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December 28

What model of car was used as the hearse in Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il's funerals?

Well for some reason they placed the coffins on top of a limo, perhaps so that the North Koreans can see them in all their communist glory, but what model are those cars? Are they Toyotas, Cadillacs, Lincolns or are they locally made cars? And is that information even available? Narutolovehinata5 ^tccsdnew 06:23, 28 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The vehicle carrying the coffin in this video looks a lot like a fifth generation (pre facelift) Lincoln Continental limo. I don't have any idea where or when the would have acquired such a thing, but it is probably a custom vehicle, some "Communist" countries had a habit of copying American luxury cars for their limos, but I don't know if this is an example of this habit or not. The other vehicles are not North Korean cars, the ones I spotted where Mercedes E Classes, S Classes and some Volkswagen Passats. --Daniel 08:31, 28 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The LA Times says the coffin was on top of a Cadillac[1]. The car certainly looks like a ninth generation Cadillac Eldorado. Card Zero (talk) 08:42, 28 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Was Dear Leader a fan of jazz? Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac: "I looked over Jordan, and what did I see, coming for to carry me home? An Eldorado, coming after me, coming for to carry me home." (lyrics by Dizzy Gillespie) Edison (talk) 15:33, 28 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Heh heh heh. Who can say. I think Daniel is right, though, and all three limos (that I've seen pictures of) in the procession were Lincoln Continentals - the vertically aligned indicators look just like those on the picture captioned "1975 Lincoln Continental Town Car", and not at all like those on Cadillacs. Evidence of own eyes says Lincoln, only available source says Cadillac ... not an unusual Wikipedia situation. Oh wait, look what happens if you google "Kim Jong-il Lincoln" ... plenty of sources agreeing with that, in fact. Here's the New York Times [2] with a detailed discussion from a car expert (who they found on some forum on the internet, but it's alright if they do that because they're a proper newspaper). Here's the Associated Press [3] calling it "his father's Lincoln Continental". Card Zero (talk) 18:52, 28 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The water is so transparent that it seems that this is a quite shallow lake. In fact, it’s very deep.

The lake is Swan Lake in Northwestern Montana, USA.I've search the web far and wide and could not find the answer to my question: "How deep is Swan Lake in Northwestern Montana"? All I get is it is "Very Deep". I really thought Wikipedia would have my answer but you don't.

Please respond to my question to: <email removed> — Preceding unsigned comment added by 152.133.6.3 (talk) 19:31, 28 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

According to LakeLubbers it is 52 ft deep on average and 133 feet deep at the max [4]. I've removed your email address to protect your privacy. The Wikipedia reference desk does not reply via email. Dragons flight (talk) 19:45, 28 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Alien-priest.jpg

I found this pic, and I heard its from a church in Russia, but cant find any info. TKS — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.192.146.49 (talk) 21:49, 28 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

What photo? You forget to include a link. RudolfRed (talk) 22:35, 28 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

This article implies that it is a painting by Camilla Kesterton, an MA Fine Art student from the University of the West of England. --Incognito.ergo.possum (talk) 22:43, 28 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]