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July 1

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 July 1

  1. Thesis formatting question
  2. Can I work as ATC if I'm 18
  3. Book illustration pricing
  4. Why should we fear a NWO?
  5. A Question on the Federal Reserve
  6. Special relationships between countries
  7. Chinese Imperial Tombs
  8. questions
  9. Heroism
  10. Practice of intentionaly burning suburbs when anticipating attack ?
  11. Printing money
  12. Canada's independence
  13. Controversial/interesting legal cases
  14. American Accent
  15. UK marriages, mid-80s

July 2

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 July 2

  1. How does the Universal Declaration of Human Rights apply to criminals?
  2. Moral rights for long-dead people?
  3. "vamos chile mierda"
  4. Korean and Mayan war
  5. Bernardino Luini
  6. American Foreign Policy
  7. US Postal Insurance vs. Delivery Confirmation
  8. facebook account delete
  9. How many university graduates speak English?
  10. James Monroe
  11. if a professional marries a client they are mutualy in love have they got rights not to be penalised
  12. Merciful Death

July 3

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 July 3

  1. What is this clothing called?
  2. Expensive book
  3. Tha Vanishing Hitchhiker
  4. "No maps for these territories"
  5. Determination of the degree and line of the relationship by blood and by marriage
  6. how should we refer to him?
  7. university
  8. Freehold land - upwards and downwards
  9. Execution of Robespierre
  10. Cops with machine guns, central London
  11. Can Disney take my stuff?
  12. High heels
  13. Infantry on U.S. navy ships

July 4

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 July 4

  1. Small Claims Court Subpoena
  2. HELP!!! What is the purpose of this passage?
  3. Pride and Prejudice
  4. what's with all the penis on chatroullete?
  5. Ancient Lights
  6. Blackshirt wearing policepersons, UK
  7. The blind are unreasonable?

July 5

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 July 5

  1. Wright-Moyeux map
  2. Is Skateboarding an artform?
  3. Confusion about uploading images
  4. Which penny did the Copperheads use?
  5. Queen Elizabeth I and Queen Elizabeth II
  6. UK newspaper
  7. Help identifying a figure in the Bible
  8. Most influential women in history
  9. Eliakim?
  10. How can Raul Castro be a Roman Catholic?

July 6

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 July 6

  1. First (US) federal building named for a woman
  2. What type of psychology disorder is this?
  3. Category:.....People/history
  4. Romanization of Western Europe
  5. Figures for the battle of chancellorsville (and in general)
  6. Nullification of future wills?
  7. Would one individual's massive wealth of Pt crash the price of it if he kept it all to himself?

July 7

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 July 7

  1. After 1776 but before Washington
  2. How many times has Germany won the FIFA World Cup?
  3. Would this be considered discrimination in Ontario?
  4. American Evidentiary Law Hypotheticals
  5. Women in the Vietnam War
  6. Pakistani military history.

July 8

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 July 8

  1. Poetry
  2. The Teeth of the League
  3. Dzban Pełen Słońca
  4. Alternative Dispute Resolution, UK
  5. Ban cars, only taxis in cities
  6. Treaties
  7. Looking for quote
  8. Who has the more powerful military?
  9. Surviving WW1
  10. Bill C-6

July 9

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 July 9

  1. St. Leo's Roman Catholic Church, Mimico
  2. "Consomme Belle-Vue en tasse"
  3. Palais des Papes - Palace of the Popes construction material
  4. do they ever make something illegal just so it will be illegal?
  5. "eat everything on your plate"
  6. bloody anthem
  7. Countries that support Israel's settlements in the West Bank
  8. singers and smoking
  9. Josephus
  10. PAKISTANI MILITARY HISTORY.

July 10

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 July 10

  1. Army Life in the 19th Century
  2. old proverb
  3. Help me understand.... re: Uniform Code of Military Justice.
  4. Tintin in the US
  5. Fair use in Japan
  6. Have terrorists watched American movies?
  7. Was the Prophet Muhammad a pedophile?
  8. Football offside rule manipulation
  9. Greek name of rhetorical device.

July 11

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 July 11

  1. Contemporary application of McCulloch v. Maryland
  2. China and USA. Controlling the exchange rate.
  3. Juliet's marriage in Romeo and Juliet
  4. Ninjas

July 12

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 July 12

  1. A Very Important Question
  2. Urban Legend or History
  3. Pronunciation and spelling of "Xanlar"
  4. can criminals be rich?
  5. Obese old people
  6. Shakespeare's longest work
  7. what did the ancient Greeks (or earlier civilizations= have in terms of technology that could be analogous to USB?
  8. Lost expeditions
  9. armpit smelling
  10. Readable ancient classics non-fiction narrative prose?

July 13

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 July 13

  1. Roman Polanski's extradition
  2. Orthodox Chief Rabbi's hat
  3. Equality in Britain under Labour
  4. NAME THE ART PRINT
  5. Referendum
  6. Qnexa patent

July 14

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 July 14

  1. Victorian workhouses
  2. What is the movement of "minimalist" poster and cover design called?
  3. Idiosyncratic alcohol intoxication as a legal defense
  4. long-forgotten Revlon products
  5. (In)famous Albert Einstien picture
  6. Swimming pool
  7. Diwan Bahadur Sir T. Vijayaraghayacharya
  8. Moore v. Regents of the University of California

July 15

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 July 15

  1. Most influential American VP?
  2. Snow in Asia
  3. Florida Sales Tax
  4. Why does a single currency *seem* to work better for the US than for the EU?
  5. Price of slaves
  6. History of the UK
  7. What does the saying "Off the altar" mean to the Hare Krishna devotees? I understand this is something negative against bleeding women or women who have young children they are taking care of.
  8. US tax rate history
  9. European Union
  10. Marriage in Israel

July 16

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 July 16

  1. Elephants doing...painting !
  2. Named defendant
  3. what are the arguments for and against Israel's right to exist?
  4. Did Men Carry Pitchers of Water in Israel?
  5. Puerto Rican flags in Bridgeport
  6. Help with what may be a potential scam.
  7. Bunzlau / Boleslawiec Household Pottery

July 17

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 July 17

  1. Sochaux museum
  2. Boat
  3. Seperate estate of husband and wife
  4. Combined Nazi_concentration_camp_badges#Table_of_camp_inmate_markings
  5. Swedish nun during the French revolution
  6. George Shepherd painting
  7. Why did Raoul Moat get so many floral tributes?

July 18

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 July 18

  1. Naming your child
  2. Strange question during jury summons' voir dire
  3. Film ownership
  4. Is Queen Elizabeth II a monarchist?
  5. short term and long term profits of a firm
  6. If Washington DC were to become a state, what would it be called?
  7. what is the earliest reference to pleasing two women at the same time?
  8. Residenzpflicht
  9. Vegetarianism
  10. Blacks' rule in the SA
  11. was this girl okay?

July 19

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 July 19

  1. Chittenden County, Vermont
  2. Windward Passage
  3. What services and/or benefits does the monarchy provide the UK?
  4. Disgruntled Jews heading east
  5. A term to call a "sale with right of redemption"
  6. Looking for a quote
  7. Roman catholic MPS (Commons)
  8. Act of Settlement 1701
  9. "Real" value of precious metals
  10. Socialism
  11. Modern US war dead

July 20

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 July 20

  1. U.S. Legislative prayer.
  2. Air Force One identification while in transit?
  3. Religious Wars in Antiquity
  4. Jurors taking notes
  5. Unidentified African masks
  6. Is this really by Rush Limbaugh?
  7. Information on Illuminati
  8. Animal Artist Robert Hickey
  9. Death
  10. Alalakh, Mukis
  11. Quantitative easing and spending cuts
  12. 'Economic work'
  13. criticism of ceremonies and rituals
  14. Trinity House
  15. Translation of a Wikipedia page

July 21

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 July 21

  1. The Bunkers at the Greenbrier Resort
  2. http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/technologynews/view/1068644/1/.html
  3. Pirates of the Carribean
  4. Third highest ranking official of the UN
  5. essay help
  6. Pirate Latitudes
  7. that doorbell song
  8. Legal Question (Probation)
  9. Mohammedani Ibrahim

July 22

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 July 22

  1. Dueling - how do the outcomes relate to one's satisfaction and restoration of honour?
  2. Identifying an artist
  3. updated Rosie versions
  4. incest and family relationships
  5. closest thing pre-Holocaust to...
  6. Confusion of historical dates.

July 23

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 July 23

  1. Butternut color
  2. 20th century
  3. Money
  4. Theories of Conflict and International Security
  5. Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall
  6. how much is spent on various activities in the US per year
  7. Confucian ritual

July 24

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 July 24

  1. Catholic heirs of Mary I
  2. Looking for the name of a percussion instrument
  3. changed names

July 25

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 July 25

  1. The King has entered this building ... (aber ... wo ist der Kaiser?)
  2. “Les Miserables” (The Novel) question
  3. Other countries with an electoral college?
  4. Britain's Real Monarch
  5. recipe challenge
  6. ORIGION OF BHATT BRAHMINS (RAI)
  7. Learning to hate (school) learning
  8. Politics
  9. Jesus and the cross
  10. Weighing job title
  11. Roman Empire

July 26

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 July 26

  1. explosion memorial pins
  2. Jewish identity
  3. Jealousy
  4. Doug Nye
  5. Japanese socialist literature
  6. Education in Stretham, Cambridgeshire
  7. Which Ukrainian stringed instrument
  8. Freehand Drawings of the (50) United States
  9. Jury question

July 27

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 July 27

  1. Reckoning age from baptism
  2. Heidegger and Monty Python
  3. Socks in fashion
  4. Inuit death rituals
  5. Alternatives to North Anna for Grant in '64, & Chickahominy in '63
  6. Judicial acts in "His/Her Majesty Name"
  7. Vegetarian diets
  8. Modern Asian Secret Societies?
  9. murder compensation common law
  10. Cheque
  11. Use of copyright law in an educational environment.
  12. Two way radio operation

July 28

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 July 28

  1. Type of artillery
  2. Scientific techniques for dating of stone inscriptions
  3. "absurd" Jewish beliefs.
  4. Rome to Jerusalem route
  5. Vellum
  6. What did Amalek do?
  7. how can they sue a country?
  8. Coleco Adam scholarship
  9. Josephus reference to James brother of Jesus
  10. "A Novel"

July 29

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 July 29

  1. Flag question
  2. Jewish Kohanim and Levites
  3. The date of Pope John Paul XXIII apology prayer for the Jewish people.
  4. Judaism and the Church of Saint Roch in Paris
  5. Portable Seminary
  6. Historical Article
  7. Soviet officer prevents WWIII
  8. Dates in photographs
  9. What type of plant?
  10. How big are Moomins?
  11. Metric system in Nazi Germany
  12. German bus passenger execution

July 30

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 July 30

  1. Historical Article
  2. Population of Australian electorates
  3. In Bengali Brahmins article Kayasta Bengali Brahmins are not there why?
  4. do people in afganistan or Iraq have the right to kill American soldiers there?
  5. Churchill's cigar consumption
  6. Christopher G. Moore
  7. Proportion of security personnel per country
  8. Resistance to the Metric System

July 31

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 July 31

  1. Kneeling and Yom Kippur
  2. Number of days per month
  3. Descent of Elizabeth II
  4. Religion and Education
  5. Middle Ages banking
  6. Is austerity another name for contractionary monetary policy?