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31 March 2014
16:00, 31 March 2014 (UTC)
... that Jade Etherington(pictured) and
Caroline Powell are the most successful female British Winter Paralympians of all time?
... that the
indie developers of Threes!(trailer pictured) iterated through puzzle themes such as
sushi for a year before returning to their fundamental concept of pairing multiples of three?
... that Flor de María Rodríguez and her husband revived over 20
Uruguayan folk dances from the colonial period, most of which had been completely forgotten?
... that the scheduled release of the Peanuts movie in 2015 would "commemorate the 65th anniversary of
the comic strip and the 50th anniversary of the TV special A Charlie Brown Christmas"?
... that 18F(logo pictured), the new United States federal government digital services agency based on
lean startup principles, was created in response to complications in
Healthcare.gov's rollout?
... that artist Sam Peffer painted covers for the
James Bond paperback book series, as well as posters for the films Prisoner of the Cannibal God, and Hussy starring
Helen Mirren?
... that late in life, Professor Nils Kock, developer of the
Kock pouch, collaborated with Egyptian Professor
Mohamed Ghoneim to further develop his techniques in Third World nations?
... that Rachel Mahon played the music of Star Wars in "five-inch stiletto heels and blue sequined spandex"?
... that geologist Adolph Knopf frequently collaborated with his wife
Eleanora Knopf, but when he worked at
Yale University she had to work out of his office because Yale would not hire women?
... that Sue Nott was the first American woman to climb the
Eiger's north face in winter?
... that before she died of cancer, art
curatorKarin Higa was writing her doctoral dissertation entitled Little Tokyo, Los Angeles: Japanese American Art and Visual Culture, 1919–1941?
... that in 2011, Australia's National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research was re-named as the Kirby Institute in honour of former Justice of the High Court
Michael Kirby?
... that Israeli-American artist Dorit Cypis moved to
Minneapolis because she "wasn't interested in and [was] disoriented" by the consumerism she experienced in
Los Angeles?
... that Otaniemi Chapel was destroyed by
arson in 1976 but rebuilt to its original form two years later?
... that aged 15 and never having seen a live opera, Alessandra Marianelli placed second in the Cascinalirica singing competition and made her professional opera debut the following year?
... that
Oregon governor
Ted Kulongoski demanded that George H. Taylor, head of the Oregon Climate Service, stop representing himself as the "Oregon State Climatologist"?
00:25, 23 March 2014 (UTC)
... that a new dinosaur (pictured) discovered in North and South Dakota has been nicknamed the "chicken from hell"?
... that on March 5, the
Israeli Navy boarded the Klos C cargo ship and found a hidden stash of weapons, which the Israelis accused
Iran of shipping to militants in the
Gaza Strip?
... that Mary Lura Sherrill is one of three women from the same research group who have independently won the
Garvan Medal for women in chemistry?
... that Liu Shiduan used secret
kung-fu techniques to make himself invulnerable and was executed for an anti-
Christian incident in which he didn't take part?
... that the female orchid bee Eulaema meriana(pictured) visits the male at his
lek?
... that in 1848 Gustav, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg responded to a petition put forth by his people and emancipated Homberg's Jewish population?
... that
Hugh Wheeler's Big Fish, Little Fish (1961) was one of the first Broadway plays to explore the theme of homosexuality in a sensitive and honest way?
... that Mac Creiche, an early Irish saint, may have originally been a pagan hero?
08:00, 19 March 2014 (UTC)
... that the main producer of the Menacerlight gun(pictured) was laughed at when he proposed that
Sega support the peripheral past its original release?
... that al-Malayin was the first Egyptian communist newspaper that dedicated space for sports and culture?
18 March 2014
16:00, 18 March 2014 (UTC)
... that Tatjana Gsovsky(pictured),
ballet mistress at opera houses in East Berlin, Buenos Aires and West Berlin, first choreographed ballets by
Henze and
Nono?
... that the Odeon, Kingstanding, has been described as "one of the best surviving examples of Odeon cinemas in Britain"?
... that the international success of Colombian singer songwriter
Shakira's English-language debut album Laundry Service led to a critic deeming her the "biggest female crossover artist since
Jennifer Lopez"?
... that political editor Marie Simonsen has voiced concern that many women may avoid public debate because they are more likely to experience grave
cyberbullying than men are?
... that the Saddle Ridge Hoard(pictured) of
Gold Country in California is believed to be the biggest hoard of gold coins ever unearthed in the United States?
... that the completion of the
armoured cruiserHMS Euryalus was severely delayed by multiple accidents including a fire, slipping off her blocks in
drydock, and colliding with another vessel?
... that Dysoxylum parasiticum was named in the mistaken belief that it was parasitic?
00:00, 16 March 2014 (UTC)
... that a chain boat(example pictured) was a European
river craft in the late 19th century that used a chain on the
riverbed to haul itself and a string of
barges?
... that 2014 Winter Paralympics skier Mick Brennan was placed 10th in the
Super G, but withdrew from the downhill race, calling the course "scary"?
08:00, 15 March 2014 (UTC)
... that Boston's Museum of Fine Arts sold eight works to fund the purchase of Man at His Bath(pictured), reportedly because of donor reluctance to pay for "a painting showing some random guy's naked butt"?
... that Armenian-American professor Levon Marashlian once stated that "those who today deny the
Armenian Genocide are resorting to academically unsound revisionism"?
... that there are different designs of snow shovels for shovelling and pushing different types of snow?
... that
U. Penn. denied
Ezra Pound's
PhD twice: once for wasting time and again 12 years later when he tried to use The Spirit of Romance, a collection of literary criticism, as his dissertation?
... that more than 90 species of birds breed within the watershed of Briar Creek?
... that Dick Magruder was elected to the
Oregon House of Representatives at the age of 23 and came within one vote of being elected speaker before he was killed in a farm accident at the age of 31?
... that Typhoon Thad was the worst storm to strike Japan in two years?
... that actor S Waldy ran away from home to join the theatre even though his parents were actors?
13 March 2014
16:50, 13 March 2014 (UTC)
... that Leila Schneps(pictured), mathematician, researcher, and author of Math on Trial also writes mathematically-themed murder mysteries under the pen-name Catherine Shaw?
... that the time of Swedish rule in Estonia is sometimes referred to as the "good old Swedish times" in Estonia?
... that, after losing a child, journalist and author Mrs. C. S. Peel abandoned writing to sell hats, but started up again after ill health forced her to close her shop?
09:05, 13 March 2014 (UTC)
... that the white mushroom Humidicutis mavis(pictured) has been recorded from New Zealand, Australia and Borneo?
... that San Francisco Supervisor Jane Kim plays bass guitar, and her favorite song is by the
Wu-Tang Clan?
... that Typhoon Andy left nearly a quarter of
Taiwan's residents without power?
... that Rajani Pandit, regarded as Maharashtra's first female
private detective, reportedly worked
undercover as domestic help for six months while solving a case?
... that British broadcasters prevented television listings website TVGuide.co.uk from
deep linking to their video content?
... that Marie Meurdrac's 1656 book on Useful and Easy Chemistry, for the Benefit of Ladies had ten editions in three languages?
... that Paralympian James Whitley has been skiing since he was four years old?
... that Barack Obama addressed the German public, seeking to mend relations described as "worse than ... the low-point in 2003 during the Iraq War" due to mass surveillance charges?
... that Bexhill Museum refused to accept a portrait of its principal founder after she died?
10 March 2014
18:10, 10 March 2014 (UTC)
... that geneticist Adam Rutherford(pictured), host of the
BBC Radio 4 program Inside Science, is the author of a book that can be read from either end?
... that Angela Stent is on the advisory committee of Women in International Security, an organization dedicated to promoting women's careers in the field of national security?
... that a Chinese set of glazed pottery figures(example pictured) from c. 1000 has been called "one of the most important groups of ceramic sculpture in the world"?
... that the Queen Elizabeth Way(pictured in 1940) featured the longest stretch of continuously illuminated roadway in the world prior to World War II?
... that Alfred Dörffel edited several volumes of the first complete edition of the Works of Johann Sebastian Bach by the Bach Gesellschaft, beginning with
cantatas in 1878 and ending in 1898?
... that Trish Halpin won Editor of the Year awards three times?
... that long after suffering serial forced displacement as a child in Johannesburg, Emma Mashinini became a Commissioner for Restitution of Land Rights?
... that before entering into films, Sharada Ramanathan was working as a cultural activist?
... that in 2001, Ewa Ziarek wrote the book An Ethics of Dissensus?
... that runner Marie Dollinger represented Germany in three Olympic Games, broke Olympic records and set a world record, but never won an Olympic medal?
... that Australian artist Dorrit Black was influenced by the
Modernist and
Cubist art movements because of her studies in London and Paris?
... that Soerip went from "Miss" to "Grandmother" in between films?
... that Chen Yumei(pictured) retired from acting soon after being crowned the "Movie Queen"?
... that cell biologist Rachael Dunlop and her colleagues discovered how an amino acid produced by blue-green algae might trigger the onset of
ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease)?
... that Jennie Augusta Brownscombe (1850–1936), painter of the The First Thanksgiving, was a "
New Woman" painter and considered "one of America's best artists"?
... that Spanish artist Glòria Muñoz uses the chapel of an abandoned convent as her studio?
00:00, 8 March 2014 (UTC)
... that just before being murdered, Karekin Khajag(pictured) wrote in his last letter to his wife, "I have great hope that we will see each other once again"?
... that Shukri al-Quwatli(pictured), the first
president of independent Syria, attempted to commit suicide in an
Ottoman jail to prevent himself from revealing the names of his
colleagues under torture?
... that former
Macedonian ambassador Ljubica Acevska's male aide was so often assumed to be the ambassador, she said, "I should wear a sash like Miss America saying, 'I'm the Ambassador'"?
... that after the February 2014 suicide bombing of a tourist bus in
Taba,
Ansar Bait al-Maqdis threatened to attack tourists who did not leave Egypt within four days?
... that a
white oak tree with a trunk circumference of over 26 feet (7.9 m) grew near Wolf Run until it was cut down in 1852?
... that Jennie Patrick, a woman who was told she did not belong at
Berkeley in the 1970s, received the Outstanding Women in Science and Engineering Award in 1980?
... that two-time Olympic gold medalist Carli Lloyd is the only player to score the game-winning goal in two consecutive Olympic gold medal
soccer matches?
... that the first live episode of the American sitcom The Drew Carey Show was performed three times, once for each of three different time zones?
... that one reason South African judge Dunstan Mlambo permitted live broadcasting of the
Oscar Pistorius murder trial was to educate the public about criminal proceedings?
... that, in the cases of Klayman v. Obama and ACLU v. Clapper, US district courts issued conflicting rulings on the constitutionality of bulk data collection by the US government?
... that LeRoy Prinz, who staged dances in dozens of Hollywood movies in the 1930s and 1940s, was more an "idea man" than a choreographer, using simple steps and dance routines?
... that Sunderland's semi-final penalty shootout win against Manchester United in order to reach the 2014 Football League Cup Final had no English players scoring any of the penalties?
... that Enid Blyton's books were banned by the
BBC for being "second-rate" and without merit?
... that a major character in "Who Ya Gonna Call?", an episode of the comedy-drama TV series Psych, is a man who is unknowingly also a woman and a violent murderer?
... that the Hertha Feist dance school was moved by the Nazis to smaller premises?
... that Clara Breed(pictured), a San Diego librarian, is known for the "Dear Miss Breed" letters she exchanged with Japanese American children held in
internment camps during World War II?
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.
Please add the line ==={{subst:CURRENTDAY}} {{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}=== for each new day and the time the set was removed from the DYK template at the top for the newly posted set of archived hooks. This will ensure all times are based on UTC time and accurate. This page should be archived once a month. Thanks.
31 March 2014
16:00, 31 March 2014 (UTC)
... that Jade Etherington(pictured) and
Caroline Powell are the most successful female British Winter Paralympians of all time?
... that the
indie developers of Threes!(trailer pictured) iterated through puzzle themes such as
sushi for a year before returning to their fundamental concept of pairing multiples of three?
... that Flor de María Rodríguez and her husband revived over 20
Uruguayan folk dances from the colonial period, most of which had been completely forgotten?
... that the scheduled release of the Peanuts movie in 2015 would "commemorate the 65th anniversary of
the comic strip and the 50th anniversary of the TV special A Charlie Brown Christmas"?
... that 18F(logo pictured), the new United States federal government digital services agency based on
lean startup principles, was created in response to complications in
Healthcare.gov's rollout?
... that artist Sam Peffer painted covers for the
James Bond paperback book series, as well as posters for the films Prisoner of the Cannibal God, and Hussy starring
Helen Mirren?
... that late in life, Professor Nils Kock, developer of the
Kock pouch, collaborated with Egyptian Professor
Mohamed Ghoneim to further develop his techniques in Third World nations?
... that Rachel Mahon played the music of Star Wars in "five-inch stiletto heels and blue sequined spandex"?
... that geologist Adolph Knopf frequently collaborated with his wife
Eleanora Knopf, but when he worked at
Yale University she had to work out of his office because Yale would not hire women?
... that Sue Nott was the first American woman to climb the
Eiger's north face in winter?
... that before she died of cancer, art
curatorKarin Higa was writing her doctoral dissertation entitled Little Tokyo, Los Angeles: Japanese American Art and Visual Culture, 1919–1941?
... that in 2011, Australia's National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research was re-named as the Kirby Institute in honour of former Justice of the High Court
Michael Kirby?
... that Israeli-American artist Dorit Cypis moved to
Minneapolis because she "wasn't interested in and [was] disoriented" by the consumerism she experienced in
Los Angeles?
... that Otaniemi Chapel was destroyed by
arson in 1976 but rebuilt to its original form two years later?
... that aged 15 and never having seen a live opera, Alessandra Marianelli placed second in the Cascinalirica singing competition and made her professional opera debut the following year?
... that
Oregon governor
Ted Kulongoski demanded that George H. Taylor, head of the Oregon Climate Service, stop representing himself as the "Oregon State Climatologist"?
00:25, 23 March 2014 (UTC)
... that a new dinosaur (pictured) discovered in North and South Dakota has been nicknamed the "chicken from hell"?
... that on March 5, the
Israeli Navy boarded the Klos C cargo ship and found a hidden stash of weapons, which the Israelis accused
Iran of shipping to militants in the
Gaza Strip?
... that Mary Lura Sherrill is one of three women from the same research group who have independently won the
Garvan Medal for women in chemistry?
... that Liu Shiduan used secret
kung-fu techniques to make himself invulnerable and was executed for an anti-
Christian incident in which he didn't take part?
... that the female orchid bee Eulaema meriana(pictured) visits the male at his
lek?
... that in 1848 Gustav, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg responded to a petition put forth by his people and emancipated Homberg's Jewish population?
... that
Hugh Wheeler's Big Fish, Little Fish (1961) was one of the first Broadway plays to explore the theme of homosexuality in a sensitive and honest way?
... that Mac Creiche, an early Irish saint, may have originally been a pagan hero?
08:00, 19 March 2014 (UTC)
... that the main producer of the Menacerlight gun(pictured) was laughed at when he proposed that
Sega support the peripheral past its original release?
... that al-Malayin was the first Egyptian communist newspaper that dedicated space for sports and culture?
18 March 2014
16:00, 18 March 2014 (UTC)
... that Tatjana Gsovsky(pictured),
ballet mistress at opera houses in East Berlin, Buenos Aires and West Berlin, first choreographed ballets by
Henze and
Nono?
... that the Odeon, Kingstanding, has been described as "one of the best surviving examples of Odeon cinemas in Britain"?
... that the international success of Colombian singer songwriter
Shakira's English-language debut album Laundry Service led to a critic deeming her the "biggest female crossover artist since
Jennifer Lopez"?
... that political editor Marie Simonsen has voiced concern that many women may avoid public debate because they are more likely to experience grave
cyberbullying than men are?
... that the Saddle Ridge Hoard(pictured) of
Gold Country in California is believed to be the biggest hoard of gold coins ever unearthed in the United States?
... that the completion of the
armoured cruiserHMS Euryalus was severely delayed by multiple accidents including a fire, slipping off her blocks in
drydock, and colliding with another vessel?
... that Dysoxylum parasiticum was named in the mistaken belief that it was parasitic?
00:00, 16 March 2014 (UTC)
... that a chain boat(example pictured) was a European
river craft in the late 19th century that used a chain on the
riverbed to haul itself and a string of
barges?
... that 2014 Winter Paralympics skier Mick Brennan was placed 10th in the
Super G, but withdrew from the downhill race, calling the course "scary"?
08:00, 15 March 2014 (UTC)
... that Boston's Museum of Fine Arts sold eight works to fund the purchase of Man at His Bath(pictured), reportedly because of donor reluctance to pay for "a painting showing some random guy's naked butt"?
... that Armenian-American professor Levon Marashlian once stated that "those who today deny the
Armenian Genocide are resorting to academically unsound revisionism"?
... that there are different designs of snow shovels for shovelling and pushing different types of snow?
... that
U. Penn. denied
Ezra Pound's
PhD twice: once for wasting time and again 12 years later when he tried to use The Spirit of Romance, a collection of literary criticism, as his dissertation?
... that more than 90 species of birds breed within the watershed of Briar Creek?
... that Dick Magruder was elected to the
Oregon House of Representatives at the age of 23 and came within one vote of being elected speaker before he was killed in a farm accident at the age of 31?
... that Typhoon Thad was the worst storm to strike Japan in two years?
... that actor S Waldy ran away from home to join the theatre even though his parents were actors?
13 March 2014
16:50, 13 March 2014 (UTC)
... that Leila Schneps(pictured), mathematician, researcher, and author of Math on Trial also writes mathematically-themed murder mysteries under the pen-name Catherine Shaw?
... that the time of Swedish rule in Estonia is sometimes referred to as the "good old Swedish times" in Estonia?
... that, after losing a child, journalist and author Mrs. C. S. Peel abandoned writing to sell hats, but started up again after ill health forced her to close her shop?
09:05, 13 March 2014 (UTC)
... that the white mushroom Humidicutis mavis(pictured) has been recorded from New Zealand, Australia and Borneo?
... that San Francisco Supervisor Jane Kim plays bass guitar, and her favorite song is by the
Wu-Tang Clan?
... that Typhoon Andy left nearly a quarter of
Taiwan's residents without power?
... that Rajani Pandit, regarded as Maharashtra's first female
private detective, reportedly worked
undercover as domestic help for six months while solving a case?
... that British broadcasters prevented television listings website TVGuide.co.uk from
deep linking to their video content?
... that Marie Meurdrac's 1656 book on Useful and Easy Chemistry, for the Benefit of Ladies had ten editions in three languages?
... that Paralympian James Whitley has been skiing since he was four years old?
... that Barack Obama addressed the German public, seeking to mend relations described as "worse than ... the low-point in 2003 during the Iraq War" due to mass surveillance charges?
... that Bexhill Museum refused to accept a portrait of its principal founder after she died?
10 March 2014
18:10, 10 March 2014 (UTC)
... that geneticist Adam Rutherford(pictured), host of the
BBC Radio 4 program Inside Science, is the author of a book that can be read from either end?
... that Angela Stent is on the advisory committee of Women in International Security, an organization dedicated to promoting women's careers in the field of national security?
... that a Chinese set of glazed pottery figures(example pictured) from c. 1000 has been called "one of the most important groups of ceramic sculpture in the world"?
... that the Queen Elizabeth Way(pictured in 1940) featured the longest stretch of continuously illuminated roadway in the world prior to World War II?
... that Alfred Dörffel edited several volumes of the first complete edition of the Works of Johann Sebastian Bach by the Bach Gesellschaft, beginning with
cantatas in 1878 and ending in 1898?
... that Trish Halpin won Editor of the Year awards three times?
... that long after suffering serial forced displacement as a child in Johannesburg, Emma Mashinini became a Commissioner for Restitution of Land Rights?
... that before entering into films, Sharada Ramanathan was working as a cultural activist?
... that in 2001, Ewa Ziarek wrote the book An Ethics of Dissensus?
... that runner Marie Dollinger represented Germany in three Olympic Games, broke Olympic records and set a world record, but never won an Olympic medal?
... that Australian artist Dorrit Black was influenced by the
Modernist and
Cubist art movements because of her studies in London and Paris?
... that Soerip went from "Miss" to "Grandmother" in between films?
... that Chen Yumei(pictured) retired from acting soon after being crowned the "Movie Queen"?
... that cell biologist Rachael Dunlop and her colleagues discovered how an amino acid produced by blue-green algae might trigger the onset of
ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease)?
... that Jennie Augusta Brownscombe (1850–1936), painter of the The First Thanksgiving, was a "
New Woman" painter and considered "one of America's best artists"?
... that Spanish artist Glòria Muñoz uses the chapel of an abandoned convent as her studio?
00:00, 8 March 2014 (UTC)
... that just before being murdered, Karekin Khajag(pictured) wrote in his last letter to his wife, "I have great hope that we will see each other once again"?
... that Shukri al-Quwatli(pictured), the first
president of independent Syria, attempted to commit suicide in an
Ottoman jail to prevent himself from revealing the names of his
colleagues under torture?
... that former
Macedonian ambassador Ljubica Acevska's male aide was so often assumed to be the ambassador, she said, "I should wear a sash like Miss America saying, 'I'm the Ambassador'"?
... that after the February 2014 suicide bombing of a tourist bus in
Taba,
Ansar Bait al-Maqdis threatened to attack tourists who did not leave Egypt within four days?
... that a
white oak tree with a trunk circumference of over 26 feet (7.9 m) grew near Wolf Run until it was cut down in 1852?
... that Jennie Patrick, a woman who was told she did not belong at
Berkeley in the 1970s, received the Outstanding Women in Science and Engineering Award in 1980?
... that two-time Olympic gold medalist Carli Lloyd is the only player to score the game-winning goal in two consecutive Olympic gold medal
soccer matches?
... that the first live episode of the American sitcom The Drew Carey Show was performed three times, once for each of three different time zones?
... that one reason South African judge Dunstan Mlambo permitted live broadcasting of the
Oscar Pistorius murder trial was to educate the public about criminal proceedings?
... that, in the cases of Klayman v. Obama and ACLU v. Clapper, US district courts issued conflicting rulings on the constitutionality of bulk data collection by the US government?
... that LeRoy Prinz, who staged dances in dozens of Hollywood movies in the 1930s and 1940s, was more an "idea man" than a choreographer, using simple steps and dance routines?
... that Sunderland's semi-final penalty shootout win against Manchester United in order to reach the 2014 Football League Cup Final had no English players scoring any of the penalties?
... that Enid Blyton's books were banned by the
BBC for being "second-rate" and without merit?
... that a major character in "Who Ya Gonna Call?", an episode of the comedy-drama TV series Psych, is a man who is unknowingly also a woman and a violent murderer?
... that the Hertha Feist dance school was moved by the Nazis to smaller premises?
... that Clara Breed(pictured), a San Diego librarian, is known for the "Dear Miss Breed" letters she exchanged with Japanese American children held in
internment camps during World War II?