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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

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

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. 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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"

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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"

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

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...

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?

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

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

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

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)

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 ...?

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

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

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

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?