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December 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 December 1

1. Medieval Future and other furture thoughts
2. Luck of the Irish
3. what's the name of the person who convinced Genghis Khan to not kill off the chinese?
4. high crimes and misdemeanors
5. audio hearing-
6. Language sophistication and its role on the development of society.

December 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 December 2

1. Living former heads of government
2. What is the swirliy falcon thing?
3. Your help requested for humor in pedagogy
4. Guy Fawkes Night
5. Titles of Nobility Amendment: Cardinals
6. Inger Eriksdatter

December 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 December 3

1. Reason behind American religiosity compared to other developed nations?
2. When did David Irving lose respect as a mainstream historian?
3. Military outfits & curves
4. Is that a fallacy?
5. Why do so many anglicized biblical names end in -ah?

December 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 December 4

1. Mockingbird
2. what is the site for calculating drink/drug intake?
3. Is the use of the word "autological" in the following sentence correct?
4. First occurrence of a play within a play/a story within a story?
5. Chairing multi party meetings
6. Story in which the focal character is a protagonist but the narrator is an antagonist
7. Germany and its former colonies

December 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 December 5

1. Is the Vermont/New Hampshire boundary the only exception to this rule?
2. Holland Tunnel Headquarters and Maintenance Building
3. Heian period Japanese painting

December 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 December 6

1. Ueno, Tokyo question

December 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 December 7

1. Correct populations of Armenian cities
2. Shang Dynasty cowrie shells
3. A setting of the Nunc Dimittis
4. 'All in one article' sought
5. Mirror Writing - Da Vinci

December 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 December 8

1. Admiral Jacobzoon?
2. UK graduate prospects a few years after graduation
3. Negro
4. How come right-to-left writing systems do exist at all?
5. Need the name of a movie

December 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 December 9

1. Do Europeans consume more offal meat than European-Americans or European-Australians?
2. Did the Church know about child marriages that were going on during Shakespeare's time or do anything about it?
3. Spiritual tradition
4. Recognize this building?
5. Identify the fashion predecessor of Worth!
6. Fak - Polynesian language?

December 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 December 10

1. New Zealand Royal Assent
2. Possibly famous people in Tokyo
3. Why is there demand for new art?
4. Book ID (nonsense verse about birds)
5. Reference and annotation for a "Story"

December 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 December 11

1. parks in canadian largest cities and Ontario largest cities
2. Toronto parks benches
3. Trying to locate title of book I read a couple years ago
4. Israel - Palestine, China - Tibet
5. the Queen overruling a Governor of a realm
6. Legal tactic - winning lawsuits by subjecting the opposition to a legal fee burden that they cannot shoulder
7. Basilica of St Denis

December 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 December 12

1. Jean Fouquet's Martyrdom of Saint Apollonia: What is this guy doing?
2. Hand-gesture meanings in mediaeval MSS?
3. Wife lawyer representing husband in court case?

December 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 December 13

1. Colorado Prop 64
2. How commonly do Greek-Americans give pre-Christian Greek names (NOT Biblical names or Christian names) to their children?
3. is it better to do the wrong thing for the right reasons or the right thing for the wrong reasons?
4. What's MPAA's beef with "Fujian"?

December 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 December 14

1. Dabbling in historical research
2. Science
3. Waltzing Matilda singer in On the Beach
4. Is lying effective in western politics?

December 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 December 15

1. Translation from Middle French
2. Which democratically elected national leaders throughout history committed treason?
3. University Club, Honolulu
4. Do illegitimate children have to be born to unmarried parents?
5. Are Eugène Diomi Ndongala Nzomambu and Eugène Diomi Ndongala the same person?
6. Don't Just Stand There
7. Why did Lenten traditions become less strict over time?

December 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 December 16

1. website that shows number of votes to gain a seat in parliament close party list
2. Iorwerth ap Owain ap Caradog
3. What do people do if they share the same name with a criminal?
4. Rotating ownership as a means of evading the law
5. Can a cathedral be a grass hut?
6. How did Anglican cathedrals arrive in China?
7. Do the U.S. and China make efforts to secure Hawaii's affections?

December 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 December 17

1. Noncitizen?
2. Fortune telling’s of legendary folks
3. Hanukkah on the 17th?
4. who came up with the dining philosophers problem?

December 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 December 18

1. Does colorado amendment 64 prevent marijuana from being carried out of the state?
2. Holocaust:
3. Finnish/Russian border map question

December 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 December 19

1. Novella in English?
2. Background checking/fingerprinting and foreign criminal records
3. How do I navigate the Quran?
4. Bolshevik statistics

December 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 December 20

1. Do average German people speak English?
2. where does the government get the money to pay maturing T-Bills?
3. NOT about wealth: exact way and point the money supply increases
4. Gurkha soldier language issues

December 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 December 21

1. Prehistoric wars
2. Who is the minister Nelson Mandela names in this interview?
3. Hierarchy in the Roman Catholic Church between cardinal and archbishop

December 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 December 22

1. Can someone explain this apparent evidence of time-travel? As you'd see in this link, an ipod shows up in the 1650s.
2. Danish Act of Succession
3. 5th Amendment and Miranda Rights

December 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 December 23

1. England & Wales Police Structure
2. Southwest Church, Windsor, Ont.

December 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 December 24

1. Oil price drop - Saudi Arabia & USA
2. Chinese Buddhism history question
3. Where can I find the Virgin Mary in a contemporary Catholic Church?
4. Did anyone ever make a story like this (probably don't read if you've lost someone) or who knows, maybe there's an Aarne-Thompson number for this exact story
5. Is there an age limit to join the monastery?
6. "Holy Spirit" in Greek Gospels

December 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 December 25

1. Christmas Day moon eclipse
2. Who is the audience in a Roman Catholic funeral mass?

December 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 December 26

1. similarities in Judaism and Shi'a Islam
2. Why did Greek change so little?
3. Quality of mouth (ancient greek)
4. Did the medieval church do anything to limit the number of abandoned, unwanted children?
5. Syed Shah Nasiruddin (Sipah Salar)

December 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 December 27

1. Threats against government officials, internationally
2. Senior management In large corporations
3. Church vs social security in the US
4. Crime vs Offence in England and Wales
5. How does Christianity and Islam determine the religion of offspring?

December 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 December 28

1. Radetzky′s politics
2. Racism in Jamaica
3. Mythology-Xena question
4. Currnet ethnic cleansing of Christians in the Middle East - is there an article about it?
5. Use of baptismal certificates
6. roads forming shape in cities
7. Given all the remarkable advances in technology, how is it possible that a major airliner can disappear without a trace?

December 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 December 29

1. Why aren't iron, steel, iron ore, electronics-grade silicon, uranium and sand or basic plate glass prices more prominent?
2. The age of Caribbean ascendancy
3. Prevention of shoplifting and theft while using self-checkout lanes in a supermarket
4. Preparing potatoes in Ireland the 1840's.
5. Classification of art collections
6. Sexual Offences in England & Wales
7. [http://www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from=RUB&to=USD&view=1M] (Currency exchange rate stability)
8. Or yehuda little Iraq israel

December 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 December 30

1. Tagore poem
2. Japan in World War 2
3. What was the rationale behind selling indulgences just prior to the Luther's Reformation?
4. All-green flag on early 17th century Spanish warship
5. Inheritance System in Pride and Prejudice (19th Century Inheritance System)
6. What would've happened if a centrist became president instead of Batista?
7. Duty managers in retail/hospitality/leisure/travel/transport industries
8. Justifications for the different legal treatment of physical mail and email

December 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 December 31

1. Nicholas Poussin Seven Sacraments
2. "the black community"
3. Which non-Western Hemisphere countries were federations between 1815 and 1914?
4. Who is the "head of household" in Martin Luther's Small Catechism?
5. Reinterpretation of the UNSC abstention count
6. The 1967 6 day war causes- according to Richard B. Parker
7. Use of "Royal We" personal pronoun by Japanese Emperors
8. Jewish Customs