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December 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 December 1

1. More Fops Please
2. Barbara Ehrenreich
3. Senator's terms
4. Tousch
5. How do I demonstrate that animals do not have religion
6. Prophets for profit
7. Librarian looking to help
8. To permanately end terrorism by Extremists
9. To end hunger all over the world..
10. E.coli
11. Chadian City
12. Article translation database
13. Resources on Gorky and God Building
14. Poster in the West Wing (TV serial)

December 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 December 2

1. Anglo-Boer War diaries
2. Indigenous Australian population
3. Active yoga cultures ?
4. British Ministers
5. link needed
6. Bangladesh vs. Italy and Greece
7. Peter Mandelson - Inner Steel
8. National Colours in a Political Party's logo
9. How to find the translations of a book
10. is it okay to cite Noam Chomsky on a political article?
11. Why does Alaska have expensive gas compared to other states?

December 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 December 3

1. Image of branches in Jewish monotheism.
2. Lawful reasons for termination of a job in united states of america
3. Why did people vote for Ted Stevens?
4. Handicapped parking
5. Bishops' cathedrals
6. Encarta: quality? reference?
7. Presidential portraits
8. LexisNexis
9. third world war 2009
10. Conscription
11. Bringing medicine into the US
12. Academic mention of Scientology's "admiration paticles"
13. If you break it you've bought it
14. Medieval Islam medicine

December 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 December 4

1. Barack Obama Cabinet
2. Source for Quotation from St. Basil of Caesarea
3. Which U.S. Presidents have been the subject of a major movie/film?
4. Existentialism
5. Short selling and shareholder rights
6. neil rosenstein doctor surgeon/genealogist of elizabeth new jersey
7. See the whole world with his naked eye
8. Richard Nixon
9. What's wrong with this ballot?
10. Irish Law
11. Paper on Cotton in the "India Trade"
12. Seek knowledge even as far as China
13. Finding a blog post on immigration law

December 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 December 5

1. US government: can the President fire the Vice-President?
2. Old musical time signatures
3. Looking for Chinese Political Economy courses in English
4. Legal status of divorced women in history
5. Every little helps
6. Rational action
7. Public Transportation between Springfield Mass and Hartford Conn.
8. Miami tribe
9. Mention of Bao Zheng in the Water Margin
10. Customs and Body Language
11. Translation to Latin, please
12. Where was this quote originally from?
13. Private Citizen Bailout?

December 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 December 6

1. University and College
2. Bangladeshi districts history
3. Winston Churchill
4. Is spying illegal?
5. Number of trees in the United states
6. (Heralrdy) Royal coat of arms of the UK and predecessor kingdoms
7. Source of quotation
8. Scholarly edition of Grimm's Fairy Tales
9. Swedish map location
10. What is the name of the hooded man from Abu Ghraib
11. Foundations of law in a reality show.
12. Do renters have recourse if their landlord pockets the cash, doesn't pay the mortgage, and the house gets foreclosed?

December 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 December 7

1. Huns, Avars & Bulgars
2. Afghanistan
3. Highest Mountain in the former Texas Republic
4. Tiger-Taming Arhat
5. Newspapers: terminology
6. Israeli Leader of the Opposition and Ghanaian Leader of the Opposition
7. Israelis comparing Jews to anti-semits
8. Cost of woman
9. Foucault's Des espaces autres
10. describing music
11. At one point is a student association [in a state of existence]

December 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 December 8

1. Canada's military after WWII
2. What are some examples of Marxist/Radical factions within mass Social Democratic Parties?
3. Electoral stain / ink
4. Antiretrovirals - Cost structure and demand
5. Lord Ahmed
6. Financial crisis in Britain
7. Lebanese Civil War

December 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 December 9

1. 2008 Financial Crisis
2. What is the role of Yoga in the new millennium ?
3. Medieval dress of royal women in the Middle East
4. Local Elections in Nazareth
5. Ancient diagrams
6. Obama - Foreign born
7. Geographical knowledge of Americans
8. "Raid"?
9. Was the Peoples Temple a religious cult?
10. Rome
11. Paleolithic Age vs. Ancient Egypt, Ancient Sparta, Classical Athens, Roman Republic and Romam Empire
12. Illicit Trade in Viagra
13. Narrative Poetry and the Real World
14. Legal/sociological terminology question
15. Louisiana Purchase

December 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 December 10

1. You just don't give it away for nothing
2. abuse in The Sun Also Rises
3. Quality of health care provision around the world
4. Bailout cost
5. Our common future
6. Baseball RBI Rules
7. What was the composition of the European Parliament by group immediately before and after the Sweden elections to the EP on 17 September 1995?
8. Galaxia the Stories Of Ilusion
9. Is there a word or phrase?
10. British pound sterling vs. EURO

December 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 December 11

1. Need to contact Arabist
2. Early photoshopping question
3. Last Grand Duke of Russia
4. How should I understand this answer
5. the word Egypt

December 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 December 12

1. Contribution to Arab Nationalism
2. Line of succession for President Elects?
3. Humlebaek landing 1700- inconsistent Wiki entries?
4. Liberation of the Netherlands in WWII - by whom?
5. Thomas Humphrey

December 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 December 13

1. Jack-gnat and jelly-tray
2. Extremely weird request
3. Hitler quote
4. Olde euphemisms and dysphemisms for menstruation
5. What is Pranayama ?
6. Seating in the British House of Commons
7. AIDS Statistics
8. Historic Brazilians
9. Bills
10. Hitler and Germany's military in WWII
11. Bernard Madoff

December 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 December 14

1. Is there a word for this concept?
2. Inflation adjustment value
3. Trumpets
4. Latin America hostile governments

December 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 December 15

1. Homelessness in the United States
2. middle east body count by group
3. Considering dropping out of high school in Ontario. What are my options?
4. Stopping Foreclosure
5. Eating animals
6. Throwing shoes at the President
7. Six Billion Others Project
8. Security at Downing Street
9. Cause of UK economic woes - fact or educated opinion?
10. A question on my mind,,, losing faith in humanity
11. Career advice for slackers
12. Eating dog
13. Identifying a Photograph of British Shipbuilding Industry
14. Public footpaths/public land in England

December 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 December 16

1. Bengali Asian Eyes
2. Contemporary philosophy
3. Prof. Grashchenko?
4. British laws of war on land
5. Junkeeper
6. Why is the devils tri tone so disturbing?
7. What's wrong with dog meat?
8. Quote by Emerson

December 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 December 17

1. today the Fed cut its interest rate to practically 0 -- is a NEGATIVE rate possible?
2. Ethnic Nationalism in Pakistan
3. Khalistan
4. Kurds in Syria
5. Lebanon and Syria
6. Eating humans
7. Ismaili Ethnic Groups
8. Latino Muslims
9. Adam Walsh/Ottis Toole
10. Interest rate and Treasury bonds
11. Punching people
12. President George W. Bush
13. ironic tale of lovers trying to please each other
14. Phenomenological life
15. So Mary and Joseph had to go all the way to Bethlehem because of a dude that died a millennia earlier?

December 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 December 18

1. Bethlehem: singular or plural
2. Slit, Log drums
3. Who are these two?
4. Federal reserve
5. east asia
6. Bernie Madoff's degree
7. Determining National Profits After Tax
8. Interest Rates on Bank Deposits
9. Tax and gross domestic product (GDP)
10. Father vs. Unwilling Mother
11. Canadian banks

December 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 December 19

1. Banks Make Me Nervous
2. Mathematical Equations in Das Kapital
3. Countries with a Protestant heritage more secular in the 21st century than those with a Catholic or Orthodox heritage?
4. is it worth buying the dvd of monarchy tv series?
5. Ganymedes picture
6. Bodies buried in Great Wall of China
7. American television commercials
8. Poverty gap in Israel/Palestine; Jews & Palestinians
9. Grand Duchess Natalia/Maria Petrovna of Russia

December 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 December 20

1. Overtone singing vs throat singing
2. Thomas More quote
3. A Christmas Carol chronology
4. Nativity scene ideas + queries
5. do people have the right to lie on their resume?
6. Extension School

December 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 December 21

1. Why dont those people who "talk to the dead" get put to the test?
2. The date of Christmas
3. Use of "The Honorable"
4. small jewish rules
5. Can someone identify this painting for me?
6. Taxonomy of entities in Greek mythology
7. Holocaust denial

December 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 December 22

1. Origins of the Barca family name
2. Negative Interest Rate Guaranteed Investment Certificate
3. A person in the Revolutionary War
4. Why were Hoovervilles tolerated?
5. Andrew Parker-Bowles
6. Zero sum in world economy?
7. Subcarpathian elections in the 1920s
8. Afghanis as Desi?
9. Searching for an infamous NHL player and coach
10. Rest periods of work
11. If wealth can be destroyed, isn't its creation largely illusory?
12. Women and university
13. Lebanese Political Parties

December 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 December 23

1. Bangladeshi Pro- and Anti-Pakistani, -Indian, -Bangladeshi
2. Why is Social Security not transferred to some countries?
3. Copyright
4. Using "human rights" to justify racism and religious discrimination
5. Race of Santa Claus?
6. Binoculars on the Titanic
7. Two men say they're Jesus, one of them must be wrong
8. Religious Minority in Pakistan
9. Islam in India
10. Asian languages
11. Where did Depression-era apple sellers get their apples?

December 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 December 24

1. Christian leadership formation throughout church history
2. Puqu
3. Automobiles and Greek architecture
4. Patent law book
5. date of birth of prophet muhammad
6. Miss Black Virginia USA

December 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 December 25

1. Subject area: philosophy, reasoning, logic. "in the limit where x goes to y"
2. On what basis is the potential unfairness of Social Security defended?
3. Pulleys first used in the British Isles
4. Atheism in American politics
5. When was Jesus born?

December 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 December 26

1. Effect of Iraq war on global economic situation
2. Happy Holidays! Now lie to your children.
3. Pursuing law abroad
4. on English
5. on framing a question
6. How do German people feel about actions of Nazi Germany?
7. census redistricting
8. President Abraham Lincoln
9. Trademarks and Copyrights

December 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 December 27

1. Hawaiian Punch
2. Christ Church Primary School,Stockport
3. Shia islam versus Sunni islam
4. What country has the easiest prisons?
5. kant and swedenborg
6. What large US cities have some form of rent control?
7. Sunni Schools of thought of Arab World
8. Civil unions and marriage
9. Books on types of Nationalism
10. Hindu belt in Bangladesh

December 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 December 28

1. Tipping the staff for staying over Christmas (UK)
2. Federally owned slaves
3. Marriage à-la-mode
4. sebastokratōr Isaac Komnenos
5. Did Edward the first's daughter elanor Marry Alphonos III of Spain or not?
6. Third from the right
7. In anime, why do the characters often look more Caucasian (or European or 'white') than typical Japanese people?
8. I want to know, what we call the art of 'asking a question in such a manner that we'll get a postive/desired reply from the other person'?
9. looking for a good textbook in analytic philosophy

December 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 December 29

1. Buddhists and Christians Bangladesh
2. Arab Christians
3. speech
4. Either of us is v. Either of us are
5. A question about president William Henry Harrison
6. How did the US cope in WWII with two fronts and long supply lines?
7. Help finding a translated journal article!
8. poem by Michael Longley
9. Why is Jesus also known as "King of the Jews"?
10. Shriners
11. Strange religious statues
12. Science fiction short stories
13. Koran question

December 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 December 30

1. Bengali-Burmese Ancient Battles
2. Why is there war?
3. Boys leading troops
4. Costs of inactive company
5. Ponzi game
6. Leni Riefenstahl and slave labor
7. Why does the (US) Work Opportunity Credit exclude hires over 40 years of age?

December 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 December 31

1. One state religion and one language nation
2. Whatever happened to movements?
3. RMS Queen Mary crew jobs
4. what is the theme of "sredni vashtar", short story of saki?please explain it in simple English.
5. Shakespeare question
6. common law partner
7. conservative cartoon on spike tv
8. British Solomon Islands
9. distribution of birth months in general population?