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January 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 January 1

  1. Irish in Los Angeles
  2. Who is the girl on the cover of the Deftones' album Around the Fur?
  3. Name of Belgian village
  4. Why does a small country like Denmark wish to remain outside the eurozone?
  5. Which continent is Turkey a part of?
  6. Upazilas of Bangladesh
  7. Children as domestic servants, marrying in 1880s Ohio
  8. Doubleday, Mary Hewitt
  9. Non-blood cousin terminology?
  10. Not even the dog that piss against the wall of Babylon shall escape this judgement!
  11. Pakistani scholars

January 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 January 2

  1. Help identifying a children's book from my youth
  2. Can the Democratic or Republican Party refuse to seat primary winners?
  3. Religion and US Inaguration
  4. Here there be monsters
  5. French translation please
  6. Graves of humans
  7. Christianity and Evolution
  8. Serb citizenship for Kosovars
  9. POW WWII Pacific
  10. A Bulow
  11. Defunct cigarette brands?
  12. Ignatio Pulici
  13. Arab Travelers
  14. Bangladesh political parties 2008

January 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 January 3

  1. Unknown German Currency
  2. Time zone
  3. Amateur pornography and 2257
  4. How can I stop the use of RFID tags?
  5. Smith's influence on Kant
  6. Chopin Nocturne in F minor in a film

January 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 January 4

  1. I want to know about the B.Ed in India
  2. Hezbollah and Hamas
  3. ethnic backgrounds
  4. finance
  5. Supposed British spy
  6. international reaction to current Israel action
  7. Piggly Wiggly

January 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 January 5

  1. State Canvassing Board
  2. Arabs, Jews, and basically the entire Middle East
  3. Are there any historical cases of attempts to verthrow a state government (not federal) in the US?
  4. Minorities candidates in Bangladesh general election 2008
  5. tallaghts oldest public house
  6. portsmouth history
  7. American Electoral Question
  8. can you tell if someone is lying?
  9. Is it possible to see anything relating to Nazi Germany on tourist trips to Germany and/or the surrounding countries?

January 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 January 6

  1. UN Deputy Secretary-General, pre-1997?
  2. Who wrote this?
  3. First Play-writer
  4. Christianity vs languages of Pakistan
  5. Russian lit: Killing a man to see his soul
  6. Crying Frenchman after Nazi victory
  7. Sociology? Anthropology? or ?

January 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 January 7

  1. Googly eyes?
  2. E1 transaction
  3. whaling
  4. Koan: Flax or hemp?
  5. fanfiction writers and copyright
  6. Married into Hungarian nobility
  7. Is israel an occupying power?
  8. How many US presidents have been alive at the same time?
  9. Sorting of Indonesian names

January 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 January 8

  1. US Cabinet confirmation process
  2. Saraiki Sikhs
  3. literary insight
  4. Is Pakistan doing enough to combat terrorism?
  5. the amateur detective who didn't move much.

January 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 January 9

  1. Leap Years
  2. uni degree
  3. Canadian Contract Law
  4. Are chain letters containing threats illegal in the UK?
  5. Russian painters
  6. Question about the Blago mess
  7. Nonfarm

January 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 January 10

  1. we are ispanic family.
  2. Situation in Myanmar
  3. Inaugural Youth Concert
  4. looking up entry/exit requirements for travel
  5. In how far is Palestine a souvereign country?
  6. What territories did Israel conquer in 1967?
  7. Language in Shakespeare
  8. Statue of Virgin Mary
  9. is it sounding or side of
  10. technology and it's impact on jobs
  11. russian short story Author/title

January 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 January 11

  1. Electoral vote counting
  2. Two Questions before making a decision. Q1 and Now what?
  3. In Saxony
  4. Arab/Israeli Conflict
  5. Beginning of Confusion of the Lexeme 'Priest' or 'Priester'
  6. BR20: Flags of All Nations
  7. What is SURYA NAMASKARAM?
  8. incest
  9. radiation
  10. paris to monacco?

January 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 January 12

  1. children's book about little girl making footsteps in the flour?
  2. What religion
  3. origins of Islam
  4. Name for rhetorical device

January 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 January 13

  1. Queen's Guard
  2. PAR BRAHAMAM OR PARA BRAHAMAM's location in India please
  3. Europe-wide prepaid SIM card?
  4. HEATHROW
  5. Highest French Army Rank????
  6. Latin American Presidential Rival Political Parties and number of terms
  7. Next President of Bangladesh?
  8. Slobodan milosevic
  9. Lebanese Civil war battles
  10. Form of governments of Arab World
  11. Who is this?
  12. Order of the Seraphim

January 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 January 14

  1. Can the Democratic Party refuse to put candidates on the ballot?
  2. parlor scenes
  3. Who said Contempt is blah blah something about good arguments
  4. Do Alan Greenspan really deserve all that blame?
  5. Political parties of North America

January 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 January 15

  1. A book that describes the use of submachine guns some two hundred years before they were invented?
  2. Wine
  3. Israel bans "Arab political parties"?
  4. Constantine Andreou's awards
  5. Order and Disorder in Hamlet.
  6. Political Rivals
  7. Famous People Who Have Wikipedia Accounts
  8. Ex cathedra: literally?
  9. Ethics question
  10. NHL player stats against specific teams

January 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 January 16

  1. DNR (Do not resuscitate) orders in South Africa
  2. Margarethe von Holzheim
  3. Actual cost of LPG
  4. Prospering businesses in this climate
  5. For what is ABC an abbreviation?
  6. World population growth since when?

January 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 January 17

  1. Joshua Kaeo
  2. bioclimatic design
  3. China surpasses Germany to become the world's third-largest economy
  4. How did Israel know that the tunnel was built for capturing Israeli soldiers?
  5. please halp me
  6. Taking the government to court