
  6. Finance
  7. Elected kings
  8. Taxes for international traveller
  9. operation thunderbolt
  10. Yeavering Bell
  11. Help identifying a Beethoven piece
  12. British Royal family
  13. Proper Flag Etiquite
  14. Wikipedia's kiss and tell acquittal
  15. North American Standard Account Ratings
  16. [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 November 2#|]]
  17. UK publics view on Northern Ireland
  18. What examples are there of surreal, bizzare, or funny things that have happened during a war?
  19. British History on American Revolution

[edit] November 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 November 3

  1. How did King Moshoeshoe II die?
  2. Samuel Smiles
  3. Japanese expansionism in 1930s and 1940s
  4. [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 November 3#Guns, Germs, and Steel question|Guns, Germs, and Steel question]]
  5. Robert Peel
  6. What means "you have a solution and you are searching for a problem"
  7. Spectrum of Theistic Probability
  8. Will we be known as Elizabethans?
  9. Causes
  10. What is the meaning of my surname
  11. name for music style

[edit] November 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 November 4

  1. World tree qn
  2. Failed protests preceding WWI?
  3. Karl Marx
  4. Where is RMS Quetta located?
  5. Psychology of waterboarding
  6. Sudan
  7. Canary Islands part of Africa?
  8. Animal's head in medieval illustrated manuscript
  9. Details of service of a British navy needed
  10. broadband for intellectuals
  11. Helicopters in the rain
  12. Richard III
  13. What's the difference between Caucus and Primary?
  14. Nivelle Offensive
  15. Two Revolutions?
  16. Post-WW2 U.S. soldiers being sent to Europe
  17. history of theatre in Paris

[edit] November 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 November 5

  1. Units of measurement in Soviet Russia
  2. navel
  3. Habsburg and Valois
  4. Gunpowder Plot
  5. Aging-limitations on learning the arts?
  6. Champions league
  7. A fistful of useless dollars?
  8. eugene lanceray sculpture
  9. Texas Indians
  10. FANTASY NOVELS & LITERATURE for me
  11. TTC Route
  12. Power of US States Over Actions of Federal Govt. within State

[edit] November 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 November 6

  1. Source of cucumbers and other vegetables sold in Israel
  2. Poster sized world map
  3. Dardanelles Campaign
  4. Tower Ravens
  5. To become a writer/author - a successful one!
  6. White Rose
  7. help!!
  8. Restaurant Etiquette: Napkins
  9. Has there ever been a coup against the USA government?
  10. Enlightenment despotism
  11. Myths and legends of Iraq

[edit] November 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 November 7

  1. Empowering Women
  2. A helpful tool to help describe foreign policy
  3. Norwegian Document
  4. Catherine the Great
  5. Wikipedia as a research tool
  6. Battle of Dunbar
  7. DEVELOPMENT PERSPECTIVE
  8. Russian steam roller
  9. Shakespeare, Cromwell, Pepys
  10. great american authors
  11. The Destruction of Professor Machulka's Academy of Plays
  12. Gladstone's 1886 Home Rule Bill
  13. Cuba and U.S. Wars
  14. Complaints GIs had about the French at the Liberation

[edit] November 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 November 8

  1. Mortgages
  2. Victor Hugo and Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
  3. Significance
  4. Christmas in the Commonwealth
  5. the north light
  6. Uganda
  7. Question about GPL
  8. Chinese and Japanese Martial Arts
  9. spanish refugees
  10. my new page
  11. Nineteenth century visiting
  12. King Wenceslaus CSI
  13. Stock split - affect preferred stock?
  14. Ariarathes I of Cappadonia
  15. Where to find new short comedy film scripts for independant low-budget production
  16. Diseases on board a pirate ship
  17. Controversial History Theory
  18. Deadlyiest century in the world

[edit] November 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 November 9

  1. Bush statement to Musharraf
  2. Six Questions to your favorite author
  3. Women on the stage
  4. The Crucible
  5. Boy Scout handshake
  6. Bellamy salute
  7. Winston Churchill
  8. Greatest military campaigns in history
  9. Prostitution in the middle ages
  10. Enforcement of UK Company Law
  11. First Century BC history question
  12. Global Society
  13. Holy Crowns
  14. Anthropology

[edit] November 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 November 10

  1. French Revolution
  2. French Revolution 2
  3. thread tracking
  4. Indian politics
  5. Health Care in South Africa
  6. Stalin the agent
  7. French Revolution 3
  8. Philosophy books
  9. Last Letter Home
  10. Companies giving shares to employees
  11. History Role Playing Games
  12. The Thinker
  13. Which Castle?
  14. Norman Mailer
  15. Guinness Book of World Records 2006 UK edition
  16. War memories
  17. Political Futures Markets
  18. "In The Air Tonight"

[edit] November 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 November 11

  1. Hyde Amendment (1997) info needed
  2. Prescription ethics
  3. Date of Maxim Gorky's death
  4. Jewish names - the frequency of precious stones - why?
  5. Brazilian fairytale - details
  6. Che Guevera
  7. Flickering police sirens
  8. Republic to dictatorship
  9. color of the eyes of the Green Knight
  10. Is the answer to all success christians got just one word ENGLISH?
  11. Princess Cornblossom
  12. What does this Street Art in Spain Represent?
  13. Death of Mary Queen of Scots
  14. public domain
  15. Mazzini

[edit] November 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 November 12

  1. Donner Party
  2. Was Jesus a "legitimate" Rabbi?
  3. Russian outpost
  4. Great Patriotic War
  5. Information about Amy Bjork Harris, Co author of Staying OK
  6. Boer victors
  7. Japan specialization
  8. Lord Uxbridge's leg
  9. 13 Colonies' Constitutions
  10. loan default
  11. Planned city in Venezuela
  12. Laurie Anderson

[edit] November 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 November 13

  1. Verbatim texts of military orders?
  2. Women on the stage (2)
  3. "Dreimal 100 Advokaten ..."
  4. Fall of Empires
  5. Keyboard notes and the treble clef
  6. euro to canadian dollar
  7. Toffee Apples?
  8. Wilde sent down
  9. Parnell
  10. Whats John Edwards position on death penalty?
  11. Salem Witch Trials
  12. Value of Dutch currency, 1943

[edit] November 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 November 14

  1. What is the daily value of money exchanged around the planet?
  2. Tahiti
  3. Antisemitism
  4. what are the differences between a controversial group and a mainstream religion?
  5. race in south africa
  6. Episcopal archbishops
  7. items on person
  8. GDR and the Third Reich
  9. Managerial Accounting
  10. Benedict Arnold's nationality
  11. Think the War in Iraq would have ever happened if Gore was elected Pres in 2000?
  12. Mosley and the New Party
  13. Is there a correlation between Intelligence and how powerful a country is?
  14. During the gunpowder age, why didn't they just go around the firing lines?
  15. Frederick and America
  16. hipaa privacy rules
  17. why july
  18. Religion comparison
  19. Judaism converts?
  20. Monkey doll
  21. George Washington

[edit] November 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 November 15

  1. Zengo
  2. illegal immigrants
  3. Albany's ambition
  4. constitutional monarchy
  5. Peasants' war
  6. Trojan Horse replica
  7. Stanley Baldwin
  8. High Mountains Close to the Equator
  9. Medieval themed paintings
  10. Poem page numbers

[edit] November 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 November 16

  1. National Convention
  2. Financial index
  3. Habsburg lip
  4. Barefootedness
  5. Mozart's juvenilia
  6. Roosevelt and De Gaulle
  7. Cromwell and Manchester
  8. Nazi literature
  9. Freikorps
  10. Panayotes Danglis
  11. Iraq
  12. hipaa privacy policy
  13. Persistent Vegetative State (PVS): How many people in America currently in a PVS are under the age of 30?-- Bryantmoore (talk) 20:26, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] November 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 November 17

  1. French Revolution
  2. muntaber
  3. one volume edition of Shakespeare
  4. Ten Thousand Swedes
  5. Help enforcing blog copyright
  6. Pakistan´s nuclear weapons
  7. Guinness Book of World Records 2006 UK edition
  8. Mental health
  9. Attempted coup in the United Kingdom
  10. Witch hunting
  11. Euro vs dollar
  12. Inquisition
  13. Antisemitism in France and Italy
  14. Six Questions to your favorite author
  15. Creationism

[edit] November 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 November 18

  1. Bibliographic query
  2. Soldier returns from war and starts attacking people.
  3. Spanish Civil War
  4. Punishment of War Criminals along History
  5. Pre and post-war appartments
  6. Jorg Friedrich
  7. Second coming
  8. Afrikaner nationalism
  9. Help identify this short story
  10. departing from convention
  11. "Comrade"

[edit] November 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 November 19

  1. OPEC
  2. tutti-fruiti
  3. The God that failed
  4. what is the the average bill of a meal in USA
  5. Eisenhower
  6. World War One Air Aces
  7. More Freikorps
  8. ring

[edit] November 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 November 20

  1. Term for theory of why we follow social rules
  2. Biplob
  3. Vaisakhi
  4. The effect of advancing military technology on the balance of military power within the nation of Asean?
  5. Liberation to conquest
  6. Napoleonic empire
  7. unification of germany and political integration of india
  8. People from middle eastern, south asian countries who have the last name, Khan
  9. Why No Stuart M Kaminsky Article?
  10. Why didn't they use flamethrowers in Europe during the gunpowder age?
  11. Scots volunteers in France
  12. patient access to their medical records
  13. Questione...

[edit] November 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 November 21

  1. The King said what?!
  2. Arms Race in South East Asia....Any view?
  3. Trotsky in 1905
  4. What's the name of the cue?
  5. wealth of average american
  6. per capita income and life
  7. Anschluss
  8. Appeasement
  9. Philippines' name before Spaniards came
  10. Potsdam Conference
  11. Denazification
  12. German author - Wickenstein?
  13. Marxism
  14. Muhammad quote
  15. Just how hard the Sitar?

[edit] November 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 November 22

  1. Trying to identify a book bout dirigibles.
  2. Forensic Psychology
  3. Medical and legal advice
  4. Ethnic breakdown of Toronto
  5. Talk:List of Byzantine Emperors
  6. What is the origin of wishing upon a star?
  7. Niggas vs. Black People
  8. Eishin Ryu Mon?
  9. Origins of the Cold War
  10. What is Maltese and how valuable is it?
  11. Stab in the back
  12. Stalin and De Gaulle

[edit] November 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 November 23

  1. Pronunciation help
  2. Wizard of OZ - The Red Brick Road
  3. Is there a patron saint of noses?
  4. How many ninjas?
  5. Tnks
  6. marriage and life
  7. Lester Smith 1924 Olympics Swimmer - Can anyone find any other information about Lester Smith?
  8. Lucius Junius Brutus
  9. Current specific issues related to the Anti-federalist vs. Federalist debates
  10. The Holocaust, some important questions

[edit] November 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 November 24

  1. Coat of arms infos
  2. Poem interpretation
  3. Nazi Education
  4. Race v Ethnicity
  5. Emperor Charles V
  6. Military in Myanmar
  7. Cluilian Trenches - Rome
  8. Dante's popes
  9. Second Battle of Flanders
  10. Literature: Stone Angel
  11. Secession
  12. Gastronomy Wars: Italy vs France!
  13. God is man's greatest creation
  14. Greene's Groats-Worth of Wit

[edit] November 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 November 25

  1. Cost of items in 1849
  2. A question about religion
  3. Were the founding fathers spoiled brats?
  4. Unifying Germany
  5. Edith Stein
  6. Napoleon's war in Spain
  7. Bank of England on Inflation
  8. Book in universal history
  9. Smoking
  10. Riots and Shakespeare
  11. Male/Female Relationships
  12. Literature: Stone Angel 2
  13. Inheritance tax (US)

[edit] November 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 November 26

  1. A History of the English-Speaking Peoples
  2. Regional Carbonated Beverage Preferences
  3. Threat of nuclear weapons in North Korea
  4. Happy medium betweem altruism and egoism?
  5. Hirohito's speech
  6. Boswell's Life of Johnson
  7. catholic church and "heresy" (in 1752?)
  8. Celtic this and that, an ethnicist contrivance of the 18th-20th centuries or not?
  9. St bede, in proving English wrote poetry in their own langugae
  10. 18th century music
  11. Himmler's Economy
  12. Jacobite questions
  13. Rome and Constantinople
  14. Lack of an article on the Battle of the Winter Palace ...?

[edit] November 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 November 27

  1. Republican single-party ambitions?
  2. Nazism and Stalinism
  3. Longest postal strike in Canada?
  4. Torpedos
  5. The CROWN of James VI and I
  6. Fascism and malaria
  7. English succession
  8. Ulrich Fleischhauer
  9. Social reform in Prussia
  10. south africa

[edit] November 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 November 28

  1. Socialist economy
  2. This Is Not A Homework Question.
  3. Nude Bowl location
  4. What make of guitar is this?
  5. energy efficient houses & normal houses
  6. Flags at sea
  7. The slaves of haiti came from the entire alantic slave trade?
  8. The difference a person can make in the infinitely long term
  9. Malthus the monster
  10. Napoleon's second greatest disaster
  11. Les Miserables (by Victor Hugo) - Sequels?
  12. Teddy bear blasphemy case
  13. Cromwell and the radicals
  14. Soviet campaign against the Church
  15. There are approximately ten billion short stories called "Summer Heat"
  16. Law question - holding suspects without charge
  17. Pitch notation in Spanish.
  18. romanian family
  19. Conspiracy
  20. Getting to know new people online

[edit] November 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 November 29

  1. Ancient Roman Consul - L. Volumnius Flamma Violens
  2. Cologne Cathedral: identify quote
  3. A quote
  4. Roman control in Egypt
  5. War and Peace sequel?
  6. ECONOMICS
  7. beginning research of a life long goal
  8. RAFUR
  9. Kaifeng Jews and Law of Return
  10. Are modern Islamic Revolutionaries Republican?
  11. High gas prices.
  12. united we stand
  13. Likelihood of recession or depression
  14. Ottoman sultans & evil in history
  15. Islamic Law

[edit] November 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 November 30

  1. Why hasn't Bennelong declared yet?
  2. Battle of Fehrbellin
  3. Dual Swords?
  4. 1066 and all that
  5. Da Vinci Code
  6. Seven-day week universal
  7. Edward and the Nazis
  8. Anyone want to read a law school personal statement and DESTROY IT?
  9. Andres Ortiz
  10. Croatian air ace
  11. Frederick the writer
  12. Jurors and special knowledge
  13. why was there no Czech War in 1939?