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January 12

murder rate

I was reading List of countries by intentional homicide rate by decade and one statistic jumped out at me: the US murder rate quadrupled in just three years from 1904 to 1907. What could be some possible explanations for this jump? Mũeller (talk) 04:03, 12 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Googling "murder rate increase between 1904 and 1907" yields a number of entries, including this one,[1] which suggests that changes in the collection of the data led to an apparent jump in the crime stats. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 07:10, 12 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Need help locating a famous painting

There was a print of a famous painting that hung over my wife's childhood bed that got lost in a move. She talks about it sometimes and I want to get a print for Valentine's Day but she can't remember what it was called. The painting was of a girl in a green dress on a park bench with some books in a leather strap. She thinks it was from the Louvre. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks, --B (talk) 23:53, 12 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Wikimedia has categories filled with paintings of women sitting on outdoor benches and paintings of females sitting on outdoor benches, some of them wearing green, or it might be Jeune fille dans un parc by Berthe Morisot (no books though). Clarityfiend (talk) 07:43, 13 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Searching Google images for "painting park bench girl" turns up some possibilities. Bus stop (talk) 07:50, 13 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]