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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 April 1
- Question or Query
- Will there ever be a boy born, who can swim faster than a shark?
- Bellic reasons
- Finding the names of my grandfather's parents
- About my grandmother
- Who was the first US president to refer to the USA as a democracy?
- Racial comment
- Sitting US Presidents as field commanders
- Is there a difference between didactics and pedagogy?
- Why is music from the Baroque period so good?
- Da Pope
- Communism
- Did Wikipedia pull an April Fools?
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 April 3
- If Japan attacked Russia instead of the USA during WWII
- Question related to capital punishment in British India
- American Revolution
- Personality Disorder Name
- RGB color ranges for human skin, nails, hair, and eyes
- Consanguinity
- Freedom of Speech during American Civil War
- is it true if you're poor you can't keep a really expensive gift or won item, you have to sell it?
- What Protestant denomination does Obama currently belong to?
- What city is this?
- Christopher Columbus spoke Arabic?
- When will things in the U.S. seem to have been improving the most?
- Are there school and university classes in the USA
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 April 5
- Quotation about vampires credited to "Rousseau"
- Experimental psychology effect - can't remember name
- Legal question
- "In every generation" quote
- Two writers, Same name.
- Welfare, race, and the drug war
- australian war medal/hat medal found
- small wooden huts off Miami
- 10, downing street
- Reference letter vs. Recommendation letter compared to German system
- War of Attrition original speech by President Nasser
- Baroque music
- What happens ad the end of The Ax by Donald Westlake?
- Loathing of the USA
- How managers are motivated?
- Christianity, Judaism, Islam
April 6 edit
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 April 6
- Wearing opossums?
- Minority Concentrated Districts in India
- Bach for bass
- the idea of 'question and answer' as elements of classical Indian architecture
- What painting is this?
- Mail-Order Brides Relationship
- When does the speed limit apply?
- "Band of Brothers" at Mont Saint-Michel on 2009-06-05?
- The Nature, Origin And Purpose Of Man On Earth
- Rates of abject poverty in the past
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 April 12
- most affluent city in sub-saharan africa
- Oldest card game still played today?
- heritage
- Albert III of Saxe-Wittenberg, Duke of Lüneburg
- how do I make a work of art that is epic, hyper-novel, groundbreaking, ambitious, engrossing, a world unto itself, without becoming a parody of itself?
- Reichsmark Conversion
- William "Bart" Bush
- Co-signer removal ____?
- Homosexuality = Paedophilia? Studies?
April 13 edit
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 April 13
- Muslim clothing
- America doesn't have a government?
- history - John Wilkes Booth, a white supremacist?
- WTO, World Bank and IMF
- The Catholic church's influence on pedophilia statistics
- Masturbation
- K.L. Lebenau, 1945
- Attica in the Threepenny Novel
- Has there ever been an atheist Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court?
- On Killing (philosophy)
- Monomyth
- Medieval married names
- White people in Africa
- Copyright or restrictions on PDF-scans of old, now public domain, texts?
- Blue food
- Popularity of the EU within the EU
- William Warham, by Hans Holbein the Younger drawing
- Tablets of stone
- Vote counting
- Queen Elizabeth (Bowes-Lyon) visited France in 1938
April 14 edit
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 April 14
- Why are Irish folk songs so sad
- Global business network
- Can't remember what book this is...
- Series vs. Trilogy (et al.)?
- Roman corn
- Guarding the Tomb of the Unknowns
- Knowlege
- Bathing after eating
- Alice Bailey
- short stories dealing with books/literature/reading
- dandelions as weeds
- Morita Therapy Programs
- What is it?
- GK History Geography question
- Advantages of big countries over numerous small countries?
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 April 19
- Where In The World
- Boy Scouts of America and Evolution
- Rocky Marciano
- Wittelsbach heir of the Kingdom of Greece
- economic growth
- What do Atheists swear to in court?
- Reasons for anti-immigration?
- Applications of involuntary sterilization in the United States in the 1900's, including cases of coerced sterilization.
- What's the name of this psychological phenomenon?
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 April 24
- Blue porn
- Germanic Rome (Modern Rome) versus Ancient Rome
- Homeless people in UK
- The Lord of the rings
- Economy questions - Greece
- Party support for UK identity cards
- constableville,ny
- can someone explain "everybody draw Mohammed day"?
- all white canadian place
- A weirdly specific question regarding the Byzantine empire...
- "Eastern" and "western" religions
- United Kingdom General election, 2010
April 25 edit
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 April 25
- Are laws banning same sex marriage sexist rather than homophobic?
- Christianity and Evolution
- Why is St george the patron saint of Tamworth ?
- Forecasts of interest rates
- Ordnance Survey OpenData
- Genealogy of Nawab Family of Baroda
- any way to develop rapidfire speech?
- Recent lack of credit card balance transfer offers, UK
- Billy conrad
- Gold Olive Branch on the Moon sculptor
- Are authoritarians such because they have discontinuous minds?
- More about North Korea
- Nepal - what kind of republic?
April 26 edit
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 April 26
- Death of Asclepius
- countries that are not labelled as Socialist, but pretty much are... can anyone help me find examples?
- about: article titled "Hidden within Technology's Empire, a Republic of Letter "
- Dahmer's grandmother and father
- Ideas for presentation on teamwork
- Why is pedophilia so reviled?
- Hungarian language
- Philosophical debate
- why do words change? why is there lexical change?
- Why is there so much Euroskeptism?
- How did some Native Americans migrate to the Bahamas?
- Language Variations
- Knight, Death, and the Devil question
April 27 edit
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 April 27
- Why are people (namely, the majority of Americans) content with being ignorant?
- Mesopotamia versus Egypt
- Historical Macbeth Versus Shakespares Macbeth
- Worship of dogs
- Use of the word "Kamikaze"
- Geography question
- Psychology and careers
- When did involuntary sterilization practices in the US end?
- Ashes in cremation
April 28 edit
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 April 28
- After 6000 years
- Germans in colonial Louisiana
- how to read the koran
- Original source of "I prefer rogues to imbeciles, as rogues sometimes rest" (Dumas)
- United church of christ
- Marsh land in Southern Iraq
- Can you help me with a sonnet?
- Alexander the Great
- GK question
- February 1974 Queen's Speech
- In a million years time
- Identity of Roman statues
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 April 30
- Breaking the law
- List of oil spills
- Girl Scout question
- Was China ruled by Africans?
- corn
- Triumphal Way
- UK election results?
- Chinese poems, direction of reading
- Upside down maps
- religious compass
- French (?) people who lost their jobs to machines
- Comparison of railway travel times from central London
- Antichrist quote... what does Nietzsche mean?