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May 1[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 May 1
- Wendi Deng
- Taiwan politician wearing vests?
- Prince William's medal
- Oxford Group
- Encouraging diplomats to defect
- Time travel - becoming a historical figure
- Smokey Clegg
- Painting in The Other Guys
May 2[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 May 2
- List of locations of polling places in last Czech Parliamentary elections?
- Teen views on same sex marriage
- Time Urgent-- help us find a list of companies that supported Jim Crow?
- Online Korean Language courses - where, please?
- Why are christians happy that Osama Bin Laden is dead?
- Dulle Griet/Dull Gret
- Double Jeopardy
- Forts / Fortresses in Medieval Europe
- Princess Royal
- Middleton's money
- Bay Area US Peace Index
- People in the situation room last night
May 3[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 May 3
- What happened to Mauro David?
- Family tree: Should mother-in-laws & father-in-laws (and their family) of my cousins, uncles and aunts be added?
- Smallest winning vote in Canadian election
- denim brands
- Medieval fiction - English capital
- Geography question
- Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech
- Bucklin voting/Borda count in Oklahoma
- Legal Rule of Cool?
- Ambition
May 4[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 May 4
- Princess Kate?
- Danish-Norwegian elections
- Girls with guns
- Canadian Conservative Party
- non-pornographic cover of a pornographic video
- Obama photo
- Not reinforcing bad behavior
- Background of homophobic violence - studies?
- History Of Harold E Monser
- 4th Avenue?
May 5[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 May 5
- Excuse me sir!
- Democratic party propaganda PR strategy of the 60s or 70s
- Hitler
- Is the killing of Osama Bin Laden legal?
- Safia Farkash
- Did the citizens destroy any tanks during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989?
- Almost a saint, but stumbled on the last hurdle?
- Searching for a hymn
- Fort Knox
May 6[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 May 6
- Need book title
- Men marriying rich and older women
- UK styles
- Scottish National Party policy regarding independence
- Cut-backs during a time of austerity
- Best covert/special forces?
May 7[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 May 7
- U.S. troop levels in Iraq and Afghanistan in recent years
- Most children
- law: Recanting
- Baptism
- Identify the logical fallacy
- Why do American supermarkets still count out pennies?
- UK referendum results: a record?
- UK High Court Judges
- Copyright question
- Question on logical fallacies
- True or myth: Nazi dog with a label 'dog' on it.
- Sex question
- Mixed Number Proportional Representation
- National debt
- Russian jews
- Dalia Rabin-Pelossof
May 8[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 May 8
- Richardis of Schwerin-Wittenburg or Richardis of Schwerin or Richardis of Lauenburg
- Counts of Schwerin
- Bentley ad - truth or hoax?
- Presidential Cocaine Use At The White House
- Was Ibrahim bin Laden one of the bin Ladens flown out of the U.S.?
- Why have a president?
- Ontario Legislative Assembly seating plan
- "Phoenix Four" report (UK)
- Why did Soviet ideology reject the steady-state theory and what was their alternative?
May 9[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 May 9
- Why is Pres. Obama so disliked?
- Most marriages
- French colonial empire and others
- Rahner and Man as Transcendant Being
- Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in Canada
- Pierre Trudeau Bangladesh 1971
- Monarchs of Portugal
- Hungarian central office for book revision
- Seceding from the Union
- Does anything matter in the big picture?
- Prank calls in Germany
- Spirituality for non-religious people
- Seek Author, title(s) english children's book(s) circa 1940's
- Inauguration of presidents
- Police procedure
- An excess of apostles
May 10[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 May 10
- Michelin guides in English
- Daniel Ortega
- Help with identifying an artist
- Pepper spray and the Chemical Weapons Convention
- War vs Criminal Justice and nonstate actors
May 11[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 May 11
- Carlsberg Special Brew
- babies and Christian baptism
- muslim sex in india
- Pipless US
- When democracy failed
- Per-capita millionaires
- Number of policepersons in the UK
- Does the Queen ever make a decision or refuse to sign?
- Wales Split from the Kingdom of England?
- Rosh Hashanah in Israel
- The purpose of stock exchanges
- Pakistan and Afghanistan, ISI
May 12[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 May 12
- Where I am From analysis
- Hansard and superinjunctions
- People's Republic of China Language Census
- What's the best online stock-trading application?
- Lithium company stocks
- Overcrowded refugee ship in WWII - the "Navamar"
- Forensic Investigation:
- Sprechen Sie Deutsch... or Hebrew?
- Stanley Spencer balloonist and parachutist
- How could their be a divorce?
- Competitive advantage for becoming a financial center
- To all certified public accountants and/or auditors out there, i've got a question for you.
- What was the name of the place?
- 1980 referendum
May 14[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 May 14
- Gemstone rings
- Another Judaism question
- Illiterate Americans
- Jane Austen by G.F.Maine
- London Gazette search
- Which philosopher or scientist?
- A video series like Zimbardo's "Discovering psychology" (1990)
May 15[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 May 15
- Draw France
- Canadian politics
- Life expectancy in the Soviet Union
- St George statue at the UN Headquarters
- First President
- Logical positivism
- Films filmed all over Europe like Bourne series?
- 5th fleet in Middle East since when?
- Scotland Economy and Independence
- Diplomatic missions of Canada
- Canada-Bangladesh
- American mail boxes
- understanding a religious concept
- WB elections
- Racial segegration
- Did she ever truly rule?
May 16[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 May 16
- Royalty and "style"
- Bomb threats and codewords
- The invisible pink unicorn
- Conditional ordinations and conditional confirmations
- I would like some book recommendations
- Most Beautiful/Most Handsome?
May 17[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 May 17
- Why do Rastafarians smoke marijuana?
- Can anyone name any mermaid fiction books for adults?
- Person synonymous with brevity?
- U.K. Elections
- Length of time of feelings of jealousy
- Should Empress Jingū be included in :Template:Monarchs of Japan?
- Respect Party candidates
- Whole history of humankind in one narrative.
- Looking for a specific image depicting the Enlightenment
- Women banned from performing
May 18[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 May 18
- Documentary about textile industry in South East Asia
- the most "Transgendered" (by population) place in Usa Canada? and Europe?
- Money as a means of communication
- Stories from Nazi Germany
- Jamaat Shibir (Bangladesh)
- Edmund Burke on James Mackintosh
- Wesley Snipes & The Sovereign Citizen Movement
- UK Law:The Wildlife and Countryside act 1981 with respect to Natrix natrix
- 1099 tax form
- lead bullets illegal in US
- How does money work, exactly?
May 19[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 May 19
- Will they ever lower the drinking age in Las Vegas and the rest of the united states from 21 to 19 or 18?
- Finance: Fictional bank account scenario
- The history of Vaageshwari Maatha temple in Rajasthan
- Name the book
- Is it illegal for the police to carry a backup gun ?
- Alcohol in candy
- Major Dundee questions
- Why people with no needs would network with people with needs
- Constitutional Rights and religious Freedom
- Extraterritoriality
- Chinese economics, American debt
May 20[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 May 20
- Slovenia influence on U.S.?
- online books
- The Wall Street Journal
- Loans to unsuccessful factions
- Extradite between US states
- "Penny Schools" in the United Kingdom
- Thirty pieces of silver
- What time will I be raptured?
- Old street in Belfast
- Psychology questions
- Historical French Flags?
- graduate attitudes towards education and honesty
- 12/21 or 12/23?
- @ What time should I be raptured
- Princess Nora Univ. faculty and grad student numbers
May 21[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 May 21
- Name of bias
- Is 3% the usual number of people?
- Airline industry
- Schwartzenneger bodybuilding tips
- Data about the inflation of the Portuguese escudo
- Boeing
- updates on two international societies
- I have a wikibook submission
- University in Brega
- German volunteers in the Spanish Civil War
- citizenship of my hypothetical (but likely) child
- Appropriate gift
- Billionaires break laws of economics?
May 22[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 May 22
- Literature related references
- sci-fi science - human / animal hybrid
- UK courts conniving with the immoral?
- Political ideology and corporate donation
- Lancers /Light Cavalry /Hussars/Mounted Rifles / Horse Artillery?
May 23[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 May 23
- What if the internet broke tomorrow?
- Thought Experiment
- Welsh novels
- Fantasy books
- Monbushu/MEXT policy on Japanese names
- John Maynard Keynes and pedophilia
- Who cares about Iowa?
- Air France plane on US soil
- Nemesis
- Political affiliation of superheores
- Millard Fillmore's religious beliefs
- US languages
- Judges and Wikipedia
- word counting
- Constitution of San Marino
- New invention, new money?
May 24[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 May 24
- Latin
- Use of civilians on trains during the Anglo-Boer War
- Intellectuals without formal education
- Reviewing the Troops
- Fashionably late
- Cannes Film Festival
- London Boulevard
- Monthly billing
May 25[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 May 25
- What is the most northern community in Sierra_leone?
- Grains for breakfast
- Pro-Communist bias of Wikipedia
- Music identification
- Poor man's copyright and email
- About how much money total in 2011 dollars to go to the moon the first time
- "Hap" poem
- lottery and taxes in the US
- Indian caste system
May 26[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 May 26
- Third parties in the US
- Correct etiquette
- Rupert Murdoch
- Business Cycle Graphs
- Did George Washington whip his slaves?
- complete list of "common" urban services and memberships
- Printing of the one dollar (USA) bill.
- Looking for a book
- Should simple living / minimalistic living seen as liberal or conservative?
- Do you know why Surigao del Sur is one of the poorest province in the Philippines?
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Ivy League Colleges
May 27[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 May 27
- Detailed unspecified music
- Copyright
- Murder in space
- what financial transaction would on any level (even farcically) seem to imply a negative valuation (market capitalization) of a company?
- religion
- Nearest Relative rights
- Singers' accents
- Intellectual/scientist cum businesspeople
- Paris Hilton
- Gilliam Asperger's Disorder Scale (GADS)
- Requirement for signatures to be consistent?
- Copyright question
- Grandville artwork
May 28[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 May 28
- American journalist who brought the existence of black supremacism to the general public
- Murder on a plane
- "Ministry of Helth"
- are there people with no citizenship?
- why is london on weird time?
- cost and time between London and Paris
- TIPS and U.S. Sovereign debt
- Environmentalism
- Chinese Calligraphy Help
- Thomas Hepburn: miner, unionist, social reformer
May 29[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 May 29
- Net worth of billionaires
- Prince El Darago of Italy
- Nevada
- copyrights
- Tallest building in the US
- Black Saturday Bushfires
- Name of the philosopher
- Was bush sr the last US president to have any sons?
- Castilian Spanish, revisited
- Foreigners in Japan during WWII
- is it easier to do laundry if all your clothes are dark/colored?
- norwegian book
May 30[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 May 30
- Which Android apps help users make money the best?
- Think thank in the US
- Most wanted non-Muslim terrorists
- Empires
- Are there any sacred texts outside the Judeo-Christian tradition that include history books?
- Help identifying aircraft
- Tolkien: "Balin" and the Poetic Edda
- adoption in England
- World War II deaths by year
May 31[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 May 31
- Business in North Korea
- Fact and opinion question
- How many brands do The Coca-Cola Company and PepsiCo operate?
- Double pricing at gasoline stations
- Consistent college rankings?
- Science is wrong, so I'm going to use science to prove it!
- Sir Thomas Gates portrait
- Borderline personality disorder
- Soviet Trade Fair in Los Angeles, 1980s?