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 a feature story is an article in a
newspaper, a
magazine, or a
news website that is not meant to report
breaking news, but rather to take an in-depth look at the background events, persons or circumstances behind a news story?
...that the 1672 treatise Loimologia is a rare first-hand account of the
Great Plague of London, written by one of the few physicians to remain in the city during the plague?
...that Willi Ninja's distinctive dance style was an inspiration for
Madonna's 1990 song "
Vogue"?
...that
Virginia Congressman,
John Floyd argued for settlement of the
Oregon Territory twenty-eight years before it became an official United States territory?
...that the Peace of Rueil, signed 11 March 1649 between the court party and the party of the
Parlement of Paris, brought to an end the first phase of France's first revolution, the
Fronde?
...that when the Menier company built the first mass production plant for
chocolate in 1830, it was the largest chocolate manufacturing company in the world?
...that the world's record auction price for a single piece of silver was achieved by a silver tureen made by the Parisian silversmith Thomas Germain in 1733, sold in November 1996 for US$ 10,287,500, triple the former record?
...that
cyclistGerald Ciolek became the youngest ever
German National Cycling Champion, aged just 18 in 2005?
...that in 1996 Andy Campbell, a ranger serving as Tunnel Mill Scout Reservation's caretaker, was shot to death by a wandering drunk who trespassed onto the property, the first such incident in the history of Scouting?
...that the first
television set made entirely in
Poland, the Belweder, cost 7000
złoty at the time when the average monthly salary ranged from 1 to 2 thousand?
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 a feature story is an article in a
newspaper, a
magazine, or a
news website that is not meant to report
breaking news, but rather to take an in-depth look at the background events, persons or circumstances behind a news story?
...that the 1672 treatise Loimologia is a rare first-hand account of the
Great Plague of London, written by one of the few physicians to remain in the city during the plague?
...that Willi Ninja's distinctive dance style was an inspiration for
Madonna's 1990 song "
Vogue"?
...that
Virginia Congressman,
John Floyd argued for settlement of the
Oregon Territory twenty-eight years before it became an official United States territory?
...that the Peace of Rueil, signed 11 March 1649 between the court party and the party of the
Parlement of Paris, brought to an end the first phase of France's first revolution, the
Fronde?
...that when the Menier company built the first mass production plant for
chocolate in 1830, it was the largest chocolate manufacturing company in the world?
...that the world's record auction price for a single piece of silver was achieved by a silver tureen made by the Parisian silversmith Thomas Germain in 1733, sold in November 1996 for US$ 10,287,500, triple the former record?
...that
cyclistGerald Ciolek became the youngest ever
German National Cycling Champion, aged just 18 in 2005?
...that in 1996 Andy Campbell, a ranger serving as Tunnel Mill Scout Reservation's caretaker, was shot to death by a wandering drunk who trespassed onto the property, the first such incident in the history of Scouting?
...that the first
television set made entirely in
Poland, the Belweder, cost 7000
złoty at the time when the average monthly salary ranged from 1 to 2 thousand?