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February 1

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 February 1

  1. Lead, follow, or get out of the way
  2. Robert Boyle by Johann Kerseboom
  3. Slavery: How did a slave owner pay for his slave?
  4. List of people who have mysteriously disappeared and then later have been found/their remains have been recovered
  5. pie charts of language use in europe
  6. British laws that aren't enforced
  7. Why would the Buffett rule raise only $50 billion in taxes?

February 2

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 February 2

  1. Passing bad checks
  2. Socialist place names in and around the People's Republic of Fife
  3. What about ACTA?
  4. Did India issue a military medal for Operation Polo (capture of Hyderabad) in 1948?
  5. Speculative detective
  6. Il Salone dei Cinquecento, the Hall of Five Hundred does not seem to exist?
  7. First biography
  8. South Sudan independence referendum
  9. State leaders who were tortured to death
  10. Old Mortality
  11. Ryuichi Sakamoto translate lyrics

February 3

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 February 3

  1. Indian names used by Muslims
  2. Which districts of India Muslims?
  3. Baptist Children
  4. Criminal politicians
  5. Romney/Bush, but not as we know it
  6. Which melody is this?
  7. Style issue
  8. Pope Urban VI

February 4

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 February 4

  1. Where does Apple have its cash?
  2. Patel as a common name for hotel owners
  3. War of the Austrian Succession and France
  4. What do you need to be a CEO
  5. About Adam Smith (16 June 1723 – 17 July 1790)
  6. Capitalism vs. Free Market Economy
  7. Lawsuits for copyright infringement

February 5

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 February 5

  1. Waitangi
  2. "Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe" and prepositions
  3. Chinese Poem
  4. Two-way Caesar cipher
  5. Pet bugs on strings
  6. Gap-Theory
  7. notable special schools
  8. Steam boat disaster, Scotland
  9. Compromise of Wikipedia's neutrality
  10. Why did Pol Pot have so many high-quality friends (allies)?
  11. book about a british girl in India babysitted by an Indian

February 6

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 February 6

  1. Greek protests targeting inequity of austerity?
  2. Access to source needed! The mutiny on the Meermin / (2003) Alexander, Andrew
  3. Is there a relationship between continental philosophy and the intelligent design movement?
  4. Jumping the broom 1848

February 7

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 February 7

  1. Two questions about New France
  2. About the U.S. economy
  3. Democracy vs. Republic
  4. about portrait painting
  5. Honor killings
  6. Hawaiian hotspot
  7. Who is the most intelligent Wikipedian?
  8. Identifying a late-Victorian illustrator
  9. Purgatory, anyone?

February 8

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 February 8

  1. languages of Opera
  2. Support for communism

February 9

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 February 9

  1. Pixelated
  2. Three in religion/mythology
  3. Internment camps
  4. Britons in the French and Indian War
  5. Mute and motionless
  6. UK Parliament - 3rd reading
  7. Source of inspiration for the "Vitruvian Man" by Leonardo da Vinci
  8. languages of Literature
  9. Does Geoff Ryman's "The Child Garden" have a happy ending?
  10. What am I legally eligible to donate for $?
  11. African American Muslims in New York City
  12. Mosques in New York City, Detroit, Dearborn, Minneapolis, Buffalo
  13. Mosques by Kyrgyz, Tajik, Iranian, Kazakh, Uzbek, Turkmen, Azeri, Turkish, Indonesian, Malaysian, African communities
  14. Black Canadians Caribbeans

February 10

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 February 10

  1. International treaties, agreements etc
  2. Darius III and Greek
  3. pulling out all the stops
  4. Do audio books normally include a pdf (or epub, djuv or whatever) version

February 11

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 February 11

  1. What is the tax rate on ill-gotten gains?
  2. Inventing, but not for the army
  3. Number 27 and Isis
  4. February 21 Language Day
  5. Migrating to New France

February 12

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 February 12

  1. Mitt Romney
  2. African American and Latino Muslim women marriage
  3. Help me find an Indian story
  4. Harpsichord sustain pedal.

February 13

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 February 13

  1. Last monarchs in war
  2. Grasshopper
  3. Marxist sense of "exploitation"
  4. What's this picture called in English?
  5. conservative cities and liberal cities in Lebanon
  6. acharya chankya spoke about ...we need one more acharya chanakya in 2014 for india
  7. Jesus

February 14

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 February 14

  1. Yelling In Lower Chambers (Govenment) When Someone Is Talking
  2. Simon Blackburn's interpretation of Matt 10:5-6
  3. Constitutions and Capitalism
  4. k.u.k.
  5. FOREX.com spreads
  6. Beach Walk Rear, Honolulu
  7. If a US VP becomes President, how much longer can they serve as President?
  8. "Referring" a US Senate bill
  9. Best book on the origins of human morality
  10. What if... ? (USA Civil war)
  11. Trusts questions (UK)
  12. what philosophers/schools of thought discuss this view of ethics?

February 15

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 February 15

  1. Being in the army and the navy at the same time?
  2. Chinese pentatonic scale
  3. La Bayamesa = Cuba's National Anthem
  4. was the bible ever written
  5. reference check
  6. What's a good way to sell a short domain hack domain name for big bucks?

February 16

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 February 16

  1. T.S. Eliot's word count?
  2. Talleyrand plan
  3. Most popular delusion
  4. Original text for the Oath of Supremacy

February 17

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 February 17

  1. aroused by cartoon characters
  2. defining affinity group or work group as related to the spokes council model
  3. Agriculture Innovation Technology Application
  4. Question about legal ethics (conflict of interest)
  5. 613 commandments list only goes to 605
  6. The Catcher in the Rye
  7. Who is David Stevens?
  8. GDP (Output) gap & Okun's Law
  9. Trying to understand coin collecting

February 18

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 February 18

  1. Defraud Innkeeper?
  2. Secretariat General of Commonwealth
  3. Fetish name
  4. university of kent
  5. English maternal DNA
  6. Economic impact of leap year

February 19

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 February 19

  1. Passbook and money market accounts
  2. Where does the US House of Representatives get the funding for BLAG?
  3. RP pronunciation of stairs
  4. how do I address a Church Elder?
  5. A full list of countries with death penalty for apostasy
  6. is it usual or possible to get a ba in music from a conservatory
  7. Entrance Hall
  8. Sinn Féin's nationalism
  9. honorary doctorate
  10. Mormons abroad and learning native languages

February 20

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 February 20

  1. How much capabilites does Israel need to attack Iran?
  2. Why Israel?
  3. How did Rastafaris come to believe in Haile Selassie I?
  4. Map confusion
  5. US Restraurant Reviews

February 21

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 February 21

  1. Specialty hospitals and emergency situations
  2. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad − academic career
  3. American education system vs Indian system
  4. Australian poet John Millet
  5. Rule of the shorter term
  6. Calories and kcal

February 22

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 February 22

  1. How good are we to spot intentions of others?
  2. Best Native American Tribe to Live in
  3. official language(s) BiH
  4. How does the Hong Kong government deal with asylum seekers such like Falun Gong practitioners and and others?
  5. Employer sponsored health care and age
  6. I never knew how to end an e-mail conversation.
  7. Date of this 17th century map of Siam?
  8. what's up with the highs in 'queen of the night' aria?

February 23

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 February 23

  1. Meaning of word or name
  2. Humanities Freemasonry
  3. Low vehicles per capita for Colorado and Nevada?
  4. Pete Hoesktra's attack ad
  5. Police badge, shields, and nomenclature
  6. a tomour
  7. Does Wikipedia have information about the payroll tax cut extension?

February 24

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 February 24

  1. Shafia murder trial other two kids
  2. Grand Duke/Duchess of Luxembourg at Nobel Prize ceremony
  3. Muslims of Thailand
  4. Muslim majority of Russia
  5. Why is it easier for the Labour Party to win the elections in the UK?
  6. future India vs china war
  7. Billionaire CEOs who take $1/yr salaries and minimum wage issues
  8. Moving, voting in a state's primaries
  9. how high is a trillion
  10. Hooters Airline

February 25

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 February 25

  1. Why is the Dominican Republic much better off than Haiti if they are on the same island?
  2. Rurikid
  3. French to English
  4. South Sudanese currency exchange rate
  5. Why is the debt crisis the euro's fault?
  6. Effective tax rate on paintings (UK)
  7. Who was the emperor married to?
  8. Anyone heard of a facing edition of Frege's Grundlagen?
  9. Roughing It illustrations

February 26

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 February 26

  1. Portraits
  2. Single-battle wars
  3. Equity and Restatements of Law
  4. Cheap high quality education
  5. Pattie Boyd's Bio
  6. History and Origin of Pasta
  7. Syrian uprising 2011-2012
  8. Old style to Gregorian date conversion
  9. USA/MEXICO

February 27

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 February 27

  1. Christopher Hitchens conversation with Chris Hedges at UCLA
  2. Assembly of Experts
  3. Can fair use apply to trade secrets or computer code protected by copyright?
  4. Statues of British PMs in the U.S.
  5. Good research on social network analysis of cell phone networks?
  6. George Bancroft and Alexander Bliss
  7. Antipope Clement VII
  8. Landlords in the USA

February 28

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 February 28

  1. Why are demons/devils/The Devil depicted as having features of sheep or goats?
  2. Literature dealing with Multicultural Britain
  3. George Wallace delegates in 1972 election
  4. Impossibilty of feeling or conveying sorrow
  5. FBI-Spanish refugees incident in the '40s.
  6. The nineteen propositions of John Wycliffe
  7. the thirteen articles of the Sachsenspiegel
  8. Company sizes

February 29

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 February 29

  1. Memphis, USA and Memphis, Egypt
  2. Leap Year...Today's
  3. Organization Type For Pooled Funds?
  4. Public vs. private laws in the USA
  5. UK employment law
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