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January 1 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 January 1

  1. What Vietnamese ethnic groups originate from the North Central Coast region?
  2. Death Pool 2009
  3. Question (2012)
  4. Poster keeps falling down
  5. What is this?
  6. pharmaceutical oath?
  7. How tall is Danbo?
  8. Betting on bad things

January 2 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 January 2

  1. NCIS topless protestor
  2. Elevation of Mumbai
  3. Question
  4. food nutrition list
  5. Christianity and Evolution
  6. What if Girl fakes Rape?
  7. 50% in MBA ??
  8. Legal documents and vanishing ink
  9. Aircraft carriers

January 3 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 January 3

  1. Why aren't bones metal if calcium?
  2. Bodyguard allow to carry guns?
  3. Can we detect if there are light years sized monsters controlling our minds?
  4. Canadian Lincoln
  5. Car maker
  6. Websites to determine auto fix reasonableness
  7. Colours of products
  8. Why dont they place state birds on plumbing equipment?

January 4 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 January 4

  1. challenging sports
  2. White House defenses
  3. Parallel universe
  4. Law enforcement in the United States of America
  5. Pistol hunting
  6. future problem
  7. Vandalism??
  8. playing cards
  9. Where does the semen go?
  10. I found a cell phone ...
  11. Replacement (better) battery for Motorola portable phone
  12. Question about Wikipedia
  13. Thomas Guide online

January 5 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 January 5

  1. money supply
  2. Football question
  3. Liddle's syndrome
  4. Electricity Generation by Company/Utility
  5. Journey's End
  6. Looney Tunes laws ?
  7. Astrological star patterns
  8. HK Holden id plate
  9. Valet Stealing cars

January 6 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 January 6

  1. Weird example
  2. High School Musical 3: Senior Year
  3. Butterflies
  4. Blue colour of sky
  5. Partridge League Baseball
  6. PC shops in / around London
  7. 1841 wine standard
  8. If nobody votes...
  9. What is this object?
  10. Necessity of computers!
  11. Almonds
  12. Energy requirements
  13. Ticket to Ride question
  14. Percent of home owned after downpayment on mortgage
  15. Roller coaster ride!
  16. Passport messages

January 7 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 January 7

  1. Flickr account help!
  2. Asian Travel Club
  3. Company as buyer of last resort for own stock
  4. buying realestate after foreclosure
  5. B.C.E.
  6. RSA/OCR word processing qualifications
  7. What the hell is wrong with this dog?
  8. Which logically would go next in the sqeuence, or what is the most logical order for these symbols to be arranged in?
  9. Philadelphia Corridor, why "Philadelphia"?

January 8 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 January 8

  1. Admission in USA.
  2. Drunk driving
  3. Harvard referencing
  4. archaeology
  5. Internet research assistance
  6. Hunstans farmstead

January 9 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 January 9

  1. Larson Army Airfield
  2. Quebec separatism and US Army
  3. music videos
  4. Eastern European sex slaves
  5. Biodiversity
  6. Why can't you buy mouse-flavoured cat food?
  7. BOTTLES
  8. What is the etymology for the phrase "SEX SELLS"?

January 10 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 January 10

  1. Are PMC operators more "skilled"?
  2. Special Forces doctor income
  3. Strange landmark in Baghdad
  4. "Proper" Use of a Douvet
  5. lhe
  6. CSAT or customer satisfaction survey
  7. Standard operating procedure SOP
  8. Authorship of Paul's letters
  9. Need help finding a game
  10. Ontario Drivers Licence
  11. Where do people usually lose things

January 11 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 January 11

  1. FLA Lotto
  2. Can I drive to the Drake Passage?
  3. What are bedspreads for?
  4. shady...
  5. Small musical instruments
  6. Thanksgiving
  7. Property Tax
  8. USN Band airplane crash in South America
  9. Bullfighting - several questions I can´t find answers to anywhere else....
  10. Sidewalks
  11. map of dog related incidents

January 12 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 January 12

  1. Pregnant Cows
  2. Looking for a WP article on the "digital aging of faces technique"
  3. Numbers of Mystery
  4. Modifying WP's Page history
  5. Needle looking things on trucks, Interstate 10
  6. Someone, please help!
  7. Flying saucer object on caravan
  8. new thought
  9. vietnam jacket?
  10. English Pemier League Football
  11. pigeon wearing a slice of bread as a collar
  12. Help me to foil high prices

January 13 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 January 13

  1. Learning Spanish (or any other language via Wikipedia).
  2. Why wear Crotchless Panties ?
  3. oxford university
  4. Send package with the wrong postcode?
  5. Card Castles
  6. 10 Powerful Armies
  7. Boat identification
  8. the significance of 176
  9. Reserving oceanic territories

January 14 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 January 14

  1. Cognac expiration
  2. Game soundtrack
  3. Planning a memorial service
  4. Doonesbury
  5. Does the sun move?
  6. Strange dress like thing
  7. Euromillions Lottery
  8. US: cross-country contract
  9. LHE revised edition
  10. [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 January 14#A fish called Sout?<.2Fs> Salp|A fish called Sout? Salp]]
  11. Iconic Pricing
  12. My garage door
  13. Parchment Paper- Waterproof? Greaseproof?

January 15 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 January 15

  1. Mail Without Postage
  2. Publically Produced, Privately Provisioned Postal System
  3. Name of a song
  4. rising of moon
  5. 'suitability of carburetor from Kawasaki KE 175 on-off road motorcyle for a smaller KE 100'
  6. Wikipedia editor breakdown by country
  7. When - precisely - does a new US President assume power?

January 16 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 January 16

  1. Solar-powered car
  2. Military SOP for human shields
  3. Black light search
  4. CRIPTIC CROSS WORD
  5. cannon
  6. Impact of recession in India
  7. Alarm System Instruction or User Manual
  8. Names of particular vintage military pieces of uniform
  9. Royaume Du Maroc Stamp
  10. Stealing From Hotels
  11. Identify this ditched aircraft

January 17 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 January 17

  1. Dragon Warrior III for GBC
  2. Smile.dog
  3. indian army
  4. Where can I get a bowling ball, a feather, and a scale?
  5. Funeral Home Embalming
  6. Is there an international standard style for expressing monetary amounts?
  7. rubber duck / wheeled digger
  8. The Cloud
  9. Mascara

January 18 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 January 18

  1. negative memory?????
  2. Time of Obama's actual oath
  3. sex and sexuality in the 1890s
  4. Death

January 19 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 January 19

  1. Golf Balls
  2. Gas import/export
  3. Knights and peers who die before gazettal
  4. Spanish trip
  5. Soundproofing bathrooms
  6. mutilation,shreding and dead pigs killed by their brothers. why? and friendly coment about peta
  7. Desi documentaries
  8. I wanna fly away!
  9. Monkey Menace
  10. Airline tracking
  11. What is this song?
  12. COPC
  13. Website?
  14. What is the music in this youtube video?

January 20 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 January 20

  1. ACCA
  2. Opening guests at tech conferences
  3. Middle names in US Presidential inaugurations
  4. President Obama's post inauguration income.
  5. Level of Ballistic Protection on the Glass
  6. Belgian Browning Shotgun with interchangeable barrels
  7. The Mysterious Biped

January 21 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 January 21

  1. What country has the biggest official residence for its head of government?
  2. How do Radio Station Censor Songs?
  3. Are there any money-free psychic chat rooms online?
  4. ICE Conditions of Contract
  5. Development of The Louvre Pyramid
  6. months of the year
  7. xbox 360
  8. Place Stanislas
  9. Scottish Banknotes.
  10. 2012?
  11. President Obama Pledge and the FOIA
  12. John F. Kennedy's Horse

January 22 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 January 22

  1. Temperatures limiting work attendance
  2. Mummy Wikia
  3. Puffed rice
  4. A Car or Oil Commercial
  5. Starting a Photography Business
  6. That Bungled Presidential Oath.
  7. Muslim ladies in Toronto during summer season
  8. Freedom of information and wiretapping/surveillance

January 23 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 January 23

  1. Rubik's cube:: V-cubes 6&7
  2. Priapus Garden Gnomes descended from Greek fertility god?
  3. Aging and Alcohol
  4. US Tax deduction
  5. Random articles
  6. How does one go from Roswell, New Mexico, into Mexico?
  7. Title please
  8. Obama Inauguration Transcripts
  9. Why are boogers yellowish green?
  10. Will you get arrested if you travel to restricted countries?

January 24 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 January 24

  1. Chaos Theory. Is this a croc, or what?
  2. forwarding articles
  3. Private Email to my friend Adam Arkin
  4. orlando, florida
  5. US War Deficit of $1trillion.
  6. Relaxing things that would lend themselves to being an online game.

January 25 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 January 25

  1. Opposite of a Smile
  2. Friend -finding/-matching site?
  3. What is the taste of unadulterated, unsalted umami?
  4. Betting/probability over infinite trials proof
  5. drivers licencing and laws

January 26 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 January 26

  1. college baseball lines?
  2. Smoking Alternative?????????
  3. Please help me with my dilema
  4. Sub-Prime Mortgages and other disappearing tricks?
  5. Is there such a thing as INSTANT web surfing?
  6. How do I destroy my short term memory?
  7. Cyd Charisse

January 27 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 January 27

  1. Computer
  2. Handgun error on Battlestar Galactica
  3. climatic classification by stamp
  4. Are the Discovery Channel guys nuts?
  5. College sports
  6. FIT
  7. The driest area of Britain

January 28 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 January 28

  1. Smallest viable population
  2. Heavy metal a victim of reverse discrimination?
  3. Coconut Shy
  4. How do deaf people communicate with normal people?
  5. Watching movies like "Untraceable"
  6. Cryptography

January 29 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 January 29

  1. 'track basher'
  2. the only british female marine
  3. What do other encyclopedias do?
  4. high level IQ tests
  5. Deal or No Deal: does the banker win?
  6. Opening a wine bottle
  7. UK road regulations concerning roundabouts
  8. Ref Desk Order

January 30 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 January 30

  1. Recommend me some military/war novels?
  2. Title of songs in video
  3. willy russel, blood brothers
  4. Downloading movie and subtitles
  5. Cristiano Ronaldo to Real Madrid
  6. Personal bulk buys
  7. Academic Decathlon Alternate Team
  8. sports
  9. Play.com order within EU
  10. Wikipedia in the News

January 31 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 January 31

  1. Instrument Identification
  2. dollarization in Zimbabwe
  3. Hijab shirt skirt sandals denim jacket skirt and khaki shirt skirt
  4. With eneough time, can any animal be domesticated?
  5. Life expectancy and ageing
  6. Menstural Cycle and Pregnancy
  7. Rotaries question.
  8. Cardinal raven