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31 March 2017
02:40, 30 March 2017 (UTC)
Lucie Ingemann
... that Danish artist Lucie Ingemann(pictured), known for her large
altarpieces depicting biblical figures, also created flower paintings with religious and mystical themes?
... that myriad recipes for corn chowder began circulating in U.S. cookbooks after a recipe for the dish was published in the Boston Cook Book in 1884?
... that when it was revalued at $600million in 2015, New York City's Trump Tower(pictured) became the most expensive property owned by
Donald Trump?
... that the ancient Romans used to bathe a sacred stone in the waters of the Almone on March 27?
... that Rosel H. Hyde was the first chairman of the
Federal Communications Commission to be reappointed, and the first chairman to be appointed by a president of a different political party?
... that the DVD release of Final Destination 3 has a feature called "Choose Their Fate" that acts as an
interactive movie, allowing viewers to alter the course of the film's story and the fate of the characters?
... that sociologist James D. Wright co-authored a 1983 study which showed that approximately 1% of privately-owned guns in the United States were used in crime?
... that the developers of the video game Wipeout 2048 speculated that they influenced design elements of the
PlayStation Vita console (pictured), such as the inclusion of two analogue sticks?
... that Mel Olson commissioned music from
John Rutter for his choirs in
Omaha, Nebraska, and traveled to England to discuss his specific wishes with the composer?
... that the mythological events of the kuni-yuzuri may be rooted in real historic events?
... that despite being severely wounded in the
American Civil War in 1864, Armistead Burwell became licensed to practice law five years later?
... that
Luis Miguel hinted that the title for his 1999 album Amarte Es un Placer (Loving You Is a Pleasure) was based on his relationship at the time with
Mariah Carey(pictured)?
... that John Blair, who served four times as acting governor of the
Colony of Virginia, resigned his life appointment in 1770 so he would not be acting governor a fifth time?
... that banana pasta is lower in calories and fat, higher in protein, and less expensive to produce than whole wheat pasta?
23 March 2017
00:00, 23 March 2017 (UTC)
Giant panda
... that bears are classified as carnivores, but most are
omnivorous and the
panda(pictured) is almost entirely vegetarian?
... that the blob sculpin is the first egg-laying, deep sea fish known to provide parental care?
... that field goals in
rugby union, which were worth the same number of points as
tries, were abolished in 1905?
... that Indonesian Muslim cleric Hasyim Muzadi said that the
September 11 attacks were a "tragedy of humanity" and must not be turned into a religious conflict?
... that the 17th-century German hymn "Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan" has been described as "one of the most exquisite strains of pious resignation ever written"?
... that the São Vicente Suspension Bridge(pictured), constructed 1911–1914, was one of the first suspension bridges in Brazil, and was originally conceived to carry a sewage pipeline?
... that basketball player LaMelo Ball once scored 92 points in a single game, prompting
Charles Barkley to criticize the way he did it?
00:00, 17 March 2017 (UTC)
Hanover Lodge
... that London's Hanover Lodge(pictured) sold for £120 million in 2012, but the underground swimming pool, which converts into a ballroom, is considered "too small"?
... that a mountain fortress called Orange One was built for use by the President of the United States in emergency situations?
... that the mezzo-soprano Iris Vermillion, who became known for Mozart roles with
Harnoncourt in 1988, received a prize for her portrayal of Schoeck's
Penthesilea at the
Semperoper 20 years later?
... that Mendip Hospital in
Somerset was built in 1848 for 350 patients, but became crowded within a few years of opening?
... that the Day of Potsdam was used by the Nazis to symbolize continuity with German history?
... that 50 years after a mural by Fay E. Davis depicting Native Americans in battle was installed in the post office in
Oglesby, Illinois, a janitor claimed it was pornographic?
00:00, 15 March 2017 (UTC)
Erythranthe peregrina
... that Erythranthe peregrina(pictured) is a rare example of a species developing in multiple locations from parents that normally produce sterile hybrids?
... that the unroofing of hundreds of homes by Cyclone Althea in December 1971 prompted
Queensland to overhaul its state-wide building codes?
... that the porch of Clapton Court in
Somerset is two centuries older than the rest of the house?
... that in 1938, Georg Thurmair co-published the hymnal Kirchenlied, which had an ecumenical approach and became the germ cell for a common German Catholic hymnal?
... that
TLC rapper
Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes wrote two verses for the song "Kick Your Game", recapping a dialogue between herself and someone who was trying to flirt but did not "pass the cleverness test"?
... that in 1945, Lieutenant James B. Thayer and his platoon liberated the Gunskirchen Lager
concentration camp, saving thousands of Jewish and political prisoners from starvation?
... that the
Somerset building Wraxall Court was a house for hundreds of years before becoming a convalescent home, then student residences and then a private house again?
... that Euclidean space can be completely filled without overlaps by copies of any plesiohedron, a type of convex shape whose known examples have up to 38 sides?
... that
Richard Nixon and his longtime valet, Manuel "Manolo" Sanchez, sometimes communicated using "words that only the two of them understood"?
... that Beacon Hill, on the
South Downs in
West Sussex, supports the remains of a Bronze Age hillfort, an Anglo-Saxon burial mound, and a late 18th-century telegraph station?
... that despite the Reich Ministry of Transport running trains to extermination camps during the
Holocaust, the US later ruled some of their personnel only had "lukewarm" connections to the Nazi Party?
... that crossword compiler William Lutwiniak was promoted to sergeant the same day he joined the army?
... that Birdy, the first feature film partially shot with the
Skycam camera system, was described by a reviewer as "a heavy adult drama about best friends and the after-effects of war"?
... that Snugburys, a British
ice cream manufacturer, has constructed a series of large sculptures made of steel-reinforced straw, including one of the
Lovell Telescope(pictured)?
... that 2017 is the 100th anniversary of the composition of "Hail, America" by the German-born
George Drumm?
9 March 2017
12:00, 9 March 2017 (UTC)
Tsukemen
... that tsukemen(pictured) became a popular dish at Taishoken restaurant in
Tokyo soon after its 1961 invention there, and has since become popular throughout Japan?
... that a senior British general described
Winston Churchill's proposal to invade Arctic Norway, Operation Jupiter, as "not merely dangerous but useless"?
... that the racing game Wipeout Fusion contains 45 race tracks and 32 ship models?
7 March 2017
12:00, 7 March 2017 (UTC)
Claude Grahame-White landing on West Executive Avenue in 1910
... that construction of 1000 Second Avenue(pictured) in downtown Seattle, Washington, required demolition of a building that had been donated for
fire testing?
... that the Ashkelon dog cemetery, which contains possibly thousands of dog burials, may have been created by an ancient cult that treated dogs as healers?
... that according to research by Roger P. Minert, local church records in the United States are more likely than naturalization records to have information about the birthplaces of German immigrants?
... that when the
Islamic Statecaptured Qandala in 2016, the group hoisted its flag on the building in which Somali folk hero Ali Fahiye Gedi had been imprisoned for burning the Italian flag in 1914?
... that Chinese legend holds that Han Zhuo tried to feed the archer
Houyi's body to his sons and killed them when they refused to eat it?
... that Bobby Egan, the owner of a New Jersey roadside barbecue restaurant, has been criticized for participating in diplomatic negotiations between
North Korea and the United States?
... that a tiny embryonic skeleton found inside the fossil
dinosaur eggContinuoolithus died approximately 8 to 10 days into development, making it the youngest fossil vertebrate ever discovered?
00:00, 6 March 2017 (UTC)
The missionary ship Duff
... that Missionary Day, celebrated on 5 March in
French Polynesia, commemorates the 1797 arrival of the Protestant missionaries in
Tahiti aboard the Duff(pictured)?
... that Bill Gulley, who for years was responsible for the
nuclear football, was officially on the
U.S. Post Office payroll, to make the president's staff look smaller than it was?
... that Loch Ewe Distillery in Drumchork was allowed to open in 2006 with
stills over 90% smaller than the legal minimum, due to a loophole in the 1786 Wash Act?
... that construction on the 179th Street terminal station on the New York City Subway's Queens Boulevard Line was delayed for almost 20 years?
... that every single ballot cast for the
Canadian Football League all-star team in 1989 included a vote for Gerald Alphin, but he did not make the squad?
... that Canadian-American student Shmuel Schecter finished his four-year high school requirements in three years so that he could go to Poland to study at the
Mir Yeshiva at the age of seventeen?
... that if the sun anemone shrimp is separated from its host for more than 24 hours, it loses its immunity to the sea anemone's stinging cells?
4 March 2017
12:00, 4 March 2017 (UTC)
Souper Salad restaurant
... that one location of the all-you-can-eat Souper Salad buffet restaurant is in a former bank branch (pictured) that has been called one of the "10 Coolest Buildings" in
Phoenix, Arizona?
... that Buddy Alliston won the 1958 Shrimp Bowl with the
Eglin Air Force Base football team after pausing his professional career to join the military?
... that the Romanian Senate election of 1868, which consolidated the "reddish" liberal legislature, was held in July, when many conservative voters had left on vacation?
... that Joey Fischer was murdered after he refused to take US$500 to date his ex-girlfriend?
... that the Church of the Ascension, Lower Broughton, was built in 1869 and was recently restored, only for its roof and interior to be destroyed by fire in February 2017?
... that actor
Ryan Phillippe played Billy Douglas in his first professional acting role on the American soap opera One Life to Live, one of the first gay teenage characters in television?
... that economist Susan Dynarski, who advocates for simplifying the US Federal Student Aid application process, was the first member of her family to attend college?
... that when Clam Lake Canal freezes over early in the
Michigan winter, the lakes on each side remain unfrozen, but when the lakes later freeze over, the canal thaws and flows once more?
... that King
Kalākaua electioneered during the 1886 Hawaiian elections by visiting the districts of politicians J. W. Kalua,
G. W. Pilipō and
J. Nāwahī, and campaigning against them?
... that, no matter how n non-overlapping pennies are arranged on a table, there is a subset containing at least 0.258n of them that will not touch other pennies in the subset?
... that the Dronacharya Award is an Indian sports coaching honour, named after
Drona, the royal preceptor from the Sanskrit epic Mahabharata?
... that while studying art in Paris, impoverished Canadian painter Henri Beau copied eleven paintings hanging in the
Louvre and sold them to support himself?
... that concerns over whether video game Call of Cthulhu had been cancelled proved unfounded, when it was revived by a different developer more than two years after its original announcement?
... that because of a water-soluble pigment, Erythranthe cuprea has copper-colored flowers instead of the more common red and yellow flowers found in its genus?
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 March 2017
02:40, 30 March 2017 (UTC)
Lucie Ingemann
... that Danish artist Lucie Ingemann(pictured), known for her large
altarpieces depicting biblical figures, also created flower paintings with religious and mystical themes?
... that myriad recipes for corn chowder began circulating in U.S. cookbooks after a recipe for the dish was published in the Boston Cook Book in 1884?
... that when it was revalued at $600million in 2015, New York City's Trump Tower(pictured) became the most expensive property owned by
Donald Trump?
... that the ancient Romans used to bathe a sacred stone in the waters of the Almone on March 27?
... that Rosel H. Hyde was the first chairman of the
Federal Communications Commission to be reappointed, and the first chairman to be appointed by a president of a different political party?
... that the DVD release of Final Destination 3 has a feature called "Choose Their Fate" that acts as an
interactive movie, allowing viewers to alter the course of the film's story and the fate of the characters?
... that sociologist James D. Wright co-authored a 1983 study which showed that approximately 1% of privately-owned guns in the United States were used in crime?
... that the developers of the video game Wipeout 2048 speculated that they influenced design elements of the
PlayStation Vita console (pictured), such as the inclusion of two analogue sticks?
... that Mel Olson commissioned music from
John Rutter for his choirs in
Omaha, Nebraska, and traveled to England to discuss his specific wishes with the composer?
... that the mythological events of the kuni-yuzuri may be rooted in real historic events?
... that despite being severely wounded in the
American Civil War in 1864, Armistead Burwell became licensed to practice law five years later?
... that
Luis Miguel hinted that the title for his 1999 album Amarte Es un Placer (Loving You Is a Pleasure) was based on his relationship at the time with
Mariah Carey(pictured)?
... that John Blair, who served four times as acting governor of the
Colony of Virginia, resigned his life appointment in 1770 so he would not be acting governor a fifth time?
... that banana pasta is lower in calories and fat, higher in protein, and less expensive to produce than whole wheat pasta?
23 March 2017
00:00, 23 March 2017 (UTC)
Giant panda
... that bears are classified as carnivores, but most are
omnivorous and the
panda(pictured) is almost entirely vegetarian?
... that the blob sculpin is the first egg-laying, deep sea fish known to provide parental care?
... that field goals in
rugby union, which were worth the same number of points as
tries, were abolished in 1905?
... that Indonesian Muslim cleric Hasyim Muzadi said that the
September 11 attacks were a "tragedy of humanity" and must not be turned into a religious conflict?
... that the 17th-century German hymn "Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan" has been described as "one of the most exquisite strains of pious resignation ever written"?
... that the São Vicente Suspension Bridge(pictured), constructed 1911–1914, was one of the first suspension bridges in Brazil, and was originally conceived to carry a sewage pipeline?
... that basketball player LaMelo Ball once scored 92 points in a single game, prompting
Charles Barkley to criticize the way he did it?
00:00, 17 March 2017 (UTC)
Hanover Lodge
... that London's Hanover Lodge(pictured) sold for £120 million in 2012, but the underground swimming pool, which converts into a ballroom, is considered "too small"?
... that a mountain fortress called Orange One was built for use by the President of the United States in emergency situations?
... that the mezzo-soprano Iris Vermillion, who became known for Mozart roles with
Harnoncourt in 1988, received a prize for her portrayal of Schoeck's
Penthesilea at the
Semperoper 20 years later?
... that Mendip Hospital in
Somerset was built in 1848 for 350 patients, but became crowded within a few years of opening?
... that the Day of Potsdam was used by the Nazis to symbolize continuity with German history?
... that 50 years after a mural by Fay E. Davis depicting Native Americans in battle was installed in the post office in
Oglesby, Illinois, a janitor claimed it was pornographic?
00:00, 15 March 2017 (UTC)
Erythranthe peregrina
... that Erythranthe peregrina(pictured) is a rare example of a species developing in multiple locations from parents that normally produce sterile hybrids?
... that the unroofing of hundreds of homes by Cyclone Althea in December 1971 prompted
Queensland to overhaul its state-wide building codes?
... that the porch of Clapton Court in
Somerset is two centuries older than the rest of the house?
... that in 1938, Georg Thurmair co-published the hymnal Kirchenlied, which had an ecumenical approach and became the germ cell for a common German Catholic hymnal?
... that
TLC rapper
Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes wrote two verses for the song "Kick Your Game", recapping a dialogue between herself and someone who was trying to flirt but did not "pass the cleverness test"?
... that in 1945, Lieutenant James B. Thayer and his platoon liberated the Gunskirchen Lager
concentration camp, saving thousands of Jewish and political prisoners from starvation?
... that the
Somerset building Wraxall Court was a house for hundreds of years before becoming a convalescent home, then student residences and then a private house again?
... that Euclidean space can be completely filled without overlaps by copies of any plesiohedron, a type of convex shape whose known examples have up to 38 sides?
... that
Richard Nixon and his longtime valet, Manuel "Manolo" Sanchez, sometimes communicated using "words that only the two of them understood"?
... that Beacon Hill, on the
South Downs in
West Sussex, supports the remains of a Bronze Age hillfort, an Anglo-Saxon burial mound, and a late 18th-century telegraph station?
... that despite the Reich Ministry of Transport running trains to extermination camps during the
Holocaust, the US later ruled some of their personnel only had "lukewarm" connections to the Nazi Party?
... that crossword compiler William Lutwiniak was promoted to sergeant the same day he joined the army?
... that Birdy, the first feature film partially shot with the
Skycam camera system, was described by a reviewer as "a heavy adult drama about best friends and the after-effects of war"?
... that Snugburys, a British
ice cream manufacturer, has constructed a series of large sculptures made of steel-reinforced straw, including one of the
Lovell Telescope(pictured)?
... that 2017 is the 100th anniversary of the composition of "Hail, America" by the German-born
George Drumm?
9 March 2017
12:00, 9 March 2017 (UTC)
Tsukemen
... that tsukemen(pictured) became a popular dish at Taishoken restaurant in
Tokyo soon after its 1961 invention there, and has since become popular throughout Japan?
... that a senior British general described
Winston Churchill's proposal to invade Arctic Norway, Operation Jupiter, as "not merely dangerous but useless"?
... that the racing game Wipeout Fusion contains 45 race tracks and 32 ship models?
7 March 2017
12:00, 7 March 2017 (UTC)
Claude Grahame-White landing on West Executive Avenue in 1910
... that construction of 1000 Second Avenue(pictured) in downtown Seattle, Washington, required demolition of a building that had been donated for
fire testing?
... that the Ashkelon dog cemetery, which contains possibly thousands of dog burials, may have been created by an ancient cult that treated dogs as healers?
... that according to research by Roger P. Minert, local church records in the United States are more likely than naturalization records to have information about the birthplaces of German immigrants?
... that when the
Islamic Statecaptured Qandala in 2016, the group hoisted its flag on the building in which Somali folk hero Ali Fahiye Gedi had been imprisoned for burning the Italian flag in 1914?
... that Chinese legend holds that Han Zhuo tried to feed the archer
Houyi's body to his sons and killed them when they refused to eat it?
... that Bobby Egan, the owner of a New Jersey roadside barbecue restaurant, has been criticized for participating in diplomatic negotiations between
North Korea and the United States?
... that a tiny embryonic skeleton found inside the fossil
dinosaur eggContinuoolithus died approximately 8 to 10 days into development, making it the youngest fossil vertebrate ever discovered?
00:00, 6 March 2017 (UTC)
The missionary ship Duff
... that Missionary Day, celebrated on 5 March in
French Polynesia, commemorates the 1797 arrival of the Protestant missionaries in
Tahiti aboard the Duff(pictured)?
... that Bill Gulley, who for years was responsible for the
nuclear football, was officially on the
U.S. Post Office payroll, to make the president's staff look smaller than it was?
... that Loch Ewe Distillery in Drumchork was allowed to open in 2006 with
stills over 90% smaller than the legal minimum, due to a loophole in the 1786 Wash Act?
... that construction on the 179th Street terminal station on the New York City Subway's Queens Boulevard Line was delayed for almost 20 years?
... that every single ballot cast for the
Canadian Football League all-star team in 1989 included a vote for Gerald Alphin, but he did not make the squad?
... that Canadian-American student Shmuel Schecter finished his four-year high school requirements in three years so that he could go to Poland to study at the
Mir Yeshiva at the age of seventeen?
... that if the sun anemone shrimp is separated from its host for more than 24 hours, it loses its immunity to the sea anemone's stinging cells?
4 March 2017
12:00, 4 March 2017 (UTC)
Souper Salad restaurant
... that one location of the all-you-can-eat Souper Salad buffet restaurant is in a former bank branch (pictured) that has been called one of the "10 Coolest Buildings" in
Phoenix, Arizona?
... that Buddy Alliston won the 1958 Shrimp Bowl with the
Eglin Air Force Base football team after pausing his professional career to join the military?
... that the Romanian Senate election of 1868, which consolidated the "reddish" liberal legislature, was held in July, when many conservative voters had left on vacation?
... that Joey Fischer was murdered after he refused to take US$500 to date his ex-girlfriend?
... that the Church of the Ascension, Lower Broughton, was built in 1869 and was recently restored, only for its roof and interior to be destroyed by fire in February 2017?
... that actor
Ryan Phillippe played Billy Douglas in his first professional acting role on the American soap opera One Life to Live, one of the first gay teenage characters in television?
... that economist Susan Dynarski, who advocates for simplifying the US Federal Student Aid application process, was the first member of her family to attend college?
... that when Clam Lake Canal freezes over early in the
Michigan winter, the lakes on each side remain unfrozen, but when the lakes later freeze over, the canal thaws and flows once more?
... that King
Kalākaua electioneered during the 1886 Hawaiian elections by visiting the districts of politicians J. W. Kalua,
G. W. Pilipō and
J. Nāwahī, and campaigning against them?
... that, no matter how n non-overlapping pennies are arranged on a table, there is a subset containing at least 0.258n of them that will not touch other pennies in the subset?
... that the Dronacharya Award is an Indian sports coaching honour, named after
Drona, the royal preceptor from the Sanskrit epic Mahabharata?
... that while studying art in Paris, impoverished Canadian painter Henri Beau copied eleven paintings hanging in the
Louvre and sold them to support himself?
... that concerns over whether video game Call of Cthulhu had been cancelled proved unfounded, when it was revived by a different developer more than two years after its original announcement?
... that because of a water-soluble pigment, Erythranthe cuprea has copper-colored flowers instead of the more common red and yellow flowers found in its genus?