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April 1

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 April 1

  1. Famous "pointing at celebrity" photo?
  2. Do you think this is an arguable thesis? (The Sun Also Rises)
  3. Jews or... Proto-Jews?
  4. Song without a chorus
  5. Which parts/cities of China or Taiwan will have the lowest cost of living?
  6. kevin book at clear view energy
  7. Guanfu
  8. finance question
  9. HG Wells quote

April 2

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 April 2

  1. Evil or uniformed?
  2. memorials to quake victims
  3. Looking for a (probably jewish) small town in volin (Ukraine)
  4. What would be the correct name for the 1706 financier Thomas Allen of London?

April 3

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 April 3

  1. Retired Air Force officers say UFOs turned off nukes
  2. Help finding a source document
  3. Accessory to murder
  4. Legal online gambling owner American Rick Salomon despite illegal in US?
  5. 鄧蔭南
  6. AV voting - why count the 2nd. choices of the least popular candidate's votes only?
  7. Tiananmen Square vs. Libya
  8. Home CCTV
  9. is there such a thing as
  10. "Recently surfaced manuscripts" of Ramon Llull
  11. Lincoln, Civil War and Slavery
  12. amount of grain used to produce a kilo of beef and economics
  13. Who were the boy's in the car with Sharon Carr when she murdered Kaite Rackliff?
  14. Program applications

April 4

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 April 4

  1. Death of Theodoric the Great
  2. Question on Wikipedia content
  3. My dog

April 5

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 April 5

  1. GK Geography question
  2. Abe Lincoln bodyguards
  3. Anti-Islam Europe
  4. British Iranians, British Afghanis, British Turks
  5. Prishtina to be added on watchlist
  6. Raised churchyard graves
  7. Farmhouse or Hall?
  8. Burning treasure

April 6

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 April 6

  1. PIRA vs. Tugendhat
  2. flat round static dynamic character
  3. Who produced The Lonely Island's "We're Back!"?
  4. Aztecs and Spaniards
  5. How to read and appreciate poetry
  6. cleanup after Hiroshima?
  7. Solvency of Railroad Retirement Vs. Social Security
  8. Stalin denounces "leftism" in music
  9. does the e in the google logo look like it's laughing?
  10. re: Gurdjieff - error or confusion on the Gurdjieff page?
  11. Women regents co-reigned and male did not?
  12. The role of Empress Wan Rong of Manchuria
  13. Weird children's book

April 7

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 April 7

  1. Proust Questionnaires
  2. Oldest European novel
  3. Popular English-translated Bible in Joseph Conrad's Lifetime
  4. Studying philosphy at an expensive private university
  5. First class mail

April 8

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 April 8

  1. Spiritual lineage of civilizations
  2. War between France and Italy?
  3. Medici lions at the Château de Saint-Cloud ‎
  4. MacArthur's 'army air commander' in May 1942
  5. Economics
  6. Why can't Judeo-Islamic ritual animal slaughter use stunning?
  7. copyright of mathematical proofs
  8. white house
  9. Encyclopaedia Britannica BLP's
  10. Failure to accept the budget

April 9

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 April 9

  1. First abolitionist newspaper in the United States? (needs JSTOR lookup)
  2. Re: new DNC Chairwoman
  3. Are Republicans hypocrites?
  4. transgendered novels
  5. Women attending funerals
  6. when did oral tellers of the Greek Iliad and Odyssey die out?

April 10

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 April 10

  1. What am I?
  2. Religion
  3. Jewish pronunciation of YHWH
  4. art reproduction
  5. Fictional city starting with Q?
  6. Cubic equation
  7. Stringed instruments

April 11

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 April 11

  1. I have a question about greek god Zeus
  2. Did any countries create hereditary peerages in their colonies?
  3. Turgot
  4. Edmonton Journal Newspaper Article July 1996
  5. Women students in Moorish Islamic Spain?

April 12

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 April 12

  1. French ban on face covering
  2. NFL cross-ownership rules
  3. Dominick Elwes
  4. Infant hygiene in artic environment
  5. Dali
  6. The great poet named Zhao Gu
  7. Can a final judgment of a court in one system be overruled by that of a court in another system?
  8. Iran's HDI
  9. Capitalization in Arabic and Asian languages.
  10. What does it mean to be a Jew today?

April 13

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 April 13

  1. Birthday and deathday
  2. Speech
  3. # of Presidental Candidates in 2008
  4. Tolstoy quote - possibly apocryphal
  5. British Monarch line of succession question
  6. Traina
  7. Birther Mania!
  8. What is a seeker?
  9. Letter pointing out difference in church's approach to the multitude of things prohibited in Leviticus

April 14

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 April 14

  1. Riddle
  2. B minor mass: NBArev vs NBA vs BGA
  3. Why antisemitism is the most common nationalist attitude?
  4. Who was right in the Wars of the Roses?
  5. Insects in Mythology
  6. Central Asia
  7. Allies' strategy for victory over the Axis powers
  8. Leroy by shea in "the voice"
  9. Best-selling book of all time?

April 15

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 April 15

  1. Tax status for legislators' incomes?
  2. Tonsils
  3. Korean Minjok Leadership Academy
  4. Need sources related to a bible documentary
  5. Hollywood
  6. Dorbick?

April 16

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 April 16

  1. Matriarchical alternate universe films?
  2. How do I put a new page up for one that has been deleted?
  3. Silvio Crespi
  4. Treaty of Seringapatam
  5. Image used in the article Nightclub
  6. Novels about Canadian inuit

April 17

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 April 17

  1. How do machismo people bullies deal with their boss?
  2. Official brochure for UK May 2011 referendrum
  3. Ancient language
  4. World War One memoirs
  5. nature film or something else

April 18

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 April 18

  1. Prince of the Land of Loud tale
  2. Christians who reject the Sermon on the mount?
  3. Can historians point to a specific period when NATO surpassed WarPac for the final time?
  4. Trifles Susan Glaspell and The Cask of Amontillado
  5. What's up with the History of Communism article?
  6. Had there been an assassination on Hu Jintao in 2006?
  7. Cat friendships
  8. Bullfighting
  9. Religious Gestures in Danger

April 19

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 April 19

  1. Blue Dog Coalition
  2. Monastic Orders and Handwritten Manuscripts
  3. What if... ?
  4. Living with unmarried partner in Singapore
  5. David Cameron's Attire for the upcoming Royal Wedding
  6. Hand gestures
  7. Patriotism is more important than Universal Brotherhood
  8. Can therapists ever correspond by texting and email?
  9. Can the UK Privy Council make law?
  10. Weymouth Rhymer
  11. Final scene of The Grapes of Wrath
  12. Christian views on divorce and remarriage

April 20

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 April 20

  1. Economical side of friendship
  2. Author of the Torah
  3. David Cameron vetoing British prestige appointments?
  4. BOE "asset purchases financed by the issuance of central bank reserves"
  5. Which Other Articles?
  6. picture of picaaso
  7. This is my truth, tell me yours
  8. Nauru electoral system
  9. No death duties for a very wealthy UK family?
  10. Various UK relevant financial amounts graphically displayed

April 21

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 April 21

  1. atlas shrugged
  2. What would Earth be like if it was 82% more wonderful?
  3. Naming of Windward and Leeward Islands
  4. UK: trial in secret
  5. It's champagne time

April 22

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 April 22

  1. D-Notice with partially blank front pages in UK
  2. Children's Day / Boys' Day / Girls' Day in Sweden
  3. Geography/GK question
  4. Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, 1971 war and South Asia
  5. Official Bible of the Roman Catholic religion
  6. icons of Saint Georges
  7. French
  8. Remissions in US law

April 23

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 April 23

  1. Atlantis
  2. Quote
  3. What is the BBC thinking?
  4. Econometrics question
  5. Approaches to history
  6. Black and White Lines on a Tiger
  7. Where can I submit fan-fiction for critiques and etc. w/o paying for the service?
  8. Shot for cowardice = we are slaves?
  9. Algeria Tree planting
  10. good answer to a job interview question?
  11. Survival rates for soldiers in WW1
  12. Anarcho-primitivism
  13. Bangladeshi-community in Montreal
  14. Who is this?
  15. The Year of the Elephant
  16. Lordship Monarchy?
  17. Asia and Europe

April 24

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 April 24

  1. US: friend/family/acquaintance in prison
  2. The rape penalty
  3. plz. give me contact no. of publisher
  4. Canadian Election 2008 Bangladeshi-Canadian candidates
  5. Democrat Presidents of the deep south

April 25

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 April 25

  1. What has been the average annual percentage salary increase in the USA in the last decades?
  2. It's not me, it's you
  3. Is Google offensive?
  4. Nauru electoral system
  5. Gambino Crime Family
  6. How did the Roman surname "Sergeii" become a common Russian first name?
  7. Car dealer permanent logos in the US
  8. can you buy options as easily as stocks (e.g. with e*trade?)
  9. Inuit authors
  10. Zombaio or Paypal

April 26

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 April 26

  1. Madame Ngô Đình Nhu a gunslinging Dragon Lady?
  2. Original jurisdiction of the US Supreme Court
  3. UN report on crime wars in Sri Lanka
  4. Elizabeth Knollys
  5. the wandering Jew Suss
  6. Which US District Court for non-territorial issues?

April 27

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 April 27

  1. Salvador, Bahia
  2. Ruling monarchs with twin siblings
  3. Hu vs Barack
  4. [http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/04/24/spurlock.selling.out/index.html?iref=obnetwork This gentlemen put a lot of ads on his car], now how can I have them on mine?
  5. Democratic party in the northwestern Midwest
  6. Haunted house
  7. Most powerful US President
  8. Was Karl Marx by marriage in line to the English throne?156.33.135.235 (talk) 15:34, 27 April 2011 (UTC)
  9. Germany vs. Switzerland: conflict about flying rights
  10. Method of loci

April 28

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 April 28

  1. what is a stock "target price"?
  2. GK Question
  3. What gigs in life will force me to mature faster?
  4. All options to work without leaving my apartment?
  5. And about online stock trading...
  6. Admiral Sir William Penn
  7. what's a 501?
  8. Guevara resources
  9. Middletons as middle class
  10. cause of domestic terrorism
  11. Post-nomial letters and the law
  12. Natural law and anti-slavery in antiquity
  13. William Francis Ainsworth and the Battle of Nasib

April 29

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 April 29

  1. Round homes
  2. Early Breton dynasty?
  3. Tales Of Hoffman
  4. Perception of healthiness of country vs. Perception of one's own situation
  5. god vs satan
  6. Continental Army, winter of 1778-1779
  7. Titular William
  8. Clingy Dalai Lama
  9. Yellow press in Spain
  10. Gesture during New Testament recitations
  11. Captain Cook's Death
  12. Invitation the the White House (US that is)

April 30

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 April 30

  1. human race
  2. USNSY Pearl Harbor Drydock #2.
  3. ocean liners and Willie Morris
  4. Studies in race
  5. Animal crultey
  6. Westminster Abbey flag
  7. ten year census
  8. Existence in the universe
  9. When did the American Civil War end?
  10. Bashar al-Assad, even though an Arab, practically looks like a white man
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