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August 1[ edit ]
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Why didn't Europeans die from a lack of immunity to diseases in the new world?
Business question: Joint parenthood for companies?
Pilgrimages, succession, infighting
Kronos's palace vs. Valhalla
Charles I of England's "tyranny"?
Flat caps & baseball (cricket too?) caps
Why is Berkshire Hathaway stock so expensive and who buys it?
Thailand
Bohemond I of Antioch
Profit is not a four-letter word
Wagner's Das Rheingold
Locating an old rail line
Divorce Rate among Christians and Atheists
August 2[ edit ]
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An earth without humans
The name
Methodism = Puritanism?
British Isles diaspora studies
Avignon Papacy & Counter-Reformation Catholicism
Austria vs Prussia
relatively recent Japanese short-story collection with S&M themes
Legislators mass resign and recontest?
Roman Senate assembly
Crusader military order ethnicities & the Reformation
August 3[ edit ]
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Henry VIII's dual titles and powers: precedent?
Should athletes taking Stimulant be banned from competition forever?
Dover, Connecticut
Himmler speech
Slave owners after abolition
Acting as a national leader
Rosencratz and Guildenstern in Act 2 Scene 2 of Hamlet
Serbian coat-of-arms identification
Army's traditional use of American Indian tribal names for its helicopters
Royal veto in the UK
John Kufuor's graduation
Judaen monarchy
August 4[ edit ]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 August 4
Agricultural maps of England & France
American Cities
History topics regarding Shanghai, China
Ordinary buildings in Ancient Greece
WWII
The Plantagenet Inheritance
The Culture of Privacy in Britain
90% of content is created by 10% of editors
Death of one person = death of the world
THERE IS NO INFORMATION ABOUT COPAS FARM , LONDON
August 5[ edit ]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 August 5
Lancaster (& Tudor) and York
Best NYC Photospots
U.S. Senate quorum calls
Civilians on Apache AH-64D
Salvation Army
Personality tests in careers recruitment
Qing Dynasty bronzes and the sabotaged auction
August 6[ edit ]
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"At your desecration"
Woman in the Catholic church
Critical thinking and logical thinking
Constitutional Requirement(s ) to Stand for Election to the Office of the Vice-President
Falerii
adoption in 11th-12th century Judaism
unemployment numbers
Ratio of mean average and median average incomes
August 7[ edit ]
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Execution Reactions
What was the name of the Republican Hispanic Supreme Court nominee?
Lieutenant Zumwelt
product testing
deity
corruption
The health effects of prayer
August 8[ edit ]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 August 8
What if there is no majority and minority???
Luxembourg's electoral system
God's apprentices
Theory of getting rich
Divorce in ancient Rome
August 9[ edit ]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 August 9
Permanent budget bills
Granville Roland Fortescue
Religion, Succession and Monarchy
Marginal valuation
Independence and Recognition of Countries
Why are different, seemingly disparate political views (seemingly) correlated?
What novel was this?
Sales of the Bible versus sales of the Qur'an
Non-hearers of information
Lucius Aemilius Paulus Macedonicus#Family life and descendants
August 10[ edit ]
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Non Bourbon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:O%27DowdArms.jpg
Racism Israel
The influence of birth and sexual order in large families
exact location in North Carolina
Maureen Mwanawasa
August 11[ edit ]
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For people to be train to be a nurse
Occupation of former royalty
What do you call temperature sensitive cloth/embroidery/manufacturing...?
What's the term for using something as a tool outside intended use?
Sexual abuse: trauma in adults and children
Information about Evan John, author.
study of racism in young children
Alexander Dubček - western propaganda about this once leader of Czecheslovakia?
What have the eastern terrorists got against the west?
Where did the wealth of the British royal family come from?
$ from a cow
Royalty
August 12[ edit ]
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Starting a political consultancy in India
Purpose of cylinder at back of Renault FT-17 tank
Jewish homosexuals adopting children
Select Retail Holdings Limited
Do non-Christians children have piggy banks?
Marquis de Crecy 1800s
collection of poems
Split Duchies
Value of a bee hive
Working on my book again...
How does SWIFT work?
Oldest New Testament copy
August 13[ edit ]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 August 13
Danish princes and princesses
Meles Zenawi's skin so tan
Satan, Lucifer and the Bible
PRESIDENTIAL AND VICE PRESIDENTIAL SUCCESSION
Less known cutting-edge authors from around the world
Sri Lanka
Blue Roofed Buildings
Allied Bombing in WWII
Polity IV and Freedom House
Why does Paul Biya look so young
More on US presedential succession
August 14[ edit ]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 August 14
Danish titles
What sort of photographic processes are these?
Best investment
Cross-party voting in US federal elections
Opposition to health care reform in the US
olympic cities
Robert Mugabe suspect of killing people?
August 15[ edit ]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 August 15
Islamization in Ancient Mongolia
Church use of popular music
Abdoulaye Wade's famous shaven head
What is the difference between empiricism and mechanistic materialism?
Bangladesh student wing
Christ killers
Credit card merchant fees
Dhabihah and hunting
August 16[ edit ]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 August 16
What's REALLY the oldest profession?
US Social Security numbers
Are poor people in USA really buying homes?
What cartoon is this describing?
Hideous mermaid image
Why'd they rename it Dominican Republic?
What was Hitler's opinion of Republicanism?
List of Libraries
Using debit or credit card in supermarket - how much info can they get about me?
Agricultural Subsidies
UK's action in Turks and Caicos Islands
Is there really a TV news station?
August 17[ edit ]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 August 17
List of Arts and Sciences
Indonesian ballot paper of 1955
meaning of ww2 japanese submarine designations
Looking for a Captain Cook work
Tracing the movements of George VI of the United Kingdom
Terms of the lease of the New Territories, Hong Kong
White vs. APL family
islamic monks?
Elections of Kenya and mozambique
Does Congress (in the US) have a source control system for the actual words going into a bill?
Mexican vs. white interracial marriage
citing music
Judaism Ethnic divisions vs. denomination
Districts of West Bengal versus religion
August 18[ edit ]
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North Americal Aboriginal Treaties
Caucasian Eyes
rotten vegetables at protests and theater
Danish titles
Logical fallacy: Good or bad based on who does it?
Is there any religion where there are two good Gods?
Ethnic groups of India vs. Buddhism
Bangladeshi Buddhist
Wikipedia sentient?
16th century
Latin Language in Hieroglyphic Bible
August 19[ edit ]
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Queen Rania of Jordan
What novel was this?
Order in the next ten minutes!
Relations
Social responsibilities
Reasons Behind Structure of Names
The first Women suffrage?
Opportunity cost
How would the Black Plague have impacted Native Americans, Australians?
Map of Napoleon's trails
white people to have a darker skin tone
August 20[ edit ]
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Education system in Bangladesh
World Trade Center site
Scipio the younger death (129 BC)
Economic state of Britain, circa 1965-68
Mass murder in Ancient Rome
us life expectancy by quartile?
Dancing about architecture
Uganda and Senegal election
Displaying flag
August 21[ edit ]
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hair care during WWII
Anselme Lavigne
Should religion be separated from the Humanities Reference Desk?
Napoleon's burial arrangements
No survivors of Unit 731?
Historical woman
Greek orthodox church
Image - story behind it
August 22[ edit ]
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Entrepreneurship/business question: the success of iTunes
Truths which are allegedly created by opinions about what the truth is
War Declarations
Focus on premarital sexual relations in Abrahamaic religions
What is a "scripture reader"?
Cum Natura Humana
August 23[ edit ]
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Internal heirarchies in Venetian guilds
Since popping over to Europe to save the day with the help of a smart, gorgeous sidekick isn't a viable career option . . .
Siege of Petropavlovsk
Pretending that an author is still alive
How best to spend £1000000 to increase the sum of happiness the most?
Can anyone identify this obscure anti-smoking parody song?
Ten Commandments and Gentiles
Bad person, who is a "Bad person"
August 24[ edit ]
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Success at University for Private and State School Pupils
Vasily Zaitsev
Islam in the Kings of Georgia
Libertarianism and inheritance law
Falcon
Globalization
August 25[ edit ]
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taxing in US and EU for website based in India
U.S. Social Security benefit entitlement for a former, non resident, spouse.
General interest question: numbers of ministers in governments
Questions about Georgian royal succession
will this startup work?
Question The Biggest
How many arts and sciences are there in the world
WWI History question on Misc desk
John 3:16
Scholarship abroad
Prison riot in Kentucky
Ancient Greek Theater
August 26[ edit ]
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Direct reports VS Functional reports
Cook vs. Lewis (1951), Canada
Role and status of women under the Franco regime in Spain
August 27[ edit ]
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Malvinas Islands in the South Atlantic Ocean - Territorial platform of Argentina
Oldest active law
US Civil War
Turtles and Elephants
tort law(english)
Pan Am Flight 103 Question
Weird date in a contemporary document
Black people's birth rate & big households?
August 28[ edit ]
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Architectural style of church
References for Winston I. Nunes
Cutlery illegal for under 18 in UK?
Legal status of public sex
Unusual looking "hats" in pic
Most important battle in history
how similar are japanese culture and korean culture?
Captured US soldiers during the Iraq War 2003
Sociology of wiki
The Mounties always get their man . . .
Western dress code in Ottoman Balkan?
The first theatre and actors in Estonia
August 29[ edit ]
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Biblical misquotes (article: Rabbi)
california labor law
Crypto-atheism and Christian denominations
panerotic
British Patriotic Song
How exactly did Dr. Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa obtain U.S. citizenship?
Belgium Family Law
August 30[ edit ]
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Countries without legal recognition of marriage
The pioneer (painting)
Pakistani Politics
Original philosophy texts to read by a beginner
Prostitution in the old muslim world (pree the 1800s)
Number of Iranians living in exile
Not a question
Joe Biden and the Little League World Series
Indonesian tsunami museum
August 31[ edit ]
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Are Holocaust deniers Holocaust experts?
Polish Kings of Prussia
Fish roe
Single mom.dad family
legal question (hypothetical)
Tandja Mamadou and 2009 elections
Appius Claudius Caecus
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