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... that 17th-century
French lawyer Antoine Le Maistre gave up a promising career and established a
Jansenist group of
ascetics known as Les Solitaires, the Hermits?
... that the musical group
The Wiggles' first album was dedicated to their general operations manager Paul Field's infant daughter, whose death ultimately led to the formation of the group?
... that the 1.3-mile (2.1 km)
avenue of trees leading to Marchmont House in
Scotland was begun 24 years before the house itself was built, with the planting of 10,000
Dutch elms?
... that
lyric tenorEvan Gorga, who created the role of Rodolfo in the original production of
Giacomo Puccini's opera La bohème, reprised the role in several productions, then retired at the age of 34?
... that Bruno Fonseca's paintings The War Murals, inspired by violence in
Eastern Europe, have been called "the most powerful statement of their kind since
Picasso's great Guernica"?
... that the tartan of Nova Scotia(pictured) was originally designed by Bessie Murray for an
agricultural exhibition in 1953, but was so admired that it was later officially adopted by the province?
... that with the inception of the Gauliga Ostmark in 1938, clubs from outside of
Vienna were for the first time permitted to take part in
Austria's premier
football division?
... that
Christopher Columbus's letter recounting his
first voyage, the first written description of America, was so popular it went through nine printed editions?
... that the winter flooding of the Elpeus river was used as a defensive military device by
Perseus of Macedon(pictured on coin)?
... that Norsk Hydro Rjukan, an industrial facility in
Tinn,
Norway, produced 30 million tonnes of
fertilizer from its opening in 1911 to its closing in 1991?
... that many localities on the coast of
Great Britain developed their own type of
fishing boat adapted to local
fishing and sea conditions, and the
nobbies are examples of this?
... that improving Indo-South African relations have led to phenomenal growth in
bilateral trade, rising from
US$3 million in 1992-93 to US$4 billion in 2005-06 and targeting US$12 billion by 2010?
... that John Paul, Sr. and
his son became the first father-son duo to win an
IMSA Camel GT race, hours after the former was married on the track infield?
... that an early record of the insult "I have forgotten more than you will ever know" attaches to Salathiel Lovell, a
Recorder of London who became known as the "Obliviscor" (forgetter)?
... that when William Williams died collecting the
fernAlpine Woodsia(pictured) in 1861, his body was found at the foot of the cliff where the species was first found in the
17th century?
... that the orienteering map(example pictured), along with the
compass, is the primary aid for an
orienteering competitor to complete a course of control points?
... that, angry that he had been accused of treason, the
Tang Dynasty general Pugu Huai'en submitted a complaint to the emperor sarcastically referring to his major contributions as crimes?
... that during
World War II, Ferdynand Arczyński produced hundreds of false IDs, work cards, service attestations, birth, and marriage certificates, distributed free to
Jews hiding outside the
Ghetto?
... that, when completed, a relocated
JCPenney at Ashland Town Center in
Ashland, Kentucky will be the largest department store in Kentucky, and one of three prototypes in the U.S.?
... that tracheobronchial injury was considered fatal until a survivor was reported in 1927?
... that the Pitchfork Ranch, established east of
Lubbock,
Texas in 1883, is one of the few modern
ranches larger than it was at the time of its founding?
... that despite being set in
New York, All Good Things has been filmed mostly in
Connecticut, partly because of the state's "scenic and period locations"?
... that
Australian artist Ben Shearer says blindness in his right eye that resulted from an injury while playing
cricket was a reason he began to paint?
... that
Samuel Pepys's former clerk Paul Lorrain more than quadrupled his prison income by publishing dubious Confessions of the condemned at
Newgate Prison?
... that approximately 90 percent of the buildings were destroyed at
Maumere, the hardest hit town of the 1992 Indonesia earthquake?
... that
Australian fishermen often refer to the Western school whiting as "bastard whiting" because its presence in the catch reduces the presence of targeted
species?
... that André Devigny, a member of the
French Resistance, escaped the allegedly escape-proof Fort Montluc
Gestapo prison using a safety pin, a spoon, a rope, and a grappling hook?
... that the Chase Promenade(pictured) hosted a monthlong Museum of Modern Ice exhibit of
abstract art on a 95 by 12 feet (29.0 by 3.7 m) wall of ice called Paintings Below Zero?
... that Kirori Singh Bainsla leads a protest movement that recently attempted to bring
Delhi to a standstill?
... that
Y1, a strain of
tobacco containing twice as much
nicotine, was developed by
Brown & Williamson so they could make low-tar cigarettes without reducing the nicotine content?
... that most of the water in the 267 acre (1.08 km²) Lake Delton emptied out in two hours after heavy rains caused it to overflow its banks?
... that in 1939 René Pleven stated "Politics do not interest me", only to join the
Free French exile government in 1941 and thus launch a long political career?
... that the
North Vietnamese Foreign Minister Xuan Thuy was first arrested at age sixteen and sent to a
penal colony at eighteen, as a member of the underground communist anti-colonial movement?
... that
Walter Brennan starred in the 1964–1965
ABCsitcomThe Tycoon as an eccentric chairman of the board of the fictitious Thunder Corporation?
... that the Church of St. Catherine(pictured) in
St. Petersburg was taken over by the
Soviets, closed, ransacked and twice burned out, before being returned to the Catholic Church in 1992?
... that Sir Archibald Bodkin banned
James Joyce's
Ulysses for containing "a great deal of unmitigated filth and obscenity" even though he had read only a few pages?
... that Morris W. Turner, as a city council member and then the
mayor of
Lubbock, was among those charged with rebuilding the downtown after the
West Texas city faced devastating
tornadoes in May 1970?
06:01, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
... that the
Lloyd Wright-designed John Sowden House(pictured) is known as the "Jaws House" because its facade resembles the open mouth of a
shark?
... that Dulcie Holland's Trio for Violin, Cello and Piano, described as "one of the greatest treasures of
Australian music", waited 47 years for its first public performance?
... that Mel Krause lost his job as head coach of the
University of Oregon's
baseball team when the university cut its century-old baseball program in 1981?
... that Otto Soemarwoto’s work as director of the Institute of Ecology has been cited as a primary influence on the resettlement strategy during
Indonesia's Saguling Dam project?
... that the Eberswalde Hoard(pictured), a collection of 81 gold objects weighing 2.59 kilograms (5.7 lb), is an important find from the
EuropeanBronze Age?
... that the builder of Centinela Adobe traded his 2,200-acre (880 ha) ranch encompassing the modern city of
Inglewood for a keg of whisky and a small home in
Los Angeles?
... that Walter Livseykept wicket so well in his debut
cricket match in 1913 that the opposing team only scored three
runs from his mistakes?
8 June 2008
19:27, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
... that after being sentenced, beaten and left for dead for refusing to recite
Muslim scriptures,
Vaishnava convert Haridasa Thakur's (pictured) instant recovery convinced many he was a
pir?
... that Italian Wall Lizards(pictured) on a
Croatian island developed significant behavioral and morphological changes over the course of 36 years, which has been described as "rapid
evolution"?
... that Lurie Garden is the focal nature component of what is perhaps the world's largest
green roof?
... that Oskar Sosnowski, professor of
architecture at
Warsaw Tech, was wounded by Germans while trying to save archives containing details of Polish historic buildings?
... that charcuterie, derived from the
French words for flesh (chair) and cooked (cuit), is the branch of cooking devoted to prepared meat products primarily sourced from
pork?
... that the
Tang Dynasty imperial prince Li Tan was forced to commit suicide due to false accusations that he planned to kill his brother
Li Chu, the later Emperor Daizong?
... that in spite of their poor formal education, William Tinsley and his brother Edward founded the
Victorian publishing firm Tinsley Brothers, which brought out
Thomas Hardy's first
novels?
... that when
Yves Saint Laurent launched a
perfume in 1977 named Opium, it led to accusations that he was condoning drug use?
... that, due to political pressure for quicker development, Alfred Pippard was unable to finish his report on the
structural analysis of the
R101airship(pictured) before it crashed?
... that Wrigley Square's Millennium Monument is a near replica of a monument destroyed in 1953 that stood in almost the exact same location in
Chicago, Illinois?
... that while serving in
World War II,
baseball player Eddie Kazak spent 18 months in hospitals recovering from a
bayonet wound to his left arm and his right elbow being shattered by
shrapnel?
... that although
Portland, Oregon's 140-mile (225 km) long
greenway system, the 40 Mile Loop, is far from complete, it has been described as "one of the most creative and resourceful greenway projects" in the U.S.?
... that Indian coracles, which probably existed since the prehistoric times, have recently been used for giving tourists rides on the
Kaveri River?
... that despite being the first official
Atlantichurricane season on record, the 1851 Atlantic hurricane season included a hurricane that is tied for the longest on record for the period prior to 1870?
... that the Huckleberry Trail takes its name from the former Virginia Anthracite & Coal Railroad, nicknamed the Huckleberry, on whose abandoned railbed this
rail trail was constructed?
... that in its last completed season in 1943–44, out of twelve clubs in the Gauliga Pommern, five belonged to the German Luftwaffe (Air Force), one to the Kriegsmarine (Navy) and one to the Heer (Army)?
... that Murray Jarvik and Jed Rose, who invented the
nicotine patch, could not get approval to conduct their research on human subjects and performed the initial tests of the patch on themselves?
... that the state of
Indiana in 1972 set aside 6,000 acres (2,400 ha) of Hoosier National Forest just for the purpose of reintroducing
wild turkey to the Hoosier state?
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 17th-century
French lawyer Antoine Le Maistre gave up a promising career and established a
Jansenist group of
ascetics known as Les Solitaires, the Hermits?
... that the musical group
The Wiggles' first album was dedicated to their general operations manager Paul Field's infant daughter, whose death ultimately led to the formation of the group?
... that the 1.3-mile (2.1 km)
avenue of trees leading to Marchmont House in
Scotland was begun 24 years before the house itself was built, with the planting of 10,000
Dutch elms?
... that
lyric tenorEvan Gorga, who created the role of Rodolfo in the original production of
Giacomo Puccini's opera La bohème, reprised the role in several productions, then retired at the age of 34?
... that Bruno Fonseca's paintings The War Murals, inspired by violence in
Eastern Europe, have been called "the most powerful statement of their kind since
Picasso's great Guernica"?
... that the tartan of Nova Scotia(pictured) was originally designed by Bessie Murray for an
agricultural exhibition in 1953, but was so admired that it was later officially adopted by the province?
... that with the inception of the Gauliga Ostmark in 1938, clubs from outside of
Vienna were for the first time permitted to take part in
Austria's premier
football division?
... that
Christopher Columbus's letter recounting his
first voyage, the first written description of America, was so popular it went through nine printed editions?
... that the winter flooding of the Elpeus river was used as a defensive military device by
Perseus of Macedon(pictured on coin)?
... that Norsk Hydro Rjukan, an industrial facility in
Tinn,
Norway, produced 30 million tonnes of
fertilizer from its opening in 1911 to its closing in 1991?
... that many localities on the coast of
Great Britain developed their own type of
fishing boat adapted to local
fishing and sea conditions, and the
nobbies are examples of this?
... that improving Indo-South African relations have led to phenomenal growth in
bilateral trade, rising from
US$3 million in 1992-93 to US$4 billion in 2005-06 and targeting US$12 billion by 2010?
... that John Paul, Sr. and
his son became the first father-son duo to win an
IMSA Camel GT race, hours after the former was married on the track infield?
... that an early record of the insult "I have forgotten more than you will ever know" attaches to Salathiel Lovell, a
Recorder of London who became known as the "Obliviscor" (forgetter)?
... that when William Williams died collecting the
fernAlpine Woodsia(pictured) in 1861, his body was found at the foot of the cliff where the species was first found in the
17th century?
... that the orienteering map(example pictured), along with the
compass, is the primary aid for an
orienteering competitor to complete a course of control points?
... that, angry that he had been accused of treason, the
Tang Dynasty general Pugu Huai'en submitted a complaint to the emperor sarcastically referring to his major contributions as crimes?
... that during
World War II, Ferdynand Arczyński produced hundreds of false IDs, work cards, service attestations, birth, and marriage certificates, distributed free to
Jews hiding outside the
Ghetto?
... that, when completed, a relocated
JCPenney at Ashland Town Center in
Ashland, Kentucky will be the largest department store in Kentucky, and one of three prototypes in the U.S.?
... that tracheobronchial injury was considered fatal until a survivor was reported in 1927?
... that the Pitchfork Ranch, established east of
Lubbock,
Texas in 1883, is one of the few modern
ranches larger than it was at the time of its founding?
... that despite being set in
New York, All Good Things has been filmed mostly in
Connecticut, partly because of the state's "scenic and period locations"?
... that
Australian artist Ben Shearer says blindness in his right eye that resulted from an injury while playing
cricket was a reason he began to paint?
... that
Samuel Pepys's former clerk Paul Lorrain more than quadrupled his prison income by publishing dubious Confessions of the condemned at
Newgate Prison?
... that approximately 90 percent of the buildings were destroyed at
Maumere, the hardest hit town of the 1992 Indonesia earthquake?
... that
Australian fishermen often refer to the Western school whiting as "bastard whiting" because its presence in the catch reduces the presence of targeted
species?
... that André Devigny, a member of the
French Resistance, escaped the allegedly escape-proof Fort Montluc
Gestapo prison using a safety pin, a spoon, a rope, and a grappling hook?
... that the Chase Promenade(pictured) hosted a monthlong Museum of Modern Ice exhibit of
abstract art on a 95 by 12 feet (29.0 by 3.7 m) wall of ice called Paintings Below Zero?
... that Kirori Singh Bainsla leads a protest movement that recently attempted to bring
Delhi to a standstill?
... that
Y1, a strain of
tobacco containing twice as much
nicotine, was developed by
Brown & Williamson so they could make low-tar cigarettes without reducing the nicotine content?
... that most of the water in the 267 acre (1.08 km²) Lake Delton emptied out in two hours after heavy rains caused it to overflow its banks?
... that in 1939 René Pleven stated "Politics do not interest me", only to join the
Free French exile government in 1941 and thus launch a long political career?
... that the
North Vietnamese Foreign Minister Xuan Thuy was first arrested at age sixteen and sent to a
penal colony at eighteen, as a member of the underground communist anti-colonial movement?
... that
Walter Brennan starred in the 1964–1965
ABCsitcomThe Tycoon as an eccentric chairman of the board of the fictitious Thunder Corporation?
... that the Church of St. Catherine(pictured) in
St. Petersburg was taken over by the
Soviets, closed, ransacked and twice burned out, before being returned to the Catholic Church in 1992?
... that Sir Archibald Bodkin banned
James Joyce's
Ulysses for containing "a great deal of unmitigated filth and obscenity" even though he had read only a few pages?
... that Morris W. Turner, as a city council member and then the
mayor of
Lubbock, was among those charged with rebuilding the downtown after the
West Texas city faced devastating
tornadoes in May 1970?
06:01, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
... that the
Lloyd Wright-designed John Sowden House(pictured) is known as the "Jaws House" because its facade resembles the open mouth of a
shark?
... that Dulcie Holland's Trio for Violin, Cello and Piano, described as "one of the greatest treasures of
Australian music", waited 47 years for its first public performance?
... that Mel Krause lost his job as head coach of the
University of Oregon's
baseball team when the university cut its century-old baseball program in 1981?
... that Otto Soemarwoto’s work as director of the Institute of Ecology has been cited as a primary influence on the resettlement strategy during
Indonesia's Saguling Dam project?
... that the Eberswalde Hoard(pictured), a collection of 81 gold objects weighing 2.59 kilograms (5.7 lb), is an important find from the
EuropeanBronze Age?
... that the builder of Centinela Adobe traded his 2,200-acre (880 ha) ranch encompassing the modern city of
Inglewood for a keg of whisky and a small home in
Los Angeles?
... that Walter Livseykept wicket so well in his debut
cricket match in 1913 that the opposing team only scored three
runs from his mistakes?
8 June 2008
19:27, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
... that after being sentenced, beaten and left for dead for refusing to recite
Muslim scriptures,
Vaishnava convert Haridasa Thakur's (pictured) instant recovery convinced many he was a
pir?
... that Italian Wall Lizards(pictured) on a
Croatian island developed significant behavioral and morphological changes over the course of 36 years, which has been described as "rapid
evolution"?
... that Lurie Garden is the focal nature component of what is perhaps the world's largest
green roof?
... that Oskar Sosnowski, professor of
architecture at
Warsaw Tech, was wounded by Germans while trying to save archives containing details of Polish historic buildings?
... that charcuterie, derived from the
French words for flesh (chair) and cooked (cuit), is the branch of cooking devoted to prepared meat products primarily sourced from
pork?
... that the
Tang Dynasty imperial prince Li Tan was forced to commit suicide due to false accusations that he planned to kill his brother
Li Chu, the later Emperor Daizong?
... that in spite of their poor formal education, William Tinsley and his brother Edward founded the
Victorian publishing firm Tinsley Brothers, which brought out
Thomas Hardy's first
novels?
... that when
Yves Saint Laurent launched a
perfume in 1977 named Opium, it led to accusations that he was condoning drug use?
... that, due to political pressure for quicker development, Alfred Pippard was unable to finish his report on the
structural analysis of the
R101airship(pictured) before it crashed?
... that Wrigley Square's Millennium Monument is a near replica of a monument destroyed in 1953 that stood in almost the exact same location in
Chicago, Illinois?
... that while serving in
World War II,
baseball player Eddie Kazak spent 18 months in hospitals recovering from a
bayonet wound to his left arm and his right elbow being shattered by
shrapnel?
... that although
Portland, Oregon's 140-mile (225 km) long
greenway system, the 40 Mile Loop, is far from complete, it has been described as "one of the most creative and resourceful greenway projects" in the U.S.?
... that Indian coracles, which probably existed since the prehistoric times, have recently been used for giving tourists rides on the
Kaveri River?
... that despite being the first official
Atlantichurricane season on record, the 1851 Atlantic hurricane season included a hurricane that is tied for the longest on record for the period prior to 1870?
... that the Huckleberry Trail takes its name from the former Virginia Anthracite & Coal Railroad, nicknamed the Huckleberry, on whose abandoned railbed this
rail trail was constructed?
... that in its last completed season in 1943–44, out of twelve clubs in the Gauliga Pommern, five belonged to the German Luftwaffe (Air Force), one to the Kriegsmarine (Navy) and one to the Heer (Army)?
... that Murray Jarvik and Jed Rose, who invented the
nicotine patch, could not get approval to conduct their research on human subjects and performed the initial tests of the patch on themselves?
... that the state of
Indiana in 1972 set aside 6,000 acres (2,400 ha) of Hoosier National Forest just for the purpose of reintroducing
wild turkey to the Hoosier state?