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December 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 December 1

1. World's oldest religions
2. Indian International Students
3. classical music song
4. In the 'Muslim Demographics' video, a popular youtube video, where does he get this piece of information?
5. Reproduction rates in the EU countries
6. Divorce rates in the USA
7. Succession to the British throne: Protestant descendants of Catholics
8. Legality of using someone else's unsecured network in UK
9. Purpose of swim trunks inner netting

December 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 December 2

1. Borough vs County constituencies
2. Did they or didn't They ?
3. SCi Fi Book involving unaware humans
4. Question moved from article space
5. Legal status of illustrations depicting pedophilia in Canada
6. Soldier who kept a diary during the Napoleonic wars?
7. Ordering employees to lobby Congress
8. French poet who taught for a while in a village school in England?
9. Regarding Canadian law and bankruptcy
10. Language use by world leaders during meetings/summits
11. Trends of black and white couples
12. Hindu chant in Indian Jones and the Temple of Doom?
13. Peace Corp updated
14. Natural-born life

December 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 December 3

1. Dean Koontz Book
2. How people look up information
3. infant skeletons found in well between convent and monastery.
4. Osama Bin Laden's Gun
5. national geographic nature movies

December 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 December 4

1. Can someone please explain the context of this Dawn article
2. Popular minimalist design style
3. Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen's religion
4. Three groundbreaking SF stories
5. What was that beautiful Taste ?
6. George Washington member of an Scandinavian society in Philadelphia around 1760
7. Larry K Fish

December 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 December 5

1. Christmas in the Finnish Orthodox Church
2. The remotest places on earth, or in mainland Britain
3. Marcus Livius Drusus children flock
4. German citizen
5. No Derivative Works
6. Museums in Chelyabinsk, Russia
7. island

December 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 December 6

1. Polynesian expansion
2. U.S. Public Law
3. albert henry prime minister of cook islands 1965
4. John J. Farrell (Lord Mayor of Dublin)
5. Why are highways named after police officers who died in the line of duty?
6. Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold - Gay couple?

December 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 December 7

1. What happened to the Hitler Diaries?
2. Shakespeare's non-masterpieces according to Bloom
3. Prayer
4. US Supreme Court case temporal overlap
5. Copenhagen climate change conference
6. Symbol identification?
7. What are my rights? What would most likely happen?
8. Otto Graf Lambsdorff
9. Decimus Junius Silanus (Consul 62 BC)
10. What is "magisterial Protestantism"?
11. God guiding people
12. the humanitarian imperative
13. Ed Koch

December 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 December 8

1. Uknown Painting
2. A question from the ad/business world
3. Ancient Roman tribe Lemonia
4. International phone numbers
5. When Hu Jintao meets African Leaders oversea

December 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 December 9

1. Bengali folklore
2. 1
3. Cruel and unusual punishment
4. Australia & New Zealand Navy against Japanese Whaling?
5. Teaching technique for young adults
6. early Congolese bishop
7. Pompey
8. Critisms of John Kufuor
9. The perfect defense against capital punishment?
10. Illegally collecting unemployment in the US
11. Coronation of Richard II of England
12. Confessing upon hearing Not guilty verdict

December 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 December 10

1. Car manufacturers in Bangladesh
2. Correlational studies?
3. Pradeshiya Sabha in Sri Lanka
4. First science fiction literature
5. rednecks and reverse parody
6. Lead sentences in Nationalism article

December 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 December 11

1. Why would a nondisclosure agreement be governed by Texas?
2. Emulating Greek pottery
3. Skilurus
4. Translating trademarked names
5. Philosopher brought out of retirement
6. Homosexuality in the United States of America
7. Papua New Guinea in Southeast Asia
8. What is the significance of a sun with a face?

December 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 December 12

1. Elections for filling casual vacancies of Australian senators before 1977
2. county commissioners on fateful day
3. Albert VII, Archduke of Austria
4. any connection
5. The Gravestone with the Bloody Hand
6. What did Amerigo in 1497
7. Why did Susan Sontag call the white race the cancer of humanity?

December 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 December 13

1. Just a few quick questions about musical notation
2. Credit Default Swaps and Argentina
3. Where can I read latkes, latkes good to eat online?
4. Inflation-adjusted data on GDP per capita
5. Legislation passed by one house of Congress but not the other in current session?
6. the german fatherland
7. Odes (Horace)
8. Sherlock Holmes copyright
9. We have the "Island of Great Britain" ... so where is the "Island of Little Britain"?
10. Medicare part D penalty
11. Similarities between ancient and modern Greek
12. Updated websites for intellectuals?
13. Ends, ways, and means, in the military etc
14. Incestuos marriage in old Europe
15. North Pole

December 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 December 14

1. Julius Caesar
2. Why is corn still subsidized?
3. Territorial evolution of Russia
4. Tommy Lynn Sells Execution Date?
5. Works of al-Biruni
6. English translation
7. Corned beef
8. Red + green = Christmas colors
9. The Bordeaux Diligence
10. Question about 9/11 conspiracy theories
11. pumpkin soup
12. Regent if Scottland in the 1540s
13. What is a "Special Envoy to the Prime Minister"?
14. Railway mileage (UK) 'zero' points.

December 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 December 15

1. Yazoo City Mayors
2. Movement of the sun and moon around the sky
3. Literature question
4. Success
5. Pre-Islam religion in Arabia?
6. Georgia's Death Row
7. Christmas movies during WWII
8. Constitutional rights + same-sex marriage (not a math equation :)

December 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 December 16

1. Naughty James Gillray prints
2. Digital theft
3. Photograph of Rabbi Yosef Zemelman of Przedecz Poland
4. Richmond Formulae.
5. Geography question
6. How to explain invalidity of this syllogism?
7. For white peoples to have a dark brown skin
8. insurance info question
9. Pirate Latitudes
10. Help me find a Poe essay

December 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 December 17

1. Unacceptable and acceptable
2. Where's the fallacy in this?
3. Summary Book on the Roman Empire
4. Biggest buildings
5. geography question
6. DJ Hero & Copyright Law
7. Earth Changes II
8. Geography question
9. Abraham Lincoln
10. When was she regent?
11. Jefferson Davis

December 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 December 18

1. Socialism & the US
2. Jury nullification
3. Where is Kupfermühlen Bay?
4. Desecration of portraits in Iran and Islamic law

December 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 December 19

1. uk law.....a need to inccrease sentences.
2. Why doesn't the USA invade and capture Canada?
3. Peru's my question
4. Product
5. How many Southeast Asians in India?
6. Actuarial data determination

December 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 December 20

1. Concerning an East German flag designed to be hung vertically
2. Abstract Expressionism cartoon
3. Lethal injection
4. Christiane Wilhelmine Luise of Solms-Roedelheim and Assenheim
5. regent franco
6. Search and rescue dogs in Thanksgiving Day Parade
7. "a life is worth anything"
8. The role of birth control and foreign aid in the fight against world hunger
9. Ram Bahadur Bomjon
10. Democracy question

December 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 December 21

1. African Tribe With Bright White Teeth & Eyes...
2. Map request
3. Classic Science Fiction recommendations please!
4. Word for the unintentional stealing of ideas?
5. Intelligence service of Jordan

December 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 December 22

1. Archduke Ferdinand assassination
2. Geography question
3. Judaism and Death
4. How did Athens benefit from the discovery of silver in the mines at Laurium?
5. Parme and Plaisance
6. Pindus Principality
7. Obama and Schmidt

December 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 December 23

1. Concentration camp Wester-Faengle
2. Cooking polenta
3. Polish-Czech Border
4. Milling dandelion seeds? (And other flowering seeds of umbelliferae]]
5. a weird question from a first time poster
6. Growth
7. Beit Chabad in Mumbai (Bombay) India
8. Dutch ship timber
9. Does India provide citizenship to foreigners?

December 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 December 24

1. In the USA, are there more White female-Asian male relationships, or are there more White male-Black female relationships?
2. japan feudal era chronological chain of events
3. What books should high school students read?

December 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 December 25

1. Merry Christmas
2. Deprivation of political rights in China
3. Sets of conditions seen as indicative of stock price rise
4. xmas msg
5. Who writes the Royal Christmas Message?
6. Does the Queen ever sing?
7. DaVinci's "Last Supper"

December 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 December 26

1. Princess of Girona
2. Marrying in Washington
3. Ancient Roman tunica
4. Hitler's badge
5. Law against comparison shopping as depicted in the film Holiday Affair
6. Age of Jesus

December 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 December 27

1. us congressional districts
2. property tax
3. Marxist Internet Archive
4. Hitler--India--Subhas Chandra Bose---questions
5. Geography question - another

December 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 December 28

1. Technical term for "part of the story" (drama)
2. Are these essential features of Gnosticism?
3. Question about the Portuguese Estado Novo
4. There's a word for that, but I don't seem to know it...
5. Hitler
6. Geting out of the US
7. Mineral Rights
8. Arrows vs musketts
9. Counterfeiting
10. Cleves and Soissons
11. Biological family of Jesus
12. Name of a certain Korean food
13. German PhD
14. Second wisest man in England

December 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 December 29

1. Declining an Honorary Degree
2. serial killer
3. what did a typical Tongmenghui / Chinese republican revolutionary look like?
4. Photograph from Algiers 1899
5. Do animals have nationality / citizenship?
6. Purchasing music: profit breakdown

December 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 December 30

1. Statute of limitations and extradition
2. World citizenship
3. Person with most citizenships
4. French Guiana and the freedom of panorama
5. Inverted price elasticity of demand
6. EUROPEAN HISTORY: THE IMPELLER
7. ANCIENT EGYPTIAN HISTORY
8. The Wire and the Life and Death of the American Stevedore...
9. Jerome's De Viris Illustribus translation
10. Anti-empiricism in medieval thought?
11. Why can't America make homosexuality legal in Afghanistan
12. man shaking hands with woman

December 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2009 December 31

1. Truth or myth about reading ability
2. Which Eutropius is this?
3. Some clarification for the wikipedia article on Christmas.
4. Copyright exceptions
5. Geography Question
6. Obama asks moms to return to school
7. Exchange Rates in Germany 1930
8. Why isnt the European Union regarded as a country?
9. Why is Russia still so heavily involved in space despite a comparatively low GDP?