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October 31

Names of late Roman emperors

Seemingly some emperors starting from Jovian and up to Romulus Augustulus didn't have nomen or cognomen. However, Roman naming conventions says that "the combination of praenomen, nomen, and cognomen [...] represent a continuous process of development [...] to the end of the seventh century AD". Is it because of their non-native foreign ancestry or something else? 212.180.235.46 (talk) 11:09, 31 October 2022 (UTC)

The term "development" should be what you focus on their, as in the system was constantly changing and evolving. There was not necessarily a consistent system of naming from Ab urbe condita down to the fall of Constantinople in 1453, that's over 2000 years of history and things change a LOT in 2000 years. --Jayron32 11:20, 31 October 2022 (UTC)

As time went on, emperors were chosen increasingly from outside the city of Rome, and then from outside Italy (see Illyrian emperors, etc), which is probably relevant, yes... AnonMoos (talk) 11:45, 31 October 2022 (UTC)

Alberico Biadene (1900-1985)

For the Italian engineer in Vajont disaster, can you find the day, month, and cause of death; and also the names of his wife and children? Maybe on "Ancestry.com". Thank you very much. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.207.218.135 (talk) 14:20, 31 October 2022 (UTC)

He died in Venice between 1 January and 28 November 1985. Maybe consult the records of the Italian equivalent of the General Register Office? 79.76.33.181 (talk) 16:23, 31 October 2022 (UTC)

Maybe are better sites about genealigy. Can you help me? Thank you very much.

where Merced River, Yosemite Valley painted?

Bierstadt Albert Merced River Yosemite Valley

I looking for it in the past months and I cannot find the place. I know of he painted it in Yosemite National Park but I want to know when exactly he painted it because I want to compare the painting to the real place. sorry about bad English it isn't my first language. שטרודל מאן (talk) 18:17, 31 October 2022 (UTC)

Hello, שטרודל מאן. I believe that is Sentinel Rock which is on the other side of Yosemite Valley from Yosemite Falls. I wrote most of the biography of Allen Steck and contributed significantly to John Salathé. They are the two rock climbers who first climbed it in 1950. Cullen328 (talk) 18:33, 31 October 2022 (UTC)

Yosemite National Park 1989 24

This is a view from a slightly different angle, and much closer. Cullen328 (talk) 18:37, 31 October 2022 (UTC)

Steck-Salathé Route is the article about the climb. Cullen328 (talk) 18:40, 31 October 2022 (UTC)

A paradox of viewing steep mountain peaks is that the closer you get to a peak, the less impressive it looks in isolation. Cullen328 (talk) 04:52, 1 November 2022 (UTC)

If you want to find the place where Bierstadt created this painting, it should be very easy to come very close. An excellent highway runs alongside the north side of the Merced River in this area, and there are several parking lots for people wanting to view Yosemite Falls and surrounding areas. Cullen328 (talk) 04:58, 1 November 2022 (UTC)

thanks you very much! שטרודל מאן (talk) 06:59, 1 November 2022 (UTC)

By the way, it was not unknown for 19th-century landscape painters to exaggerate the height of mountain peaks to make their paintings seem more dramatic, a form of artistic licence. This page compares a painting of the English Lake District by J M W Turner with a photograph of the same viewpoint today, with the actual mountains being noticeably lower than their representations in paint. I suppose that the artist believed that most of the people who saw the painting would be unfamiliar with the depicted landscape. Alansplodge (talk) 09:53, 1 November 2022 (UTC)

thanks you very much too. שטרודל מאן (talk) 15:49, 1 November 2022 (UTC)

Here is a good discussion of the liberties Bierstadt took. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇}