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...that Emma Cunningham was acquitted of the 1857 murder of her landlord because she falsely claimed to be
pregnant by him, and
Victorian morality prevented doctors from physically examining her?
...that Bertram Fraser-Reid is a Jamaica-born
chemist who founded a non-profit organization to find cures for tropical parasitic diseases like
malaria?
...that the
Champawat tigress and the
Tsavo lions had suffered injuries that disabled them from pursuing their natural prey, leading them to become man-eaters?
...that a stone run(
pictured) is a stable and conspicuous rock landform caused by a myriad of freezing-thawing cycles and also called a stone river, stone stream, or stone sea?
...that the Théâtrophone service (1890-1932) allowed the subscribers to listen to opera and theatre performances over the telephone lines?
...that Arthur Segal was prevented from exhibiting his art in
Germany because of his
Jewish background?
...that the massacre in Vinnytsia by the
Soviet secret police
NKVD in the
purges of 1937-1938 was investigated in 1943 during the
German invasion of
Ukraine and used in the propaganda war against the Soviet Union?
...that U.S. activist Kit Bakke went on from being considered a terrorist with a 400-page
FBI file to become a nurse for children with cancer?
...that the earliest
Portuguese description of
Malaysia, Tomé Pires'sSuma Oriental (completed in 1515), lay unpublished and presumed lost in an archive until 1944?
...that Pancha Carrasco became
Costa Rica's first woman in the military by joining the defending forces at the
Battle of Rivas rifle in hand and apron full of bullets?
...that John Gouriet organised the "Operation Pony Express" in 1977, where 100,000 films from the strikebound
Grunwick laboratory were posted across the
United Kingdom, getting around the refusal of the local postal workers to handle them?
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 Emma Cunningham was acquitted of the 1857 murder of her landlord because she falsely claimed to be
pregnant by him, and
Victorian morality prevented doctors from physically examining her?
...that Bertram Fraser-Reid is a Jamaica-born
chemist who founded a non-profit organization to find cures for tropical parasitic diseases like
malaria?
...that the
Champawat tigress and the
Tsavo lions had suffered injuries that disabled them from pursuing their natural prey, leading them to become man-eaters?
...that a stone run(
pictured) is a stable and conspicuous rock landform caused by a myriad of freezing-thawing cycles and also called a stone river, stone stream, or stone sea?
...that the Théâtrophone service (1890-1932) allowed the subscribers to listen to opera and theatre performances over the telephone lines?
...that Arthur Segal was prevented from exhibiting his art in
Germany because of his
Jewish background?
...that the massacre in Vinnytsia by the
Soviet secret police
NKVD in the
purges of 1937-1938 was investigated in 1943 during the
German invasion of
Ukraine and used in the propaganda war against the Soviet Union?
...that U.S. activist Kit Bakke went on from being considered a terrorist with a 400-page
FBI file to become a nurse for children with cancer?
...that the earliest
Portuguese description of
Malaysia, Tomé Pires'sSuma Oriental (completed in 1515), lay unpublished and presumed lost in an archive until 1944?
...that Pancha Carrasco became
Costa Rica's first woman in the military by joining the defending forces at the
Battle of Rivas rifle in hand and apron full of bullets?
...that John Gouriet organised the "Operation Pony Express" in 1977, where 100,000 films from the strikebound
Grunwick laboratory were posted across the
United Kingdom, getting around the refusal of the local postal workers to handle them?