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February 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 February 1

1. Extra-terrestrial Babel
2. cheesecloth vs gauze
3. Aldi's Beer and wine (U.S.)
4. Visiting the Pentagon
5. Facebook question
6. Non-Co-Ed Schools: Social Interactions with Opposite Sex

February 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 February 2

1. Carbon tax that rises with quantity
2. R&J act and scene
3. queen elizabeth 1 progress through england.
4. Snow
5. Ads if the Super Bowl had gone into overtime?
6. Treadmill targets

February 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 February 3

1. Golf
2. A few inches of snow.............
3. Notable Africa event
4. Factual Information concerning Water Consumption
5. Notable interracial marriages
6. Electronic keyboard stand/stool height
7. Film Effect
8. Coaching
9. Would the inventors have to go back to school?
10. Animals crossing from Spain to Portugal
11. A hell of a question...
12. Association of British Insurers who would use existing sophisticated modelling ....
13. Wikipedia backup

February 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 February 4

1. Fearless people
2. Durable umbrellas
3. Bread and Butter Note
4. Why the lack of American Single Malt Whiskies
5. Is Isinglass present in normal lager?
6. Mobile Phone Picture Bombardment - Help appreciated
7. "Average" Attrition Rate in US Businesses

February 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 February 5

1. Real life Middle Easter Coalition equipment
2. Again with the pocket watch
3. Highway exit numbers
4. Chemicals & Chicken Bones
5. Spoken books on ipod or other devices
6. Animals
7. BANK OF ENGLAND INTEREST RATE CUT!
8. What building is this?
9. Chili sauces

February 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 February 6

1. Does hard work pays?
2. What is the oldest country?
3. Brandenburg concertos No. 3 - 2. Adagio - What key?
4. The digestive system
5. Identifying a building in Budapest
6. Moving planes around on the ground.
7. mortars
8. Life insurance exam

February 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 February 7

1. Plane passing through diagonal
2. Plane steering
3. "We're through the looking glass people"
4. VHS recordings made in the UK
5. Getting a mortgage -- extend line of credit?
6. Finding out credit rating

February 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 February 8

1. Tax question
2. Hauling stuff from the US
3. How do i pick up a hooker?
4. Submarine disaster quotes
5. Magazines at Google Books
6. Hikuta
7. Antitank man
8. can gym and piano go together ???
9. Hudson River Airbus Salvage Operation
10. women right empowerment
11. air crash survivors
12. What is this called?
13. Effects of Shrooms
14. What dictates a hard punch?
15. PPG Industries
16. length and width of denver in miles

February 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 February 9

1. Usa global debt(private+public) /gdp and public debt(considering FNM & FRE)/gdp?
2. Quakers and tax
3. More air crash questions
4. what are some domestic weft knitting machines?
5. Human behavior
6. Online tool for counting and making lists/ charts?
7. Australian bushfire, list of deceased
8. Disappearing fish
9. Public records in United States
10. Travel Abroad

February 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 February 10

1. Campanas de Belén
2. Interview
3. Policing for the sake of Internet 'safety'
4. Toilet seats - open fronted
5. Thiness
6. What major should I study to be employed by the Big 4 auditors?
7. Food
8. "Local History Contact Information"
9. engine settings
10. books
11. Berlin murder
12. Recent progressivism

February 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 February 11

1. Car insurance questions.
2. hoopla surrounding Hudson River landing
3. Information resources
4. Evolution Under Attack!!!
5. Glass
6. Northern Afghanistan - Climate
7. 1992 Jeep Wrangler Hardtop

February 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 February 12

1. A tsunami off Java island in 2007 killed nearly 5,000.
2. Fanning yourself is making you hotter?
3. riddle help
4. Un-gluing old photographs
5. Skirt type
6. Audience participation question
7. Hurricanes
8. Subtitles

February 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 February 13

1. Please help me identify the series
2. Personal Loans
3. M16 questions
4. Multiple Personality Disorder and Wikipedia
5. Karl Marx
6. Jacobs Bloodline.
7. Is non DNA life possible?

February 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 February 14

1. WikiLove
2. How do I start a bird sanctuary?
3. Mobile phone
4. km/h in the US
5. Neck is broken
6. Are vitamins placebos?
7. Bad weather this week?
8. HOA 2/3rds, 3/5ths of members - what happens when the result is not a whole number?

February 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 February 15

1. Goalkeeping brothers?
2. WHAT DOES RECESSION ACTUALLY MEANS ???
3. What prospects are there (if any) of a peaceful and rational accommodation of islamic intolerance of other faiths.
4. Who makes the decisions about names on British road-signs?
5. Chess strategies
6. soda pop book

February 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 February 16

1. LHC
2. Hypocrisy
3. Why Is Southern California So Sunny?
4. How long do royalties last?

February 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 February 17

1. Youngest person in college
2. New lady friend
3. Guitar Hero 3 Karaoke
4. Twelve Angry Men
5. Opening background tabs of Google in Opera.
6. why is gold valuable?
7. Swimming in the ocean, and keys/belongings

February 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 February 18

1. Dedicated Sci Fi browsing
2. I need to know about post mail tracking numbers
3. Strange obsessive-compulsive person
4. Egg Whites
5. U.S. Federal Reserve current interest rate
6. Business process mapping
7. Going for a drink...
8. Springboks(Antidorcas marsupialis) in the UAE.
9. Requesting an external link to a locked page
10. 24: Redemption
11. Littering in Australia

February 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 February 19

1. Desire
2. Two paintings' names
3. Is this true?
4. Why is it impossible to unscramble an egg?
5. How long does it take a Nigerian prince to mail something?
6. progressive vs regressive tax
7. Tennis
8. Golf

February 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 February 20

1. What do you do if you wake up and find that your pet, a large pet like a dog or cat, is dead?
2. Build a pendulum clock (simple)
3. Please help!!
4. a dead webcomic
5. 12 new of these are constructed everyday
6. UK exam dates

February 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 February 21

1. Penn vs Cornell vs Duke
2. Live in the US without funding the military
3. A Riddle I Just Can't Figure Out
4. American efect? is it
5. 70's or 80's arcade game
6. Wine

February 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 February 22

1. Google Help
2. Most pictures of one person
3. music in Dollhouse
4. Train enthusiast
5. Why do the British drive on the left-hand side of the road?
6. Fuel pump

February 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 February 23

1. Chances of Contracting STI's
2. Disaster
3. Recovering damage from nail biting
4. Tattoo
5. Asian American gun ownership rates
6. Identification of a song
7. Rule of the hall
8. Sniper computer game
9. What's the deal with europe/mediterranean/mideast?
10. largest tree trunk
11. Sewn up pockets

February 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 February 24

1. info on montreal
2. Re-Naming of a Non-Profit
3. comic book site
4. looking for documention
5. VIDEO KILLED THE ARTICLE
6. UK and US Stock Markets during the war
7. Paradox

February 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 February 25

1. Games not played
2. The Best Custom Online News Source
3. Mumbai query
4. U-Haul rates
5. What percentage of men remove their pubic hair in some way?
6. Lytton report
7. Typing your pin in reverse at an ATM

February 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 February 26

1. Straight people in gay bars
2. Tiny red bugs
3. boeing 747
4. Free motion gallery/ video footage for use in youtube (creative commons?)
5. Job descriptions asking for "customer service experience"
6. Wonder the name of the fonts
7. Juicing key limes
8. Manav Sthali School
9. Power Point Problem
10. aircraft parts

February 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 February 27

1. Is the golfer Vijay Singh of Indian descent?
2. Victorian gays
3. why does this occur?
4. Newspaper delivery in the United States
5. Can you help me edit my grant proposal?
6. Odd question
7. Dismantling (and remantling) a Swiss Army knife.
8. Overcharging a cell phone
9. Telemarketers on cell phone

February 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 February 28

1. junkyard dog
2. sex position
3. Management dilemma 1 (from Threshold Competitor Participant’s Manual)
4. FIAT Uno 45-S
5. Geometry textbooks in Utah
6. medical condition?
7. Resort
8. Life