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October 1

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 October 1

  1. blend, puree ...
  2. Humanities
  3. Winter works
  4. need help figuring out what this jazz song is....
  5. How Do I Build Credit?
  6. impact
  7. herman melville
  8. net and gross income
  9. Theft of a legend
  10. economy of nauru
  11. Microsoft/aQuantive deal, Google/DoubleClick deal
  12. Football Factory-Best English Film ever??
  13. schopenhauer and eastern religions
  14. Pollution in Victorian Britain
  15. Populations of Colosse, Ephesus, and Rome circa 60 AD
  16. Covenant
  17. De Heretico Comburendo
  18. Copyright
  19. Using national flags to represent languages
  20. Wright Amendment Argument
  21. Sumer question

October 2

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 October 2

  1. French and Arabic names
  2. Prisoner Execution
  3. British Empire
  4. Poland and the Holocaust
  5. Masked Balls
  6. [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 October 2#|]]
  7. Economics
  8. Knights Templar
  9. India and the railways
  10. Word
  11. History Writer Adrienne Koch

October 3

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 October 3

  1. The success of Harry Potter
  2. Homosexual Unions
  3. Pakistan
  4. Nazi social policy
  5. Due diligence phase of a takeover?
  6. King of sex
  7. Christmas battle?
  8. LA Gear
  9. Ships vs. Submarines

October 4

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 October 4

  1. Tron riot
  2. Norwegian Dialects
  3. Franco from the Canaries
  4. Franco and the rebellion
  5. First Battle of St Albans
  6. Types of Colony
  7. accounting terminology
  8. Inventor of the balance sheet
  9. Lord Haw Haw
  10. Cotton mill process
  11. Terrorism then and now
  12. Electoral Administration Act 2006
  13. Military Attire
  14. biggest modern british killer
  15. divorce services
  16. as for taxes

October 5

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 October 5

  1. purpose of Vietnam War
  2. Cultural Make-up of Paris, France
  3. Spanish fleet at Trafalgar
  4. England and Islam
  5. Novel as a present
  6. Sex as a "food"
  7. Is there...
  8. Ruling Ideology
  9. Deputy Leader of the Labour Party
  10. Henry VII and Wales
  11. Burma
  12. The Merchant of Venice
  13. Hannibal
  14. nazi voters
  15. Pope Benny

October 6

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 October 6

  1. What poem
  2. During the Break/When we Come Back
  3. Camprio - painter, biography
  4. Renting.
  5. What are Tories?
  6. Kilsoo Haan
  7. About Agrawal and Agrahari Vaishya
  8. Wearing of surgical masks
  9. Does Frank Tyger exist?
  10. UK service industry size in relation to UK GNP
  11. Austrian navy in the first world war
  12. Philosophy and revolution
  13. Thermidorian reaction
  14. Georgian era ship travel, and post
  15. Virginia question

October 7

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 October 7

  1. Surfing the web
  2. Number of Colleges/Universities in the US
  3. Boxer shorts
  4. Legal question
  5. Ok If haitians are mostly descended from West Africans, Why did half of the slave population descended from the congo's?
  6. Catholic and Orthodox
  7. English Catholics after the Reformation
  8. wise leaders
  9. Terrorism then and now-part II
  10. Ronald Reagan's Legacy: Did He Intentionally Bankrupt the Soviet Union?
  11. French Franc 1965
  12. Edward and Piers
  13. Cooking, Children and Church
  14. history
  15. difference between the mercantilist and the liberal perspectives on IPE
  16. And Christ said, "Don't bite me!"?
  17. European Domesticates

October 8

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 October 8

  1. Felix Mendelssohn's The Resurrection
  2. siblings
  3. Lyrics for Mata Oh Ah Eh.
  4. <whatever>-stan countries
  5. Slavery in Brazil
  6. book - runes etc
  7. Renaissance
  8. Society
  9. Machiavelli's Prince
  10. Enlightened despot?
  11. Lloyd George
  12. memorization
  13. Vienna and Versailles
  14. Opponent process theory as applied to emotion
  15. 1968 Draft Notice
  16. Exact date of Foundation of New York City by the Dutch
  17. Criticism of F A Hayek's Why I Am Not a Conservative?

October 9

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 October 9

  1. Three Capitals
  2. the role of DTI in the economic situation of the philippines
  3. socio-cultural demographics
  4. fascism in britain
  5. If a woman hits a man, can he press charges like how a woman can press charges when a man hits a woman?
  6. Hegel and History
  7. H. L. Hunley
  8. Female murderers in victorian britain
  9. Reclaiming the past
  10. vintage belly machine for losing weight
  11. Welsh coat of arms
  12. The John/Jane Doe Memorial "insert disease or affliction" Research Foundation

October 10

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 October 10

  1. William Shakespeare
  2. The married name of the violinist Maria Soldat
  3. Meal Monday at Edinburgh University
  4. Leaving Cuba
  5. Moray and Huntly
  6. Dnieprostroi Dam
  7. Religion
  8. slave trade
  9. A tale of two putsches
  10. Okay, but you have to work with the loser....
  11. Ontario ballot history
  12. Town Commons of Tarboro, NC
  13. Sheep in literature
  14. Nuremberg/Hitler Picture
  15. Conducting

October 11

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 October 11

  1. Is there an advanced search engine?
  2. Bengali-Canadians politicians
  3. Electricity rationing in Britain during WWII
  4. Discovery Process - Civil suits in Canada
  5. Wool suit as art
  6. Maslow's Human Needs
  7. war in the church
  8. war in the french countryside
  9. Unknown piano piece
  10. Looking for Annual Distribution of Vacation Taken in America
  11. War Novel
  12. manifesto
  13. Historical Education Method
  14. Rosas and Peron

October 12

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 October 12

  1. Chinese and New Zealand Holiday
  2. Hymn 166
  3. Hindu Sufis
  4. Comparison of Tito to Saddam
  5. Saddam or Hussein?
  6. Valuation
  7. Saddam and Stalin
  8. "role of women in india's struggle for freedom"
  9. English crown jewels
  10. Operation Sealion
  11. Walter Darre and the environment
  12. Mithramat
  13. Legal penalty for women who seek abortions
  14. Ranks in the PLA
  15. Guantanamo Bay Naval Base

October 13

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 October 13

  1. philosophy and metaphysics
  2. punishment as the right of the criminal
  3. Town Commons of Tarboro NC (Again) New
  4. Spain and Franco
  5. Derby and Tories
  6. Millionaire
  7. Annual Budget of the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation
  8. philosophy
  9. Voluntarism with Mao
  10. I need help understanding the short story named "The Birthmark." written by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  11. Nigel Hawthorne and Jaques Loussier

October 14

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 October 14

  1. Voting intentions.
  2. MBA in Australia
  3. For Islamic Scholars: You cannot remove a despotic ruler if he is muslim
  4. Ethics of the bomber offensive
  5. Alexis de Tocqueville
  6. Quality of life in hell
  7. Propaganda
  8. Terrorist?
  9. Is there a search engine that will search for a shape or monogram
  10. The Questionnaire
  11. policy and procedures
  12. Legend about someone attacking the sea with a sword

October 15

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 October 15

  1. Global Warming/Climate Change
  2. Trying to identify a piece of music
  3. The juridic problem of "The Double Murder"
  4. The "i" in iPod and iTunes
  5. Saint Isidore of Seville
  6. Billeting Affair?
  7. 2007 Australian federal election
  8. Legal principle
  9. religion/King James Bible
  10. Manditory fine arts training for anybody interested professional degree (law, medicine...) - Where, when and how many years.
  11. James I and England
  12. "On", a novel
  13. Gnostic Gospels
  14. Gorky and Lenin
  15. Musical Instruments Invented by Americans
  16. Modern Dance Picture
  17. "Hello"
  18. Glass Harmonica tune - Phantom/Haunted Fairground?
  19. Something, something else and another thing, Oh My!

October 16

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 October 16

  1. Bass Set
  2. Women Guitarist
  3. Slum fiction
  4. History
  5. Cultural pessimism
  6. British Identity Cards
  7. On the Marble Cliffs
  8. Austro-Hungary
  9. Voting
  10. Diplomacy: ways of not answerering a question
  11. Pirates of the Early 20th Century
  12. Transference of a soul from body to body
  13. Low Income and Equity

October 17

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 October 17

  1. bangladesh iran
  2. Beginning of Christian liturgical calendar day?
  3. Caspar Contarini
  4. Battle of the Somme
  5. Success and failure
  6. Foreign policy of Elizabeth of England
  7. Citing a historical marker
  8. First Zeppelin Flight
  9. Someone...?
  10. Dalai Lama
  11. Islamic calendar and agriculture
  12. Ghosts
  13. Tatarstan Airlines logo
  14. The Old Testament and afterlife

October 18

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 October 18

  1. Norwegian Dialects
  2. British military commissions and regiments
  3. 101
  4. The original Jews in Palestine and the proclamation of Israel
  5. Communist slowdown
  6. Crimes against the Germans
  7. Hardwicke's Marriage Act
  8. White House coup
  9. White people
  10. Punctuation with numbers
  11. First European Union
  12. private music theory website
  13. What currency
  14. Fitzhugh Brundage: American Historian
  15. reasons why america entererd wars

October 19

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 October 19

  1. How many of the traditional cultural icons of Britian are actually imported?
  2. Genesis: You shall desire your husband
  3. Relation between index futures and underlying index?
  4. industrial pollution
  5. Are Holocaust deniers cranks?
  6. Oliver Cromwell
  7. Proffesions
  8. Chinese Scholar Question
  9. Congressional Medal of Honor
  10. Old Nick
  11. Pius XII-Hitler's Pope?
  12. Korean War
  13. Becoming an officially recognized state religion
  14. Request for admission into medical by an international student
  15. Parerga and Paralipomena
  16. sensitive index

October 20

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 October 20

  1. Pakistan People's Party arch-rival
  2. Spontaneous Unwanted Thoughts
  3. Apostrophes
  4. Who were the Liberated Africans?
  5. Accessible books on socialism?
  6. sex ratio in public events
  7. Product mix/Product assortment
  8. What do you call this phenomenon?
  9. Board of associated loyalists
  10. David Irving
  11. Adolf Hitler
  12. People's convention
  13. Life in Stalin's Russia
  14. Jewish clothing
  15. Two tunes
  16. Sabotaging Relationships
  17. Edits Needed - Angelina Grimke

October 21

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 October 21

  1. Need help interpreting St. Augustine
  2. Judge's options
  3. India National congress
  4. Sri Lanka political arch-rivals
  5. CIA in Tibet
  6. William Walsingham
  7. Robert Reston
  8. Cawnpore Massacre
  9. Madaba map (mosaic)
  10. Pronanciation of a Sanscrit word
  11. Fascist Poland?
  12. Nazis and Christians
  13. Austerlitz
  14. Royalty and Passports
  15. discrimination of Germans in Norther Ireland
  16. A doubt that I can't find answer!!!
  17. Reading aloud in the 19th century
  18. Muslim women in 19th century Egypt
  19. Born at sea
  20. linking to other wiki articles

October 22

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 October 22

  1. Religion and Excuses
  2. Virginia elections.
  3. Meaning of saying
  4. Gustav Mahler. . . Violin Concert?
  5. What day is it?
  6. Male-female sex ratio using Social Networking Sites
  7. Giulio Genoino
  8. Winter War
  9. Spanish Armada
  10. Attitudes to slavery
  11. Hearing my native language spoken abroad
  12. [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 October 22#(long title moved by ffroth<.2Fspan>)|(long title moved by ffroth)]]

October 23

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 October 23

  1. Here is a silly question
  2. Iranian Numerology
  3. Influence of abolition
  4. Denikin's Moscow Offensive
  5. humanities
  6. Roman salute
  7. James I of Scotland and Pope Eugenius IV
  8. Ecna or Ecne
  9. National Vocational Competition
  10. Hanlon's Law
  11. Fernão Mendes Pinto
  12. MBA
  13. Low Equity

October 24

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 October 24

  1. $3000 in 1849
  2. Tumbo, 3rd son of Shiva
  3. Help with an origami envelope
  4. taxes for international travelers
  5. kabballa
  6. Schattendorf Incident
  7. Oleksh Rozumovsky
  8. editing an entry
  9. spatula/scapula
  10. Confederate armory
  11. A legal question
  12. Motorway cult
  13. Montrose's Highland War
  14. The Purges
  15. America and Americas
  16. Attendees of the Roman Colloseum
  17. Single parent
  18. Peter the Great

October 25

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 October 25

  1. Fleetwood Mac Everywhere song
  2. Divorce in Protestant Christianity vs. The Christian Bible
  3. Liberals versus Tories
  4. Bess Meyerson
  5. Black heads of state
  6. taxes for international travelers
  7. pentecostal
  8. Lloyd George Protest
  9. Czar Nicholas in London
  10. Deja vu dreams?
  11. What happened to the monks
  12. Truckle/trundle bed (history of)
  13. searching for article describing neocon 'plot' to affect a permanent Republican Presidency and Congress
  14. The progress of "economics."
  15. U Boats and Ireland
  16. Feminist critique of Sociology
  17. Wife of the neurologist Dr. Moritz Benedikt
  18. Sliding average of economic growth
  19. German short story
  20. The Needles
  21. Republican Presidential Races
  22. SIngle Parent

October 26

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 October 26

  1. Another legal question
  2. A different path?
  3. Efficiency in Europe vs the US
  4. Tudor supremacy
  5. Stephen Gardiner
  6. Comic Books and Law
  7. Daniel Halévy-the politics of disillusion
  8. Kent miners' strike of 1942
  9. Nazi studies
  10. Assault
  11. megans law

October 27

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 October 27

  1. Finding visual and audio sources
  2. Aircraft Carrier Question
  3. Searching for "that" word
  4. What about Trotsky?
  5. Philip the fanatic
  6. Chaucer and Hawkwood
  7. Elizabeth II-Descent from William I-closest relationship to other Kings and Queens.
  8. Betrayal in Spain
  9. how do I alternate two colors for the sides of a triangle
  10. Race thoughts
  11. Stocks
  12. Henry IV Part II
  13. Capital of Holy Roman Empire
  14. Low Income and Equity
  15. Leather reds
  16. Ambigramic song

October 28

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 October 28

  1. "Greetings"
  2. The costume of a French physician in 1650
  3. Where is the fallacy in this proof?
  4. Nazi war criminal
  5. Black loyalists in the Bahamas
  6. What is meant by the 1848 revolution of the liberals
  7. "Spanish Galleon" by Brittni
  8. Sir Richard and Catholic Emancipation
  9. Strasser and Goebbels
  10. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
  11. Can terrorism be legally justified?
  12. Napoleon's legacy
  13. Angkar-Kampuchea
  14. Norway at the end of WWII
  15. Strengths of the UK Constitution
  16. Lost works of Liszt
  17. Concise Oxford English Dictionary vs Oxford English Dictionary
  18. Relationship of King Stephen to Elizabeth II

October 29

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 October 29

  1. Modern Princesses
  2. British House of Commons - Prime Minister Questions - Standing and Sitting
  3. Impacts of the 23rd Amendment
  4. Elizabeth II-Descent from William I
  5. A somewhat unethical inquiry...
  6. Why does the South (especially rural) dominate the American literary imagination?
  7. Ultimate goals in Religion
  8. Charles of Habsburg
  9. Angels On a Pin
  10. German field executions
  11. the sword in the stone
  12. Edward VI, Mary I, Elizabeth I, relationship to Queen Elizabeth II, Descebt from William I
  13. Bhutan
  14. Civilized War?
  15. Rome HBO series
  16. Lazy Hitler
  17. Sun King

October 30

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 October 30

  1. Charles II and Tiberius
  2. 'Port corn' & 'sound corn' in 16th century English agriculture, trade and markets
  3. British immigration legislation
  4. Who suggested the idea of scientific journal for the first time?
  5. Why did they fight?
  6. Wives and Daughters
  7. Why did they kill Louis XVI?
  8. Jerzy Kropiwnicki, President (Mayor) of Łodz
  9. William III in the descent of Elizabeth II from William I
  10. Best DOW Index Direction Indicator
  11. Source of quotation
  12. French Anti-Semitism
  13. Lockerbie Kick
  14. Where is this from?
  15. EU oil imports
  16. search engines

October 31

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 October 31

  1. Dooyeweerdian Modal Scale Library Categorization
  2. How to check someone's academic credentials?
  3. Russian ambassadors to King Louis XIV
  4. Bangladeshi Television networks
  5. Criminal Justice
  6. Drink Driving Cost To The Public
  7. Criteria for Last Will and Testament
  8. Your friendly annoying neighborhood park pigeon is tasty...
  9. Witchcraft
  10. More Angkar
  11. 9-gun salute?
  12. Cattle and stairs
  13. management/external environment of an organisation
  14. Christchurch College, Cambridge?
  15. The It Girl
  16. Prisoner of the Vatican
  17. Mary
  18. Washington D.C.
  19. Invasion 1805
  20. Post revolutionary economics
  21. Camp Siegfried
  22. Lady Jane Grey
  23. Maximal distance between two places visited by one person : who broke what record?
  24. Hafiz-e Shirazi
  25. Fuller and the Red Army
  26. Gerald Laverne? Jerrold Laverne?
  27. Enlish word that means "sound of tires on a wet road"?
  28. What is controversial about the book 'How the Mind Works'?
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