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October 1
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- Ancestor
- Truman's letters
- Missing posts
- Coat of Arms of India
- engagement rings
- Requesting help for article on Jean-Marie Le Pen : did he speak to(and support) Russian extremists, who went to fight in Iraq in 2003?
- Unknown Audio
- New brunswick culture
- Cholera
- English in Europe
- Are eyeglasses considered a machine?
- Sigmund Freud and Nathaniel Hawthorn
- What is the proper pronunciation for...
- Who painted this and what is the piece called?
October 2
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- Religion
- neuro-esthetics
- Place name in Nepal
- Short form for engineers
- Replacing your victim
- In what key did Victoria originally write his "O Magnum Mysterium"?
- Gambling in the US
- Mit Hitler in Polen
- i need help!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Politics and Science
October 3
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- Symbols on a WWI French artillery shell decorated as "trench art"
- Voting ages
- Journeyman painters
- book title
- define " non-theist "
- The definition of "Strike Suit"
- Marketing
- Freeza
- Recitative
- Moral Standarda
- political struggles of the seminole indians?
- Beer Tastes Bad
- political science-international relations+international organizations
- ALL PROBLEMS SOLVED!
- How Much Do You Expect To Be Paid?
- Women and sociology in the 19th century
October 4
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- 1920's vs 1930's
- Straight head to head viewship comparsion (??)
- MLA Citation
- cuban culture, specifically calle ocho
- The highest IQ
- fashion law
- UK Devolution
- Why are unrelated things allowed to be put on unrelated bills?
- Famous Sayings
- Holding out for a hero percussion
- insignia origin and meaning
- Sourdough History
- Song
- We had the captain for our meal (poem)
- Why did the Netherlands last for so little against the Wehrmacht in WW2?
- US calling code
- Cyprus climate
October 5
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- First Christian Church
- social work
- Left-handed protagonist named "Dexter"
- Drag 'n Drop
- Game in cognitive sciences
- See-through Shirt
- British Medieval Gilt Plate
- SIGHTILL CEMETARY
- Dickens
- road traffic signs- London local authority obligations.
- Moe Kauffman
- School Year Calendars for Latin American Countries
- Westboro picketing at Amish funerals
- Underage Drinking
- "Owner's equity" in non-profit organizations
- Near-monopoly
October 6
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- Attributive Monism & Pantheism
- Help about the UN!
- name of a music
- Musical Coincidence?
- Knife Law in California
- Indigenous people of the Aleutians Islands
- Beastie Boy's music
- Poem by W B Yeats
- Which one is Sima Zhao
- Sanitation and hygiene throughout history
- Analyzing Piano Pieces
October 7
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- types of espresso drinks
- Average age of goverments, based on goverment form
- Sarah Vaughan
- Death penalty
- French distrust
- Answer these questions
- About france
- Article Search
- Oil Painting by Alexandre Jacobs
- Name this song & artist
- Nostalgia Collection
- Deletion of New Artist Stub 'Lee Woods' Artmaid 20:36, 7 October 2006 (UTC)Artmaid
- Conjoined twin autobiography
- If the Germans had won WWII and the Final Solution had been completed
October 8
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- Phone Q
- Your Characterization of the Oxford Philosopher J.L. Austin's work
- No age limit for drinking alcohol in Australia
- Why is it called mizuhiki (water pulling)? history? process?
- women having sex
- Nazi Germany military achievements
- Jean Stretchers
- World War One
- law
- Is neopaganism really a religion?
- Ban of veil in UK Jack Straw's remarks about the veil
- plodweaver
- Question about the movie Bend it like Beckham
- Question about Germany
- Help linking an article
- About great tragedies(in both war and peace)
- Flaming and regular
October 9
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- Are There Any Wikipedia Articles That Discuss The Mistranlastion Of Homosexuality In The Bible?
- Representations of left as back and right as forward
- Social Class and Voting Behaviour
- Sahara Desert turned to glass
- Michealangelo
- On citizenship and guilt
- Relieving A Superior Of Their Command
- Gun Control in the US
- What is cultural diversity?
- Upcoming movie
- The origins of Frere Jacques
- Why a particular order in google?
- Female mystics and musicians, AD 600 to 1600?
October 10
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- Top 22 Terrorists
- United States Civil War
- Age of Sexual Consent
- The prevelance of female pedophiles?
- hester prynne
- Mr Plow episode of Simpsons
- Was Rudolf Hess murdered?
- gandhian ideology
- movie review
- are car prices increasing or decreasing
- Vestica Veca
- XM, Sirius, and MTV
- sherman's march to the sea
- The Maki Maki language
- Political science/ Micheal Manning I.E.M.P model
- political sicence/federalisum
- How do I see the answer to my question?
- Medieval Christian heretics?
- Concept of playboy/playgirl
- WWII : First soldiers on German soil, first Russian soldier in Korea
- President of the United States election
- social order
October 11
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- Tony Toni Tone
- Louisiana purchase benefit?
- Poison gas in WW2
- economics
- name this swedish film
- Sir Joshua Reynolds
- Was the Weimar Republic doomed from the start?
- Swadesh lists
- "Convicted pedophile"
- Edexcel
October 12
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- Islamic Naval Technology
- Communication aided by seeing a face
- PROPOSED CHANGES TO THE REFERENCE DESK
- Why does the word "Nazi" appear so often in this reference desk?
- North Korea's legal system
- Next war-time use of NUCLEAR weapons most likely to happen
- Legal tender status of Jersey coinage in the UK
- "Homophobia"
- Marketing
- Flag Desecration Act
- Holiday
- Universities in Vermont
- TV sets
- Soviet recognition of Irish Republic
- Developing Nuclear Weapons
- HM Prison Service
- Barking dogs
- 2 Questions
October 13
[edit]Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/Humanities/2006 October 13
- flute music term?
- What is Marriage?
- I've Seen Art History, But Where's Fashion History (Or Maybe Costume History?) And Literature History?
- Minimum wage
- Reunification
- monuments
- Brazil
- Never Knows Best
- indian American woman
- Why do some people sneeze when they look at the Sun?
- Jewish mob
- jewish mob2
- US Presidents who have been killed
- Icons in Russia
- Point Spread Format
- Right to life founders
- Help!
- LAPD
- fire marshal in NY
- Computer addiction
October 14
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- An american failure...
- Sonic Youth's DAYDREAM NATION
- US inciting Sunni-Shi’ite strife in Iraq
- video game music
- Major causes of death as percentage of the population
- Why does Wikipedia apply "Jewish-American/British Jew etc" and Jewish hyphenations with nationalities?
- Sex in Disney
- Springed Seat Thing
- what's so special about humans?
- medical malpractice
- Jamaican reggae artists search
- Art feedback.
October 15
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- Soccer question
- Communist China
- Homosexuality and evolutionary psychology
- The end of the world as we know it
- American Dreams
- French wars
- Unknown German soldier
October 16
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- In the future, will Che Guevara be venerated as a Christlike figure?
- Tattoo History
- movie sex scenes
- 127th Street Ensemble
- Cara Hyder
- Historical Whitewash
- Were Saints Gervaise and Protasus Cro-Magnons?
- religion
- Brazilian Children's Television
- Support in an Experiment - Urgent
- Did the Jews really kill Jesus?
- Sex in Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse
- cloaked in glory
- lawyers
- Religious freedom
- How does one go about initiating a romantic relationship with a celebrity?
- Is there a "God of Sound"?
October 17
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- Matthew 27:11-26
- UNO
- politics in Niger
- Making a lasagne
- Lamp Post Planet
- The root cause of Anti-semitism
- Pictures of women
- You may help answer this
- Europe
- Nuclear War
- how do people survive on $1 per day?
- Reiher pass
- William Henry Harrison's Political Ideas...
October 18
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- Money Terms
- "B"
- So "snuck" is a word now?
- Zaidis
- Auction Date
- Shiny Shoes
- Buddhism and War
- shaka
- Ballad of Three Black Crows and a Slain Horse
- Borat
- Number of entrepreneurs per 100 working people
- Question about the Holocaust
- to what extent did Weimar Germany experience a golden age c1924 -29?
- Hazard management strategies
- A certain Jewish ritual, not static at all, all men
- University California Berkeley and Affirmative Action
- Chinese monarchism?
October 19
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- Theology
- prison and sex
- Are we going to be able to roll back the damage?
- Music
- Republicanism in Japan?
- Waiting time
- who wins cards or mets? ASAP
- Too Drunk to remember.
- Celebrity adoption spree
- Ngelle Gorbitu School in Ethiopia
- Some kind of soundtrack in my head
- Nazi Germany Vandalism
- Ritchie Blackmore
- female rapists
- oral sex
- Blacks and crime, intelligence - political correctness
October 20
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- Need information about translated novels of French author Nicolas des Escuteaux
- Where to find cost of food statistics for Rep. of Korea?
- Bradford Connection
- science fiction books
- the sauna
- Nudity in commercials?
- Bewitched
- Bush approval ratings in NYC
- Administrative law judges
- Mystery or Mystary?
- plagerism in the family
- US Branches of Military
- Dates of specific events during Vietnam War
- philosophy
- Adolf Hitler
- Jesus after his resurrection
- historical origin and date of "why did the chicken cross the road."
- Guitar
- Fluent or near-fluent Russian/English speaker, please.
- Lithuanian liquor called Viritos
October 21
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- How old
- U.S presidents who did not have a ship named in their honour
- Looking for a school in the Washington area in 1906
- Gettin' Busy
- Definition of a Theist and an Atheist
- Fola
- Information about family courts?
- What interesting family relations in monarchies are there?
- King Arthur
October 22
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- Naming Royalty
- Racism
- Factual basis in psychology for claims about the power of the imagination
- Celebrity Religion
October 23
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- Strange battleship-like game...
- searching a link on Product review page
- Hindu fasting calculation
- RMS Titanic
- Recommended Tenchi Muyo series?
- Venezuela in UN Security Council
- California Real Estate Exam
- Question about Music Production
October 24
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- magazine ownership
- Great civilizations
- Literature and art dealing with the question, "What makes a man?"
- Origin of the phrase 'violence begets violence'
- GREAT KANTO EARTHQUAKE
- Thomas Ivan Scanlen (Captain) 1886-1941
- The Mona Lisa
- Why were typewriters invented for the blind?
- Apostle Paul, Sexual Orientation
- politics
October 25
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- Comparing prizes for common goods and services
- All about Persia
- > IT WAS A JOKE! <<
- Albert RN
- FlickBook
- Bosch, the last judgement.
- Is it legal for the British Secret Service to assasinate Dodi Al-Fayed ?
- French franc in 1910? (take two)
- I want to study law and qualify as an attorney, but dont want to practise
- American history
- "Degrees of Protection" of a currency
- need help urgently
- Ann Coulter
- Highest paying profesions
October 26
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- oncerning This Photograph
- Manneken Pis
- Name that tune
- Worlds Most Powerful Institutions
- The First Sports Car
- Night of wilding in Central Park
- Dora Maar au Chat
- The Death Star in ROTS
- I need information about online colleges that offer Juris doctor degree that you can accelerate
- Shareholders Suing Company
- Desperate Housewive
- Military to military relations and military culture in Ghana
- What does free will mean?
- Southern Presidents?
- different attitude towards surveys in different countries
October 27
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- King Henry VIII
- hey
- Spoof splurge?
- religion
- politic lingo
- Dr. Walter Bailey
- Derek Bentley and Christopher Craig court case
- Film title needed
- Mood amoung soldiers towards the end of WW2
October 28
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- Sodomy in Ancient Bologna
- Japan's Foreign Policy Toward Vietnam
- RENE DES CASTES
- Chinese propaganda
- PLEASE!! HELP ME, Polar-experts!!
- Exemptions for Warriors About to Wage Holy Jihad
- Is There Such a Thing as a Tribal Godfather?
- The concept of 'fringe' (in UK politics)
- difference of wizards and magicians in society
- Help with an un-identifiable memorial coin
- What does "obdurate" mean?
October 29
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- Treason question, based on last night's Battlestar Galactica
- World War I
- Re: Is There Such a Thing as a Tribal Godfather?
- Moritz Hochschild (aka Don Mauricio)
- Death Penalty
- Chief Wasatchaka
- Alternative strategies not violating human rights
- British Liberal party between 1906-14
- Hitler, Goebbels, Joe Lou--Charlene 01:34, 31 October 2006 (UTC)is, Max Schmeling, radio Broadcast 1938
- kbar
- Civil marriage
- Mathematics
- Princeton University
October 30
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- ld Movie
- ost Paid
- Bicycle ONLY village/city/town
- Getting broader shoulders
- What are the differences between Job Evaluation and Work Evaluation?
- Myall Creek Massacre
- CHARACTER BUILDING AND MORAL VALUES
- What is the equivalend of a corpus fund for charities in the UK?
- The whipery in the Cuban parliament
- Mulberry Harbours
- budapest
- Respect
- Song with lyrics "come to papa"
- Clash of civilisations
- Willie Lynch entry
- [Bold and the Beautiful]] history question
- Thanksgiving Women
- What is the name/author of an artwork?
- Passport
October 31
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- itler's eye/hair color
- lected Assemblies and Canada
- Sword history
- Has there ever been a movie entirely produced by children that was shown in theaters???
- Victorian Theatre
- Poland and Adriatic Sea
- Music Suggestion Request
- Literary Criticism
- Japanese Art
- Companies Buying Shares In Other Companies
- Turkey Pop Out
- U.S. State Issued Marriage Licenses
- Hostory; kings with names Rudolph
- Nautical Poetry
- Can a person who has entered the country illegally become legal by marriage to a U.S. citizen?
- nstrument learning!
- Movements that dispute the legitimacy of a reigning monarch
- Usefulness
- Atheists and Halloween