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September 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 September 1

1. Death rate
2. The American concept of rags to riches. Does it still apply?
3. Shepard tone in chopin's etude?
4. Venetian spies
5. Georgia and the European Union
6. Two international societies
7. Monopolies

September 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 September 2

1. Crinoline staircases
2. U.S. Census - counting people on wagon trains?
3. 1901 Anarchist Exclusion Act
4. Indian politics and US politics
5. definition of DUI
6. Barter vs. sell/buy
7. I have soul "X" I am not a soldier
8. Human Rights - Workplace thru the Decades
9. Alcoholic drinks
10. religion
11. Grapes of Wrath

September 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 September 3

1. VPs in the USA
2. granny smiths
3. Czechoslovak Communist Exiles
4. soranus
5. Etiquette question
6. Different Amounts for Different Charges?
7. Amazonian tribe
8. Preclassical statuary depictions of masturbation
9. Too much of a good thing?

September 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 September 4

1. Hockey Moms
2. Perceived taste relating to expectation
3. Weird hearing
4. Looking for unbiased website to compare US presidential candidate's positions
5. I did an online IQ test at http://www.iqtest.com
6. What percentage of British people would know the difference between Slovakia and Slovenia?
7. Why are Hungary, Finland and Estonia anomalous in Europe as well as Romania?
8. Spies?
9. France, England and classical music
10. Which books did Sarah Palin seek to ban from a local library?
11. When British police take the cars of people charged with motoring offences; why dont they sell them rather than crush them?
12. Reliability of CliffsNotes, etc
13. Hamlet plot query

September 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 September 5

1. Vaudeville hat
2. Czechoslovak hijacking
3. Limitation on electing Presidents?
4. pre-marital sex
5. Does Barack Obama speak a language other than english?
6. Queen Victoria's funeral cortège: Edward and Wilhelm?
7. Could a minor face life imprisonment if committs murder in the UK?

September 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 September 6

1. Renaissance police?
2. Britian and soldiers
3. Nonstop US war
4. Czech Population in Hong Kong
5. Nathaniel Woodard painting
6. Has anyone read the book 'Tales from Ovid' by Ted Hughes?
7. [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 September 6#|]]
8. Politician’s position on the issues
9. The most important authentic relic?
10. Technicolor effect

September 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 September 7

1. Is United States of America Bankrupt?
2. Need Chinese History Expert
3. Palin and polar bears
4. ABOUT OLD FOLKS
5. People famous for hand-to-hand combat
6. Plight of Charter 77 Signatories
7. Racism or learning from experience?
8. Pink Houses at the DNC?
9. Hurricanes and Guantanamo Bay detention camp
10. 'Securitised mortgages'
11. Rabbinical Judges in Israel Supreme Rabbinical Court
12. Timeline of the Sinking of the HMHS Britannic

September 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 September 8

1. philosipher who theorized that mandkind was created by "children gods"
2. Loans from banks being sold
3. Religious symbology
4. Another religion question
5. Short Story where people have a limited number of words per day
6. artist of this work?
7. FTSE 100 opening and closing figures
8. Masochistic behavior...What is this?
9. North Korea
10. Secular Humanism -Dead or Alive? (Insert spinning joke here)...
11. Qur'an and the term "we"

September 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 September 9

1. DSM and masochism.
2. Reconstructed literary and musical works
3. The Catholic Church and death before Jesus
4. religion
5. Is there an unwrapped mummy in the British Museum
6. Conspiracy Theorist
7. donating internationally

September 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 September 10

1. Modern Phillis Wheatley
2. Are the Russian Nuclear Missile Silos safe?
3. A faith-based Christian experience.
4. NZ discovery
5. Copyright on speeches by American politicians
6. Articles in constitutions
7. Gulbenkian collection images
8. Are multiple-murderers rare?
9. Dating My Dentist
10. "jus primae noctis" on a tropical island
11. Candidates [http://www.ontheissues.org on the issues]
12. Is it natural to feel this way?
13. Credited with Introducing Potatoes into Ireland?
14. Urgent requirement!
15. Oath of Allegiance
16. Woman Vice President
17. American Helping Everyone
18. primary historical memories

September 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 September 11

1. Midrash Ecclesiastes Rabbah
2. Nastia Liukin's Religion
3. Korea's Major Accomplishments
4. Who is the global authority on undergraduate research?
5. Walter Ralegh's middle name
6. Plume etiquette
7. The middle-class in US elections
8. Moral question: Discriminate or avoiding conflict
9. Hypothetical Questions Only - How to Address the US President
10. "There is a crack on the structure of the universe"

September 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 September 12

1. T. W. Wood
2. DVDs about British society
3. 1 dollar a day
4. Early Christianity
5. ADVERTISING SMALL SCALE BUSINESSES
6. Marriage Locations
7. Vice-Presidential election in the U.S. Senate
8. Follow-up question
9. Antireligion and atheism
10. damaged steel from the Pentagon
11. Sir Charles Russell QC MP

September 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 September 13

1. What is this type of illustration called?
2. How can I find a list of winners of this award?
3. A ship's "stemhold"
4. Eckhart Tolle and Scientology
5. Listening to Piano Music - Where to Begin?
6. American Painter: Ray Musselwhite

September 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 September 14

1. constitution
2. impending economic depresion of the US
3. religion
4. a curious hypothetical side-effect of Edward VIII's abdication
5. Medieval Europe Demographics
6. J.J. Horak, Netherlands ambassador to Israel in 1993?
7. Question
8. Putin's ancestors and Stalin
9. philosophy
10. Adolf Hitler and helicopter travel
11. Toll free numbers and postage-paid envelopes

September 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 September 15

1. Cloak
2. Why would a Georgian minister say this?
3. Stadium music
4. Recession and Depression
5. History of science question
6. Erm, what was that British battle?
7. Ovo vegetarians
8. Consequences to acceptance of risky or bad debt by Federal Reserve
9. Wasn't Charles Ponzi's operation illegal even without the Ponzi scheme?
10. Voting in Indiana
11. Why does it say North Korea is a socialist republic?
12. Gandhi's hair
13. Returning to a Room from Childhood, How Small it Seems...
14. I need to write a geography essay on Rio de Janerio.
15. Travelling with friend
16. Country Names-- Czechoslovakia
17. Constitutional Paradox
18. Religion's Description of God/Universe

September 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 September 16

1. Mexico's Independence
2. pattern of human
3. Fed's balance sheet
4. Bible
5. Help me identify my vacation photos
6. Thread bookmark
7. US Constitution on creating new gov't departments
8. The Holocaust

September 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 September 17

1. World Food Prices
2. Xidan
3. Regional Government in England
4. poem by douglas macarther
5. Goverment buying bad debt
6. First Survey of Wikipedians
7. Elton John
8. 20 most important world dates
9. Followup to the Holocaust Question From Yesterday
10. The Grim Reaper
11. What happens if the electoral college ties?

September 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 September 18

1. How long have "Humans" been on the earth?
2. Poetry by Federica Garcia Lorca
3. Australian author Paul John Radley
4. Honorary academic degrees
5. obama and 9/11

September 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 September 19

1. Michigan History Magazine 8, no. 29 October 1924
2. Gender, race and class in the Cthulhu Mythos
3. Grade level for Twilight Book Series
4. Barack Obama terrorist links?
5. CliffsNotes
6. Former Yugoslavia: Agreement on succession issues and PD
7. William Donaldson
8. Atomic Energy Act of 1954
9. Mysterious stone object
10. Entrance to the Public Park in Arles

September 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 September 20

1. Henry VIII
2. Is Sarah Palin a creationist?
3. $100,000 deposit guarantee for accounts
4. Discriminating the fat and ugly
5. Are textbook questions copyright?
6. women's breast size
7. Chaplain of First Continental Congress
8. Immersive personality disorder

September 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 September 21

1. Mestizos
2. Were Ancient Egyptians Black?
3. If the JNA was Europe's third or fourth largest army, which armies larger?
4. Mount Olympus artwork?
5. Why does the US want to build a missile shield in Poland?
6. First advertisement on soccer teams shirt.
7. What about that whole "no two democracies has ever gone to war" thing?
8. Ned Myers
9. Consequences of US government bailout of financial sector

September 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 September 22

1. bombing investigations
2. Voter registration
3. Rendezvous with Destiny by Eric F. Goldman
4. Identify a (possibly heraldic) symbol
5. Success stories of autistics
6. Flag question
7. Lumber mill in Prescott, WI c. 1880
8. Rasta belief

September 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 September 23

1. Heaven and all that
2. Sarah Palin
3. events happening on this date in history
4. The Secret Society
5. Mr Whippy
6. Kitten care
7. Subprime Loans Expire?
8. Ron Paul's assessment of bailout
9. YOP

September 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 September 24

1. Islamic dietary law question in relation to bird food...
2. Top 10 supreme court decisions?
3. art as a source of knowledge
4. price differences in the UK
5. Dating unemployed men
6. Blessed virgin Mary
7. Absentee ballot
8. Name of a fallacy..
9. NSDAP, 1930s
10. Philisophical term

September 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 September 25

1. Question!
2. US: $700 billion bailout
3. Mr. Musharraf ... will he die?
4. Types of banks in the U.S.
5. Sultan of Oman and race
6. Muammar Ghaddafi
7. Personal Investmant stat's
8. Skin colour of Jesus
9. Did they have quilted jackets in middle ages? And in general what other clothes did they wear?
10. Which logical fallacy is this?

September 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 September 26

1. Did China ever declare war on Germany during WWII?
2. UK General Election - who runs the country?
3. U.K. LOTTO
4. Death penalty in Madagascar

September 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 September 27

1. Gone With The Wind
2. Co-Pilot Lt. Robert L. Hite Dead or Alive?
3. Good books on basic economics
4. bridge collapse memorial
5. Thames Williamson
6. P G Wodehouse
7. Signature laws
8. Samuel L. Gompers' middle name

September 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 September 28

1. Would Burma(Myanmar) launch a war against Bangladesh or India?
2. Stock markets/securities listing
3. Ritualistic (celtic) oath involving blood
4. Buying full scale crown jewel replicas
5. Religion regarding cosmic powers?
6. Please identify the author of this poem?
7. Descriptions of Christian Artwork

September 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 September 29

1. Airplane security
2. UK Redundancy Entitlement
3. Disappearance of libraries
4. Cheap bailout
5. What were women's role in the Southern Colonies of British Colonial Americas.
6. How did members of congress vote on the bailout today?
7. Jewish Dietary Law Regarding the Consumption of Insects
8. American military history, 1943
9. "Anthropocide?"

September 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 September 30

1. Nikkei
2. Selling sheep in ancient Israel
3. Legal principle
4. Famous French saints in Ireland
5. stone cave
6. States giving electoral votes to national popular winner
7. State vs. federal waters
8. Obstacles for woman in todays society.