Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/May 2009

= May 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 May 1


 * 1) Off-site Wikipedia Rules
 * 2) Where to redirect junk mail
 * 3) History question
 * 4) My Dear - charming or patronising
 * 5) mobile phone radiation is higher when battery is low?
 * 6) Dog thing
 * 7) Creation Of A Death Note?
 * 8) Home ownership rates
 * 9) Is Fantastic Contraption noteworthy?
 * 10) How can I research 10.5 million weblinks to get the best answer?

= May 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 May 2


 * 1) US collectibles: puzzle "key ring"
 * 2) Why is the current swine flu epidemic not spreading much throughout Africa and Asia?
 * 3) Egypt slaughters farm pigs
 * 4) Who is this?
 * 5) Punning is no laughing matter
 * 6) The Construction Industry
 * 7) subliminal messaging - does it work?

= May 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 May 3


 * 1) online game
 * 2) Instant coffee vs. ground coffee
 * 3) Cheap saffron substitute?
 * 4) Digital camera for photojournalism
 * 5) Construction question
 * 6) What is the best material used for floating on water ??

= May 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 May 4


 * 1) Further education in the UK
 * 2) The existense of a study
 * 3) Wifi and Bluetooth
 * 4) Google and Wordpress
 * 5) Making Music Videos
 * 6) Sacrifices
 * 7) Green Up Day
 * 8) Copyright of broadcasts (Canada)
 * 9) Public domain works of governments
 * 10) Selling services online
 * 11) Crossing the English Channel
 * 12) Wii Dance Teacher
 * 13) Is it possible to control the stiffness of a spring ??
 * 14) Washing machines
 * 15) STUFFING

= May 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 May 5


 * 1) Remembering songs
 * 2) Hazing
 * 3) Short-term loan vs. Long-term loan
 * 4) List of Wikis Devoted to Fictional Works
 * 5) US Navy procedure when boarding a vessel
 * 6) God's Address
 * 7) Student Council Tax

= May 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 May 6


 * 1) Why won't my coworker leave me alone??
 * 2) Chamba Army of Distt Chamba of Himachal Pradesh
 * 3) Barbeque Chip Spices?
 * 4) Federal offense?
 * 5) Animated GIFs
 * 6) Halo that glows
 * 7) Airfare prices
 * 8) what is this classical music
 * 9) Change Cell Phone NUmber in USA

= May 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 May 7


 * 1) Bicylce Reviews
 * 2) Music Theory
 * 3) Why is there softcore porn on DeviantART?
 * 4) Modelling scams?
 * 5) Font rendering programmes
 * 6) What is this form of Internet humor called?
 * 7) How do seals impact other species?
 * 8) Date of publication?
 * 9) How can a patent apply to a locomotive paint scheme?
 * 10) Whopper
 * 11) Olympic half-brick tossing
 * 12) How long should you wait before you cheat on your girlfriend if she is in a coma?

= May 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 May 8


 * 1) LDS Church wordmark
 * 2) Name of Violin Song
 * 3) movie and video game ratings
 * 4) Does this make sense
 * 5) Paying for incoming calls and SMSes in the USA
 * 6) salami and penicillin
 * 7) Material lifecycle
 * 8) Media: to pay or not to pay
 * 9) Naming parliaments
 * 10) Wikipedia Coordinators
 * 11) How to Introduce Parents
 * 12) Graduation with Divorced Parents

= May 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 May 9


 * 1) Barnstar up for grabs
 * 2) Atheists on the internet
 * 3) Birthday Of Rabindranath Tagore
 * 4) Roses on Fire Helmets
 * 5) Confessions of a crap artist buyer
 * 6) NZ Landscapes
 * 7) Bug killer that plugs into the wall
 * 8) UK Smoking Ban
 * 9) 1997 honda accord 4 cyl crankshaft pulley removal

= May 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 May 10


 * 1) distinguished conduct medal
 * 2) online films
 * 3) Blocking Gmail Contacts
 * 4) archaeology
 * 5) Total sales and Revenue
 * 6) Worldwide child protection laws
 * 7) Woodlouse / Pill bug / Cheesybob
 * 8) Mosquitoes in the UK

= May 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 May 11


 * 1) Information About My Late Grandfather
 * 2) distinguished conduct medal
 * 3) confusion about oxidation
 * 4) Number lines in other cultures
 * 5) Avacado Tree Pruning
 * 6) With respect to the fields covered by this refdesk, what are the applications and benefits of a tree structure?

= May 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 May 12


 * 1) Hair Color
 * 2) Any skateboard or rollerblade fanatics here?
 * 3) Stupid toilet
 * 4) Share dealing - HELP

= May 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 May 13


 * 1) A few brain questions ....
 * 2) culture study
 * 3) Image I'm looking for; Putin, Russia
 * 4) how does the wiki-neutrality/accuracy template system work? MA dissertation
 * 5) one-child law in China
 * 6) gambling
 * 7) voldemort's last horcrux
 * 8) FBI WATCHLIST
 * 9) Financing a Cambridge Education
 * 10) Abbreviation UTC on Wikipedia
 * 11) Stupid Question

= May 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 May 14


 * 1) awkward question
 * 2) Physical Training
 * 3) EU fines Intel; why does Intel pay?
 * 4) company based tariffs ?
 * 5) Pentland South Pole Expedition
 * 6) Validity of Soviet passports
 * 7) How to disarm a bomb
 * 8) With gay male couples is it common for one to be the 'top' and one to be the 'bottom' or is 'switch' often the way it is done?
 * 9) largest lake in scotland?
 * 10) magma energy source

= May 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 May 15


 * 1) Ford Transmission
 * 2) Scanner Questions
 * 3) minister's daughter
 * 4) Czech gymnast with different names
 * 5) Paintball ban
 * 6) when do this years a-level exams finish?
 * 7) Sleeping on one's front

= May 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 May 16


 * 1) British Submarines
 * 2) Under a train
 * 3) archictect
 * 4) What has killed more americans, Swine Flu or Clowns?

= May 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 May 17


 * 1) Dogfish
 * 2) Product placement in children's TV
 * 3) Atheistic Existentialism and Ethics
 * 4) Most disabled person

= May 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 May 18


 * 1) Japanese Wind Bell (風鈴)
 * 2) Goth vs. Emo
 * 3) Monkeys
 * 4) nothing to see here
 * 5) Is this a scam?
 * 6) Buddhists
 * 7) Magic Eye
 * 8) Weird symbol on cameras
 * 9) After the Apocalypse...
 * 10) A profession question

= May 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 May 19


 * 1) song !?
 * 2) OR - Meaning
 * 3) Clocks
 * 4) Links on Talk Pages
 * 5) Company names
 * 6) US economy without population growth
 * 7) British House of Commons > Speaker's logo
 * 8) Cell phone as a component
 * 9) Metal box by the side of the road
 * 10) Humans born and died
 * 11) Do any Wikipedia mirrors do anything useful?
 * 12) What have I missed?
 * 13) When was Owen Hart's time of death?

= May 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 May 20


 * 1) Shop census in Pakistan
 * 2) fr:Boîte à meuh
 * 3) Digital zoom in digital cameras
 * 4) Gulet captain
 * 5) Clothing

= May 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 May 21


 * 1) A question about Silent Hill 4: The Room...
 * 2) Taking a Bicycle onto a Plane
 * 3) Most redirects?
 * 4) Weird Car Problem
 * 5) V sign for survival
 * 6) Is Popeye Banned in China?
 * 7) Where's this from?
 * 8) Reaction effect
 * 9) black "g $" stamp on 100 bill
 * 10) The Good Ship Lifestyle

= May 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 May 22


 * 1) Trees
 * 2) Utilitarianism, Moral Relativism, and Moral Absolutism
 * 3) Holes in survival knives
 * 4) simple maps
 * 5) "Obama Would Move Some Terror Detainees to US"
 * 6) buying desert boots
 * 7) Lost ID information
 * 8) National Diet Library

= May 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 May 23


 * 1) MMA fighters in a street fight
 * 2) The mother of all road trips
 * 3) rote learning vs. actual thinkinh
 * 4) Name of book
 * 5) logarithms
 * 6) Roadrash
 * 7) Currency sign amount
 * 8) aircraft pilot seat position

= May 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 May 24


 * 1) Background music
 * 2) University Transcripts (UK)
 * 3) online library
 * 4) Cigarette machines?
 * 5) Ferrari F430 spider
 * 6) Picture of Teufelsberg?
 * 7) Microeconomics homework question

= May 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 May 25


 * 1) SS Jackets Open
 * 2) Postmodern Humanism
 * 3) Voice actor
 * 4) 10 million and 1 billion articles
 * 5) Questions about paypal
 * 6) why is it we hear more stories about people being shot dead than animals?
 * 7) Private Eye Magazine - Eye Need...
 * 8) What the heck are these things?

= May 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 May 26


 * 1) Shoe Polish
 * 2) Utilitarianism
 * 3) Staple gun
 * 4) words that alternate hands on keyboard
 * 5) Recent temperatures in the city of Paris
 * 6) Psychology video
 * 7) US politicians education background
 * 8) Nike founder, Phil Knight, is a Portland, Oregon native.  I'm trying to find out precisely where he grew up in Portland

= May 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 May 27


 * 1) Résumé question
 * 2) Stopping the Car
 * 3) architect and anthropologist
 * 4) UK Driving License
 * 5) Wartime crossdressers
 * 6) Free as in FREE ringtones
 * 7) Public debt and deficit across all levels: US vs. Canada

= May 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 May 28


 * 1) Really obvious candidates for articles that don't exist yet
 * 2) 80s movie concerining the African Bushmen
 * 3) Worldwide population of Stuffed Animals ?
 * 4) A question about ePSXe...
 * 5) Walking from London to Edinburgh
 * 6) How many are there television stations in the world
 * 7) airplane pilots
 * 8) Kancamagus Highway
 * 9) Book Title
 * 10) short selling and hurting
 * 11) National Spelling Bee
 * 12) pits of gold
 * 13) How do you download "Whip it good" by Devo as a ring tone
 * 14) 241 South Tollway extension?

= May 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 May 29


 * 1) Diana Buttu Email Address
 * 2) Hills in Ireland
 * 3) architect
 * 4) King Kong sized Anime
 * 5) relay setting calculation for spaj 140 c
 * 6) I'm looking for roleplaying chat site for omni-roleplayers...
 * 7) Bridal Shower Gift Amount
 * 8) max speeding
 * 9) Torch the streets
 * 10) US bank safe deposit boxes
 * 11) Sports car vs truck engine
 * 12) Backgrounds specifically for Photoshopping
 * 13) Ahmadinejad vs. Mousavi

= May 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 May 30


 * 1) How is a photo like this taken?
 * 2) Buying a Bike
 * 3) 6E (triple wide) steel-toed leather work boots
 * 4) self-discipline for the lazy and uninspired?
 * 5) MySpace
 * 6) Privacy of A-Level module results
 * 7) Eaten by boa constrictor

= May 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2009 May 31


 * 1) Checkmate.
 * 2) British Lions
 * 3) UK Trains
 * 4) verifying ISSN
 * 5) brightness of LED flashlights
 * 6) Corporations in the US
 * 7) National Graduate School (U.S.) ?
 * 8) What country has the world's largest fishing fleet?