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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 July 1

  1. Pirate Party
  2. To all to whom these presents shall come, greeting!
  3. UN 6th Committee
  4. Princess Elisabeth Helene of Thurn and Taxis
  5. 22nd Amendment (US Constitution)
  6. Miracles
  7. Oldest French Noble titles
  8. An historical example of a counter-productive fad
  9. Iowa crop revenue

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 July 2

  1. Garibaldi's hat
  2. Benjamin Franklin's Political Affiliations
  3. thomas cook and son logo 1898
  4. Role Of Marketing in Network Economy
  5. Hyde Park, London
  6. Looking for a map :)
  7. Supply and demand
  8. Cruelty to animals laws in the United Kingdom
  9. US election results
  10. Economics: Is it optimal to have different or equal tax rates?
  11. mansur al hallaj
  12. abdul qadir gilani

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 July 3

  1. California Foreclosure Prevention Act
  2. US Constitution Amendments on display?
  3. Biting the lower lip
  4. Royal political involvement in a constitutional monarchy
  5. crosses
  6. Babenberg Ladies
  7. Where Did Tolstoy, Live Around The Time Dostoevsky wrote crime and punishment.

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 July 4

  1. Urgent: Tuning a snare drum
  2. Parachutes for passengers in planes
  3. Contemporary Artist- I can't remember his name
  4. Ink plums in Chinese art

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 July 5

  1. Two Sicilies
  2. doxycycline withdrawal symptoms
  3. Hitler's Jewish friend.
  4. What is the term for a trance brought on by art?
  5. Alaska's Lieutenant Governor position
  6. rue de Richepanse
  7. Soviet archives

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 July 6

  1. Poor people
  2. Did the Chinese Communists ever officialy use the term Maoism?
  3. Ornamental
  4. Shoulder angel, personalized
  5. Identify this play
  6. Are the United Kingdom and Canada in Personal Union?
  7. What are these blue spots in my pictures?
  8. Photographs from Obrazove zpravodajstvi CTK archives
  9. Inheritance of German Noble Titles
  10. Abdoulaye Wade's siblings?
  11. Daniel Arap Moi's baptism?
  12. Pornography for the blind

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 July 7

  1. Kalkot Mataskelekele's wife
  2. Homographs
  3. North Korean diplomacy
  4. Personal union during war
  5. US federal swearing-in
  6. Netherlants Below Water
  7. Who was the Dutch governor-general of Indonesia during the Japanese invasion?
  8. Finding in the Temple
  9. Members of the British Parliament (including Lords)
  10. Hubertus Johannes van Mook's wife
  11. From prime minister to national leader?

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 July 8

  1. Jewis converts in nazi germany
  2. 3 questions
  3. What was the Socialist Workers' Party of China?
  4. Euroclear Bank / ClearStream
  5. Legal Guardian
  6. Arrh, Jim Lad!
  7. In terms of a Broadway musical, what does the term book mean.
  8. Succession to the British throne
  9. Ancient Polynesians in Australia

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 July 9

  1. Military customs and courtesy question
  2. Price ceiling for tax holiday
  3. Copyright on CIA code systems(not legal advice, hypothetical situation)
  4. Problems in the list of Oldenburg Counts
  5. Notable children
  6. Method of argument/ logical fallacy
  7. Exchange rates
  8. Modern Polyandry
  9. geography/history question
  10. Wal-Mart biggest in history?
  11. shortest world leaders
  12. Painting of a ship possibly run aground
  13. British monarchy

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 July 10

  1. Sophia descendants
  2. Question on Dow Industrial
  3. Madame Ngô Đình Nhu a gunslinging Dragon Lady?
  4. Has this happened?
  5. Monegasque royal family

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 July 11

  1. Argument based on the matter's unimportance
  2. Who first wrote, "if you're so smart, how come you're not rich?"
  3. river ford at Beeston Nottinghamshire
  4. Is the Netherlands the most Islamophobic country in the world?
  5. Dilip Barua
  6. Bangladesh cabinet portfolios
  7. Faulty logic in supporting the example of inelastic demand

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 July 12

  1. Do the schools in the Ivy Leaugue or at any university have....
  2. Book
  3. Geopolitics?

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 July 13

  1. English royal succession discrepency
  2. English translation for chain of law, police and forensic scientists
  3. Two famous African Americans
  4. Treaty of Peace with Italy
  5. Ra-Horakhty
  6. Terminology for Early Schools
  7. Wittgenstein and pragmat(ic)ism
  8. Van Gogh painting
  9. General half race families

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 July 14

  1. Cultural migration/adoption
  2. Some people never feel cold?
  3. Land Mines between Countries
  4. Half breed people
  5. Historic race crimes
  6. Sons of Washington
  7. Chinese zodiac
  8. What are MPs?

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 July 15

  1. FOCAC
  2. Irish Kings
  3. What was wrong with Tad Lincoln?
  4. A Question That Requires Language Deskers Too
  5. Psychology / Lying Videos
  6. Proper titles of the Dukes of Schleswig and Holstein
  7. cleanliness in japanese culture
  8. Legal question about The Wire
  9. Fisting in American porn

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 July 16

  1. Personal jurisdiction
  2. joe son
  3. And the band played on
  4. GDP per capita (constant 2000 US$)
  5. Reading questions from the Da Vinci Code
  6. Death Penalty
  7. Samantha Smith, CIA & KGB.

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 July 17

  1. vast fortunes
  2. Confederate Battle Flag w/13 Red & White Stripes
  3. discrimination against Aspies
  4. Indochina War
  5. Senator by proxy
  6. King Oliver, King Kim (monarchy/republic)
  7. What do they say regarding evolution in intro to biology classes at some conspicuously religious universities?
  8. Bilingual American President?

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 July 18

  1. Copyrighted old newspapers
  2. painting
  3. Bible
  4. En brosse
  5. BOOK TITLES
  6. Did Joachim von Ribbentrop really play ice hockey for the Canada men's national ice hockey team?

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 July 19

  1. Why did Massachusetts vote for McGovern?
  2. Name of literary device

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 July 20

  1. Patron saints
  2. Being God?
  3. Clerical celibacy and Catholic priests
  4. "Great Britain"
  5. Geneva Convention, treaty agreements etc
  6. Countries for Euthanasia Without Terminal Illness Requirements
  7. Around the world in 80 days

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 July 21

  1. Identifying an unknown US sword
  2. The legal concept of acquiescence -- does it exist in any United States laws?
  3. Meaning of Maxims and Arrows 27
  4. Learning to kill
  5. UK Ministry of Information during WWI
  6. Can a nun enter a civil marriage
  7. If you can't say something nice...
  8. Retiree organization in USA
  9. Are confessional booths always made of wood?
  10. Buying share - online or physical broker?
  11. Homosexuality.
  12. Pacific Scandal 1872

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 July 22

  1. Libertarian socialism and left libertarianism
  2. "the good doctor"
  3. Moken Sea Gypsies of Thailand
  4. Visigothic establishment in Hispania
  5. Scandalous Saints
  6. Historical Jesus question
  7. United States Special Operations Forces
  8. Omar Bongo's death

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 July 23

  1. Minors Viewing Pornography
  2. International occupation of Jerusalem
  3. music instruments
  4. Nautical chart lines
  5. history of racism in Toronto
  6. I know I know; I know I don't know; I don't know I know; I don't know I don't know
  7. African American Money Donation to Africa

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 July 24

  1. superoldest living black peoples
  2. Mexican and Iranian skin colors
  3. Nil Ellien
  4. Visigothic languages
  5. Depression?
  6. what troops were at the battle of the wilderness
  7. Maoist opposition within the Soviet bloc
  8. US states :geographical oddities..?
  9. The Pope
  10. Architectural style of house
  11. Accidental deaths in the US military

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 July 25

  1. Royal persons in concentration camps
  2. Obama's citizenship and presidency(a "what if")
  3. Queens consort of Mann?
  4. 3rd generation American
  5. Lost time according to Joshua 10:12-14
  6. Flevoland

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 July 26

  1. Another American political what-if: former two-term presidents as vice-presidential candidates
  2. Chinese takeaway duck
  3. Question related to Satyr
  4. Ancestry, nationality, ethnicity, etc
  5. Particular style of cross

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 July 27

  1. What is chattel slavery?
  2. Word for secret, hidden and/or fictional books?
  3. Soviet ambassador to the Ivory Coast?
  4. Eligibility for President
  5. Battle of Seccaium
  6. Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus
  7. Architecture with obvious references to science
  8. When a Chinese people living in US have Chinses name but no English name
  9. French Republics and titles of nobility
  10. Medical advice boundary condition?
  11. Twin Towers (World Trade Center)
  12. SWAPO
  13. Western women at Unit 731?

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 July 28

  1. The Brothers Karamazov
  2. Democratic Factory and Business
  3. some information is missing on GEO TV page
  4. anupama chopra
  5. What the hell does Natural Born Citizen even mean? (U.S.)
  6. the doctrine of acquiescence when acquiescence is days/a month instead of years?
  7. stats racism
  8. Duke of Leuchtenberg
  9. Theories why people adore pop stars or royalty?
  10. Tie in voting of the House of Representatives
  11. Why are Obama questions so popular?
  12. Diadem (personal wear)
  13. Authors who started young
  14. Copyright and Hansards

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 July 29

  1. Death sentence
  2. how many members of the upper class are there?
  3. Equivalent to unparliamentary language in US
  4. Humour in the Bible
  5. Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica Serapio
  6. Associated Press flashes
  7. White people by country

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 July 30

  1. Identify this salesman
  2. How many countries other than Canada have taxes on existing taxes
  3. Prince and Duke of Girona
  4. if I get an idea while using a prescription drug, do the rights belong to the Pharma company?
  5. Classical liberalism, liberalism and libertarianism
  6. Tiberius Gracchus, section Tiberius' death
  7. Did Confucius say?
  8. Moon Publicity
  9. Eminent Victorians
  10. Edmund Burke and Terrorism

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 July 31

  1. Why universities are bad
  2. Is the irukandji jellyfish so dangerous?
  3. plush toy idea
  4. Earliest Parliamentary candidature by a living person
  5. How do Germans feel about Jews and the Holocaust?
  6. How do Japanese feel about Japanese actions in World War 2?
  7. How do Muslims feel about terrorism?
  8. How do whites feel about slavery, colonialism and all their racist crimes?
  9. Times when world population have decreased...
  10. Hitler's quote
  11. Information requested by sweepstake forms
  12. Religion,biography of William Temple
  13. Third Punic War info request
  14. Pope Re Abortion
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