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
Oman has a low crime rate compared to industrialized countries?
... that in 1951, Martha Wright took over the role of Nellie Forbush in South Pacific on
Broadway, playing the role for 1,047 performances until it closed in 1954?
... that the disputed authenticity of the Getty kouros(pictured) has led the
J. Paul Getty Museum to label the sculpture "6th century Greek or modern forgery"?
... that, after succeeding Lai Tian,
Tang Dynasty general Liang Chongyi built a temple dedicated to Lai and refrained from using Lai's old office and main hall, in order to show respect to Lai?
... that Caroline Reboux was known as the Queen of the Milliners?
... that the Pennsylvania Mutiny of 1783 was a primary reason for the creation of a separate federal district to serve as the capital of the United States?
... that Darrin Winston still holds the
baseball records for victories, innings pitched, and complete games at
Rutgers University more than twenty years after he graduated?
... that the 1864 Banning House(pictured) reportedly hosted "the first yachting party on the West Coast" and has been called "one of the best examples of
Greek Revival architecture in the west"?
... that four
Mk-82 500-pound bombs are missing in the
American west after the mysterious crash of an
A-10 Thunderbolt aircraft piloted by Craig D. Button in 1997?
... that the American Musical Theatre of San Jose's debut at the San Jose Center for Performing Arts was delayed for three years when the ceiling collapsed?
... that actor
Roger Moore likened his starring role in the
1958 children's TV series Ivanhoe to that of "a medieval fireman"?
04:34, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
... that the 1871 Hampden County Courthouse(pictured) was built after a
grand juryindicted county commissioners for not providing fireproof storage for county records and
deeds in the previous courthouse?
... that
pro wrestlerGregg Groothuis's ring name "Jack Bull" was inspired by an interview with
Dusty Rhodes, in which Rhodes described looking into a ring full of bulls?
... that Kinoautomat, a 1967 film by
Czechoslovakian director Radúz Činčera, was the first to allow the audience to change the course of a film with the press of a button?
... that the
namesake of the Minnie Hill Palmer House was born there in 1886 and remained in the 1970s, still tending her garden, then located adjacent to a golf course, with an antique hand plow?
... that
Winston Churchill(pictured) lost his first election, the Oldham by-election of 1899, after promising to vote first for, then against, the Clerical Tithes Bill?
... that according to
Hindu tradition, donation of a kamandalu in
funeral rituals ensures the deceased has ample drinking water in his after-life journey?
... that the battleship Illinois(pictured), exhibited at the 1893
World's Columbian Exposition, was actually a full scale, detailed replica made of brick and cement?
... that during the unusually long 15-day track of Tropical Storm Allison, the storm attained
tropical or subtropical storm status on three separate occasions?
... that the
tides at Kachemak Bay,
Alaska have an average vertical difference of fifteen feet, and recorded extremes of twenty eight feet?
... that not only did the village of Wattstown suffer two mining disasters at the same
colliery, but both were explosions caused by the unauthorised use of blasting materials?
... that mazzatello—a method of
execution employed in the
Papal States in the 18th and 19th centuries—involved smashing a
mallet into the head of the condemned?
... that the New Voices Campaign of PICO National Network is attempting to repeat at the national level the success of its California Project in giving low-income communities influence on public
policy?
... that the sinking of the year-old
Americancargo shipSS Washingtonian with her $1,000,000 cargo of
raw sugar in January 1915 contributed to a 9% rise in the price of sugar in the United States?
... that American physician John Ziegler pioneered
anabolic steroids but later said "... healthy
athletes are putting themselves in the same category as
drug addicts. It's a disgrace. Who plays sports for fun anymore?"
... that when scholar Spencer Barrett’s tax return was
challenged, he showed that to understand a text of
Pindar he had to know how
Mount Etna(pictured) had appeared to a passing sailor?
... that in 2008, the German Federation of Internal Medicine awarded its highest honor to Hans Joachim Sewering, a former
Nazi?
...that Edwin Thumboo's 1979 poem Ulysses by the Merlion has influenced so many other
Singaporean poets, it is joked that a true Singapore poet has to have written a "
Merlion poem"?
... that, on opening night of
Samuel Johnson's Irene, audiences cried "Murder!" after seeing the main character strangled on stage?
... that the
RussianfrigateOryol was completed in 1669 as the first Russian naval ship, and flew the earliest recorded white, blue, and red
Russian flag?
... that the
SpanishAMX-30E (pictured) underwent an extensive modernization program between 1989 and 1993, dramatically improving the
tank's
mobility,
firepower and accuracy?
... that Vasili Blokhin, chief
executioner of the
StalinistNKVD, led a company of executioners that performed more than 828,000 official executions during
Joseph Stalin's reign, including tens of thousands by his own hands?
... that the Passer Angelfish(pictured) undergoes large changes in coloration during its transition from
juvenile to
sexually mature, going from bright orange, yellow, and blue to a drab brownish-black color?
... that delay certificates issued by
railway companies in
Japan and
Germany to passengers for tardy trains are considered valid reasons by superiors for reporting late to school or work?
... that the
Britishship of the lineHMS Colchester, launched in August 1744, was wrecked just two months later after running aground on her first commissioned voyage?
... that eighteen years ago,
medical schools in the US "covered" sleep medicine in an average total teaching time of just two hours?
... that although the Chapel Royal, Brighton was built to encourage the
Prince Regent to attend church while in
Brighton, he stopped worshipping there after being offended by a controversial
sermon?
... that the last living veteran of the Civil War in Idaho died in 1952?
... that in
1899, Bill Lange, a popular
Major League Baseball player, retired during the prime of his career to marry a woman whose father forbid her to marry a baseball player?
... that the name of Kazabazua in
Quebec comes from the
Algonquin word kachibadjiwan, meaning "underground river", and refers to the
Kazabazua River which disappears underground?
... that Odd Lot Theory held that you could make money by finding small, and hence uninformed,
stock market investors and simply making the opposite investment?
... that the Berlin Circle in
New Jersey was eliminated at a cost of $73 million after it was described as one of "South Jersey's worst traffic nightmares"?
... that in spite of not participating in the planning of the 1964 Gabon coup d'état,
Jean-Hilaire Aubame was sentenced to ten years of hard labor and ten years in exile?
... that the widow-owner of the Durfee Mansion died in 1976 at age 99, leaving an untouched
wine cellar stocked with vintage
wines and
whisky dating to the 1890s?
... that flushwork(example pictured) is the decoration of flat external walls in contrasting colours of
flint and stone, most often found in medieval churches in
East Anglia?
... that the Virginidsmeteor shower can sometimes last between January and May each year?
02:06, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
... that Mount Garmo in the
Pamir Mountains(pictured) has been confused with the higher peak, which for some years was called Pik Kommunizma, "Mount Communism"?
... that the sales of the "miracle drug" Energon, consisting of
calf brain, sugar and milk, were able to establish
Pharmacia as a major pharmaceutical company in
Sweden in the early 1900s?
... that when Lepreum was attacked during the period of the
Olympic truce, the
Spartan attackers were given a fine equal to 200,000 times that of a skilled worker's daily wage rate?
... that
feministJo Freeman was moved from
Mississippi by the
SCLC in 1966 after the Jackson Daily News published her photo and denounced her as a professional agitator?
... that the Phylax Society, the first
German Shepherd Dog club, disbanded because members could not agree whether the dogs should be bred for working or appearance?
... that the recently discovered smallest
snake in the world, Leptotyphlops carlae(pictured), is thought to be near the
evolutionary limit of how small any snake could be?
... that the citizens of
Carmel, New York, felt that "Shaw's Pond" was too modest a name for a local body of water, so they appointed a
committee that renamed it Lake Gleneida?
... that The Corporate Center in
Danbury,
Connecticut is an innovative structure built on 5,000 pillars, some up to 40-feet (12 m) tall, to accommodate the hilly terrain?
... that after switching sides multiple times during the
American Civil War, Benjamin Anderson committed suicide, saying he "would prefer being dead than disgraced"?
... that the
cultivation of biofortfied food crops has occasionally faced resistance because they sometimes have different characteristics, such as unusual colours?
... that although the first type of
wind turbine, the panemone, is one of the least efficient designs it is also one of the most commonly reinvented and patented?
... that the episode of 30 Rock entitled "
Sandwich Day" was actress Johnnie May's second appearance in the series, after playing a blood donations nurse in the episode "
Tracy Does Conan"?
... that
unions sometimes permit local or regional variations in master contracts in order to meet special economic, competitive, or other needs of employers?
... that Washington Block was one of the first buildings to use the isolated pier foundation technique whereby
load-bearing points have separate foundations?
... that in
Australia many
unions and employers are working around the
WorkChoices law by using side letters to reach agreement on non-workplace-related matters?
... that the Neutra Office Building, once the office of
Modernist architect
Richard Neutra, is said to be the only commercial structure that is still intact with Neutra's original design?
... that the original viewports of the pioneering
submarineIctineo II (replica pictured) ended up as bathroom windows?
... that Lloyd Seay, described by
NASCAR founder
Bill France, Sr. as the "best pure race driver I ever saw", was killed by his cousin during a dispute in the family's
moonshine business?
... that the site of the aboriginal village of Nocoroco, near
Ormond Beach, Florida, is marked by a large fountain sculpture, called the "Tomokie Fountain"?
... that the old Lodge Room at the Highland Park Masonic Temple(pictured) has been preserved with original anaglyphs and
cherry wood paneling?
... that the
Loire Valley estate Château de Goulaine is believed to be the oldest
winery in existence and the third oldest commercial enterprise in the world?
... that Welsh sportsman Billy Bancroft not only played rugby for
Swansea and cricket for
Glamorgan at
St Helens Ground but also lived there as a child and became its groundsman when he retired?
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
Oman has a low crime rate compared to industrialized countries?
... that in 1951, Martha Wright took over the role of Nellie Forbush in South Pacific on
Broadway, playing the role for 1,047 performances until it closed in 1954?
... that the disputed authenticity of the Getty kouros(pictured) has led the
J. Paul Getty Museum to label the sculpture "6th century Greek or modern forgery"?
... that, after succeeding Lai Tian,
Tang Dynasty general Liang Chongyi built a temple dedicated to Lai and refrained from using Lai's old office and main hall, in order to show respect to Lai?
... that Caroline Reboux was known as the Queen of the Milliners?
... that the Pennsylvania Mutiny of 1783 was a primary reason for the creation of a separate federal district to serve as the capital of the United States?
... that Darrin Winston still holds the
baseball records for victories, innings pitched, and complete games at
Rutgers University more than twenty years after he graduated?
... that the 1864 Banning House(pictured) reportedly hosted "the first yachting party on the West Coast" and has been called "one of the best examples of
Greek Revival architecture in the west"?
... that four
Mk-82 500-pound bombs are missing in the
American west after the mysterious crash of an
A-10 Thunderbolt aircraft piloted by Craig D. Button in 1997?
... that the American Musical Theatre of San Jose's debut at the San Jose Center for Performing Arts was delayed for three years when the ceiling collapsed?
... that actor
Roger Moore likened his starring role in the
1958 children's TV series Ivanhoe to that of "a medieval fireman"?
04:34, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
... that the 1871 Hampden County Courthouse(pictured) was built after a
grand juryindicted county commissioners for not providing fireproof storage for county records and
deeds in the previous courthouse?
... that
pro wrestlerGregg Groothuis's ring name "Jack Bull" was inspired by an interview with
Dusty Rhodes, in which Rhodes described looking into a ring full of bulls?
... that Kinoautomat, a 1967 film by
Czechoslovakian director Radúz Činčera, was the first to allow the audience to change the course of a film with the press of a button?
... that the
namesake of the Minnie Hill Palmer House was born there in 1886 and remained in the 1970s, still tending her garden, then located adjacent to a golf course, with an antique hand plow?
... that
Winston Churchill(pictured) lost his first election, the Oldham by-election of 1899, after promising to vote first for, then against, the Clerical Tithes Bill?
... that according to
Hindu tradition, donation of a kamandalu in
funeral rituals ensures the deceased has ample drinking water in his after-life journey?
... that the battleship Illinois(pictured), exhibited at the 1893
World's Columbian Exposition, was actually a full scale, detailed replica made of brick and cement?
... that during the unusually long 15-day track of Tropical Storm Allison, the storm attained
tropical or subtropical storm status on three separate occasions?
... that the
tides at Kachemak Bay,
Alaska have an average vertical difference of fifteen feet, and recorded extremes of twenty eight feet?
... that not only did the village of Wattstown suffer two mining disasters at the same
colliery, but both were explosions caused by the unauthorised use of blasting materials?
... that mazzatello—a method of
execution employed in the
Papal States in the 18th and 19th centuries—involved smashing a
mallet into the head of the condemned?
... that the New Voices Campaign of PICO National Network is attempting to repeat at the national level the success of its California Project in giving low-income communities influence on public
policy?
... that the sinking of the year-old
Americancargo shipSS Washingtonian with her $1,000,000 cargo of
raw sugar in January 1915 contributed to a 9% rise in the price of sugar in the United States?
... that American physician John Ziegler pioneered
anabolic steroids but later said "... healthy
athletes are putting themselves in the same category as
drug addicts. It's a disgrace. Who plays sports for fun anymore?"
... that when scholar Spencer Barrett’s tax return was
challenged, he showed that to understand a text of
Pindar he had to know how
Mount Etna(pictured) had appeared to a passing sailor?
... that in 2008, the German Federation of Internal Medicine awarded its highest honor to Hans Joachim Sewering, a former
Nazi?
...that Edwin Thumboo's 1979 poem Ulysses by the Merlion has influenced so many other
Singaporean poets, it is joked that a true Singapore poet has to have written a "
Merlion poem"?
... that, on opening night of
Samuel Johnson's Irene, audiences cried "Murder!" after seeing the main character strangled on stage?
... that the
RussianfrigateOryol was completed in 1669 as the first Russian naval ship, and flew the earliest recorded white, blue, and red
Russian flag?
... that the
SpanishAMX-30E (pictured) underwent an extensive modernization program between 1989 and 1993, dramatically improving the
tank's
mobility,
firepower and accuracy?
... that Vasili Blokhin, chief
executioner of the
StalinistNKVD, led a company of executioners that performed more than 828,000 official executions during
Joseph Stalin's reign, including tens of thousands by his own hands?
... that the Passer Angelfish(pictured) undergoes large changes in coloration during its transition from
juvenile to
sexually mature, going from bright orange, yellow, and blue to a drab brownish-black color?
... that delay certificates issued by
railway companies in
Japan and
Germany to passengers for tardy trains are considered valid reasons by superiors for reporting late to school or work?
... that the
Britishship of the lineHMS Colchester, launched in August 1744, was wrecked just two months later after running aground on her first commissioned voyage?
... that eighteen years ago,
medical schools in the US "covered" sleep medicine in an average total teaching time of just two hours?
... that although the Chapel Royal, Brighton was built to encourage the
Prince Regent to attend church while in
Brighton, he stopped worshipping there after being offended by a controversial
sermon?
... that the last living veteran of the Civil War in Idaho died in 1952?
... that in
1899, Bill Lange, a popular
Major League Baseball player, retired during the prime of his career to marry a woman whose father forbid her to marry a baseball player?
... that the name of Kazabazua in
Quebec comes from the
Algonquin word kachibadjiwan, meaning "underground river", and refers to the
Kazabazua River which disappears underground?
... that Odd Lot Theory held that you could make money by finding small, and hence uninformed,
stock market investors and simply making the opposite investment?
... that the Berlin Circle in
New Jersey was eliminated at a cost of $73 million after it was described as one of "South Jersey's worst traffic nightmares"?
... that in spite of not participating in the planning of the 1964 Gabon coup d'état,
Jean-Hilaire Aubame was sentenced to ten years of hard labor and ten years in exile?
... that the widow-owner of the Durfee Mansion died in 1976 at age 99, leaving an untouched
wine cellar stocked with vintage
wines and
whisky dating to the 1890s?
... that flushwork(example pictured) is the decoration of flat external walls in contrasting colours of
flint and stone, most often found in medieval churches in
East Anglia?
... that the Virginidsmeteor shower can sometimes last between January and May each year?
02:06, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
... that Mount Garmo in the
Pamir Mountains(pictured) has been confused with the higher peak, which for some years was called Pik Kommunizma, "Mount Communism"?
... that the sales of the "miracle drug" Energon, consisting of
calf brain, sugar and milk, were able to establish
Pharmacia as a major pharmaceutical company in
Sweden in the early 1900s?
... that when Lepreum was attacked during the period of the
Olympic truce, the
Spartan attackers were given a fine equal to 200,000 times that of a skilled worker's daily wage rate?
... that
feministJo Freeman was moved from
Mississippi by the
SCLC in 1966 after the Jackson Daily News published her photo and denounced her as a professional agitator?
... that the Phylax Society, the first
German Shepherd Dog club, disbanded because members could not agree whether the dogs should be bred for working or appearance?
... that the recently discovered smallest
snake in the world, Leptotyphlops carlae(pictured), is thought to be near the
evolutionary limit of how small any snake could be?
... that the citizens of
Carmel, New York, felt that "Shaw's Pond" was too modest a name for a local body of water, so they appointed a
committee that renamed it Lake Gleneida?
... that The Corporate Center in
Danbury,
Connecticut is an innovative structure built on 5,000 pillars, some up to 40-feet (12 m) tall, to accommodate the hilly terrain?
... that after switching sides multiple times during the
American Civil War, Benjamin Anderson committed suicide, saying he "would prefer being dead than disgraced"?
... that the
cultivation of biofortfied food crops has occasionally faced resistance because they sometimes have different characteristics, such as unusual colours?
... that although the first type of
wind turbine, the panemone, is one of the least efficient designs it is also one of the most commonly reinvented and patented?
... that the episode of 30 Rock entitled "
Sandwich Day" was actress Johnnie May's second appearance in the series, after playing a blood donations nurse in the episode "
Tracy Does Conan"?
... that
unions sometimes permit local or regional variations in master contracts in order to meet special economic, competitive, or other needs of employers?
... that Washington Block was one of the first buildings to use the isolated pier foundation technique whereby
load-bearing points have separate foundations?
... that in
Australia many
unions and employers are working around the
WorkChoices law by using side letters to reach agreement on non-workplace-related matters?
... that the Neutra Office Building, once the office of
Modernist architect
Richard Neutra, is said to be the only commercial structure that is still intact with Neutra's original design?
... that the original viewports of the pioneering
submarineIctineo II (replica pictured) ended up as bathroom windows?
... that Lloyd Seay, described by
NASCAR founder
Bill France, Sr. as the "best pure race driver I ever saw", was killed by his cousin during a dispute in the family's
moonshine business?
... that the site of the aboriginal village of Nocoroco, near
Ormond Beach, Florida, is marked by a large fountain sculpture, called the "Tomokie Fountain"?
... that the old Lodge Room at the Highland Park Masonic Temple(pictured) has been preserved with original anaglyphs and
cherry wood paneling?
... that the
Loire Valley estate Château de Goulaine is believed to be the oldest
winery in existence and the third oldest commercial enterprise in the world?
... that Welsh sportsman Billy Bancroft not only played rugby for
Swansea and cricket for
Glamorgan at
St Helens Ground but also lived there as a child and became its groundsman when he retired?