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May 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 May 1

1. Flags
2. price of oil and value of dollar
3. campaign finance
4. Soviet military thinking
5. Pigs in the mud
6. Surprises in history
7. Laundry poem
8. is migration good for development?
9. I was only obeying orders
10. Murdered Hebrew prophets
11. woman warrior who dyed herself blue
12. Holocaust questions

May 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 May 2

1. Sheet Music
2. Diversity
3. Conservative conspiracy
4. Kipling and Recessional
5. How do you found a umbrella organization?
6. Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale
7. Josephine Butler
8. What was the danger?
9. Belly Dance
10. Natural resources of Canada issues
11. new year
12. Tabandeh and Mahmassani
13. Struggle between east and west
14. Reaction to Sino-Indian war of communities in Singapore and Malaysia?
15. Nicholas Rockefeller
16. Catherine Parr
17. Anarchism-arguments against
18. Coat of arms prior to Henry II
19. How are new militaries formed???

May 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 May 3

1. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra's Family
2. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra descendants (desendientes)
3. Mr. Martin/The Queen, Our Head of State
4. Becoming beastly in order to fight a beast
5. Plymouth
6. Pope's villa bombed in WW2?
7. Abbey Road (street)
8. English Queens and puddles

May 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 May 4

1. British in WWI
2. Evidence for Zoroastrianism as the One True Religion
3. Tobacco deaths
4. Atlantic Slave Ships
5. RAF
6. Epicurus
7. Timing of start of working day around the world
8. Science fiction novels with the word "Maze" in the title
9. Pot Bouille
10. Alexander I and universities
11. archaeology
12. A question regarding EU and provinces
13. Paris, 1968
14. people who became famous later in life (ie after 50)

May 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 May 5

1. Bhumibol Adulyadej
2. The Tin Drum - Exactly What did Oskar's Mother Eat
3. Shautaraw
4. If I'm born with that ethnicity, I will be that ethnicity forever in my lifetime?
5. specific name for girls who have black hair.
6. Writing System
7. the definition of TOLLYWOOD
8. School
9. EC law (moved from WP:HD)
10. Dresden
11. Status of Women
12. French Socks of Long Ago
13. Metal use in antiquity.
14. crude oil consumption
15. A picture of the world?
16. Edward II and Gaveston
17. Archaeology

May 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 May 6

1. Wars
2. Filioque
3. Gas price economics 101
4. A picture of a painting from my dad which died in 1996.
5. Voltaire's Third Letter on Oedipus
6. The size of the atom according to the ancient atomists
7. Next position
8. British commanders negligence on the Western Front during the great war (First World War)
9. plurals and group names
10. Second Dutch War
11. Opposite of personification

May 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 May 7

1. Anyone ever "speak now?"
2. Clinton's vs. Obama's plans
3. No Revolution in Britain
4. List of United States Presidents by genealogical relationship
5. Number of trains daily from Vienna to Magdeburg in 1889
6. Anti-Defamation League Role in Great Sedition Trial
7. Support organisation or information on rape victim compensation in Germany
8. Other Minds
9. What did Pablo Picasso think about Israel and Zionism?
10. Themes in The Octopus
11. The Crimes of Kaiser Bill
12. Issues natural resources
13. Literature

May 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 May 8

1. Conservative sociologists
2. Afroamerries
3. University
4. Tin Drum 2
5. Eva the Jew Hater
6. Prisioners in the English Civil War
7. Serving as Vice-President & Secretary of State Concurrently
8. Aelia Capitolina
9. Darkness at Noon
10. Stalin
11. GDP
12. Painting, Art, Heralding the Dawn
13. Crime vs. social phenomenon

May 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 May 9

1. data on international or global food prices going back 50 years or so
2. Killing Theives
3. Socrates and Buddhism or Taoism
4. JC-1 H2 Literature set texts
5. Famous Virginians
6. Mosley's Mentality
7. Wittgenstein and Schopenhauer
8. Becoming a jew: the easy way
9. Popish Plot
10. Overview of 1700s-era naval uniforms?
11. French Revolution
12. Offer excludes Northern Ireland
13. Best source for Ibn Battuta's travels

May 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 May 10

1. National Service League-United Kingdom
2. Cultures/ groups forbidding or objecting to cutting hair
3. Bad grades and grad school/master/PhD
4. Annual economic growth rate
5. Deaths in Medieval England
6. Experience
7. presidential nominees
8. Gender Equality in Education
9. Job interview success
10. The mind in ancient Greece
11. Why is Tsutomu Miyazaki still alive??
12. battleship diplomacy
13. The role of committee members in a small club
14. Definition of the mind
15. Essentialism and Enlightenment Tolerance

May 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 May 11

1. artist/painter A.F. Gerstmayr
2. Guthrum II
3. COPPA compliance
4. Su vegetarianism, Fruitarianism, and dharmic religion.
5. Historical understanding of static electricity
6. Kent State and American Law
7. Day saver for trains in the UK
8. Pictish History
9. Room of the house
10. Finding progress of lawsuit, lacking news coverage
11. Meaning of 'either'.
12. Darius
13. Art of our time
14. Quote by Charlemagne
15. SS Enterprises

May 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 May 12

1. How might an undefended Asante town in 1701 deal with a British landing?
2. Why doesn’t Tarzan have a beard?
3. Oppression
4. The Ottoman Empire in the 16th century
5. Cybernetic mind control
6. Belgian Power
7. British Naval power in the eighteenth century
8. Noam Chomsky Books
9. Why was I born to my parents in my town at a specific time?
10. Classics
11. Division Bell in Parliament
12. Christianity and kosher foods
13. UK prime minister
14. Roadside Park
15. "Ghost Account" phenomenon

May 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 May 13

1. Advantages and disadvantages diplomatic immunity
2. 1931 to 1945 world map for allies and axis
3. Myanmar/China response to disaster
4. Identifying statues on the Albert Memorial's frieze
5. Why (and when) did Britain's John Lewis Partnership start calling itself a co-operative?
6. The size of the atom according to the ancient atomists
7. How do i get involved in fighting poverty in Angola
8. Ranks in 16th Century Venetian Navy
9. Earliest mention of Lord in a religious context
10. Sailing east: any poems, songs or nicknames?
11. UK court-dress changes
12. Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
13. Norse Mythology
14. What's the difference between "Natural Rights" and "Human Rights"???

May 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 May 14

1. Obscurantism
2. Standby Power wastage
3. Darwin and Eugenics/Social Darwinism
4. Inquiry
5. Allied Aid to Soviet Russia in WW2
6. Name of the many-winged aircraft bicycle
7. Vatican - UFO conspiracy
8. Yunaitedo Suteetsu
9. The Restoration in Scotland
10. Locke and politics
11. Inquisition
12. What is meant by "toadstool casserole"? (Not as in food)
13. POWs, international law, internment/repatriation
14. renewable and non-renewable natural resources of Canada
15. Economics: Government Deficit, Output &
16. Iron Guard
17. Gordon Brown as PM
18. Difference between Total Population and Admin. Population
19. Fronde
20. List of states that remained independent throughout European colonization
21. War finished on time

May 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 May 15

1. Madonna Video With Hot Sweaty Modernist Industrial Men As Cogs / Gears In Factory Setting...
2. Medieval painting identifications
3. Racists in relationships with people of colour
4. annales history
5. The British economy since 1997
6. A weird thought : "Vegetarians kill plants".
7. Banking services as a component of GDP
8. Country or government without debt
9. Prime Minister's Questions - No. 5
10. Gambling debts
11. Book on geometry in Islamic art

May 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 May 16

1. Greek Theatre
2. Did Carl Stephenson (Leiningen vs the Ants) actually exist?
3. Image Copyright question
4. Need to know who painted this
5. similarites and differences berween ethics morality and law
6. The English Reformation-the Bollocks of Henry VIII
7. Hindu Gods
8. US army vs the world
9. Philanthropy
10. John Paulson and Henry Paulson
11. Landlocked island nations
12. What are Energy Trusts?
13. newspaper Canada natural resources
14. Proof
15. Stocks

May 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 May 17

1. What if they hadn't refused a title?
2. help
3. Debate wiki
4. York v. Lancaster
5. Classical and Anti hero traits
6. Tolstoy and Shakespeare

May 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 May 18

1. What happened to the buildings?
2. Credit and supply elasticity
3. Integration of foreigners
4. Is it true that masturbation was illegal in the Nazi Germany??
5. Getting fires lit
6. British medals
7. Why am I standing here instead of...there?
8. Legal math
9. Little girl married with an old man
10. Philosophy of Censorship
11. HIDDEN HISTORY: Where is there evidence of black Americans in the Philippines, Guam and/or Wake Island between 1940-1945?
12. UK Pub laws
13. Operation Marylin

May 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 May 19

1. Female history photographer
2. Sunken ship in the Thames
3. Muftis
4. Drugs in the Middle ages.
5. Indian Muslims
6. Arab world under Iran
7. The Bodhisattva
8. Current riots in South Africa
9. MPs
10. speak truth to power

May 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 May 20

1. Dog Training Equipment
2. John Doe
3. Is the USA a "State Sponsor of Terrorism"?
4. Origin of this quote
5. Self-identification
6. International Wire Transfert exchange rate
7. Yukio Mishima's grandfather

May 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 May 21

1. What is cultural assimilation?
2. Patterms, motifs and xxx
3. President Sfeir ?
4. Quote about rhythm in the arts other than music...
5. Maitlands and the crown
6. France and Hanoverian succession
7. European Left Pro-Iran ?
8. Smoking in Public vs. Kissing in Public
9. Work as a librarian
10. Jesuit Power in Washington
11. Gibbon on Apollonius of Tyana
12. Loaning your campaign a few million
13. tax avoidance
14. World Heritage site?
15. Distribution Restriction
16. Ravel had three arms?
17. Russian religion before Christianity?

May 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 May 22

1. OPEC/economics question
2. youtube etc
3. In the UAE you would be executed if you publicly say "I'm gay"?
4. Murder?
5. i Want an 3 page article on topic 'Birds-Feathered Friends,
6. Nineteenth Century China
7. How many generals in German Army in 1939
8. Secular schools
9. What is the largest number for a monarch/Pope in history?
10. David Ricardo
11. North Yemen
12. Check on copyright status of a song?
13. Calle Ocho artwork

May 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 May 23

1. Who is KANZO?
2. The three jewels
3. Arab league
4. U.S. and Michigan child custody laws
5. fostering
6. Identity documents in the United States
7. Trying to find a Greek sculpture
8. Category for "Monotony"
9. What poem am I thinking of?

May 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 May 24

1. knowledge of candidates
2. Pinching and Dreams
3. Who are these chicks?
4. Identify font?
5. art style
6. Rumour painted full of tongues
7. Plato and Buddhism
8. author

May 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 May 25

1. Maronite Christians
2. Date pronunciation
3. Shigechiyo
4. W
5. If Barr were to carry the state of Georgia..
6. AFTER AMERICAN CIVIL WAR
7. playing musical instruments without looking
8. knowing the law
9. Fed backed real estate scam?
10. Establishment of a British nationality
11. Escape to Palestine
12. Watergate's meaning
13. let fools contend

May 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 May 26

1. Model and methodology
2. Tenth century Byzantine policy to the caliphate
3. SARS morbidity rates
4. Organised crime

May 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 May 27

1. "Back up our battleskies!"
2. Paradox?
3. Foreign policy of Libya
4. Allusion too obscure?
5. Australia
6. The Aswan High Dam
7. Longest post-presidential career?
8. Fundamentalist Mormon Women
9. What are these architectural grids?
10. Origins of credit card size?
11. Latin American nationalism

May 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 May 28

1. Paul Nicklen Art
2. dominating force
3. US Air Force Distinguished Service Medal
4. DHL company in Malaysia
5. My religion is between my god and me
6. inherit the throne
7. Romani/Gipsy brass band music
8. Are there social movements using wikis? And how?
9. What is the name for the study of the history of printing / writing / the book?
10. What is the Marxist Scientific Method?
11. Historical Religious Flag
12. Meaning of the name Pen Argyl , and the people who founded the town .

May 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 May 29

1. Name for belief about acquiring attributes
2. Voodoo?
3. Tin Woodman
4. Who is this writer?
5. Relation
6. Question!
7. Simple Question .... Long answer
8. Gold State Coach
9. Pear and Fig dish
10. Secret codes in france WWII
11. Governments & bank accounts

May 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 May 30

1. what are these buildings
2. The River Nile
3. Walibri's strange custom
4. Is there a website with the names of clothes?
5. Eastern Europe and Cluster Bombs
6. Australian Experience
7. Christian beliefs about life after death
8. Child-in-Common
9. early 20th-century Scandinavian criminal
10. cremated remains found in a box

May 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 May 31

1. Hats
2. 1969 White Paper
3. Does Japan deport illegal immigrants?
4. DNC delegate hearing