Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/December 2024

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December 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2024 December 2

1. Behaviour of a monkey in this painting

December 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2024 December 3

1. Duchess Marie's adopted child.

December 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2024 December 4

1. Subnational laws

December 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2024 December 5

1. BAA
2. UK politics/senate
3. Scipion-Virginie Hébert (1793-1830)

December 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2024 December 6

1. Provenance of some sculptures
2. Georges Jacques Danton

December 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2024 December 7

1. Why did Pippi Longstocking end up never getting married in her adulthood?

December 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2024 December 8

1. Petosiris of Arabia

December 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2024 December 9

1. Tribes and inceldom
2. Scattering in US elections

December 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2024 December 11

1. Shopping carts
2. Lilacs/flowers re: Allies in Europe WWII

December 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2024 December 12

1. The USA adding a new state

December 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2024 December 13

1. economics: coffee prices question
2. source for an order of precedence for abbotts
3. Are the proposed Trump tariffs a regressive tax in disguise?
4. Ron A. Dunn: Australian arachnologist

December 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2024 December 15

1. Schisms and Byzantine Roman self-perception
2. Foreign Presidents/Heads of State CURRENTLY Buried in the USA

December 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2024 December 17

1. Geographic extent of an English parish c. 1800
2. When was the first bat mitzvah?

December 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2024 December 18

1. Major feminist achievements prior to 18th century
2. Intolerance by D. W. Griffith
3. Term for awkward near-similarity
4. Yearbooks

December 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2024 December 21

1. Everything You Can Do, We Can Do Meta: source?
2. Did Sir John Hume get entrapped in his own plot (historically)?

December 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2024 December 22

1. Mike Johnson
2. Joseph Mary Thouveau, Bishop of Sebastopol

December 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2024 December 23

1. London Milkman photo
2. Belgia, the Netherlands, to a 16th c. Englishman?
3. Indigenous territory/Indian reservations

December 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2024 December 24

1. Testicles in art
2. European dynasties that inherit their name from a female: is there a genealogical technical term to describe that situation?

December 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2024 December 25

1. Can Biden commute Military Death Row sentences?
2. Coca Romano's portraits of Ferdinand and Marie of Romania
3. Was it ever mentioned in the Bible that the enslaved Jews in Egypt were forced to build the pyramids?

December 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2024 December 26

1. What would the president Trump brokered peace treaty in Ukraine look like?
2. ID card replacement

December 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2024 December 27

1. Building containing candle cabinets

December 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2024 December 28

1. Truncated Indian map in Wikipedia

December 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2024 December 29

1. Set animal's name = sha?

December 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2024 December 30

1. I do not say the Frenchman will not come. I only say he will not come by sea.
2. What percentage of Ancient Greek literature was preserved?

December 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Humanities/2024 December 31

1. Was the fictional character "The Jackal" (as played by Edward Fox and Bruce Willis) based on Carlos The Jackal?
2. References
3. Battle of the Granicus