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January 1[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2012 January 1

  1. Muslims in Samoa missing a day of prayer?
  2. Robert E Lee Museum, in Biloxi, MS

January 2[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2012 January 2

  1. Bulls in India
  2. Iowa caucuses
  3. british royal marine uniform
  4. How to launch a sequential gearbox without launch control
  5. measuring usage in hours vs miles
  6. Correct way to address an unknown academic
  7. talk : roommate, account and pw
  8. Cleaning a mobile phone
  9. Snow Goose dramatization by Nat Wolff
  10. NOT medical advice :P
  11. celtic godess.blodaiwythSuzukialf (talk) 16:58, 2 January 2012 (UTC)
  12. How do you call...
  13. Replacing land line with cel phone
  14. Ulysses S Grant Museum, in Biloxi, MS.
  15. The diversity of Innovation ideas are great
  16. DejaVu? Maybe -

January 3[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2012 January 3

  1. Chess problem, getting stalemate
  2. Name of State
  3. USPS total failure
  4. Yellow heavy equipment

January 4[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2012 January 4

  1. The founder of the pyramid of Giza
  2. Letters in car
  3. Towing capacity

January 5[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2012 January 5

  1. Personnel Flight Records
  2. Wikipedia map question
  3. Writing an article
  4. You have a formula one racing citation that I didn't find any history of, Will you please answer a question
  5. Share Market, Share Price, Nifty, NSE, BSE
  6. Ultima Adaptogens
  7. Suggestions for volunteer work
  8. Film about group of people after graduation
  9. HM Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain and the Commonwealth - her Estate upon her Death.
  10. Lights in my basement ceiling
  11. Help! Cooking officinadoes please respond! Kid's waffle cake hangs in the balance!

January 6[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2012 January 6

  1. Colours of clothes
  2. revenge plot
  3. meaning of Swafournadas
  4. Coco Cola Ad
  5. 24 speeds not enough?
  6. What is the proper way of pointing out a history article is factually incorrect (example "Printing Press")?
  7. German companies
  8. How does the government respond to the needs of the people it governs?
  9. Tequila lyrics

January 7[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2012 January 7

  1. Anybody got a weiner in their hand?
  2. Familiar Expressions
  3. Need word
  4. Please calculate the cost of shipping container homes?
  5. Jigsaw Puzzles
  6. Pikachu?

January 8[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2012 January 8

  1. Cameras in cell-phones
  2. Ants in coffee
  3. Age of Adam at creation
  4. Smoke from the hood
  5. Laugh
  6. Cuff Links
  7. First modern newspaper horoscope - when?

January 9[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2012 January 9

  1. Official plans in the event of very highly unlikely scenarios
  2. Video of a debate between a Republican, a Democrat, and a Libertarian

January 10[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2012 January 10

  1. Jewish dyers
  2. Factual inacuracy - South Africa
  3. Wikipedia, a prehistoric conflict
  4. High level technical people in STEM fields who never went to college and didn't start their own company in the past 50 years
  5. Deficiencies in an article
  6. science and pseudoscience

January 11[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2012 January 11

  1. Online word count software with specific parameters
  2. traduction
  3. Hermann, Engels, Man Syndrome
  4. The Netherlands
  5. HS1 and HS2
  6. 'The United Kingdom, Principality and Province'?
  7. atheletics world records
  8. C Registration

January 12[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2012 January 12

  1. Calculation of Flourecent power usage.
  2. Cannot locate a topic and need help

January 13[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2012 January 13

  1. Hobby colliding with economical activity
  2. Blue stains on artificial vagina
  3. American flag with 13 stars in a circle...
  4. Identification of Halal meat in retail outlets
  5. Wester Arbreck, Scotland
  6. Old Pontiac

January 14[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2012 January 14

  1. How much Prime Healthcare Services bought each of their hospitals?
  2. Question about Japanese celebrities
  3. Full-grain or corrected grain leather shoes
  4. Credit rating outlooks
  5. North Korean constitution vs. reality
  6. Costa Concordia

January 15[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2012 January 15

  1. 16 mm + 18 - 55 mm lenses
  2. Last USAF pilot killed in air to air engagement?
  3. Are there national anthems which are required to be sung by law? (as in, no instrumental versions are allowed)
  4. Is the Costa Concordia the largest passenger ship ever to sink?
  5. Ieager WVa connection to YeagerKy
  6. renting a room in a home

January 16[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2012 January 16

  1. Military servicemen photographs
  2. Scar on Michelle Obama's hand
  3. Martin Luther King Day "observed"
  4. Translation into English
  5. Train operator for LACMTA

January 17[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2012 January 17

  1. career guidance
  2. 'Top Gear' style challenges/races
  3. sopa
  4. Shaving: razor blades or shaving machine
  5. Map of the Boundaries for the City of Los Angeles, California
  6. puma ethnic groups
  7. international postage cost distribution
  8. how do I keep reading wikipedia in 8 hours? I need it to study for some very important exams

January 19[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2012 January 19

  1. Reference Desk In Other Languages
  2. what's his name?
  3. Pressure v Weight
  4. Help with google search parameter for type of light
  5. saving a human
  6. Car rental in China
  7. 10-minute shower as opposed to 40.
  8. Quick lookup in database, blocked on my IP
  9. Use remote control on Nikon D40
  10. The Review is gone?

January 20[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2012 January 20

  1. Calling all diving experts
  2. Why did Rousseau, Dewey and Bandaur decided to observe children?
  3. Laundry
  4. Continuing protests and such like
  5. Doctors and Nurses
  6. No. 2 pencil

January 21[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2012 January 21

  1. Does Israel have a latin alphabet language as one of is offical languages (english perhaps)
  2. Disasters that occurred on Friday the 13th?

January 22[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2012 January 22

  1. Unrevisied versions of books
  2. Supermarket ATMs
  3. Can you cook pasta and rice in flavoured water or sauces?

January 23[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2012 January 23

  1. Why sounds sound like they sound
  2. a medalion commeorating manchester carboundum's golden jubilee 1911-1961
  3. Source for dialogue from a particular Tonigh Show episode for a FAC

January 24[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2012 January 24

  1. Public Primary State schools in Ogba Lagos
  2. making an demostration of play
  3. Chinese zodiac

January 25[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2012 January 25

  1. Picture on user page
  2. What boy-names are not known to belong to anyone who has committed severe crimes?
  3. Oddness in the tz database
  4. The Dewar Cup presented by Thomas R Dewar Esq
  5. After a rain, will an area of woods burn?
  6. unusual toys
  7. Wooden Box (Cabot Collopakes)
  8. New York City not capital of New York

January 26[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2012 January 26

  1. Suggesting a article for Wikipedia
  2. Would Sallie Mae be able to find and garnish my overseas paychecks?
  3. Cost of a Rolex
  4. vapour compression cycle

January 27[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2012 January 27

  1. Are there any volcanoes on Antarctica?
  2. Country name suffixes
  3. Course Name
  4. Spanair as a Spanish company

January 28[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2012 January 28

  1. Hospice care
  2. State Roads of Each State
  3. How does mail without an address work?
  4. Question about muscles in the female body
  5. UK gift to China after Beijing Olympics
  6. Contact lenses Sunglasses
  7. “Reiner Knizia Strelow”
  8. Question about dangerous trip

January 29[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2012 January 29

  1. Blogs

January 30[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2012 January 30

  1. Qu'Appelle River origin?
  2. Project management
  3. volcano
  4. longest college student
  5. Information

January 31[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2012 January 31

  1. Where can i find more info on one of the amendments in the EMTALA page?
  2. Icelandic places of interest, List of signed
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