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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 June 1
stock
Veto power in the United Nations.
Sennosuke Yamaguchi's Fujiya Hotel Book 1939
buddhism
economics
The term for In courtship, to open the legs and invite the male...
Osaka/Kyoto in 1506?
Writing a song as a poem
Does Bangladesh export medicine to USA ?
Mr Ketchum getting hot
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 June 2
contracts
evictions
Who invented the presumption of innocence?
Enlightenment Painting
Surnames
Vienna Convention on Diplomatic immunity
Jefferson corpus
basis for naming of historical ethnic groups
Iskhvakus / Ikshvaku - same or different?
Graven Image
Naked Nazi
Catcher in the Rye
Supply and Demand
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 June 3
Median population line(s) for Britain
Pledge of Allegiance
Comparative cost of American NHS and space exploration
Who owns the copyright to the Gospel song "I'm Going Up Yonder" from 1976?
Becoming a full-time writer
Outlaws of Wild West
Confederate political parties
Monarchy of the UK
Trying to locate color image of plague doctor
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 June 4
WWII STATISTICS
Kristian?
History of South America from 1900-1950
Red=Stop Green=Go
Seriously
Luitpoldarena & Luitpoldhalle, Nuremberg
sales promotion
Hugo Chavez's image
Operation Orchard
Court and Constitution
Barry Goldwater's Eligibility For U.S. President.
Inventor of Lie Detector -- atomic bomb security?
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 June 5
Animal peace
Bernau, Germany
Witch trials in Poland
Recruitment of executioners in the United States
consequences of one party state.
Poem analysis?
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 June 6
Why does Sikhism require men to have the last name Singh and women to have the last name Kaur to be equal?
Book search
Native Americans
Links Between Secularism and Islam
Creating a fake history for a viral campaign
Thesis
Christians
Ph.D. thesis at a trade press?
Count of population
wittgenstein on popper
Presiddential Term of Office
501(c)3 and State Universities
Printers' current practice in their relationship with authors
Plato's Allegory of the cave
Josephus and the dance of the seven veils
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 June 7
Nguni Use of space and acquisition of territory in the nineteenth century
Why should I keep my father's surname if I change my name to a Arabic/Muslim name?
Absentee ballot
Stock exchange and share things
Formula for price and sales graph line
Meta-themes of making money
Question about copyright renewals
spanish sailing ships of the 17th century
Vice President term limit
Medical cost that can be covered by the state
Oh, no; oh yes.
ontario canada
Oscar Wilde quote
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 June 8
Middle Ages
GNP, GNP per Capita and Proportion of People Living in Cities
Automobile/Consumerism
Car rental peak dates
Addressing an Assyrian bishop?
Austria?
About Apostasy in Islam (is/maybe one misconception in Islam)?
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 June 9
Battle of Toulouse, 1814
Organic food processing
Building the Alaska Highway
Economists vs. Sociologists
The name of a cognitive bias effect: more informed people are more aware of the limits of their knowledge.
Hand-hammered dish
Black population in Arab World
European facial appearances
Arab Sunni School of Thoughts
Pashtun provinces and districts
Population of Detroit
Inflation in Canada
Theme of novels
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 June 10
shi'a muslim in Pakistan
Omni-Benevolent origins
What is the cheapest camera you could use for an independent film?
Senator with missing fingers
Todays Standard of Living As Compared to The 70's
Looking for a quote
go thee to nunnery
Presidential pardon
USPS book post
Personal Relationship with Jesus
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 June 11
J. L. Webb
Finding a U.S. Congressional Report
punishment for disturbing the peace
Voting for the president
Yoga Korunta
William Wallace
Economic food chain
Removing A Member from a Limited Liability Corporation (LLC)
9-11
Question about Frederick I, Elector of Brandenburg
Desiderius Erasmus on kissing in England
Balanced Budget
Holland Marsh Road Act - I cannot find anywhere, does anyone have this?
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 June 12
people from Arab cities
cloths
Child porn conundrum
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Number of state legislators in the history of the U.S.
Welfare v. Money to poor people poll
daumier,honorelihograhs
"Can't Find It On A Map"
Social Security fraud
How do libraries handle books classified based on different editions of the classification schedule?
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 June 13
Phenomenology vs. Dialectics
Consent for Circumcision
African tribe
causes and consequences of fortunate or unfortunate actions
Is rape worse than murder?? (Legal)
welfare states
How much do you know about history?
What is the history of I LOVE YOU?
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 June 14
Is there a name for this kind of fallacy/rebuttal?
Number of backyard bomb shelters
Sergei Kurasov
How can some of those late night infomercials be legal?
Mary Faulkner
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 June 15
Wikipedians: only paraphrasers of references?
Is mind truly in the brain?
Why was the Golden Horde called Golden?
Collateral
the Eterni
Reaction
Can some lists be copyrighted?
Right to life without work
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 June 16
Could you help me find information about H. Loesch, an artist?
Same Sex Discomfort
term limits
Tibetan Buddhist symbol?
Can God commit suicide?
Donating to Democrats
Existence of God
Philo Zombie
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 June 17
Natural and Positive Law
CASPOROVA- INTERESTING PERSONALITY NOT FOUND IN ANY SEARCH ENGINE.....
do knights call each other "sir"?
CHRONOLOGICAL YEARS
Painting
decents
Television Programming
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 June 18
"Inexperienced" presidents
How old is rape and murder?
City walls
American Snipers In The Falklands Conflict (On the Argentinian side)
Schizophrenia Inducing Film
fair ethnic discrimination/racism?
House of Lords
Low homeless rate in major cities
Ancient of the Inn
Ultra-Anarchism
Can i be pregnant ?
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 June 19
Cheap Bike Parts
Assault on Pollighautcherry, India, c. 1790
Moral standing of Allies in 2nd world war
Genetic diversity of human with respect to Bible
What's the benefits and overheads of high-interest rate in a country?
Execution of Tsutomu Miyazaki.
1972 Mid-Campaign Presidential Election Polls
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 June 20
Disobedience
Obama's policies
Liberal arts education
Technologically behind
Perceptions
Sinn Féin broadcast ban
cheapest coffee - instant or ground?
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 June 21
Question
Four Great Classical Novels Dream of the Red Chamber
Who decided left and right wing... ie. social conservatism and fiscal conservatism go hand in hand
Israel and China
What are the "neighborhoods" in our mind about?
Where does the government get money from?
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 June 22
Wanted: Sword identification
a citizen kills a diplomat
Law question.com
surnames
Hindi-speaking and Urdu-speaking ethnic groups
Hanafi
Dress in Spain
Politician income
What religions / philosophies believe that life and suffering give us reasons to enjoy heaven?
Japanese Inferiority Complex?
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 June 23
Salem
Paul Cézanne's "Flowers in a Rococo Vase"
international criminal court
International Borders
Polling in the United States
history
immorality of poverty
United States Supreme Court Cases
Science
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 June 24
Coco Chanel
LDS and Jews
Query on Australian culture and Location of Indian restaurants
Saint
asya
India vs china
Commercial Revolution
Christopher Columbus's first voyage
Three-armed swastika - Neo Nazi flag?
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 June 25
Existentialism is a Humanism
Zimbabwe
Diversity and discrimination
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 June 26
Tomari and Shuri
How many Indo-Canadians in Great Britian?
Italian language
TV coverage of criminal cases
Mixed black/white Arab
Only white-people town in US
Anonymous witness
Christopher Columbus's Fourth voyage
Public Domain Poetry
Employment in the USA
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 June 27
When was the last time the UK Labour Party finished 5th (or worse) in a By-election?
Korean War deaths
sorry Coudlnt' get an anwsoer on entertainment
Geography
Poverty
Novel written by a female American Indian
How does the story Roweena Teena and Tot and the Runaway Turkey end?
Barrack Obama
That Vishnu temple
Can a 15 year old be sentenced to life imprisonment in the UK?
Accessible/Newcomer's Classical Music
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 June 28
right of way
Population Info. Demographics of Argentina
Oper
Cost of British Royal Family
War and Peace
Cavalry
"Stab-in-the-back" (World War I)
Paper blockades
Ireland
flogging
Is there a place on this earth that men never stepped on?
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 June 29
Obama on copyright reform
Non-staged professional wrestling?
Airsoft gun laws in Maryland and in other States for minors
When Canada is more conservative than the US
Second choice
Reichspropagandaleitung der NSDAP
Gods incarnating as a human of the opposite gender
Cairo Geniza travel journals?
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2008 June 30
Freud in portuguese: "Arquitectura Animica"
Our morals, ethics, etc. Illusion?
Dr. Friedlander
Cultural differences between the West and the East
What was the original title of Dr. King's address at the March on Washington?
When and by whom was Kings address at the March on Washington first called the "I have a dream speech"?