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February 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 February 1

1. Somali-canadians in toronto
2. Regions of Somalia
3. Tamil Tigers
4. Jazz tune
5. Austro-Hungarian interests at the Treaty of Versailles
6. JC-1 H1 History: Bizonia?
7. Pakistan
8. Whiplash!
9. The gift-loan
10. Do you recognize this tune?
11. astrology question for astrologers  :)
12. word history
13. What do MEDCs owe to LEDCs?

February 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 February 2

1. One error or two?
2. Unusual rock assemblies
3. Herbert Spencer
4. World Tour
5. energy consumption
6. Parodies of Coleridge's "Kubla Khan"
7. reflections on a vase/mirror/etc.
8. Constituent Assemblies dismissing Congresses
9. 100 years of best sellers
10. Intricate mysteries
11. How to write literature

February 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 February 3

1. Intelligence and wisdom
2. Treasure Island
3. Sales Taxes on Ebay
4. Song
5. Horse Racing and the Horse's Age
6. Names of schools - Scots/Scotch?
7. images of buddha
8. Bestsellers in the UK
9. George Washington
10. [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 February 3#|]]
11. Children's Book a Metaphor for WWII
12. Gothic cathedrals

February 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 February 4

1. Political terminology
2. A Medal of a Friend
3. Britain and Rome
4. When did people start smiling in photographs?
5. Test of October
6. What really is absolute pitch?
7. Muslims Hindus India Pakistan
8. Choosing a college
9. Independence of Rhodesia?
10. can i eat dogfood?
11. Historical price data for retail automobiles

February 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 February 5

1. How do you get over the idea that online dating is weird and pathetic?
2. Need info on St. Mary's Church of the Assumption in Wilkes-Barre,PA
3. Extreme elements photographers in the 70s
4. Do people get reimbursed for a travel expenses going to a job interview in Switzerland?
5. Links between language and reality
6. Cancelling postal orders
7. History of data
8. Ethics
9. Schopenauer and free will
10. Location of archives of Gerald Abrahams
11. photographer - mass naked people
12. Rap music, M to the C
13. Multinational Force and Observers (MFO) in Egypt—Current Deployed U.S. Forces?
14. Orwell and Trotsky
15. Italian heraldic question

February 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 February 6

1. middle ages joustin
2. Khutbah
3. somali female dress
4. John McCain
5. speeches
6. Ordinary life in the Third Reich
7. Guitar fret markings
8. Social Security Benefits
9. Fundamentalists vs. Evangelicals
10. Van Gogh PowerPoint Presentation
11. 2 questions ...
12. sociology help
13. When does Virginia get to vote in the Primary elections?
14. Peloponnesian War
15. interaction between humans
16. Burma dictatorship
17. Name of Short Story

February 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 February 7

1. Mahatma Gandhi
2. Jacob Burkardt / coining of "Renaissance style."
3. Waz up i neeed help On a report!!!
4. Movie screenwriting
5. Is the Metatron really the voice of God or is Alan Rickman lying to me?
6. Senator vs Senator
7. How to become a Muslim?
8. Presidential candidates losing their home state
9. Turks in Germany
10. Names and backgrounds of wives of the Karaite exilarchs
11. Name of a symbol?
12. Mayan artifact?
13. The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940

February 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 February 8

1. Software business
2. Quote from an Aboriginal
3. Berlin and the cold war
4. Rumi
5. Tale of two Revolutions
6. Lowest paying jobs in America
7. Who is Cletus?
8. King Richard III
9. Which of the 48 States has the cheapest residential real estate?
10. Summary of Human History
11. Question about economic stimulus package
12. the presidential election
13. Does animals have nationality?
14. Losing Popular Vote in US Primary elections?
15. Heraldry: Order of blazoned Fields
16. Family name question
17. Music translation: notation for bells

February 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 February 9

1. Can't reinsert trombone tuning slide
2. Is there a 'Follower effect,' or something to that extent?
3. The Bible on Marijuana.
4. who are mid-May's other children?
5. English Civil War, Glorious Revolution & Act of Settlement
6. did the portuguese discover the Americas first before Columbus??
7. Orleanism and French politics
8. Procopius and the Secret History
9. Where does Hegel outline his theory of tragedy?
10. Arab Muslim nations vs.civilization
11. Quran
12. Country Song
13. Superdelegates

February 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 February 10

1. Men who lost virginity to prostitutes
2. Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach's definition of God
3. Virgin Islands
4. US-Canada relations; Parliamentarians and Royalists, not Whigs and Tories?
5. The Merry Monarch?
6. symbols
7. Rabbi Moritz Gudemann's brother-in-law
8. First world war race riots
9. Sunni Madhhabs
10. Culture of Somalia and Bangladesh
11. Identifying a piece of music
12. Readable Classics
13. Simpsons, deontology, and utilitarianism
14. Napoleon and Germany
15. From Homer to Henry James - What's this narrative technique called?
16. How did Bridget Bishop come to be charged with witchcraft in Salem Village?
17. frankenstein
18. Roman mystery
19. the spanish and dutch empires

February 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 February 11

1. HISTORY
2. Are haitians Afro french while Dominican Republic are Hispanic?
3. Valentine's day greetings
4. The West Wing
5. When is the poll close of 3 states election in 12 February 2008?
6. Is the Hegelian triad thesis-antithesis-synthesis really a myth?
7. Tears
8. Military Vicar
9. Deafblind
10. Christopher Brookmyre Wikipedia entry
11. Different forms of Nazism during WW2 (Germany, Italy and Japan)
12. Prince Potemkin's English village
13. Marines fighting and dying for our Right to Free Speech...
14. Turkey after WWI
15. LGBT or Straight?
16. Amartya Sen
17. Books on St.Francis of Assisi as diplomat and adventures in Egypt

February 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 February 12

1. Murder, She Spoke
2. U.S. election primaries and conventions
3. stalin the leader
4. Introduction to Israeli/Palestinian conflict
5. Russian Revolution and the working class
6. emilian school
7. Iliad and Odyssey
8. Royal charter
9. Europe's opinion of Barack Obama for president?
10. Did the Clintons remove items from the White House that did not belong to them?
11. Iris Habib Elmasry
12. Lady Macbeth's Sin
13. Capitalist
14. astrology question!! yay!!

February 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 February 13

1. Government and market economy
2. Ello Friends
3. Obamicans
4. What is the definition of a shatterbelt?
5. Microsoft Sales
6. Inscriptions on Paris building
7. Police in France
8. Journey from Vienna to Magdeburg in 1889
9. Peerages
10. Why is Potter so Popular?
11. Image highly disturbing.
12. "Greeks" moving out of (present day) Greece and being replaced by Slavs in Middle Ages?
13. what is the sexiest non-pornographic (non-obscene) picture on the Internet???

February 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 February 14

1. Aust indigenous culture
2. Starving or freezing to death
3. Help with List of Chairmen of the Federal Reserve.
4. Giotto and Arena Chapel
5. More JC-1 H2 Economics help needed
6. famous late starters?
7. Outcomes
8. United States Economic Stimulus Act of 2008
9. Name of the Pop/Alternative Band from maybe Sweden? Switzerland? With like 30-40 members?
10. American newspapers' endorsement of Presidential candidates
11. Medieval twins
12. WARFARIN USE??.
13. Two strong candidates from one party?
14. Question form de.WP: Why do american presidential candidates point on persons with their finger before starting to talk?
15. fall of the romanovs
16. Are there any countries where cocaine is legal (not a legal question).
17. Question Regarding CAIR

February 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 February 15

1. Clause about prohibition sale on the internet
2. Zeal
3. What exactly is a magnetic field?
4. Waaaz up! (again)
5. commemorative pins
6. The Lotus Sutra
7. architect of New Museum of Contemporary Art
8. nation rural emloyment gaurantee scheme by indian govt
9. Eagles-myth and symbol
10. naďve vs nad've vs naïve
11. Nazi sphinx

February 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 February 16

1. Animal rights in Islam and other religions
2. Is this neutral monism, panpsychism, or what?
3. Crowley's Confessions
4. Septuagint the first translation of a religious text?
5. Gladstone liberals
6. Mayan math
7. Drawn out nature of US presidentdial race
8. Literary hoax author?
9. Newspaper Vending Machines
10. Unconditional Surrender
11. al-Qaeda statements
12. Drinking milk in a bowl
13. Rousseau's Paradox?
14. The Visitor
15. school colors

February 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 February 17

1. Can we build a person from nicknames?
2. Spanish ducat in 1500s
3. Kosovo and Albania
4. "Open Piano Suggestion"
5. Opening time for British University
6. Olympics boycott
7. Stimulus package refunds for working kids
8. musical term
9. Beginning, middle and end?
10. Sicilian questions
11. Axis Public Opinion
12. "water bottles" of antiquity

February 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 February 18

1. What can I learn from literature and philosophy
2. Chord Progressions
3. America-related reading
4. Old British "wake-up"
5. Lady Jane over time
6. Raynald the Bastard
7. Finding information within the reference desk
8. law of marriage on england
9. how to write a grant
10. Archbishop and Sharia
11. Photos of Mormon polygamists with their wives
12. Numbering of Western Canadian municipalities
13. Buddhist beliefs
14. Indian National Congress and Bharata Janata Party leaders
15. Sri Lankan Political Party
16. Pakistan People's Party and Muslim League(Q)
17. celine anti-semitism
18. Pronounciation
19. wounded students
20. Schizophrenics and Deaf people

February 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 February 19

1. Pizarro boats (how did they get there?)
2. Correlations to libertarianism
3. Which historian?
4. Middle East Leader of the 1980's
5. Rate of evolution of culture
6. Waterloo train fares
7. Anti-Semitism and conspiracy theory
8. Hitler
9. Please ID book
10. German Artist Jacob Winfried
11. Quotation

February 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 February 20

1. Francisco Hernández de Córdoba (conqueror of the Aztecs).
2. Judas and Thamar
3. Historical revisionism?
4. UK living: Glasgow or Edinburgh
5. Gilgamesh adaptation
6. Town and Country Planning Act 1990
7. what is the most romantic song?
8. Stoning in the Bible/Old Testament
9. Algeria indipendence
10. Lake Norman
11. Jacobite Rebellions
12. Ethnic cleansing of Silesia

February 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 February 21

1. incest
2. Question regarding a trademark
3. Is "Ethnic Cleansing" a word of approval for genocide?
4. Lost poem on the "Lewis Carroll" page
5. Turner Collection
6. Why is Nutella so expensive? Can I make it at home from hazelnuts (filberts)?
7. The Anglo Scottish Wars
8. is there any modern-day no-man's-land?
9. Mozart
10. Britain and the first world war
11. Ultimate fighting championship
12. Kenya
13. Template ghosting mystery
14. ship explosion

February 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 February 22

1. Decisive battle
2. Guglielmo Giannini+ Fascist trials
3. giotto/arena chapel
4. Identifying piece of classical music (Michael Nyman, perhaps?)
5. Salerno Coat of Arms Interpretation
6. Insults to humanity
7. Extradition
8. Law and nazis
9. US National Anthem
10. Clarendon
11. Restitution of Belongings to Holocaust Survivors

February 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 February 23

1. OLD AIRCRAFT CARRIER #8
2. Baptist church
3. Stalin in Libya?
4. Women's fashion history?
5. 1952 abolition of identity cards in the United Kingdom
6. Jewish anti-semitism
7. What percentage of the world population owns a car, phone, and a house?
8. World Educational Statistics and Demographics
9. Mauritius
10. Gorbachev
11. Remembering a painting/artist
12. rescueing narrative from directed interviews
13. Ronald Reagan and the Cold War
14. Flash in the pan?
15. Gorky and Lenin

February 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 February 24

1. In camera proceedings in the USA
2. Chomsky as junk scientist
3. Very famous piece of classical music
4. What TV news/current affairs programmes can be watched live on the internet?
5. why is there the discrepancy between the economically liberal/laissez faire but socialy conservative policies of the US Republicans and the UK Conservatives
6. What is it that Hillary Clinton is freaking out about?
7. Why are the people of Tanna (island) so nice?
8. Stupid question from a stupid person
9. Dante
10. How do I get extradited?
11. Incorrect reference in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anat
12. Over 65s as Percent of Population in United States / Europe Historical Data?
13. Commonly heard classical music piece -- what's it called?
14. Rivers of Blood
15. English in Scotland
16. Soviet Anthem
17. Italian unification
18. Was the U.S. Constitution originally written on hemp paper?
19. Source for Quote Wanted
20. Information please
21. African American History
22. Tom Wait's "Buzz Fledderjohn".
23. what makes a faux turtleneck faux?
24. Wolsey and the supremacy
25. why is boxing legal?
26. a gentleman in every parish
27. Israel daily life
28. historical account

February 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 February 25

1. Who is De Gouy, a composer from Arban's Grand Method for Trumpet?
2. Jewish missionaries
3. Worth its weight
4. Hyperinflation
5. Ipatiev House and Ekaterinburg 217.43.8.161 (talk) 14:04, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
6. Clausewitz and Iraq
7. Purchasing power parity and geographical differences in cost of living within a country
8. War against japan

February 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 February 26

1. Changes in laws after changes of government (in EU)
2. Holst, The Planets, fourth movement
3. Investment advice from Bill
4. Poem about ice skating, the moon, and death
5. Definition of misdemeanor?
6. Could I get a neutral ONE-PARAGRAPH summary of Israel and Palestine
7. Pronunciation of "Salome"
8. Dietary laws and categories.
9. Ecclesiastical History
10. school memorials
11. Legacy of the Nazis

February 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 February 27

1. Swastikas and the law in Europe
2. auguste comte
3. Amy Van Horne
4. Man of the World
5. Love..
6. Yugoslav provinces & Serbia
7. Cultural differences
8. Square bullets
9. Is there any sexual position that was first invented theoretically and only later actually performed?
10. time adjustment
11. Foundations of the Nineteenth Century
12. Quote attributed to Winston Churchill "Small men who covet power should never be allowed to touch it"
13. Microsoft fined - where does the money go?
14. German/Japanese direct military collaboration during World War 2
15. Richard the Second his downfall
16. Article on speech/thought disorder
17. Jews and the Black Death
18. Landscape painter
19. Buying / redeeming pachinko balls
20. Why is Gravel still running for president?

February 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 February 28

1. List of people who died while testifying before Congress?
2. HOW DID THE draft SUCCEED???
3. Joining the US Marine Corps
4. Taare Zameen Par
5. Ubuntu
6. The Queen's taste in art and music
7. Setting the day of Easter
8. noir/mtv
9. Please, don't understand....
10. LaTeX issue

February 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 February 29

1. Mestizos
2. Song called "Stickball"
3. enforcement of rules
4. Chomsky's Politics
5. Mikoyan Purge
6. Into the wild
7. Post Cold War
8. most popular vacation times in USA?
9. First morning cigarette
10. prose edda, aesir, troy etc
11. Looking for a demon named Diophosys
12. The Bodhisattva and Buddhahood
13. how many generations of grammar-based language users have there been?
14. 75 Year Public Domain, Copyright Law Questiones? Re: FILM