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31 December 2017
00:00, 31 December 2017 (UTC)
Detail of The Doctor (1891)
... that
Luke Fildes' painting The Doctor(detail pictured) was used to promote state-run
healthcare in Britain and to campaign against it in the United States?
... that Darnell Hunt, Dean of Social Sciences at
UCLA, believes Hollywood should use the
Rooney Rule to increase the share of African-American writers?
... that scientific research demonstrates that perspective-taking may lead to reduced stereotyping?
... that the Rotonda de Sampaloc, now the Nagtahan Interchange(pictured), originally demarcated the boundary between
Manila's suburbs and its urban core?
... that Chief Suah Koko fought several battles against the
Liberian government before granting them her land?
... that Ana Lucía Armijos, president of the Ecuadorian Monetary Board, went into hiding for a year after the
Supreme Court of Ecuador called for her arrest in the case of a $200 million bank bailout?
... that former international Ruth O'Reilly wrote an article criticising the
IRFU for a lack of support for women's rugby during the 2017 Women's Rugby World Cup held in Ireland?
... that the largest animal migration by biomass is the daily movement upwards from their refuge in the deep sea undertaken by vast numbers of organisms?
... that Zambian writer Samba Yonga chose a career in journalism after she won a short story prize as a child?
... that under terms of the Quebec Agreement, the United States had to seek British agreement to use nuclear weapons against Japan?
... that Canadian-trained criminologist Ken Attafuah spent part of his
secondary school education sleeping in an old and leaky
cocoa shed that had been converted into a dormitory?
... that Megachile chomskyi(pictured), a species of bee named after the linguist
Noam Chomsky, has a tongue that is more than half the length of its body?
... that the bells of St Stephen's in Ealing(belfry and spire pictured) caused complaints, were later moved to the Docklands, and were finally installed in
St Machar's Cathedral in Aberdeen?
... that Danish actor Caspar Phillipson has played President
John F. Kennedy in the film Jackie (2016), the short film The Speech JFK Never Gave (2017), and live performances of Kennedy's speeches?
... that before its destruction, Hampi, whose central ruins (partly pictured) are now a UNESCO world heritage site, was the world's second-largest medieval city after Beijing?
... that as an outsider, Governor Hou Zongbin was targeted by rumours that blamed him for a riot in which hundreds of people burned buildings and cars?
... that the orange-necked partridge, native to southern Vietnam and eastern Cambodia, was discovered in 1927 but was "lost" until its rediscovery in 1991?
... that Harry Bush obsessed that if anyone found out he was a gay erotic artist he would lose his American military pension?
19 December 2017
00:00, 19 December 2017 (UTC)
Fiora Contino
... that
Peter G. Davis wrote after a performance of Risurrezione that Fiora Contino(pictured) "may be the last conductor on earth with the music of
Alfano and his generation in her bloodstream"?
... that Spanish singer-songwriter
Antonio Carmona invited
Juanes and
Alejandro Sanz and several other performers he admired to record Obras Son Amores since he wanted to "create true reciprocal acts of love"?
... that Eunice Silva organised a nationwide vote to determine the seven wonders of
Cape Verde?
... that in 2017, St. Jakobus in Rüdesheim(pictured) held services, concerts, and an exhibition to celebrate 70 years since the church was rebuilt following damage in World War II?
... that the first proposed site for a ferry wharf at Rhodes in
Sydney, Australia, was scrapped after objections from the community, lobbyists, and the ferry operator?
... that the carving of 130,000 characters of
Buddhist scriptures into the mountains around Hebei's Nüwa Palace began under the Northern Qi dynasty?
... that Marjorie Hahn, a retired mathematics professor and international senior-level tennis player, approaches tennis games with the same plan that she uses for mathematical proofs?
... that more than 2,100 years after Lady Gouyi(pictured) was ordered by the emperor to die, her mausoleum was robbed and more than 1,100 artifacts were stolen?
... that the goal of the Science Moms documentary is to challenge the anti-
GMO, anti-vaccination, pro-alternative medicine culture affecting parents?
... that former
NASA engineer Joseph Anokye was deported from
Kenya because some people feared he could manipulate election results?
... that after playing with
Lego bricks as a child, Roma Agrawal designed both the tip and bottom of
The Shard(pictured)?
... that on the day Horace P. Belknap was interred in 1936,
National Guard inductions were suspended in
Central Oregon because all the local medical examiners were attending his funeral?
... that This is found in southern Australia, is attracted to decomposing seaweed, and has an unusual mating position?
12 December 2017
00:20, 12 December 2017 (UTC)
The portico facade, 2010
... that a tomb(pictured) in
Yavne is claimed as the site of burial of
Abu Hurairah by Muslims and
Gamaliel II by Jews, despite both claims being highly unlikely?
... that Ireland national rugby union team player Dr. Claire McLaughlin gained the nickname "McSwaplin" owing to her swapping medical shifts in order to play rugby?
... that Irish hockey umpire Carol Metchette was forced to retire from umpiring for being too old, despite having the highest fitness test results of any international umpire?
... that the rhinoceros beetle genus Cyclocephala already had over 200 species when C. nodanotherwon ("not another one") was described in 1992?
... that the
Fengtian clique's Zhili Army included, besides professional soldiers, surrendered enemies, provincial militiamen, bandits, and martial artists?
... that early Canadian broadcaster Claire Wallace was known for her reporting stunts, including climbing a Mexican volcano and joining a deep-sea diving expedition?
... that, despite being affected by poverty, language barriers, and prejudice, first-generation immigrants have better health outcomes than subsequent generations by way of the immigrant paradox?
... that remote sensing helps geologists study otherwise inaccessible areas such as Antarctic ice shelves?
... that Japanese voice actress Ai Kayano worked in the beauty industry to pay for her voice acting school tuition?
... that the lethal mushroom Amanita subpallidorosea was discovered when two people died in 2014 after eating it in China?
5 December 2017
00:00, 5 December 2017 (UTC)
Fluffy sculpin
... that under adverse conditions, the fluffy sculpin(pictured) can leave its rock pool and breathe air?
... that marine biologist Marie Darby, the first New Zealand woman to visit the Antarctic mainland, sailed to the
Ross Sea on a tourist boat that ran aground on its first trip?
4 December 2017
00:00, 4 December 2017 (UTC)
Purple sidewalk jewels
... that the purple "jewels" (pictured) in old sidewalks are pavement lights, which
bend daylight into the basement below?
... that approximately one-third of the adult Jewish population of
Winnipeg, Canada, attended the funeral of Chief Rabbi Israel Isaac Kahanovitch in 1945?
... that during the annual TV-aksjonen ("TV campaign"), more than 100,000 volunteers go door-to-door to all 1.8 million Norwegian households to collect donations for a charity?
... that
contemporary circus troupe Cirque de la Symphonie deliberately maintains a minimalist aesthetic to give equal prominence to the symphony orchestras that accompany their performances?
... that Tarak Sinha coached 12 cricketers who went on to play at international level?
... that Kenyan activist Josephine Kulea is said to have saved more than 1,000 girls from abuse and forced marriage?
... that it appears that larvae of Osedax frankpressi that settle on a whale carcase develop into female worms, while those that settle on the female worms become males?
... that Lake Cahuilla, with a maximum surface area of 5,700 square kilometres (2,200 sq mi), covered parts of
Southern California less than 500 years ago?
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 December 2017
00:00, 31 December 2017 (UTC)
Detail of The Doctor (1891)
... that
Luke Fildes' painting The Doctor(detail pictured) was used to promote state-run
healthcare in Britain and to campaign against it in the United States?
... that Darnell Hunt, Dean of Social Sciences at
UCLA, believes Hollywood should use the
Rooney Rule to increase the share of African-American writers?
... that scientific research demonstrates that perspective-taking may lead to reduced stereotyping?
... that the Rotonda de Sampaloc, now the Nagtahan Interchange(pictured), originally demarcated the boundary between
Manila's suburbs and its urban core?
... that Chief Suah Koko fought several battles against the
Liberian government before granting them her land?
... that Ana Lucía Armijos, president of the Ecuadorian Monetary Board, went into hiding for a year after the
Supreme Court of Ecuador called for her arrest in the case of a $200 million bank bailout?
... that former international Ruth O'Reilly wrote an article criticising the
IRFU for a lack of support for women's rugby during the 2017 Women's Rugby World Cup held in Ireland?
... that the largest animal migration by biomass is the daily movement upwards from their refuge in the deep sea undertaken by vast numbers of organisms?
... that Zambian writer Samba Yonga chose a career in journalism after she won a short story prize as a child?
... that under terms of the Quebec Agreement, the United States had to seek British agreement to use nuclear weapons against Japan?
... that Canadian-trained criminologist Ken Attafuah spent part of his
secondary school education sleeping in an old and leaky
cocoa shed that had been converted into a dormitory?
... that Megachile chomskyi(pictured), a species of bee named after the linguist
Noam Chomsky, has a tongue that is more than half the length of its body?
... that the bells of St Stephen's in Ealing(belfry and spire pictured) caused complaints, were later moved to the Docklands, and were finally installed in
St Machar's Cathedral in Aberdeen?
... that Danish actor Caspar Phillipson has played President
John F. Kennedy in the film Jackie (2016), the short film The Speech JFK Never Gave (2017), and live performances of Kennedy's speeches?
... that before its destruction, Hampi, whose central ruins (partly pictured) are now a UNESCO world heritage site, was the world's second-largest medieval city after Beijing?
... that as an outsider, Governor Hou Zongbin was targeted by rumours that blamed him for a riot in which hundreds of people burned buildings and cars?
... that the orange-necked partridge, native to southern Vietnam and eastern Cambodia, was discovered in 1927 but was "lost" until its rediscovery in 1991?
... that Harry Bush obsessed that if anyone found out he was a gay erotic artist he would lose his American military pension?
19 December 2017
00:00, 19 December 2017 (UTC)
Fiora Contino
... that
Peter G. Davis wrote after a performance of Risurrezione that Fiora Contino(pictured) "may be the last conductor on earth with the music of
Alfano and his generation in her bloodstream"?
... that Spanish singer-songwriter
Antonio Carmona invited
Juanes and
Alejandro Sanz and several other performers he admired to record Obras Son Amores since he wanted to "create true reciprocal acts of love"?
... that Eunice Silva organised a nationwide vote to determine the seven wonders of
Cape Verde?
... that in 2017, St. Jakobus in Rüdesheim(pictured) held services, concerts, and an exhibition to celebrate 70 years since the church was rebuilt following damage in World War II?
... that the first proposed site for a ferry wharf at Rhodes in
Sydney, Australia, was scrapped after objections from the community, lobbyists, and the ferry operator?
... that the carving of 130,000 characters of
Buddhist scriptures into the mountains around Hebei's Nüwa Palace began under the Northern Qi dynasty?
... that Marjorie Hahn, a retired mathematics professor and international senior-level tennis player, approaches tennis games with the same plan that she uses for mathematical proofs?
... that more than 2,100 years after Lady Gouyi(pictured) was ordered by the emperor to die, her mausoleum was robbed and more than 1,100 artifacts were stolen?
... that the goal of the Science Moms documentary is to challenge the anti-
GMO, anti-vaccination, pro-alternative medicine culture affecting parents?
... that former
NASA engineer Joseph Anokye was deported from
Kenya because some people feared he could manipulate election results?
... that after playing with
Lego bricks as a child, Roma Agrawal designed both the tip and bottom of
The Shard(pictured)?
... that on the day Horace P. Belknap was interred in 1936,
National Guard inductions were suspended in
Central Oregon because all the local medical examiners were attending his funeral?
... that This is found in southern Australia, is attracted to decomposing seaweed, and has an unusual mating position?
12 December 2017
00:20, 12 December 2017 (UTC)
The portico facade, 2010
... that a tomb(pictured) in
Yavne is claimed as the site of burial of
Abu Hurairah by Muslims and
Gamaliel II by Jews, despite both claims being highly unlikely?
... that Ireland national rugby union team player Dr. Claire McLaughlin gained the nickname "McSwaplin" owing to her swapping medical shifts in order to play rugby?
... that Irish hockey umpire Carol Metchette was forced to retire from umpiring for being too old, despite having the highest fitness test results of any international umpire?
... that the rhinoceros beetle genus Cyclocephala already had over 200 species when C. nodanotherwon ("not another one") was described in 1992?
... that the
Fengtian clique's Zhili Army included, besides professional soldiers, surrendered enemies, provincial militiamen, bandits, and martial artists?
... that early Canadian broadcaster Claire Wallace was known for her reporting stunts, including climbing a Mexican volcano and joining a deep-sea diving expedition?
... that, despite being affected by poverty, language barriers, and prejudice, first-generation immigrants have better health outcomes than subsequent generations by way of the immigrant paradox?
... that remote sensing helps geologists study otherwise inaccessible areas such as Antarctic ice shelves?
... that Japanese voice actress Ai Kayano worked in the beauty industry to pay for her voice acting school tuition?
... that the lethal mushroom Amanita subpallidorosea was discovered when two people died in 2014 after eating it in China?
5 December 2017
00:00, 5 December 2017 (UTC)
Fluffy sculpin
... that under adverse conditions, the fluffy sculpin(pictured) can leave its rock pool and breathe air?
... that marine biologist Marie Darby, the first New Zealand woman to visit the Antarctic mainland, sailed to the
Ross Sea on a tourist boat that ran aground on its first trip?
4 December 2017
00:00, 4 December 2017 (UTC)
Purple sidewalk jewels
... that the purple "jewels" (pictured) in old sidewalks are pavement lights, which
bend daylight into the basement below?
... that approximately one-third of the adult Jewish population of
Winnipeg, Canada, attended the funeral of Chief Rabbi Israel Isaac Kahanovitch in 1945?
... that during the annual TV-aksjonen ("TV campaign"), more than 100,000 volunteers go door-to-door to all 1.8 million Norwegian households to collect donations for a charity?
... that
contemporary circus troupe Cirque de la Symphonie deliberately maintains a minimalist aesthetic to give equal prominence to the symphony orchestras that accompany their performances?
... that Tarak Sinha coached 12 cricketers who went on to play at international level?
... that Kenyan activist Josephine Kulea is said to have saved more than 1,000 girls from abuse and forced marriage?
... that it appears that larvae of Osedax frankpressi that settle on a whale carcase develop into female worms, while those that settle on the female worms become males?
... that Lake Cahuilla, with a maximum surface area of 5,700 square kilometres (2,200 sq mi), covered parts of
Southern California less than 500 years ago?