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... that the quality of the embroidery of the
Albanianxhamadan reflected social status?
... that one reviewer liked Shamus: Case II so much that they suggested rushing out and buying it to ensure there would be another sequel?
00:00, 30 November 2015 (UTC)
The Hindu goddess Devi
... that the Devi Upanishad reveres
Devi(pictured), the Hindu goddess, as the highest principle and ultimate truth in the universe?
... that Vincent McNamara was on the losing side of the Balmoral Brawl?
... that the Ecocapsule is an egg-shaped, highly mobile dwelling designed to produce more electricity than it consumes and
harvest more rainwater than its occupants use?
... that the 15th-century Ardstinchar Castle was quarried in the 1770s to provide stone for construction of a three-arch bridge over the
River Stinchar?
... that Money Pit's producer described the show as a "legal minefield"?
... that the site of Fordham Plaza was rezoned in an effort to make it the "Times Square of the Bronx"?
27 November 2015
12:00, 27 November 2015 (UTC)
Amaranth
... that the cultivation of the ancient grainamaranth(pictured) was banned by Spanish colonial authorities due to its religious significance to the
Aztecs?
... that Yarmouth Castle(pictured) was among the first fortifications in Europe, and the first in England, to adopt an arrow-headed design of the castle's bastion?
... that biologist Kono Yasui was only allowed to study outside of Japan if she listed "home economics research" alongside "scientific research" on her application and agreed not to marry?
... that
Arizona Territorial Secretary Hiram M. Van Arman was described as "a man of mediocre ability, a good absorber of whiskey and considered a little 'off' among his acquaintances"?
... that parsnips resemble carrots but have a sweeter taste?
... that bilateral trade between India and Laos increased by a factor of 17 from 2008 to 2013?
... that
WEA Latin had a Mexican radio station play all the songs from Aries by
Luis Miguel in response to finding
pirate copies of the album being already sold?
... that architect Winka Dubbeldam prefers dressing in black, and lives in a house with black walls?
... that architect Susan Maxman's firm received 65 awards including 14
AIA design awards and 14 awards for their designs' environmental importance?
... that one of the founders of CD Projekt once sold cracked copies of video games in a market in
Warsaw?
... that Singaporean
ballet dancer and
choreographerGoh Lay Kuan was branded "The Red Ballerina" after being detained in a mass-arrest of alleged communist-sympathizers?
... that the first two films in the Hotel Transylvania franchise have grossed over $762 million with a budget of just $165 million?
00:00, 24 November 2015 (UTC)
Cyrtopone striata fossil
... that species of the extinct ant genus Cyrtopone(example pictured) are noted for having small heads?
... that the abandoned Newmarket Canal was so short of water that local newspapers joked they could dispense with bridges and just walk across in rubber boots?
... that Heinrich Schmitt was arrested in 1935, survived ten years in detention, and re-emerged in 1945 as a leading regional politician in
occupiedBavaria?
... that according to the Bhikshuka Upanishad, the ascetic lifestyle of four types of
monk includes eating eight mouthfuls of food a day?
... that after
Ming dynasty army officer Lu Tang helped capture the pirate warlord
Wang Zhi, he was demoted for letting some of the other pirates escape?
... that Team Mexico's entry into the United States was delayed, causing them to be late to the 2008 TNA World X Cup?
... that one of Helen Maitland Armstrong's stained glass windows was still intact after flying half a mile in a hurricane?
... that Admiral Zhang Dingfa stepped down as Commander of the
Chinese Navy because of cancer, and died soon afterwards?
... that the church at which a young man was beaten to death was described by its neighbors as a "cult" where people "used to build fires on the roofs, and there was chanting and weird rituals"?
... that Anupama Kundoo, an Indian architect working at
Auroville from 1990, created innovations in her project designs by adopting "sustainable building technologies and infrastructural systems"?
... that Iranian poet Fateme Ekhtesari was arrested and found guilty in court of "insulting the sacred" after appearing at the
Gothenburg poetry festival?
... that Hu Zongxian(statue pictured), the supreme commander in charge of fighting the "
wokou" pirates
in the 16th century, is an ancestor of the former Chinese president
Hu Jintao?
... that Lansdowne Bridge has the longest
span of any extant masonry bridge in Australia?
... that journalist Arzu Geybullayeva has received numerous death threats and has been branded a "traitor" because she worked for an
Armenian newspaper?
... that several cyclists were blown off their bicycles in the 2015 Gent–Wevelgem?
00:00, 20 November 2015 (UTC)
Free Speech Flag
... that the Free Speech Flag(pictured) embeds the secret
HD DVD key into the colors of the flag itself, using the flag hex code format colors?
... that
Arizona Territorial Superintendent of Public Instruction George W. Cheyney(pictured) resigned his office to serve in the territorial legislature?
... that "SummerThing!" was premiered on the Saturday Night Online radio show?
... that the memorial service for Beverly L. Greene, "believed to be the first
African American woman licensed as an architect in the United States", took place in a funeral home she had designed?
... that ununennium is the element with the lowest
atomic number that has not yet been synthesized?
... that Abdullah Pasha had his mentor
Haim Farhi killed during his first year as
Acre's governor, a position only made possible by Farhi's lobbying efforts?
... that Effie Maud Aldrich Morrison originated the concept and was the instigator for the plan of the first senior housing project in the United States (example houses pictured)?
... that the whinchat breeds in Europe and western Asia from Ireland and northern Portugal east to the
Ob River basin, and from northern Norway south to central Spain, Italy and Greece?
... that Canadian professional basketball player Papa Oppong was traded to the
Windsor Express so he could attend teachers' college in that city?
... that
Rihanna debuted Anti's official artwork and title at a private viewing for fans and press at Los Angeles'
MAMA Gallery?
... that chef André Chiang is known for his "Octo-philosophy" of preparing dishes?
... that the
U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a 2014 decision that police officers may conduct traffic stops even if they have not personally observed a traffic violation?
... that the frigid bumblebee is one of only two species of bumblebee to have natural-borne cues to prevent inbreeding?
... that Larry Kelly founded Shelby Gem Factory, which at one site grows uncut cultured gems, including
diamonds, facets them, and mounts them in gold?
... that some of the British painter Nahem Shoa's portraits (example pictured) were painted at up to 15 times life size?
... that Järflotta island in Sweden contains both a
nature reserve and a 24 cm (9.4 in) calibre gun?
... that in the early 1940s, Beatrice Beeby,
Joan Wood, and Inge Smithells established the first nursery playcentres, precursor to the present-day
Playcentre organisation in New Zealand?
... that "The Enchanted Forest", a colourful event held in the Faskally Forest(pictured), was named "Best Cultural Event in Scotland" for three years in a row?
... that Gaby Lewis, who made her debut for the
Irish women's cricket team at the age of 13, is the first international cricket player to be born in the 21st century?
... that Kosherfest, an annual trade fair for the
kosher-certified food industry, has been called "a cross between a professional trade show and the buffet line at your cousin's
bar mitzva"?
... that Andreas Panayiotou was kicked out of school at the age of 14 for punching his teacher, and became an amateur boxing champion and the UK's largest private landlord?
... that
Harveys Lake, the largest natural lake in Pennsylvania by volume, drained into Beaver Run and
Bowman Creek in preglacial times, but no longer does so?
... that Nelle Morton is thought to have taught the first course on women and religion?
... that the placement of two fossil flies into the species Elephantomyia longirostris has been questioned?
... that some French fry vending machines cook frozen fries in hot oil and dispense condiments such as ketchup and mayonnaise?
9 November 2015
12:00, 9 November 2015 (UTC)
Baryonyx with a fish
... that with a head shape likened to a
gharial, the dinosaur Baryonyx(illustrated) is thought to have eaten fish?
... that Sydney architect Eleanor Cullis-Hill practiced from her home since she felt that women were unwelcome in large architectural offices?
... that the
French destroyer Jaguar was unique among the
Chacal-classdestroyers in being fitted to serve as a flagship and she was fitted to accommodate the admiral and his staff?
... that the perpetrator of the murder of Richard Everitt was never apprehended, because members of the gang who killed him fled to Bangladesh?
... that
Netflix paid $60 million to buy distribution rights to the War Machine?
... that little egrets have a diet of mainly fish, but they also eat amphibians, small reptiles, mammals and birds, as well as crustaceans, molluscs, insects, spiders and worms?
... that the mold species Dicranophora fulva was not recorded between 1935 and 1994?
... that the film Iron Man 2 was dedicated to the memory of DJ AM?
... that billionaire Joseph Grendys has built
a business that kills 12 million chickens a week, but lives in the "bungalow where he grew up and drives a beat-up old Cadillac"?
... that Post Malone coined the song name "
White Iverson" after getting braids in his hair, a reference to professional basketball player
Allen Iverson?
... that "Bad Timing", an Adventure Time episode, is visually framed to have its main action occur in the center, while polygonal creatures comprise the outer margins?
... that Arba'een Pilgrimage, the world's largest annual gathering, is held every year 40 days after
Ashura for the commemoration of
Husayn ibn Ali's death?
... that Tomoya Kawakita, a Japanese-American convicted of treason against the United States after World War II, was arrested after a former
POW recognized him in a Los Angeles
department store?
... that pink earth lichen was once thought to be in the same genus as the similar-looking brown beret lichen, until DNA sequencing proved otherwise?
... that Israeli police theorize that the
NIS 9 million embezzled from the Itriyeshiva in 1999 was meant to pay for the defense of politician
Aryeh Deri in his 2000 corruption trial?
... that Federal Emergency Plan D-Minus was a U.S. government plan for recovery efforts in the aftermath of a devastating nuclear attack?
... that, if King
Louis I of Hungary is to be trusted, his in-law Maria of Bosnia had children in her fifties and lived to be over 90?
... that the actor
Ewan McGregor is making his directorial debut with American Pastoral, after the original director left?
... that Colonel John Shelton was so unpopular with his men that they gave three cheers upon hearing of his death?
00:00, 3 November 2015 (UTC)
Fauré in uniform of l'Ecole Niedermeyer, Paris
... that Gabriel Fauré's Cantique de Jean Racine is often performed with his
Requiem, although he composed it much earlier as a student (pictured in school uniform)?
... that Scaptotrigona postica worker bees can trace the scent markers of workers from other colonies in order to find food sources?
... that George Edward Hilt founded the largest farm-store retailer in the United States?
... that the municipality of Amorebieta-Etxano was formed in 1951 by the merger of two communities, one of which had nearly 17,000 inhabitants by 2014 while the other had just 221?
... that when George Givot played
Mae West's character's lover in
blackface in a 1931
Broadway play, producers had him remove his wig after each performance to show patrons he was white?
1 November 2015
12:00, 1 November 2015 (UTC)
Harry Fox
... that the Russian authorities claimed the
Svans had murdered Harry Fox(pictured), but they almost certainly did not?
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.
... that the quality of the embroidery of the
Albanianxhamadan reflected social status?
... that one reviewer liked Shamus: Case II so much that they suggested rushing out and buying it to ensure there would be another sequel?
00:00, 30 November 2015 (UTC)
The Hindu goddess Devi
... that the Devi Upanishad reveres
Devi(pictured), the Hindu goddess, as the highest principle and ultimate truth in the universe?
... that Vincent McNamara was on the losing side of the Balmoral Brawl?
... that the Ecocapsule is an egg-shaped, highly mobile dwelling designed to produce more electricity than it consumes and
harvest more rainwater than its occupants use?
... that the 15th-century Ardstinchar Castle was quarried in the 1770s to provide stone for construction of a three-arch bridge over the
River Stinchar?
... that Money Pit's producer described the show as a "legal minefield"?
... that the site of Fordham Plaza was rezoned in an effort to make it the "Times Square of the Bronx"?
27 November 2015
12:00, 27 November 2015 (UTC)
Amaranth
... that the cultivation of the ancient grainamaranth(pictured) was banned by Spanish colonial authorities due to its religious significance to the
Aztecs?
... that Yarmouth Castle(pictured) was among the first fortifications in Europe, and the first in England, to adopt an arrow-headed design of the castle's bastion?
... that biologist Kono Yasui was only allowed to study outside of Japan if she listed "home economics research" alongside "scientific research" on her application and agreed not to marry?
... that
Arizona Territorial Secretary Hiram M. Van Arman was described as "a man of mediocre ability, a good absorber of whiskey and considered a little 'off' among his acquaintances"?
... that parsnips resemble carrots but have a sweeter taste?
... that bilateral trade between India and Laos increased by a factor of 17 from 2008 to 2013?
... that
WEA Latin had a Mexican radio station play all the songs from Aries by
Luis Miguel in response to finding
pirate copies of the album being already sold?
... that architect Winka Dubbeldam prefers dressing in black, and lives in a house with black walls?
... that architect Susan Maxman's firm received 65 awards including 14
AIA design awards and 14 awards for their designs' environmental importance?
... that one of the founders of CD Projekt once sold cracked copies of video games in a market in
Warsaw?
... that Singaporean
ballet dancer and
choreographerGoh Lay Kuan was branded "The Red Ballerina" after being detained in a mass-arrest of alleged communist-sympathizers?
... that the first two films in the Hotel Transylvania franchise have grossed over $762 million with a budget of just $165 million?
00:00, 24 November 2015 (UTC)
Cyrtopone striata fossil
... that species of the extinct ant genus Cyrtopone(example pictured) are noted for having small heads?
... that the abandoned Newmarket Canal was so short of water that local newspapers joked they could dispense with bridges and just walk across in rubber boots?
... that Heinrich Schmitt was arrested in 1935, survived ten years in detention, and re-emerged in 1945 as a leading regional politician in
occupiedBavaria?
... that according to the Bhikshuka Upanishad, the ascetic lifestyle of four types of
monk includes eating eight mouthfuls of food a day?
... that after
Ming dynasty army officer Lu Tang helped capture the pirate warlord
Wang Zhi, he was demoted for letting some of the other pirates escape?
... that Team Mexico's entry into the United States was delayed, causing them to be late to the 2008 TNA World X Cup?
... that one of Helen Maitland Armstrong's stained glass windows was still intact after flying half a mile in a hurricane?
... that Admiral Zhang Dingfa stepped down as Commander of the
Chinese Navy because of cancer, and died soon afterwards?
... that the church at which a young man was beaten to death was described by its neighbors as a "cult" where people "used to build fires on the roofs, and there was chanting and weird rituals"?
... that Anupama Kundoo, an Indian architect working at
Auroville from 1990, created innovations in her project designs by adopting "sustainable building technologies and infrastructural systems"?
... that Iranian poet Fateme Ekhtesari was arrested and found guilty in court of "insulting the sacred" after appearing at the
Gothenburg poetry festival?
... that Hu Zongxian(statue pictured), the supreme commander in charge of fighting the "
wokou" pirates
in the 16th century, is an ancestor of the former Chinese president
Hu Jintao?
... that Lansdowne Bridge has the longest
span of any extant masonry bridge in Australia?
... that journalist Arzu Geybullayeva has received numerous death threats and has been branded a "traitor" because she worked for an
Armenian newspaper?
... that several cyclists were blown off their bicycles in the 2015 Gent–Wevelgem?
00:00, 20 November 2015 (UTC)
Free Speech Flag
... that the Free Speech Flag(pictured) embeds the secret
HD DVD key into the colors of the flag itself, using the flag hex code format colors?
... that
Arizona Territorial Superintendent of Public Instruction George W. Cheyney(pictured) resigned his office to serve in the territorial legislature?
... that "SummerThing!" was premiered on the Saturday Night Online radio show?
... that the memorial service for Beverly L. Greene, "believed to be the first
African American woman licensed as an architect in the United States", took place in a funeral home she had designed?
... that ununennium is the element with the lowest
atomic number that has not yet been synthesized?
... that Abdullah Pasha had his mentor
Haim Farhi killed during his first year as
Acre's governor, a position only made possible by Farhi's lobbying efforts?
... that Effie Maud Aldrich Morrison originated the concept and was the instigator for the plan of the first senior housing project in the United States (example houses pictured)?
... that the whinchat breeds in Europe and western Asia from Ireland and northern Portugal east to the
Ob River basin, and from northern Norway south to central Spain, Italy and Greece?
... that Canadian professional basketball player Papa Oppong was traded to the
Windsor Express so he could attend teachers' college in that city?
... that
Rihanna debuted Anti's official artwork and title at a private viewing for fans and press at Los Angeles'
MAMA Gallery?
... that chef André Chiang is known for his "Octo-philosophy" of preparing dishes?
... that the
U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a 2014 decision that police officers may conduct traffic stops even if they have not personally observed a traffic violation?
... that the frigid bumblebee is one of only two species of bumblebee to have natural-borne cues to prevent inbreeding?
... that Larry Kelly founded Shelby Gem Factory, which at one site grows uncut cultured gems, including
diamonds, facets them, and mounts them in gold?
... that some of the British painter Nahem Shoa's portraits (example pictured) were painted at up to 15 times life size?
... that Järflotta island in Sweden contains both a
nature reserve and a 24 cm (9.4 in) calibre gun?
... that in the early 1940s, Beatrice Beeby,
Joan Wood, and Inge Smithells established the first nursery playcentres, precursor to the present-day
Playcentre organisation in New Zealand?
... that "The Enchanted Forest", a colourful event held in the Faskally Forest(pictured), was named "Best Cultural Event in Scotland" for three years in a row?
... that Gaby Lewis, who made her debut for the
Irish women's cricket team at the age of 13, is the first international cricket player to be born in the 21st century?
... that Kosherfest, an annual trade fair for the
kosher-certified food industry, has been called "a cross between a professional trade show and the buffet line at your cousin's
bar mitzva"?
... that Andreas Panayiotou was kicked out of school at the age of 14 for punching his teacher, and became an amateur boxing champion and the UK's largest private landlord?
... that
Harveys Lake, the largest natural lake in Pennsylvania by volume, drained into Beaver Run and
Bowman Creek in preglacial times, but no longer does so?
... that Nelle Morton is thought to have taught the first course on women and religion?
... that the placement of two fossil flies into the species Elephantomyia longirostris has been questioned?
... that some French fry vending machines cook frozen fries in hot oil and dispense condiments such as ketchup and mayonnaise?
9 November 2015
12:00, 9 November 2015 (UTC)
Baryonyx with a fish
... that with a head shape likened to a
gharial, the dinosaur Baryonyx(illustrated) is thought to have eaten fish?
... that Sydney architect Eleanor Cullis-Hill practiced from her home since she felt that women were unwelcome in large architectural offices?
... that the
French destroyer Jaguar was unique among the
Chacal-classdestroyers in being fitted to serve as a flagship and she was fitted to accommodate the admiral and his staff?
... that the perpetrator of the murder of Richard Everitt was never apprehended, because members of the gang who killed him fled to Bangladesh?
... that
Netflix paid $60 million to buy distribution rights to the War Machine?
... that little egrets have a diet of mainly fish, but they also eat amphibians, small reptiles, mammals and birds, as well as crustaceans, molluscs, insects, spiders and worms?
... that the mold species Dicranophora fulva was not recorded between 1935 and 1994?
... that the film Iron Man 2 was dedicated to the memory of DJ AM?
... that billionaire Joseph Grendys has built
a business that kills 12 million chickens a week, but lives in the "bungalow where he grew up and drives a beat-up old Cadillac"?
... that Post Malone coined the song name "
White Iverson" after getting braids in his hair, a reference to professional basketball player
Allen Iverson?
... that "Bad Timing", an Adventure Time episode, is visually framed to have its main action occur in the center, while polygonal creatures comprise the outer margins?
... that Arba'een Pilgrimage, the world's largest annual gathering, is held every year 40 days after
Ashura for the commemoration of
Husayn ibn Ali's death?
... that Tomoya Kawakita, a Japanese-American convicted of treason against the United States after World War II, was arrested after a former
POW recognized him in a Los Angeles
department store?
... that pink earth lichen was once thought to be in the same genus as the similar-looking brown beret lichen, until DNA sequencing proved otherwise?
... that Israeli police theorize that the
NIS 9 million embezzled from the Itriyeshiva in 1999 was meant to pay for the defense of politician
Aryeh Deri in his 2000 corruption trial?
... that Federal Emergency Plan D-Minus was a U.S. government plan for recovery efforts in the aftermath of a devastating nuclear attack?
... that, if King
Louis I of Hungary is to be trusted, his in-law Maria of Bosnia had children in her fifties and lived to be over 90?
... that the actor
Ewan McGregor is making his directorial debut with American Pastoral, after the original director left?
... that Colonel John Shelton was so unpopular with his men that they gave three cheers upon hearing of his death?
00:00, 3 November 2015 (UTC)
Fauré in uniform of l'Ecole Niedermeyer, Paris
... that Gabriel Fauré's Cantique de Jean Racine is often performed with his
Requiem, although he composed it much earlier as a student (pictured in school uniform)?
... that Scaptotrigona postica worker bees can trace the scent markers of workers from other colonies in order to find food sources?
... that George Edward Hilt founded the largest farm-store retailer in the United States?
... that the municipality of Amorebieta-Etxano was formed in 1951 by the merger of two communities, one of which had nearly 17,000 inhabitants by 2014 while the other had just 221?
... that when George Givot played
Mae West's character's lover in
blackface in a 1931
Broadway play, producers had him remove his wig after each performance to show patrons he was white?
1 November 2015
12:00, 1 November 2015 (UTC)
Harry Fox
... that the Russian authorities claimed the
Svans had murdered Harry Fox(pictured), but they almost certainly did not?