Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2019 October 13

= October 13 =

Finding a list with registred planes
Hi there. I am interested to search for airplanes (still in use and also scrapped ones - or because of a sale - no longer valid aviation marks) which have a WT, WTS or WS on their end (example: X-XXXWT) in their registration. Do I have the possibility somehow to find these planes and their full registration code which ends with WT, WTS or WS? I am looking especially for registred planes in great Britain and the US. Thank you --46.167.62.33 (talk) 11:07, 13 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Any idea what those suffixes mean? ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 13:34, 13 October 2019 (UTC)
 * They dont have a meaning in aviation they are either allocated in sequence or on request. MilborneOne (talk) 22:00, 13 October 2019 (UTC)
 * You might try Aviation Links: Aircraft Registers. Alansplodge (talk) 21:53, 13 October 2019 (UTC)
 * For the UK try MilborneOne (talk) 22:00, 13 October 2019 (UTC)

Cold Case Episode (Disco Inferno)
Hi sorry I have a question to ask you is a curiosity, can you please give me your opinion? The question makes sense. In the episode I do not know if you have ever seen it, the protagonist is of Jewish faith and has a father Rabbi. In the episode he is killed, the detectives manage to take the murderer and close the case. Well at the end of the episode I think 1 minute or less before, you can see wife and husband, the spouses Rosen, leafing through a photo album with photos of their son Benny inside. Here is the question I know it seems nonsense but it is useful to give me a clearer idea. The episode has as reference flashback the year 1978. Well among the Jewish families and also with fathers rabbis of the family it was custom at the time (40 years ago hypothetically) to celebrate like today the private parties like the birthdays besides the Bar Mitzvah. Your answer is useful also to know in reality and not only in fiction how the families, especially the Orthodox but secular ones, were regulated, because the Rabbi of the episode has a shaved beard both as a young man and as an old man. Then again, as far as the episode is concerned, in the fictitious reality of the latter it is only possible to imagine, that in the album there could hypothetically be photos of personal recurrences, for example precisely birthdays. It is a particular request, very important to me and always non-trivial for me, not frivolous. Thank you so much, this episode overflows me a lot is my great curiosity. The episode link: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6vvkyz
 * Are you the one who was asking about an SVU episode earlier today? ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 14:27, 13 October 2019 (UTC)

It was me.... I would love to have an answer, who knows...
 * Despite your statement that the question makes sense, I can make neither heads nor tails of what you are saying and do not even see a question in this (aside from the opening "can you please give me your opinion?"). --Khajidha (talk) 14:34, 13 October 2019 (UTC)

I try to explain myself better: in the 1970s was it customary for Jewish families to celebrate personal events? Families who also had Rabbis as fathers? This is just an episode of a TV series, but it can be useful in general to have your interpretation. Let me know. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.41.100.198 (talk) 14:40, 13 October 2019 (UTC)
 * I don't see how the question has any point. It was a work of fiction. Whether it was common in 1978 for Jewish families to celebrate these things or not, the particular characters here are said to have done so. Also, whether it was common or not, I am sure that one could find individual examples from the real world that would show this behavior. --Khajidha (talk) 15:45, 13 October 2019 (UTC)


 * The OP has acknowledged he asked about the SVU episode. He's evading a block. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 15:47, 13 October 2019 (UTC)


 * Is the Q whether Orthodox Jews are forbidden by their religion from such private celebrations ? SinisterLefty (talk) 15:48, 13 October 2019 (UTC)

Pedro Rodrigues Filho
His date of apprehension cannot be three years before his date of birth as cited in your biography. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.95.155.73 (talk) 15:53, 13 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Pedro Rodrigues Filho has many problems, but this particular one doesn't seem to be one of them AFAICT. Since at least October 5th, the article says he was born in 1954 and apprehended in 1991. Clearly not 3 years before. Well there are other arrest dates listed, but all of them are well after 1954. I double checked and there's no use of wikidata or anything which would make these dates change without changes in our source. Nil Einne (talk) 16:59, 13 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Google's infobox says he was apprehended in 1951. I don't know why they say that, but there's nothing we can realistically do about it other than making sure our info is correct. We are not Google. I mean sure one of us could contact Google but there's no particular reason we should be expected to, you could do it yourself. Nil Einne (talk) 17:02, 13 October 2019 (UTC)
 * It was fine until various IP's started messing with it in mid-September. Presumably Google scraped one of the vandalized versions, and presumably it might fix itself in the future. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 19:13, 13 October 2019 (UTC)

I want the dirt on ... dirt
I've seen an empty city-block-sized lot, ready for a large building to be erected, with a huge mound of dirt on it, 30-40 feet high (10+ meters for the savage metric heathen) and held in place by large concrete Lego-like blocks (implying this is a common practice). What's up with that? The first thought that came to mind is that it's the dirt left over after excavating the basement for another building, but then what happens when they start digging here? Do they then have to find two lots to store the displaced soil? Clarityfiend (talk) 18:39, 13 October 2019 (UTC)


 * Sometimes this is done to compress the original fill on the site for various reasons, commonly to compact it after it has been disturbed.49.197.18.84 (talk) 04:14, 14 October 2019 (UTC)


 * Could be related to soil compaction, as IP said. This can be used to increase the bearing capacity of the underlying soil, and/or to minimize the soil consolidation or other sources of subsidence expected to follow construction. Someguy1221 (talk) 08:16, 14 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Perhaps a picture might help? Thanks Anton 81.131.40.58 (talk) 11:50, 14 October 2019 (UTC)


 * I don't have a digital camera (or a more conventional one either). However, you can sorta see it here, at least the Lego-blocks wall holding the dirt in place. Construction has started, so a lot of the dirt has been moved ... somewhere else now. Clarityfiend (talk) 05:08, 15 October 2019 (UTC)


 * Weird, I looked at your link once, then went back and looked at it again, and it was a different pic. In the first pic, I was able to go around to the side, and see where it was open and a Caterpillar tractor was there. That "pile of dirt" looked like construction grade sand, to me, without big rocks, twigs, broken bricks, etc. So, I suspect that temporary wall is just to keep it from sliding into the street. They may have gotten delivery of all the sand to be used under foundations of several buildings, and dumped it there until they were ready to use it elsewhere. SinisterLefty (talk) 05:37, 15 October 2019 (UTC)