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What was the US Army's air unit and their commander when they attacked Ashiya in the night of 5-6 August 1945, which destroyed the Van Gogh's Sunflowers painting in Koyata Yamamoto's coast household?
Quintus Arius in Ben Hur is a fictional character or modeled after a real-life roman under Emperor Tiberius?
Can you search if exist a paint of the real-life visir Ja'far ibn Yahya from Aladdin and upload it on commons?
Zorro tv series from 1990 was reprised in Spain. Can you find the model for the Devil's fortress and if real-life existed a state prison at Baja California in 1820?
Can you find what were Captain Toledano's medals in episodes 24-27 from Zorro tv 1957?
Who were all commanders of the Ile du Diable until 1946?

— Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.207.138.172 (talk) 11:26, 21 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

It's a whole lot easier for us if you ask one question at a time.

For a start, see Grigori Rasputin#Early life which says that we don't know much about his family. Alansplodge (talk) 13:02, 21 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

For the question about Ashiya,_Hyōgo, this WW2 chronology may help narrow things down, though there is no specific reference to Ashiya in these records.

1 Aug 1945, USAAF, 20th AF, XXI Bomber Command, B-29 raid on unspecified cities, Gen. Curtis LeMay commanding
9-15 Aug 1945, USN, 3rd Fleet, TF 38, naval aircraft raids across Japan, Adm. William Halsey Jr. commanding — Lomn 15:03, 21 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

For the question on Bordeaux wine… there are literally hundreds (thousands?) of small wineries in the Bordeaux region, and they have been making wine there for thousands of years. To trace the ownership of them all, from ancient times today, would be impossible. Blueboar (talk) 15:55, 21 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

In the original tale from One Thousand and One Nights, the vizir is only called "the grand vizir". The name Jafar was given by Disney it seems. Jafar is not any more historical than grand vizir Iznogoud. Xuxl (talk) 21:54, 21 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Can I ask why you want to know these things? I'm just curious. It's such a wide range of topics. Like you're someone from the future asking for the answers to a pub quiz that hasn't been written yet. -- asilvering (talk) 22:38, 21 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I'm very interested in the historical arguments, then can you help me? Thank you very much. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.207.140.135 (talk) 11:45, 22 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

IP editor, why are you removing other people's replies to your questions? Please don't do that. 97.126.98.169 (talk) 12:58, 22 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

This is a fascinatingly uninformative answer. -- asilvering (talk) 18:35, 22 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The Devil's Island article is a little unclear whether it is meant to be describing fr:Bagne de la Guyane française, fr:Îles du Salut#Le bagne, or fr:Île du Diable. At least for Dreyfus there was a commandant supérieur des îles du Salut on Île Royale and a directeur de l’Administration pénitentiaire who i presume was on the mainland . Could you clarify which commanders you are looking for? fiveby(zero) 01:18, 22 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Please, can you answer the last questions remained, so it's closed? Thank you very much. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.207.218.7 (talk) 06:53, 23 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop removing or tampering with other folks' replies. If you want to change your initial post to show that you've received an answer one of your questions, or to withdraw the question, you can strike through part of it with <s> and </s>. 199.208.172.35 (talk) 14:33, 23 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hungarian "Savage Diet" on 18 October 1514[edit]

I quote from s:1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Hungary:

The “Savage Diet” which assembled on the 18th of October the same year, to punish the rebels and restore order, well deserved its name.

The phrase "Savage Diet" doesn't seem to be made up by EB, otherwise there is no point in claiming it "well deserved its name". However, when I tried searching "országgyűlés" or "parlarmentum" (I thought it might be from Latin as was in the contemporary Tripartitum) combined with various adjectives and the date / the Dózsa revolt, I couldn't find the origin of this phrase. Is there any source that explains where this is from, or is it not used in Hungarian at all? Many thanks! —HTinC23 (talk) 22:44, 21 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The use of the word parliament (parlamentum) was rather exceptional, and appeared in the earliest sources only, while the words congregatio, conventio, comitia and diaeta became common, however none of them exclusive, and all of them frequently used with attributes, in possessive form or in the combinations thereof (as e.g. congregatio generalis, comitia regni or generalis diaeta regni). Képes, György (2019). "The name of the game – the historical names of the Hungarian parliament". Central European Papers. but no Savage 1514. Here's De Comitiis Regni Hungariae mentioned for download, but not OCR'd. fiveby(zero) 03:42, 22 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the Latin tips! And "none of them exclusive, and all of them frequently used with attributes" means I might have to try all of them some time... —HTinC23 (talk) 22:18, 22 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I cannot find the English term used in this sense earlier than in the 1910 edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica. It cannot have been a term known by its readership. --Lambiam 13:27, 22 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The term is found in contemporary Romanian sources as Dieta Sălbatică.^[1] Might it be that the original use was Romanian? (Dózsa was publicly tortured and executed in Temesvár, now Timișoara.) --Lambiam 15:28, 22 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds possible. So at least this is not an exclusively English phrase. —HTinC23 (talk) 22:20, 22 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]