Archives are generally grouped by month of Main Page appearance. (Currently, DYK hooks are archived according to the date and time that they were taken off the Main Page.) To find which archive contains the fact that appeared on Did you know, go to article's
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...that the Australian town of Great Western, Victoria is home to a series of labyrinthine tunnels ("drives"), originally made by miners
searching for gold and now used to store
sparkling wine while it is resting and settling?
...that Elsa Eschelsson, the first woman both to finish a
doctorate in Law and to teach in a university in
Sweden, was denied the right to serve even as acting professor because of her sex?
...that the law enforcement agencies of
Adjara made a gift of four cars and two two-roomed apartments to six of its most successful officers?
...that Charles Macartney, who set a record for the most
runs scored in one day, first learnt to
bat with
apples from the family orchard?
...that
Oregon Governor
Oswald West sent his personal secretary Miss Fern Hobbs to Copperfield, Oregon, to shut down illegal activities and impose
martial law in 1914?
...that the climate of Florida includes snowfall or sleet as early as November (in 2006) and as late as April (in 2007)?
...that when British
charityAid Convoy's first dedicated vehicle broke down while delivering aid to the
Macedonia, it was rescued by British radio and TV presenter
Simon Mayo?
...that Gordon Murray, the creator of classic British children's television shows Trumpton, Camberwick Green and Chigley, burnt all but one of his puppets on a bonfire in the 1980s?
...that for the past 16 years Michael Kesterton has written a column in The Globe and Mail made up of a collection of odd news stories pulled from various sources?
...that after the 1607 Battle of Guzów, the victorious King
Sigismund III Vasa gave a general amnesty which punished nobody and decided nothing?
...that in 1877 naturalist
John Muir described the waterfall in Eaton Canyon(
pictured) as "a charming little thing, with a low, sweet voice, singing like a bird, as it pours from a notch in a short ledge, some thirty or forty feet into a round mirror-pool"?
...that four Japanese War Memorials found in the Japanese Cemetery Park(
pictured) were built without knowledge of the British colonial government of
Singapore?
...that Don Tallon, regarded as one of Australia's greatest ever wicketkeepers, was once dropped from his
state team because he was ruled to be too young to travel interstate?
...that John J. Bernet was known for bringing
railroad companies back from
bankruptcy to solvency, earning him the nickname "Doctor of Sick Railroads"?
...that Peter Herdic, a 19th century
Pennsylvania lumber baron, millionaire, and philanthropist, also invented the horse-drawn
herdic, an early form of taxicab?
...that
Luxembourg City's Place Guillaume II is colloquially known as the 'Knuedler', after the knot in the belt worn by
Franciscan friars, one of whose monasteries once stood there?
...that Matysiakowie is both the most popular
radio drama in
Poland and one of the longest running in the world, with over 2600 episodes broadcast since 1956?
...that Paula Cooper, sentenced to death at age 15, had her sentence commuted in 1989 after an international uproar ensued and
PopeJohn Paul II appealed to the
Governor of
Indiana for leniency?
...that little is known about the career of American architect John S. Van Bergen, a colleague of
Frank Lloyd Wright, because a fire in 1964 destroyed most of his architectural drawings and records?
Archives are generally grouped by month of Main Page appearance. (Currently, DYK hooks are archived according to the date and time that they were taken off the Main Page.) To find which archive contains the fact that appeared on Did you know, go to article's
talk page and follow the archive link in the DYK talk page message box.
...that the Australian town of Great Western, Victoria is home to a series of labyrinthine tunnels ("drives"), originally made by miners
searching for gold and now used to store
sparkling wine while it is resting and settling?
...that Elsa Eschelsson, the first woman both to finish a
doctorate in Law and to teach in a university in
Sweden, was denied the right to serve even as acting professor because of her sex?
...that the law enforcement agencies of
Adjara made a gift of four cars and two two-roomed apartments to six of its most successful officers?
...that Charles Macartney, who set a record for the most
runs scored in one day, first learnt to
bat with
apples from the family orchard?
...that
Oregon Governor
Oswald West sent his personal secretary Miss Fern Hobbs to Copperfield, Oregon, to shut down illegal activities and impose
martial law in 1914?
...that the climate of Florida includes snowfall or sleet as early as November (in 2006) and as late as April (in 2007)?
...that when British
charityAid Convoy's first dedicated vehicle broke down while delivering aid to the
Macedonia, it was rescued by British radio and TV presenter
Simon Mayo?
...that Gordon Murray, the creator of classic British children's television shows Trumpton, Camberwick Green and Chigley, burnt all but one of his puppets on a bonfire in the 1980s?
...that for the past 16 years Michael Kesterton has written a column in The Globe and Mail made up of a collection of odd news stories pulled from various sources?
...that after the 1607 Battle of Guzów, the victorious King
Sigismund III Vasa gave a general amnesty which punished nobody and decided nothing?
...that in 1877 naturalist
John Muir described the waterfall in Eaton Canyon(
pictured) as "a charming little thing, with a low, sweet voice, singing like a bird, as it pours from a notch in a short ledge, some thirty or forty feet into a round mirror-pool"?
...that four Japanese War Memorials found in the Japanese Cemetery Park(
pictured) were built without knowledge of the British colonial government of
Singapore?
...that Don Tallon, regarded as one of Australia's greatest ever wicketkeepers, was once dropped from his
state team because he was ruled to be too young to travel interstate?
...that John J. Bernet was known for bringing
railroad companies back from
bankruptcy to solvency, earning him the nickname "Doctor of Sick Railroads"?
...that Peter Herdic, a 19th century
Pennsylvania lumber baron, millionaire, and philanthropist, also invented the horse-drawn
herdic, an early form of taxicab?
...that
Luxembourg City's Place Guillaume II is colloquially known as the 'Knuedler', after the knot in the belt worn by
Franciscan friars, one of whose monasteries once stood there?
...that Matysiakowie is both the most popular
radio drama in
Poland and one of the longest running in the world, with over 2600 episodes broadcast since 1956?
...that Paula Cooper, sentenced to death at age 15, had her sentence commuted in 1989 after an international uproar ensued and
PopeJohn Paul II appealed to the
Governor of
Indiana for leniency?
...that little is known about the career of American architect John S. Van Bergen, a colleague of
Frank Lloyd Wright, because a fire in 1964 destroyed most of his architectural drawings and records?