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August 1

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 August 1

  1. Essays on Insurance Industry
  2. Who was Prince Maqhubu Dlamini?
  3. turkmenistan
  4. Looking for a term used for a type of person
  5. Lineage and possible inherited disease questiom
  6. German cultural institutions in Prague
  7. Forced population shifts in Biblical period

August 2

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 August 2

  1. Antigone the Play
  2. Stock movements in earnings season
  3. DBZ
  4. US Senate
  5. USS Nimitz
  6. Bengali Muslim surnames
  7. Scientology inspiration
  8. Officer-elect

August 3

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 August 3

  1. Death of a presidential candidate
  2. Pizza Hut and McDonald's
  3. Is Michael Stone (psychiatrist) American?
  4. Nudity question
  5. Indians head bobbing while speaking

August 4

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 August 4

  1. Western Wedding Customs Question
  2. Free historical trading data
  3. Would United States help Australia in a War?
  4. Mohammed
  5. Dramatic choral piece
  6. California's name change by usage method
  7. Did George VI ever have a coronation portrait?
  8. Ismene

August 5

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 August 5

  1. Why is Sweden considered the most irreligious?
  2. Extra Terrestrial Contact - USA Government Reaction?
  3. Number of computers
  4. What's profitable about common stocks that don't pay dividends?
  5. Futher nudity question

August 6

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 August 6

  1. Art for the Beatles Magical Mystery Tour Album
  2. silver trophies
  3. 31st April

August 7

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 August 7

  1. Contemporary Authors
  2. Isis adventure
  3. Among the liberators of the Auschwitz KL
  4. Canadian Idenity
  5. What's gonna happen to Obama's senate seat?
  6. Religions seeking temporal immortality

August 8

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 August 8

  1. Us Presidential yachts
  2. Why does Russia support Ossetian Independence?
  3. Who is Bishop Ron Woods Jr.

August 9

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 August 9

  1. Fining an estate
  2. What might "K.H." stand for?
  3. calculating millionaires
  4. Klangfarbenmelodie or not?
  5. Was Charlemagne declared Roman Dictator?
  6. Web/blogs on insurance industry to assist in assignments
  7. Russian peacekeepers in South Ossetia
  8. Bengali Kshatriya
  9. Afro-Arab
  10. Kierkegaard on television
  11. If the stock exchange is like a casino, where is the roulette?
  12. Making summaries, abstracts and indexes as a profession
  13. Name of piece of music
  14. Sodomy

August 10

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 August 10

  1. Even further nudity question
  2. Carriage 1920 Circa
  3. has a binding contract been formed between New-Wheels Ltd and Easyclean for the sale of the van at £12,000.
  4. Whites living in South Africa
  5. Historical Occupation
  6. Elizabeth II and the british and predecessor royal familiy
  7. How did Hamlet kill the king?
  8. leteratures

August 11

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 August 11

  1. Jacquelen Kennedy Onassis
  2. History of violence
  3. What flag/symbol is this?
  4. US State
  5. Circles of Hell
  6. Germany's municipal library and WWII
  7. Killing people
  8. WWII and the theft of a priceless chest

August 12

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 August 12

  1. japan's stand on unconditional aid.
  2. The Crown
  3. Source for quote
  4. Muslim pet owners
  5. Nazi photo manipulation?

August 13

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 August 13

  1. Assam and Maulana bhasani
  2. What was the "travel-bureau" mentioned in Jack Kerouac's "On the Road"?
  3. Joseph Stalin
  4. Rite of Spring Groups
  5. Carolyn Kennedy
  6. (American view of Russians)?
  7. Caroline B Kennedy Schlossberg

August 14

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 August 14

  1. What legally constitutes a parade?
  2. Name of Children's Picture Book
  3. Witch Trials in Sweden
  4. Trading on an American exchange
  5. Wendigo
  6. King Arthur and the Dark Age.
  7. The worm will turn
  8. Painter Identification
  9. Dark Age History
  10. Six Exercises of a Scholar

August 15

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 August 15

  1. Wole Soyinka - Background and Friezes
  2. Iranian Religions
  3. Series 7 Exam vs. the CSC
  4. United Kingdom defence spending
  5. Disney aid
  6. Two Olympic Questions
  7. Breuner Airfield
  8. technology and its impact on unemployment

August 16

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 August 16

  1. concession fees
  2. Can't remember what it's called...
  3. Diminishing marginal utility of education
  4. Who was Zhongyin (仲尹)?
  5. Mulatto Arabs
  6. When beinb discharged, how would military label field of op. for covert work?
  7. German Vordiplom in the UK or US
  8. Wigan
  9. Law question

August 17

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 August 17

  1. Historical hair: men's top knot
  2. Term White in US Surveys
  3. Huns in Europe
  4. Porn model rape
  5. Question: Comprehensive Resource Providing Profile/ID of Corporations and Organizations
  6. Finding a sculptor?
  7. Sand castle
  8. London 2012 - games of the XXX Olympiad
  9. history of 'year' dating
  10. bloodmoor suffolk england

August 18

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 August 18

  1. geography
  2. Ulster Plantation
  3. Can Musharraf be judged and receive a death sentence?
  4. Ancient government systems
  5. How easy is it to get a job in the EU outside the UK and Ireland if you only speak English?
  6. Biblical Prophecies

August 19

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 August 19

  1. oil paintings
  2. Quote!
  3. Why do many men prefer blue eyed, blonde women with pale skin?
  4. 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
  5. Poverty and prosperity
  6. Long Feet
  7. Esso & CAA

August 20

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 August 20

  1. re Russia/Georgia conflict
  2. Executive power
  3. Question!
  4. Roman Empire
  5. law question
  6. Meaning of life?
  7. first aid
  8. Russia's threats regarding the missle defense base in Poland
  9. Liberal Democratic Party of Russia

August 21

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 August 21

  1. Conservatism in the United States
  2. Family History
  3. Dead body outlined in chalk at a crime scene
  4. 1005
  5. What's Dalai Lama's nationality?

August 22

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 August 22

  1. Cousheries
  2. Historical estimates of marginal propensities to consume
  3. Counsel's notebook
  4. What is Shiv Sena stand on gays in Mumbai

August 23

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 August 23

  1. date of Jewish New Year 2008
  2. Ancient Rome capital punishment
  3. Nihilism
  4. Dia de los Muertos
  5. Nastia Liukin
  6. Politician attributes
  7. Mystery airplane
  8. Political system without new laws (ie. unchanging consitution)?
  9. Denmark and its shape
  10. What is the average size of a woman's breasts?
  11. Non Residents Pakistanis, Indian and Sri Lankans

August 24

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 August 24

  1. How culture and language contributes in the making of nationalism?
  2. Did Ancient Egypt control any part of Asia?
  3. Barack Obama's "Present" Votes
  4. Russian shirt - Dr Zhivago...
  5. Military Uniforms
  6. Organizational behavior management program
  7. Who memorized Homer?
  8. Turning 100 bucks into 1 million
  9. What is the easiest way to get a job in the UK?
  10. Keeping surname after marriage in Spain
  11. Avast, mateys
  12. crucifixion
  13. The Holocaust after the Holocaust
  14. name of liability law code

August 25

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 August 25

  1. India
  2. The Sinking of the Lusitania
  3. Happy Third Humanities Desk Anniversary!
  4. Raising the Chinese flag
  5. Viking Helmets
  6. Diplomatic immunity for governors of provinces in Ancient Rome
  7. Discriminative Discount?
  8. Movie Name
  9. Marguerite de la Roque

August 26

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 August 26

  1. Question about an Italian monk (or priest) who built an aqueduct in the 1960s in Africa
  2. Slayer rule for titles?
  3. Christian Universalism
  4. Kievan sculpture story, please
  5. how HR is profitable to any company````
  6. Canadian politics
  7. God's Kingdom and Islam
  8. Tafsir Bible?
  9. What is used in making Plaid Decorator Glaze?
  10. Image at royal.gov.uk, Two kings shaking hands
  11. Software Trademark Law

August 27

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 August 27

  1. Lovecraft/Cthulhu Mythos.
  2. WTC steel cross
  3. Hearing aids
  4. Government sans parties
  5. The electoral college (USA)
  6. Identifying 17th century portrait painter
  7. Constitution Party (United States)

August 28

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 August 28

  1. Prophet Daniel
  2. Oldest epic found
  3. PALOMA - Mascot of the 1968 Summer Olympic Games in Mexico City - a white on black dove or a red jaguar?
  4. Workplace environment restrictions
  5. US GDP Inputs - % Breakdown?
  6. Why is Jeffrey Dahmer a murderer of children?
  7. Americans with health insurance denied coverage
  8. Communal politics.
  9. When is there only a judge and when is there a jury?
  10. the angel of the lord

August 29

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 August 29

  1. Barack Hussein Obama's Name
  2. GPL and Works of the Federal Government
  3. Sources on the social history of England in the high middle ages
  4. Friendships

August 30

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 August 30

  1. Economies of scale in philanthropy
  2. Christian Universalism in Sydney
  3. Guinness
  4. Public nudity in the United States
  5. Constitution of India
  6. In Roman time
  7. Name of a Greek Citizen in Ancient Greek Society and his occupation
  8. from Beyond Good and Evil
  9. Loking for information about the roles of a police officer, probation officer within the youth offending serice please.

August 31

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 August 31

  1. Large Religious Faction absent from the Christianity Portal
  2. Public domain MP3OGG JapaneseChineseGreek music for download?
  3. Eurasians in Japan
  4. Odd vote in a U.S. political convention roll call
  5. Who do you think you are?
  6. Greek to Turkish
  7. ALGER HISS
  8. Last year of peace in recorded history? Was there really ever one?
  9. Old Norse litterary/ historical reference for "Blokumannaland"
  10. What are the world's earliest known silly songs?
  11. Open Flag