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 Frances Slocum State Park in
Pennsylvania is named for a
woman captured by the
Lenape at age 5, who permanently lived with Native Americans despite reuniting with her family 59 years later?
...that the Korpela movement was a short-lived
cult during the
1930s in Northern
Sweden and
Finland whose controversial sexual rituals eventually led to the arrest of 60 followers?
...that Irving Crane pocketed 150 balls in a row in the final round of the 1966 World Crown
straight pool championship; a feat that has never been equalled or eclipsed?
...that although
scholars have studied revolutions(depiction) for over a century, there are still many competing
theories explaining those key events in
human history?
...that the Sandugo or Blood Compact, where two people drink a small amount of each other's blood, was a traditional way to formalize treaties of friendship in the
Philippines?
...that former
Queensland Health Minister Leisha Harvey served five months in
prison for misappropriation of public funds during her tenure?
...that Garuda Indonesia Flight 152 was the deadliest air disaster of 1997, claiming the lives of over 230 people?
...that Red Road is the first of three
films in the
Advance Party trilogy, each of which are to be set in
Scotland using the same characters and cast, and directed by a different first-time
director each time?
...that the pinax, an ancient
Greek votive tablet, has given several modern European languages their word for "
art museum", as exemplified by
Munich's
Alte Pinakothek?
... that despite projections of producing four times as much
power as it used in heating, the Riggatronfusion reactor was never built due to a lack of funding?
...that Nordic Classicism(example pictured) was formerly regarded as a mere interlude between two far wider-known architectural movements,
Art Nouveau and
Functionalism?
...that even though
AmericanlawmanHarry Love cut off and preserved the head of notorious bandit
Joaquin Murrieta, many people still didn't believe the man was dead?
...that the finds at the village of Gnezdovo near
Smolensk include an early folding
razor, the first pivoted
scissors found in Eastern Europe, and the earliest inscription in the
Old Russian language?
...that the self-taught weapon designer Aimo Lahti designed over 50 weapons of all types prior to and during
World War II, including the successful
Suomi M-31?
...that the travels of a shipment of 29,000 Friendly Floatees bath toys lost overboard in the
Pacific in 1992 have been used to model the world's ocean currents?
...that the
Egyptian actress Faten Hamama has received more than forty awards and
starred in almost one hundred films?
...that Ivan Argunov, one of the founders of the
Russian school of portrait painting, spent his entire life as a
serf?
...that
United StatesExecutive Order 9835 established a Federal Employee Loyalty Program, under which 27,000 federal employees were investigated by the
FBI between 1948 and 1958 for alleged
communist affiliations?
...that the use of the word "
yeoman" in the U.S. Naval Reserve Act of 1916, rather than "man" or "male", enabled women to enlist in the
U.S. Naval Reserve with the rank of Yeoman (F)(pictured) during
World War I?
...that the New York Sports Express, a free weekly newspaper designed to take a lighter look at sports, lasted only a little over one year on the hurried streets of
New York City?
...that the song "
Ninanajna" has two very different sets of lyrics - one in
English and one in
Macedonian?
...that Harry McNish was one of only four crew members of the Endurance not to receive the
Polar Medal, and that his grave remained unmarked for almost 30 years?
...that via Giulia, projected for
Pope Julius II, was the first attempt since antiquity to pierce a new thoroughfare through the heart of
Rome?
...that during the Shiraz blood libel, the first to start the
pogrom of the
Jewish quarter were the soldiers sent to protect the Jews against mob violence?
...that Theobald Stapleton's 1639 catechism was the first Roman Catholic book in Irish to be printed in
antiqua, and that it used simplified spellings that did not become standard for another 300 years?
...that Grandi's series 1 − 1 + 1 − 1 + · · · is
divergent and appears to equal
0, yet in some sense "sums" to
1⁄2, producing a paradox once linked to the
creationex nihilo of the universe?
...that Derek Freeman was an anthropologist whose refutation of
Margaret Mead's work "ignited controversy of a scale, visibility, and ferocity never before seen in anthropology"?
...that the Château de Courances has been acclaimed as "the epitome of the French formal garden style in which
château and environment form a whole"?
...that Richard Stücklen was the longest serving member of the
GermanBundestag, winning election 11 times between 1949 and 1990?
... that the suppression of a protest in
Nagpur and
Jabalpur caused the Flag Satyagraha to erupt in 1923, bringing thousands of nationalists from across
India to the rebellion?
...that Kingsley Fairbridge established the first child migration scheme for impoverished British children which over 68 years housed and educated 1,195 boys and girls at his farm school in
Pinjarra, Western Australia?
...that a little Switzerland was a 19th-century
Romantic term in European languages for any steep landscape with rock outcrops, but later was used for a lakeland too?
...that the residents of the Findhorn Ecovillage(pictured) have the lowest
ecological footprint of any community measured so far in the industrialised world?
...that Sir Peter Lely, the most popular
portrait artist in
England in the mid 1600s, was born Pieter van der Faes, and is reputed to have adopted the surname "Lely" from a
heraldiclily on the
gable of the house of his father's birth?
...that a complex system of artificial caverns, some excavated by the Greeks more than 2500 years ago, lies beneath Naples?
...that the
silver hand and
bronze foot of Saint Melor were said to miraculously work as if they were natural appendages?
...that it is customary in
Jewish homes to decorate the wall in the direction of prayer — mizrah — with artistic wall plaques (pictured) inscribed with the word mizrah, scriptural passages,
kabbalistic writings, or pictures of holy places?
...that an area of 500 hectares in the centre of
Bucharest razed in the 1980s at the orders of
Ceauşescu was called Ceaushima by the Bucharest residents?
...that shark threat display is an exaggerated swimming style exhibited by some
sharks when they perceive they are in danger?
...that the
Buddhist monk Tetsugen spent twenty years in an attempt to publish the Chinese scriptures of Buddhism in
Japan, because he kept giving away the money he collected for the purpose?
...that despite operating a charity that has set up four
clinics in the city of
Kolkata,
British doctor Jack Preger has been ordered to leave
India on at least one occasion?
...that the most important source for early
Irish history, The Chronicle of Ireland, had to be reconstructed from later, derivative works because no original copies survived?
...that the simultaneous invasion of
Georgia by the
Soviet and
Turkish forces threatened to develop into a Soviet-Turkish confrontation in
1921?
...that in the Battle of Seattle (1856), the native attackers' only common language was
Chinook jargon, so the settlers were able to hear and understand the attackers' shouted orders?
...that when the
Transylvanian shepherd Badea Cârţan was found sleeping at the base of
Trajan's Column in
Rome in 1896, he was at first jokingly referred to as a
Dacian who had fallen off a sculpted panel on the column and come to life?
...that the
exploitation filmMom and Dad, grossed an estimated $40-100 million, and is the third highest grossing film of the 1940s?
...that Stan McCabe, who once caused a
cricketTest to be abandoned in poor visibility due to the danger his hard-hitting posed to the fielding team, died after falling off a cliff?
...that the money for the construction of the Washington Memorial Chapel(pictured) at
Valley Forge was raised in small increments (nickels and dimes), raising the building a few feet at a time?
...that Michał Dymitr Krajewski's first book, Podolanka wychowana w stanie natury, życie i przypadki swoje opisująca ("The Podolian Girl: raised in the natural state, describing her life and events"), was responsible for initiating the first literary debate in
Poland, and had seven editions in one year?
...that the destination hotel became popular in the 1800s, and their number has expanded to present times, along with the elaborateness of their amenities?
...that Flow my tears by
EnglishlutenistJohn Dowland (1563–1626) is not only his most popular song today, but was also the most widely known English song of the period?
...that, the Château de Rosny (pictured), the birthplace and seat of
Henri IV's minister
Duc de Sully, was largely stripped of its furniture and neglected after it was acquired by a Japanese company in 1984?
...that artists of the Mission School, a San Francisco-based contemporary art movement, often make artworks from materials such as house paint, spray paint, correction fluid, ballpoint pens, and scrapboard?
...that the Siege of Constantinople by
the Rus in
860 is known primarily from the writings of
Patriarch Photius, who referred to the invaders as "a swarm of wasps" and compared their attack to "a thunderbolt from heaven"?
...that the sculpture Reverence which depicts two whale tails, is not on permanent display near the ocean but on a grassy knoll in an open green field?
...that Pontus Hultén was an art collector and pioneering museum director who wanted
modern art to be accessible to the public in a user-friendly viewing storehouse?
...that in 1943, Prigat, a small and newly created juice manufacturer at the time, sold 775,000 syrup bottles to the
British Army in
Israel?
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 Frances Slocum State Park in
Pennsylvania is named for a
woman captured by the
Lenape at age 5, who permanently lived with Native Americans despite reuniting with her family 59 years later?
...that the Korpela movement was a short-lived
cult during the
1930s in Northern
Sweden and
Finland whose controversial sexual rituals eventually led to the arrest of 60 followers?
...that Irving Crane pocketed 150 balls in a row in the final round of the 1966 World Crown
straight pool championship; a feat that has never been equalled or eclipsed?
...that although
scholars have studied revolutions(depiction) for over a century, there are still many competing
theories explaining those key events in
human history?
...that the Sandugo or Blood Compact, where two people drink a small amount of each other's blood, was a traditional way to formalize treaties of friendship in the
Philippines?
...that former
Queensland Health Minister Leisha Harvey served five months in
prison for misappropriation of public funds during her tenure?
...that Garuda Indonesia Flight 152 was the deadliest air disaster of 1997, claiming the lives of over 230 people?
...that Red Road is the first of three
films in the
Advance Party trilogy, each of which are to be set in
Scotland using the same characters and cast, and directed by a different first-time
director each time?
...that the pinax, an ancient
Greek votive tablet, has given several modern European languages their word for "
art museum", as exemplified by
Munich's
Alte Pinakothek?
... that despite projections of producing four times as much
power as it used in heating, the Riggatronfusion reactor was never built due to a lack of funding?
...that Nordic Classicism(example pictured) was formerly regarded as a mere interlude between two far wider-known architectural movements,
Art Nouveau and
Functionalism?
...that even though
AmericanlawmanHarry Love cut off and preserved the head of notorious bandit
Joaquin Murrieta, many people still didn't believe the man was dead?
...that the finds at the village of Gnezdovo near
Smolensk include an early folding
razor, the first pivoted
scissors found in Eastern Europe, and the earliest inscription in the
Old Russian language?
...that the self-taught weapon designer Aimo Lahti designed over 50 weapons of all types prior to and during
World War II, including the successful
Suomi M-31?
...that the travels of a shipment of 29,000 Friendly Floatees bath toys lost overboard in the
Pacific in 1992 have been used to model the world's ocean currents?
...that the
Egyptian actress Faten Hamama has received more than forty awards and
starred in almost one hundred films?
...that Ivan Argunov, one of the founders of the
Russian school of portrait painting, spent his entire life as a
serf?
...that
United StatesExecutive Order 9835 established a Federal Employee Loyalty Program, under which 27,000 federal employees were investigated by the
FBI between 1948 and 1958 for alleged
communist affiliations?
...that the use of the word "
yeoman" in the U.S. Naval Reserve Act of 1916, rather than "man" or "male", enabled women to enlist in the
U.S. Naval Reserve with the rank of Yeoman (F)(pictured) during
World War I?
...that the New York Sports Express, a free weekly newspaper designed to take a lighter look at sports, lasted only a little over one year on the hurried streets of
New York City?
...that the song "
Ninanajna" has two very different sets of lyrics - one in
English and one in
Macedonian?
...that Harry McNish was one of only four crew members of the Endurance not to receive the
Polar Medal, and that his grave remained unmarked for almost 30 years?
...that via Giulia, projected for
Pope Julius II, was the first attempt since antiquity to pierce a new thoroughfare through the heart of
Rome?
...that during the Shiraz blood libel, the first to start the
pogrom of the
Jewish quarter were the soldiers sent to protect the Jews against mob violence?
...that Theobald Stapleton's 1639 catechism was the first Roman Catholic book in Irish to be printed in
antiqua, and that it used simplified spellings that did not become standard for another 300 years?
...that Grandi's series 1 − 1 + 1 − 1 + · · · is
divergent and appears to equal
0, yet in some sense "sums" to
1⁄2, producing a paradox once linked to the
creationex nihilo of the universe?
...that Derek Freeman was an anthropologist whose refutation of
Margaret Mead's work "ignited controversy of a scale, visibility, and ferocity never before seen in anthropology"?
...that the Château de Courances has been acclaimed as "the epitome of the French formal garden style in which
château and environment form a whole"?
...that Richard Stücklen was the longest serving member of the
GermanBundestag, winning election 11 times between 1949 and 1990?
... that the suppression of a protest in
Nagpur and
Jabalpur caused the Flag Satyagraha to erupt in 1923, bringing thousands of nationalists from across
India to the rebellion?
...that Kingsley Fairbridge established the first child migration scheme for impoverished British children which over 68 years housed and educated 1,195 boys and girls at his farm school in
Pinjarra, Western Australia?
...that a little Switzerland was a 19th-century
Romantic term in European languages for any steep landscape with rock outcrops, but later was used for a lakeland too?
...that the residents of the Findhorn Ecovillage(pictured) have the lowest
ecological footprint of any community measured so far in the industrialised world?
...that Sir Peter Lely, the most popular
portrait artist in
England in the mid 1600s, was born Pieter van der Faes, and is reputed to have adopted the surname "Lely" from a
heraldiclily on the
gable of the house of his father's birth?
...that a complex system of artificial caverns, some excavated by the Greeks more than 2500 years ago, lies beneath Naples?
...that the
silver hand and
bronze foot of Saint Melor were said to miraculously work as if they were natural appendages?
...that it is customary in
Jewish homes to decorate the wall in the direction of prayer — mizrah — with artistic wall plaques (pictured) inscribed with the word mizrah, scriptural passages,
kabbalistic writings, or pictures of holy places?
...that an area of 500 hectares in the centre of
Bucharest razed in the 1980s at the orders of
Ceauşescu was called Ceaushima by the Bucharest residents?
...that shark threat display is an exaggerated swimming style exhibited by some
sharks when they perceive they are in danger?
...that the
Buddhist monk Tetsugen spent twenty years in an attempt to publish the Chinese scriptures of Buddhism in
Japan, because he kept giving away the money he collected for the purpose?
...that despite operating a charity that has set up four
clinics in the city of
Kolkata,
British doctor Jack Preger has been ordered to leave
India on at least one occasion?
...that the most important source for early
Irish history, The Chronicle of Ireland, had to be reconstructed from later, derivative works because no original copies survived?
...that the simultaneous invasion of
Georgia by the
Soviet and
Turkish forces threatened to develop into a Soviet-Turkish confrontation in
1921?
...that in the Battle of Seattle (1856), the native attackers' only common language was
Chinook jargon, so the settlers were able to hear and understand the attackers' shouted orders?
...that when the
Transylvanian shepherd Badea Cârţan was found sleeping at the base of
Trajan's Column in
Rome in 1896, he was at first jokingly referred to as a
Dacian who had fallen off a sculpted panel on the column and come to life?
...that the
exploitation filmMom and Dad, grossed an estimated $40-100 million, and is the third highest grossing film of the 1940s?
...that Stan McCabe, who once caused a
cricketTest to be abandoned in poor visibility due to the danger his hard-hitting posed to the fielding team, died after falling off a cliff?
...that the money for the construction of the Washington Memorial Chapel(pictured) at
Valley Forge was raised in small increments (nickels and dimes), raising the building a few feet at a time?
...that Michał Dymitr Krajewski's first book, Podolanka wychowana w stanie natury, życie i przypadki swoje opisująca ("The Podolian Girl: raised in the natural state, describing her life and events"), was responsible for initiating the first literary debate in
Poland, and had seven editions in one year?
...that the destination hotel became popular in the 1800s, and their number has expanded to present times, along with the elaborateness of their amenities?
...that Flow my tears by
EnglishlutenistJohn Dowland (1563–1626) is not only his most popular song today, but was also the most widely known English song of the period?
...that, the Château de Rosny (pictured), the birthplace and seat of
Henri IV's minister
Duc de Sully, was largely stripped of its furniture and neglected after it was acquired by a Japanese company in 1984?
...that artists of the Mission School, a San Francisco-based contemporary art movement, often make artworks from materials such as house paint, spray paint, correction fluid, ballpoint pens, and scrapboard?
...that the Siege of Constantinople by
the Rus in
860 is known primarily from the writings of
Patriarch Photius, who referred to the invaders as "a swarm of wasps" and compared their attack to "a thunderbolt from heaven"?
...that the sculpture Reverence which depicts two whale tails, is not on permanent display near the ocean but on a grassy knoll in an open green field?
...that Pontus Hultén was an art collector and pioneering museum director who wanted
modern art to be accessible to the public in a user-friendly viewing storehouse?
...that in 1943, Prigat, a small and newly created juice manufacturer at the time, sold 775,000 syrup bottles to the
British Army in
Israel?