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 the judging committee of the Manga Taishō, an annual
manga prize, is composed primarily of bookstore workers?
... that Indian women's hockey player Elvera Britto and her sisters would stitch their own team uniforms while playing in the 1960s?
... that XO, Kitty, based on the film series To All the Boys I've Loved Before, is planned to be the first Netflix series to be spun off from a Netflix original film?
... that Austrian doctor Paul Bargehr was decried for exposing healthy Indonesians to the leprosy bacillus in his experiments?
... that "Segne, Vater, diese Gaben", a
round for
saying grace of unknown authorship, has appeared in German collections for kindergarten, schools and events for young people?
... that shortly before
sports shooterWilliam Riedell was to compete in the
1936 Olympics, he had his pistols confiscated by the New York police because the precinct chief had decided there were "too many guns"?
... that when Nadja Stefanoff portrayed the title role of Giordano's Fedora at the
Oper Frankfurt, one reviewer complimented the brilliance and agility of her voice, assertive even when singing softly?
... that when a fire broke out next to studios of Oklahoma radio station KVSO, reporters had to rush in to report the blaze and then out to breathe fresh air?
... that the "favorable comparisons of
Lenin to Confucius, Buddha, and Allah" in
Dmitri Shostakovich's Loyalty were said to have "achieved new levels of ludicrous flattery"?
... that Sunday-school classes were once held in the transmitter building of New Mexico radio station KCLV?
... that Scottish inventor and music teacher Anne Gunn was granted the first British patent for a board game in 1801?
... that Concurrent Computer Corporation was consumed in a "minnow-swallows-the-whale" merger during the junk bonds era, but unusually, kept its name, CEO, and headquarters?
... that 'Til Kingdom Come, a documentary film about evangelical
Christian Zionism in the United States, was blocked from airing on PBS due to its editing of a speech by Donald Trump?
... that Nazi war criminal Kurt Weigelt could not be directly employed by
Deutsche Bank after World War II, so he reestablished
Lufthansa?
... that the Battle of San Buenaventura was described by the Los Angeles Times as a "quirky skirmish ... that emptied the mission of wine and left its adobe walls pockmarked by cannon fire"?
... that the poet Habibi was adopted by
Aq Qoyunlu ruler
Ya'qub Beg as a child after he was found shepherding?
... that the
canoe routes through Obabika River Provincial Park are part of
Temagami's 2,400-kilometre-long (1,500 mi) network of
portages and waterways, many of which are traditional indigenous routes?
... that Craig Braun's Grammy-nominated album packaging for School's Out had to be recalled for including underwear that constituted a fire hazard?
00:00, 23 May 2022 (UTC)
1850 electric train designed by Thomas Hall
... that Thomas Hall made an electric train (pictured) that received power from the rails on which it travelled instead of onboard batteries, a new technology at the time?
... that as a child, Mitsurou Kubo read forty
manga magazines per month?
... that Archbishop
Justin Welby said that the 800th anniversary of the anti-Jewish laws of the Synod of Oxford provided a time to "remember, repent and rebuild"?
... that the 1988 closure of WLEE, once one of the top radio stations in
Richmond, Virginia, also took WBBL, a church station in existence for nearly 65 years, off the air for good?
... that the Times Square Theater(pictured), proposed for redevelopment since 1990, remained empty three decades later?
... that when asked by the king to choose the weapon by which he would be executed, the outlaw Nga Tet Pya replied "I choose your most beautiful queen
Saw Omma"?
... that Binggrae, a South Korean food and beverage company, was the official ice cream supplier of the
1988 Seoul Olympics?
... that Frankie Saluto was a member of the Ringling Giants, a dwarf baseball team that raised money for charity?
... that one music critic said that despite being "noisy, banal, fundamentally insincere",
Dmitri Shostakovich's symphonic poem October was nonetheless "enjoyable trash"?
... that
Centre College president William C. Young awarded degrees to three of his half-sisters in 1891, as they had completed the requirements forty years earlier?
... that after four years in the making, the Minimal BASIC standard was described as "more a toy than an actual language"?
... that the captain of CSS Pontchartrain was twice detached from the ship to fight in land battles?
... that Indian gynaecologist and reproductive medicine pioneer Baidyanath Chakrabarty, who performed over 4,000 IVF procedures, was a cricket fan who thought
Virat Kohli and
Ashwin were "such good boys"?
... that Yuki Fumino's relationships with hearing-impaired friends and acquaintances inspired her to create I Hear the Sunspot?
... that at the age of 26, Lucy Moss became the youngest female director of a Broadway musical before directing a TikTok musical that raised $2 million?
... that Aroha Bridge changed its name from Hook Ups because fans searching for the show often found pornography instead?
20 May 2022
12:00, 20 May 2022 (UTC)
Joseph Lancaster Budd
... that American horticulturalist Joseph Lancaster Budd(pictured) traveled to England, France, Austria, Russia, and China in 1882 to discover fruit trees that could grow in
Iowa?
... that the New Zealand government has officially apologised for articles published in the New Zealand School Journal about the
Moriori people in the early 20th century?
... that the 48-story Uris Building went into foreclosure just two and a half years after it was completed?
... that media promotions for the film Blood Friends were not allowed to mention that cast member Nina Makino is part of the girl group
NiziU?
... that the parents of Bob Glenalvin insisted that he play baseball under an assumed name?
... that the Turkish multirotor
combat droneSongar was recently equipped with six 40 mm (1.6 in) mini missiles?
... that US radio regulators sought to shut down Ohio station WEBE, which was said to operate from the owner's bedroom using "parts of a questionable nature"?
00:00, 20 May 2022 (UTC)
El Paso Star illuminated at sunset
... that El Paso's Star on the Mountain(pictured) is lit up every night and visible from the air up to 100 miles (160 km) away?
... that in 1957, Burhanuddin Harahap's family members travelled from Sumatra to Jakarta, believing that he had died?
... that Al-Wishah fi Fawa'id al-Nikah, a 15th-century Islamic sex manual by Egyptian writer
Al-Suyuti, was based on both traditional hadith literature and material influenced by Indian erotology?
... that
A. N. Wilson justified fictionalising the life of
George Forster for his novel Resolution by saying that Forster "inhabit[ed] a borderline between fact and fiction"?
... that after Norwegian YouTuber Apetor's death in 2021, Czech fans lit candles in his memory outside the Norwegian embassy in Prague?
... that the August 2021 Tennessee floods were caused by more than 20 inches (510 mm) of rain falling in a 24-hour period?
... that Eyvindur P. Eiríksson has addressed modern alienation and man's relationship with nature through pagan poetry and a book about a
fishing trawler?
... that decades after the
type specimen of the lichen Punctelia graminicola was destroyed in World War II, its original name was restored after another specimen was rescued from disposal at a dump?
... that
Ilya Repin changed the main character in his painting They Did Not Expect Him(pictured) from a woman because it looked too similar to another painting?
... that Helena Springs is credited as co-writer with
Bob Dylan on 19 songs, more than any of his other collaborators?
... that the music video for
Matt and Kim's New Glow song "Can You Blame Me" involves fans filming themselves with iPads near their heads playing headshots of the duo lip-syncing?
... that the historian and political journalist Lancelot Lawton addressed a
House of Commons committee in London in 1935, beginning: "The chief problem in Europe to-day is the Ukrainian problem"?
... that Love, a sculpture by Ukrainian artist
Alexander Milov, represents two wire-frame adults who appear to be alienated, but inside their bodies two children reach out to each other?
... that Jane C. Beck traveled to Virginia, West Africa, and England to research the family history of
Daisy Turner for her 2015 book Daisy Turner's Kin: An African American Family Saga?
... that The Land We Love, a little magazine that merged into Southern Magazine(cover pictured), printed
American Civil War recollections, poetry, agricultural material, and many works by female authors?
... that Serhiy Kot was the editor of Ukrainian Question, a collection of articles on the status of Ukraine in the 1930s?
... that Romy Golan's 2021 book Flashback, Eclipse is an exploration of Italian art of the 1960s that moved away from the art created under
Italian fascism?
... that in 1999, donors to the American Airlines Theatre could pay US$75,000 for their name on a bathroom?
15 May 2022
00:00, 15 May 2022 (UTC)
Lord William Beauchamp Nevill
... that former convict Lord William Beauchamp Nevill(pictured) wrote Penal Servitude, a book about his prison experiences?
... that even though plans to convert the studio building of station KITN in
Olympia, Washington, into a courthouse were soon changed, county taxpayers still paid its moving expenses?
... that Ignacy Korwin-Milewski amassed a collection of more than 200 paintings by Polish artists, one of the largest private collections of contemporary Polish art at the time?
... that as a young girl, Countess Ladislaja Harnoncourt was thought to be uneducatable and was nicknamed the "wild Laja"?
... that during a promotional tour of
Matt & Kim's third album Sidewalks, it was played on the public speaker system of the venue before each show began but none of its tracks were on the setlist?
... that Brian Fawcett, who would have turned 78 today, taught English to inmates before becoming a full-time writer?
... that Iowa radio station KTFC was partially powered by a wind turbine that the owner had bought from an Arizona wind farm?
... that 19th-century Polish ethnographer Zorian Dołęga-Chodakowski travelled the countryside as a "
wild man" and later appeared as a literary character?
... that the "pathbreaking" book Paradigm Lost recommends abandoning the
two-state solution in favor of equal rights for all inhabitants of Israel and Palestine?
... that Vanita Jagdeo Borade has been called the "Snake Woman" for having rescued more than 50,000 snakes?
... that Francis Orray Ticknor was a country doctor whose fame as a poet relies on "Little Giffen", a poem about one of his patients who died in the
American Civil War?
... that disability-rights activist Edith Prentiss objected to the title of a documentary about her, Edith Prentiss: Hell on Wheels, for being too mild?
... that "Es tönen die Lieder", a German
round about greeting spring with songs, first appeared in 1869 in a collection of works by
Adolf Spieß, who developed a series of school-gymnastics steps to it?
... that Free Comic Book Day was inspired by Free Scoop Night at an ice cream parlor?
... that although it spent only one week on the Hot Rock & Alternative Songs chart, "Visitor" was the fifth Adult Alternative Airplay number-one for
Of Monsters and Men?
... that Doug was nominated to Guinness World Records as the world's largest potato before genetic testing confirmed that it was actually a
tuber of a gourd?
7 May 2022
00:00, 7 May 2022 (UTC)
Trachelomonas cervicula
... that the
algal species Trachelomonas cervicula(pictured) has been observed in environments highly polluted with cadmium, lead, and zinc?
... that William Williams was a newspaper publisher who volunteered for service during the
War of 1812 and advanced to the rank of colonel?
... that Johannes zu Eltz, who decided to become a
Catholic priest after earning his doctorate in law, has advocated blessings of same-sex marriages by the Catholic Church?
... that the Jefferson Scholarship gives scholars more than $293,000 to attend the University of Virginia?
... that Carrie Jenkins Harris, the North American writer who died in 1903, should not be confused with Carrie Jenkins Harris, the North American writer and editor who died in 1903?
... that a reviewer noted that when Leo Hussain conducted Weinberg's Die Passagierin at the
Oper Frankfurt, the orchestra excelled in chamber music moments, hard beats and distorted entertainment music?
... that the body of Hacı Lokman Birlik was dragged behind a Turkish police vehicle, justified by the
Ministry of the Interior by saying that the police assumed the body had a bomb attached to it?
... that Nick Schmaltz's older brother and younger sister would team up against him when they played basement hockey as children?
... that the former German chancellor
Bernhard von Bülow called
Wilhelm II's 1900 Hun speech the "worst speech of that time and perhaps the most disgraceful speech that Wilhelm II [had] ever given"?
... that if a disaster is avoided through planning and vigilance, people will paradoxically doubt that the preparation was necessary?
... that Klaus Wallrath composed a
mass for peace for the 2018
Katholikentag in
Münster, performed to an audience of more than 30,000 by a choir, an orchestra, and a dance company?
3 May 2022
00:00, 3 May 2022 (UTC)
Chinese Cultural Center before remodeling
... that Phoenix's Chinese Cultural Center(pictured) was remodeled into an ordinary office building despite the objections of preservationists and community groups?
... that a mobile production unit served as the first studios of
Washington state public TV station KTNW?
... that five years after Ihsan Gürz died while in Dutch police custody, his father was convicted of swearing at a police officer who had been present at his arrest?
... that the Richard Dawkins Award is awarded for publicly proclaiming "the values of secularism and rationalism, upholding scientific truth wherever it may lead"?
... that Jumbo Brown gained 68 pounds (31 kg) after he had his
tonsils removed?
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 the judging committee of the Manga Taishō, an annual
manga prize, is composed primarily of bookstore workers?
... that Indian women's hockey player Elvera Britto and her sisters would stitch their own team uniforms while playing in the 1960s?
... that XO, Kitty, based on the film series To All the Boys I've Loved Before, is planned to be the first Netflix series to be spun off from a Netflix original film?
... that Austrian doctor Paul Bargehr was decried for exposing healthy Indonesians to the leprosy bacillus in his experiments?
... that "Segne, Vater, diese Gaben", a
round for
saying grace of unknown authorship, has appeared in German collections for kindergarten, schools and events for young people?
... that shortly before
sports shooterWilliam Riedell was to compete in the
1936 Olympics, he had his pistols confiscated by the New York police because the precinct chief had decided there were "too many guns"?
... that when Nadja Stefanoff portrayed the title role of Giordano's Fedora at the
Oper Frankfurt, one reviewer complimented the brilliance and agility of her voice, assertive even when singing softly?
... that when a fire broke out next to studios of Oklahoma radio station KVSO, reporters had to rush in to report the blaze and then out to breathe fresh air?
... that the "favorable comparisons of
Lenin to Confucius, Buddha, and Allah" in
Dmitri Shostakovich's Loyalty were said to have "achieved new levels of ludicrous flattery"?
... that Sunday-school classes were once held in the transmitter building of New Mexico radio station KCLV?
... that Scottish inventor and music teacher Anne Gunn was granted the first British patent for a board game in 1801?
... that Concurrent Computer Corporation was consumed in a "minnow-swallows-the-whale" merger during the junk bonds era, but unusually, kept its name, CEO, and headquarters?
... that 'Til Kingdom Come, a documentary film about evangelical
Christian Zionism in the United States, was blocked from airing on PBS due to its editing of a speech by Donald Trump?
... that Nazi war criminal Kurt Weigelt could not be directly employed by
Deutsche Bank after World War II, so he reestablished
Lufthansa?
... that the Battle of San Buenaventura was described by the Los Angeles Times as a "quirky skirmish ... that emptied the mission of wine and left its adobe walls pockmarked by cannon fire"?
... that the poet Habibi was adopted by
Aq Qoyunlu ruler
Ya'qub Beg as a child after he was found shepherding?
... that the
canoe routes through Obabika River Provincial Park are part of
Temagami's 2,400-kilometre-long (1,500 mi) network of
portages and waterways, many of which are traditional indigenous routes?
... that Craig Braun's Grammy-nominated album packaging for School's Out had to be recalled for including underwear that constituted a fire hazard?
00:00, 23 May 2022 (UTC)
1850 electric train designed by Thomas Hall
... that Thomas Hall made an electric train (pictured) that received power from the rails on which it travelled instead of onboard batteries, a new technology at the time?
... that as a child, Mitsurou Kubo read forty
manga magazines per month?
... that Archbishop
Justin Welby said that the 800th anniversary of the anti-Jewish laws of the Synod of Oxford provided a time to "remember, repent and rebuild"?
... that the 1988 closure of WLEE, once one of the top radio stations in
Richmond, Virginia, also took WBBL, a church station in existence for nearly 65 years, off the air for good?
... that the Times Square Theater(pictured), proposed for redevelopment since 1990, remained empty three decades later?
... that when asked by the king to choose the weapon by which he would be executed, the outlaw Nga Tet Pya replied "I choose your most beautiful queen
Saw Omma"?
... that Binggrae, a South Korean food and beverage company, was the official ice cream supplier of the
1988 Seoul Olympics?
... that Frankie Saluto was a member of the Ringling Giants, a dwarf baseball team that raised money for charity?
... that one music critic said that despite being "noisy, banal, fundamentally insincere",
Dmitri Shostakovich's symphonic poem October was nonetheless "enjoyable trash"?
... that
Centre College president William C. Young awarded degrees to three of his half-sisters in 1891, as they had completed the requirements forty years earlier?
... that after four years in the making, the Minimal BASIC standard was described as "more a toy than an actual language"?
... that the captain of CSS Pontchartrain was twice detached from the ship to fight in land battles?
... that Indian gynaecologist and reproductive medicine pioneer Baidyanath Chakrabarty, who performed over 4,000 IVF procedures, was a cricket fan who thought
Virat Kohli and
Ashwin were "such good boys"?
... that Yuki Fumino's relationships with hearing-impaired friends and acquaintances inspired her to create I Hear the Sunspot?
... that at the age of 26, Lucy Moss became the youngest female director of a Broadway musical before directing a TikTok musical that raised $2 million?
... that Aroha Bridge changed its name from Hook Ups because fans searching for the show often found pornography instead?
20 May 2022
12:00, 20 May 2022 (UTC)
Joseph Lancaster Budd
... that American horticulturalist Joseph Lancaster Budd(pictured) traveled to England, France, Austria, Russia, and China in 1882 to discover fruit trees that could grow in
Iowa?
... that the New Zealand government has officially apologised for articles published in the New Zealand School Journal about the
Moriori people in the early 20th century?
... that the 48-story Uris Building went into foreclosure just two and a half years after it was completed?
... that media promotions for the film Blood Friends were not allowed to mention that cast member Nina Makino is part of the girl group
NiziU?
... that the parents of Bob Glenalvin insisted that he play baseball under an assumed name?
... that the Turkish multirotor
combat droneSongar was recently equipped with six 40 mm (1.6 in) mini missiles?
... that US radio regulators sought to shut down Ohio station WEBE, which was said to operate from the owner's bedroom using "parts of a questionable nature"?
00:00, 20 May 2022 (UTC)
El Paso Star illuminated at sunset
... that El Paso's Star on the Mountain(pictured) is lit up every night and visible from the air up to 100 miles (160 km) away?
... that in 1957, Burhanuddin Harahap's family members travelled from Sumatra to Jakarta, believing that he had died?
... that Al-Wishah fi Fawa'id al-Nikah, a 15th-century Islamic sex manual by Egyptian writer
Al-Suyuti, was based on both traditional hadith literature and material influenced by Indian erotology?
... that
A. N. Wilson justified fictionalising the life of
George Forster for his novel Resolution by saying that Forster "inhabit[ed] a borderline between fact and fiction"?
... that after Norwegian YouTuber Apetor's death in 2021, Czech fans lit candles in his memory outside the Norwegian embassy in Prague?
... that the August 2021 Tennessee floods were caused by more than 20 inches (510 mm) of rain falling in a 24-hour period?
... that Eyvindur P. Eiríksson has addressed modern alienation and man's relationship with nature through pagan poetry and a book about a
fishing trawler?
... that decades after the
type specimen of the lichen Punctelia graminicola was destroyed in World War II, its original name was restored after another specimen was rescued from disposal at a dump?
... that
Ilya Repin changed the main character in his painting They Did Not Expect Him(pictured) from a woman because it looked too similar to another painting?
... that Helena Springs is credited as co-writer with
Bob Dylan on 19 songs, more than any of his other collaborators?
... that the music video for
Matt and Kim's New Glow song "Can You Blame Me" involves fans filming themselves with iPads near their heads playing headshots of the duo lip-syncing?
... that the historian and political journalist Lancelot Lawton addressed a
House of Commons committee in London in 1935, beginning: "The chief problem in Europe to-day is the Ukrainian problem"?
... that Love, a sculpture by Ukrainian artist
Alexander Milov, represents two wire-frame adults who appear to be alienated, but inside their bodies two children reach out to each other?
... that Jane C. Beck traveled to Virginia, West Africa, and England to research the family history of
Daisy Turner for her 2015 book Daisy Turner's Kin: An African American Family Saga?
... that The Land We Love, a little magazine that merged into Southern Magazine(cover pictured), printed
American Civil War recollections, poetry, agricultural material, and many works by female authors?
... that Serhiy Kot was the editor of Ukrainian Question, a collection of articles on the status of Ukraine in the 1930s?
... that Romy Golan's 2021 book Flashback, Eclipse is an exploration of Italian art of the 1960s that moved away from the art created under
Italian fascism?
... that in 1999, donors to the American Airlines Theatre could pay US$75,000 for their name on a bathroom?
15 May 2022
00:00, 15 May 2022 (UTC)
Lord William Beauchamp Nevill
... that former convict Lord William Beauchamp Nevill(pictured) wrote Penal Servitude, a book about his prison experiences?
... that even though plans to convert the studio building of station KITN in
Olympia, Washington, into a courthouse were soon changed, county taxpayers still paid its moving expenses?
... that Ignacy Korwin-Milewski amassed a collection of more than 200 paintings by Polish artists, one of the largest private collections of contemporary Polish art at the time?
... that as a young girl, Countess Ladislaja Harnoncourt was thought to be uneducatable and was nicknamed the "wild Laja"?
... that during a promotional tour of
Matt & Kim's third album Sidewalks, it was played on the public speaker system of the venue before each show began but none of its tracks were on the setlist?
... that Brian Fawcett, who would have turned 78 today, taught English to inmates before becoming a full-time writer?
... that Iowa radio station KTFC was partially powered by a wind turbine that the owner had bought from an Arizona wind farm?
... that 19th-century Polish ethnographer Zorian Dołęga-Chodakowski travelled the countryside as a "
wild man" and later appeared as a literary character?
... that the "pathbreaking" book Paradigm Lost recommends abandoning the
two-state solution in favor of equal rights for all inhabitants of Israel and Palestine?
... that Vanita Jagdeo Borade has been called the "Snake Woman" for having rescued more than 50,000 snakes?
... that Francis Orray Ticknor was a country doctor whose fame as a poet relies on "Little Giffen", a poem about one of his patients who died in the
American Civil War?
... that disability-rights activist Edith Prentiss objected to the title of a documentary about her, Edith Prentiss: Hell on Wheels, for being too mild?
... that "Es tönen die Lieder", a German
round about greeting spring with songs, first appeared in 1869 in a collection of works by
Adolf Spieß, who developed a series of school-gymnastics steps to it?
... that Free Comic Book Day was inspired by Free Scoop Night at an ice cream parlor?
... that although it spent only one week on the Hot Rock & Alternative Songs chart, "Visitor" was the fifth Adult Alternative Airplay number-one for
Of Monsters and Men?
... that Doug was nominated to Guinness World Records as the world's largest potato before genetic testing confirmed that it was actually a
tuber of a gourd?
7 May 2022
00:00, 7 May 2022 (UTC)
Trachelomonas cervicula
... that the
algal species Trachelomonas cervicula(pictured) has been observed in environments highly polluted with cadmium, lead, and zinc?
... that William Williams was a newspaper publisher who volunteered for service during the
War of 1812 and advanced to the rank of colonel?
... that Johannes zu Eltz, who decided to become a
Catholic priest after earning his doctorate in law, has advocated blessings of same-sex marriages by the Catholic Church?
... that the Jefferson Scholarship gives scholars more than $293,000 to attend the University of Virginia?
... that Carrie Jenkins Harris, the North American writer who died in 1903, should not be confused with Carrie Jenkins Harris, the North American writer and editor who died in 1903?
... that a reviewer noted that when Leo Hussain conducted Weinberg's Die Passagierin at the
Oper Frankfurt, the orchestra excelled in chamber music moments, hard beats and distorted entertainment music?
... that the body of Hacı Lokman Birlik was dragged behind a Turkish police vehicle, justified by the
Ministry of the Interior by saying that the police assumed the body had a bomb attached to it?
... that Nick Schmaltz's older brother and younger sister would team up against him when they played basement hockey as children?
... that the former German chancellor
Bernhard von Bülow called
Wilhelm II's 1900 Hun speech the "worst speech of that time and perhaps the most disgraceful speech that Wilhelm II [had] ever given"?
... that if a disaster is avoided through planning and vigilance, people will paradoxically doubt that the preparation was necessary?
... that Klaus Wallrath composed a
mass for peace for the 2018
Katholikentag in
Münster, performed to an audience of more than 30,000 by a choir, an orchestra, and a dance company?
3 May 2022
00:00, 3 May 2022 (UTC)
Chinese Cultural Center before remodeling
... that Phoenix's Chinese Cultural Center(pictured) was remodeled into an ordinary office building despite the objections of preservationists and community groups?
... that a mobile production unit served as the first studios of
Washington state public TV station KTNW?
... that five years after Ihsan Gürz died while in Dutch police custody, his father was convicted of swearing at a police officer who had been present at his arrest?
... that the Richard Dawkins Award is awarded for publicly proclaiming "the values of secularism and rationalism, upholding scientific truth wherever it may lead"?
... that Jumbo Brown gained 68 pounds (31 kg) after he had his
tonsils removed?