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December 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 December 1

1. good place to find election and polling results?
2. What is the name of the fallacy that works like this?
3. Round world in art
4. Is there a name for the concept where?
5. Humiliation of Germany after ww2

December 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 December 2

1. Another abortion question
2. Conchita Wurst: "Gehen Sie Wählen!"
3. European Coups
4. ID cards

December 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 December 3

1. Ruins of the Gambier Islands
2. Stories that use the counterfactual that ww2 never happened,or happenned much later

December 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 December 4

1. Whitewings -- street sweepers and duck uniforms
2. Aqueduct named after which women?
3. Bridges named after women
4. Names of North America
5. Arabian 18th-century warrior woman
6. Marie La Pen winning election in France

December 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 December 5

1. Gambia and the Commonwealth
2. talking to yourself as sign of madness
3. Casino fire?
4. If the World Wars, Cold War and Great Depression never happened what would happen population-wise?

December 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 December 6

1. Church of Scotland patronage and legal terminology
2. Tenth Commandment
3. Why is this bit in the Miranda warning?

December 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 December 7

1. Child labour laws and environmental laws w.r.t. goods sold
2. Asma El-Bakry
3. "winter weather to the Mediterranean in late November"
4. What is the name of the female singer that sing at some flaming lips songs?
5. WWI: Why not tunnel across?
6. Earthquakes in ancient Greece and Middle East, warfare against walled cities

December 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 December 8

1. Air pollution in Belarus
2. Is there a name for this style of hat?
3. 1 yen coin

December 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 December 9

1. If a completely average horse stars in a viral video would it's stud fee go up?
2. Historiography
3. 'each' and 'both'

December 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 December 10

1. Real income
2. Nokia tune - valid trademark?
3. Strategic lawsuit against public participation

December 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 December 11

1. Descendants of Taksin
2. Counting electoral votes in Congress
3. English descendants' and Boers' racism
4. Churchills
5. Ramming speed, Mr. Christian

December 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 December 12

1. For any legally inclined users
2. Hurricane Sandy: Why did so many cabbies leave their cars close to sea level?
3. Which banknote color scheme is closest to casino chips?

December 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 December 13

1. December 13 solstice
2. Michele Sindona

December 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 December 14

1. What was the most votes for something non-governmental?
2. Hermes on American Express
3. Verifiably correct version of Eisenhower's "Planning is everything" quote
4. RFC for those interested in US Geography

December 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 December 15

1. Position of Isis In/Around Aleppo after Syrian Government has taken Control.
2. Congressional declaration of war, opposed by the President
3. Medieval pilgrimage in England

December 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 December 16

1. impoliteness
2. U.K. Civil Service

December 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 December 17

1. Question about the Ontario sperm donor law
2. What did people call James Thurber in high school?
3. Half-brothers
4. Fiscal conservatism and social conservatism
5. Strategic lawsuit against public participation
6. technically unresolved wars
7. Have warriors ever practiced intraperitoneal insemination?
8. Did the Nazis say anything about the English Noel carol?

December 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 December 19

1. The possibility of war between US and China
2. Mestizo, mulatto, and mixed-race people
3. criminal activity

December 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 December 20

1. Electoral College result in 2016 for USA elections
2. Camp Dewey
3. Why are so many philosophers childless
4. Prostitution before the introduction of currency
5. Disclosure of religious identity in Islamic countries
6. Does healthcare have to funded by the government?

December 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 December 21

1. 55th United States Congress
2. Invalidating an election due to criminal activity on a candidate's behalf
3. Criminal law and implied threats to Edward Snowden
4. Non-traditional alcohol consumption
5. Why are so many British workers Polish?
6. A four-year prison sentence for bathroom graffiti???

December 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 December 22

1. Private property owners, particular bathrooms / sex-segregated facilities, and discrimination laws - actual case law?
2. victimisation rate - domestic violence, and child molestation
3. Gänserndorf
4. Revolutions

December 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 December 23

1. John White
2. Constable of the Tower?
3. What are really bouncy motel beds called?
4. Turning Point (charity) employment tribunal - what eventually happened?

December 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 December 24

1. Hillary bloopers reels?
2. Sitting in the aisle
3. What was the first public housing project in the United States? Techwood Homes or First Houses?

December 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 December 25

1. The Office of National Drug Control Policy reauthorisation act, and separation of powers
2. What distinguishes the UN from the League of Nations?
3. Demand and supply and currency
4. Strategic lawsuit against public participation

December 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 December 26

1. The Prince Father?
2. Theory about clash between liberals and conservatives in the United States
3. Urban public transport before 18th century
4. Was Hitler unaware of Soviet tank force before invading USSR?
5. Obama's list of pre-departure commutations and pardons - released yet? And if not, when?
6. The economic illogic of racism in business - so why did it exist so widely?

December 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 December 27

1. Cultural structure of social media communities
2. A Judge recusing themselves sua sponte due to religious obligations
3. London taxis and Oliver Cromwell
4. Forbidden marriage

December 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 December 28

1. Gillian Triggs and recent controversy
2. Royalists/Tories v Roundheads/Labour - and Brexit
3. Governments

December 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 December 29

1. Is the nature of warfare changing?
2. Henry Owner
3. People who love human being what are they called?
4. Jewish Journalists interviewing Trump re his positions on domestic American Jewry's concerns
5. Sikh Singaporeans
6. Has there ever been warfare in a modern city?
7. Websites similar to peoplesmart that work for addresses in Canada
8. Is there ability to be a lawyer in many countries by study in one institute?

December 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 December 30

1. End of war in the future
2. George W. Macfarlane
3. Damage to humans of real bear traps
4. There is a name for a method which focuses on to learn from mistakes?
5. portantina granducale cosimo III - FIRENZE
6. Names of these Royals please?

December 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2016 December 31

1. Anti-American Revolution
2. Benjamin Grierson
3. political violence and not terrorism