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September 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2010 September 1

1. aura
2. Wanamakers store Philadelphia
3. Cigarette butt disposal
4. Author Shirley Jackson
5. Terrorist Attack

September 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2010 September 2

1. Wieboldt's Christmas ornament
2. What are strange dry circles on the eye called?
3. Is self-advertisement appropriate in article?

September 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2010 September 3

1. Weekend vs Weekday weddings
2. Firing clay pottery in a charcoal BBQ grill
3. Hanging things from a plastered ceiling
4. wheels
5. Lucy Page Mercer Rutherfurd

September 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2010 September 4

1. Wrong information taught in grammar school?
2. Who is J. E. Hoover?
3. Help Required on Humanitarian Ground
4. regarding the entries with "chris soda" at wikipedia
5. Birthers Evidence
6. password
7. Purple gum at Albertsons
8. How does the "3rd cousin, twice removed" thing work?

September 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2010 September 5

1. Best methods for maintaining health of feline teeth?
2. Buttermilk vs yogurt
3. two-way radio
4. Tomato Ketchup

September 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2010 September 6

1. Cake flour vs. self-rising
2. French commemorative medal.
3. gasoline drill
4. If everyone lies...
5. Orientation of items in dishwashers
6. Pretentious
7. astronauts
8. Ray Mears

September 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2010 September 7

1. fatal auto accidents
2. I am trying to identify a documentary I once saw as a child
3. maritime flags
4. Striking up a conversation sitting / standing up
5. Staragte
6. Muslim prayer room in World Trade Center
7. on my screen sometimes it says radio is logged in /available.
8. Heat
9. "style"
10. 3
11. DOing research for a Wikipedia article

September 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2010 September 8

1. which fish is this?
2. I was watching a show...
3. US legislation regarding religious hatred ?
4. Virgins
5. the truly perfect pitching performance
6. Don't Know .....
7. Dimensions of Temple of Venus Genetrix
8. Waving on boats
9. Ferrari Post-production Test drive.

September 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2010 September 9

1. What is "WANTYNU"?
2. Can you find the print date for a dollar bill by its serial number?
3. Tongue drum
4. Mid-air collisions over major cities
5. EST
6. soccer world cup shots on goal
7. age
8. Ingredient in a receipe

September 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2010 September 10

1. Legal age for getting a tattoo??
2. Workmen and traffic
3. American Conscription during World War 2
4. Backdoor Entry
5. sun
6. Bausch & Lomb Soothe PF
7. cadillac seville gas tank and sending unit
8. When a recipe just says "mustard seed," should I use whole or ground?

September 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2010 September 11

1. ALL CAPS
2. Photo upload
3. Photograph of Indian Actress
4. toys
5. Help identifying a model
6. Taking photos facing the sun
7. Salary scales for different graduate careers
8. How did they film it?
9. Is there a website that alerts intelligent people to nutters?

September 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2010 September 12

1. Batik Care
2. interior dimensions of Forum of Julius Caesar
3. Federated Department Stores, Macy's
4. Need help identifying a city
5. Government benefits for British World War I widows
6. Film
7. Transformational learning
8. Price

September 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2010 September 13

1. wheat in a field
2. Downsides to living in Portland, Oregon?
3. molecular gastronomy resources
4. YouTube
5. addresses
6. can cancer return??
7. Home
8. Married centenarians in the UK
9. Colors
10. charity work
11. Hurricane statistics
12. size of political signs as an expression of speech
13. honda
14. Galloping Horses and Praire Dogs' Burrows.

September 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2010 September 14

1. Marina Rzhannikova
2. Contacting writers of a wikipedia article
3. Laziness
4. National Building Trades - Council of America
5. A solid ground dwelling plant that is the size and shape of an adult human heart
6. Greco-Roman architecture
7. Payout of envy
8. Holiday rooms
9. Finding out who called me
10. Linking

September 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2010 September 15

1. Miss-use of the name "bachelor" for venezuelan engineers
2. Picture
3. George Michael.

September 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2010 September 16

1. hurricanes
2. Winchester gun
3. Three questions
4. Chinese food
5. Population
6. Witches
7. Five-pointed stars on house
8. Soybeans
9. William Holden Actor Bio.
10. Natural resources
11. "Anarcho-Totalitarianism" source

September 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2010 September 17

1. Pokémon character design
2. Emissions trading scheme
3. Any machine which contains gear, belt, cams etc?
4. How do lottery winners get the trusted advice they're always advised to get, but never told how?

September 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2010 September 18

1. dailymotion account deletion
2. Why do deaf people talk with an accent?
3. Pope
4. What is the following piece of furniture called?
5. YouTube video as wikipedia article reference
6. cortisone shots

September 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2010 September 19

1. The longest (and surviving) uninterrupted ancestral line of UK/ English/British/Scottish/Irish/Welsh nobles in History.
2. Freddie's overbite
3. Dick Cheney; did he have any ministrokes before 2001?
4. Boleskine House
5. Fly as much as you want ticket?
6. Wikimedia HTML Upload Error
7. Rebuilding a boat, plank by plank
8. SAT score
9. BBC
10. River Plate
11. iconic cars

September 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2010 September 20

1. 9mm ammo in .38 caliber gun
2. Front Loading Washing Machines Units Sold
3. Market for the Popemobile?
4. Satin /Silk
5. Lexington or Park
6. Nazi cap insignia (Eagle with Knight's Cross)
7. Train tracks on north shore of the Harlem?

September 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2010 September 21

1. costs of "pretty bridges" vs functional/utilitarian bridges
2. Looking for four notes that will sound good no matter how they're played
3. "It's your dime"
4. End of "The Town"
5. Windows
6. Help identifying a pair of vintage sunglasses

September 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2010 September 22

1. Broaching Submarine on the Opening video in the "Victory At Sea" series.

September 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2010 September 23

1. Shopping for a first DSLR
2. How many biographies?
3. Do Maltesers eat maltesers?

September 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2010 September 24

1. Miltiades in IPA
2. dead horses
3. identify that thing

September 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2010 September 25

1. Number of Pakistani Armed Forces reserves
2. Reporting Fraud Against DMV
3. Morgue safety
4. Jinja: SHIRAMINE JINGU / AKAMA JINGU & MINASE JINJA
5. Meg Whitman and Jobs
6. if you delete your facebook profile...
7. Chinese Lanterns
8. Gillenbie Outhouse
9. French food

September 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2010 September 26

1. Astronauts and cosmonauts
2. RFID
3. prank smses
4. Dates on magazines
5. Colour of Motherboards

September 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2010 September 27

1. Number of civil servants
2. Using my DVD player in another country
3. Japanese speakers or translators?
4. Listing rules
5. intvu
6. old photo for Automobile article
7. 9/11 Dust Storm
8. Long-range RFID

September 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2010 September 29

1. Bananas
2. Travel by horse
3. regarding plug sockets
4. Non lethal trap
5. Fused LED in LED tv
6. mining and forest laws
7. Ramen Noodles
8. Facial Features
9. McDonald's cost margin

September 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2010 September 30

1. time intervals
2. How can I find out who the writers and researchers who work for Fox News are?
3. Anglican Saints
4. How many beer bottles are there in the case?