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August 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 August 1

1. Map of 50 new states for the USA
2. China vs United States economic management
3. Cyrus Cylinder
4. Source of Terence McKenna quotes?
5. Incredulity
6. WW2 protests against segregation

August 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 August 2

1. Starving in Britain
2. First to claim prayer is ineffective?
3. Hair removal in ancient time
4. Status quo
5. Job Creation
6. The American debt
7. Copyright, Canada: can this image be made PD?

August 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 August 3

1. Why is the phrase "I'm going to the city" applied only to Manhattan, but not to the Bronx as well historically speaking?
2. Contacting a New York Times journalist
3. Somalia aid
4. Laborism
5. James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose
6. 12 Angry Men (1957 film)
7. Markets "attacking" bonds
8. United States presidents turning 50 in office

August 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 August 4

1. Literary firsts
2. Successful lottery investor
3. KNIGHTS - HOW EXACTLY DID THEY DIFFER FROM BARONS AND COUNTS/EARLS IN THE MIDDLE AGES?
4. UK VAT number
5. THE ENTRANCE OF NEW NATION IN ABIA AND IMO STATE OF NIGERIA
6. French cheese
7. School Library Journal?
8. Hostile legislative riders
9. Shields up!
10. UK Government bonds

August 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 August 5

1. Looking for t the name of the Original Artist of a painting
2. Pol Pot
3. Was it morganatic or not?
4. Economics still deficient in explaining predicting or controlling current events?
5. Medical Arts
6. Non-new Catholic dioceses without cathedrals

August 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 August 6

1. United Kingdom
2. Flags!
3. Jewish support for Hitler?
4. Tiny European countries
5. besieging a castle
6. Birth and death dates for Jessie Lemont Trausil, translator of poems by Rainer Maria Rilke
7. Shielded Soldiers
8. What is it called when the church is ruling a nation or state? what kind of government is this?
9. Low inflation increases the real value of debts

August 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 August 7

1. GDP from the fourth to first quarter
2. Which is the most powerful and dangerous...
3. Ciano's claims
4. Date of the peak of British relative power and prestige?
5. Subconcious Part of the MInd.
6. Economic growth
7. Becoming braver
8. Airports named after people who died in airplane crashes
9. 19th century US senator cheating on his wife

August 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 August 8

1. Stocks, 10% cheaper
2. Headquarters of Westmont Hospitality Group
3. container size change
4. Politely declining flattery
5. Uncharted territory?
6. Page 280 of The Golden Compass (aka Northern Lights)
7. Karl Marx - last laugh?

August 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 August 9

1. riots in Camden, Notting Hill and Ealing
2. London riots
3. Facebook, Yahoo Mail, YouTube - Profit
4. Hawaii and Britain
5. How could Dan Brown make such a mistake?
6. outside ancient Rome
7. self sufficient nation
8. British police
9. What is this Art movement called?
10. If the central bank interests is lower than the gov. bond interest...

August 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 August 10

1. Addition to O. Henry article
2. Making allegations in fiction and poetry
3. DELHI POLICE
4. Australian national debt data
5. Is there a list of all verses of the bible by earliest date of appearance in manuscript?
6. In what story does Jesus pull a man out of a hole?

August 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 August 11

1. Rotation method
2. Dictators in Africa/anti-dictators
3. Question on vandalism
4. Legality of vandalism
5. when did Jesus realize he was the Messiah?
6. Wikipedia administrator
7. Danish government report on the costs and benefices of immigration
8. Buyers and Sellers

August 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 August 12

1. Where are some fine places online to solicit charity donations?
2. Bacchus and the Ganges
3. Dangerous guiness record
4. Bans in Saudi Arabia
5. Robert Arbuthnot
6. Grammar: United States debt-ceiling crisis
7. tip jar
8. British uprising
9. hiatus in presidential deaths
10. Is it a logical problem, or just me? (w. spoiler of The Subtle Knife)
11. Climbing an hierarchy

August 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 August 13

1. The Gunpowder Plot - was the king behind it?
2. Weather Service Modernization Act of 1992
3. Myth of Witch Drowning
4. Middle ages land of nobles - acres and size
5. UK-US population ratio

August 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 August 14

1. Buying dollars and Euros again: who has lost?
2. Inside job
3. Form1040NR-EZ

August 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 August 15

1. Word
2. Good map of area controlled by Libyan rebels?
3. Living with Victorian amenities and Old Guns (2 questions)
4. Parade calls
5. Political corruption
6. Studies about the point at which foreign nationals and their descendents become considered locals

August 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 August 16

1. Significance and use of Buddhist bead bracelets?
2. Comdemned criminal sueing the government in a civil court
3. Library book cover
4. chart for sum total of income
5. Temporarily embarrassed millionaires
6. taxes based on relative poverty/riches

August 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 August 17

1. Ararat
2. Powerful Acids and Bases known to Bronze-Age cultures?
3. Diplomatic relations without an embassy
4. 2 Questions; Flag of Serbia
5. Papal Salary
6. Did Congress repeal the CLASS act?
7. Last line of poem: "and the _, the _, the_."
8. Bar graph for income
9. Austria and Hungary

August 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 August 18

1. Jung Sceptic?
2. Austria-Hungary ethnic groups
3. Catholic Church and Reading the Bible
4. Name of a tort
5. Japanese Soldiers waiting for a victory that never came
6. Anyone ever collapsed or died on the trading floor of the NYSE?
7. Mecca and gambling
8. Percent of Population Working in Agriculture in 1300s / Early 1400s
9. Is it legal to.....
10. Thomas Ball
11. head of state salary
12. Why doesn't the U.S. release employment data day by day, not once a month?
13. Long lasting subArfican leaders
14. Did the Zulu use bows?

August 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 August 19

1. The Euro
2. Did Abraham Lincoln have ties with the South and slavery?
3. Modern French colonies
4. Why are Australians proud of their criminal ancestors?
5. Can you be a member of the US Congress and a state officer or representative at the same time?
6. Largest economy with no loans

August 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 August 20

1. Restaurant worker pouring dirty water down a sewage drain
2. What the hell?..
3. American Historical Association
4. Legal status of strange US law
5. Traditional pareve dessert
6. Term for scholarly study of children
7. Homecoming and prom dress lengths for formality

August 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 August 21

1. Why is right collar over left?
2. Conservative/libertarian awards
3. Why can't Keynes and Hayek both be right?
4. Minimum wage and the gold standard
5. Has anyone heard of the poet B. Tresz?
6. Relative prevalence of child sexual offenders in general populace versus in the Catholic clergy? (Western societies only)
7. Ica, Peru Mayoral Election Candidates
8. cult symbols

August 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 August 22

1. Pointless English eccentricity: To the Manor Born
2. War Powers Resolution lawsuit
3. When did Babylon die?
4. International Criminal Court and domestic prosecution
5. Scipio Africanus brother
6. Enron - Enterprise Risk Management
7. Storage Wars
8. cultural mixing
9. paramilitary/terrorist groups and their opposition to drugs

August 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 August 23

1. Egg on the sidewalk
2. Spanish Civil War deaths
3. How could refinancing when market value < mortgage value not be scam
4. Russian debt to CZ?
5. Journalistic Usage: Borders or State Lines?

August 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 August 24

1. US debt to China
2. "Our ancestors died for our freedom"
3. Owning stock in all (or most) available companies
4. Dramatic History
5. literature the chronicles of narnia the lion the witch and the wardrobe
6. Underground Railroad Notable Locations
7. Gravestone materials
8. France Arab significant population
9. Wikipedian
10. Coprolalia in Japan?
11. Inflation without increase of money supply

August 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 August 25

1. What happens when 2 parties in different countries are utterly unhappy with each other
2. Totem Poles
3. has anyone memorized the entire Bible?
4. "First pea/pee I have taken" joke
5. Soviet veto?
6. Arabs and Somalis and Africans in Libya
7. Africans in Belgium
8. Immigrants in Netherlands
9. Academia and change of name

August 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 August 26

1. North Vietmaneese tanks in the Vietnam War
2. In Great-Britain, monument to the dead soldiers after Islandhwana ?
3. John Westlake on enemy subjects
4. how to uncover spy
5. Jesus Christ
6. Number of Tribes and Reservations in the United States
7. The Point of the Compact of Free Association
8. High Chief vs Chief
9. Wich date of the race is correct?
10. US airforce, served Germany
11. China

August 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 August 27

1. Saint Mary Lake, Montana
2. income amount and number of persons
3. Last stands etc
4. Syphax
5. acting in the 16th century
6. Company X offers to buy company Y - company Y's shares go up?
7. Artist search
8. Geography/GK question
9. Jewish views on working on the Sabbath
10. Scipio Africanus and the mutiny at Sucro, 206 BC
11. Intro to Sufism
12. Death of Gaddafi?

August 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 August 28

1. Gold, Frankincense, and Myrrh
2. Gaddafi and Rice
3. Gaddafi's whereabouts
4. Looking for relatives in Germany
5. Zecco can't give a history of stocks' asking prices. Anyplace that will?

August 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 August 29

1. maximum revenue scheme
2. Mid-Pacific Magazine
3. The Phantom Coach by Amelia Edwards
4. Gath. (city).... Goliath
5. Libyan Regionalism
6. Intentionally blank pages at the beginning and end of a book
7. Hotel Room Rquirements Indiana
8. Debating tactic?
9. Fairer sex?
10. Socrates: true or false quote

August 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 August 30

1. Inflation: people on debt vs. people debt-free
2. Public doman paintings of plum blossom trees
3. Is China the only country in the world which keeps the exact number of their executions a state secret?
4. Anglican saints
5. America and George III's insanity
6. price increases
7. Where can I find information on bride-bedding relevent to 16th century Scotland?
8. Personalized self help books
9. effeminacy
10. The Washington Naval Conference
11. Hindi ज्ञ jñ

August 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 August 31

1. Quick onset of irreligiosity in Quebec
2. concept of double punishment for one and same cause of action
3. United States Veto and Iraqi Economic Sanctions
4. A Level results: ranking students
5. Do you need planning permission to park a caravan on UK green belt land?
6. Sucro, Spain
7. celebration of Eid ul-Fitr 2011
8. Addresses of Aérospatiale and BAC