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
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... that Dutch painter
Vincent van Gogh used slanted lines to depict rainfall in his 1889 painting Rain(shown), drawing inspiration from
Japanese prints such as those by
Hiroshige?
... that Jeffrey Erickson, who was accused of robbing banks in the Chicago metropolitan area with his wife Jill, was a former police officer in
Hoffman Estates?
... that the Royal Irish Yacht Club has retained its royal title despite the establishment of the Republic of Ireland?
... that the offices of the Chanin Organization in New York City's Chanin Building contained "America's finest bathroom" and a set of ornate bronze gates?
... that academic Paul Tempan said of the Twelve Bens mountain range in
Connemara, Ireland, that "nobody seems to know exactly which are the twelve peaks in question"?
... that Chiara Daraio has used a version of
Newton's cradle to create "sound bullets", and walls filled with ball bearings to create one-way barriers for sound?
... that during the American Civil War, Charles B. Norton offered to hide
Peter Force's large library for fear of a Confederate attack on Washington, D.C.?
... that in 1918, Edith A. Ellis advocated an all-female government with the slogan "Insist that no man shall occupy a position that a woman can fill"?
... that the Seattle Center Monorail began operating 58 years ago today and still uses its original trains (example pictured)?
... that
Edgar Wright, director of Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, thinks that the film is different from other comedies because it has "a lot of funny women in it"?
... that although the Brimham Rocks(example pictured) were shaped naturally by erosion,
Hayman Rooke conjectured that the extraordinary shapes of some stones could have been carved in part by
druids?
... that glass(example pictured) can form naturally from
supercooled volcanic
magma?
... that Odile Pierre, who became interested in the organ at a recital by
Marcel Dupré at the age of seven, later served as the organist of
La Madeleine in Paris and played around 2,000 recitals herself?
... that in Florida, winged termites are sometimes found stuck to wet foliage, buildings, or vehicles after rain?
... that nuclear scientist Clarice Phelps has been recognized as the first African-American woman to be involved with the discovery of a
chemical element?
... that psychologist Susan Folkman coined the terms "problem-focused coping" and "emotion-focused coping"?
... that contrary to popular belief, a hatch in the roof of the Cleveland Tunnel in
Bath was probably not used to pass paperwork between office workers above and vessels below?
... that video game director Aya Kyogoku created Animal Crossing: New Leaf with a team that was half female, and credits the team's diversity for the game's critical and commercial success?
... that television station KTVE in
Longview, Texas, broadcast the
1954 World Series without permission, and was ordered to cease and desist by the
NBC network?
... that the 3-metre-high (9.8 ft), 6th-century Parel Relief, with seven figures of
Shiva, was found in
Mumbai during road building in 1931, and is now worshipped at a local temple?
... that production designer Kristi Zea created the visual imagery for The Silence of the Lambs, including a scene that the script described only as "a snapshot from hell"?
... that Pride in STEM wants to "queer up science spaces and science up queer spaces"?
... that The Red Dragon magazine was intended to "make known to the greater English world the characteristics and aims of the Welsh people and the beauties of their language and literature"?
... that Arthur and Mary Sellwood had the idea for a book (cover shown) on Victorian railway murders in the 1940s, but did not write it until after a "violent incident on a night train" in the 1970s?
... that as a law student, Burkhard Driest robbed a
savings bank shortly before an examination, and later wrote a book and a film script about his experiences?
... that
larvae of the tube worm Hydroides ezoensis prefer to settle on a
substrate already inhabited by other worms of their own species?
... that Charles E. Mills had dual careers in banking and explosives?
... that past eruptions of Cadamosto Seamount dispersed volcanic ash underwater over thousands of square kilometres?
... that in 2019, Japanese voice actress Midori Katō earned a
Guinness World Record for having voiced the same character in the anime Sazae-san for 50 years and a day?
... that in the collection Madwoman, Jamaican-American poet
Shara McCallum uses both English and
Patwa, a
creole she heard while growing up but never saw in writing?
... that Estonian general and former Minister of Education Aleksander Jaakson was arrested by
NKVD while working on his farm?
... that professor Neil Ferguson and his team believe that significantly more people in China have been infected with the
2019 novel coronavirus than has been reported?
... that Kakwkylla(depiction shown), a female saint venerated in Sweden and Germany during the late
Middle Ages, may have originated from a misunderstanding of
an Irish abbot's gender?
... that horse surfing involves a person surfing while being towed by a horse?
... that copies of the video game The Race Against Time were recalled due to the unauthorized use of
Jesse Owens's likeness on its packaging and advertising?
... that reflective writing is a good way to increase empathy in medical students?
... that Eugene C. Barker was involved in the "biggest bear fight" in Texas history with Governor
James E. Ferguson, but Barker kept his job and Ferguson was later
impeached?
... that the 2005
BBC documentary Dead Mums Don't Cry follows Grace Kodindo's efforts to stem the maternal mortality rate in
Chad, where pregnant and childbearing women had a 9 per cent chance of dying?
... that neuroscientist Cristina Alberini uses both mammals, and invertebrates such as
sea slugs, to study memory?
... that Heidi Cruz, wife of U.S. senator
Ted Cruz, is the primary breadwinner of the family?
... that Judith Liberman learned storytelling in a French
commune at the age of 14, and has gone on to reintroduce the telling of
Anatolian fairy tales in Turkey?
... that Frieda Nadig, one of the four "mothers" of the
German constitution, proposed to include the sentence "men and women have equal rights", but was initially voted down?
... that boxing World Youth champion Caroline Dubois pretended to be a boy named Colin when she started training?
... that infectious disease specialist Daniel R. Lucey has hypothesised that the
SARS-CoV-2 virus (pictured) responsible for the
2019–20 coronavirus outbreak may have been quietly circulating among humans since at least November 2019?
... that President
Idi Amin ensured the
Uganda Army's loyalty with the so-called "whisky run"?
... that the British security services described Lisa von Pott as the organiser of a pro-Nazi espionage group in wartime Vienna?
... that dillegrout was so delicious that it earned the cook
a manor, but to keep it he and his descendants had to serve the dish at every future English coronation?
6 March 2020
00:00, 6 March 2020 (UTC)
Asmundtorp Church
... that Asmundtorp Church(pictured), built between 1895 and 1897, was financed with returns from Swedish farmsteads that were donated to the church during the
Middle Ages?
... that Australian brigadier
Arthur Blackburn ordered his men to shoot less in the Battle of Leuwiliang, so that when they withdrew, their Japanese enemies would not realize it?
Portrait of Eliodoro Bianchi by
Luigi Rados (
c. 1820)
... that tenor and voice teacher Eliodoro Bianchi(depicted) performed in many world premieres of operas, with
Rossini expressly writing two roles for him?
... that the Zulu taunted the British during the action at Sihayo's Kraal, asking: "Why don't you come on up?"
... that
Asumiko Nakamura, the author of the manga series Classmates, sought to create a story about a "slow, serious love" that was "cliché" and "almost hackneyed"?
... that in 1941, two German POWs escaped from their British prison camp and stole a plane from an
RAF base to try to reach the continent?
... that former college basketball star Amy Langville is an expert in ranking systems, and has applied her ranking expertise to basketball
bracketology?
... that when WIRK-TV ceased operations 64 years ago today, its president admitted to operating the station "long past the point of good judgment"?
... that Yang Xin, the vice director of the
Palace Museum in Beijing, collaborated with his counterpart at the
National Palace Museum in Taipei for the first joint publication by the two museums?
... that during the Storming of Farnham Castle, the
Royalist defence was so minimal that one contemporary claimed they "deserved not the name of a garrison"?
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.
... that Dutch painter
Vincent van Gogh used slanted lines to depict rainfall in his 1889 painting Rain(shown), drawing inspiration from
Japanese prints such as those by
Hiroshige?
... that Jeffrey Erickson, who was accused of robbing banks in the Chicago metropolitan area with his wife Jill, was a former police officer in
Hoffman Estates?
... that the Royal Irish Yacht Club has retained its royal title despite the establishment of the Republic of Ireland?
... that the offices of the Chanin Organization in New York City's Chanin Building contained "America's finest bathroom" and a set of ornate bronze gates?
... that academic Paul Tempan said of the Twelve Bens mountain range in
Connemara, Ireland, that "nobody seems to know exactly which are the twelve peaks in question"?
... that Chiara Daraio has used a version of
Newton's cradle to create "sound bullets", and walls filled with ball bearings to create one-way barriers for sound?
... that during the American Civil War, Charles B. Norton offered to hide
Peter Force's large library for fear of a Confederate attack on Washington, D.C.?
... that in 1918, Edith A. Ellis advocated an all-female government with the slogan "Insist that no man shall occupy a position that a woman can fill"?
... that the Seattle Center Monorail began operating 58 years ago today and still uses its original trains (example pictured)?
... that
Edgar Wright, director of Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, thinks that the film is different from other comedies because it has "a lot of funny women in it"?
... that although the Brimham Rocks(example pictured) were shaped naturally by erosion,
Hayman Rooke conjectured that the extraordinary shapes of some stones could have been carved in part by
druids?
... that glass(example pictured) can form naturally from
supercooled volcanic
magma?
... that Odile Pierre, who became interested in the organ at a recital by
Marcel Dupré at the age of seven, later served as the organist of
La Madeleine in Paris and played around 2,000 recitals herself?
... that in Florida, winged termites are sometimes found stuck to wet foliage, buildings, or vehicles after rain?
... that nuclear scientist Clarice Phelps has been recognized as the first African-American woman to be involved with the discovery of a
chemical element?
... that psychologist Susan Folkman coined the terms "problem-focused coping" and "emotion-focused coping"?
... that contrary to popular belief, a hatch in the roof of the Cleveland Tunnel in
Bath was probably not used to pass paperwork between office workers above and vessels below?
... that video game director Aya Kyogoku created Animal Crossing: New Leaf with a team that was half female, and credits the team's diversity for the game's critical and commercial success?
... that television station KTVE in
Longview, Texas, broadcast the
1954 World Series without permission, and was ordered to cease and desist by the
NBC network?
... that the 3-metre-high (9.8 ft), 6th-century Parel Relief, with seven figures of
Shiva, was found in
Mumbai during road building in 1931, and is now worshipped at a local temple?
... that production designer Kristi Zea created the visual imagery for The Silence of the Lambs, including a scene that the script described only as "a snapshot from hell"?
... that Pride in STEM wants to "queer up science spaces and science up queer spaces"?
... that The Red Dragon magazine was intended to "make known to the greater English world the characteristics and aims of the Welsh people and the beauties of their language and literature"?
... that Arthur and Mary Sellwood had the idea for a book (cover shown) on Victorian railway murders in the 1940s, but did not write it until after a "violent incident on a night train" in the 1970s?
... that as a law student, Burkhard Driest robbed a
savings bank shortly before an examination, and later wrote a book and a film script about his experiences?
... that
larvae of the tube worm Hydroides ezoensis prefer to settle on a
substrate already inhabited by other worms of their own species?
... that Charles E. Mills had dual careers in banking and explosives?
... that past eruptions of Cadamosto Seamount dispersed volcanic ash underwater over thousands of square kilometres?
... that in 2019, Japanese voice actress Midori Katō earned a
Guinness World Record for having voiced the same character in the anime Sazae-san for 50 years and a day?
... that in the collection Madwoman, Jamaican-American poet
Shara McCallum uses both English and
Patwa, a
creole she heard while growing up but never saw in writing?
... that Estonian general and former Minister of Education Aleksander Jaakson was arrested by
NKVD while working on his farm?
... that professor Neil Ferguson and his team believe that significantly more people in China have been infected with the
2019 novel coronavirus than has been reported?
... that Kakwkylla(depiction shown), a female saint venerated in Sweden and Germany during the late
Middle Ages, may have originated from a misunderstanding of
an Irish abbot's gender?
... that horse surfing involves a person surfing while being towed by a horse?
... that copies of the video game The Race Against Time were recalled due to the unauthorized use of
Jesse Owens's likeness on its packaging and advertising?
... that reflective writing is a good way to increase empathy in medical students?
... that Eugene C. Barker was involved in the "biggest bear fight" in Texas history with Governor
James E. Ferguson, but Barker kept his job and Ferguson was later
impeached?
... that the 2005
BBC documentary Dead Mums Don't Cry follows Grace Kodindo's efforts to stem the maternal mortality rate in
Chad, where pregnant and childbearing women had a 9 per cent chance of dying?
... that neuroscientist Cristina Alberini uses both mammals, and invertebrates such as
sea slugs, to study memory?
... that Heidi Cruz, wife of U.S. senator
Ted Cruz, is the primary breadwinner of the family?
... that Judith Liberman learned storytelling in a French
commune at the age of 14, and has gone on to reintroduce the telling of
Anatolian fairy tales in Turkey?
... that Frieda Nadig, one of the four "mothers" of the
German constitution, proposed to include the sentence "men and women have equal rights", but was initially voted down?
... that boxing World Youth champion Caroline Dubois pretended to be a boy named Colin when she started training?
... that infectious disease specialist Daniel R. Lucey has hypothesised that the
SARS-CoV-2 virus (pictured) responsible for the
2019–20 coronavirus outbreak may have been quietly circulating among humans since at least November 2019?
... that President
Idi Amin ensured the
Uganda Army's loyalty with the so-called "whisky run"?
... that the British security services described Lisa von Pott as the organiser of a pro-Nazi espionage group in wartime Vienna?
... that dillegrout was so delicious that it earned the cook
a manor, but to keep it he and his descendants had to serve the dish at every future English coronation?
6 March 2020
00:00, 6 March 2020 (UTC)
Asmundtorp Church
... that Asmundtorp Church(pictured), built between 1895 and 1897, was financed with returns from Swedish farmsteads that were donated to the church during the
Middle Ages?
... that Australian brigadier
Arthur Blackburn ordered his men to shoot less in the Battle of Leuwiliang, so that when they withdrew, their Japanese enemies would not realize it?
Portrait of Eliodoro Bianchi by
Luigi Rados (
c. 1820)
... that tenor and voice teacher Eliodoro Bianchi(depicted) performed in many world premieres of operas, with
Rossini expressly writing two roles for him?
... that the Zulu taunted the British during the action at Sihayo's Kraal, asking: "Why don't you come on up?"
... that
Asumiko Nakamura, the author of the manga series Classmates, sought to create a story about a "slow, serious love" that was "cliché" and "almost hackneyed"?
... that in 1941, two German POWs escaped from their British prison camp and stole a plane from an
RAF base to try to reach the continent?
... that former college basketball star Amy Langville is an expert in ranking systems, and has applied her ranking expertise to basketball
bracketology?
... that when WIRK-TV ceased operations 64 years ago today, its president admitted to operating the station "long past the point of good judgment"?
... that Yang Xin, the vice director of the
Palace Museum in Beijing, collaborated with his counterpart at the
National Palace Museum in Taipei for the first joint publication by the two museums?
... that during the Storming of Farnham Castle, the
Royalist defence was so minimal that one contemporary claimed they "deserved not the name of a garrison"?