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August 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 August 1

1. Double click vs single click
2. goin mad
3. Obtaining worthless currency
4. Burmese/Large Cat Cross
5. Raw steak on a Black Eye
6. Muscovy Ducks
7. General examinations for wannabe grads
8. Sound and Laptop

August 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 August 2

1. environmental vegetarianism
2. Unemployment and humanism
3. Logistics exam question
4. Railway travel in Kazakhstan
5. Stockholm question
6. Long historical trend in income inequality

August 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 August 3

1. Munich street sign font
2. TV.com's rankings
3. Cell blocker/jammer -- possible?
4. Did loop 494 in Texas from Humble to Patton Village once serve as highway 59?
5. Scripts
6. Pint
7. "sayings"
8. PIG LATIN/CODE
9. What is a confirmation letter?
10. Taxi Fare?
11. break bone and not know?
12. Racing flags
13. What does this apartment term mean?

August 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 August 4

1. Beavis and Butthead recently
2. Army basic training record
3. Future=now?
4. Buddhist wedding gift, prayer, toast
5. Fast Food Obesity in China vs North America
6. Neuschwanstein
7. Royal Gun Works
8. question about poker
9. Probable law sentence for fanfiction character

August 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 August 5

1. Is there a record for most emails in someone's in box?
2. dates backwards only in the US
3. Type O Negative
4. 19th Century secrets
5. investment analysis
6. Walking in zig-zags
7. online job
8. Tennis Racket
9. twice as wide
10. Nordstrom and Paypal connection???
11. what metal
12. TV ratings and muting of commercials
13. Jokes and political correction
14. Leaders of the U.S. Reconstruction Finance Corporation

August 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 August 6

1. 110 v 220 volts
2. Disney tv shows
3. Ipod
4. income statement
5. Type O Negative
6. Handkerchiefs as fashion accessories.
7. A Circuit City(?) commercial showed a boyfriend with an electronic scoreboard on his date. Where's the commercial?
8. Blackberry Problem

August 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 August 7

1. ESUT post UME
2. WW2 crime responsibility
3. Buying Expensive Ballpoint Pens
4. Economics of International Mail
5. New Kitten in House with Cats
6. Why are IQ tests illegal but Personality and Integrity tests legal in employment screening?
7. UK Royal organiser
8. How to clean a braided leather belt
9. animal mistreatment question
10. About the First Two Rules of Wikipedia...

August 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 August 8

1. Rabbits in KY?
2. Feet
3. A question about changing lights

August 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 August 9

1. what does<dracula> talking about??
2. Banks cheating
3. Travelling to Cuba - advice required.
4. Is Silly Putty Bulletproof?
5. How much money does a chronic alcoholic need to feed their habit?
6. Notability
7. What do fighter pilots actually do?
8. Changes in DNA
9. Help Me Search On Google

August 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 August 10

1. Denver Residential Area Map / Population Density Map?
2. iPod Woes
3. National Socialism

August 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 August 11

1. Nasir Khusraw
2. Importance of time
3. Mail delivered via Luftschiff Hindenburg postmarked 2 5 37 How could this be?
4. Online Holiday Reviews - any Impact on Tour/Flight operators?
5. AP Stats data

August 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 August 12

1. Finger lengtheners?
2. Imperfect Airplane Cabin Pressurization?
3. an article on herb cohen?
4. Largest river
5. Ipod (continued)
6. website
7. oldest and youngest people to murder a police officer

August 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 August 13

1. film
2. Origami boxes
3. Demons' whips
4. List of most successful marketing companies in the USA
5. Coca-Cola bottles
6. Crime and Punishment
7. simple questions about the Reference Desk

August 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 August 14

1. How can I save a word in Chinese characters as an image?
2. How To Spread The Word
3. How do Marketing firms win clients?
4. Commission at High-End Retailers
5. What is the usual university degree possessed by bankers?
6. Public companies in porn
7. Paydirt

August 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 August 15

1. Turkish University Holidays
2. Crop circles and universities
3. Yahoo SiteBuilder
4. Song
5. Elderly Iraqi woman shows two bullets
6. Parliment of World Religions
7. Tetrapod - generic or specific?
8. two cents plain
9. UN e-mail address
10. What is the age that you can ride a street legal moped on the road

August 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 August 16

1. Jonathan Ross
2. Close on...
3. Car model variations
4. George Lorin Miller first house destroyed by fires
5. hamburger
6. Why did Kazakhstan join UEFA?
7. Bored on Sunday?
8. Insect problems in countries
9. Lost this question about intelligence
10. Number sequence question
11. Cost of rail travel in Italia
12. A question about my car

August 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 August 17

1. Punkah fan
2. horror movie
3. blank discs
4. Driving a car that has not been driven for a while
5. blogs
6. going from South orange county to Santa Monica avoiding the 10 Fwy
7. to get from Tustin to Ventura via the 405, avoiding the 101 passing Downtown LA?
8. Universities Near Stockholm, Sweden: Undergraduate Programs in English?

August 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 August 18

1. Stocks: A public record?
2. How to extract Tribulus saponins
3. Collier
4. 'locking' a lever latch door
5. Proctology

August 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 August 19

1. Give me a comment on this
2. horse--rope "caught tinder the tail"?
3. what's on his chest?
4. Meaning of Name Rithvi
5. Eating reindeer
6. Venison in the USA
7. family data removed from right column summary block
8. CA 39 to open again
9. CA 15 becoming I-15
10. CA 210 ceoming i-210

August 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 August 20

1. Who dropped Little Boy?
2. Bubble tea
3. Legal peer-to-peer site??
4. base ball hit
5. Legend of invention of chess

August 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 August 21

1. CA 15 and CA 94 junctions
2. Similar attracts?
3. Are all humans hopeless self-promoters?
4. Acari 6.0 Megashot camera
5. Green hat graffiti
6. Example of Type of couple
7. marketing of buckets
8. Cricket question
9. Driving a car that has not been driven for a while - Follow up from OP posted 17 August.
10. firearm
11. Guardia Civil
12. Scaredy cats
13. Beeping

August 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 August 22

1. Keystrokes in a debate
2. High Impulse Weapons System?
3. Reason for protests at Mr. Rogers' funeral
4. rr mailing zones
5. Airport security - no driver's license
6. Long distance running
7. cold and cold water
8. Sheepskin Boats in Xinjiang
9. Simple family trees
10. football question

August 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 August 23

1. Athletes, especially pro ones, and Concussions
2. Soup names
3. Taxi from Upper West Side to JFK
4. Is the Northwest Passage open?

August 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 August 24

1. sailing pirate Ship question
2. Nokia phone - I can't figure it out
3. Travel to Ravenscar from Ripon
4. Husayn in Qazvain
5. Do boarding/prep school teachers actually address their students as "Mr" and "Miss" like they do in movies?
6. Crossng Croatian land borders
7. Stadium lighting
8. Unassisted triple play in baseball
9. Keeping unused phne numbers - normal?
10. How do drum magazines work?
11. Should I really say 'thank you'?
12. Rusting cars
13. Athletes, especially pro ones and general injuries

August 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 August 25

1. Plane tickets
2. Definition of "male"
3. WWI
4. Women in Men's Professional Sports
5. UK Sexual Offences Act 2003
6. Impossible fire
7. haven holidays

August 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 August 26

1. Climate change
2. 24 hour public transport
3. Honest politicians and newsworthiness
4. Image recollection question
5. Who is that woman?
6. School and university holidays

August 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 August 27

1. can water go instantly from boiling to frozen in cold climates
2. UK Railways
3. Bungee jump in Spain
4. Photography Effect
5. Real-life Motherlovers
6. Box-shaped slatted covers on British traffic lights
7. Objectives
8. Bruises
9. Tourist Visa in China

August 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 August 28

1. What do siamese cats eat?
2. foreignn exchange rates
3. God
4. Jaycee Lee Dugard
5. Developed photos look washed out
6. Long Road Trip
7. Wedding Objection
8. Megrahi's arrival at Tripoli Airport
9. Need the answer
10. Heroin

August 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 August 29

1. Test driving a car
2. Dog behaviour
3. Looking for specific type of online games
4. Natural number? (nummer? wtf lol)
5. old stock information
6. Consultancy !!
7. strategic?
8. UK Embassies During Bank Holidays
9. Username

August 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 August 30

1. B unit, or...?
2. Misremembering having seen a movie
3. West Side Story
4. Puzzling Puzzle
5. UK's GRE or GMAT
6. Sewn up Suit pockets?
7. Montebello
8. Does Punta Cana use Celsius or Fahrenheit?
9. Vicki Kennedy
10. When will Global Warming end?

August 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 August 31

1. Insertions
2. 2 things re US cities
3. Public/Private corporation
4. Digital watch with counter feature
5. Dioscorides De Materia Medica Byzantium 15th century
6. Looking for an old puzzle
7. Its not fair...
8. Traffic light color background deeping
9. College and University
10. Cheap interesting places to eat in Trieste, Italy ?