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July 1

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 July 1

  1. Thunder and lightning
  2. French phrase for owner of loot?
  3. How tall is Elizabeth II?
  4. Is the messenger god Hermes associated with water and is war god Ares associated with fire and arrows?
  5. Income of at least £34 million a year, every year, for ever
  6. Tontine (redux)

July 2

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 July 2

  1. Richard Francis Burton and getting into Mecca
  2. Can anyone list any celebrities who are half white and half black besides Obama and Halle Berry?
  3. Section 29 of the Canadian Charter Rights of Freedom
  4. what is wrong with the gold standard
  5. Society Islands Kingdoms
  6. codifying an existing debt
  7. old british public schools system

July 3

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 July 3

  1. Do you think an article about the monthly press conferences by the European Central Bank would work?
  2. Talking about something = healing wounds?
  3. Monaco regency
  4. Townships in Newfoundland
  5. South California Proposal: Tax Diversion Unique to 4 Riverside County Cities?
  6. is there any culture with a national sleepy-time?
  7. 9/11
  8. curiosity and hatred

July 4

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 July 4

  1. Rufio ?
  2. can anyone be CFO?
  3. "Can anyone recommend any new romance books that are not in any series that have a love_triangle or mysteries?"
  4. "Pismo totemami" of Lenin
  5. trying to track down an exact quote (postmodern)
  6. Amalia of Oldenburg's religion
  7. A question on Andrew Jackson
  8. Fascist intellectuals
  9. Accountacy of real estate plummeting
  10. Average amount of tax paid by UK taxpayers per year
  11. Stop, thief !
  12. Protecting one's self from Stock Dilution

July 5

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 July 5

  1. Annoying stuff
  2. Largest regnal number
  3. In what did Madoff invested the money?
  4. how do left-wing people think taxes should work?
  5. History books
  6. The sons of Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza
  7. A = B ≠ A
  8. Humanitarianism vs. philanthropy
  9. What publicly traded stock has performed best over the past X years?

July 6

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 July 6

  1. is agent orange really being used to clear brazilian rainforest?
  2. Regents of England
  3. Serbia- Best sports nation in the world?
  4. Sense of justice: judging people by outcome or by intention
  5. Choice, ethics, and non-Kantian philosophy
  6. Islamic biblioclasm

July 7

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 July 7

  1. Who was the female student of Mozart?
  2. Funding Of Political Parties By The Government
  3. Modern monarchs
  4. Not For Resale in the U.S.
  5. Find a fiction book: pilot's girlfriend must land small airplane when pilot falls unconscious
  6. What percentage of people born into poverty end up financial successful?
  7. 'Major players' in the financial world

July 8

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 July 8

  1. Muammar Gaddafi
  2. Chum and Tipi - convergent evolution or common ancestry?
  3. Coeliac disease
  4. Kosher Hunting?
  5. road deaths
  6. Azerbaijan-Catholic Agreement

July 9

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 July 9

  1. naming custom of Salva Kiir Mayardit?
  2. The Bible
  3. Prince Phillip
  4. South Sudan
  5. When is Tu B'Av this year?
  6. The Euro convergence criteria
  7. Practical implications of the lack of no-fault divorce in New York State?
  8. Harem
  9. Questions about British parish churches
  10. Development of democracy in Germany

July 10

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 July 10

  1. summarizing Shakespeare (SPOILER WARNING!)
  2. Two Thomas Davidsons
  3. Animal rights' view of predation
  4. No ship named after LBJ?
  5. New Israeli maritime border with Kypros
  6. Polygyny and polyandry
  7. Leadership incompatible with Marxism?
  8. How are all relevant documents found for disclosure?
  9. Butterfly effect and human lives

July 11

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 July 11

  1. Finding a logo before registering one
  2. Identify this saint
  3. American deficit
  4. Indecent liberties
  5. Civilization of Egypt
  6. Cultural level of slaves
  7. Question about an apparent contradiction (or confusion) in the meaning of “Going to the city [center]” (Manhattan)
  8. Prison sentences
  9. UK politics before 1975 referendum
  10. Best Cabernet Sauvignon of the Golan Heights Winery in the last 10 years
  11. How many suspended sentences end up being served?
  12. "Over all of Spain, the sky is clear."
  13. United States citizen detained at Guantanamo Bay

July 12

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 July 12

  1. Being "sponsored"?
  2. date discrepancy between two articles concerning Glossolalia

July 13

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 July 13

  1. Group pressure
  2. Rose
  3. College vs. University
  4. William Tell

July 14

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 July 14

  1. hinduism /thantric symbolisms of Lord Siva
  2. The real reason Annie Whitenmeyer home was closed
  3. Cuban healthcare
  4. Two contradictory articles

July 15

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 July 15

  1. Historically accurate painting of Jesus' crucifixion
  2. Citing a source numerous times
  3. 2 part question about ADOLF HITLER
  4. Purchasing power in Russia and the Baltic states.
  5. Philosopher
  6. Buying a house, an apartment, and condominiums in population declining cities
  7. Random capitalization
  8. Which U.S. officials could propose a two bracket income tax only treaty?

July 16

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 July 16

  1. what's the best way to deal with a socipath
  2. Are there ANY colleges in the world with bidet-seats in the restrooms?
  3. heraldry
  4. Historical technology and world regions
  5. Median-average world standard of living
  6. 10th anniversary of 9/11
  7. MILITARY
  8. was it an american war

July 17

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 July 17

  1. Lips on Characters in Japanese Manga/Anime
  2. Image verifications
  3. Why is art in paint?
  4. Harsh sentence because of Royal connection?
  5. Toirdhealbhach Luineach Mac Neill Chonnalaigh O Neill
  6. Morality of religion
  7. Psych wards

July 18

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 July 18

  1. Charles Xavier
  2. Existence of Jesus
  3. Company name
  4. Phone hacking
  5. Current US interest in the Panama Canal
  6. "I'm going downtown" (Chicago)
  7. confusion about fatalities
  8. Nero's involvment in Claudius's death

July 19

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 July 19

  1. Liliuokalani's desire to behead people
  2. Will India become a communist country?
  3. "Austria" in Austria
  4. Map of Italy
  5. Inheriting royal houses in Europe
  6. What kind of culture is America?
  7. Soldiers firing bullets in the air to celebrate

July 20

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 July 20

  1. Did Britain ever try to take over Europe?
  2. Article 5 of ICJ Statute
  3. Forming one's own country
  4. Queen proposing
  5. American liberals vs socialists
  6. Ramayana: Disambiguation
  7. Where do scriptures say that ancestors' sins are inherited?

July 21

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 July 21

  1. Mark Anthony Stroman
  2. Franz Joseph I of Austria
  3. Rationale of not letting people leave a socialist country
  4. No earnt income, but living off....?
  5. The Times newspaper emblem/crest
  6. Advertising of Habitat (retailer) UK
  7. List of 16 major world currencies
  8. Horn of Africa famine
  9. Suetonius: The Lives of the Twelve Caesars

July 22

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 July 22

  1. Duty to try to make a profit
  2. What is a "civil magistrate" in Virginia?
  3. End of don't ask, don't tell

July 23

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 July 23

  1. Iran's HDI
  2. Traffic ticket for a non-local
  3. American debt compared with Greek debt
  4. John Hancock's ships
  5. Renting floor trading privileges and exchange memberships
  6. Morphine-A Soldiers Disease
  7. Authors and LLCs
  8. Faith

July 24

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 July 24

  1. Fully licensed restaurant in the UK
  2. Legal majority for women - when where they no longer minors?
  3. New York City under British occupation during the American Revolution
  4. science and religion
  5. Names of the Utoya victims
  6. What's the sentence for killing >90 in Norway?

July 25

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 July 25

  1. Capital punishment in Venezuela
  2. schist disk
  3. Why was Anders Breivik exempted from conscription in the Norwegian military
  4. Terms of Loan Guarantees
  5. Did the seclusion of women in ancient Greece also include royal women?
  6. Recording and photographing a meeting
  7. Safe Money
  8. privatization of government
  9. Cutting the USA debt
  10. austerity programs

July 26

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 July 26

  1. British Slavery and Racial Equality in Europe
  2. Odd extension on the rear of an 1870s house
  3. My missing Family!!
  4. Oceania
  5. If Spain truly did conquer England in 1588, then whom did they intend for the throne?
  6. Black Swan
  7. Location of post office in Houston
  8. Global Economic Crisis
  9. Should Congressio​nal paychecks be stopped if Debt Crisis in Washington​ DC is unresolved​, effective August 1, 2011?

July 27

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 July 27

  1. A question about religion
  2. Economic simulation digital computer model
  3. USS Constitution
  4. Why do women like men?
  5. How to learn more about classical music
  6. Duas for Ramadhan
  7. Statistics and discrimination
  8. time
  9. Ethics with Mac and Virtualbox computing

July 28

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 July 28

  1. Morphological taxonomy of jokes
  2. Citing the Federal Reporter
  3. ICJ Statute again (article 54)
  4. special needs/developmental delays
  5. Wouldn't this debt crisis "solution" cause massive inflation?
  6. O. J. Simpson case
  7. Sulla
  8. Buckingham palace
  9. oldest website
  10. Flashback
  11. 13th century Scotland

July 29

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 July 29

  1. Flag of Hawaii
  2. Credulity of Westboro Baptist Church members
  3. Famous only after death
  4. What was the text of all the articles in the last News of the World issue?
  5. A cabbage leaf?
  6. Contribution-lands
  7. Looking for a specific Conrad Gessner quote
  8. Baseball, Duff Cooley question

July 30

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 July 30

  1. Former Location of Conservatoire de Paris
  2. Politic worms
  3. gold versus bonds
  4. Lenin and Stalin
  5. The EDL leader's lament
  6. value of gold
  7. Bishop of Arezzo
  8. North America without First Nations

July 31

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 July 31

  1. What is the Roman Catholic Church's position on Christian Existentialism, Phenomenology and Kierkegaard?
  2. invention of rhyme
  3. gold coins
  4. Jans Janzoon Von Haarlem
  5. Could the US Government turn to corporate sponsorship to pay down the debt?
  6. (Historical question) Alcohol aboard Royal or US Navy ships
  7. GK Question
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