Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/December 2013

= December 1 = 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 = 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 = 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 = 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 = 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 = 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 = 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 = 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 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 December 9


 * 1) US troop deployments to Afghanistan

= December 10 = 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 = 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 = 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 = 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 = 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 = 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 = 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 = 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 = 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 = 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 = 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 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 December 21


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

= December 22 = 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 = 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 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 December 24


 * 1) Iraqis refugees in Syria
 * 2) Deadliest weapon

= December 25 = 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) [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2013 December 25#BOOK:_.5Bhttp:.2F.2Fwww.amazon.com.2FOslers-Web-Labyrinth-Syndrome-Epidemic.2Fdp.2F051770353X_Osler.27s_Web.5D_.281996.29|BOOK: Osler's Web (1996)]]
 * 4) Charitable Costs

= December 26 = 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 = 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 = 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 = 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 = 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 = 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 */