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 Fabergé invoice for the Karelian Birch egg addressed the abdicated
Nicholas II of Russia as "Mr. Romanov Nikolai Aleksandrovich" instead of the previous "Tsar of all the Russias"?
...that systematic
mapping of the Michelangeloquadrangle on
Mercury has revealed the presence of four nearly obliterated multi-ring
impact basins, possibly the oldest features in the mapped areas of the planet
...that the suffering caused by 19th century floods and famines in Mymensingh District, presently in
Bangladesh, led to the sale of human beings for around the price of a
maund of
rice?
...that during a disastrous battle leading 6000 counter-revolutionaries during the
French Revolution, Joseph-Geneviève de Puisaye (pictured) fled by ship to England, claiming he needed to save official correspondence?
...that Simone Ortega has received prizes from both France and her native Spain for her bestselling range of cookery books, one of which has been updated 48 times and sold millions of copies in Spanish and English?
...that although Howard Johnson became an opponent of animal cruelty, he had earlier called for the
Britisharmy to deploy
flamethrowers to eliminate the
seaweed breeding grounds for a type of
fly?
...that
crème brûlée(
pictured) was invented in the 1690s by François Massialot, who recommended melting and burning the sugar topping with a red-hot fire shovel?
...that snocross riders travel up to 130 feet (40 meters) off jumps before they touch the ground?
...that in
1759, François Thurot's ship set out to create a diversion from an invasion of
Britain only to learn, after months of storms and starvation, that the invasion fleet had been
defeated before it even left France?
...that the Tolstoj crater, a 400-km (240 mile) wide
impact crater on the planet
Mercury has an extensive, and remarkably well-preserved, radially-lineated
ejecta blanket?
...that Eduardo Serra Rexach is the only person to have held public office with all three governing parties of democratic
Spain?
...that Tetsuya Ota won a lawsuit against race organizers of the now infamous
1998JGTC race at
Fuji Speedway, despite signing a pledge not to seek compensation?
...that the dinosaur
fossilDakota is so well-preserved it has caused researchers to revise their estimates of the appearance, size, and speed of a whole group of dinosaurs known as
hadrosaurs?
...that in the 1947 college football rankings, southern voters refused to vote for the integrated
Michigan Wolverines football team with black stars such as Gene Derricotte?
...that gender-bending
party promoterAndre J. appeared on the November 2007 cover of French Vogue wearing a women’s neoprene trench coat and ankle boots?
...that the dinosaur
fossilDakota is so well-preserved it has caused researchers to revise their estimates of the appearance, size, and speed of a whole group of dinosaurs known as
hadrosaurs?
...that
college football coach
Bo Schembechler died the day after attending the funeral of his 1971 quarterback Tom Slade and urging the football team to be "as good a Michigan man as Slade"?
...that Are You There? was widely promoted because of its score by
Ruggero Leoncavallo (best known for his opera Pagliacci), but the first-night audience were incensed when it turned out to have very little music?
...that
Gerald Ford's two greatest regrets in life were losing the starting
center job in college to All-American Chuck Bernard and losing a presidential election?
... theSafety Promotion Center, established by
Japan Airlines after the worst single aircraft accident in history, has passengers' farewell letters and wreckage on display to educate employees about safety?
...that
EnglishbotanistJohn Parkinson included a pun on his name in the title of his monumental 1629 work Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris? (It translates as Park-in-Sun's Terrestrial Paradise.)
...that the 1609 Treaty of Antwerp was influenced by the writings of
Hugo Grotius in the Mare Liberum, which was published at the insistence of the
Dutch East India Company during the course of the treaty negotiations?
...that the
Brazillianendemic genus Philcoxia, which may represent another genus of
carnivorous plants, was formally described in scientific literature 34 years after the first specimen had been discovered?
...that a possible local subsidence forced the Jalangi River, in
West Bengal, to flow in a south westerly direction, reverting the earlier trend of rivers in the region flowing in a south easterly direction?
...that the
Catalan lords Arnau Mir de Tost and his son-in-law Raymond IV of Pallars Jussà shared a scribe, Vidal, who helped introduce the use of written "conventions" for the feudal restructuring of western Catalonia?
...that according to legend,
ChristianmartyrSaint Getulius and his associates were clubbed to death after they had been thrown into flames but emerged unharmed?
...that Rev. Robert Shields maintained a diary chronicling every five minutes of his life for 25 years from 1972 until 1997, and only slept two hours at a time so he could record his dreams?
...that the haor located in north-eastern
Bangladesh, is a bowl-shaped
depression with such vast stretches of turbulent water that it is thought of as a
sea during a
monsoon?
...that a silver dish thought to be the
Ancient RomanRisley Park Lanx was on display in the
British Museum for several before being determined to be a complete fabrication?
...that John Straffen, a triple child-killer who escaped from
Broadmoor, served 55 years in prison becoming the longest-serving prisoner in British history?
...that, after hitting another driver from behind in heavy traffic, screenwriter Jennifer Philbin and her husband
Michael Schur raised
$26,000 for
charity in a retaliation campaign instead of paying $840 to fix the driver's broken bumper?
...that the 1300 identified Mesoamerican ballcourts used for playing the
Mesoamericanballgame(see drawing) were all built in the same basic shape despite a span of 2700 years?
...that Pundravardhana was a territory, mostly in present-day
Bangladesh, of the Pundras, a group of non-
Aryan people, dating back to
8th-
7th centuries
BC?
...that Frank Rennie joined the
New Zealand Army at age 16, to prove to himself 20 months in hospital hadn't crippled him, and went on to become Colonel?
...that Mahasthangarh(
ramparts pictured) is the earliest urban archaeological site so far discovered in
Bangladesh, dating back to at least the 3rd century B.C.?
...that Dutch artist Folke Heybroek's works include
stained glass windows (
pictured), iron and concrete sculptures, paintings, and textile designs, decorating about 70 public spaces in Sweden?
...that in the 1659 English play The English Moor, noted for its use of
blackface make-up, one main character implies that Blacks and Whites are created equal by God?
...that Project Lauren is the codename for an unannounced British airline that will provide service between the U.S. and continental Europe, bypassing the U.K. and that aircraft have already been acquired?
...that June Bride, filmed with two versions of a dialog naming the candidates to the 1948 U.S presidency, opened in theaters with the wrong future president named? Dewey seemed a sure win, so the Dewey line was retained in the original release. When Truman unexpectedly won the election, a revised reel was sent to theaters.
...that John Mawe, who studied the
mineralogy of
Derbyshire, was arrested as a spy in 1805 before publishing accounts of his travels in
Brazil?
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 Fabergé invoice for the Karelian Birch egg addressed the abdicated
Nicholas II of Russia as "Mr. Romanov Nikolai Aleksandrovich" instead of the previous "Tsar of all the Russias"?
...that systematic
mapping of the Michelangeloquadrangle on
Mercury has revealed the presence of four nearly obliterated multi-ring
impact basins, possibly the oldest features in the mapped areas of the planet
...that the suffering caused by 19th century floods and famines in Mymensingh District, presently in
Bangladesh, led to the sale of human beings for around the price of a
maund of
rice?
...that during a disastrous battle leading 6000 counter-revolutionaries during the
French Revolution, Joseph-Geneviève de Puisaye (pictured) fled by ship to England, claiming he needed to save official correspondence?
...that Simone Ortega has received prizes from both France and her native Spain for her bestselling range of cookery books, one of which has been updated 48 times and sold millions of copies in Spanish and English?
...that although Howard Johnson became an opponent of animal cruelty, he had earlier called for the
Britisharmy to deploy
flamethrowers to eliminate the
seaweed breeding grounds for a type of
fly?
...that
crème brûlée(
pictured) was invented in the 1690s by François Massialot, who recommended melting and burning the sugar topping with a red-hot fire shovel?
...that snocross riders travel up to 130 feet (40 meters) off jumps before they touch the ground?
...that in
1759, François Thurot's ship set out to create a diversion from an invasion of
Britain only to learn, after months of storms and starvation, that the invasion fleet had been
defeated before it even left France?
...that the Tolstoj crater, a 400-km (240 mile) wide
impact crater on the planet
Mercury has an extensive, and remarkably well-preserved, radially-lineated
ejecta blanket?
...that Eduardo Serra Rexach is the only person to have held public office with all three governing parties of democratic
Spain?
...that Tetsuya Ota won a lawsuit against race organizers of the now infamous
1998JGTC race at
Fuji Speedway, despite signing a pledge not to seek compensation?
...that the dinosaur
fossilDakota is so well-preserved it has caused researchers to revise their estimates of the appearance, size, and speed of a whole group of dinosaurs known as
hadrosaurs?
...that in the 1947 college football rankings, southern voters refused to vote for the integrated
Michigan Wolverines football team with black stars such as Gene Derricotte?
...that gender-bending
party promoterAndre J. appeared on the November 2007 cover of French Vogue wearing a women’s neoprene trench coat and ankle boots?
...that the dinosaur
fossilDakota is so well-preserved it has caused researchers to revise their estimates of the appearance, size, and speed of a whole group of dinosaurs known as
hadrosaurs?
...that
college football coach
Bo Schembechler died the day after attending the funeral of his 1971 quarterback Tom Slade and urging the football team to be "as good a Michigan man as Slade"?
...that Are You There? was widely promoted because of its score by
Ruggero Leoncavallo (best known for his opera Pagliacci), but the first-night audience were incensed when it turned out to have very little music?
...that
Gerald Ford's two greatest regrets in life were losing the starting
center job in college to All-American Chuck Bernard and losing a presidential election?
... theSafety Promotion Center, established by
Japan Airlines after the worst single aircraft accident in history, has passengers' farewell letters and wreckage on display to educate employees about safety?
...that
EnglishbotanistJohn Parkinson included a pun on his name in the title of his monumental 1629 work Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris? (It translates as Park-in-Sun's Terrestrial Paradise.)
...that the 1609 Treaty of Antwerp was influenced by the writings of
Hugo Grotius in the Mare Liberum, which was published at the insistence of the
Dutch East India Company during the course of the treaty negotiations?
...that the
Brazillianendemic genus Philcoxia, which may represent another genus of
carnivorous plants, was formally described in scientific literature 34 years after the first specimen had been discovered?
...that a possible local subsidence forced the Jalangi River, in
West Bengal, to flow in a south westerly direction, reverting the earlier trend of rivers in the region flowing in a south easterly direction?
...that the
Catalan lords Arnau Mir de Tost and his son-in-law Raymond IV of Pallars Jussà shared a scribe, Vidal, who helped introduce the use of written "conventions" for the feudal restructuring of western Catalonia?
...that according to legend,
ChristianmartyrSaint Getulius and his associates were clubbed to death after they had been thrown into flames but emerged unharmed?
...that Rev. Robert Shields maintained a diary chronicling every five minutes of his life for 25 years from 1972 until 1997, and only slept two hours at a time so he could record his dreams?
...that the haor located in north-eastern
Bangladesh, is a bowl-shaped
depression with such vast stretches of turbulent water that it is thought of as a
sea during a
monsoon?
...that a silver dish thought to be the
Ancient RomanRisley Park Lanx was on display in the
British Museum for several before being determined to be a complete fabrication?
...that John Straffen, a triple child-killer who escaped from
Broadmoor, served 55 years in prison becoming the longest-serving prisoner in British history?
...that, after hitting another driver from behind in heavy traffic, screenwriter Jennifer Philbin and her husband
Michael Schur raised
$26,000 for
charity in a retaliation campaign instead of paying $840 to fix the driver's broken bumper?
...that the 1300 identified Mesoamerican ballcourts used for playing the
Mesoamericanballgame(see drawing) were all built in the same basic shape despite a span of 2700 years?
...that Pundravardhana was a territory, mostly in present-day
Bangladesh, of the Pundras, a group of non-
Aryan people, dating back to
8th-
7th centuries
BC?
...that Frank Rennie joined the
New Zealand Army at age 16, to prove to himself 20 months in hospital hadn't crippled him, and went on to become Colonel?
...that Mahasthangarh(
ramparts pictured) is the earliest urban archaeological site so far discovered in
Bangladesh, dating back to at least the 3rd century B.C.?
...that Dutch artist Folke Heybroek's works include
stained glass windows (
pictured), iron and concrete sculptures, paintings, and textile designs, decorating about 70 public spaces in Sweden?
...that in the 1659 English play The English Moor, noted for its use of
blackface make-up, one main character implies that Blacks and Whites are created equal by God?
...that Project Lauren is the codename for an unannounced British airline that will provide service between the U.S. and continental Europe, bypassing the U.K. and that aircraft have already been acquired?
...that June Bride, filmed with two versions of a dialog naming the candidates to the 1948 U.S presidency, opened in theaters with the wrong future president named? Dewey seemed a sure win, so the Dewey line was retained in the original release. When Truman unexpectedly won the election, a revised reel was sent to theaters.
...that John Mawe, who studied the
mineralogy of
Derbyshire, was arrested as a spy in 1805 before publishing accounts of his travels in
Brazil?