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April 6

Hemingway's Pilar

Hemingway's fishing boat shares the same name with the heroine in "For Whom the Bell Tolls". Is there any reason for that? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 221.221.149.239 (talk) 03:24, 6 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

From Pilar (boat): "Pilar" was a nickname for Hemingway's wife Pauline and also the name of the woman leader of the partisan band in his 1940 novel of the Spanish Civil War, For Whom the Bell Tolls. —107.15.157.44 (talk) 05:46, 6 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

WP:WHAAOE! --Lgriot (talk) 12:32, 8 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Japanese era name

I'd like to find the origin of Japanese era names. I was able to find only few of them. For example, Heisei was taken from Records of the Grand Historian and the Book of Documents, two Chinese history and philosophy books. Shōwa is from a passage of the Chinese Book of Documents. Reiwa is derived from the Man'yōshū. Thanks! --79.32.130.94 (talk) 15:36, 6 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The Japanese era names article you linked to has links to articles on each era, and all the ones I looked at (admittedly a small sample) included the origin. Henry ^Flower 16:22, 7 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Some do not. And most explanations are very brief. However I was able to find a useful quote from Google Books: Of the 247 Japanese era names: 35 are from the Shu ching (Book of Document); 27 from the I ching (Book of Changes); 25 from the Wen hsuan (Anthology); 24 from the Hou-Han-shu (History of the Later Han); 2I from the Han-shu (History of the Former Han). Heisei (Peaceful Becoming), the current Japanese era name, is also from Shu ching, and no era names have been chosen from Japanese classics.--79.32.130.94 (talk) 20:01, 7 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Galland-Kellman-Shafran triplets

I'm planning to grab the premise from Three Identical Strangers and start Galland-Kellman-Shafran triplets as a standalone.

Two things:

Galland Kellman Shafran triplets or Galland-Kellman-Shafran triplets?

I need a freebie image from flickr (flickr is blocked in my location). Nothing at commons.

Can anyone help?

Many thanks.

Anna Frodesiak (talk) 19:58, 6 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Get your freebie images here: Free Image Search Tool (FIST) —2606:A000:1126:28D:F935:C7E2:FE1:E49 (talk) 16:26, 7 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, 2606:A000:1126:28D:F935:C7E2:FE1:E49. :) Anna Frodesiak (talk) 04:45, 9 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]