Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/August 2009

= August 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 August 1


 * 1) Double click vs single click
 * 2) goin mad
 * 3) Obtaining worthless currency
 * 4) Burmese/Large Cat Cross
 * 5) Raw steak on a Black Eye
 * 6) Muscovy Ducks
 * 7) General examinations for wannabe grads
 * 8) Sound and Laptop

= August 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 August 2


 * 1) environmental vegetarianism
 * 2) Unemployment and humanism
 * 3) Logistics exam question
 * 4) Railway travel in Kazakhstan
 * 5) Stockholm question
 * 6) Long historical trend in income inequality

= August 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 August 3


 * 1) Munich street sign font
 * 2) TV.com's rankings
 * 3) Cell blocker/jammer -- possible?
 * 4) Did loop 494 in Texas from Humble to Patton Village once serve as highway 59?
 * 5) Scripts
 * 6) Pint
 * 7) "sayings"
 * 8) PIG LATIN/CODE
 * 9) What is a confirmation letter?
 * 10) Taxi Fare?
 * 11) break bone and not know?
 * 12) Racing flags
 * 13) What does this apartment term mean?

= August 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 August 4


 * 1) Beavis and Butthead recently
 * 2) Army basic training record
 * 3) Future=now?
 * 4) Buddhist wedding gift, prayer, toast
 * 5) Fast Food Obesity in China vs North America
 * 6) Neuschwanstein
 * 7) Royal Gun Works
 * 8) question about poker
 * 9) Probable law sentence for fanfiction character

= August 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 August 5


 * 1) Is there a record for most emails in someone's in box?
 * 2) dates backwards only in the US
 * 3) Type O Negative
 * 4) 19th Century secrets
 * 5) investment analysis
 * 6) Walking in zig-zags
 * 7) online job
 * 8) Tennis Racket
 * 9) twice as wide
 * 10) Nordstrom and Paypal connection???
 * 11) what metal
 * 12) TV ratings and muting of commercials
 * 13) Jokes and political correction
 * 14) Leaders of the U.S. Reconstruction Finance Corporation

= August 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 August 6


 * 1) 110 v 220 volts
 * 2) Disney tv shows
 * 3) Ipod
 * 4) income statement
 * 5) Type O Negative
 * 6) Handkerchiefs as fashion accessories.
 * 7) A Circuit City(?) commercial showed a boyfriend with an electronic scoreboard on his date. Where's the commercial?
 * 8) Blackberry Problem

= August 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 August 7


 * 1) ESUT post UME
 * 2) WW2 crime responsibility
 * 3) Buying Expensive Ballpoint Pens
 * 4) Economics of International Mail
 * 5) New Kitten in House with Cats
 * 6) Why are IQ tests illegal but Personality and Integrity tests legal in employment screening?
 * 7) UK Royal organiser
 * 8) How to clean a braided leather belt
 * 9) animal mistreatment question
 * 10) About the First Two Rules of Wikipedia...

= August 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 August 8


 * 1) Rabbits in KY?
 * 2) Feet
 * 3) A question about changing lights

= August 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 August 9


 * 1) what does talking about??
 * 2) Banks cheating
 * 3) Travelling to Cuba - advice required.
 * 4) Is Silly Putty Bulletproof?
 * 5) How much money does a chronic alcoholic need to feed their habit?
 * 6) Notability
 * 7) What do fighter pilots actually do?
 * 8) Changes in DNA
 * 9) Help Me Search On Google

= August 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 August 10


 * 1) Denver Residential Area Map / Population Density Map?
 * 2) iPod Woes
 * 3) National Socialism

= August 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 August 11


 * 1) Nasir Khusraw
 * 2) Importance of time
 * 3) Mail delivered via Luftschiff Hindenburg postmarked 2 5 37   How could this be?
 * 4) Online Holiday Reviews - any Impact on Tour/Flight operators?
 * 5) AP Stats data

= August 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 August 12


 * 1) Finger lengtheners?
 * 2) Imperfect Airplane Cabin Pressurization?
 * 3) an article on herb cohen?
 * 4) Largest river
 * 5) Ipod (continued)
 * 6) website
 * 7) oldest and youngest people to murder a police officer

= August 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 August 13


 * 1) film
 * 2) Origami boxes
 * 3) Demons' whips
 * 4) List of most successful marketing companies in the USA
 * 5) Coca-Cola bottles
 * 6) Crime and Punishment
 * 7) simple questions about the Reference Desk

= August 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 August 14


 * 1) How can I save a word in Chinese characters as an image?
 * 2) How To Spread The Word
 * 3) How do Marketing firms win clients?
 * 4) Commission at High-End Retailers
 * 5) What is the usual university degree possessed by bankers?
 * 6) Public companies in porn
 * 7) Paydirt

= August 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 August 15


 * 1) Turkish University Holidays
 * 2) Crop circles and universities
 * 3) Yahoo SiteBuilder
 * 4) Song
 * 5) Elderly Iraqi woman shows two bullets
 * 6) Parliment of World Religions
 * 7) Tetrapod - generic or specific?
 * 8) two cents plain
 * 9) UN e-mail address
 * 10) What is the age that you can ride a street legal moped on the road

= August 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 August 16


 * 1) Jonathan Ross
 * 2) Close on...
 * 3) Car model variations
 * 4) George Lorin Miller first house destroyed by fires
 * 5) hamburger
 * 6) Why did Kazakhstan join UEFA?
 * 7) Bored on Sunday?
 * 8) Insect problems in countries
 * 9) Lost this question about intelligence
 * 10) Number sequence question
 * 11) Cost of rail travel in Italia
 * 12) A question about my car

= August 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 August 17


 * 1) Punkah fan
 * 2) horror movie
 * 3) blank discs
 * 4) Driving a car that has not been driven for a while
 * 5) blogs
 * 6) going from South orange county to Santa Monica avoiding the 10 Fwy
 * 7) to get from Tustin to Ventura via the 405, avoiding the 101 passing Downtown LA?
 * 8) Universities Near Stockholm, Sweden: Undergraduate Programs in English?

= August 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 August 18


 * 1) Stocks: A public record?
 * 2) How to extract Tribulus saponins
 * 3) Collier
 * 4) 'locking' a lever latch door
 * 5) Proctology

= August 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 August 19


 * 1) Give me a comment on this
 * 2) horse--rope "caught tinder the tail"?
 * 3) what's on his chest?
 * 4) Meaning of Name Rithvi
 * 5) Eating reindeer
 * 6) Venison in the USA
 * 7) family data removed from right column summary block
 * 8) CA 39 to open again
 * 9) CA 15 becoming I-15
 * 10) CA 210 ceoming i-210

= August 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 August 20


 * 1) Who dropped Little Boy?
 * 2) Bubble tea
 * 3) Legal peer-to-peer site??
 * 4) base ball hit
 * 5) Legend of invention of chess

= August 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 August 21


 * 1) CA 15 and CA 94 junctions
 * 2) Similar attracts?
 * 3) Are all humans hopeless self-promoters?
 * 4) Acari 6.0 Megashot camera
 * 5) Green hat graffiti
 * 6) Example of Type of couple
 * 7) marketing of buckets
 * 8) Cricket question
 * 9) Driving a car that has not been driven for a while - Follow up from OP posted 17 August.
 * 10) firearm
 * 11) Guardia Civil
 * 12) Scaredy cats
 * 13) Beeping

= August 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 August 22


 * 1) Keystrokes in a debate
 * 2) High Impulse Weapons System?
 * 3) Reason for protests at Mr. Rogers' funeral
 * 4) rr mailing zones
 * 5) Airport security - no driver's license
 * 6) Long distance running
 * 7) cold and cold water
 * 8) Sheepskin Boats in Xinjiang
 * 9) Simple family trees
 * 10) football question

= August 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 August 23


 * 1) Athletes, especially pro ones, and Concussions
 * 2) Soup names
 * 3) Taxi from Upper West Side to JFK
 * 4) Is the Northwest Passage open?

= August 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 August 24


 * 1) sailing pirate Ship question
 * 2) Nokia phone - I can't figure it out
 * 3) Travel to Ravenscar from Ripon
 * 4) Husayn in Qazvain
 * 5) Do boarding/prep school teachers actually address their students as "Mr" and "Miss" like they do in movies?
 * 6) Crossng Croatian land borders
 * 7) Stadium lighting
 * 8) Unassisted triple play in baseball
 * 9) Keeping unused phne numbers - normal?
 * 10) How do drum magazines work?
 * 11) Should I really say 'thank you'?
 * 12) Rusting cars
 * 13) Athletes, especially pro ones and general injuries

= August 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 August 25


 * 1) Plane tickets
 * 2) Definition of "male"
 * 3) WWI
 * 4) Women in Men's Professional Sports
 * 5) UK Sexual Offences Act 2003
 * 6) Impossible fire
 * 7) haven holidays

= August 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 August 26


 * 1) Climate change
 * 2) 24 hour public transport
 * 3) Honest politicians and newsworthiness
 * 4) Image recollection question
 * 5) Who is that woman?
 * 6) School and university holidays

= August 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 August 27


 * 1) can water go instantly from boiling to frozen in cold climates
 * 2) UK Railways
 * 3) Bungee jump in Spain
 * 4) Photography Effect
 * 5) Real-life Motherlovers
 * 6) Box-shaped slatted covers on British traffic lights
 * 7) Objectives
 * 8) Bruises
 * 9) Tourist Visa in China

= August 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 August 28


 * 1) What do siamese cats eat?
 * 2) foreignn exchange rates
 * 3) God
 * 4) Jaycee Lee Dugard
 * 5) Developed photos look washed out
 * 6) Long Road Trip
 * 7) Wedding Objection
 * 8) Megrahi's arrival at Tripoli Airport
 * 9) Need the answer
 * 10) Heroin

= August 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 August 29


 * 1) Test driving a car
 * 2) Dog behaviour
 * 3) Looking for specific type of online games
 * 4) Natural number? (nummer? wtf lol)
 * 5) old stock information
 * 6) Consultancy !!
 * 7) strategic?
 * 8) UK Embassies During Bank Holidays
 * 9) Username

= August 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 August 30


 * 1) B unit, or...?
 * 2) Misremembering having seen a movie
 * 3) West Side Story
 * 4) Puzzling Puzzle
 * 5) UK's GRE or GMAT
 * 6) Sewn up Suit pockets?
 * 7) Montebello
 * 8) Does Punta Cana use Celsius or Fahrenheit?
 * 9) Vicki Kennedy
 * 10) When will Global Warming end?

= August 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 August 31


 * 1) Insertions
 * 2) 2 things re US cities
 * 3) Public/Private corporation
 * 4) Digital watch with counter feature
 * 5) Dioscorides De Materia Medica Byzantium 15th century
 * 6) Looking for an old puzzle
 * 7) Its not fair...
 * 8) Traffic light color background deeping
 * 9) College and University
 * 10) Cheap interesting places to eat in Trieste, Italy ?