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30 November 2016
00:00, 30 November 2016 (UTC)
Sydney Eardley-Wilmot
... that Sydney Eardley-Wilmot(pictured) was one of four brothers who served as officers in the British military?
... that it is not known whether the Marquis Léonce de Tarragon named the rosy-throated longclaw (Macronyx ameliae) for his wife or his mother?
... that Sairecabur has the world's highest submillimetre telescope and is adjacent to a peak that may have been one of the world's highest volcanoes at about 7,000 metres (23,000 ft)?
... that since the death of King
Bhumibol Adulyadej, ultra-royalists in Thailand have criticized and harassed those who did not wear mourning black?
... that during the
1895 counter-revolution, Joseph Heleluhe, private secretary to Hawaii's deposed queen
Liliuokalani, was "stripped of all clothing and placed in a dark cell without light, food or water"?
... that Air-Cobot(pictured) is a French research and development project for a wheeled
collaborative mobile robot able to inspect aircraft during maintenance operations?
... that Cybele Records has published award-winning audiobooks, "portraits" of living composers, and in 2016 the complete organ works of
Max Reger?
... that 2016 Republican U.S. Senate candidate Mark Callahan once ran for the Oregon House of Representatives under the Green Party label in order to
siphon votes from the Democratic candidate?
... that Slovenian gymnast and Olympic medallist Boris Gregorka later coached the double gold Olympic medallist
Miroslav Cerar?
... that around 1100, Yaozhou ware was accepted by the Chinese Imperial court, but several decades later it was described by
a poet as "extremely coarse and used only by restaurants"?
... that Conservative Member of Parliament
Sarah Wollaston switched from supporting to repudiating the pro-Brexit
Vote Leave group, calling its repetition of debunked claims "post-truth politics"?
... that while writing Here I Am,
Jonathan Safran Foer would move between rooms of his house whenever he experienced a "Jonathan block"?
... that "Danke", one of Germany's best-known sacred songs, was considered a sin against music and religion when first released?
... that Monique Luiz, star of the famous 1964 political advertisement Daisy, did not see it for herself until 2000?
... that the 308th Infantry Regiment was the first United States
National Army regiment in the First World War to be presented with its regimental colors?
... that
Mauritian boxer Kennedy St-Pierre has won two gold medals at the
African Games, one in the middleweight division and one in the heavyweight division?
... that Taiwan's Danhai Light Rail Transit cars will have batteries so that the overhead power cable does not need to be continuous through intersections?
... that photographer Sally Bush bought a
1909 Baker electric car and drove it just once, through the front window of a local pharmacy?
... that after the mutineer sailors involved in the Revolt of the Lash were granted amnesty, many were discharged from the Brazilian Navy, put in prison, or sent to work on rubber plantations?
... that the Golden Ball pub in Bishophill is owned by a local community cooperative?
... that St John Harmsworth designed the iconic
Perrier bottle, based on Indian exercise clubs he used after being paralysed from the waist down in a 1906 car crash?
... that in breeding pairs of the orange ground thrush, the female consistently weighs more than the male?
... that Christoph Bartneck wrote a nonsense submission for a predatory conference using
iOS's
autocomplete function and it was accepted within three hours?
... that the 1257 eruption of Samalas(caldera pictured) was one of the largest eruptions of the Holocene, and may have triggered the
Little Ice Age and famines in Europe?
... that the auction in 1973 of 50
pop art works from the collection of Robert Scull was viewed by the art establishment as the "
nouveaux riches cashing in"?
... that the Güney Waterfall, a
natural monument, was reestablished 50 m (160 ft) to one side after a landslide swept away its original location?
... that Harry Norwitch served five terms on
Philadelphia's City Council but quit his race for re-election in 1967, calling the Democratic party machine "self-serving"?
... that "eloquent" Holbrook, "popular" Humble, ex-Congregationalist Miller, and Pilling who feared "plottings", were all vicars of St Mark's, Huddersfield, England?
13 November 2016
00:00, 13 November 2016 (UTC)
Tommy Tucker
... that Tommy Tucker, a male pet squirrel wearing women's clothes (pictured), became famous during World War II, selling
war bonds and entertaining children?
... that the first paper mill in Scotland was located in Dalry, Edinburgh?
... that Alastair Storey ended celebrity chef
Jamie Oliver's two-year reign as "most influential" in the British hospitality industry?
... that the modern Palestinian village of Beit Qad is associated with the biblical locality of Beth Ekad, mentioned in the
Book of Kings as the site of a massacre?
... that a 1994 John F. Gaffney proposal would have allowed
Donald Trump to own four
Atlantic City casino licenses, even though all three of his casino properties there had recent bankruptcy filings?
... that ancient Indian texts include as many as 64 different lipi?
... that tunnel nests of the rosy bee-eater become submerged in the rainy season?
... that
Kentucky family court judgeTimothy N. Philpot says he does not "mention Jesus inside the courthouse very much, even when I know he is absolutely the only answer to the problem in front of me"?
... that the award-winning
Bulgarian filmGlory was inspired by a newspaper clipping about a railway worker who discovered a huge pile of banknotes on the tracks?
10 November 2016
00:00, 10 November 2016 (UTC)
Inès de Bourgoing
... that nurse Inès de Bourgoing(pictured) was named Honorary Corporal of the
Foreign Legion after she established a convalescent hospital in Morocco and a retirement center in France for French soldiers?
... that John J. Horn supported
New Jersey's proposed Illegal Alien Employment Prohibition Act, stating "illegal aliens holding jobs represent more than half of our total unemployed"?
... that in the Battle of Kharistan in 737, the
Umayyads caught the
Turgeshkhagan off guard with only a fraction of his army, and secured a victory that saved Arab rule in Central Asia?
... that the Zimbabwean prophetess Mai Chaza, who called herself a messenger from God, was regarded by her followers as an African reappearance of Christ?
... that the Peak Farmland theory predicts that global acreage of farmland will decrease, even as the world population grows?
... that Katsura Hoshino says she comes up with most of the ideas for the manga series D.Gray-man after falling asleep in her bath?
... that the white-eared night heron had been recorded from only about 20 localities by 2001, but was discovered in over 30 localities between 2001 and 2011?
... that the head of hajduk commander Bajo Pivljanin was sent to the Ottoman sultan as a war trophy?
... that in 2013, the production of Oxford Blue cheese created around 50,000 litres (13,000 US gal.) of waste
whey per month, which was processed using an
anaerobic digester?
... that Juanita's Galley was noted for a "fabulous" breakfast, the proprietor's "unpredictable disposition", and a 40-person brawl featuring car jacks, pipes, steel bars, a fishbowl, and an axe?
... that John F. Good's role in the
Abscam sting operation was portrayed in the 2013 film American Hustle, though he felt if it was more like real life "it would be a very boring movie"?
... that FUNCINPEC started as a
Cambodian resistance movement and later became a political party?
... that the Burmese court treatise Zabu Kun-Cha is believed to have been written by Chief Minister Min Yaza of
Ava?
... that the ant Pachycondyla oligocenica is one of three Pachycondyla species with described fossil males?
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:3rd}} {{subst:December}} {{subst:2016}}=== 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 November 2016
00:00, 30 November 2016 (UTC)
Sydney Eardley-Wilmot
... that Sydney Eardley-Wilmot(pictured) was one of four brothers who served as officers in the British military?
... that it is not known whether the Marquis Léonce de Tarragon named the rosy-throated longclaw (Macronyx ameliae) for his wife or his mother?
... that Sairecabur has the world's highest submillimetre telescope and is adjacent to a peak that may have been one of the world's highest volcanoes at about 7,000 metres (23,000 ft)?
... that since the death of King
Bhumibol Adulyadej, ultra-royalists in Thailand have criticized and harassed those who did not wear mourning black?
... that during the
1895 counter-revolution, Joseph Heleluhe, private secretary to Hawaii's deposed queen
Liliuokalani, was "stripped of all clothing and placed in a dark cell without light, food or water"?
... that Air-Cobot(pictured) is a French research and development project for a wheeled
collaborative mobile robot able to inspect aircraft during maintenance operations?
... that Cybele Records has published award-winning audiobooks, "portraits" of living composers, and in 2016 the complete organ works of
Max Reger?
... that 2016 Republican U.S. Senate candidate Mark Callahan once ran for the Oregon House of Representatives under the Green Party label in order to
siphon votes from the Democratic candidate?
... that Slovenian gymnast and Olympic medallist Boris Gregorka later coached the double gold Olympic medallist
Miroslav Cerar?
... that around 1100, Yaozhou ware was accepted by the Chinese Imperial court, but several decades later it was described by
a poet as "extremely coarse and used only by restaurants"?
... that Conservative Member of Parliament
Sarah Wollaston switched from supporting to repudiating the pro-Brexit
Vote Leave group, calling its repetition of debunked claims "post-truth politics"?
... that while writing Here I Am,
Jonathan Safran Foer would move between rooms of his house whenever he experienced a "Jonathan block"?
... that "Danke", one of Germany's best-known sacred songs, was considered a sin against music and religion when first released?
... that Monique Luiz, star of the famous 1964 political advertisement Daisy, did not see it for herself until 2000?
... that the 308th Infantry Regiment was the first United States
National Army regiment in the First World War to be presented with its regimental colors?
... that
Mauritian boxer Kennedy St-Pierre has won two gold medals at the
African Games, one in the middleweight division and one in the heavyweight division?
... that Taiwan's Danhai Light Rail Transit cars will have batteries so that the overhead power cable does not need to be continuous through intersections?
... that photographer Sally Bush bought a
1909 Baker electric car and drove it just once, through the front window of a local pharmacy?
... that after the mutineer sailors involved in the Revolt of the Lash were granted amnesty, many were discharged from the Brazilian Navy, put in prison, or sent to work on rubber plantations?
... that the Golden Ball pub in Bishophill is owned by a local community cooperative?
... that St John Harmsworth designed the iconic
Perrier bottle, based on Indian exercise clubs he used after being paralysed from the waist down in a 1906 car crash?
... that in breeding pairs of the orange ground thrush, the female consistently weighs more than the male?
... that Christoph Bartneck wrote a nonsense submission for a predatory conference using
iOS's
autocomplete function and it was accepted within three hours?
... that the 1257 eruption of Samalas(caldera pictured) was one of the largest eruptions of the Holocene, and may have triggered the
Little Ice Age and famines in Europe?
... that the auction in 1973 of 50
pop art works from the collection of Robert Scull was viewed by the art establishment as the "
nouveaux riches cashing in"?
... that the Güney Waterfall, a
natural monument, was reestablished 50 m (160 ft) to one side after a landslide swept away its original location?
... that Harry Norwitch served five terms on
Philadelphia's City Council but quit his race for re-election in 1967, calling the Democratic party machine "self-serving"?
... that "eloquent" Holbrook, "popular" Humble, ex-Congregationalist Miller, and Pilling who feared "plottings", were all vicars of St Mark's, Huddersfield, England?
13 November 2016
00:00, 13 November 2016 (UTC)
Tommy Tucker
... that Tommy Tucker, a male pet squirrel wearing women's clothes (pictured), became famous during World War II, selling
war bonds and entertaining children?
... that the first paper mill in Scotland was located in Dalry, Edinburgh?
... that Alastair Storey ended celebrity chef
Jamie Oliver's two-year reign as "most influential" in the British hospitality industry?
... that the modern Palestinian village of Beit Qad is associated with the biblical locality of Beth Ekad, mentioned in the
Book of Kings as the site of a massacre?
... that a 1994 John F. Gaffney proposal would have allowed
Donald Trump to own four
Atlantic City casino licenses, even though all three of his casino properties there had recent bankruptcy filings?
... that ancient Indian texts include as many as 64 different lipi?
... that tunnel nests of the rosy bee-eater become submerged in the rainy season?
... that
Kentucky family court judgeTimothy N. Philpot says he does not "mention Jesus inside the courthouse very much, even when I know he is absolutely the only answer to the problem in front of me"?
... that the award-winning
Bulgarian filmGlory was inspired by a newspaper clipping about a railway worker who discovered a huge pile of banknotes on the tracks?
10 November 2016
00:00, 10 November 2016 (UTC)
Inès de Bourgoing
... that nurse Inès de Bourgoing(pictured) was named Honorary Corporal of the
Foreign Legion after she established a convalescent hospital in Morocco and a retirement center in France for French soldiers?
... that John J. Horn supported
New Jersey's proposed Illegal Alien Employment Prohibition Act, stating "illegal aliens holding jobs represent more than half of our total unemployed"?
... that in the Battle of Kharistan in 737, the
Umayyads caught the
Turgeshkhagan off guard with only a fraction of his army, and secured a victory that saved Arab rule in Central Asia?
... that the Zimbabwean prophetess Mai Chaza, who called herself a messenger from God, was regarded by her followers as an African reappearance of Christ?
... that the Peak Farmland theory predicts that global acreage of farmland will decrease, even as the world population grows?
... that Katsura Hoshino says she comes up with most of the ideas for the manga series D.Gray-man after falling asleep in her bath?
... that the white-eared night heron had been recorded from only about 20 localities by 2001, but was discovered in over 30 localities between 2001 and 2011?
... that the head of hajduk commander Bajo Pivljanin was sent to the Ottoman sultan as a war trophy?
... that in 2013, the production of Oxford Blue cheese created around 50,000 litres (13,000 US gal.) of waste
whey per month, which was processed using an
anaerobic digester?
... that Juanita's Galley was noted for a "fabulous" breakfast, the proprietor's "unpredictable disposition", and a 40-person brawl featuring car jacks, pipes, steel bars, a fishbowl, and an axe?
... that John F. Good's role in the
Abscam sting operation was portrayed in the 2013 film American Hustle, though he felt if it was more like real life "it would be a very boring movie"?
... that FUNCINPEC started as a
Cambodian resistance movement and later became a political party?
... that the Burmese court treatise Zabu Kun-Cha is believed to have been written by Chief Minister Min Yaza of
Ava?
... that the ant Pachycondyla oligocenica is one of three Pachycondyla species with described fossil males?