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May 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 May 1

1. Lessons of the wars
2. ears in Britain
3. Stalin-was there an alternative?
4. Trotsky's book on Stalin
5. Event Management
6. Global (international) financial centres
7. Lincoln/ habeas corpus
8. Chávez/Venezuela and the IMF/World Bank
9. United States healthcare vs. British healthcare
10. Hegemony
11. the concept of justice
12. Touring at London
13. Retailing and Immersive environments
14. Wars of the Roses

May 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 May 2

1. An evolutionary view on good and correct democracy
2. Nazis vs. Jews
3. Telugu calender
4. lizabeth And The Occult
5. dow jones and co.
6. Legal signature
7. What does a 2/3 majority for overriding vetoes mean?
8. Virginity statistics
9. The English restoration
10. Non-reductive Materialism
11. Russia in 1900
12. Abdoulaye Wade
13. Buddhist relics ?
14. Ah met a coo
15. Stuart Davis painting
16. Soviet space program
17. Was the union a good thing?
18. declartion of aboroth
19. The Job of Court Judges

May 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 May 3

1. Famous Greeks
2. Ancient Greek Society
3. Department of Defense Dependents Schools
4. How does one post NPR interview to a Wikipedia site?
5. ossible philosophical term
6. Madrasah and Schooling
7. atural Born Citizen With Deported Parents
8. German novel
9. Self denying ordinance
10. is today a normal working day in NJ, U.S.A?
11. Family Trusts
12. ancient cities II
13. Midwest Migrant Workers in the Mid 20th Century
14. News agency costs
15. Henry V and the Hundred Year War
16. How much money is spent each month?
17. Economics

May 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 May 4

1. Reagan republican
2. Which King Louis was insane?
3. Surrender of New Amsterdam
4. Leading/Best Legal Authority for Ethics/Professional Responsibility
5. Archiving gone amok
6. Beyond a reasonable doubt
7. Emigration from england in the 1820's
8. Shepherd
9. Secret Police
10. US History
11. Paradox
12. copyright status of US Court filing
13. need help with this
14. Shrek 2
15. Hostile Takeover
16. Newspaper Prices in USA and free newspapers
17. Gray hair influence
18. Gustave Dore Publications
19. ELECTRIC BICYCLE LAW IN THE U.S.
20. NYSE stocks - alternative trading methods?

May 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 May 5

1. Local sale of product restriction
2. Does the specific shield shape of e.g. US highways have a name?
3. Ramadan
4. jacobite rebellions
5. Royal maladies
6. Kirov and the Reichstag fire
7. Jews funding Hitler
8. Types of military units
9. tatute of Limitations on Murder
10. inyin
11. Rejection of Christ by some Jews
12. Cat minders in history

May 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 May 6

1. Nobles
2. Religious terminology
3. Wifes of Henry the eight
4. 'Clean-limbed'
5. Best International Relations Schools
6. George Rudisil, what prison camp was he in?
7. ifferences between left and right wing

May 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 May 7

1. Trotsky, Stalin and the terror
2. Edward III
3. Churches in Towns
4. Family Trusts?
5. Hostile Takeover?
6. NYSE stocks - alternative trading methods?
7. Helicopter circles neighborhood for 3+ hours every few days. FAA, police, etc. won't do a thing even to find out who it is
8. The Auld Alliance
9. Israel and India:Connection?
10. What does the legal acronym CRO mean?
11. Proficiency in World War II
12. Rule, Britannia!

May 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 May 8

1. AP US History Exam
2. Early hominins?
3. Meeting minutes
4. Who is the speechwriter for Queen Elizabeth II ?
5. Useless weapons
6. British in Italy
7. Why history?
8. To hell or connacht
9. WWII cessation of hostilities in Europe
10. Hitler and the holocaust
11. Fund managers bound to maximize profit?
12. Iraq conflict
13. Engagement
14. Ancient Rome
15. Help identifying this (outsider) art
16. Muslim militias

May 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 May 9

1. ostracism
2. Volunteers for Franco
3. Lawrence of Arabia's opinions on Homer
4. George Orwell
5. Our Society's Swear Words
6. Lite and Londonpaper????
7. Iraqi Provincial Governments
8. March on Rome
9. Science Fiction Story
10. KEFITZAT HADERECH

May 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 May 10

1. Can Indians have light color eyes?/ India's people?
2. Christian Arab
3. Marriage 'by license' vs 'by banns'
4. Saint Pedro de Arbués
5. Another question for Clio Muse: how stable was the Weimar republic
6. ysterious art
7. early christian and byzantine
8. The Decree of King Ahasuerus
9. English Monarchs not buried at Westminster Abbey
10. may 18,1947
11. Ethnic cleansing in the Scottish Highlands
12. ize of estate
13. Madrid: Google Maps — what's this?

May 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 May 11

1. virgin mary
2. anging Judge Hyde
3. greeting
4. Scots-Irish
5. Muslim persecutions in the middle ages
6. Criminal law question
7. Royal Americans
8. Russian dolls
9. UK Government Debt
10. Seattle Geography
11. Maya Civilization
12. Muslims and the Holocaust
13. Oil statistic in "Soviet-German Cooperation"
14. Dow Jones Industrial Average -- Linear versus Logarithmic graph
15. Bloody Mary
16. Barbarossa
17. Finishing School

May 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 May 12

1. Roman Republican government
2. Criminal Law: Duress
3. dystopian question
4. Breasticles
5. James I's Daemonologie
6. Pasminco Corporate Governance.
7. Credentials
8. FINANCE
9. Scotland and the Union
10. The Black Prince
11. Pomponia Graecina and Asinia Pollionis filia
12. Which affects potential to get into college more? GPA or SAT score?
13. Italy
14. Churchill and Black People
15. Albigensian Crusade
16. Tennessee Monkey Trial
17. Hostile Takeover?
18. I saw a dead man win a fight, and I think that man was I

May 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 May 13

1. Mapp v Ohio case
2. Bruce Report
3. Re-evaluating Rostow
4. Authors in the olden days
5. Princess in the tower
6. Britian in 1800
7. Deaths in space
8. National Identity in Hawai'i
9. History of the Mongols.
10. Richard Cobden
11. Statue of Liberty
12. Sack of Rome 1527
13. world evolution
14. A follower of Ancient Greek Religion
15. Spherical rocks on Mars

May 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 May 14

1. ürgen Klinsmann and Tottenham
2. Archaic Occupations - Crocher
3. Glorious Revolution
4. Gertrude Bell
5. Obscure PBS Musical Piece
6. Lord of the Rings
7. XM Capital Management
8. Eurovision Politics
9. animal rennet in chocolate bars and Kashrut
10. Middle ages - Middle class?
11. Cromwell statue
12. fred the monkey website
13. Jewish refugees
14. Objections to a missile defence system
15. Starting a Small Rental store (Canadian Regulations?)
16. Spanish legion
17. Do you think I would have a better chance of getting into college if I pretended to convert to Islam?
18. What do the British call people who come from the United States?

May 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 May 15

1. Spanish Regenerationists
2. God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
3. English resistence to the Normans
4. British republican movement
5. Writing a poem
6. Politics question re: Australia + Asia
7. Iranian revolution
8. Who commits gun crimes?
9. Brother-in-law
10. Loss of Normandy
11. Fall of Constantinople facts
12. Starting a company
13. January 1st, 0 BCE

May 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 May 16

1. Why is there no article for JER Investors Trust
2. Harry Potter, John Newbery Medal
3. Mucha's rendition of Sappho?
4. Womenfolk
5. Liberation theologists?
6. Hitler on lebensraum
7. "Direct Descendant"???
8. Autonomy in the UK
9. CALOTROPIS GIGANTIA
10. How much do the richest 1% make?
11. Ohio American Legion
12. Military acronym WTF
13. Battle of Chumik Shenko
14. US debt to China
15. Nazi-Soviet Pact
16. British's monarch / royal family rights to vote?
17. The two Harrys
18. war experiences

May 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 May 17

1. castle in Roman
2. You shall not kill
3. reaking up Iraq
4. Rudyard Kipling
5. Geographical information on Greater Rosario, Argentina.
6. The UK's next Prime Minister
7. Black death in Britain
8. Charge of the Light Brigade
9. llegal immigrants and university scholarships
10. Christian reactions to the rise of Islam
11. [Stephen Ward]]'s flat in Devonshire Mews
12. the Louisiana territory

May 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 May 18

1. Catarina van Hemessen
2. false arrest
3. Treaty of Amiens
4. Schlieffen Plan
5. Martin Heidegger
6. Will Power
7. London life in 1700
8. "Books into Boys" list
9. Ends of the Western Front
10. elsus and Thyestes
11. Starting a Small Rental store (Canadian Regulations?)

May 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 May 19

1. George Steer and Guernica
2. Stalin and the rothschilds
3. Smoking herb
4. Wallis Simpson
5. Rupert Murdoch
6. USA - individualism
7. araguay flag day.
8. habeas corpus petition
9. Perceptions of the Devil

May 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 May 20

1. Ex US Senator
2. Cardinal Richelieu
3. Reynald de Chatillon
4. Eyemouth disaster
5. British merchants in St. Petersburg
6. Third Reich
7. Publishing in the Roman world
8. Roman Empire
9. Battle of Liaoyang
10. Commodity fetishism
11. Killed rappers

May 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 May 21

1. Starting a Small Rental store (Canadian Regulations?)
2. U.S. Federal Anti-piracy regulations
3. Jewish Aryan
4. Do you like girls?

May 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 May 22

1. Great Americans of the twentieth century
2. John Leslie, 1st Duke of Rothes
3. Stock market volume and volatility
4. United Nations
5. almud
6. Some guy who changed millions of people's lives for the better
7. Civilization
8. Himmler's feudal settlements
9. Boozy Britain
10. Story (Short?) about a Door of Light
11. Novelists in their books
12. Situational Irony
13. Ivy League acceptance - rigorous requirements?

May 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 May 23

1. Shi'a majority
2. Arbusto
3. Has Scotland Yard or SIS verified that they gave Richard Tomlinson his hard drives back?
4. WWII Pacific Theater
5. rthashastra
6. Barbatio
7. Catholicism and Christianity
8. Susan Richmond and the Somme
9. Natars?
10. rammar
11. Identify this village in Ontario?
12. Renouncing citizenship
13. Russian Orthodox Church
14. Florida
15. USMC officers in Vietnam
16. Voted against WWII
17. Anti America Gang???
18. Rank and meaning of a "sales executive"?

May 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 May 24

1. Whats the diff?
2. attle maps
3. Film Festival rejection statistics
4. Soviet Foreign Relations in the Inter-war Period.
5. Russian Civil War medal
6. Finding shareholders of companies
7. Clio Muse and the weimar republic
8. Silver Certificate value
9. Niger/Nigeria
10. Genealogy War Records
11. Blackmore's Style
12. ayment for digital info
13. Napoleon's greatest moment
14. question about APA style

May 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 May 25

1. Why Can the Catholic Church Give Wine to the Underaged?
2. Conversation between George H. W. Bush and his son
3. Mary Queen of Scots
4. Britain in 1950
5. Two for one on sentences! (When they're gone, they're gone!)
6. history of the evolution of hats and balls
7. US employer type statistics
8. alling people you don't know by name
9. History Question
10. Corrections

May 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 May 26

1. MC Escher
2. My rights, I guess.
3. Fleur-de-lis on a flag
4. Ribbentrop
5. Robert F. Kennedy
6. Ancient peoples' views on various topics
7. Brossano, Italy
8. Roger Morrice
9. Christianity's views on God in relation to space travel?

May 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 May 27

1. Fat women with horns
2. Abbas and the Armenians
3. "God doesn't believe in atheists... so therefore they don't exist"
4. Italian hill towns
5. Names
6. Black people names
7. How sad - elephant deaths
8. National Socialism and German Universities.
9. Petrarch's library materials
10. invocational address
11. Pedophiles in Nazi Germany?
12. noms d'electron

May 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 May 28

1. Human seasons
2. vich
3. In the US, how much does a legal name change generally cost in court fees?
4. Slovakian Politics
5. Cromwell assassination plot
6. Stonewall Jackson
7. K" for Contracts
8. guantanamo
9. Racism in a popular song??
10. Why didn´t the Allied forces bomb the train rails going to Auschwitz II?
11. Naal

May 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 May 29

1. Play like someone
2. Boy gets cooked alive
3. Need help with Ontario towns
4. Luya Province
5. Painting
6. Stalin's continuous working week
7. Kipling and socialist folksong
8. Taxation of dividends - International perspective
9. Madame de Pompadour
10. Anansi
11. Nude Bowl
12. Female pilgrims in the Middle Ages
13. The Seven
14. Duke of Wellington
15. Term for Lost in Translation
16. asonic lodges
17. eyford
18. A painting
19. How tall was Abe Lincoln?

May 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 May 30

1. Israeli Nuclear Technology
2. Canadian History in 20th Century
3. The Dutch and their cents
4. Disraeli's ideas
5. Battle of the Atlantic
6. Founder of Biblioteca Marciana
7. Palazzo Molina
8. Zen Yoga
9. Emery: the question.
10. Jesus' patronymic
11. Berlin Wall
12. Russian female soldier
13. World economics
14. Handcuffs

May 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 May 31

1. Flag and general officers.
2. Longest serving legislators
3. Icelandic Holidays
4. Are Tinnitus real?
5. Cossack pirates
6. Bill Clinton quote
7. Constantinople after the conquest
8. how to become REALLY
9. How to REALLY become a successful trader? (please pardon my last post, it was a mistake)
10. spirop user page
11. I want to know the skinny
12. Literary quiz
13. CDC Military Uniforms
14. Whats the difference between Stan and Kyle???
15. Careers, teachers, and educators
16. Classic music in the film Ocean's Eleven