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August 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2010 August 1

1. Which way of running a car's air conditioner is more fuel efficient?
2. Source for Clavos bedspreads
3. Wiki Template and Name
4. Redundancy
5. Simple design for a wooden chair
6. Surgeons infected by blood borne pathogens from patients

August 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2010 August 2

1. MLM Network Marketing
2. Airey Neave, in which fort/camp was he held?
3. Describing irregular job in the CV
4. Betting on the ponies

August 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2010 August 3

1. Any real counterpart for my dream sword?
2. Music/podcasts on iTunes
3. Loops of material on the back of trainers?
4. Spas in Las Vegas hotels
5. French features
6. Electric heater

August 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2010 August 4

1. Royal Air Force university bursary
2. UKFOREX, foreign exchange servicies also known as OZFOREX.
3. Where to find a voice of a show character
4. street name in Mumbai
5. 3 C's of Marketing??
6. Hiroshima tsunami?
7. Savings account losing money?
8. Spanish place names.
9. 31 Hours
10. Soldiers; Ear Damage from Guns?
11. Fairview, Alberta, Canada Hardware store

August 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2010 August 5

1. US Response to Taken
2. Teachers
3. Smith Kline

August 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2010 August 6

1. Worst flood
2. Nuclear Testing
3. Johnny Carson
4. animals that can't jump
5. The Commander Henry T. Stanley Playground
6. Serial dog poopers

August 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2010 August 7

1. with or without competitors?
2. telecom circles?
3. whois query
4. Pokémon: Best Wishes!/Pokémon Black and White
5. Flickr
6. What's the proper name for something like a...
7. Car thermometers
8. History of Steak and Mushrooms

August 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2010 August 8

1. Building identification
2. Legal Problems With Changing a Last Name as a Man
3. question about lawnmower engine
4. Injuries

August 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2010 August 9

1. Nathan's in Coney Island, Brooklyn, NY
2. Looking for a website
3. How would I Go about making my own hyperbaric chamber?
4. Inclusive development and Inclusive finance
5. Institution Building
6. London Blank Cards?
7. Does Wikipedia know everything, Part I
8. Vehicle Statistics Question

August 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2010 August 10

1. Canadian Serviceman in WW1
2. Squash
3. Looking for Kurdish person
4. Glider identification
5. Photo ID in the EU/UK?
6. categorization
7. How can I research the asking and answering of questions?
8. Newspaper Article by Ralph Gleason
9. Deli Select Ham Nutritional Facts
10. Roth IRA maximum contribution for Married Couple

August 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2010 August 11

1. "RTC grant"
2. Gay Paris
3. Natural disasters
4. How did Steve Jobs get an internship at HP at 12 years old?
5. Moving from film to digital SLR
6. Drinking water quality ?
7. Sirius Black

August 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2010 August 12

1. Is the Empire State Building ever really empty?
2. Hey ! What the HELL is that ?
3. Actor in an arbitrary universe
4. Where is The Shop?
5. Ronald McDonald Charities and Soda can ring pull tabs.
6. Quick question on UK city codes
7. American citizenship
8. Collins Safety Razors
9. Clock work orange
10. pond problems

August 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2010 August 13

1. Drawing supplies
2. Indian indendpendence but from what?
3. Statement on Global Warming
4. fridge problem
5. problem with audio headphones
6. Can CIA officers Arrest people?
7. need to find a street/house in romania

August 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2010 August 14

1. Tips for returning to school in a big exam year?
2. Foam on pond
3. pigs

August 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2010 August 15

1. Citation using Chicago Referencing
2. Script/antiqua typeface
3. Kiddies' rhyme
4. Hyde Park / Kensington Gardens Border?
5. Pokémon probability
6. How can I make my rice stick togther
7. Odometers vs Sat Nav Speed Indicators.

August 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2010 August 16

1. Enterprise
2. History of longcase clock I own
3. It's all in the mind... and the location
4. Identity of torch bearer
5. economic benefit from debit cards
6. San Francisco Chronicle article by John Wasserman entitled "Very Very Terry Terry"

August 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2010 August 17

1. Proposed UK responce to nuclear attack after Trident
2. Real?
3. duct cleaning regulations for restaurants in Oakland Cty, Michigan
4. Last day of summer vacation
5. Crisps or Chips?
6. Architecture: Victorian restoration of local churches
7. longest straight section of rail(road) track
8. Chinese or Japanese equivalent of Celtic Knotwork?
9. Où puis-je acheter un beret?

August 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2010 August 18

1. spartagus blood &Sand
2. "Authenticate your account"? WTF is this nonsense?
3. Travel from China to US by boat?
4. Indian TV audio problems
5. Zh.wikibooks pictures
6. The Police are idiots
7. manufacturing of nuts for gluten free diet

August 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2010 August 19

1. drugs
2. most powerful guns in the world
3. Musical instruments
4. FFV Fuels that can be used on Flex vehicles
5. Gasoline, E85 and M85 FFV
6. Discussion forum
7. Illness and Injury

August 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2010 August 20

1. Sending lots of photos over Internet
2. Making food with just a water boiler
3. Help in identifying a golf cart.
4. Helping me find a sticker the size of an asterisk.
5. Why do I see the number 22 or 2.2 on cars

August 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2010 August 21

1. if a trade smeargle from Colosseum will it still have a red tale
2. Please help me identify an Anchorage, Alaska building
3. Manual strangling
4. What's the formula or algorithm used to calculate the banker's offer on Deal or No Deal?
5. Another jarring Americanism.
6. Average # of patents for an American patent holder
7. To rephrase

August 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2010 August 22

1. Help! I have really good wine but no corkscrew
2. DeSales-Oblates
3. Buying stuff online
4. future of retail industry in india
5. Statement on Global Warming (cont.)
6. why "life boy" still hold the market share in India at the semi urban and the rural area?
7. customer acceptance of a product(give necessary correction )
8. Can marble interact unfavorably with brick?
9. 1973—2010 NYS license plates
10. Legalization of Marijuana and the effects on the drug war

August 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2010 August 23

1. what was this 3 wheeled vehicle?
2. Gilford Michigan Tuscola County
3. Wooden Spoons in Pubs?
4. The Confutation of Tyndale's Answer
5. Maximum depth of Lake Havasu
6. Something wrong with my car brakes?

August 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2010 August 24

1. Australian politics
2. German 1910 Census
3. Plumbing - wc
4. Environmental Skepticism and Global Warming Skepticism
5. why "life boy" still hold the market share in India at the semi urban and the rural area?
6. Hans Einstein House in Greenville, SC
7. Home Internet
8. code solving
9. Giant traffic jam on Beijing-Tibet Expressway
10. Axe identification

August 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2010 August 25

1. K-lock on Sony TV
2. Joint account question
3. Joint account question (from the other side of the pond)
4. Ancestral map of Ireland
5. Pre-orgasm feeling

August 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2010 August 26

1. I'm bored in Hong Kong and have 5 bored people to entertain, please help!
2. Is this site legit?
3. Low voltage lighting

August 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2010 August 27

1. Companies that utilizes expired patents or inventions not patented in their country
2. want a very cheap and simple detector to remove iron nails from timber for reuse
3. Iceland-Faroe line on Google Maps
4. San Diego restaurants
5. Chicken elbow mushrooms?
6. Do the Jews control the US media?

August 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2010 August 28

1. birdcage as used in the horse racing industry
2. Terrorist stunt

August 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2010 August 29

1. Secret train cars
2. Simply, what's the difference between Romantic love and Platonic love?
3. Phone Numbers Without Area Codes
4. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love — "uncut" edition
5. 1926 boxing match ticket
6. Men holding hands

August 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2010 August 30

1. Rogatina
2. That crescent shaped thing around Washington's neck.
3. Venue seating
4. opossum age in picture on your website
5. Teenage girls holding hands
6. Deodorant warning
7. Last DC3

August 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2010 August 31

1. Forgotten magic in Harry Potter
2. Chicago - Illegal download to support a hacker?
3. Dangerous dogs
4. Strange Copyright Warning !
5. Tersa sphinx caterpillar