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January 24

Can anybody help me to know what song is it.

Please believe I tried not to ask on here but I have no other option. I am wanting to know the name of this song since long time ago and I can't find the name. You don't really have to help me but if somebody wants I would really, REALLY appreciate it. It's on youtube, on this video, you can hear the song from 3:38 to 3:40, the two most important seconds to identify it. I repeat, you don't have to help me but if you want, I would really really appreciate it. Again, sorry for asking here and have a very very very nice weekend. --SouthAmerican (talk) 02:09, 24 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Are you sure that you have the right video? Between 3:38 and 3:40 there's narration which makes it VERY hard to hear the music underneath, but near as I can tell those 2 seconds contain a single note from a cello. I can't hear anything resembling a recognizable song. Even if I listen for the minute or two before and after that, all I get is "generic suspenseful string music usually played under horror films and detective shows". I really can't hear anything memorable there. --Jayron32 02:54, 24 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, you are totally right Jayron, it's not a song, forgive me for my English, that music, I mean, the name of that music, is from a film? or what? --SouthAmerican (talk) 04:09, 24 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

No, I mean that it does not seem to strike me as a particularly notable piece of music. It sounds like the kind of thing the sound engineer pulled off the shelf labeled "generic suspenseful string music". It may not even have a name. I'll let others listen and judge for themselves what it is, but it really doesn't sound like anything memorable or famous. --Jayron32 04:39, 24 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds that way to me also. I don't see what's special about that 2-second interval. The video looks a bit like a Spanish-speaking version of one of those A&E shows about true-life police investigations. Maybe the questioner could tell us where else he has heard that music and why it seems so significant. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 08:00, 24 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Nintendo's invention of its logo

The Nintendo page clearly states that Nintendo's logo dates back to the 1980's, however it doesn't say what specific year it was, or how they did it. Does anyone know anything about Nintendo's invention of its logo?

Zelderu Maryoto (talk) 09:25, 24 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It is visible on this flyer for Radar Scope, and also appears on literature for Sheriff and (probably) Computer Othello, so one can assume it was created by 1979. I would hazard a guess that it dates back to 1975 and their first arcade game, EVR Race, although we don't have an article on it so I can't know for sure. Xenon54 / talk / 19:40, 24 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The logo on this advert for the mid-1970s Sky Hawk appears to use the same font, but omits the surrounding oval. Warofdreams talk 17:55, 25 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

ARD advertising opt-outs

Why aren't all ARD advertising opt-outs carried on satellite? --84.61.165.65 (talk) 11:31, 24 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

By "opt-outs", do you mean: (1, a verb) the practice of members inserting local commercials during commercial breaks, or (2, a noun) a commercial break? Xenon54 / talk / 13:34, 24 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I mean (1). --84.61.165.65 (talk) 15:59, 24 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Then I would assume that the uplinking of the channel to satellites is done by one of the members (because as far as I know there isn't a central "ARD headquarters"), so they uplink a "clean feed" with no opt-outs because the feed is directed at a national, rather than a local audience. Xenon54 / talk / 18:26, 24 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

A question about The Dark Knight

Why Katie Holmes didn't return as Rachel Dawes in The Dark Knight? David Pro (talk) 16:43, 24 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Did you read the Dark Knight article? It says why right in the article. Dismas|^(talk) 17:12, 24 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Turned it down to do another movie? Really? I bet she didn't want to die. I didn't want to see Katie Holmes die. The new Rachel made it easier to see her die. I was very disappointed when Katie was not in the movie, but then Rachel died, and it all made sense. --Neptunerover (talk) 05:11, 28 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Unidentified Quote

I believe the following is from a song, but the artist and/or song title, I cannot determine.

I'm young, and I'm yours. I'm free, and im flawed. I'm here in your heart. I was here from the start.

If you have a vague idea, or even a guess of what song this is from, or an artist who wrote it, please respond. Thank you! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wand2000 (talk • contribs) 17:57, 24 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It looks a bit like the Triumph song "Magic", whose chorus goes "I'm young, I'm wild and I'm free" (and then "she's young, she's wild, etc"). It was a bit of a hit in the early 1980s and is still heard periodically on oldies stations. You can easily google the lyrics and find sites where you can listen to snippets. --207.236.147.118 (talk) 18:39, 28 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It's by a young English singer-songwriter called Benjamin Francis Leftwich, but I don't know the song title.

Ashtray Heart

In the song "Ashtray Heart" by Placebo, how did the band incorporate the Spanish part of the song ("Cenicero, mi cenicero; mi corazón de cenicero") into the song lyrics? David Pro (talk) 19:23, 24 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You can probably google for '"Ashtray Heart" Placebo lyrics', but I won't link to any sites which contain those lyrics, since doing so is a copyvio. Woogee (talk) 21:08, 24 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

According to Placebo's lead vocalist, Brian Molko, the Spanish phrase in question was added in a vacations that he had in Nicaragua, and he composed it with a friend, because he was the only one that smoked, and he always wanted ashtrays. 200.112.29.198 (talk) 16:42, 26 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

i'm looking for something

i'm a big winx club fan and i noticed that the section about tecna is missing the magical abilities section. do you know where i can find it? i seen it before and thought i'd saved it but i can't find it. can you help me? thank youTurquoise1961 (talk) 19:48, 24 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The section was probably removed for being unencyclopedic. You can, however, find it in the page history. I hope this helps. JW..[ T..C ] 02:11, 30 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

HD versions of German public television channels

Will all German public television channels have an HD version in 2020? --84.61.165.65 (talk) 20:24, 24 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Both Das Erste and ZDF will start 1080i HD channels during the 2010 Winter Olympics, after having previously trialled them as the host broadcasters of the 2006 FIFA World Cup.

Beyond that (e.g. the third programmes), Wikipedia isn't the place for speculation. Xenon54 / talk / 20:32, 24 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]