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31 May 2015
21:45, 31 May 2015 (UTC)
... that the organ in the village church of Störmthal(pictured) was approved by
Bach and dedicated with
a cantata written for the occasion?
... that Sonya Rose is an expert in the role of gender identity in British history?
... that Sterry Creek is usually "little more than a trickle", but overflows its banks about once every ten years?
... that while on tour in Brazil to promote its new album Omen, the band
Antestor was attacked by
Satanistblack metal fans angered by the Christian beliefs of the band members?
... that contemporary versions of the Greek bread paximathia can remain edible for up to eight weeks when stored in an airtight container?
... that the performance of The Icelandic New Business Venture Fund was described as "disappointing" even though it managed to fund a major tourist attraction in Iceland?
... that the British billionaire Adam Fleming is the nephew of James Bond novelist
Ian Fleming?
... that at the 2015 FA Cup Final, a 64-person choir, comprising one fan for each team which reached the third round of competition, sang "
Abide with Me" before kick-off?
... that Synageva, a company with no marketed products and a net loss of US$60 million in the most recent quarter, recently entered into an agreement to be sold for US$8.4 billion?
... that the eastern backdrop of the Veerabhadra Temple, Lepakshi features a granite boulder with a carving of a coiled multi-hooded
serpent providing shade over a
linga?
... that Lessing J. Rosenwald instructed his literary agent to spend any amount necessary to prevent Prozess gegen die Juden von Trient from falling into Nazi hands?
... that when a grade-school teacher gave her students a writing assignment, "I Wish My Teacher Knew______", the answers went viral and sparked a movement?
... that Salve Regina, composed by
Arvo Pärt to venerate the
Golden Madonna of the Essen Cathedral (detail pictured), "builds very gradually to a late, majestic climax"?
... that while researching his award-winning book on US President
George Washington, Logan Beirne found letters written by Washington in his own ancestors' house?
... that in
mixed martial arts, 12-6 elbows are legal if the fighter is on his back because "the clock doesn't move"?
... that a recipe for
brewing beer from loaves of multigrain bread mixed with honey dates to approximately 4,000 years ago from
ancientMesopotamia, and is the oldest surviving beer recipe in the world?
... that the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act requires public and private institutions to eliminate barriers so all residents can "obtain, use and benefit from goods and services"?
... that the heritage ambiance of Fontainhas(house with wishing well pictured) reflects the traditional
Portuguese influence in the area?
... that Taiwanese singer/actor Nylon Chen calls himself "musical zhainan" (musical homeboy) because he mostly spends his time at home writing and composing songs?
... that a nematode kills the
mole crickets it parasitises by infecting them with a specialist bacterium?
... that Peder Syv's publication of proverbs and folk songs helped establish
Danish as a literary language?
... that one company owned 93% of the upper 11.5 square miles (30 km2) of the Stafford Meadow Brookwatershed in the 1940s, and another owned most of the upper 75% of the watershed in the 1990s?
... that during the
Stalin era, Akmol in
Kazakhstan was notorious for its "Labour Camp for Wives of Traitors of the Motherland"?
... that the museum at Forte Tre Sassi displays
World War I artifacts collected over a period of 45 years, and reportedly has 20,000 visitors annually?
... that Maitreyi was highly revered as one of the few women scholars of the
Vedic period (
c. 1750 – 500
BCE) able to discuss the highest spiritual truths of life?
... that the sudden emergence of
Climax Blues Band's "Couldn't Get It Right" irritated their producer, because he thought they had spent eight albums withholding a hit from him?
... that Mercedes Sandoval de Hempel was nominated in Paraguay for "1000 Women for the Nobel Peace Prize 2005"?
... that the Polish
street food known as zapiekanka(pictured) has been described both as "Polish
pizza" and "a poor relative of its distant Italian cousin"?
... that with its 1819 foundation, the Romney Literary Society became the first organization of its kind in present-day
West Virginia, and one of the first in the U.S.?
... that Mountain Lake Run flows through a culvert system for a substantial part of its length in its lower reaches?
... that in 2006, some 60 percent of the 57-square-mile (148 km2) watershed of Spring Brook(pictured) was owned by one company?
... that at the inauguration of a Torah scroll, the other Torah scrolls housed in the
synagogue or sanctuary are carried outside to "welcome" the new addition?
... that the fossil mantidfly Dicromantispa moronei was first described from a single specimen in a private collection?
... that a Boston Globe reporter described Maia Weinstock's apartment as having "stacks of heads and hairstyles, torsos and legs and arms, a pint-sized Frankenstein's workshop stored in little plastic bins"?
... that during location filming,
Ron Howard's upcoming thriller Inferno was code-named "Headache"?
15 May 2015
20:08, 15 May 2015 (UTC)
... that
Aeromedical Isolation Team members were trained to take a bathroom break before putting on racal suits(pictured) for a training session or actual mission?
... that contemporary feminist scholars have debated the value of the work of the 19th-century novelist Ellen Pickering?
... that in a May 1942 raid, aircrew of No. 20 Squadron RAAF disrupted the sleep of Japanese soldiers by dropping beer bottles to make a sound "something between a shrill whistle and a scream"?
... that Basarab I of Wallachia was addressed as a "devout Catholic prince" in a papal letter and mentioned as a "perfidious schismatic" in a Hungarian chronicle?
... that Die Plage, created by composer and visual artist Harley Gaber(pictured), is a historical narrative of Germany, from the
Weimar Republic to the end of World WarII, in 5,000 canvases?
... that Meadow Brook has been so severely impacted by urban development or historic mining that it no longer resembles a stream and has been described as "essentially non-existent"?
... that Black American Sign Language (BASL) is a dialect of American Sign Language used predominantly by the African American Deaf in the United States?
... that titles in the dinosaur erotica genre include works such as Taken by the T-Rex, Ravished by Triceratops, and A Billionaire Dinosaur Forced Me Gay?
06:53, 13 May 2015 (UTC)
... that the fictional SCP Foundation(logo pictured) contains and documents thousands of
paranormal objects?
... that unusual dishes at Moto have included edible menus, "inside out bread", carbonated fruit, and experiments with levitating food?
... that in the part-settings of hymns in
Walter's Eyn geystlich Gesangk Buchleyn—also known as the first Wittenberg hymnal—the melody is in the tenor?
... that the Michigan Wolverines women's lacrosse team splits its home games between Michigan Stadium (capacity 110,000) and Oosterbaan Field House (capacity 1,000)?
... that Operation Scarlift carried out 500 stream pollution abatement projects, eliminated 150 areas of mine subsidence, extinguished 75 mine fires, and alleviated air pollution at 30 burning refuse banks?
... that Kenny Booker as a
basketball player helped
UCLA win its fifth-straight national championship, and as a coach the next year led
Verbum Dei to its fourth consecutive title?
... that eight months after launch, d-CON was selling US$100,000-worth of
rat poison per week, a feat that was called "as brilliant a record for a new product as you're likely to find anywhere, anytime"?
... that in the Kek Lok Si temple, the
pagoda combines a Chinese octagonal base with a middle tier of Thai design, and a Burmese crown reflecting both
Mahayana and
Theravada Buddhism?
... that archaeologist Harold St George Gray discovered that the 11 m (36 ft) deep ditch surrounding
Avebury was dug from solid chalk using
red deer antlers as picks?
... that Hugo Moutinho became the first Portuguese footballer to score a hat-trick in Romania?
... that Mother Brook has been called the "most audacious attempt of robbery ever recorded in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. It was the effort made by
Dedham ... to actually steal the
River Charles"?
6 May 2015
21:13, 6 May 2015 (UTC)
... that Mount Yamato Katsuragi(pictured) has four other historical names: Mount Kaina, Mount Tenshin, Mount Kamo, and Shinoga Peak?
... that Lizzy Hawker bought her first pair of trail running shoes just 10 days before running the 100-mile
Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc for the first time, and winning?
... that Clover Hill Creek has splash pools and rock ledge falls in its upper reaches, but is severely channelized in its lower reaches?
... that Qi Jianguo is one of the few serving Chinese generals with actual battle experience?
... that
Stan Winston's special effects studio cut its prices in half to meet the budget for the film Tank Girl, as it was desperate to work on the project?
... that during the attempted overthrow of the
Abbasid Caliph
al-Muqtadir in 908, Husayn ibn Hamdan killed the
vizier, but failed to force the Caliph to surrender, leading to the coup's collapse?
... that Tsien Tsuen-hsuin, who recently died at age 105, risked his life to ship rare books from China to the United States, out of the reach of the
Japanese Army?
... that the Chaac-Camaxtli region of
Io contains a variety of different surfaces, including bright floor material (pictured) probably made of solid
sulfur dioxide?
... that the MTA Arts & Design-commissioned "Sky Reflector-Net" uses a 53-foot (16m) skylight and hundreds of aluminium mirrors to bring sunlight into the
Fulton Center transit hub?
... that after Hitler assumed power, Vera Lachmann founded a school for Jewish children expelled from German public schools?
... that funeral strippers are sometimes hired to remove their clothing during a funeral in an effort to attract more mourners?
4 May 2015
19:33, 4 May 2015 (UTC)
... that the Cypress Tomb(pictured) in
Lahore, Pakistan, is so named because of the
cypress tree motif on its exterior walls?
... that Lise Tréhot(pictured) appeared in more than twenty paintings by
Renoir and was the sole model for most of the female figures during his early Salon period?
... that in Great Britain, the term plum cake typically refers to what most Americans think of as a type of
fruitcake?
... that Ziona of Baktawng village,
Mizoram, India holds the world record as head of the "world's largest existing family" with 39 wives, 94 children, and 33 grandchildren, all living?
... that the ballet Onegin by John Cranko premiered with
Marcia Haydée as Tatiana and
Ray Barra as Onegin fifty years ago?
... that Peter Woon supported the introduction of female
newsreaders at the
BBC, though he was concerned that most "sound as though they came from Cheltenham Ladies' College"?
... that an activist chained herself to the Statue of Paul Kruger to protect the monument after green paint was thrown on it?
... that when William Hung learned that Harvard professor
Langdon Warner was removing murals from
Dunhuang, he made sure that Warner was never left alone at any historic site?
... that Lorina Bulwer embroidered long rants that launched an investigation by the
BBC?
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 May 2015
21:45, 31 May 2015 (UTC)
... that the organ in the village church of Störmthal(pictured) was approved by
Bach and dedicated with
a cantata written for the occasion?
... that Sonya Rose is an expert in the role of gender identity in British history?
... that Sterry Creek is usually "little more than a trickle", but overflows its banks about once every ten years?
... that while on tour in Brazil to promote its new album Omen, the band
Antestor was attacked by
Satanistblack metal fans angered by the Christian beliefs of the band members?
... that contemporary versions of the Greek bread paximathia can remain edible for up to eight weeks when stored in an airtight container?
... that the performance of The Icelandic New Business Venture Fund was described as "disappointing" even though it managed to fund a major tourist attraction in Iceland?
... that the British billionaire Adam Fleming is the nephew of James Bond novelist
Ian Fleming?
... that at the 2015 FA Cup Final, a 64-person choir, comprising one fan for each team which reached the third round of competition, sang "
Abide with Me" before kick-off?
... that Synageva, a company with no marketed products and a net loss of US$60 million in the most recent quarter, recently entered into an agreement to be sold for US$8.4 billion?
... that the eastern backdrop of the Veerabhadra Temple, Lepakshi features a granite boulder with a carving of a coiled multi-hooded
serpent providing shade over a
linga?
... that Lessing J. Rosenwald instructed his literary agent to spend any amount necessary to prevent Prozess gegen die Juden von Trient from falling into Nazi hands?
... that when a grade-school teacher gave her students a writing assignment, "I Wish My Teacher Knew______", the answers went viral and sparked a movement?
... that Salve Regina, composed by
Arvo Pärt to venerate the
Golden Madonna of the Essen Cathedral (detail pictured), "builds very gradually to a late, majestic climax"?
... that while researching his award-winning book on US President
George Washington, Logan Beirne found letters written by Washington in his own ancestors' house?
... that in
mixed martial arts, 12-6 elbows are legal if the fighter is on his back because "the clock doesn't move"?
... that a recipe for
brewing beer from loaves of multigrain bread mixed with honey dates to approximately 4,000 years ago from
ancientMesopotamia, and is the oldest surviving beer recipe in the world?
... that the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act requires public and private institutions to eliminate barriers so all residents can "obtain, use and benefit from goods and services"?
... that the heritage ambiance of Fontainhas(house with wishing well pictured) reflects the traditional
Portuguese influence in the area?
... that Taiwanese singer/actor Nylon Chen calls himself "musical zhainan" (musical homeboy) because he mostly spends his time at home writing and composing songs?
... that a nematode kills the
mole crickets it parasitises by infecting them with a specialist bacterium?
... that Peder Syv's publication of proverbs and folk songs helped establish
Danish as a literary language?
... that one company owned 93% of the upper 11.5 square miles (30 km2) of the Stafford Meadow Brookwatershed in the 1940s, and another owned most of the upper 75% of the watershed in the 1990s?
... that during the
Stalin era, Akmol in
Kazakhstan was notorious for its "Labour Camp for Wives of Traitors of the Motherland"?
... that the museum at Forte Tre Sassi displays
World War I artifacts collected over a period of 45 years, and reportedly has 20,000 visitors annually?
... that Maitreyi was highly revered as one of the few women scholars of the
Vedic period (
c. 1750 – 500
BCE) able to discuss the highest spiritual truths of life?
... that the sudden emergence of
Climax Blues Band's "Couldn't Get It Right" irritated their producer, because he thought they had spent eight albums withholding a hit from him?
... that Mercedes Sandoval de Hempel was nominated in Paraguay for "1000 Women for the Nobel Peace Prize 2005"?
... that the Polish
street food known as zapiekanka(pictured) has been described both as "Polish
pizza" and "a poor relative of its distant Italian cousin"?
... that with its 1819 foundation, the Romney Literary Society became the first organization of its kind in present-day
West Virginia, and one of the first in the U.S.?
... that Mountain Lake Run flows through a culvert system for a substantial part of its length in its lower reaches?
... that in 2006, some 60 percent of the 57-square-mile (148 km2) watershed of Spring Brook(pictured) was owned by one company?
... that at the inauguration of a Torah scroll, the other Torah scrolls housed in the
synagogue or sanctuary are carried outside to "welcome" the new addition?
... that the fossil mantidfly Dicromantispa moronei was first described from a single specimen in a private collection?
... that a Boston Globe reporter described Maia Weinstock's apartment as having "stacks of heads and hairstyles, torsos and legs and arms, a pint-sized Frankenstein's workshop stored in little plastic bins"?
... that during location filming,
Ron Howard's upcoming thriller Inferno was code-named "Headache"?
15 May 2015
20:08, 15 May 2015 (UTC)
... that
Aeromedical Isolation Team members were trained to take a bathroom break before putting on racal suits(pictured) for a training session or actual mission?
... that contemporary feminist scholars have debated the value of the work of the 19th-century novelist Ellen Pickering?
... that in a May 1942 raid, aircrew of No. 20 Squadron RAAF disrupted the sleep of Japanese soldiers by dropping beer bottles to make a sound "something between a shrill whistle and a scream"?
... that Basarab I of Wallachia was addressed as a "devout Catholic prince" in a papal letter and mentioned as a "perfidious schismatic" in a Hungarian chronicle?
... that Die Plage, created by composer and visual artist Harley Gaber(pictured), is a historical narrative of Germany, from the
Weimar Republic to the end of World WarII, in 5,000 canvases?
... that Meadow Brook has been so severely impacted by urban development or historic mining that it no longer resembles a stream and has been described as "essentially non-existent"?
... that Black American Sign Language (BASL) is a dialect of American Sign Language used predominantly by the African American Deaf in the United States?
... that titles in the dinosaur erotica genre include works such as Taken by the T-Rex, Ravished by Triceratops, and A Billionaire Dinosaur Forced Me Gay?
06:53, 13 May 2015 (UTC)
... that the fictional SCP Foundation(logo pictured) contains and documents thousands of
paranormal objects?
... that unusual dishes at Moto have included edible menus, "inside out bread", carbonated fruit, and experiments with levitating food?
... that in the part-settings of hymns in
Walter's Eyn geystlich Gesangk Buchleyn—also known as the first Wittenberg hymnal—the melody is in the tenor?
... that the Michigan Wolverines women's lacrosse team splits its home games between Michigan Stadium (capacity 110,000) and Oosterbaan Field House (capacity 1,000)?
... that Operation Scarlift carried out 500 stream pollution abatement projects, eliminated 150 areas of mine subsidence, extinguished 75 mine fires, and alleviated air pollution at 30 burning refuse banks?
... that Kenny Booker as a
basketball player helped
UCLA win its fifth-straight national championship, and as a coach the next year led
Verbum Dei to its fourth consecutive title?
... that eight months after launch, d-CON was selling US$100,000-worth of
rat poison per week, a feat that was called "as brilliant a record for a new product as you're likely to find anywhere, anytime"?
... that in the Kek Lok Si temple, the
pagoda combines a Chinese octagonal base with a middle tier of Thai design, and a Burmese crown reflecting both
Mahayana and
Theravada Buddhism?
... that archaeologist Harold St George Gray discovered that the 11 m (36 ft) deep ditch surrounding
Avebury was dug from solid chalk using
red deer antlers as picks?
... that Hugo Moutinho became the first Portuguese footballer to score a hat-trick in Romania?
... that Mother Brook has been called the "most audacious attempt of robbery ever recorded in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. It was the effort made by
Dedham ... to actually steal the
River Charles"?
6 May 2015
21:13, 6 May 2015 (UTC)
... that Mount Yamato Katsuragi(pictured) has four other historical names: Mount Kaina, Mount Tenshin, Mount Kamo, and Shinoga Peak?
... that Lizzy Hawker bought her first pair of trail running shoes just 10 days before running the 100-mile
Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc for the first time, and winning?
... that Clover Hill Creek has splash pools and rock ledge falls in its upper reaches, but is severely channelized in its lower reaches?
... that Qi Jianguo is one of the few serving Chinese generals with actual battle experience?
... that
Stan Winston's special effects studio cut its prices in half to meet the budget for the film Tank Girl, as it was desperate to work on the project?
... that during the attempted overthrow of the
Abbasid Caliph
al-Muqtadir in 908, Husayn ibn Hamdan killed the
vizier, but failed to force the Caliph to surrender, leading to the coup's collapse?
... that Tsien Tsuen-hsuin, who recently died at age 105, risked his life to ship rare books from China to the United States, out of the reach of the
Japanese Army?
... that the Chaac-Camaxtli region of
Io contains a variety of different surfaces, including bright floor material (pictured) probably made of solid
sulfur dioxide?
... that the MTA Arts & Design-commissioned "Sky Reflector-Net" uses a 53-foot (16m) skylight and hundreds of aluminium mirrors to bring sunlight into the
Fulton Center transit hub?
... that after Hitler assumed power, Vera Lachmann founded a school for Jewish children expelled from German public schools?
... that funeral strippers are sometimes hired to remove their clothing during a funeral in an effort to attract more mourners?
4 May 2015
19:33, 4 May 2015 (UTC)
... that the Cypress Tomb(pictured) in
Lahore, Pakistan, is so named because of the
cypress tree motif on its exterior walls?
... that Lise Tréhot(pictured) appeared in more than twenty paintings by
Renoir and was the sole model for most of the female figures during his early Salon period?
... that in Great Britain, the term plum cake typically refers to what most Americans think of as a type of
fruitcake?
... that Ziona of Baktawng village,
Mizoram, India holds the world record as head of the "world's largest existing family" with 39 wives, 94 children, and 33 grandchildren, all living?
... that the ballet Onegin by John Cranko premiered with
Marcia Haydée as Tatiana and
Ray Barra as Onegin fifty years ago?
... that Peter Woon supported the introduction of female
newsreaders at the
BBC, though he was concerned that most "sound as though they came from Cheltenham Ladies' College"?
... that an activist chained herself to the Statue of Paul Kruger to protect the monument after green paint was thrown on it?
... that when William Hung learned that Harvard professor
Langdon Warner was removing murals from
Dunhuang, he made sure that Warner was never left alone at any historic site?
... that Lorina Bulwer embroidered long rants that launched an investigation by the
BBC?