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December 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 December 1

1. Painting samples?
2. Rape trials and compensation? in Roman Judea
3. Number and Amount of Merit Scholarships awarded by the Hammond School (SC)
4. Lighter, peacher skin in winter

December 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 December 2

1. (heraldy question) What attitude would be used for pterosaurs and raptors?
2. Calling a snap federal election in the US

December 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 December 3

1. Cut out the Guff?
2. Order of the Twelve Minor Prophets

December 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 December 4

1. Messer
2. Origin of left–right distinction: political and spatial criteria

December 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 December 5

1. Distribution by birthday

December 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 December 6

1. Forest dweller, jungle man, you get the idea...
2. don't understand this sentence
3. independent vote breakdown in 2016 US presidential primaries

December 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 December 7

1. Subscription based app for short classic sci-fi stories
2. Season of goodwill

December 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 December 8

1. SCOTUS rulings on school desegregation, 1956
2. What's the largest company in Transdnistria?
3. Why don't mortgage payments usually increase with inflation?

December 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 December 9

1. Money supply (GBP)
2. Canadian constitutional amendments, c. 1960

December 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 December 10

1. Christian restorationist sects and how similar they are to the Apostolic Age and other sects in Early Christianity

December 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 December 11

1. "Handmaid's tale" (idiom)
2. "First accounts made up to" & "due by"
3. Inflatable Productos
4. Do multinationals try to keep more than 50% of store/restaurant/branch openings in places with strengthening currencies?

December 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 December 12

1. Finance: They defaulted? So what?
2. Violent jihadists

December 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 December 13

1. Albert The East German of Leith
2. Write-in votes
3. The end of the world
4. Cruelty to a fish?
5. Have there been any proposals to allow United States senators to vote in absentia?
6. Paternity rights for human owners of pets and other animals
7. I'm looking for, but struggling to find, solid sources that convincingly can argue as to which philosophers/enlighment individuals influenced Jefferson and the written content in the American Declaration of Independence
8. Flight attendant food and beverage trolley
9. Name of a specific negotiating tactic

December 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 December 14

1. Pre-order deposit
2. List of scriptures based on age
3. Post fordism Third Italy regions make up
4. Rust Belts in other parts of the world

December 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 December 15

1. Did she really have the office?
2. Homeless people sleeping in the United States
3. Corporate czars
4. Have there been cases of developed-country airlines using passenger blacklists for discrimination?
5. Homeless shelter cost

December 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 December 16

1. How does history, especially old history, develop?
2. Fetal alcohol syndrome
3. What does this mean.

December 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 December 17

1. List of government agencies by forbidden terms?
2. Columbus Globe for State and Industry Leaders

December 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 December 18

1. Turkish cross?
2. Anatolia
3. Are there any rules or etiquette against segregating POWs by rank and splitting up units?

December 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 December 19

1. Why are the members of the US Congress almost always from just two parties?
2. Pope Adrian IV
3. What actually divides Western and Eastern Europe?
4. Was the Roman Senate always in the Capital?

December 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 December 20

1. Artwork
2. Chinese makeup Song Dynasty
3. Sea-bee (creature)

December 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 December 21

1. Did Bangladesh and Burma ever fight each other in ancient times?

December 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 December 22

1. Millenials in other nations
2. Are accusations of hypocrisy or double standard inherently opinions?
3. What's the biggest island people are pretty sure has never seen (non-cold) war?

December 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 December 24

1. Mysterious Statute
2. Tempest at Fisk

December 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 December 25

1. American Airlines Flight 77
2. Women and children first!
3. Monsignor Joseph Nelligan
4. Music Identification—Cuba Vacation Travel Guide

December 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 December 26

1. Father Serafim’s emotional Aramaic chant for the Pope in Georgia

December 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 December 27

1. "the absolute boy"?
2. Do any governments ban really dangerous shows like circus globes of death and Evel Knieval-type jumps?
3. Macmillan Publishers
4. Body armour of the Papal Guard

December 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 December 29

1. Relation between the social sciences

December 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 December 30

1. Had something like this ever happened?
2. German Interwar Period Military acronyms
3. Fake visiting dignitary

December 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2017 December 31

1. Law revisor
2. Sanguine Temperament: Lack of Blood, or too much of it?
3. Balloon dance music