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June 1

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 June 1

  1. stock
  2. Veto power in the United Nations.
  3. Sennosuke Yamaguchi's Fujiya Hotel Book 1939
  4. buddhism
  5. economics
  6. The term for In courtship, to open the legs and invite the male...
  7. Osaka/Kyoto in 1506?
  8. Writing a song as a poem
  9. Does Bangladesh export medicine to USA ?
  10. Mr Ketchum getting hot

June 2

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 June 2

  1. contracts
  2. evictions
  3. Who invented the presumption of innocence?
  4. Enlightenment Painting
  5. Surnames
  6. Vienna Convention on Diplomatic immunity
  7. Jefferson corpus
  8. basis for naming of historical ethnic groups
  9. Iskhvakus / Ikshvaku - same or different?
  10. Graven Image
  11. Naked Nazi
  12. Catcher in the Rye
  13. Supply and Demand

June 3

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 June 3

  1. Median population line(s) for Britain
  2. Pledge of Allegiance
  3. Comparative cost of American NHS and space exploration
  4. Who owns the copyright to the Gospel song "I'm Going Up Yonder" from 1976?
  5. Becoming a full-time writer
  6. Outlaws of Wild West
  7. Confederate political parties
  8. Monarchy of the UK
  9. Trying to locate color image of plague doctor

June 4

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 June 4

  1. WWII STATISTICS
  2. Kristian?
  3. History of South America from 1900-1950
  4. Red=Stop Green=Go
  5. Seriously
  6. Luitpoldarena & Luitpoldhalle, Nuremberg
  7. sales promotion
  8. Hugo Chavez's image
  9. Operation Orchard
  10. Court and Constitution
  11. Barry Goldwater's Eligibility For U.S. President.
  12. Inventor of Lie Detector -- atomic bomb security?

June 5

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 June 5

  1. Animal peace
  2. Bernau, Germany
  3. Witch trials in Poland
  4. Recruitment of executioners in the United States
  5. consequences of one party state.
  6. Poem analysis?

June 6

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 June 6

  1. Why does Sikhism require men to have the last name Singh and women to have the last name Kaur to be equal?
  2. Book search
  3. Native Americans
  4. Links Between Secularism and Islam
  5. Creating a fake history for a viral campaign
  6. Thesis
  7. Christians
  8. Ph.D. thesis at a trade press?
  9. Count of population
  10. wittgenstein on popper
  11. Presiddential Term of Office
  12. 501(c)3 and State Universities
  13. Printers' current practice in their relationship with authors
  14. Plato's Allegory of the cave
  15. Josephus and the dance of the seven veils

June 7

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 June 7

  1. Nguni Use of space and acquisition of territory in the nineteenth century
  2. Why should I keep my father's surname if I change my name to a Arabic/Muslim name?
  3. Absentee ballot
  4. Stock exchange and share things
  5. Formula for price and sales graph line
  6. Meta-themes of making money
  7. Question about copyright renewals
  8. spanish sailing ships of the 17th century
  9. Vice President term limit
  10. Medical cost that can be covered by the state
  11. Oh, no; oh yes.
  12. ontario canada
  13. Oscar Wilde quote

June 8

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 June 8

  1. Middle Ages
  2. GNP, GNP per Capita and Proportion of People Living in Cities
  3. Automobile/Consumerism
  4. Car rental peak dates
  5. Addressing an Assyrian bishop?
  6. Austria?
  7. About Apostasy in Islam (is/maybe one misconception in Islam)?

June 9

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 June 9

  1. Battle of Toulouse, 1814
  2. Organic food processing
  3. Building the Alaska Highway
  4. Economists vs. Sociologists
  5. The name of a cognitive bias effect: more informed people are more aware of the limits of their knowledge.
  6. Hand-hammered dish
  7. Black population in Arab World
  8. European facial appearances
  9. Arab Sunni School of Thoughts
  10. Pashtun provinces and districts
  11. Population of Detroit
  12. Inflation in Canada
  13. Theme of novels

June 10

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 June 10

  1. shi'a muslim in Pakistan
  2. Omni-Benevolent origins
  3. What is the cheapest camera you could use for an independent film?
  4. Senator with missing fingers
  5. Todays Standard of Living As Compared to The 70's
  6. Looking for a quote
  7. go thee to nunnery
  8. Presidential pardon
  9. USPS book post
  10. Personal Relationship with Jesus

June 11

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 June 11

  1. J. L. Webb
  2. Finding a U.S. Congressional Report
  3. punishment for disturbing the peace
  4. Voting for the president
  5. Yoga Korunta
  6. William Wallace
  7. Economic food chain
  8. Removing A Member from a Limited Liability Corporation (LLC)
  9. 9-11
  10. Question about Frederick I, Elector of Brandenburg
  11. Desiderius Erasmus on kissing in England
  12. Balanced Budget
  13. Holland Marsh Road Act - I cannot find anywhere, does anyone have this?

June 12

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 June 12

  1. people from Arab cities
  2. cloths
  3. Child porn conundrum
  4. [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 June 12#|]]
  5. Number of state legislators in the history of the U.S.
  6. Welfare v. Money to poor people poll
  7. daumier,honorelihograhs
  8. "Can't Find It On A Map"
  9. Social Security fraud
  10. How do libraries handle books classified based on different editions of the classification schedule?

June 13

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 June 13

  1. Phenomenology vs. Dialectics
  2. Consent for Circumcision
  3. African tribe
  4. causes and consequences of fortunate or unfortunate actions
  5. Is rape worse than murder?? (Legal)
  6. welfare states
  7. How much do you know about history?
  8. What is the history of I LOVE YOU?

June 14

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 June 14

  1. Is there a name for this kind of fallacy/rebuttal?
  2. Number of backyard bomb shelters
  3. Sergei Kurasov
  4. How can some of those late night infomercials be legal?
  5. Mary Faulkner

June 15

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 June 15

  1. Wikipedians: only paraphrasers of references?
  2. Is mind truly in the brain?
  3. Why was the Golden Horde called Golden?
  4. Collateral
  5. the Eterni
  6. Reaction
  7. Can some lists be copyrighted?
  8. Right to life without work

June 16

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 June 16

  1. Could you help me find information about H. Loesch, an artist?
  2. Same Sex Discomfort
  3. term limits
  4. Tibetan Buddhist symbol?
  5. Can God commit suicide?
  6. Donating to Democrats
  7. Existence of God
  8. Philo Zombie

June 17

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 June 17

  1. Natural and Positive Law
  2. CASPOROVA- INTERESTING PERSONALITY NOT FOUND IN ANY SEARCH ENGINE.....
  3. do knights call each other "sir"?
  4. CHRONOLOGICAL YEARS
  5. Painting
  6. decents
  7. Television Programming

June 18

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 June 18

  1. "Inexperienced" presidents
  2. How old is rape and murder?
  3. City walls
  4. American Snipers In The Falklands Conflict (On the Argentinian side)
  5. Schizophrenia Inducing Film
  6. fair ethnic discrimination/racism?
  7. House of Lords
  8. Low homeless rate in major cities
  9. Ancient of the Inn
  10. Ultra-Anarchism
  11. Can i be pregnant ?

June 19

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 June 19

  1. Cheap Bike Parts
  2. Assault on Pollighautcherry, India, c. 1790
  3. Moral standing of Allies in 2nd world war
  4. Genetic diversity of human with respect to Bible
  5. What's the benefits and overheads of high-interest rate in a country?
  6. Execution of Tsutomu Miyazaki.
  7. 1972 Mid-Campaign Presidential Election Polls

June 20

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 June 20

  1. Disobedience
  2. Obama's policies
  3. Liberal arts education
  4. Technologically behind
  5. Perceptions
  6. Sinn Féin broadcast ban
  7. cheapest coffee - instant or ground?

June 21

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 June 21

  1. Question
  2. Four Great Classical Novels Dream of the Red Chamber
  3. Who decided left and right wing... ie. social conservatism and fiscal conservatism go hand in hand
  4. Israel and China
  5. What are the "neighborhoods" in our mind about?
  6. Where does the government get money from?

June 22

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 June 22

  1. Wanted: Sword identification
  2. a citizen kills a diplomat
  3. Law question.com
  4. surnames
  5. Hindi-speaking and Urdu-speaking ethnic groups
  6. Hanafi
  7. Dress in Spain
  8. Politician income
  9. What religions / philosophies believe that life and suffering give us reasons to enjoy heaven?
  10. Japanese Inferiority Complex?

June 23

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 June 23

  1. Salem
  2. Paul Cézanne's "Flowers in a Rococo Vase"
  3. international criminal court
  4. International Borders
  5. Polling in the United States
  6. history
  7. immorality of poverty
  8. United States Supreme Court Cases
  9. Science

June 24

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 June 24

  1. Coco Chanel
  2. LDS and Jews
  3. Query on Australian culture and Location of Indian restaurants
  4. Saint
  5. asya
  6. India vs china
  7. Commercial Revolution
  8. Christopher Columbus's first voyage
  9. Three-armed swastika - Neo Nazi flag?

June 25

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 June 25

  1. Existentialism is a Humanism
  2. Zimbabwe
  3. Diversity and discrimination

June 26

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 June 26

  1. Tomari and Shuri
  2. How many Indo-Canadians in Great Britian?
  3. Italian language
  4. TV coverage of criminal cases
  5. Mixed black/white Arab
  6. Only white-people town in US
  7. Anonymous witness
  8. Christopher Columbus's Fourth voyage
  9. Public Domain Poetry
  10. Employment in the USA

June 27

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 June 27

  1. When was the last time the UK Labour Party finished 5th (or worse) in a By-election?
  2. Korean War deaths
  3. sorry Coudlnt' get an anwsoer on entertainment
  4. Geography
  5. Poverty
  6. Novel written by a female American Indian
  7. How does the story Roweena Teena and Tot and the Runaway Turkey end?
  8. Barrack Obama
  9. That Vishnu temple
  10. Can a 15 year old be sentenced to life imprisonment in the UK?
  11. Accessible/Newcomer's Classical Music

June 28

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 June 28

  1. right of way
  2. Population Info. Demographics of Argentina‎
  3. Oper
  4. Cost of British Royal Family
  5. War and Peace
  6. Cavalry
  7. "Stab-in-the-back" (World War I)
  8. Paper blockades
  9. Ireland
  10. flogging
  11. Is there a place on this earth that men never stepped on?

June 29

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 June 29

  1. Obama on copyright reform
  2. Non-staged professional wrestling?
  3. Airsoft gun laws in Maryland and in other States for minors
  4. When Canada is more conservative than the US
  5. Second choice
  6. Reichspropagandaleitung der NSDAP
  7. Gods incarnating as a human of the opposite gender
  8. Cairo Geniza travel journals?

June 30

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 June 30

  1. Freud in portuguese: "Arquitectura Animica"
  2. Our morals, ethics, etc. Illusion?
  3. Dr. Friedlander
  4. Cultural differences between the West and the East
  5. What was the original title of Dr. King's address at the March on Washington?
  6. When and by whom was Kings address at the March on Washington first called the "I have a dream speech"?