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30 September 2014
12:00, 30 September 2014 (UTC)
... that despite being fairly common, little is known of the breeding behaviour or diet of the Peruvian thick-knee(pictured)?
... that the Charlotte Medal, said to be the first work of Australian colonial art, was created in 1788 by a British convict to commemorate the
First Fleet's voyage to
Botany Bay?
... that Professor of Ancient History John Crook tried to get his colleagues to sing "
Waltzing Matilda" in Latin, with the chorus for swag of "ambiclitella! ambiclitella!"?
... that the original image of
Our Lady of Guadalupe in the Philippines' Pagsanjan Church was a gift from Mexico, and was installed at the main altar in1688?
... that the Swedish playwright Martina Montelius(pictured) hosted an episode of the popular radio show Sommar that was described as "controlled madness and seductive"?
... that
William Lever used nearly thirty architects to plan houses for his workers in the
model village of Port Sunlight(example pictured), and vetted all the designs himself?
... that Martin Manulis was the producer of Playhouse 90, voted the greatest television series of all time in a 1970 poll of television editors?
... that Jean-François Autié was one of three brothers who worked as Marie Antoinette's hairdresser Monsieur Léonard, and he fled Paris to escape the guillotine?
... that 33 species of fish have been identified in Towanda Creek?
... that in the comic Nowhere Men, "Science is the new Rock-N-Roll"?
... that Walter Wu, a blind Canadian swimmer and three-time gold medalist at the Paralympics, was a torchbearer for the
2010 Winter Paralympics after his retirement in 2004?
... that the Barry Waterfront redevelopment scheme is one of the largest to be undertaken in the UK?
... that the golden wattle(pictured) was proclaimed the floral emblem of Australia on 1September 1988, and in 1992 this date was formally declared "
National Wattle Day"?
... that the state of Washington's supreme court meets in the Temple of Justice?
... that despite having only two players in a three-on-three basketball game, the 2011 USA Women's U18 3x3 Team took a game to overtime, almost winning a medal?
... that the Swedish king
Eric XIV was imprisoned, and ultimately died, in Örbyhus Castle(pictured)?
... that although the New Zealand activist Frances Ann Stewart considered herself a "pioneer" for women, she believed that not all women should receive the right to vote?
... that Fisher Run is considered to be impaired by
acid mine drainage and metals, but is a High-Quality Coldwater Fishery and Class A Wild Trout Waters?
... that the call of the Sonoran green toad is said to resemble "the buzzer on an electric alarm clock"?
... that the Australian plant Lomatia arborescens has large serrated leaves when it grows in a sheltered spot and small entire-margined leaves in an exposed location?
... that Robert Pitcairn was only fifteen when he discovered the island which is now named after him?
... that
Queen Elizabeth's godmother Venetia James(pictured) was so frugal that she reused unwanted milk from her cat's dish and hosted Catholics on Fridays, when they could not eat expensive meat?
... that The Owl Drug Company sponsored a minor-league baseball team and ran a beauty contest in which winners received a Hollywood screen test?
... that two days into her career, the fashion model Jill Kennington was chosen for a major UK tour by
Norman Hartnell, who declared, "Darling, you are going to be my mascot"?
... that several wind and rain machines were used to create the storm effects for the Neighbourstornado storyline?
... that
Walt Disney's first interest in animatronics came after he happened upon a toy animatronic bird by chance while on vacation? (
TAFI)
... that at the outbreak of World War II, British fashion designer Elspeth Champcommunal and her partner
Jane Heap fled from Germany to London via Switzerland?
... that College Football Hall of Fame inductee Vince Banonis(pictured) was an
All-American center for the University of Detroit and
All-NFL for the Chicago Cardinals?
... that the headwaters of Mehoopany Creek are home to three plant species that are rare or endangered in Pennsylvania?
... that the Himalayan pika inhabits rocky places, screes, walls and cliffs at altitudes of up to 4,200 metres (13,800ft)?
... that the French engineer Joseph Farcot's design for two coupled horizontal steam engines won the grand prize at the 1867 Universal Exhibition in Paris?
... that Yuxian was called the "Butcher of Shanxi", and blamed for ordering the
Taiyuan Massacre – execution of Western missionaries in 1900 – but he probably only witnessed it and did not order it?
... that Kelaart's toad is considered
endangered because its range totals less than 500square kilometres (190sqmi)?
... that databending of images (example pictured) can occur through "the
WordPad effect"?
... that in 1547
Mrauk-U defenses stopped an invasion by the
Taungoo Dynasty of Burma by opening the sluices of the
Mrauk-U city's reservoirs, and flooding out the invaders?
... that American singer ILoveMakonnen was named after the royal family of Ethiopia, but is in fact of African, Indian, Irish, Belgian, German and Chinese descent?
... that the Guthrie Historic District was created to preserve architecturally significant structures built when Guthrie was the capital of
Oklahoma Territory and the first capital of the state of
Oklahoma?
... that
the founder of Little Athletics once turned away three young boys from an athletics meet, citing their youth as the reason?
17 September 2014
14:00, 17 September 2014 (UTC)
... that the Sonderkommando photographs(example pictured) of events around the
Auschwitz gas chambers in 1944 were smuggled out of the camp in a toothpaste tube?
... that the discoverers of mendelevium had to seek the permission of the United States government to propose it be named after Russian chemist
Dmitri Mendeleev, father of the
periodic table?
... that a female Afghan pika may have 30 or more offspring in a year?
... that Ron Capps served in five war zones in ten years before founding the Veterans Writing Project?
... that Sally Hemings was an enslaved woman of mixed race owned by
PresidentThomas Jefferson, and had a long-term relationship and six children with him?
... that the artist Rhoda Holmes Nicholls(self-portrait pictured) and her husband
Burr divorced after her work was accepted at the
Paris Salon but his painting was rejected?
... that in 1966, Beijing Daily, the official newspaper of the CPC Beijing Municipal Committee, was forced to cease publication after it refused to publish a paper by one of the
Gang of Four?
... that the German non-profit organisation GWUP annually tests persons claiming paranormal skills (and seeking a €10,000 reward), but nobody has ever passed the test?
02:45, 16 September 2014 (UTC)
... that on the evening of September15, 2008, the pattern of lights in the windows of the Ford World Headquarters(building pictured) spelled out "Happy100GM", in honor of Ford's chief rival?
... that the red-tailed chipmunk feeds mainly on seeds and berries but has been caught in traps baited with meat?
... that civil engineer Mike Cottell was an early contributor to
computer-aided design, and software he developed in 1970 was still in use thirty years later?
... that mushroom ketchup dates back to the 18th century in the United Kingdom and United States?
... that Prof and Rahzwell performed a regular "drunk show" in which they would only begin rapping once Rahzwell threw up?
14 September 2014
12:00, 14 September 2014 (UTC)
... that although the
type specimen of the black catbird(pictured) was reportedly collected in Honduras, the species has never been recorded there since?
... that
Shep the Dog was considered to have given a superior performance to that of his child co-star in A Dog's Love?
13 September 2014
12:00, 13 September 2014 (UTC)
... that Edgewood Avenue(pictured), Atlanta's newest and "most diverse" restaurant and entertainment street, was originally created as a route for Atlanta's first electric streetcar line?
... that types of habitats in the watershed of Fallow Hollow include a deciduous seepy forest, a shrub swamp, a forested ravine, a graminoid/forb opening, and a pond?
... that one song by Die Rhöner Säuwäntzt went viral among anti–wind power activists in Germany?
... that
James Randi used his 1980 book Flim-Flam! to launch an
annual award for "the psychic who fools the greatest number of people with the least effort"?
... that the daily load of aluminum in Black Creek below the Gowen Discharge is 12 times the load above it?
... that Peter Russell was a horse rancher in Saskatchewan, Canada, a rubber planter in Malaya and a farmer in Norfolk, England, before becoming a fashion designer?
... that every woman who undergoes an abortion in Iceland is required to receive counselling and education about contraception?
... that Margaret Fritsch was the first woman to be licensed as an architect in Oregon?
... that the Kawayan Torogan is the only remaining habitable
torogan in the Philippines?
... that the Australian entertainer Maynard(pictured) made a career out of being "happily unfashionable", sometimes wearing "a stylish combination of pyjamas and floral beach wear"?
... that Bart Bok and his wife
Priscilla, who were both astronomers, worked together so closely that it was "difficult and pointless to separate his achievements from hers"?
... that the 2007 film Adrift in Manhattan was to be initially named 1/
9, after the subway lines, but was changed when the
Sundance Film Festival demanded a more mainstream title?
... that although the video game Sleeping Dogs sold 1.5 million copies within a year of its release, its publisher
Square Enix considered it a commercial failure?
... that the 2,100-year-old mausoleum of the King of Jiangdu contained a kitchen with food, 100,000 coins, and the only undamaged jade coffin in China?
... that the artist Bryan Nash Gill, who was known for his sculptures and cross-sections of trees, had a son named Forest?
... that the Gulf Coast kangaroo rat has two distinct color forms, ashy grey or reddish/yellowish-buff?
... that accommodation at No. 5 Elementary Flying Training School RAAF was, according to the unit history, "bleak and depressing", and deficiencies in equipment "too numerous for itemising"?
... that the song "I'm Not Your Hero" by
Tegan and Sara is based on Sara's life as a teenager unable to identify with the lives of pop-culture figures, as well as her political views and sexuality?
... that the German actor Eduard von Winterstein was born in Vienna and took acting lessons from his mother, who was of Hungarian origin?
... that Emma Irene Åström, the first woman to graduate from a Finnish university, once said, "There is no point in calling me a pioneer, because I have never consciously been one"?
... that some stadiums in the United States offer foods prepared with crab dip as part of their concessions?
... that the spot-tail shark can produce as many as eight pups after a gestation period of ten months?
... that hunter Steve Hindi stopped hunting and founded the animal rights group Showing Animals Respect and Kindness (SHARK) after witnessing a
pigeon shoot in Pennsylvania in 1989?
... that the
United States Mint sold the 32 Old Slip site in
Manhattan for US$27 million, making it the most valuable US Government property sold at public auction?
... that the 1340 Great Fire of Spondon may have started at the site now occupied by the Malt Shovel pub?
00:00, 4 September 2014 (UTC)
... that
Pistoia's noble Rospigliosi family, before reaching the papacy in 1667 with
Clement IX(pictured), gained most of its income from agriculture and the wool trade?
... that in 1966 Antonio Iranzo won the Silver Frames Award for Best Actor of Spanish cinema for the film Burnt Skin?
... that by winning the 2000 UEFA Cup Final,
Galatasaray became Turkey's first football team to win a European competition?
... that indie video game Cuphead was inspired by the 1930s cartoons of
Fleischer Studios and is drawn in their subversive and surrealist style?
... that in 2006 it was found that a bank account belonging jointly to former
Saskatoon mayor Russell Wilson and a priest had lain unclaimed since 1929?
3 September 2014
12:00, 3 September 2014 (UTC)
... that the two basic transformer(pictured) constructions in common use today are based on designs described in patent applications from 1885?
... that members of the fossil insect family Armaniidae have been described as "ant-like wasps"?
... that while working as a French teacher, the future Romanian art critic George Oprescu denounced the
German occupation, prompting his arrest and deportation to an internment camp in Bulgaria?
... that the Lake Murray Meteorite, discovered in 1933, is the largest Class IIAB
octahedrite found in Oklahoma and the fifth largest found in the world?
... that when the telecommunications entrepreneur Robert A. Brooks had his corporate headquarters built in
St. Louis, the arrangement of windows spelled out "Brooks Fiber Properties" in
Morse code?
... that "If It Wasn't True" from countertenor Shamir's 2014 Northtown EP was called "Your Favorite Breakup Song" by Vogue and "semidissonant pulses tickled by antsy snares and hi-hats" by Dazed?
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.
30 September 2014
12:00, 30 September 2014 (UTC)
... that despite being fairly common, little is known of the breeding behaviour or diet of the Peruvian thick-knee(pictured)?
... that the Charlotte Medal, said to be the first work of Australian colonial art, was created in 1788 by a British convict to commemorate the
First Fleet's voyage to
Botany Bay?
... that Professor of Ancient History John Crook tried to get his colleagues to sing "
Waltzing Matilda" in Latin, with the chorus for swag of "ambiclitella! ambiclitella!"?
... that the original image of
Our Lady of Guadalupe in the Philippines' Pagsanjan Church was a gift from Mexico, and was installed at the main altar in1688?
... that the Swedish playwright Martina Montelius(pictured) hosted an episode of the popular radio show Sommar that was described as "controlled madness and seductive"?
... that
William Lever used nearly thirty architects to plan houses for his workers in the
model village of Port Sunlight(example pictured), and vetted all the designs himself?
... that Martin Manulis was the producer of Playhouse 90, voted the greatest television series of all time in a 1970 poll of television editors?
... that Jean-François Autié was one of three brothers who worked as Marie Antoinette's hairdresser Monsieur Léonard, and he fled Paris to escape the guillotine?
... that 33 species of fish have been identified in Towanda Creek?
... that in the comic Nowhere Men, "Science is the new Rock-N-Roll"?
... that Walter Wu, a blind Canadian swimmer and three-time gold medalist at the Paralympics, was a torchbearer for the
2010 Winter Paralympics after his retirement in 2004?
... that the Barry Waterfront redevelopment scheme is one of the largest to be undertaken in the UK?
... that the golden wattle(pictured) was proclaimed the floral emblem of Australia on 1September 1988, and in 1992 this date was formally declared "
National Wattle Day"?
... that the state of Washington's supreme court meets in the Temple of Justice?
... that despite having only two players in a three-on-three basketball game, the 2011 USA Women's U18 3x3 Team took a game to overtime, almost winning a medal?
... that the Swedish king
Eric XIV was imprisoned, and ultimately died, in Örbyhus Castle(pictured)?
... that although the New Zealand activist Frances Ann Stewart considered herself a "pioneer" for women, she believed that not all women should receive the right to vote?
... that Fisher Run is considered to be impaired by
acid mine drainage and metals, but is a High-Quality Coldwater Fishery and Class A Wild Trout Waters?
... that the call of the Sonoran green toad is said to resemble "the buzzer on an electric alarm clock"?
... that the Australian plant Lomatia arborescens has large serrated leaves when it grows in a sheltered spot and small entire-margined leaves in an exposed location?
... that Robert Pitcairn was only fifteen when he discovered the island which is now named after him?
... that
Queen Elizabeth's godmother Venetia James(pictured) was so frugal that she reused unwanted milk from her cat's dish and hosted Catholics on Fridays, when they could not eat expensive meat?
... that The Owl Drug Company sponsored a minor-league baseball team and ran a beauty contest in which winners received a Hollywood screen test?
... that two days into her career, the fashion model Jill Kennington was chosen for a major UK tour by
Norman Hartnell, who declared, "Darling, you are going to be my mascot"?
... that several wind and rain machines were used to create the storm effects for the Neighbourstornado storyline?
... that
Walt Disney's first interest in animatronics came after he happened upon a toy animatronic bird by chance while on vacation? (
TAFI)
... that at the outbreak of World War II, British fashion designer Elspeth Champcommunal and her partner
Jane Heap fled from Germany to London via Switzerland?
... that College Football Hall of Fame inductee Vince Banonis(pictured) was an
All-American center for the University of Detroit and
All-NFL for the Chicago Cardinals?
... that the headwaters of Mehoopany Creek are home to three plant species that are rare or endangered in Pennsylvania?
... that the Himalayan pika inhabits rocky places, screes, walls and cliffs at altitudes of up to 4,200 metres (13,800ft)?
... that the French engineer Joseph Farcot's design for two coupled horizontal steam engines won the grand prize at the 1867 Universal Exhibition in Paris?
... that Yuxian was called the "Butcher of Shanxi", and blamed for ordering the
Taiyuan Massacre – execution of Western missionaries in 1900 – but he probably only witnessed it and did not order it?
... that Kelaart's toad is considered
endangered because its range totals less than 500square kilometres (190sqmi)?
... that databending of images (example pictured) can occur through "the
WordPad effect"?
... that in 1547
Mrauk-U defenses stopped an invasion by the
Taungoo Dynasty of Burma by opening the sluices of the
Mrauk-U city's reservoirs, and flooding out the invaders?
... that American singer ILoveMakonnen was named after the royal family of Ethiopia, but is in fact of African, Indian, Irish, Belgian, German and Chinese descent?
... that the Guthrie Historic District was created to preserve architecturally significant structures built when Guthrie was the capital of
Oklahoma Territory and the first capital of the state of
Oklahoma?
... that
the founder of Little Athletics once turned away three young boys from an athletics meet, citing their youth as the reason?
17 September 2014
14:00, 17 September 2014 (UTC)
... that the Sonderkommando photographs(example pictured) of events around the
Auschwitz gas chambers in 1944 were smuggled out of the camp in a toothpaste tube?
... that the discoverers of mendelevium had to seek the permission of the United States government to propose it be named after Russian chemist
Dmitri Mendeleev, father of the
periodic table?
... that a female Afghan pika may have 30 or more offspring in a year?
... that Ron Capps served in five war zones in ten years before founding the Veterans Writing Project?
... that Sally Hemings was an enslaved woman of mixed race owned by
PresidentThomas Jefferson, and had a long-term relationship and six children with him?
... that the artist Rhoda Holmes Nicholls(self-portrait pictured) and her husband
Burr divorced after her work was accepted at the
Paris Salon but his painting was rejected?
... that in 1966, Beijing Daily, the official newspaper of the CPC Beijing Municipal Committee, was forced to cease publication after it refused to publish a paper by one of the
Gang of Four?
... that the German non-profit organisation GWUP annually tests persons claiming paranormal skills (and seeking a €10,000 reward), but nobody has ever passed the test?
02:45, 16 September 2014 (UTC)
... that on the evening of September15, 2008, the pattern of lights in the windows of the Ford World Headquarters(building pictured) spelled out "Happy100GM", in honor of Ford's chief rival?
... that the red-tailed chipmunk feeds mainly on seeds and berries but has been caught in traps baited with meat?
... that civil engineer Mike Cottell was an early contributor to
computer-aided design, and software he developed in 1970 was still in use thirty years later?
... that mushroom ketchup dates back to the 18th century in the United Kingdom and United States?
... that Prof and Rahzwell performed a regular "drunk show" in which they would only begin rapping once Rahzwell threw up?
14 September 2014
12:00, 14 September 2014 (UTC)
... that although the
type specimen of the black catbird(pictured) was reportedly collected in Honduras, the species has never been recorded there since?
... that
Shep the Dog was considered to have given a superior performance to that of his child co-star in A Dog's Love?
13 September 2014
12:00, 13 September 2014 (UTC)
... that Edgewood Avenue(pictured), Atlanta's newest and "most diverse" restaurant and entertainment street, was originally created as a route for Atlanta's first electric streetcar line?
... that types of habitats in the watershed of Fallow Hollow include a deciduous seepy forest, a shrub swamp, a forested ravine, a graminoid/forb opening, and a pond?
... that one song by Die Rhöner Säuwäntzt went viral among anti–wind power activists in Germany?
... that
James Randi used his 1980 book Flim-Flam! to launch an
annual award for "the psychic who fools the greatest number of people with the least effort"?
... that the daily load of aluminum in Black Creek below the Gowen Discharge is 12 times the load above it?
... that Peter Russell was a horse rancher in Saskatchewan, Canada, a rubber planter in Malaya and a farmer in Norfolk, England, before becoming a fashion designer?
... that every woman who undergoes an abortion in Iceland is required to receive counselling and education about contraception?
... that Margaret Fritsch was the first woman to be licensed as an architect in Oregon?
... that the Kawayan Torogan is the only remaining habitable
torogan in the Philippines?
... that the Australian entertainer Maynard(pictured) made a career out of being "happily unfashionable", sometimes wearing "a stylish combination of pyjamas and floral beach wear"?
... that Bart Bok and his wife
Priscilla, who were both astronomers, worked together so closely that it was "difficult and pointless to separate his achievements from hers"?
... that the 2007 film Adrift in Manhattan was to be initially named 1/
9, after the subway lines, but was changed when the
Sundance Film Festival demanded a more mainstream title?
... that although the video game Sleeping Dogs sold 1.5 million copies within a year of its release, its publisher
Square Enix considered it a commercial failure?
... that the 2,100-year-old mausoleum of the King of Jiangdu contained a kitchen with food, 100,000 coins, and the only undamaged jade coffin in China?
... that the artist Bryan Nash Gill, who was known for his sculptures and cross-sections of trees, had a son named Forest?
... that the Gulf Coast kangaroo rat has two distinct color forms, ashy grey or reddish/yellowish-buff?
... that accommodation at No. 5 Elementary Flying Training School RAAF was, according to the unit history, "bleak and depressing", and deficiencies in equipment "too numerous for itemising"?
... that the song "I'm Not Your Hero" by
Tegan and Sara is based on Sara's life as a teenager unable to identify with the lives of pop-culture figures, as well as her political views and sexuality?
... that the German actor Eduard von Winterstein was born in Vienna and took acting lessons from his mother, who was of Hungarian origin?
... that Emma Irene Åström, the first woman to graduate from a Finnish university, once said, "There is no point in calling me a pioneer, because I have never consciously been one"?
... that some stadiums in the United States offer foods prepared with crab dip as part of their concessions?
... that the spot-tail shark can produce as many as eight pups after a gestation period of ten months?
... that hunter Steve Hindi stopped hunting and founded the animal rights group Showing Animals Respect and Kindness (SHARK) after witnessing a
pigeon shoot in Pennsylvania in 1989?
... that the
United States Mint sold the 32 Old Slip site in
Manhattan for US$27 million, making it the most valuable US Government property sold at public auction?
... that the 1340 Great Fire of Spondon may have started at the site now occupied by the Malt Shovel pub?
00:00, 4 September 2014 (UTC)
... that
Pistoia's noble Rospigliosi family, before reaching the papacy in 1667 with
Clement IX(pictured), gained most of its income from agriculture and the wool trade?
... that in 1966 Antonio Iranzo won the Silver Frames Award for Best Actor of Spanish cinema for the film Burnt Skin?
... that by winning the 2000 UEFA Cup Final,
Galatasaray became Turkey's first football team to win a European competition?
... that indie video game Cuphead was inspired by the 1930s cartoons of
Fleischer Studios and is drawn in their subversive and surrealist style?
... that in 2006 it was found that a bank account belonging jointly to former
Saskatoon mayor Russell Wilson and a priest had lain unclaimed since 1929?
3 September 2014
12:00, 3 September 2014 (UTC)
... that the two basic transformer(pictured) constructions in common use today are based on designs described in patent applications from 1885?
... that members of the fossil insect family Armaniidae have been described as "ant-like wasps"?
... that while working as a French teacher, the future Romanian art critic George Oprescu denounced the
German occupation, prompting his arrest and deportation to an internment camp in Bulgaria?
... that the Lake Murray Meteorite, discovered in 1933, is the largest Class IIAB
octahedrite found in Oklahoma and the fifth largest found in the world?
... that when the telecommunications entrepreneur Robert A. Brooks had his corporate headquarters built in
St. Louis, the arrangement of windows spelled out "Brooks Fiber Properties" in
Morse code?
... that "If It Wasn't True" from countertenor Shamir's 2014 Northtown EP was called "Your Favorite Breakup Song" by Vogue and "semidissonant pulses tickled by antsy snares and hi-hats" by Dazed?