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October 13[edit]

How are the Romanian Revolution’s casualties divided?[edit]

This page says that a total of 689–1,290 people died in the revolution, but does not specify the victims’ factions (except for the Ceaușescus). How many of those killed in the revolution were securists, socialist officials, &c.? — (((Romanophile))) ♞ (contributions) 09:37, 13 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The Romanian Revolution of December 1989 (pp. 280-281 by Peter Siani-Davies.

A vintage bleve[edit]

My search skills aren't up to finding a ref desk correspondence from years ago; someone was talking about an olden-days BLEVE, in a glassworks, I believe; something about a glass ball filled with water, which rolled into a fire, and which subsequently exploded catastrophically, despite workers' efforts to prise it free. Can anyone help, please?

You can try looking at the "What links here?" for BLEVE - I can see several links over the years. Mikenorton (talk) 12:19, 13 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

You can narrow down the list by selecting the filter to only show items in the Wikipedia namespace, though it won't automatically include redirected items. For example, checking such links from Boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion only nets you a single link, whereas checking for what links to BLEVE nets you these seven more. Matt Deres (talk) 18:25, 15 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

thanks, both! 02:37, 16 October 2018 (UTC)