Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/December 2014

= December 1 = 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 = 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 = 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 = 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 = 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 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 December 6


 * 1) Ueno, Tokyo question

= December 7 = 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 = 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 = 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 = 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 = 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 = 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 = 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 = 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 = 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 = 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 = 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 = 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 = 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 = 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 = 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 = 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 = Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2014 December 23


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

= December 24 = 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 = 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 = 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 = 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 = 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 = 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
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 * 8) Or yehuda little Iraq israel

= December 30 = 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 = 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