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January 10

Firearms to ID

What kind of revolvers was The Abominable Bride firing? The Internet Movie Firearms Database doesn't seem to have it in their website. There's a decent shot (ahem) of them here. Matt Deres (talk) 04:20, 10 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Google search says Colt Single Action Army/M1873's. Nanonic (talk) 04:30, 10 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

As a matter of interest, what search exactly? --76.69.45.64 (talk) 10:44, 10 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I did a search for the abominable bride gun which gave some results of the Colt and then a full search to verify of the abominable bridge gun colt. Nanonic (talk) 12:59, 10 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. I had tried abominable bride revolver and got mostly reviews of the show. Matt Deres (talk) 13:17, 10 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Incidentally, the show takes liberties with the firing action - no surprise there, I suppose. The "bride" fires both guns repeatedly without re-cocking the hammers, which our article says had to be done for each shot. Of course, there's the standard problem of a weak and sickly woman casually firing powerful handguns with almost no recoil, but movies have made that quite commonplace. Matt Deres (talk) 13:57, 10 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Where's Pachusan

What is the modern name for Patchusan, referred to in this work here [[1]] (p.211). On the 24th May, the author visits Eraboo (Irabu) and on 29th he arrives at Botol Tobago Xima (Orchid Island) so I guess it’s somewhere between the two.--Ykraps (talk) 11:08, 10 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

From various indications in the text, it would seem to be the same as the "Pa-tchung-san island" described here, which, as the coordinates given in the entry indicate, was what is now called Ishigaki Island. Deor (talk) 11:46, 10 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Ah yes, that seems to be it. I didn't think to search Google Books and the entry you've found will be of much use to me for identifying other destinations so thanks very much!--Ykraps (talk) 13:44, 10 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Pachusan / Pa-tchung-san looks like the transliteration of the Chinese 八重山 (bachongshan), now transliterated from the Japanese pronunciation as Yaeyama Islands. --PalaceGuard008 (Talk) 21:14, 11 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

First use of the flagword BROKEN ARROW

For german Wiki I need an Information: Since that time [| BROKEN ARROW] is used for an nuclear incident. Because in the battle of la-Drang the flagword was used for firesuport on the own position. Steiger4 (talk) 12:03, 10 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

See Broken Arrow (nuclear) (and Battle of Ia Drang for any interested readers). The relevant US Department of Defense directive (5230.16) was first published on February 7th, 1983. Tevildo (talk) 12:55, 10 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

THX That's my knowledge too. But incident in 1960 and before often called Broken Arrow. Next question:

Is BROKEN ARROW used in any statement of the DoD or is it only an intern flagword? --Steiger4 (talk) 13:47, 10 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

This is a public information film from 1980 which uses the term (and seems to assume the public would be familiar with it). There are plenty of declassified DoD documents available which use the term, but I've not found it in an actual DoD press release so far. Tevildo (talk) 18:27, 10 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

THX Steiger4 (talk) 09:10, 12 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Text Tone

[Duplicate question from WP:RD/C ] Tevildo (talk) 17:04, 10 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]