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January 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 January 1

1. Official side of North Korean power transfer
2. Hindi & Punjabi Names for Mount Everest

January 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 January 2

1. Ethics of photoshopping
2. Japanese equivalent to the McCollum memo ?
3. How exclusive is the path to enlightenment?
4. Liberation of St. Peter question
5. Translated in English Wikipedia article
6. History book about South Korea?

January 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 January 3

1. Islam in Europe and Africa
2. Bangladesh Jatiya Party and Islami oikkya Jote
3. fictional Bangladeshi political party
4. What is the most significant....
5. Tahitian display image
6. Deficit
7. Kosovo War in the 90s
8. my Great Britain
9. Is there much support in Argentina for the Falklands remaining British?
10. Lend-Lease
11. Joisey

January 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 January 4

1. The Indian Rupee Rising
2. Who won?
3. the Government of Canada as a contractor to the US government
4. Abe Lincoln's haircut
5. pre-1973 local elections in the United Kingdom
6. Ismieal Muhsin
7. Hindu Gurungs
8. Legal successorship - Kingdom of Italy and the Republic of Italy
9. Book recommendations
10. Indian architecture

January 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 January 5

1. Black slavery in Bangladesh
2. Measure of Science
3. Official status of the Hungarian language between 1849 and 1867
4. Michael D. Higgins knee operation in 2004?
5. Alvin Goldman (1967) and requirements for knowledge
6. There is a canon which confines a curse to fifty lines
7. Clarification of the Role of Super Delegates in the Republican Primaries
8. Oprah's lucky opportunities
9. History of a metonym
10. Seeking information on electoral fraud

January 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 January 6

1. UK "ethnic minority controversy" related question - looking for an article on something
2. Shaktism
3. Help me find the lost article: List of possible Antichrists (or something to that effect)
4. Hungary
5. fax machines
6. :File:Mary Custis Lee and Robert E. Lee Jr 1845.jpg
7. Santa Claus letters
8. Please help (church questions)
9. ablaq masonry

January 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 January 7

1. Aragon
2. The underground war
3. Are there any non-military companies, organizations or countries whose secrecy rivals (or at least matches or is close to) that of Apple?
4. Does anyone know any good quotes relating to beginning/ amateur poets?
5. New Hampshire Primaries
6. What title would Camilla have if she outlives Charles?
7. US House of Representative and Senate seats New York Dearborn Minneapolis

January 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 January 8

1. Identities of the two ministers who betrayed Liliuokalani
2. Erotic asphyxiation
3. Ron Paul's military service
4. Canadian
5. Quebec

January 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 January 9

1. Criticism of University
2. The first execution with lethal injection in the US
3. our society

January 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 January 10

1. Largest dowry in lands
2. Scotland's records of birth at ScotlandsPeople.gov.uk
3. Census 1911 Lancashire, England
4. Theme park
5. what's it called when two temporally different storylines in one book/film, e.g. the new madonne film?
6. Surnames as movie titles
7. Pretending to take medicine: is it real?
8. spy cities
9. Maximum duration of a contract

January 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 January 11

1. Why was Guinness given a 9,000 year lease?
2. US citizenship and voting
3. The Awntyrs off Arthure
4. Simple questions from a non-english speaking country
5. Horizontal map of California
6. ecoche --- in relation to human anatomy
7. Ordination question
8. old newspapers and mazagines?
9. Byzantine empire
10. Voter ID laws
11. Hosanna-Tabor v. EEOC

January 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 January 12

1. US code
2. Reine de Tahiti Pomare IV
3. Crop circles?
4. patent costs?
5. Box office results for Mainland Chinese film
6. A Company Law Question
7. what's the difference between being single and divorce?
8. Is it Governor or Ambassador Huntsman

January 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 January 13

1. Decadent, short-lived cigar
2. Government of Singapore when it was part of Malaysia
3. Christian/catholic church VS. science
4. Pawley & Corkran kidnapped in Manchuria
5. A poem starting with the line...
6. most famous city for opera in Italy
7. Studies of profitability of patents
8. Distribution of scores on political compass
9. Are "fiction" and "non-fiction" genres?

January 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 January 14

1. Mozilla
2. Looking for an article on responsibility and social involvement
3. Assassinations and international law
4. Race and census
5. Argument for existence of god
6. Policies and positions of US presidential candidates
7. Are potlatch customs a function of languistic difficulty?
8. Why don't news stories have background music anymore?
9. Hostility towards Christianity today vs early America

January 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 January 15

1. Italian maritime investigation authorities
2. Exiled Queen of Raiatea
3. Cuba
4. Placing the right hand over the heart during the playing of a national anthem?
5. Underground Warfare
6. Why aren't non-Muslims allowed to make the hajj?
7. What is flawed in Ely Cathedral ?
8. Liberal convention Canada
9. Criminalisation of murder

January 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 January 16

1. Getting a checking account
2. Late-2000s financial crisis
3. Battle of Te Feipī
4. A little help from the historians
5. Great Expectations book - which one

January 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 January 17

1. "Glorifying UNESCO"
2. Query on the booklet 'Reiterfestspiel das Dragoner Regiments "Konig" '
3. How many times has wikipedia engaged in political activity
4. Circle of politics
5. Military Law - what would this soldier be charged with?
6. Countries without police or armed police
7. How to learn Sri Lanka Tamil?
8. Statistics of Atheist Comedians

January 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 January 19

1. How long will English Wikipedia shut down?
2. Why doesn't the US start a war against North Korea or Cuba?
3. Corporations testifying
4. Best way to get lobbying money out of Congress?
5. Is there an SEC law that says CEOs can't say profit?
6. Famous Tahitians
7. moral values of youth in the development of a nation
8. list of upcoming university inaugurations
9. What is the Orgin of "Architectural Squiggles"?
10. Centennial Celebration

January 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 January 20

1. Sino-Sikh War fact check?
2. Sources for Ocean County Sheriff's Department
3. Governors of Rashidun, Umayyad and Abbasid Caliphates
4. Blame for WWI
5. Blackness
6. Insurance
7. What nations that have financial troubles would be keen to enact a "Verbal Morality Statute?"
8. Teuira Henry
9. Political weight of being faithful
10. The South After the Reconstruction

January 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 January 21

1. Crazy (purely philosophical viewpoint)
2. Tahitian Dogs
3. Poi Dog
4. Marginal propensity to consume at very high income
5. Siege of Antioch - positions stephen of bios & anonymous author gesta
6. are baby tigers dangerous?
7. Salt and silver
8. How do American film studios and music recording companies pressure the US government into basically violating international law?
9. Lost African statue
10. ISSN registration and ad hoc frequency

January 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 January 22

1. Surnames as movie titles – feedback
2. Forgiveness without repentance
3. Murder in Oxford
4. Economic left but social conservative and economic right but social liberal
5. saluting during a foreign anthem
6. Collective term for groups of people with physical disabilities and people with special needs
7. Negative campaigning and the political system
8. Rail crash at Concord West
9. J. Edgar Hoover
10. Kalām cosmological argument
11. siblings on either side of the law
12. George Orwell's Homage to Catalonia
13. Public Broadcasting System
14. National Gallery info

January 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 January 23

1. National conservatism in Europe
2. What denomination do born-again Christians belong to?
3. Overturning Dred Scott
4. Why didn't the US kill Che earlier?
5. How likely is intelligence?
6. Copyright in US judicial decisions
7. rights of a tenant
8. History
9. Is there a relationship between the analysis of King Lear and the contemporary culture wars?
10. Bengalis in former British colonies
11. Give It Your Best!
12. number of men who had membership in puritan church who sign mayflower compact
13. accounts of 17th century weddings

January 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 January 24

1. Argentina and the Falklands during WWII - general questions
2. Mormonism and the US Presidency
3. President of the United States whose most recent service was House of Representatives
4. Wikipedia books
5. Memphis desegregation
6. getting in touch with Valerie Browne Lester
7. What is the mainstream economists' view of the New Deal?
8. "Default through inflation"
9. Pope Gregory XI

January 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 January 25

1. What makes a fictional work existential
2. Does India get its oil from the Strait of Hormuz?
3. the 17th century equivalent of 'decor'
4. WWII pilot commemorative plush toy
5. David Stuart (Michigan politician) : cause of miltary career brutal end in 1863 ?
6. Egg coddler

January 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 January 26

1. Theoretical stance of Australian Labour and Liberal parties
2. Russian Revolution reasons
3. Cartilage, Curtilage
4. Girard, Philadelphy

January 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 January 27

1. Voting patterns in presidential election of 1860
2. Pachelbel's Canon/Werner Herzog/The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
3. Video in the National Archives
4. Congressional Visit to Hawaii in early 1900s
5. All WP articles lead to philosophy
6. God's will and free will

January 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 January 28

1. Black women single?
2. Interracial love
3. Ark of the Covenant makes you implode? Can't the suicidal test this?
4. Why did pre-Columbian civilisations arise in such odd places?
5. Rivers of the British Isles Map
6. Blue-red-green flag
7. Gog and Magog
8. Serbian Orthodox church

January 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 January 29

1. Why are most countries that have capital punishment poor?
2. How to indicate a book title w/out italics or underlining
3. Israel
4. loan calculation
5. Ethnic Cleansing.
6. Aldous Huxley available online

January 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 January 30

1. Looking for the wording and source of a Jewish quote/adage/saying
2. Was Galois Welsh?
3. Pros and cons of each type personal finance accounts
4. Copyright in UK
5. Executive Orders / Large denomination currency
6. Is Transnistria communist?
7. Percentage of HIV-positive people among homosexuals
8. Scissors and Superglue
9. French universities alumni muslim leaders
10. Current event: Woman in Bebee, AR who fished $1M winning scratch ticket out of trash bin
11. Novels with Character Legend/Key
12. What are “autonomous sketches?” re: Hieronymous Bosch article
13. Who painted this picture?

January 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 January 31

1. Biblical calendar
2. The key of a piece of music
3. Why can't the EU just abuse their fiat currency?
4. Old comic strip
5. David Stuart (Michigan politician) : cause of military career brutal end in 1863 ?
6. Analogue to sadism
7. Central bank money printing
8. Scotland
9. Most extreme outlier case of patent success in recent history