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December 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 December 1

1. Oldest African American vote
2. Air Canada strikes
3. What counts towards GDP?
4. Legal term for ambiguous clause interpreted strictly
5. Where do White Men find their Asian Wives?
6. Famous black Americans named after famous whites
7. Metropole Hotel, Belfast
8. Midrash Citation Help?
9. Trilingualism in Pakistan and India
10. Robin Hood's king
11. When/ if science proves there is no god or that god is not necessary
12. Windows or open square on boat?

December 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 December 2

1. Illustration identification
2. Stations of the Cross at Pájara
3. Nothing
4. Story about a child who enjoys pain
5. Women allowed to study in Portugal
6. What is the difference between "Christian Fundamentalist" vs. "Conservative Christian" vs. "Christian Right"?
7. Specific Walmart Profit Margin Question
8. A little incident in the library

December 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 December 3

1. Taiwan (ROC) presidential debate
2. Black people of Pacific
3. Israeli fighter pilots tested when young?
4. Brideshead Revisited reference
5. Contribution of Eating to Cholesterol Levels
6. Ulster Protestants and the Great Famine
7. Greater Toronto Area politicians of visible minority background
8. LGBT adoption and lack of male/female role model
9. International law - military action against Iran
10. Who did Poe read?
11. Reply of the Sultan to the Zaporozhians
12. Why is the United States Constitution so short?

December 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 December 4

1. Names of wars in the USA
2. Buongiorno ?
3. Why do so many Europeans hate Gypsies so much?
4. GK question -- Business , Brands, companies
5. List of 1996 Supreme Court of Canada decisions in Wikipedia
6. Tui Manuʻa Elisala
7. Monotheism & Old Testament
8. Was there any attempt to link Constantinople to the myth of Rome's Trojan origins?
9. Why academics don't contribute to Wikipedia
10. Were Monaco or part of Switzerland ever part of an Arab caliphate?

December 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 December 5

1. Last woman hanged in thew UK?
2. Budget cuts and "creating efficiencies"
3. plush version
4. Yugoslav navy
5. Christmas tree

December 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 December 6

1. World War Three
2. Stalin speaking Georgian
3. I need to find the cheapest community college in Kansas.
4. Josef Bühler's foot
5. Other name on the second term's ballot

December 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 December 7

1. Gay stereotypes
2. Royal republicanism
3. 1990 Canterbury vs Wellington
4. When is consent given to be governed?
5. Do you need faith to live?

December 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 December 8

1. Languages of Belgium, Luxembourg and Switzerland
2. Partial globe
3. Syria vs France
4. Ottoman Sudan?
5. Demographics South Africa
6. Difference between generic and brand-name guidelines for biologics
7. Afghanistan time

December 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 December 9

1. Germanic people nations Roman Catholic and Protestant
2. How to write well
3. TRADOCtrine
4. Tui Manuʻa Elisala
5. What type of military equipment did the Qing use during the Opium Wars?
6. monarchs of Arabian Gulf
7. Looking for Moroccan princess married to Lebanese
8. Black man speaketh with forked tongue (X-Factor)
9. Empress Dowager Bo's tomb

December 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 December 10

1. Question Moved to Languages Desk
2. 1930 Census Cook Co, Illinois, USA
3. Liberal Party of Canada counterparts
4. Saudi Arabian Airlines headquarters
5. republican party vs democrat party (US)

December 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 December 11

1. Grand OLD Party?
2. Interest on gold accounts?
3. Peru/Fujimori bio
4. Thomas Nast and His Terrifying Santa
5. Gender of Indian River Names
6. Andrew Johnson and overthrow plot
7. biography of an artist
8. History of DC Voting Rights

December 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 December 12

1. Japanese mythology
2. Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee Painting
3. Pro-islam Parties in Europe
4. Casualties among USCT during ACW (regarding casualties among white troops)
5. Building options reccomendations
6. GK Question
7. African leaders
8. Who Built the Pyramids?
9. Muslim empires Europe
10. Elevating a principality to a kingdom

December 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 December 13

1. Mayan inheritence Customs
2. Help in identifying antiquity

December 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 December 14

1. How are aerial victories recorded?
2. Wikipedia and calendars
3. UK Pension Pot
4. Wad Hijam in Sudan
5. Being easily offended

December 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 December 15

1. Animal representations of countries
2. Military monuments in 18th century British India
3. IQ test for research purposes

December 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 December 16

1. Camila
2. Bank and Credit Union
3. Converting from musical notation to SI units
4. Zju-27, Zu-27 or Sic-27
5. Wearing a tartan
6. European monarchs relating to Queen Elizabeth II of UK

December 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 December 17

1. Quote
2. Dream dictionaries
3. Buddhist schools
4. Charles IV of the United Kingdom

December 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 December 18

1. Human Relationships
2. Attention span
3. Munich, Tennessee
4. UKIP multiculturalism
5. The most intriguing quotation in Genesis
6. Is there a reason why monotheism is so popular in society?
7. Why the English Wikipedia is racist in some articles?

December 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 December 19

1. Stolen credit card used at USPS
2. USA presidential veto override
3. memories of a bygone business
4. Street number required for defunct Belfast pub
5. Languages of the Jeberti
6. Variability in crime rates
7. Nazism and Occultism
8. Atheism in a novel
9. Kingdom of Imereti

December 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 December 20

1. Why'd it take so long for books (codex form) to be invented?
2. Detectives series Scandanavia England Netherlands Belgium
3. Louis XIIII
4. Pyongyang Overwhelmed with Grief at Demise of Kim Jong Il
5. Name origins
6. to know about humanity and sexual questions
7. Convicting John Doe
8. Bharatiya Janata Party Khalistan movement
9. Pro-violence murals in Northern Ireland
10. Teeny tiny books
11. Arguments for Anti-Homosexuality

December 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 December 21

1. Who was the first child born into a European family in an American Colony?
2. Letter Zyu
3. Looking for info on painter Lauritz Holst
4. North Korea
5. religious beliefs concerning man made perfumes
6. Sex offender's "the talk" with neighbours
7. MLA citation style
8. That half trillion

December 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 December 22

1. Economic questions
2. Christian converts
3. citations
4. Quest plot
5. Word for Male Orgasm in Pre-Tudor England
6. Norman D. Hill
7. New Mexico birth certificates

December 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 December 23

1. Religious divisions: leadership vs dogma
2. Who will become president of the United States if....
3. Was Henry Ward Beecher colonel in an USCT regiment ?
4. What significance does voter registration have in the US, and is your registration public?

December 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 December 24

1. Anonymous Authors
2. James Cook's feather cloak(s)
3. Der Holle Rache

December 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 December 25

1. Count Ciano
2. Arguments against 'religion provides support' or 'religion provides a sense of community'
3. Democratic roosters
4. When was the regency?
5. Hawaiian Islands
6. Last British royal to die abroad before Diana
7. Elizabethan fiction and the Reformation

December 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 December 26

1. Haughty Byzantines
2. mystery novel dealing multiculturalism
3. Scandinavian mystery writers
4. Psychology textbook recommendation
5. Westernmost naval battle of the American Revolution
6. Which Earl of Northumberland?

December 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 December 27

1. About US Congress
2. How popular is the emperor in Japan?
3. How did the descendants of Cain survive the flood?
4. Sir Arthur E Turner-Thomas VC KG
5. Parents who left their children behind in the care of family while moving to another country
6. female scholars of Islam
7. Afro-Latin Americans slavery
8. A taxable value of two geld units
9. Mayan Civilization and Technology?

December 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 December 28

1. French Revolution with New France
2. US Congress
3. Police stealing soda in Hilltop Mall
4. What's it called?
5. Islamic Africa empires
6. Conspirator in the Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand who later became a WW2 Tito partisan?
7. Named air battles

December 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 December 29

1. Would anyone kindly explain how North Korea even OBTAINED Detroit iron?
2. Imprisonment and voting rights
3. US President vs. US Congress
4. Bedroom window
5. Amadeus
6. Bosnian election

December 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 December 30

1. US government
2. Rebecca (novel)
3. ISBNs
4. Louisiana Native Guards in Pascagoula (09-4-1863) :?
5. Cut-up technique
6. Towns which are surrounded by larger towns

December 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2011 December 31

1. Repercussions of Huguenot
2. Old editions of Old Farmer's Almanac
3. Did William A. Wallace write his onwn memorial address?
4. From any well-known business (offline and on), what can we get for free (or a good discount) on our birthdays?
5. Source of a Quotation by Dietrich von Hildebrand
6. India-China border
7. US Congress (predictor)
8. Accessible Translations