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December 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 December 1

1. Muslim nations Snow
2. John Mix Stanley in Hawaii
3. What is the approach in political science that do not focus on the rigorous mathematical empirical methods?
4. professions where thinking logically is a disadvantage
5. geometrical buildings
6. Burke's Landed Gentry 2003 ed. Murdoch family
7. With all the due respect, can we say that these countries are not completely independent?
8. The Aroche city

December 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 December 2

1. Francis Xavier
2. Do many of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas not just Canada, USA and Greenland have Mongoloid features and are of Oriental origin?
3. What can Israel do now after the setback at the UN?
4. Beatification of Sancha of León

December 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 December 3

1. Fasting on 13, 14 and/or 15 day of lunar month if falls on Friday
2. error in article on German census?
3. Of all geographical misconceptions...
4. 1918 influenza epidemic in Tahiti
5. public access to criminal records
6. M. Brun
7. Name of a famous company

December 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 December 4

1. staple food
2. Gates, Jobs, Dell and Zuckerberg
3. Can Michael J. Fox vote in both the U.S. and Canada?
4. Question regarding citizenships
5. A Poem
6. Governor General of Canada
7. Mona Lisa Interpretation
8. Creative Sales Strategy
9. French Taxes

December 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 December 5

1. Does Buddhism teach no fear/ no hope?
2. looking for a song
3. Are there more rooms or people?
4. Why are murder followed by suicide so common in our country?
5. Artur Carlos de Barros Basto - the name conversation

December 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 December 6

1. Political Science is always misconceived as law or legalistic in nature.
2. List of TIME Magazine's 100 most influential people of the 20th century
3. online payment methods
4. Was Amenhotep IV Nefertiti 's cousin?
5. for a debut novelist
6. Scranton
7. Aside from pragmatism what other philosophic tradition criticize the usefulness of formal logic?
8. Is it wrong to think that the candidate who wins California will likely be the next President?
9. Can someone be a Zionist if he's not a Jew?
10. Lanihau: Sources on Kauaian History
11. Bible as inerrant/infallible/authoritative/etc.?
12. Weren't Nazi party members forced to have at least four children?
13. crazy babbling
14. Why do some people say Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East?
15. Propaganda in schools
16. A Kipling short story

December 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 December 7

1. French Admiral Serre
2. Relatives and Child Support
3. Gun Selling Question
4. Is this theft?
5. Persons assassinated in open cars
6. This is a philosophy question, but how someone killed themselves in the future for example if Marty_McFly from Back_to_the_Future_(franchise) kills his future self would it murder or suicide?
7. 2012 Egypt Constitution Referendum: what percentage of what counts as "passed"?
8. where to find the next steve jobs
9. Scottish poetry style
10. Tiny countries in the Pacific
11. heir to the throne
12. Illegitimate children of Wm the 1st of Normandy
13. The Nazi regime and its killing of the disabled
14. US congressional lunch breaks

December 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 December 8

1. Tennessee Williams Cause of Death
2. Israeli election 2009 map
3. Sodom and Gomorrah
4. What work is Joe Haldeman referring to regarding James Tiptree, Jr. (comically wrong, zero-g onanism)?
5. Computer Scientists and Ayn Rand
6. Did any Japanese historic sources describe or comment on Minamoto no Yoshitsune's tactics in the Battle of Dan-no-ura?
7. 325 BC
8. Lebanese districts and constituencies in 1968
9. Would an invasion of America be impossible considering the heavily armed American people?
10. I want a phone interview with the Governor General of Canada, did I make it wrong?
11. Syria (moved form the Science RD)
12. Buddhism and mobbing
13. Quiz question...Connect
14. Can an LLC be tax-exempt?

December 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 December 9

1. Is this article wrong in its assertion about analytic and synthetic distinction?
2. Big government
3. Beach nourishment and coastal Armoring in the USA
4. Is it true that Ted Bundy helped police catch Gary Ridgway?
5. In Christianity, is possible to see heaven and hell as just states of mind?
6. Seleucid Empire
7. Almanach de Gotha
8. book about Shas party of Israel and Meretz
9. Hugo Chavez's successor
10. Fallacy: A isn't that bad, because B did bad things, too.

December 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 December 10

1. Presumption of innocence and the Nazis
2. George V of Hanover
3. Taş Suret
4. statute of limitatations myth of "riding it out"
5. Philip M. Parker's 'outlook' and 'report' books...
6. Solar panel dumping
7. clearing up confusion about a return voyage and scrapping

December 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 December 11

1. Legal advise question
2. States vs. territories in Australia
3. North Korean civilian war dead
4. fiction publishing/copyright
5. telling the right kinds of lies
6. Northern Ireland - loyalist violence and the police
7. Outsourcing
8. Uganda and its gun policy
9. Battle of Radzymin (1920) - Content defaced by a malicious editor.
10. Overturning territorial laws

December 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 December 12

1. Belgian counterparts to Conservative Party UK, UMP, PDL, People's Spain and Social democrat portugal
2. Election symbols of each party of each nation
3. Benjamin Franklin's signature
4. Did the USSR collect taxes?
5. feline Internet sensation
6. Alternative lifestyle
7. Methodist monarchs
8. Electric chair
9. Hillerman Navajo plot sequence
10. There's a mistake on Marshall McLuhan's page
11. Kanee-Kabareea

December 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 December 13

1. Christians having sex out of wedlock
2. Poetry collection - Pork and Beans
3. What is the difference between Repentance and Remorse?
4. Can anybody provide a few representative excerpts on literary realism?
5. Domestic Partnership in Maine
6. mixing letters shapes in same person's writing
7. Nok civilization
8. US National Historic Register and address restrictions
9. Is there any city who is called Arrocha in Brazil?
10. Malls' security in the U.S.
11. Is this a scam site? Where is the scam, how does it make money?

December 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 December 14

1. Defining slavery
2. Moshavim reform conservative orthodox
3. Bloating or concussion?
4. Luxury homes in slums ?
5. A Rudyard Kipling short story about a policeman during the Weimar Republic : title ?
6. Property and Responsibility Question
7. North Korean rocket launches
8. Who is Arrocha familly?
9. Ethnic group
10. Ivor T. Holth
11. 16 billion people killed in the Deluge?

December 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 December 15

1. Difference between two types of companies
2. Royal Union of the Pacific Nations
3. Aid money must be spent on Made in USA goods
4. Is there any picture of Adam Lanza?
5. Luther
6. Can anybody remember the shooting in Canada where the gunman had a mohawk haircut?
7. Who controls the grounds of the U.S. Capitol Building?
8. amphigory
9. Volcán de Agua name
10. Royal numbering
11. Canada and Germany automobile safety testing agreement
12. Connecticut shooting
13. More guns?

December 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 December 16

1. Are there any professional political scientists who adhere to this so called "Perestroika Movement"?
2. Roswell UFO incident
3. Antikythera mechanism
4. Mass shooters killing themselves
5. was the mach 3 turbo razor changed?
6. Nativity scene components

December 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 December 17

1. Bengali surnames Muslim only
2. History of the Freedom of Religion
3. Positive skull mutation caused the Renaissance and European dominance
4. Why most of the men who survived the Titanic sinking were crew members?
5. Who are some philosophers who prefer to write essays than or not books?
6. bihari camps in Bangladesh
7. Prevention of murder-suicide
8. The ethnicity of the modren Turks and the Byzantines
9. Birth in Vatican/Antarctica

December 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 December 18

1. Admission question
2. Contradiction and poor sourcing in Nitta clan article
3. Why did, do and will languages diverge?
4. Where can I find an official reference grammar and dictionary of Russian, Polish, Czech, French, Spanish, German?
5. what are the duties of the majority shareholders toward the minority shareholders
6. Is Northern Canada militarily unprotected or not?
7. Ted Bundy

December 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 December 19

1. legacy preference
2. Questions about Israel from User:Donmust90
3. Nazi Germany anti-Jew legislation
4. A Forest of Kings The Untold Story of the Ancient Maya
5. If the world is ending, let's get the date right!
6. Mystery Tank

December 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 December 20

1. Is my understanding of the Transcendental Deduction correct?
2. France secession
3. amphigory
4. Delayed snail mail
5. Political victory and stocks
6. UK maps
7. Mahmoud Asgari and Ayaz Marhoni, Iranian gay teens
8. Quote about a famous scientist
9. 2 questions about reference desk ues
10. Christian baptism and nudity

December 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 December 21

1. Janice the turkey monster
2. How did America become "christian"
3. Harvard credit
4. UK drink driving law
5. Jewish Population in Russia Proper in 1914

December 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 December 22

1. How can a nihilist avoid becoming a Buridan's ass?
2. British refugee policy in World War 2
3. World record for being under continuous observation for the longest time
4. Female national anthem writer
5. Ted Bundy's execution celebrations
6. Simpson's "paradox"
7. dudley m. lynch

December 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 December 23

1. 2010 & 2000 US Census numbers
2. Gun Control
3. Photography in Tonga
4. First nations to receive the New Year
5. Why did so many Nazis commit suicide?
6. Who was the second Byzantine female historian?
7. Incinerator robberies
8. Overturned libel cases

December 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 December 24

1. Trying to understand treasury stock
2. Jesus and Sodom
3. Math–verbal achievement gap
4. UN General Assembly
5. Question upon US presidential succession
6. Discrimination based on sexual proclivities

December 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 December 25

1. Early American History New York University
2. Source for quotation
3. Christianity and America
4. Japanese home funerals
5. Exactly why is the United States relatively conservative compared to European countries and Canada?
6. Types of criminal gangs
7. books set in maine

December 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 December 26

1. Mecca, California Muslim populated place before
2. Relationships in society
3. Refusing Middle East oil
4. Anti-German Jewish violence
5. Name of a young Jewish assassin prior to World War II?
6. Queer nationalism
7. How to rent land out for wind farms
8. is this in the public domain - film "Cohen's Advertising Scheme" (1904). where can I watch it?
9. Did the USSR support any rightwing Anti-American governments or movements?

December 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 December 27

1. Source for reference to communication units numbered 47 in 36 Dywizja Piechoty (II RP)?
2. Question About David Allen's GTD Process

December 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 December 28

1. External Links for Historical Race and Ethnicity Data from Various Countries
2. Purchasing power of the Weregild?
3. Ruling that America is Christian
4. America and Christianity
5. Communism
6. constitution of the zionist federation
7. W. Augustin
8. Research and informed consent

December 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 December 29

1. French art
2. Michael Bloomberg background
3. Did the USSR condemn the bombings of Dresden and Hiroshima in 1945?
4. Rich Christian Countries
5. Rich Christian Countries (cont.)
6. Aged notable siblings
7. International recognition of Israel
8. John Ena
9. The term "talent"
10. Graphic novel about modern day slavery in Florida tomato fields
11. Does moral philosophy accept the metaphysical assertions of theology?
12. Homeless kids in NYC and USA
13. Lieutenant Oku in 1917

December 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 December 30

1. Mizrahi and sephardi jews sect judaism
2. nations significant Ismaili population ethnic background and Zaidiyyah population
3. Milk subsidies
4. How is Fazhengnian covered in Falun Gong teachings?
5. First world vs third world - civil liberties record
6. Photograph Error
7. Elie Wiesel's tattoo
8. In pectore
9. What universities promote informal logic than formal logic in their philosophy courses?
10. Walmart

December 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2012 December 31

1. Historical Nixon-to-China Moments
2. US book
3. Vote compass elections