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October 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 October 1

1. How many black African immigrants in India and China?
2. Blacks in South America
3. Economics research
4. 5 most important dates in classical antiquity
5. monks walk
6. Afro-Arab
7. Presidential nominee
8. When did Indians start moving to England?
9. Architect
10. Plato and Aristotle on Knowledge
11. teosophy and root races

October 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 October 2

1. Psychological self-treatment
2. Nigerian press
3. Dass local government
4. Open meeting vs closed meeting
5. ¿ Is “ textual ” copy of the Bible ?

October 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 October 3

1. uncommitted ohio voters
2. Hawaii Prepaid Healthcare Act
3. Treasury_security#TIPS
4. Titanic (1997 film)
5. Indigenous patterns throughout Central America
6. Chinese in Africa
7. Pyramid
8. Islam fasting and activities
9. What is this symbol?
10. Back issues of Irano-Judaica?
11. If two gay consenting adults have sex in KSA, is it illegal?
12. Baron George Wrangell

October 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 October 4

1. jocasta
2. The Man Who Liked Dickens
3. Affair of the Diamond Necklace question
4. David Gisser
5. Sistine chapel ceiling - classification requested
6. McCain as Maverick

October 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 October 5

1. Today's bailout verses the 1929 depression
2. English Consumer Law
3. London railway station logos
4. is there any user with astrology and magick knowledge?
5. Why isn't this little girl....
6. Election of 1824 electoral college
7. book a rabbi carries

October 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 October 6

1. New Photographic Genre (style), undeclared, as such, anywhere...
2. Short story called "The Mnemone"
3. Political careers
4. companies for $0.99c
5. hindu
6. Politics and Tribalism
7. Clock painting
8. Afro-Desi

October 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 October 7

1. Existing Gulags?
2. Industries open to the world to compete in but utterly dominated by a region or cultural bloc
3. Treasury bonds' risk
4. Offline information
5. Proof of address
6. do violinists get callouses the way guitar players do?
7. fly"s eye dome
8. When was the last time Michigan voted for a Republican presidential candidate?
9. politic in USA
10. Searching for an article on the problem of bearerless names
11. Need reference re: Aroostook War

October 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 October 8

1. Opinions
2. Zhuang people
3. 2008 Thai political crisis
4. Swaziland's Territory Claims
5. Pashtun
6. Baloch sindhi film industry
7. Cults
8. what makes a new edition of a book?
9. The Electoral College
10. Senators Obama and McCain, after the election
11. Chinese reform
12. Napoleon

October 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 October 9

1. date formats around the world
2. Hummanities homework!!
3. I can't find the damn website!
4. Canterbury Tales
5. Why Asian Women & White men?

October 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 October 10

1. Austrapolithecus
2. Russia/Georgia conflict
3. Unusual, ribbony necktie thing
4. Creative Commons question
5. Collateral damage of fixing the financial system
6. President and VP boarding the same plane
7. countries with the least discrimateion? [discrimination]
8. Highest Stock Price
9. If Palin's elected, what happens to her governorship?
10. Painting of George III

October 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 October 11

1. Why the Japanese Navy didn't occupy Hawaii in World War 2?
2. Looking for a quote allegedly by Bertrand Russell
3. law
4. Causes of death in royal families in history
5. In defense of poor women
6. Nazi Germany map, confused

October 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 October 12

1. Michigan online high schools
2. Titanic

October 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 October 13

1. UK Citizenship
2. What does a 0.5% lowering of interest mean?
3. Modern use of pirate flag (Jolly Roger)
4. Alchemical Image Query?
5. Does the term Neo-Hinduism have any consistant meaning?

October 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 October 14

1. Building of the Parthenon
2. Remedios Varo painting
3. Hal Bevan Petman
4. Looking for an image: Badge of the House of Windsor
5. British finance rescue
6. Credit default swaps
7. World Population by Gender
8. Economics
9. WW2: European collaboration with Third Reich Germany/Austria

October 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 October 15

1. St Paul's Cathedral blueprint
2. Vincent Van Gogh quote
3. Archeology: Mega
4. reagan, ronald
5. who is this guy?
6. Origins of a phrase: "Like ships in the night"
7. LAND RIGHTS AND THE RIGHT TO VOTE!
8. Nature of Opinions (I am not asking for an opinion about something)
9. Poet Gilbert Maxwell
10. 1920's Marriage Laws
11. If the President and Vice -President are dead...
12. Presidential "Candidate" or "President Elect" Succession

October 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 October 16

1. Is China's political system robust enough to withstand the global financial crisis
2. UK Banking problem ... solution
3. President and Vice President nominees
4. What determines the value of money and is there a safety for capitalist economies from the hoarding of wealth by the wealthy?

October 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 October 17

1. Roanoke colony
2. Fire Alarm
3. What did John Wesley thought of the French Revolution?
4. Plato's and Aristotle's schools
5. Prediction in the Social Science
6. India Today
7. Sueing for Peace
8. Subsidized Housing

October 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 October 18

1. How long since the Chicago Tribune endorsed a Democratic nominee for President?
2. Library Records
3. What is this a reference to?
4. collect data on India's current account balance, capital account balance and forex reserves for the period 2001-2006 and list the major features
5. First photograph
6. US demographics by state
7. Jack Kerouac - "On the road" - looking for a quotation
8. Foreclosed land
9. Decline of science fiction?
10. How much money does a porno website make?

October 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 October 19

1. Prime Minister of Israel
2. Estimated Living AND dead world population as of 2008?
3. hindu religion
4. Origin of quote
5. women in public life
6. Judicial
7. Investment Trader Weekly Report
8. Iceland has gone bankrupt -really?
9. Kiwanis Club International constitution and bylaws
10. poverty
11. Can USA Democratic or Republican Parties expel members?

October 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 October 20

1. history of the lily as a symbol
2. The Chosen quotation
3. Obscure George Orwell question
4. Painting of a girl
5. VAT
6. Grounding/justification for human rights
7. Hereditary peers
8. Heavenbound?

October 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 October 21

1. Finance - Rights and Warrants
2. Latin initials
3. Copyrighted music in non-commerical media
4. Japanese Americans During WWI
5. Okinawa Dugong v. Rumsfeld
6. Cemeteries
7. Childrens Book Title
8. New Hampshire dates for voting since 1776
9. ROBERT CLARK -NAME CHANGED IN 1958 IN N.Y.C.
10. Candidates from former American states
11. BET telethon

October 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 October 22

1. "Joe the Plumber" airtime
2. Re: Which historical Pharaoh would be a possible candidate for the one Yu-Gi-Oh! makes mention of.
3. Dating Australian girls
4. Identification of national dress?
5. Who was the first pope to wear glasses?
6. Short story about man dying on the moon
7. Scala cronicas
8. Insider trading & credit crisis
9. When will the result of the 2008 Presidential Election come out?
10. Oath making and the need to speak

October 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 October 23

1. Double negative law terminology
2. George IV - date oddity on map
3. American elections?
4. Inflation in Britain
5. US President and Vice President not allowed on same plane
6. What's the title of a newspaper called?
7. The Buddha
8. Invention
9. what had the greater total sum effect on human civilization?

October 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 October 24

1. Size of US debt under Republican presidents vs. Democratic presidents
2. Politics of Japan and UN Security Council Reform
3. Indios visiting Pedro II of Brazil in 1898 photograph
4. Village Cry Gysin photo
5. history of gurmukh singhwala
6. Biblioteca Reale
7. electronic publishing
8. the difference between fencing and swordsmanship
9. Jorg Haider
10. Ulster County Gazette

October 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 October 25

1. Swordfighting representations
2. China, India, Japan and Russia
3. Such Sweet Thunder
4. Bangladeshi Buddhist and Christians vs. politics
5. Eastern European human appearances
6. ex-USSR city name changes
7. kichener
8. Can anyone here tell me anything about this photograph?
9. Statistics For Ministry Burnout after Bible College/Seminary
10. If a president resigns, why does he submit his resignation to the Secretary of State?
11. Did Cicero Really Say This?

October 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 October 26

1. Now for something my friend and I disagree on...
2. Did Enoch Really Die ?
3. Obscure mythological question
4. Sagacity
5. English professors and felonies
6. Flag
7. Diwali and Durga Puja

October 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 October 27

1. Michel Suleiman iftar party
2. US Presidential elections
3. Longest lived minister
4. Newspaper endorsement party switches in the United States presidential elections
5. Military Strategies in Feudal Japan
6. Six Story Types
7. Religion - Buddhism
8. Alaskan Independence Party
9. Is Mary Jesus's mother or wife?
10. Magic 60 for US Senate filibuster

October 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 October 28

1. Coporate Social Responsiblity
2. Aid for Microsoft in Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008?
3. How does a share dividend make shareholders better off?
4. Canadian and American human appearances
5. men sexual behaviour
6. The ACTUAL English "Throne"
7. Hazara People
8. Afro-Desi
9. U.S. between WW1 and the Cold War
10. US Export Control intent
11. What is a person?
12. Massacre of Glencoe - the song
13. Five minutes of fame... in 1700

October 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 October 29

1. Statue on the Zeil in Frankfurt Germany
2. Chair not allowed to vote?
3. Always 4 years between US elections?
4. Wearing motorcycle helmets inside shops (UK)
5. The daily lives of people in history
6. Lilith Fact or fiction?
7. Volkswagen
8. tag British news presenter and politicians are wearing at the moment

October 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 October 30

1. the lords prayer
2. Willian McGonagall
3. Asian to White Racial Transformation
4. Abraham killing an Idolator
5. Lying in polls
6. The legal importance of a comma

October 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 October 31

1. Enjambment
2. Homosexuality
3. Sierra Leone Civil War
4. Yet another US election question
5. UN
6. Baby slapping
7. Halloween, an adult holiday?
8. Coca-Cola
9. does someone know about this book
10. President
11. Did an American soldier ever kill a Russian soldier in the Cold War?