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September 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 September 1

1. The Libyan dinar
2. What is a "lay theologian"?
3. Trademark leaders
4. Medieval women and personal liberty
5. Planned economy
6. Currency question
7. Talon of Gold/Silver/Copper
8. Shiva

September 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 September 2

1. WW2 bombings of cities
2. The Paper Chase
3. Libyans in support of US presence
4. Making a Profit From the 9-11 Attacks
5. Economics: a term for the point at which the overall market cap decreases
6. States printing money of their enemies
7. MFN status
8. Why does nationalist populism work?
9. What sort of (Polish?) military hat is this?
10. Mercantilism vs protectionism

September 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 September 3

1. PROGRAM ON AMERICAN NEGRO AND SLAVE TRADE
2. Disagreement over Childhood Mortality in Iraq on (Wikipedia vs Google)
3. Strange political party in the UK from 15/20-ish years ago...
4. Lined paper
5. theoretical policies

September 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 September 4

1. Deliberately leaving the editorial blank?
2. Sen-sex
3. Kickstarter vs. ThePoint.com
4. How money enters circulation
5. Copyright
6. The nurses of the mideavel hospitals
7. Derivation of Buddhism
8. Watery novels
9. 2008 editorial about Russians and western racialist expectations
10. Artistic depictions of Jesus
11. Did John Milton have a photographic memory?

September 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 September 5

1. Image help
2. Link: Declining number of new wikipedia editors
3. Failed industries
4. How Many Delegates in the 2012 Republican Primary?
5. Warren Harding in the KKK?
6. Being an ass
7. Capital punishment in the US

September 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 September 6

1. Popular sport in Western Europe in the late 1700s
2. Justifiable killing v. innocent bystander
3. Art type and buy-in amount

September 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 September 7

1. Reference check for Commission (remuneration)
2. Illustrating the legend of the Cave of Salmanica / Devil take the hindmost
3. Is a legal decision a verifiable source?
4. Have currencies based on commodity money suffered extreme inflation?
5. transexual
6. Guide to Parliament
7. Size of UK EEZ and Scottish waters
8. German newspapers
9. apostrophe placing
10. knighthoods
11. Euro and the debt of others
12. Effect of unconstitutional law
13. Good place to look for converting to Judaism from a (desit/atheist)ish viewpoint
14. about the pound sterling

September 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 September 8

1. French presidents Quebec independence
2. tracking consumer price index and determining cost of living adjustment
3. Writing a book-advice for teenagers
4. Muslim prayer in space
5. Muslim flags with Arabic characters
6. Horseshoe ring
7. Proverbial cartoons

September 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 September 9

1. Effect of repealed law
2. how many pyjamas do people normally rotate?
3. Ulster Volunteer Force and Ulster Defence Association

September 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 September 10

1. Supreme Court at Obama's jobs speech?
2. PIGS (economics)
3. Camille Flammarion's book on numerology, the Pythagorean
4. Mychal Judge: name
5. Free movement in the EU
6. California property tax delinquent date
7. African allies and enemies of Muammar Gaddhafi
8. Elizabeth May
9. Nazi Germany vs Germany
10. Quebec politics ethnicity
11. listing of jobs short of people

September 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 September 11

1. Question about communism?
2. Libyan flag?
3. Why isn't the date of Jesus' crucifixion or birth known?
4. abuse of 911
5. Last Queen of Rimatara
6. Autism/philosophy/psychedelia
7. Praise for competitors
8. Indibilis and Mandonius - ancient Spain
9. Ironworkers and window installers on One World Trade Center
10. Country of origin of Northern Irish Protestants
11. Nozick and racism?

September 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 September 12

1. Irish word óglaigh
2. what do mba's know?
3. The decline of Native American? And the discovery of America
4. does America still have social mobility?
5. People's Party in Europe
6. national party in Europe
7. "Current" ancestry
8. COULD IT BE POSSIBLE THAT ATLANTIS WAS THE BIBLICAL GARDEN OF EDEN?
9. A question about Forbes list of billionaires

September 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 September 13

1. 9/11 Memorial pools dimensions
2. Slavery in France, Spain, Portugal, England, Netherlands and Italy
3. Joint venture
4. Was Port Durnford (Natal coast) named after col. Anthony Durnford ?
5. Ten commandments
6. Why do native tribes in Africa still exist?
7. FLEC-FLAC (Angola)
8. ACH Process
9. A culture where only the corrupt rise to power
10. French colonies
11. The spread of colonization
12. Final destination of Wikipedia?

September 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 September 14

1. most snobbish languages for an American to know and speak as a foreign language?
2. Canadian provinces and US States
3. Political parties of Europe immigration
4. Is there a specific term for...
5. Why are these American cities declining in population since the 1950s?
6. Ancient Roman punishment

September 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 September 15

1. Official residence of the Premier of Ontario
2. US-Israel relations
3. Conservative and Liberal places of Bangladesh.
4. Fasces
5. The world a thousand years ago
6. Transaccions in the ballpark of billions
7. historical fiction
8. UK riots - types of conviction
9. UN's legal capacity

September 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 September 16

1. available employment not filled
2. Philosopher who doubted physical world could hurt him?
3. list of political criteria
4. Psychodynamic's Article
5. Is imperonating a federal agency a crime in the US?
6. relative income
7. where was the "Strictly Come Dancing" advert filmed?
8. If God does exist, then why would God ultimately exist?
9. English Law and the US based web-sites
10. downs syndrome
11. wristwatch fashion
12. Why East Germany but not East Austria
13. "Aynthing you say can and will(?) be used against you in a court of law"
14. How much of TD Ameritrade is owned by its founder/family?

September 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 September 17

1. chinese immigration?
2. Question about Leading Leisure Expert
3. Question about the law
4. Not exactly a spire...
5. Do cats think?
6. Personal correspondence/letters - archive/history
7. Correct name for leather belts without holes (clothing)
8. World War II artillery of the United States
9. Grover Cleveland's grandfather

September 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 September 18

1. Prime Minister of Canada Jean Chretien and Middle East
2. Turkic people diaspora
3. Orillion Bastion
4. VC by balloting?
5. Literacy rates
6. Why are numbers written in the five (5) format?
7. New ways to make money for those in financial straits? (Disability = hard to employ)
8. Buttons, buttons.
9. Why doesn't capitalism work?
10. What is the ESTA good for?

September 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 September 19

1. Dr. without dissertation around the world
2. Coal miners in gilded age at United States?
3. How much has black flight contributed to the population decline and urban decay of many American cities since the 1950’s when compared to white flight?
4. does anyone know any jokes like this?
5. Electricity Pylons
6. Earliest certain celebrity endorsement in history?
7. Animals and the New Zealand Māori
8. Survival rate of US government programs that kick in in the next administration
9. President's Voting for Candidates

September 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 September 20

1. Bill O'Reilly and Vietnam,
2. The UC Irvine Muslim students
3. Jean-Bedel Bokassa
4. What does "unrewarded genius is almost a proverb" mean?
5. History of pornography
6. Secret US intelligence budget
7. human "breeds"
8. Most incumbents ever

September 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 September 21

1. John Kalymon
2. Who Funded the 'No to AV Yes to PR' Campaign in the UK?
3. MAG or MUG
4. Israel
5. reductio ad absurdum, a logical fallacy?
6. Right wing Irish republicanism and left wing Ulster unionism
7. MMP & Overhang Seats
8. Destinations per airport
9. Questions on Non-Disclosure Agreements
10. VP of the US
11. Railroad workers in gilded age in US
12. Chiropractic in Medicare
13. Outcry stopping an execution in the US?
14. Would a 6'3", relatively strong, 252 lb and aggressive white male in his mid-twenties be likely to be raped in an American prison?
15. Where to find companies whose stocks trade on more than one stock exchanges ?

September 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 September 22

1. British Empire & Colonies
2. Palestinian state
3. The illegitimate children of noblewomen
4. Why are the states of Alaska and Hawaii usually ignored?
5. Was Feudalism bad?
6. Battle of Cartagena (209 BC)
7. Ancient Egyptian religions

September 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 September 23

1. Chardin's students
2. Use of Last Post to signal armistice?
3. Special Operations Executive
4. Sabbath navigating
5. Sabbath lighting
6. Heir to the Irish throne
7. Congressional Net Worth
8. faces
9. Neoclassical sex?
10. X-rated constellations ?
11. Palestinian statehood application
12. College dating; sociology; hookups vs relationships
13. Copyright Law
14. Prison account
15. unanswered questions

September 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 September 24

1. Singing terminology
2. Average age that politicians were elected
3. List of Constituencies of Netherlands, Belgium, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Switzerland, Norway
4. looking for maps
5. Еще Раз-Путин?
6. what are actors who appear in porno films but don;t have sex in the film called?
7. Why does North Korea seem to be so obsessed with its military?

September 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 September 25

1. H. B. Martin
2. Publishing Editorial content on my blog.
3. Destroying the USA's Economy
4. Dictionnaire illustré de la Polynésie, sous la direction de F. Mercerau
5. 2 questions about sign language
6. Pornography in different cultures
7. Archaeological finds Roland de Vaux from Qumran
8. PRC's and Russia's borders
9. South American pictures
10. How to find the original study or studies...
11. End of the recent US wars in Iraq
12. Nazi insurgency
13. Drinking on Thursdays
14. ancient war mechanism meaning of "engines"
15. Taiwan Language Census

September 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 September 26

1. Gini coefficient for house sizes.
2. economics
3. on the nature and definition of God
4. Hyphenation

September 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 September 27

1. Searches of US citizens at the border
2. Mechanics in pre-industrialisation society
3. nagar panchayat
4. Christian College of America
5. Why are there more taxicabs in Manhattan than in the other New York City boroughs?
6. Russian term limits
7. Elementary study guides to Metaphysics?
8. Can a region from a foreign country join the USA?
9. Priestesses of the Greek and Roman gods
10. Mormon high

September 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 September 28

1. The Ukraine
2. The New York Times at Special Bargain Rates
3. Fiction and fantasy genres.
4. Elf
5. Protection from stock dilution
6. computer displacement
7. Why is North Korea so mad at the US and South Korea if it was they who started the Korean War?
8. What time is it
9. Suspended sentences in Japan
10. Degoyification, or How I learned to stop schpitzing and love the Chickpea.
11. "Aborted" Chinese invasion of Taiwan
12. Vietnamese written language before Chinese influence

September 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 September 29

1. date of birth
2. Palestinian conflict
3. Far-right politics in Africa
4. Crime prescription
5. Africans in Belgium
6. Indonesian Muslims in the Netherlands
7. Myth of choosing a husband by his feet
8. Fraud and Common Knowledge
9. Common currency, uncommon debt
10. Books similar to...
11. Why are Alpine regions so rich?
12. Argentina nickname

September 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 September 30

1. Bear Flag Revolt
2. Economic inequality and racial tension in China and America
3. What 19th-century ethnic hat is this?
4. Political rivals in UK, Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands and Belgium
5. assassinated archbishop of Paris
6. 2 questions about Philip Kearny
7. Species facti
8. Money Order
9. Who was the first to stand at the South Pole?
10. Works on the attitude of Islam towards modernization
11. Black horseshoe ring
12. Why is America claimed by some (maybe many) Americans and even still by some non-Americans, based from my personal experience overseas, to be the greatest country on earth?
13. Hauntings in Ireland
14. Karl Rove and his involvement in the group "Concerned Citizens of America"