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December 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 December 1

1. Rene Levesque extramarital affairs
2. St Vincent churches in the USA
3. What can most accurately be said about optimal working hours?
4. Escorts in London
5. Are American pilots' letters being censored during WW2?
6. Sacred sword (preah khan) of Khmer king Suryavarman_II (Paramavishnuloka)

December 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 December 2

1. European Fairy Tales
2. Critical Theorists and Mathematical Sociology
3. Congressmen from the District of Columbia
4. Hundred Years' War, Anglo-Spanish War, Anglo-Dutch Wars, War of 1812, Mexican-American War, Spanish-American War
5. When did "London" start to refer to areas outside of the City of London, and why?
6. What is the youngest city in the world?
7. Entering the Kaaba?
8. France's time zone

December 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 December 3

1. Caracalla's hair color?
2. Swiss Guards and the Pope
3. Pencil it in. It's gonna be one hell of party.
4. U.S. international flight compensation?
5. Is a sacristan in the Catholic church allowed to marry?

December 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 December 4

1. Pirate capture of a man-of-war
2. US conference of Catholic Bishops and Abortion
3. Judgment Day (Last Judgment).

December 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 December 5

1. Is Day of the Dead 1, 2, or 3 days long?
2. Mexican dessert cube
3. Help finding Lute Song (琵琶記/pipa ji) French translation by A. P. L. Bazin
4. Susan Sontag quote
5. Simon Rattle
6. Words for traitors against independence of a nation
7. census scared or not allowed to publish ethnicity and religion
8. Muslim majority African states has non-Muslim leader since independence
9. House of Cards
10. US presidential bill signings
11. Repenting.
12. Hell.
13. 21st Century Novels with Very High (1000+) Lexile Scores
14. Dishes of Arab World

December 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 December 6

1. US female voter turnout in 1920 and 1924
2. Largest sunken shipment of computers
3. Can you resolve these two conflicting studies?
4. historical events since 1913
5. Identifying wallpaper pattern
6. Quotes on the cross-race effect
7. House of Lords maiden speech
8. Amish
9. Urban Percentage of Germany's Total Population in or Around 1933
10. Porn vs. prostitution

December 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 December 7

1. Are there any aging adopted parents over the age of 60 with adopted kids in their homes under 19?
2. Devolution of federal power in India

December 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 December 8

1. Rear Admiral Lucien Young
2. Trying to find poem
3. What do you call the set of ideas and theories that question the idea that a book can be 'about' something?

December 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 December 9

1. US troop deployments to Afghanistan

December 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 December 10

1. history
2. Division of freedom
3. I want a critical analysis of different poems of English literature
4. Any good recent UFO encyclopedia?

December 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 December 11

1. Mandela movie "Long Walk to Freedom" - accuracy?
2. Christmas tree
3. When are the best and worst times of year to start an okcupid profile?

December 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 December 12

1. measuring Mixed Hispanic ancestry
2. Middle name
3. feline sensation plush toys
4. Medieval city density
5. Axis partition of Asia

December 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 December 13

1. President Obama’s children's racial identity
2. Michelle Obama and Helle Thorning-Schmidt
3. Cambridge applications

December 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 December 14

1. Who initially owns newly printed US money?
2. Travel Accounts to Tahiti or Society Islands in the 1880s or 1890s

December 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 December 15

1. Ford, DuPont, Apple, Microsoft, PayPal, Amazon, Facebook.....
2. Ownerless land under common law
3. Dangerous Goods Emergency Kit on aircraft

December 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 December 16

1. Healthcare - Socialized or Privatized?
2. Help figuring out original source for James Dubro
3. Great British Novel
4. Productivity

December 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 December 17

1. Milestone as First Lady
2. Why has no person or country succeeded at conquering the world?
3. When was Last Call Return (*69) introduced?

December 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 December 18

1. Epistemology of Wikipedia
2. Diplomatic Immunity and the arrest of Devyani Khobragade
3. Senate resolutions during the Clinton impeachment trial

December 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 December 19

1. Forums & diplomatic immunity
2. Theology in art question
3. Jesus King in Heaven
4. Collective bargaining and quality assurance

December 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 December 20

1. Babylonian Method Of Calculating Roots
2. Which was the first recognized country ?
3. Which US presidents opposed or supported the death penalty?
4. Mannfred of Sicily

December 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 December 21

1. Latin as university language
2. Cairo Geniza question
3. Rothschild
4. Otto of Wittelsbach

December 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 December 22

1. What's the difference between sociopath and psychopath?
2. Last of the House of Trastámara
3. First Modern State?
4. Paranormal auras

December 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 December 23

1. Copyrights on government works.
2. Geography / history question
3. Cape Colony Parliament
4. Russian nobility
5. Hanover College, New York

December 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 December 24

1. Iraqis refugees in Syria
2. Deadliest weapon

December 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 December 25

1. Crime rate of Canadian blacks versus American blacks
2. Folklore of Romania, link The 12 Sisters and the Demon Bride
3. BOOK: [http://www.amazon.com/Oslers-Web-Labyrinth-Syndrome-Epidemic/dp/051770353X Osler's Web] (1996)
4. Charitable Costs

December 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 December 26

1. Leeward Island missionaries
2. Peterborough Katherine of Aragon
3. Did Ayn Rand ever address this question?
4. Independent and unaligned politicians in Australia

December 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 December 27

1. School forms
2. Can I create an article on Shinzo Abe's visit to the war shrine?
3. What is the Greek myth about Alcyone who waited for her loves' return at Alcyonian Lake?
4. NASCAR and Pickaninny
5. British Consul at Tahiti who traveled to Raiatea

December 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 December 28

1. out of curiosity, what could inventors do who didn't have enough funding for full patent application around the one-year mark after filing a Provisional Patent (which expires after one year)?
2. the term of an obsessive dealing with beauty
3. Names of Rome

December 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 December 29

1. Technical speaking is the African continent or any countries that third world considered to be western countries?
2. Santa Chiara Church
3. Excommunication
4. 1872 Round the World Tour
5. Why Are European Countries (With the Exception of Russia) Relatively Small?
6. Might US states extend executive office terms?
7. During the WWII, were more decisive battles before 1942 or after?

December 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 December 30

1. Hearing, but not comprehending.
2. Louis of Spain
3. Modern War Criminals
4. Filip Jan
5. N.W. Dible - Kansas City Star
6. Emotion of sympathy

December 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 December 31

1. Who was the last Head of State to directly command Field Armies?
2. Combine harvester identification
3. Alice Munro's short story about high school
4. New Years
5. /* Cristian Leonel Garcia, you are invited to the Teahouse */