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December 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 December 1

1. Prince Michael of Kent – Royal cypher
2. Religion of Oscar Wilde
3. Why did america invent the submarine during the rev. war?
4. Kalmar Union
5. Borders of U.S states
6. Copyright question
7. Did Arnold Böcklin paint a picture called "The Return"?
8. What is a scorching bicyclist?
9. Racism and mixed-race individuals
10. Pakistan liberal conservative
11. Rev James Blair, 1656 - 1743, Williamburg VA
12. Does fiction - novels and films - make us better persons?
13. Monetary exchange rate for US dollar circa 1900
14. Baptism-how many days after birth
15. Bangladesh Awami league Bangladeshi nationalist party
16. Tombstone orientation

December 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 December 2

1. Santa Clauses
2. 5-page phd thesis
3. Why is there no such thing as legal insurance? How the HELL do poor people pay for lawyers?
4. Were Adam and Eve Muslims?
5. Economics/statistics/policy question: Tendency for a scoring metric to be increasingly uncorrelated with a variable as that metric is emphasized by policy?
6. Median value of reminders
7. Francophobia
8. Online trending site
9. Buddhist iconography and Chinese fictional literature
10. Muslim belt in Toronto?
11. Gay king

December 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 December 3

1. A few questions about 1000 push-ups (press-ups)
2. what is this "Jewish-only roads" in Israel thing?
3. i look for notable/famous examples of parents doing child abuse
4. Junior Kings
5. Ten Commandments in Islam
6. Old flag
7. Foreign language
8. who are some people with disengeniuous careers? (having admitted it)

December 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 December 4

1. Taxation in the United Kingdom
2. coroners court transcripts in england
3. Extradition
4. Why not business closed down and in prison?
5. Predynastic Egypt
6. Punctuated vegetarianism
7. HMS Rawalpindi
8. Patent for business idea
9. Paper and pencil methods for managing or planning small projects
10. Land property
11. Purchase of a grave plot in a cemetery

December 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 December 5

1. Duchy of Lorraine
2. The financial bailout - US
3. There seems to be a statistical pickle here
4. Are North Korean press releases written in English?
5. Two Questions That Are Not Legal Advice
6. Mexico question
7. Riverside CA history
8. Tibetan football
9. Charles Bernard "Charlie" Rangel
10. Wikipedia user with expertise on ethnic groups wanted for mediation
11. Requesting Wikipedia entry for the Cleveland Division of Fire in Cleveland, Ohio
12. Outcome of the Bed Intruder crime?

December 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 December 6

1. Questions about immigration
2. The Amish have been 100 years behind us. The Model T started 102 years ago. Do they drive them now?
3. Pro bono Fair Use consultation? (US, online)
4. 2010 Asian Games - why was Kuwait the Olympic Athletes of Kuwait or something like that?
5. Any evidence that organisations with zero secrecy would be impossible?

December 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 December 7

1. Knighthoods, peerages, Bob Geldof et al
2. Looking for a sci-fi book...
3. Proquest Archiver
4. Carnival as a reversal of the usual order
5. Getting a payday loan
6. Using Aggadah (Nonlegal literature) of Talmud literature as a research tool

December 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 December 8

1. Coronation
2. Do leaked US government documents carry intellectual property rights?
3. Is there an equivalent to the board of governor's waiver fee for the UC/CSU system?
4. Irrationalist atheism?
5. Gustave Paul Cluseret
6. breakfast food

December 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 December 9

1. When did privacy become sacrosanct?
2. planning frameworks in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland
3. Death of King Henry VI of England
4. Myth of Venice born whole from the Aegean or Adriatic?
5. African-American names
6. POW Camps in WW2 Germany - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalag_Luft_III#The_.22Great_Escape.22
7. did people used to think the moon changes shape?

December 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 December 10

1. Who was Edith Macy? I can only find info on a conference center that bears her name.
2. British Monarch Coronation
3. Somali names
4. Why can't I find street gangs in Compton, CA on Google StreetView?
5. Identify a 18th-century painting of three sisters
6. 'Free' education that's too expensive
7. Are mobbing victims sometimes at fault?
8. taiwan, singapore, education
9. Who was the first actress in Germany?

December 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 December 11

1. Horses in Michael Clayton
2. Military Hardware in Use by the Guomindang in late 1930s
3. Kumari Fulbright details?
4. East Polynesian contact with mainland Australia
5. Columbus

December 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 December 12

1. Font sizes
2. Captain Alatriste
3. Christmas gifts
4. Which century were beds used?
5. Why the Christian population isn't growing in India?
6. Birthdate of Isabelle of Hainault
7. The earliest sunset
8. Valdemar III of Denmark
9. Somali dance niiko

December 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 December 13

1. The Big Bang Theory
2. Issue with research project and annonymity....
3. 3D in China?
4. Donaghcloney, County Down
5. The hand in the coat
6. Federal Reserve Banks private or public
7. lifestyle forum for living better?
8. Neal Stephenson blurb
9. List of dances in India
10. Party affiliation statistics for career federal civil servants in US.
11. Jesus in a manger
12. Punishment for sexual traitors in 1944-45 after WWII ?
13. French Military in First and Second World Wars

December 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 December 14

1. 1960 U-2 Incident
2. Term for fifty-US-states-and-DC-and-nothing-more?
3. Global Warming
4. Extradition (cont.)
5. "Extension" of unemployment benefit as part of "Bush tax cuts" extension deal
6. Why so little proselytizing in airports?
7. Baby pictures of Jesus Christ
8. Looking for new authors: What do I read next?
9. governance of france
10. Cosmonaut Dmitry Kondratyev
11. Writing with sources from multiple languages
12. Dutch arrest of WikiLeaks supporters

December 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 December 15

1. Luger pistol
2. Why are the poor dirty? It's not because it's expensive...
3. gender socialisation.
4. University by GRE or other standardized test
5. Several questions about how things worked in a medieval barony
6. What distinguishes two identical objects?
7. Angels

December 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 December 16

1. When did Germaine de Staël begin?
2. Obama + the GOP
3. Is the Maid of the Mist exclusive?
4. Japan - The Emperor's Birthday
5. What countries keep the exact number of their executions a state secret and why?
6. Legal question
7. things to do with the right roommate to increase my quality of living?
8. Questions about prohibitions in Sikhism
9. Icelandic sagas at the time of Christopher Columbus
10. What would happen if the United States Congress all died?
11. Why is the OED online so expensive?
12. Amount present in banks
13. First Amendment violation?

December 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 December 17

1. Terrorist attack on Washington
2. Date for Japanese painting
3. How can I share my Christmas wish with the whole world?

December 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 December 18

1. Angels (cont.)
2. do kurds descend from the aryans?
3. Median PPP income for people in the US and UK
4. Ask?
5. Travel scanners

December 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 December 19

1. Historical Latin names for French cities
2. What happens if the U.S. President and Vice President both die and none of the line of succession were born in the United States?
3. Stock Market Database
4. when the deserters came home from Canada
5. How far and how fast can a horse travel?
6. What would a medieval peasant do during winter and off-season?
7. King Lear
8. Expensive holidays for UK delinquents
9. Increasing retirement age in the UK but keeping the rent subsidy for council tenants
10. Outdoor furnace laws
11. Degrees of friendship
12. Christian Nihilism

December 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 December 20

1. 9/11 attacks
2. How many prisoners are atheist?
3. How do you scape nihilism?
4. Slave
5. Christmas Day for Jewish families
6. Eternal Hell, yet Resurrection of the dead too

December 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 December 21

1. Semi-semitic Greeks
2. specific type of sobriquet
3. Politics
4. Is that a fact ?
5. Any personal information about bordyguards of the russian Tzar Nikolay II, at least in the period of 1890-1905?
6. Irish mythology - boy with long fingers
7. Allegations against Julian Assange
8. Icebox of Canada

December 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 December 22

1. Diaries
2. The Bible in modern prose
3. Israel demographics
4. Dollars Spent
5. True Cross
6. Why would someone need wikileaks?
7. compare sensory overload of aspies with epileptic seizures?
8. incidence among different cultures of regularly utilizing the other insertion during heterosexual amorous activities
9. Myths, superstitions and reality
10. Humid Continental Climate North America
11. Gift wrapping

December 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 December 23

1. how old was Paris Hilton in the sex videos?
2. Christina of Denmark
3. What would be the health effects (and effects on mental alertness) of the following diet for an obese Chinese-Singaporean?
4. Least famous US president
5. Christian and Frederick
6. UK almond sugar cookie recipe
7. Which country has some 30 odd cities/towns with the same name
8. Car wagon full of Iron Crosses
9. Is a picture where my face is on my copyright or intellectual property?
10. How money affects performance
11. Geography question --
12. Who is the Supervisor's supervisor?

December 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 December 24

1. Property taxes
2. Hindu girl speech
3. cold in summer and hot in winter
4. Hereditary monarchy
5. what is the difference between a muslim and a jude?
6. Evaluating worth of murder's memoirs
7. What is the present educational canon?
8. Geography /History question
9. Torontonian Enclaves
10. International Phone Call
11. Las Vegas "comps"
12. Letter from America

December 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 December 25

1. Is there any confirmation about XAT 2011 pattern?
2. the Catholic Church and Santa Claus

December 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 December 26

1. Nebuchadnezzar II a Bahraini?
2. Hanseatic Republic
3. Name That Poet/Poem, If You Like.
4. Censorship of WikiLeaks

December 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 December 27

1. is it really crass to make out at a cafe?
2. What was the largest U.S. company in 1776?
3. AICTE accreditation
4. 2010 Harry Reid budget bill lookup?
5. Yale M. A.
6. SOmalis in North America
7. American WWII newspaper
8. australian law and the paparazzi
9. POLITICAL QUESTION: how do we find the right amount of government regulation without stifling business and making them do too much tax
10. Why picas?

December 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 December 28

1. UN peacekeepers Bangladesh Sierra Leone
2. Popular names for governments
3. Tallest vice president?
4. Chopin's Ballade No.1
5. Before a fixed retirement age
6. Abraham Lincoln comparative height
7. Why "What Is The Best Philosophy?" Is A Difficult Question

December 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 December 29

1. Catholic Communion Practices
2. legal
3. 2nd Book on History of Roosevelt NY
4. why Parliament?
5. Quote
6. Golden Jubilee guest lists
7. US VP.
8. The pagan festival of Saturna (not Saturnalia)

December 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 December 30

1. Giants Ninepin and Thunder
2. American descendants of English royalty and nobility
3. poems' unknown authors
4. Price of infinite goods
5. interesting geography/GK question
6. economy versus society
7. cap tossing at graduation
8. Which English queen consort had the noblest pedigree?
9. House names
10. English universities: teaching in cosy private rooms

December 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2010 December 31

1. Weddings on a Sunday
2. Buying a set of pencils for artists
3. Types of conservatism
4. immigration