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November 2

Reliable sources needed - Queen & Pagliacci

I need reliable sources for the connexion between Queen's The Show Must Go On and Ruggero Leoncavallo's Pagliacci. The idea that the show must go on is of course intimately connected with Vesti la giubba from Pag, and Queen previously made use of both the idea and the melody in It's a Hard Life. If anyone could provide what Wikipedia calls "reliable sources" for what is, as Fawlty would say, the bleeding obvious, I would be grateful. DuncanHill (talk) 01:02, 2 November 2021 (UTC)

How's your Italian? This seems pertinent. Alansplodge (talk) 11:27, 2 November 2021 (UTC)

Or in English, Queen FAQ: All That's Left to Know About Britain's Most Eccentric Band (p. 270). Alansplodge (talk) 12:40, 2 November 2021 (UTC)

How could I find info on American state law?

I'm working on the article on Dining and dashing, and I'm looking for resources to see Mississippi's law on Dining & Dashing. How would I be able to do that? Explodicator7331 (talk) 13:54, 2 November 2021 (UTC)

Try www.findlaw.com. Alansplodge (talk) 14:32, 2 November 2021 (UTC)

Thanks! I'll add this to the article now! Explodicator7331 (talk) 14:40, 2 November 2021 (UTC)

• MS §75-73-9 - Obtaining board and lodging with intent to defraud
• MS §1-3-11. Felony
• Coleman, Leigh (March 2, 2011). "Dine-and-dash accusation against actor Gary Collins dismissed". Reuters.

Names of impeachment trials

Are federal impeachment trials in the United States given names like United States v. [name of individual being tried]? If not, do the trials have official names at all? --Puzzledvegetable^{Is it teatime already?} 15:31, 2 November 2021 (UTC)

As far as I know, such trials are not typically given in the "v." formatting. They are simply called "the impeachment trial of X". These are not judicial trials in the normal sense we think of them, they are trials that occur in the legislature, and they follow their own peculiar (and often in each example, entirely sui generis) sets of rules and procedures. For example, I can find no references to "United States v. Clinton" that refer to the Impeachment trial of Bill Clinton, as you can see here, the only "United States v. Clinton" case that exists appears to be an unrelated case about a drug charge brought against one Johnny Clinton, and has nothing to do with the impeachment. There was a United States v. Nixon, but that was regarding executive privilege during the investigation phase, and not the actual impeachment trial (of which there was none, as Nixon resigned beforehand). --Jayron32 17:35, 2 November 2021 (UTC)