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April 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 April 1

1. Discontinued Action
2. Aircraft carrier design
3. Literary Influences
4. Environmental Psychology
5. Franklin Furnace
6. Copyrights and patents
7. Long pinky nail
8. Lebanon

April 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 April 2

1. Being Sworn in to Testify before Congress or in a Court of Law
2. "Middle-earth" hairstyles
3. Help!
4. Radioactive waste
5. Not an April Fools joke
6. anarchist publication: Black Rose
7. Company Registration
8. Who has more spent on them, men or women?
9. A question to challenge your intelligence quotient - was it the original plan...?
10. Bret Harte accuracy
11. Formal dress
12. Smallest country
13. Cosmic Visions

April 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 April 3

1. Iran-U.S. War
2. Was d'Estaing a Huguenot?
3. Who would follow Pervez Musharraf?
4. When will Mothering Sunday next fall on March 12th?
5. The Guillotine
6. Romain Gary
7. Utilitarianism
8. Benching?
9. Holy See
10. Supreme Court Cases concerning student rights at school
11. Paintings by Dwight Frederick Kirsch
12. Zion National Park Name
13. Sartre on Stalin
14. Seder

April 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 April 4

1. Trying to find a 'how to draw' book
2. Board game history
3. My Country; right or wrong
4. broad mind and the world.
5. education
6. So what IS Pot Cravie?
7. Politicians and new media?
8. Scenario planning

April 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 April 5

1. Mongolia Map
2. Infallibility of the Church?
3. raising short-term interest rates
4. Dirty dancing carried to its logical extreme
5. oppy pomegranates at the Metropolitan Museum
6. Advancing the article to legitmate status
7. ata on women in paid workforce in the states of the US
8. Preston Tucker article
9. Which Corporations sell these:
10. Last name (family name) conventions in Mexico
11. Consensus and unanimity
12. What were Samuel Beckett's political views

April 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 April 6

1. Sweeping the floor
2. Philosophical idea?
3. Medæval Haircut
4. Cheating in a Relationship
5. Central Powers Plans
6. ritain's resistance to Ireland's independence
7. Chak De
8. Jesus' crucifixion

April 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 April 7

1. New motive revealed?
2. Concrete Mixing Trucks & Corporations manufaturing them
3. Spiro Agnew vandalism?
4. Keys of musical instruments
5. Looking for award list and particular book
6. Latin usage in the House of Lords Minutes
7. Anti-American Latino Presidents
8. Questions about Chechens/Greek/Turkish ethnic tensions and population transfers
9. Who Says that Existence Precedes Essence?
10. Jews
11. Emergency Government
12. United States Congressional committees

April 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 April 8

1. Economics problem!
2. Can anyone identify this painting?
3. Lincoln`s cabinet
4. veterans of the punitive expedition against Pancho Villa (1916-7) and the Russian expedition (begun during WWI, and lasting for over one year)
5. Some people call her Maurice
6. ragon Ball (Z and GT too)
7. US vs. Iran in 1980s/naval conflicts
8. iberty, Equality, Fraternity
9. Utilitarianism can only ever lead to the treatment of individuals as means rather than ends in themselves.’ Discuss
10. Is there any way I can find out who purchased Piero Manzoni's shitcans in 1961?
11. US Military Code of Conduct in dealing with enemy POWs

April 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 April 9

1. s poetry dead
2. mall companies and Credit Ratings?
3. statute of limitation in NSW, Australia
4. Asana
5. the middle ages - LAST-NAMES
6. scottish poet 20th century
7. Christianity and denominations
8. olice brutality
9. civilians in war
10. How to start an article?

April 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 April 10

1. iotto Painting
2. State Court Decision
3. on Juan, Byron
4. yes
5. Need help finding quotation, possibly Aristotle
6. risis of modernity
7. Why is this hard to say?
8. Unfair exchange
9. Monk's Haircut
10. ystics
11. 'ends'
12. Largest organized crime organization
13. Thunder Spirit - Native American legend
14. Where in Russia do "the Russians live", and why are those other parts Russian?
15. Which version of this painting is better?
16. A list of Social ranks in the medieval age
17. Medieval: Lord and Sir
18. Copyright information
19. Differences between human and other lifeforms
20. Weird Al Mona Lisa

April 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 April 11

1. Solving Murder Cases: A Statistics Source?
2. Buddhism death rights [i.e. rites]
3. Olympics: What it has done for the world
4. The Roman Catholic Church -Not Really Changed?
5. affen SS
6. ragon Ball
7. How Long was the Holocaust?
8. I am seeking information or previously published history regarding "baggy pants"

April 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 April 12

1. Northern Alliance
2. Classical music advice
3. mall companies and Credit Ratings?
4. Restlessness
5. Literary Interconnectedness
6. he muslim conquests
7. Longest serving Canadian Senator?
8. onnegut question
9. Celtic short Sword
10. punishments for breaking the law when one is an illegal immigrant
11. Second-order deity
12. t. Collins Colorado
13. acing east
14. Open-source license question
15. Peace/War Quote

April 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 April 13

1. Global Warming Economics
2. fund managers
3. Intellectual property rights
4. 1864 Election
5. Wen Jiabao in Japan : what does he speak?
6. uslim prayers
7. Presence of US troops
8. ESP
9. Government - the cyclical pattern in historical governments
10. [Jahbulon]]

April 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 April 14

1. economics
2. London Publications, A.D. 1596
3. North Korean copyright law
4. lio the Muse
5. Lebanon Political Term
6. Flags of Bavaria
7. Safeguards against censorship?
8. Impotence paradox
9. 3.7 Question regarding Eucharistic practices during Prohibition in the USA

April 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 April 15

1. Japan Policy on small arms
2. Archimedes
3. Natural foods
4. Infallibility of the Church -Can it be trusted? # Indulgence -an infallible doctrine?
5. Arbuthnot
6. list of commentable story news agencies
7. quality assurance and control
8. Hyperreal Religion
9. Mosiac of the Trans-Siberian Railroad composed of semi-precious stones and diamonds
10. Guilds.
11. Identifying the muses
12. The Smartest Guys in the Room
13. Elvis Presley
14. Does a copyright renewal for a book of short stories apply to the contained story, if that story has been published elsewhere first?

April 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 April 16

1. Shams
2. Afghani language
3. Bolivia Policy on Genocide
4. Old residential neighborhoods in Boston
5. ule for change of name
6. Articles onm Indian subjects, specially relgion, politics, mythology etc
7. Vrksasana Images
8. ver 1GB of writing
9. Existentialism
10. Alan Levine
11. n Japan in '30s
12. no reference to:
13. orst mass shooting in American history
14. ietnam

April 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 April 17

1. dragon_rider
2. Need info on war map/table/model...
3. Newspaper advertising culture in USA and developed world
4. ooking for Holder of Copyright
5. non-combatants/civilians in war
6. Lenin's pseudonym

April 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 April 18

1. Why Uppercases With Comic Strips?
2. longest prison sentence
3. Why do hunters with illegal firearms register their weapon in Japan
4. List of Chinese Fraternal Communist Parties in the USA
5. warrior cats volume 2 book 6 sunset
6. Lawyers & Law Offices/Firm (Legalities) Sites.
7. Boudica's age
8. books
9. Identify a famous impressionist painting
10. Question I can't find answer to? (Taxation WikiProject)
11. Amount of deaths of witches and accused witches
12. Logic argument
13. translation of the Qur'an used in the Baha'i Writings
14. history question
15. how do i form a state in the US?
16. Economic status versus the power to kill
17. Portugese people in Boston, Lincolnshire
18. Brave New World
19. Bolivian efforts to end genocide.

April 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 April 19

1. cyclic time
2. president
3. Catholic Belief About Life Before Birth?
4. Which Right-Wing dictatorships has Red China supported?
5. all of english literature from beowolf to beatnick?
6. What is the US law regulating game shows?
7. amurai
8. ire alarms
9. Help with quote:
10. Names
11. White Southeast Asians

April 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 April 20

1. The Great Game
2. List of animals commonly associated with nations?
3. artisan politics in Canada
4. What is CopyFree?
5. India, a Republic since 1947
6. List of online news agencies
7. explorations
8. John Mill
9. No article exists on the Ottoman-Safavid Wars
10. Attorney Client Privilege
11. Brave New World
12. Other similar names for "Yeshua of Nazareth"
13. S House of Representatives - 2006 results - Incumbents vs 'New' Candidates?

April 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 April 21

1. Original (or oldest Latin copy) of Jerome's De Viris Illustribus
2. Indian Dosas and French crepes
3. What does "Rememver the Alamo" mean?68.188.29.176 04:21, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
4. Virtue theory
5. Correct usage of titles JD and Esquire
6. Name that American war? (1891)
7. utility

April 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 April 22

1. Douglas Bader
2. stopping snap violence and road rage
3. adultery
4. Titus' birth date - which calendar?
5. RMS Aquitania 1917
6. American shade
7. Musicology: Moderna Laika
8. If someone is forced/blackmailed into commiting a crime
9. Nubia
10. All science a philosophy?
11. Boeotia's Ethnicity
12. Sung-Cho-Hui
13. pursuit of happiness

April 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 April 23

1. History of Abortion
2. M. Bade (or perhaps Bave), artist
3. Barack Obama was not assimilated
4. what are the largest cities in britain?
5. Political map of England (End of 17th century/1683) and map with the route between Newmarket and London (Rye House Plot)
6. what are the largest navies in the world
7. Nominations in French presidential election
8. eapon hordes
9. assess students performance by formal n communicative test how?
10. Research Question

April 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 April 24

1. Athenian Empire
2. Peloponnesian War
3. ouble first cousins half removed?
4. Who was the first person...
5. Nursery Rhyme
6. 1988 Shore Protection Act?
7. Any definite style guide information for single-line postal addresses?
8. How many local authorities are there in England and Wales?
9. Limbo vs. Purgatory
10. Weapons in the USA

April 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 April 25

1. Brave New World
2. Afghanistan
3. Afghanistan 2
4. John F. Kennedy meets Nikita Khrushchev
5. Hazara
6. Looking for the name and author of a poem!
7. Saki mentions Allies marching into Paris before 1904
8. Bible -Needs to be Interpreted by a Pope?
9. Are You Being Served?
10. Blank ballots in Argentine elections
11. Real estate question
12. Common sense and the Bible
13. Forgotten quotation
14. Wikipedia largest reference in what languages
15. Controlled Substances Act
16. Transportation in the 1800s
17. Mysterious Force
18. The Polish Question
19. red state blue state
20. what were humans doing around 784,000 BCE?
21. Name of George Orwell's teacher

April 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 April 26

1. Who is the smartest man ever?
2. "State" vs. "state"
3. Why are Liberals "Left" and Conservatives "Right"?
4. polygamy and adultery
5. nternational school in Poland
6. Where do "hunches" come from?
7. rice of oil in gold
8. globalism
9. How do I ?
10. incident in hyde park
11. Currency - Store locator
12. roger ebert
13. Auditor of the Exchequer for Scotland

April 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 April 27

1. origin of St. Peter at the pearly gates
2. vietnam war
3. SCOTUS opinions by justice
4. Burke and Romanticism
5. The four basic/fundamental types of democracy
6. Catholics' Responses to their Criticisms
7. scientific method
8. philosophy
9. our freedom to choose where we live.
10. Paying for Church service
11. Profit and Loss
12. American cultural literacy tests
13. Damages awarded would be tripled?
14. Author/professor

April 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 April 28

1. Unlikely UK book ownership statistic
2. "Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures" By Vincent Lam
3. ast redact of my map
4. USA vs USSR
5. Name for Stalin's and Hitler's hat
6. Fair tax or fair crap?
7. What a difference a decade makes...
8. Which King Louis was insane?
9. Florida child custody laws
10. WII and the War With Japan

April 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 April 29

1. [Coureur des bois|Coureurs des Bois]]
2. Would companies abuse if government turned its back...?
3. Verbal Contract
4. Difference in breach
5. ppendicitis
6. Lord Hanuman
7. Arlo & Janis
8. Homework (legal liability for motorbike)
9. Economic class
10. Homework (gambling and the law)
11. Dear dr.ef.tymac
12. GreatManTheory you are a genius!!

April 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2007 April 30

1. Military brat (U.S. subculture)
2. Newspaper question
3. Dark Side of the Moon
4. Pax Romana
5. Flowers offered to God
6. Scottish War of Independence-also a civil war?
7. Douglas Haig
8. Popish Plot
9. Catholic churches response to criticisms
10. air turbulence
11. Antonio's orderal
12. Courtship Rituals/Dating in the 70's, 80's
13. copyright status of PRC propaganda posters