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February 1

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 February 1

  1. Lost my iPod
  2. Federal Refund Checks
  3. True Magazene
  4. Sunflower seeds harmful?
  5. may 2nd again
  6. Legal?
  7. Mastodon
  8. Crappy old movie filter effects
  9. superbowl gambling
  10. significance of flags outside hotels or inns
  11. What is the point of Coke Zero?
  12. What is paper shredder oil?
  13. Eating/drinking with headphones -- different taste?
  14. The Big Tall Wish
  15. 'Ethical' Behaviour?
  16. mary jane research question
  17. what is the name of this building?

February 2

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 February 2

  1. Is there a unique kind of paper?
  2. What is the point of the stock market?
  3. Can I put my thoughts on to Wikipedia?
  4. Latin auto-translator
  5. Jumping into Sulfuric Acid
  6. I literate ?
  7. Hay
  8. Slaughterhouses
  9. World Tour
  10. Dogs
  11. Spike Lester vs. Chuck Palumbo
  12. Hand powered railway thingie
  13. The songs featured in Dame Chocolate

February 3

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 February 3

  1. Why isn't basketball big in Britain?
  2. Formula 1 - length of race
  3. Tallest Cricketer
  4. Two Questions:
  5. Printing USPS customs forms
  6. "Travel stickers"
  7. police chase
  8. I know that the following text is a reference to some video game.
  9. City lights
  10. Mailing Coins to Canada
  11. boy or girl name
  12. Bovril/Marmite drink
  13. Snow on beaches
  14. 18 to buy a lighter?
  15. Recruiting
  16. My height, and predicting it
  17. Birth year of Maryam Nemazee
  18. Silly taxes in Twilight Zone episode?
  19. What is a Carper ?
  20. Why has the Internet died?

February 4

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 February 4

  1. Where is this music from?
  2. OPEN DOOR
  3. Bikini Atom bomb tests Julu 1946
  4. Can a person be........
  5. Body Piercing
  6. Why is international business law so uttlerly Anglo-American?
  7. Background music for a Teeny Digipc Disk?
  8. Mezcal de gusano
  9. Searching for a picture
  10. Why is everyone greedy?
  11. CVFs HMS Queen Elizabeth & HMS Prince of Wales
  12. A Thing About Machine
  13. A Question about Venevision International
  14. roofing standards
  15. BBC
  16. the legendary Swedish and Norweign welfare states
  17. Phoebe Holcroft Watson?British ranked Tennis player
  18. you shud see, whit i kin see, wen em cleanin windaes
  19. "Everything's bigger in Texas"

February 5

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 February 5

  1. Bread
  2. Biggest Internet forum/message board?
  3. Immigration law: Canadian
  4. Help me
  5. Pictures
  6. Tip on tips
  7. Air Shocks for 2008 Toyota Camry Hybrid
  8. Mobile phone technologies in US/Europe/Asia etc.
  9. Yellow Paper
  10. Hair Removal
  11. marco polo
  12. Is it true that if you dont use it you lose it?
  13. calculator games
  14. "What's wrong here?"

February 6

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 February 6

  1. Is it Weird?
  2. Present Value of Depreciation
  3. Hillary Clinton's coin?
  4. Best religion and science?
  5. K-2 tremors
  6. barrass - what is it?
  7. Sticky ideas?
  8. may 2nd holidays
  9. Throbbing Gristle
  10. Waking Up
  11. An oft-used laughing baby noise
  12. Telenovelas filming in Florida
  13. plz help me
  14. Challis, ID
  15. Cash
  16. Knighthood
  17. Life's a beach
  18. Skin
  19. DVD recorder not working - help

February 7

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 February 7

  1. Torque Creep
  2. Avaya Stock
  3. Advanced method of starting uphill
  4. busses to/from NYC airports
  5. What is this?
  6. The intro for Donkey Kong Country for SNES
  7. Virgin Mobile Voicemail Message
  8. Time travel
  9. fire + thunder
  10. mothering sunday
  11. If one were to own land...
  12. What are those things you see in cartoons?
  13. Pear Sorbet Recipes
  14. Voting
  15. Romney delegates
  16. Pennsylvania driver's licenses
  17. Supermassive Black Hole
  18. How do lute players play the lute without accidentely moving the frets?
  19. United States Marine Corps Force Reconnaissance

February 8

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 February 8

  1. What is the recipe for Gordo's Beans or Gordo's Beans with Cheese?
  2. Operating a motorized boat
  3. Las Vegas: 299 miles
  4. Why are there so many special operation units in the US?
  5. Jeopardy
  6. John Appleby, inventor of the "knotter"
  7. shares
  8. ABS in snow/ice
  9. Constructive Dismisal
  10. Earth
  11. Drain cover type identification...
  12. The Stoned Age
  13. Pumped up stomach
  14. kevin trudeaus birthdate
  15. Repeating Chess Matches?

February 9

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 February 9

  1. Is it okay to type this e-mail to a bodybuilder?
  2. Are there such things as easy wish spells?
  3. mp3 music collection
  4. marketing (customer communication)
  5. Travel in Norway
  6. Political Ads
  7. Length of Lolita

February 10

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 February 10

  1. Claims of Evidence for Other Religions as One True Religion
  2. Deep deep discounts
  3. Drought
  4. Drought II
  5. How exactly does a nuke kill you?
  6. Exploding cesium
  7. Counties
  8. literature
  9. Basketball Strategery
  10. "Claim for fame"
  11. Difference between acronym and abbreviation?
  12. Cities that twin - any tourist benefits???
  13. Do we have an article on the game "Tumbling tower"
  14. Travelling question
  15. sports players wages
  16. Micromanagement companies

February 11

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 February 11

  1. Strep Throat
  2. Chevrolet 2.8 liter V6 information please.
  3. Matrixism
  4. Stripping
  5. The Stock Market Doesn't Make Sense to Me II
  6. Were there people in space (other than a quick "hello" and back) before the moon landings?
  7. Writing checks/cheques - okay to put 1/2 instead of 50/100?
  8. Do supplements go bad?
  9. Noctifer
  10. Letter tails on olde scriptes
  11. Swimming Pool Stage Mist
  12. Three Russian astronauts dead and in space
  13. Vote on the creation of Israel
  14. A place that starts with 'X'
  15. US Census figures

February 12

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 February 12

  1. student loans and tax return
  2. what does this word mean in slang?
  3. construction
  4. The NIE and US diplomacy towards Iran
  5. Game code!
  6. Lost car keys
  7. sports
  8. //////.G00GIE.C0//
  9. fact or myth
  10. performing rights
  11. Female Enhancement Supplement
  12. Where to find videos

February 13

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 February 13

  1. Vitreous China different than Percelain?
  2. National Debt (U.S.)
  3. Is it legal?
  4. developing countries
  5. Maratha Clan System
  6. Pet Stores, History of?
  7. 3some
  8. LEGAL HELP
  9. Snakes
  10. cock
  11. asscrack
  12. What is the Maori Belief Mana all about ?
  13. Fork etiquette
  14. dagga
  15. What do you call them?
  16. Tab question
  17. 9
  18. What motivates terrorists
  19. Maturity

February 14

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 February 14

  1. Nupedia
  2. God and Omnipotence
  3. Wheres Tupac grow up?
  4. its an animal
  5. Hypo -- Taking advantage of a modern day political machine in the US
  6. Serious question
  7. Lute
  8. Private military contractors and ranks
  9. To the riffiest of the American raff, i.e. regular RD contributors
  10. PRESIDENTs LETTER FOR 100TH birthday
  11. Laughing matter

February 15

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 February 15

  1. Stretching tattoo?
  2. Dollar value of virginity
  3. Average sizes for flutes and clarinets
  4. The Balkans and conflicts
  5. Geography
  6. Who kills the most Americans by gunfire?

February 16

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 February 16

  1. Text message from unknown source
  2. eiggnr
  3. error with corn article
  4. Two questions
  5. Lethal injection needles
  6. Can't find the article: "What the #$%@ Fridays "article.
  7. Meaning of dreams
  8. Pouch Envy
  9. dedicated refdesk site?
  10. Hair growth after cutting
  11. [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 February 16#|]]
  12. Lawnmower car
  13. Another Tornado Outbreak

February 17

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 February 17

  1. hump in the back
  2. Canadian government lost a document and everyone had to spring clean to find it
  3. British sex case
  4. Question about Milwaukee, WI
  5. Itchy
  6. "Walking machines of death"
  7. Why would near death experiences becaused by a lack of oxygen to the brain?
  8. Has anyone tried to calculate the American homicide rate under other circumstances?

February 18

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 February 18

  1. GagaLive-like IRC client
  2. How many men in USA are circumcised?
  3. Stephenville, Texas
  4. Sending mail without an address
  5. Swords through cheek
  6. Is there a system to ensure answers on ref desks get integrated into articles?
  7. Earnings
  8. Calculator Games
  9. Financial Investment
  10. a foot, a foot, my kingdom for a foot!
  11. Free image for McFly (band) & licensing question

February 19

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 February 19

  1. Digital Tv for Handheld TVs?
  2. How Asylum Smackdowns Start
  3. ipod repair
  4. its a dragon
  5. macro economics help
  6. Early statue of Oliver Cromwell
  7. whey protein (yes, it's me again)
  8. Water
  9. WWII
  10. Terrorism
  11. Pakistan Politics
  12. Blondi
  13. Xbox 360 in 1080p
  14. Embargo

February 20

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 February 20

  1. Personally Built Robot
  2. Socialist newspaper
  3. Elections(politics)
  4. websites
  5. Internationa Business & Trade
  6. Help with a song
  7. Advertising on cars
  8. Lost Jobs, In the US
  9. ACT score
  10. Advertisements with self-comparisons

February 21

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 February 21

  1. Driving during hangover
  2. circle number 53
  3. Map of Ethiopia
  4. Cats in Downing Street
  5. Registering a death
  6. Domestic plumbing question
  7. Banning from a state
  8. PETA scam ?!
  9. Cost of Ownership for PHEV
  10. Lemon for sinuses
  11. "Military" lingo.

February 22

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 February 22

  1. House Arrest
  2. Original TMNT being 80s
  3. Sleep schedule
  4. british standards institute
  5. Bluestocking
  6. LSD
  7. Cookbook
  8. Scanning Problems on my Epson Stylus Photo RX 520

February 23

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 February 23

  1. Female-dominated occupations
  2. Soul Reaver
  3. Welfare
  4. nokia cheat code!
  5. transcribers
  6. Memory
  7. social science
  8. Modern dockers
  9. Pronounciation
  10. Heliolithic
  11. Measuring TV viewership
  12. Second-hand smoke and pets
  13. Google earth etc and governments

February 24

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 February 24

  1. Mind maps
  2. What is the second largest ethnic group?
  3. Bicentennial Quarter Mint Marks
  4. transcriber
  5. United Nations resolutions and policy statements
  6. The Boys' in Blue
  7. Marquesites
  8. can you teach a cat to kill?
  9. Japanese versus western cars, philosophies
  10. Linkedin
  11. Honduran Tribe
  12. english assignment
  13. Ocean Water
  14. Undiscovered Land

February 25

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 February 25

  1. Dropping gun in movies
  2. Working on a stock car in NASCAR during a Red Flag
  3. G Edward Griffin
  4. Where can I get copies of photos of George Naipier and sons?
  5. Source of Green Label for Food Imported From South Africa
  6. WHERE CAN I FIND INFORMATION ON MUSHROOMS IN POPULAR CULTURE
  7. Snapped string
  8. PhD and book publishing
  9. Human cannonballs
  10. Tae Kwon Do
  11. Profesional Athletes mom who was supposed to be on september 11th plane

February 26

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 February 26

  1. Crip gang members
  2. Miscellaneous: Nasogastric tubes in the 1930s
  3. atomic mushroom cap
  4. What to wear in Nice - Cote d'Azur in mid-March
  5. Led Zeppelin DVD
  6. Fibromyalgia
  7. Castiglione
  8. Ecosse bumper stickers
  9. DNA Testing
  10. Is that all there is?
  11. Interior Decoration with Books
  12. Wheat flour
  13. Petz 5
  14. Wikipedia Down!
  15. Where is Pechüle?

February 27

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 February 27

  1. How many roses are sprinkled with dew?
  2. Thesis on soild waste management
  3. D.A.N.C.E. T SHIRTS!
  4. german tax
  5. german
  6. Ratio of homosexuality and bisexuality among males
  7. Home advantage in sports
  8. Jain
  9. What's this font?
  10. Normal for spread to leak polyester?
  11. obesity in the nursing and physician field
  12. People forced to fight in armies
  13. Violence in Video Games causing violence in people?

February 28

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 February 28

  1. Ted Bundy Philsopher?
  2. York Memorial Collegiate Institute yearbook
  3. UK newspaper reader demographics
  4. Castle Hudemühlen
  5. Tim Cahill
  6. Boomtowns in the English-Speaking World (especially the Anglosphere)
  7. Currency exchange?
  8. Tim Cahill
  9. OK, last German location question, I swear!
  10. TRITON T80xr Shower problem.
  11. Life is.....
  12. Canada
  13. New York rush-hour traffic
  14. God and his all powerfulness
  15. players
  16. NY Strip steak

February 29

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2008 February 29

  1. Insects
  2. Yahoo Maps
  3. Edward Lear
  4. Blimpin' ain't easy
  5. Crooked words
  6. "Antipodal Mirror"
  7. U.S. High School "artificial culture" ?
  8. The Drudge Report
  9. Coins
  10. In 1893
  11. Auto-Tune
  12. Rolling Stone
  13. unusual rock
  14. Zoo License
  15. madison ave