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December 1

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1. was George Wishart Lutheran ?
2. Long form of M.R.A.S.?
3. Soiled Dove
4. John F. McDonnell
5. Unknown Nazi Badge/Medal

December 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 December 2

1. The Christmas Public Holiday In Scotland (1958) - Part 1
2. Where did Joseph Russell and Ann Birney live ?
3. Preemptive pardons?
4. 19th century hairstyle
5. The Times
6. Looking for a poem by Hans Sachs.

December 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 December 3

1. Medieval French poem
2. Two Potters - Beatrice Webb & Shena Simon
3. Very old portraits
4. The two Miss Wrinklers
5. Most ambitious settler colonialist plans in modern/recent history?

December 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 December 4

1. How did non-Christian peoples feel about being ruled by a Christian monarch?
2. Rasata, Ratahiry and Rasoaveromanana
3. Additional cases where immigrants from a particular country settling in extremely massive numbers near the borders of this country?

December 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 December 5

1. Immigration data for the 1897 Imperial Russian census
2. What permanently inhabited island under 45° from the equator was discovered last?

December 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 December 7

1. First woman MP and Cabinet Minister
2. Paying for the conveyance of Voters to the Poll - Boroughs exempt from the prohibition
3. Which other European ethnic groups had extensive and widely spread diasporas in Europe just like the Germans had before World War II?
4. Two black sheep, one a crook and one a coward, who won the VC.

December 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 December 8

1. Early 1990s Ukrainian polling on the Soviet Union's collapse and break-up?
2. UN peacekeeping in the 90s and now
3. Additional examples of ethnic federations

December 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 December 9

1. Countries that got severely screwed over during the 20th century?
2. Presbyterian celebration of Christmas in Scotland
3. Cases of mass diaspora migration back to the homeland/motherland?

December 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 December 10

1. Thoughts of the Iraqi, Iranian, and Afghan Communists on the "ethnic/nationality question"?
2. Question about a 1902 Danish parliamentary vote

December 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 December 11

1. Internal migration within Austria-Hungary

December 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 December 12

1. How much was the US's decision to escalate the Vietnam War responsible for North Vietnam's decision to send its own forces to help the Viet Cong in significant numbers starting from 1965?

December 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 December 13

1. Apostolic Signatura – nomination of judges
2. The Queen's Gambit
3. did John Calvin celebrate Christmas ?
4. Jonah Kūhiō Kalanianaʻole in Japan

December 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 December 14

1. The Trump Peace Plan and Israeli control over the Dead Sea Valley
2. Wigglesworth & Wigglesworth
3. Thai cuisine
4. Britons getting assistance from MPs
5. Are an electoral college slate's humans ever non-fungible in name only?
6. The Szekely Land and an extraterritorial road connecting it to Hungary

December 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 December 15

1. Statistics (other than census data) by race and/or ethnicity: The earliest examples of this?
2. Todger as a given name
3. Which Prince Volkonsky?
4. Recess Appointments in the US
5. Can a US Vice President serve simultaneously as a Cabinet Secretary?

December 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 December 16

1. Why put the Winter Palace in St Petersburg? Or how did it get that name?
2. Why was ethnic nationalism less popular outside of Europe?
3. Julian/Gregorian date
4. Chinese restaurant in 1900 Paris
5. Who is William Pym?
6. "a famous gate on the route to Siberia... 33 miles north of Pekin"

December 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 December 17

1. What happens if there's a tie vote in the Israeli Cabinet?
2. U.S. Congress
3. Doctrine of Election and a satire article

December 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 December 19

1. Lord Tennyson's moniker
2. Alfred, Lord Tennyson
3. Nellie Bly and the American Seamen’s Association, 1921
4. "Is it so dreadful a thing then to die?"

December 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 December 20

1. Incorrectly named namespaces
2. Court rulings that requiring college credits for entry to police academy are unconstitutional
3. The largest ports in Austria-Hungary
4. Singing in Parliament
5. Which (all) Wikipedia articles still retain Honorifics?
6. Vaccine test placebo subjects

December 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 December 21

1. Mass deportations that were proposed and/or planned but never actually carried out?
2. Joseph Franklin Rutherford 's place of birth
3. Ertuğrul the boat
4. Articles and/or other works comparing the various territories of the United States with the various territories of any other country?

December 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 December 22

1. Why did the Indus Valley and Ganges Delta convert to Islam but not the rest of India?
2. Naval tactics
3. Quotation - "And broad-based under all is planted England's oaken-hearted mood, as rich in fortitude as e'er went worldward from the island wall"

December 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 December 23

1. Is there any particular reason that Kharkiv became much more populous than nearby cities such as Kursk, Oryol, and Bryansk?
2. Indian mystics, hypnotists, ascetics portrayed in popular culture in 1940s, 50s
3. How effective would banned bullets be compared to ones that don't break the laws of war?

December 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 December 24

1. How did Germany feel about Ukraine and Ukrainians in the Imperial and Weimar German eras?
2. Imperial German plans for Central Asia during World War I?
3. Photo of David Allison McKinley
4. Question about Ancient Chinese courtesy names
5. Was Tynemouth in Northumberland in 1957?
6. "You can't board our drug-trafficking boat! We are flagged Panama!"

December 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 December 25

1. Norwood
2. what makes a city monumental
3. Prosecuting nazis

December 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 December 26

1. Ho ho ho
2. HMS Clio (1858)
3. Orkhan

December 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 December 27

1. Anti-neutron bomb parody ad
2. Additional cases of demographic reversals?

December 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 December 28

1. Princess Diana's interest in clairvoyance - Part 1
2. Heatherden Hall and the Anglo-Irish Treaty

December 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 December 29

1. Alcoholic or drug addicted First Ladies
2. At least cry, at least shoot yourself ...
3. WWII Southern Rhodesia
4. Pets in the German Democratic Republic
5. What part of Syria did King Baldwin IV rule?

December 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 December 30

1. Dravidian secession from India?
2. Seeking identity of artist
3. Mariupol and Donbass War question
4. Louisiana Congress?
5. Does the law ever deter a serial killer from starting in the first place?

December 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2020 December 31

1. Amputation that is indirectly necessary in order to save one's life--question about the law