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August 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2011 August 1

1. service records
2. Prefecture ethnic composition in PRC
3. How to connect continents
4. Anonymous prisoners
5. Finding a gem cutter
6. northern dancer, horse racing

August 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2011 August 2

1. Could you find better deals for these commercial kitchen items?
2. Puke Albania
3. "The Three Graces", Liverpool
4. Could Honda do an undo ?
5. U S Congressman Joe Pool
6. Individual US Congress members' votes
7. Possible careers?

August 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2011 August 3

1. nostradamus's best and worst predictions?
2. Extra Dry Martini, how to drink it?
3. a list of favorite articles
4. Old lift
5. High Speed 1 KML?
6. 200 mm like 300 mm lens
7. Disparaging quips about grown men wearing shorts

August 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2011 August 4

1. Marketing a small magazine
2. How to launch downloaded xml-dump of wiki database with my local MySql?
3. Mod Aashto in civil engineering and construction
4. Spiders
5. Facebook problem
6. Tinning Copper Pots
7. Municipal rubbish dump in Jaipur?

August 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2011 August 5

1. Pretoecting original work, while still putting it online
2. Airport built by Army in Orlando 1951
3. Correcting a factual error
4. Celebrations

August 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2011 August 6

1. Book Layouts
2. Which old book said earth is a penal colony for criminal souls from other planets to get reformed?
3. 3 4 the price of 1 which is free
4. Alcohol tax
5. Leica's price
6. Are dog whistles outside the human range of hearing?

August 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2011 August 7

1. Leon Redbone in advertising
2. Identify these two videos
3. check a long audio recording file for some sounds
4. 197? Seaman's strike
5. Accident:incident as x:y
6. Odd timezones

August 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2011 August 8

1. Astrology: Children's intellectual level based on parents' astrological signs
2. leopard skin hijab
3. Farsala trilogy?

August 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2011 August 9

1. Swimming with sharks
2. dog food allergies
3. Things to do in Nice?
4. Where to spend a week at Christmas?

August 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2011 August 10

1. Traffic laws
2. What's wrong with my bike?

August 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2011 August 11

1. how or where do I go to find out the price value of an antique?
2. A gold color quarter
3. How large is the Citywest Hotel, anyway?
4. Dots per inch and image quality
5. canadian taxes
6. Zombie ants!

August 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2011 August 12

1. Government Salaries for Memebrs of Congress, & President of the US and former US Presidents
2. Hidden IP addresses in Wikipedia's history
3. Photographing teenagers when on holiday
4. LOT
5. Situation for batter in caught stealing third out?

August 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2011 August 13

1. What is the longest first down deficit faced by an NFL team?
2. About online advertising terms.
3. History or origin of Rosamond road naming in Maidstone Victoria
4. Brooklyn, N.Y. neighborhoods
5. Historical Exchange Rates
6. technology
7. Architecture: what is this called?
8. Stickum use in Rugby
9. Itunes tax

August 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2011 August 14

1. How does Wal-Mart "remember" banned patrons?
2. Bible question
3. Losing your boarding pass during a flight
4. Olympus lenses question

August 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2011 August 15

1. Basis for sexual pleasure in Pegging
2. S.T.A.T.
3. best route from Bhairawa to Kathmandu in Nepal
4. Sioux Reservation
5. Demographics_of_the_People's_Republic_of_China
6. Baby In Flight
7. first nation, metis or inuit
8. Map font
9. Are prices negotiable at high-end retailers?

August 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2011 August 16

1. Am I hearing this correctly?
2. tristan benjamin
3. Copyright tags
4. Milwaukee Jeweler's from 1920's
5. Novel questions

August 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2011 August 17

1. Supernatural
2. manish sisodia
3. Details of Rape
4. Which?
5. Trying to make sense of this image
6. Listing
7. GAFFA TAPE

August 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2011 August 18

1. Book publishers
2. Diesel cash vs. credit payment
3. Electricity Supplier on Reunion Island
4. What Are These Things Called and What Are They For?
5. Microphones
6. I'm in a little situation...
7. Why Elizabethan_collars work?
8. Royal Bank of Canada - Branding
9. News story of a child who was kept in a wardrobe?
10. Receipt question
11. Films about an individual overcoming alone all odds through ingenuity

August 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2011 August 19

1. is this really a word?
2. Photocopiers so simple even a woman can use them
3. George Lucas, Star Wars and Copyright
4. HP spinning off its PC division
5. Citing a historical map

August 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2011 August 20

1. Air traffic control
2. Morphy vs. Fischer
3. Pink Air
4. Platformate
5. New page
6. Strange road signs in Germany
7. Why are stereotypical gay men funny
8. Going to Slovenia or Croatia?
9. Gold coins as investment

August 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2011 August 21

1. Fashion - What is the propper cuff size for flared / bell bottom pants?
2. Debt-snowball method
3. Holy Bible
4. Cinema center films pressbook ( A Boy Named Charlie Brown ) Charlie Brown and the Peanuts Gang in their First Movie. original Folder dated 08/17/1969
5. Underground Railroad Notable Locations
6. Type of Jeans Usher and Justin Bieber wear

August 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2011 August 22

1. Tor Proxy error..please help
2. 1000 $
3. Possible poisonnous plant growing wild in backyard

August 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2011 August 23

1. I need some assistance in editing some road pages in NJ.
2. Macaulay Honors College
3. Paint roller vs. compressed air sprayer
4. Documenting a Travel Route to Post Online
5. regarding tesco
6. Capitalization of first letter of each title word
7. Destination blinds on bendy buses

August 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2011 August 24

1. lsm and the local churches witness lee
2. Will-yum by fred neher
3. Cockpit voice recorder
4. Reverse biomimicry

August 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2011 August 25

1. scouts jamboree Australia 2011
2. India's image
3. Which sea borders the most countries?
4. Prison and earthquakes

August 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2011 August 26

1. Internet as therapy for social anxiety
2. Unusual International Borders?
3. on sale
4. Wich date of the race is correct?
5. Periódicos

August 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2011 August 27

1. Belgium Croix de Guerre WWII Medal
2. UK History 16th century
3. inflating boats
4. Alejandro Lerroux
5. Source of Osama Bin Laden Photo?

August 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2011 August 28

1. Bar on the bus
2. Perfume
3. 2011 Tōhoku Earthquake and Tsunami Rescue Teams and Number of Organizations
4. blogging specifics
5. amazon.co.uk

August 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2011 August 29

1. US Navy ships named after places and their relationship with those places.
2. Toilet seat falls forward
3. What does "Class of ... " mean?
4. help (Africaans drive shaft question)
5. Mosts (fics, words by an author, etc.) on fanfiction.net
6. Getting red-run out of a blue and white crocheted kippa
7. A new article about my company
8. Creating a jury-rigged headlight
9. Drinking Age in Barbados?

August 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2011 August 30

1. 1995 caprice engine trouble
2. appliances?
3. Is there a wiki-how-to?
4. Brand names which are used for both automobiles and elevators
5. Articles about 3D/360-degree product photography?
6. Getting from Nice Airport to Vence
7. Montana's bald spot

August 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2011 August 31

1. Climbing Everest with Zero mountaineering experience
2. 1950's comic book
3. James Randi and God
4. Doppelgangers
5. The most popular names for the main street of a town in the US
6. Olympus µ/Stylus 700/710
7. Legal in US State A, Felony in US State B?
8. Old sailing ships sirca 1800's
9. Geometry functions
10. Machines / things that we no longer know how they work