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...that the field of
island restoration is usually credited with having been started in
New Zealand in the
1960s?
...that
Edgar Evans was the first person to die on the ill-fated
Scott Polar Expedition of
1910-
1912?
...that
Bitòn Coulibaly transformed a
Ségou youth organisation into an army that he used to found the
eighteenth-century
Bambara Empire?
...that
Johnny Rodgers was voted the
University of Nebraska's
college football "Player of the Century" and College Football News called him "the greatest kick returner in college football history"?
...that the
soleus muscle is a
leg
muscle important for standing, walking, and running?
...that the
Peul preacher and social reformer
Seku Amadu led a
jihad against the
Bambara Empire of nineteenth-century
West Africa to found his own
theocratic
Massina Empire?
... that the
Working Group on Internet Governance is a
United Nations body set up to investigate the future governance of the
Internet and the role of
ICANN?
...that
adjustable gastric banding is a form of
weight loss surgery which does not cut into or remove any part of the
digestive system?
... that
Puerto Rican painter
Antonio Martorell was about to be on one of the
trains bombed during the
7 July 2005 London bombings, but he stopped at his hotel's restaurant to get breakfast and learned about the bombings while at the restaurant?
...that the poems of
Richard Dehmel were set to music by composers like
Richard Strauss,
Max Reger,
Arnold Schönberg and
Kurt Weill, or inspired them to write music?
...that
Clyde Tunnel in
Glasgow was built rather than a bridge to not interfere with
shipping, a concern which was out of date by the tunnel's completion?
... that
NASA,
Google,
Microsoft and
Yahoo! are shipping their own
GIS
killer applications known as the "
virtual globe"?
...that the
Super Buddies, a team of
DC Comics
superheroes, were a comedic
Justice League offshoot who first appeared in the
Eisner Award-winning miniseries Formerly Known as the Justice League?
... that
Yogi Rock is a rock found on
Mars by the
Mars Pathfinder mission that looks surprisingly like
Yogi Bear's head?
... that
California Certified Organic Farmers was one of the first US based organizations to certify
organic farmers?
... that the
St'at'imcets language, and
endangered language of
British Columbia, is like
Semitic languages in that it has also has
pharyngeal consonants?
...that businessman
Ginery Twichell started in
stage lines before transitioning to
railroads and three terms in the
U.S. Congress?
... that the
Wallkill River is one of the few rivers that drains into a
creek, because it is
impounded just before the
confluence?
... that
Wilfred Stamp, 2nd Baron Stamp holds the record for holding a peerage for the shortest length of time?
... that the
Springboro Star Press is a weekly newspaper in southwestern
Ohio published since
1976?
...that the
Karl-Marx-Hof in
Vienna is the longest single
residential building in the world and spans four
tram stations?
...that
khash is a traditional
Armenian dish from the
Shirak region which has
cow's feet as its main ingredient?
...that the first known classical
fiction in
Korean literature called Kumo shinhwa (Kumo's tales) by Kim Shi-sup was written in
Chinese characters?
...that the
Swedish Bikini Team, an
advertising and
marketing campaign for
Old Milwaukee
beer was shut down in the
U.S. following protests by the
National Organization for Women?
...that
First Monday was a
U.S.
television program about a
moderate
U.S. Supreme Court
Justice appointed to a court evenly divided between
conservatives and
liberals?
...that the
Choristodera are extinct
reptiles that lived during the time of the
dinosaurs and have a
skull structure similar to that of the modern day
Gharial?
...that legendary
producer and
arranger
Quincy Jones produced
jazz
vocalist
Helen Merrill's self-titled debut album when he was just 21 years old?
...that the
Irish cricket team didn't become an official member of the
International Cricket Council until
1993, despite having played
first-class cricket matches since
1902, including games against
Scotland,
Australia and
New Zealand?
...that King
Ali bin Hussein of Hejaz succeeded to his father's titles of king and
Sharif of Mecca in
1924, only a year before their territory was conquered and annexed by the
House of Saud?
...that "
Jive Talkin'" is considered to be the "comeback" song for the
Bee Gees, after an absence of three years from the
Top 40 charts?
...that
Argentinian painter
Benito Quinquela Martín, who painted Dia de Sol (right), was adopted at the age of 6 from an
orphanage where he was abandoned as a baby on
March 21,
1890?
...that the
Gwenn ha du organisation made a
bomb out of a
condensed milk carton which blew up a statue in
Rennes?
...that the
composer
Johannes Brahms premiered his
Academic Festival Overture, a musical
fantasy based on several
student drinking songs, at the
University of Breslau's
convocation to thank the institution for granting him an
honorary doctorate?
...that
foxtail millet has the longest history of cultivation among the
millets, having been grown in
China since between three and four thousand years ago?
...that
Dr. Ibrahim Oweiss,
Georgetown University
economics
professor, coined the term "
petrodollars" to describe the
US dollar income of oil-producing countries in
1973?
...that
Chingay Parade in
Singapore, a display of floats, music and dances, is a major festival in Asia attended by more than 200,000 people and watched by millions on TV across Asia?
...that
tobacco advertising is one of the most highly-regulated forms of
marketing, along with
alcohol, and is banned in many countries?
...that research on U.S.
compulsory sterilization legislation by American
eugenicist
E.S. Gosney was cited by officials in
Nazi Germany as the basis of their own forced sterilization policy?
...that like many
desert
rodents,
kangaroo mice go their entire lives without drinking and get
water from their
food?
...that
Ronald Bass, the
Academy Award-winning
screenwriter of
Rain Man, taught himself to read by the age of three?
...that
Chris Woods cost
Queens Park Rangers 250,000
pounds from
Nottingham Forest in
1979 even though he had never played a
League game before his transfer?
...that the
Tarot of Marseilles is the source of most contemporary designs of
tarot cards?
...that
Malian
fashion designer
Chris Seydou pioneered the use of
bògòlanfini, a traditional
Bamana mudcloth, in international fashion?
...that
Lord of the Nutcracker Men was a
2001 children's novel about
World War I?
...that
Charles Darwin's illness, which afflicted him for 40 years, could have been
Chagas disease, an exotic South American parasitic infection transmitted by the bite of the
assassin bug, a
hematophagous insect, while he was exploring the
Andes during the famed
voyage of the Beagle?
...that
Huchoun was one of the earliest
Scottish poets and wrote a number of important
alliterative verse romances in the early
14th century?
...that the
Indian Railways Fan Club is the [[
Internet's largest
website devoted to the
Indian Railways and
rail transport in the
Indian subcontinent?
...that
William Dudley Chipley first brought
rail lines to
Pensacola, Florida, connecting the
Atlantic coast of Florida with other
Gulf Coast states for the first time?
...that
Barbara Cassani founded the
budget airline
Go Fly before becoming the initial leader of
London's bid for the
2012 Summer Olympics?
...that the
genetically modified
plum C5 is the only
Prunus species resistant to the devastating plant disease
plum pox?
...that
Ferrellgas, the largest
propane retail distributor in the
United States, started in
1939 as a family-owned business in
Atchison, Kansas?
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Nominate an article | WP:DYKCNN |
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Userboxes | WP:DYKUBX |
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... by nominations | WP:DYKNC |
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...that the field of
island restoration is usually credited with having been started in
New Zealand in the
1960s?
...that
Edgar Evans was the first person to die on the ill-fated
Scott Polar Expedition of
1910-
1912?
...that
Bitòn Coulibaly transformed a
Ségou youth organisation into an army that he used to found the
eighteenth-century
Bambara Empire?
...that
Johnny Rodgers was voted the
University of Nebraska's
college football "Player of the Century" and College Football News called him "the greatest kick returner in college football history"?
...that the
soleus muscle is a
leg
muscle important for standing, walking, and running?
...that the
Peul preacher and social reformer
Seku Amadu led a
jihad against the
Bambara Empire of nineteenth-century
West Africa to found his own
theocratic
Massina Empire?
... that the
Working Group on Internet Governance is a
United Nations body set up to investigate the future governance of the
Internet and the role of
ICANN?
...that
adjustable gastric banding is a form of
weight loss surgery which does not cut into or remove any part of the
digestive system?
... that
Puerto Rican painter
Antonio Martorell was about to be on one of the
trains bombed during the
7 July 2005 London bombings, but he stopped at his hotel's restaurant to get breakfast and learned about the bombings while at the restaurant?
...that the poems of
Richard Dehmel were set to music by composers like
Richard Strauss,
Max Reger,
Arnold Schönberg and
Kurt Weill, or inspired them to write music?
...that
Clyde Tunnel in
Glasgow was built rather than a bridge to not interfere with
shipping, a concern which was out of date by the tunnel's completion?
... that
NASA,
Google,
Microsoft and
Yahoo! are shipping their own
GIS
killer applications known as the "
virtual globe"?
...that the
Super Buddies, a team of
DC Comics
superheroes, were a comedic
Justice League offshoot who first appeared in the
Eisner Award-winning miniseries Formerly Known as the Justice League?
... that
Yogi Rock is a rock found on
Mars by the
Mars Pathfinder mission that looks surprisingly like
Yogi Bear's head?
... that
California Certified Organic Farmers was one of the first US based organizations to certify
organic farmers?
... that the
St'at'imcets language, and
endangered language of
British Columbia, is like
Semitic languages in that it has also has
pharyngeal consonants?
...that businessman
Ginery Twichell started in
stage lines before transitioning to
railroads and three terms in the
U.S. Congress?
... that the
Wallkill River is one of the few rivers that drains into a
creek, because it is
impounded just before the
confluence?
... that
Wilfred Stamp, 2nd Baron Stamp holds the record for holding a peerage for the shortest length of time?
... that the
Springboro Star Press is a weekly newspaper in southwestern
Ohio published since
1976?
...that the
Karl-Marx-Hof in
Vienna is the longest single
residential building in the world and spans four
tram stations?
...that
khash is a traditional
Armenian dish from the
Shirak region which has
cow's feet as its main ingredient?
...that the first known classical
fiction in
Korean literature called Kumo shinhwa (Kumo's tales) by Kim Shi-sup was written in
Chinese characters?
...that the
Swedish Bikini Team, an
advertising and
marketing campaign for
Old Milwaukee
beer was shut down in the
U.S. following protests by the
National Organization for Women?
...that
First Monday was a
U.S.
television program about a
moderate
U.S. Supreme Court
Justice appointed to a court evenly divided between
conservatives and
liberals?
...that the
Choristodera are extinct
reptiles that lived during the time of the
dinosaurs and have a
skull structure similar to that of the modern day
Gharial?
...that legendary
producer and
arranger
Quincy Jones produced
jazz
vocalist
Helen Merrill's self-titled debut album when he was just 21 years old?
...that the
Irish cricket team didn't become an official member of the
International Cricket Council until
1993, despite having played
first-class cricket matches since
1902, including games against
Scotland,
Australia and
New Zealand?
...that King
Ali bin Hussein of Hejaz succeeded to his father's titles of king and
Sharif of Mecca in
1924, only a year before their territory was conquered and annexed by the
House of Saud?
...that "
Jive Talkin'" is considered to be the "comeback" song for the
Bee Gees, after an absence of three years from the
Top 40 charts?
...that
Argentinian painter
Benito Quinquela Martín, who painted Dia de Sol (right), was adopted at the age of 6 from an
orphanage where he was abandoned as a baby on
March 21,
1890?
...that the
Gwenn ha du organisation made a
bomb out of a
condensed milk carton which blew up a statue in
Rennes?
...that the
composer
Johannes Brahms premiered his
Academic Festival Overture, a musical
fantasy based on several
student drinking songs, at the
University of Breslau's
convocation to thank the institution for granting him an
honorary doctorate?
...that
foxtail millet has the longest history of cultivation among the
millets, having been grown in
China since between three and four thousand years ago?
...that
Dr. Ibrahim Oweiss,
Georgetown University
economics
professor, coined the term "
petrodollars" to describe the
US dollar income of oil-producing countries in
1973?
...that
Chingay Parade in
Singapore, a display of floats, music and dances, is a major festival in Asia attended by more than 200,000 people and watched by millions on TV across Asia?
...that
tobacco advertising is one of the most highly-regulated forms of
marketing, along with
alcohol, and is banned in many countries?
...that research on U.S.
compulsory sterilization legislation by American
eugenicist
E.S. Gosney was cited by officials in
Nazi Germany as the basis of their own forced sterilization policy?
...that like many
desert
rodents,
kangaroo mice go their entire lives without drinking and get
water from their
food?
...that
Ronald Bass, the
Academy Award-winning
screenwriter of
Rain Man, taught himself to read by the age of three?
...that
Chris Woods cost
Queens Park Rangers 250,000
pounds from
Nottingham Forest in
1979 even though he had never played a
League game before his transfer?
...that the
Tarot of Marseilles is the source of most contemporary designs of
tarot cards?
...that
Malian
fashion designer
Chris Seydou pioneered the use of
bògòlanfini, a traditional
Bamana mudcloth, in international fashion?
...that
Lord of the Nutcracker Men was a
2001 children's novel about
World War I?
...that
Charles Darwin's illness, which afflicted him for 40 years, could have been
Chagas disease, an exotic South American parasitic infection transmitted by the bite of the
assassin bug, a
hematophagous insect, while he was exploring the
Andes during the famed
voyage of the Beagle?
...that
Huchoun was one of the earliest
Scottish poets and wrote a number of important
alliterative verse romances in the early
14th century?
...that the
Indian Railways Fan Club is the [[
Internet's largest
website devoted to the
Indian Railways and
rail transport in the
Indian subcontinent?
...that
William Dudley Chipley first brought
rail lines to
Pensacola, Florida, connecting the
Atlantic coast of Florida with other
Gulf Coast states for the first time?
...that
Barbara Cassani founded the
budget airline
Go Fly before becoming the initial leader of
London's bid for the
2012 Summer Olympics?
...that the
genetically modified
plum C5 is the only
Prunus species resistant to the devastating plant disease
plum pox?
...that
Ferrellgas, the largest
propane retail distributor in the
United States, started in
1939 as a family-owned business in
Atchison, Kansas?