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August 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 August 1

1. Tiny summer isles
2. how much do all the people in the world weight?
3. Weather Prediction
4. Just need a tiny bit of clarification of something that seemed vague to say the least?
5. Keeping items unopened, a morality/legal/blahblah issue
6. Dudley Moore
7. Hidden Pages
8. New Wikipedia.org organization
9. Problems of genealogy
10. Harbridge
11. RIM BlackBerry!
12. Looking for an image
13. Technical revaluation of currency
14. Monasticism

August 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 August 2

1. Umbrella insurance
2. Genealogical Relationship
3. Family photo
4. Budget for village fete
5. Flight time
6. Geography Geology or Hydrology ?
7. WAR TROPHY
8. Need more speaker/amp advice

August 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 August 3

1. Beaches on north shore of Lake Erie
2. Traveling on a students budget
3. Longest building?
4. On Line Chatting
5. Why does YouTube partner accounts main video on profile pages load automatically?
6. Why is eternity symbolized with a sideways 8?
7. Samsung SGH G600

August 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 August 4

1. Heatwave sets off Tropical storm
2. I don't understand the "changing username" section
3. Fashion
4. 69th Street, Upper Darby, PA F. W. Woolworth;s Store
5. How common is knowledge of basic shapes among adult, and college educated, Americans?
6. how do we know which house suits us.
7. British Patriotic songs
8. Relationship and facial desfiguration
9. Baseball terminology

August 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 August 5

1. Born Under Punches
2. A well deserved Compliment , question.
3. Mistake when sending directions via Google Maps
4. A throwaway question
5. gif dump
6. Highest speed achieved by a human being
7. Atomic Bombing Damage (burned in shadows?)
8. Bug Bombs

August 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 August 6

1. Teller's Erdős number
2. How Many Venevision Internationals There Are In Florida
3. Mandatory auto liability insurance in England
4. Question in Miami
5. Windowboxes
6. Face changes
7. Sheet Music Online
8. Does Homeowner's Insurance Cover In-ground Oil Tanks?
9. Comparing the quality of Wikipedia to another site
10. Driving an automatic transmission car in the UK?
11. Why?
12. Question about the Tides

August 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 August 7

1. Changing career path
2. Zoroastrian Websites
3. Antispyware 2008 help!?
4. Whats the average number of crew on ships?
5. Gordon Hospital
6. Why cats like sea fish and avoid fresh water fish
7. Asian Cuisine?
8. Antidepressants and alcohol
9. Time switches
10. English Multi-Label Categorization Collection
11. Wikipedia spoken articles

August 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 August 8

1. India-Japan baby
2. yogoboard
3. Why is the Iraq War so expensive?
4. lost friend
5. Skin
6. Giggles
7. Alternative to lemon to take with gin
8. Old symbol for pint?
9. Wiki project
10. Parliment of world religions
11. english prison sentences.

August 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 August 9

1. Is there any EVIDENCE of an afterlife?
2. How do athletes go to the Olympics?
3. Is America in decline?
4. Michigan/Ontario geography
5. What happened?
6. "Characters of x" vs. "List of x characters"
7. CASH WITHDRAWAL SECURITY??
8. Online clearance
9. Lord's Prayer in parliament
10. medicine
11. Daughter's Female Partner
12. Trolling on foreign-language wikis?
13. McKinney, Texas

August 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 August 10

1. M.I.T.T.
2. Earthquake colors
3. Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization as self-defeating organization
4. cooking
5. what is the difference
6. abandoned vehicles
7. door knob
8. Username
9. Uneven bars
10. Getting robbed by the police
11. Web phones
12. How come Chris Kaman gets to play on the German national basketball team?
13. Where can i obtain reviews about Jones International University?Priscila02 (talk) 21:16, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
14. Where money for covering budget deficit comes from
15. 100 Essential Thinkers

August 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 August 11

1. Grilled/toasted cheese
2. purpose of a toast rack
3. Speedfight 2
4. Safe Digital Cameras
5. How do you buy football (soccer) team?
6. Rash after Febrile Convulsion
7. Graffiti
8. Greece
9. BED BUG BEETLE
10. Beijing 2008
11. Hair straightening
12. Career Rut
13. Black holes in the solar system?

August 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 August 12

1. Strange plant
2. Police officer
3. russian poet
4. How to post a personal view on the Internet for Free
5. Identity of paypal sellers
6. Type o negative
7. UK maps
8. Link doesn't work
9. An alternative solution
10. Operation Reinhard
11. Plane crashes in which the survivors are stranded for a long period of time
12. What is this car?
13. Methane Digestors

August 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 August 13

1. Scared, frightened, confused, and unsure what is suppose to happen next
2. What is this called?
3. What's with the back door at Borders?
4. hi
5. Human behaviour
6. Stationery code in NZ?
7. Minor injuries
8. troll alternatives
9. management
10. Scrabble dictionaries
11. Shouting out when in extreme pain
12. Bicycles

August 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 August 14

1. Swimming World Records
2. A quick one - Estonian pronounciation of the female given name, "Katrin"
3. Olympic baseball pitching: bounce off ground?
4. Blood iron test
5. Is this possible?
6. Disturbance
7. Railway track geometry
8. Vatican
9. business studies
10. Can Canadian Healthcare be used in the U.S.?
11. History of world records
12. cracking knuckles
13. Family Crests & Coats Of Arms
14. Joining an Improv Comedy Group

August 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 August 15

1. Tornado!
2. Nintendo 64 Games
3. Cost of NLP Course
4. Why a different page?
5. Abu Salama Society was deleted as a non notable company. --Cyrus Andiron 16:24, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
6. Relay Medals
7. Source for Quote: "Your Lack of Planning..."
8. Good paper sorting method?
9. What is the Question?
10. Shotguns with more than 2 barrels

August 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 August 16

1. Wikipede
2. How can i upload picture while ask question in reference desk.
3. food science
4. Indian Air Force
5. How can I get kicked out of the Olympics?
6. Being Chased
7. operating systems
8. Wikidefcon Level 1?

August 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 August 17

1. Classy Liquors
2. Bell Canada's advertisements
3. Napoli, Italy
4. Results
5. Posting a message online
6. Searching for the name of a certain stock broker or his bank
7. Guessing peoples' heights
8. Harassment question
9. 2008 South Ossetia war
10. The role of the "publisher" at an American newspaper
11. snails
12. Radio-controlled helicopter
13. Name database used by TV shows
14. Geographic distribution of WP contributors
15. Ditto
16. Hairstyle check
17. Madrid or Barcelona

August 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 August 18

1. Olympic Medals in multiple sports
2. Time
3. P.A.R.T.why? because we can
4. Crown Land in Canada
5. Formica
6. What size of object can a tapir pick up with his nose?
7. Effects on humans
8. Name of the characters having oversized heads
9. emergency situation
10. islamic party
11. double standard
12. TV news archives?
13. New Nation
14. Weird Telephone Number

August 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 August 19

1. Ancient aqueducts still in use
2. Anybody know of any abandoned boarded up mental asylums?
3. jungle pie
4. under 18 employment
5. What's the furthest back a geneaology is traced on the 'Net and elsewhere?
6. National Vagina Day
7. if I marry my aunt do I become my own uncle?
8. High speed rail
9. Rhythm
10. Theater Editor Urgently Needed for Community theatre
11. Insects at penthouse level
12. Dumb blonde
13. Minimum driving age
14. Smoke Free or Smokescreen?
15. Advertising the use of Wikipedia
16. Nissan commercial song
17. hearts terminology

August 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 August 20

1. FINIS LANGDON BATES AND MARTIN VAN BUREN BATES
2. Alternate uses for Shampoos
3. wmc
4. Unitarian Universalism
5. pro snowboarding
6. British dentist
7. ACCRA GHANA
8. Apocolitical
9. Living Abroad

August 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 August 21

1. Indonesian names
2. Personal Finance
3. A problem at the Internet Archive...
4. disgraceful video
5. Countries with eagle emblems
6. Speed Glue in Table Tennis
7. Universal Protectionism
8. Michigan GED legalities
9. 1005
10. plane crash stats
11. Boris Kipriyanovich
12. Using Higher SPF Sunscreen
13. Senator McCain under attack

August 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 August 22

1. Low migration requirements
2. Obama and assasination
3. Plane going down and survivors
4. Claymore mine effect on APC
5. Can I have a marriage and a civil partnership at the same time?
6. Search engine alternatives..
7. Bank drive-through deposit tube
8. Faceless "aliens"
9. brigand groups of north arcot district in madras presidency /india
10. Why can't I live on my roof?

August 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 August 23

1. Whats the difference
2. Why when you are doing something boring the time pass slower and why you are making something very cool the time appear to pass very fast??
3. Folded steel
4. 2.5mm to 2.5mm cable
5. Evil little monsters
6. Spider, other symbols in $ bill
7. Travelling heads of state
8. Boxing
9. Regarding energy and stamina.
10. pregnacy
11. WIRE TRANSFER BANK TO BANK
12. Snakes
13. Mario Kart Wii
14. what percent of suv owners are republican?
15. Pedal Down; Stress to Car?
16. Silly Gererish english, ie Piglatin
17. Handball-like sport at the Olympics

August 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 August 24

1. I know this is a tricky one
2. Why wikipedia has no article on Demolition of the Babri Mosque
3. how do I know when to pick spaghetti squash
4. Volume of Headphones
5. Wikipedia is one hell of a website
6. European measurement symbol
7. Olympic games

August 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 August 25

1. Can I really not visit Zanzibar?
2. Mozilla and BBC RSS Feed
3. International Olympic Committee
4. Labor Day
5. Medal percentage
6. Wool coat
7. MAny game companies leave ESA
8. How to eliminate sweat odours from earphones  ?
9. Applause/Applaud
10. Two phone numbers for same place in early days?
11. Hindu Unity
12. Name
13. Hearing aids
14. How is it possible to create one's own "Black Border" pictures such as the motivational ones and assorted parodies?
15. I like my own Smell
16. Moving to Victoria BC and or surrounding areas

August 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 August 26

1. new sentai rangers
2. Unitarian Universalism (cont.)
3. Bartering sex for stuff and services
4. Three golf questions
5. Font
6. Cat jump
7. Scissors
8. Linda Theret's daughter's name
9. Where are they now?
10. Is this an urban legend?
11. Colleges?
12. Antique Motor Scooter

August 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 August 27

1. Why don't more people talk about the 2002 Gujarat violence riots?
2. Live online TV streaming
3. Romance
4. Health from God's apothecary
5. If I eat enough royal jelly will I turn into a bee?
6. Complex searching for strange information..
7. INTERNET SCAMS IN GHANA!!

August 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 August 28

1. Mining
2. Help
3. "Choice listings" on eBay
4. Ideas for daughter's birthday
5. The flu
6. Room prices-more for less?
7. How common was it for the United States Census to miss people in 1900?
8. On the Road

August 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 August 29

1. Races
2. Conception dreams
3. Exercise / Drink
4. Sleeping with an owl in the small of your back
5. Buying synthetic diamonds and other precious stones as an individual
6. Is it just me, or is newsmaker Sarah Palin kind of hot?
7. Writing a letter
8. zoom airlines

August 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 August 30

1. Does this look legit?
2. Memory improvement
3. Science quote?
4. air plane crash
5. What city is this?
6. Question
7. Mysterious spikey objects in London
8. Can I get in trouble for publishing my "Harrry Pot-ter" book?
9. Salt Export

August 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 August 31

1. Making Fun of Spanish language Telenovelas
2. 2 different degrees
3. Odd Behaviour of BBC RSS Newsfeed
4. small business
5. Being watched
6. Staircases
7. Cancer-Project or Cancer Scam
8. building
9. Webster Hall in NYC
10. BTEC national diploma?
11. Fr. John Jeffrey Purchal
12. VW beetle engine splash guard
13. Sarah Palin's son in Iraq