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October 16

Is "Mulţi ani trăiască" also an Austrian anthem?

Mulţi ani trăiască is a popular Romanian birthday song. (There is a version in Youtube that joins it with La mulţi ani cu sănătate which I think is a different birthday song). I think I heard in a film the music played for an Austrian-Hungarian emperor, so I thought that it is also either an Austrian birthday song or an Austrian-Hungarian anthem. However today I find that the Austrian emperor's personal anthem and later Austrian-Hungarian anthem was Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser, the music of which I identified which Deutschlandlied. So the question is: what is the origin of the music of Mulţi ani trăiască? Is it used across the former Austrian-Hungarian Empire? --Error (talk) 11:52, 16 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The melody seems identical to a standard birthday tune “Hoch soll er (sie) leben …”, which is frequently used in Austria at family festivities, largely for kids of preschool / primary age. It is definitely not an anthem. German references call it a folk song, but I can not locate any closer sources to any origin.

There was a significant German speaking population in today´s Romania until WWII and sizeable minorities still exist in Transylvania, the Banat and Bukovina. Please see the article Germans of Romania. --Cookatoo.ergo.ZooM (talk) 14:42, 16 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. It is a pity that songs so popular as Mulţi ani trăiască and Hoch soll er (sie) leben don't have articles even in the Romanian and German wikipedias.

Your answer pointed me to Ja, må han (hon) leva. The first notes are similar or the same, although the rest is different to the Romanian song:

James Massengale states that the melody is of a common 18th century form, used by both Mozart and Haydn, and was therefore well known in Austria at the end of the 18th century.[9]

nl:Lang zal hij leven:

De melodie is uit het eind van de 18e eeuw; varianten ervan duiken op in het werk van Mozart, Haydn en Carl Michael Bellman.

So I now know it is at least partly based on an Austrian folk tune, later extended abroad.

--Error (talk) 15:47, 16 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

There is a brief mention in the German article on Geburtstagslied (sorry, I forgot how to link that to the de:WP), however, there is no reference there. --Cookatoo.ergo.ZooM (talk) 16:45, 16 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

de:Geburtstagslied#Hoch_soll_er_leben. --Wrongfilter (talk) 16:51, 16 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

"The Nameless One" in Laibach's Slovania

In Laibach's Slovania (from their album Volk (album) and quoting Hey, Slavs), there are the lines:

Živi, živi, duh slovanski,
Out of the feudal darkness,
Away from the Nameless One
Bodi živ na veke
We stand alone in history,
Facing East in sacrifice

While Laibach's work is ambiguous by design, leaving listeners with doubts about whether they are being ironic or not, a Youtube commenter interpreted that:

yet the disturbing "Facing the East in sacrifice" reminds us of the communism regime imposed on us by our own Slavic brothers from Russia and us being the sacrifice West made in Yalta.

However my question is about "the Nameless One". Who is it intended to be? Certainly, not The Nameless One or The Nameless One (song) – 1993 song sung by Wendy James. --Error (talk) 18:31, 16 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Greg Johnson says:

The final lines are cryptic, but they hint at a modern, Russian-oriented pan-Slavism:

Slovenia and its relations with Russia in the Euro-Atlantic context says in the context of Slovenian-Russian collaboration:

This new sensibility even found its way into popular culture. The Slovenian avant-garde music group Laibach thus included in its 2006 concept album “Volk” a reworking of the Pan-Slav anthem “Hey, Slavs”. Titled “Slovania” (referring to an all-Slavic land), the song included the following lyrics:

--Error (talk) 18:44, 16 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

If the singer is Jewish or singing to Jews, he might avoid singing the tetragrammaton aloud. InedibleHulk (talk) 13:08, 21 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Per its article, Laibach was itself a legally nameless one in 1984, signing MD 84 Memorandum with a cross, so..? InedibleHulk (talk) 13:18, 21 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Ian Fleming and James Bond

I remember reading an anecdote that when Ian Fleming wanted to use James Bond (ornithologist)'s name in his James Bond books, when asking for permission, he wrote to James Bond's wife: "I hope your husband someday finds a really ugly and disgusting bird he wants to name after Ian Fleming", but he never found one. Did this really happen or is it some kind of urban legend? JIP | Talk 23:55, 16 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

According to James_Bond_(ornithologist)#Fictional_namesake Ian Fleming did not ask permission to use the name. RudolfRed (talk) 02:51, 17 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

And that article is right, but your story is also partly true, JIP. We have the authority of the ornithologist's wife, for this story: Fleming used the name James Bond without permission, provoking Mrs Bond to tell him by letter that her husband saw this as a good joke, to which Fleming replied "I can only offer your James Bond unlimited use of the name Ian Fleming...Perhaps one day he will discover some particularly horrible species of bird which he would like to christen in an insulting fashion." --Antiquary (talk) 10:13, 17 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

According to this book, though, the writer asked for and did get permission from the ornithologist. The fact that the real Bond, James Bond, saw this as a good joke does not necessarily imply he withheld his permission, but could also mean he had forgotten all about it by the time Mrs. Bond learned about the reuse of the name and appraised her husband of this, which was eight years after the book had appeared in print, and nine years after February 1952, when the writer allegedly asked for the permission. --Lambiam 12:21, 17 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

October 20

House

I was watching House, and I saw that Taub and Thirteen did not work at the hospital anymore and House tried to persuade them into coming back. What happened to them? Did they quit, or did they get fired? Koridas 📣 22:48, 20 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Chris_Taub says he quit and Thirteen_(House) says she was fired. RudolfRed (talk) 23:40, 20 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

October 21

Svu season 14 Episode traumatic wound

Closing as per recommendation. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 22:49, 21 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The following discussion has been closed. Please do not modify it.

I have questions about this frustrating episode so if anyone can answer my questions?(2601:646:8501:9E60:18A4:7999:9CBB:A103 (talk) 06:48, 21 October 2020 (UTC)).[reply]

Find a fan forum. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 12:29, 21 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

2601:646:8501:9E60:18A4:7999:9CBB:A103. Ask your question. Someone will most likely know here. There are a lot of very intelligent folk that have access to amazing resources. Ask away! Maineartists (talk) 12:37, 21 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Svu episode is About (Alec, Britt, Jake, Louis, Ralph) get Arested.

1. Thank You Saw Episode recently?

2. did (Alec, Britt, Jake, Louis, Ralph) Kno 100% that (Gabby was Going to get Gang Raped)?(2601:646:8501:9E60:688A:18BE:A592:33FB (talk) 16:06, 21 October 2020 (UTC)).[reply]

Folks questions about plot points (especially for episodes of the various L&O series) have been asked by LTA IPs like this for years now. They started being removed at some point. That may not be in vogue anymore but this should be closed as it calls for debate. MarnetteD|Talk 19:36, 21 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

LTA = ? —Tamfang (talk) 04:28, 22 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

"Long-term abuse". InedibleHulk (talk) 09:49, 22 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Elvis Song

When Elvis Presley sang "G.I. Blues" in 1960, he pronounced the first letter of the word "occupation" with an "aw" sound, not the "ah" sound I'm familiar with. Is this part of the regional dialect? Indexguy (talk) 19:26, 21 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

In my English it doesn't have either an "ah" or an "aw" sound. This is definitely an area where dialects vary. See cot–caught merger and father–bother merger. --174.89.48.182 (talk) 21:55, 21 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

To this Australian, that particular vowels sounds pretty the same as I would say it. (Which actually surprised me.) It rhymes with cot, pot, hot, lot, plot, etc. HiLo48 (talk) 22:11, 21 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

October 22

House (TV series)

What happened to Allison Cameron? Did she die? Did she quit? Did she get fired? Koridas 📣 02:09, 22 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

According to the article, she was written out of the show, and not necessarily willingly, but she did a couple of episodes more before the series ended, so one would think it's unlikely that she got "fired". ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 02:33, 22 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Baseball Bugs, Right, but I'm talking about how she was written off. I'm trying to figure out what happened to the character, not the actor. Koridas 📣 05:42, 22 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Per the penultimate paragraph in her article's Personality section, she quit. InedibleHulk (talk) 09:54, 22 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

And since she appears in the season finale, not as a hallucination, she did not die. --Lambiam 10:09, 22 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Dead people can also easily appear on TV as ghosts and zombies, but yeah, unlikely in this show's context. InedibleHulk (talk) 10:24, 22 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Flying cars

What popular culture media was the first to implement flying cars? I've got doubts it was The Jetsons (though it was the first thought that came to mind), and it most certainly wasn't Blade Runner, though the spinners most definitely had a hand at making them iconic in near-future city settings. --72.234.12.37 (talk) 08:32, 22 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

It first appeared in Metropolis (1927 film), according to the Financial Times^[1] Koridas 📣 09:18, 22 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Famous vs Fictional

Are there any instances of famous people who happen to have the same names as a character in a book or movie, without changing their names. So, Daniel Defoe (actor) and David Copperfield (magician ex husband to Cindy Crawford) will not qualify. Thanks

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