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October 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 October 1

1. Reminiscing the dictatorships
2. Proof of identity in antiquity
3. Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union and the United Kingdom
4. RUNNING HORSES WITH RAINBOW IN THE SKY
5. Ethics in Law
6. Who started WWI?
7. Switzerland
8. Sci-Fi story mystery
9. Flags at half-mast

October 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 October 2

1. RCMP
2. Why do American businesses accept Canadian coins?
3. cuddly gourds
4. Number Plates on cars being blanked-out on TV
5. Vatican City
6. Republics Democracies
7. Baralongs - Southern African ethnic group
8. The term "public subscription"

October 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 October 3

1. English Conquests
2. Differences between performances of the same opera
3. Did the trains really run on time?
4. Second-Year CEGEP or Freshman University
5. List of -woods
6. WW II Hugarian History
7. Passport when out of State
8. Unknown object
9. English idioms and proverbs game
10. Idioms and Proverbs
11. Welsh queens/princesses

October 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 October 4

1. Calculation of NBN rate of return
2. Old World sorcery
3. Social classes
4. Trying to find a quote...
5. First person to declare the earth mostly ocean
6. Unto You our Prayers Arise—Gustav Gottheil
7. Royal marriages
8. US supreme court ties
9. Flowers of the Forest
10. Conculation
11. Painting of Arius
12. Condoleezza Rice
13. How many unborn inheritors?
14. Fork from Science desk question

October 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 October 5

1. Can you end the recession by sabotaging the gold market?
2. Prison in Sweeden
3. Poetry ref. in the film "The Good Sheperd" (by de Niro, 2006)
4. Most Controversial Bills in American History
5. Is deflation evil?
6. Trying to remember a science fiction novel from the 60's
7. Roman Emperor Julian II
8. Articles of Confederation
9. safety on the floors and grounds

October 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 October 6

1. Writing games with video game characters
2. Origin of "Going to the john"
3. Gift man
4. Looking for sci-fi novel set on the moon in a socialist society
5. Thirteen Original Colonies
6. SAT essay revisited
7. English noble families

October 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 October 7

1. FLOSSIE
2. Which country is the best to live in?
3. Chinese Geneaology
4. Famous Santorini (?) painting
5. SCOTUS rulings.
6. Life Insurance claims India
7. Legality of Prescription medicine purchases in Canada by Americans
8. Infringement of persona -- astronaut sues singer
9. "bootmakers to the kings" in the film The Good Shepherd (by R.De Niro, 2006)
10. Looking for plays that...
11. State Designations
12. Why hasn't Iran nuked the US?
13. Life Insurance companies in Bermuda

October 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 October 8

1. Infante
2. property question
3. Museums
4. Crown Court
5. whatever happened to the author of the imponderables books
6. Interesting phenomenon
7. Flagged 1
8. Two men named David J. Pelzer

October 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 October 9

1. Muslim accessories to sin?
2. A chronicle of the reversals of thought by the major religions in matters of science
3. Poisoned Eucharist
4. Shanghai, Missouri
5. Which country has the fewest restrictions on free speech?
6. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in Hamlet

October 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 October 10

1. Dutch? Artwork
2. Parsippany, NJ and the 1st and 2nd Amendments
3. Kim Jong-il's fashion
4. Tie vote in the U.S. Supreme Court
5. "Block prints of the Chinese Revolution"
6. How are prepayments treated in cash basis accounting?
7. Workplace Use of e-mails Sent From Home.
8. Dissolution of the Nederlandse Antillen
9. How to find a record of a sealed conviction

October 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 October 11

1. family
2. Why have the rich been acting against everyone's interest?
3. The Great Depression
4. Average Life Expectancy of African-American Single Mother
5. pauline bienvenue "free men of color buying slaves in 1860 in new orleans"
6. 1930s Depression, 1950s abundance
7. Water supplies during the Berlin airlift
8. costs of things
9. Lookup ancestry.co.uk ?
10. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
11. The Big Clunking Fist
12. Roosevelt and the Depression
13. how did rome fall

October 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 October 12

1. Bengali version of haiku
2. Good things Nazis did
3. Italian comic
4. obviously impossible
5. 19th Century English diction
6. Siamese Twin Terminology
7. Capital punishment in Venezuela

October 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 October 13

1. Legality of Prescription medicine purchases in Canada by Americans (No. 2)
2. Custodial award statistics by state
3. U.S. federal death row for women?
4. Serbian football team salute
5. Industrial disasters in Venice?
6. Do we have an article on this?

October 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 October 14

1. Iranian president
2. Arrogant American court?
3. Prison ID of Valerie Suzette Friend
4. Americans ancestry
5. Scholarships
6. Voting record - Canada's election to Security Council

October 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 October 15

1. How did Albert Battel escape punishment?
2. Most evil female in history

October 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 October 16

1. website english singular plural
2. Name of a fictional Native American Tribe
3. Confused about my rights in Europe
4. Pretoria - official or administrative?
5. St. Louis Gateway Arch
6. Maratha people with Jain Surname
7. French texts
8. Marshall Field and Co.

October 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 October 17

1. Name of Science Fiction Novel
2. moral relativism
3. Interactive Theatre gone Awry
4. Levels of communication and identity
5. list of languages sorted by the number of people in the world currently studying them (not as a Native language)
6. Saints excommunicated?

October 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 October 18

1. Looking for a film
2. New Saints
3. Caspar David Friedrich - Tetschen Altar
4. tax breaks
5. Basic story themes.
6. Find private collectioniers
7. African American history month
8. Presenting one's credentials

October 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 October 19

1. Kid -- the young of the goat and the young of the human, are they related somehow?
2. Law
3. Why are Greek bonds more expensive than other Euro-bonds?
4. Uplifting classic novels?
5. "Delivery" in telling jokes - how to perfect it?
6. Council houses in the UK
7. Cro-magnon stature

October 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 October 20

1. Law question: If gay soldiers come out now, is their fate simply a question of whether or not the injunction is overturned on appeal?
2. U.S.A. Commonwealth of Nations
3. Civilizations for which we don't know their name for themselves
4. 17th or 18th century statesman quote
5. Couplet des enfants

October 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 October 21

1. Lots of homeless people die due to cold weather each year. I DON'T UNDERSTAND.
2. Eastern Orthodox names
3. can a company sell a piece of stock outside the market?
4. House of Commons bill introduction

October 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 October 22

1. Incognito
2. Ouellette → Willard surname change in Ontario (1850s–1940s)?
3. Jesus
4. DPRK succession
5. Australian wowserism
6. expiration of order
7. How many Indian millionaires are there in India?
8. safety issues among motorists
9. Dangereuse L'Isle Bouchard
10. Irish refugee appeals tribunal case law
11. kasakhs, azerbaijanis, turkmen...
12. UK council house tenants - do they pay full council tax?
13. Ballet drawings, sketches, paintings during the 1400's
14. How does State v. Federal criminal law enforcement work?
15. Is the Internet making what I learned in Econ 101 obsolete?

October 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 October 23

1. Paranormal Activity 2
2. Is there an Anime-style Gospel cartoon?
3. American writers abroad
4. 'Currency wars'
5. ninteenth century stocks
6. were witches really wiccan as conceived today
7. kurt f. stone
8. Ray Comfort degree?
9. Presidents of the United States

October 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 October 24

1. "Retirement age"
2. First Recorded War/Event
3. Street in Bratislava
4. North Africa in WW2; petrol; amount of people and equipment wins battle?
5. do church services cause epileptic seizures?
6. What school recently made D grades failing?
7. Monetary value of framed reproduction of La Fragua De Vulcano Velazquez,Museo Del Prado
8. New Hamborough
9. Marxian economics

October 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 October 25

1. Man Is Absurd, Says Who?
2. Best book on Mesoamerica
3. India politics question
4. Statistical distribution of income and also wealth
5. Killing of Lee Harvey Oswald
6. UN General Assembly 2010 logo
7. novation
8. $500 billion being taken away from Medicare
9. Studies of the connection between The Ten Commandments and capitalism
10. Has anyone developed a way to measure the rate of legal change?
11. Rank of United Nations President of General Assembly
12. how do I protect my utopia's constittution against corrupt judges?

October 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 October 26

1. Jhalan and Lohoni
2. US Military and industrialization aid
3. Choosing a spouse: criteria
4. Ayn Rand's definition of "force"?
5. Every Man for Himself
6. CABTC = ___ Basic Training Camp?
7. Et voila! Food platter lid thing
8. Canadian independence
9. Israel
10. Concentration Camp Protocol
11. Nasserism vs. Baathism
12. Watch system in modern times
13. In general, which country is the most progressive/liberal?
14. Albert Einstein, magnetism, and romance

October 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 October 27

1. Retirement ages and Feminism - logic vs cultural norm
2. Linguistic maps of Latin America
3. Miliband's memo about PMQs
4. Mark Twain's Short story
5. Universal language
6. books about a guide dog on 9/11
7. Dates and location of a festival in Ghana
8. Sarah Palin
9. Most Stupid thing you've ever heard anyone say

October 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 October 28

1. separation of church and state
2. Western Union memo
3. French military
4. The authors of the bible
5. Marriage in the three Abrahamic religions
6. Other notions of good and evil
7. Statue of George III in Weymouth

October 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 October 29

1. Death certificate of an executed criminal
2. Who does Rambo fear?
3. Why does psychological trauma exist?
4. Wand of Horus/Pharaoh's cylinder
5. Bottom of the copyright page in Philip Pullman's Once Upon a Time in the North
6. Queen's Regulations
7. Gambling addiction and depression: similar or opposite?

October 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 October 30

1. Piano music
2. The dying words of Caius Gracchus, Roman Tribune, and his imitation of a Greek heroine: to whom does C. Gracchus allude?
3. Longest gap between serving as governor in the U.S.?
4. US state secession
5. Which buildings are the Singapore Airlines headquarters?
6. About a sweater bearing motto "Nine out of ten" & a rose
7. Aerial Bombardment
8. The history of patents -- as an incentive to skilled immigration?
9. Flesch–Kincaid readability test
10. Charlemagne's tablecloth

October 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 October 31

1. Erskine May's Treatise on the Law, Privileges, Proceedings and Usage of Parliament
2. Halloween
3. Scholarship essay on college application
4. Broadcasting receivers in Italy