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*... that while the first '''[[Slavonic translations of the Bible]]''' were prepared by [[Saints Cyril and Methodius]] in the [[9th century]], the earliest [[Polish language|Polish]] translations did not appear until half a millenium later? --article adapted from Schaff-Herzog by [[User:Kmorozov]], nom by [[User:Ghirlandajo|Ghirla]] <sup>[[User_talk:Ghirlandajo|-трёп-]]</sup> 09:24, 28 March 2006 (UTC) |
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*... that the minerals found in the water of [[Soap Lake]], [[Washington]] can cure [[Buerger's disease]]? [note that page existed as a redirect to the town of [[Soap Lake, Washington]] for 1.5 yrs before I made an article about the lake]. Self-nom by <span style="font-family:Verdana;">'''[[User:Howcheng|<span style="color: #33C;">howch</span>]][[WP:EA|<span style="color:#0F0">''e''</span>]][[User:Howcheng|<span style="color:#33C">ng</span>]]''' <small>{[[User talk:Howcheng|chat]]}</small></span> 07:16, 28 March 2006 (UTC) |
*... that the minerals found in the water of [[Soap Lake]], [[Washington]] can cure [[Buerger's disease]]? [note that page existed as a redirect to the town of [[Soap Lake, Washington]] for 1.5 yrs before I made an article about the lake]. Self-nom by <span style="font-family:Verdana;">'''[[User:Howcheng|<span style="color: #33C;">howch</span>]][[WP:EA|<span style="color:#0F0">''e''</span>]][[User:Howcheng|<span style="color:#33C">ng</span>]]''' <small>{[[User talk:Howcheng|chat]]}</small></span> 07:16, 28 March 2006 (UTC) |
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*... that '''[[Jan Andrzej Morsztyn]]''', now recognized as one of the leading poets of [[Polish baroque]], considered his career as a [[courtier]] much more important then that of a poet? self-nom by --[[User:Piotrus|Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus]] <sup><font color="green">[[User_talk:Piotrus|Talk]]</font></sup> 05:50, 28 March 2006 (UTC) |
*... that '''[[Jan Andrzej Morsztyn]]''', now recognized as one of the leading poets of [[Polish baroque]], considered his career as a [[courtier]] much more important then that of a poet? self-nom by --[[User:Piotrus|Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus]] <sup><font color="green">[[User_talk:Piotrus|Talk]]</font></sup> 05:50, 28 March 2006 (UTC) |
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===March 27===
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- ... that while the first Slavonic translations of the Bible were prepared by Saints Cyril and Methodius in the 9th century, the earliest Polish translations did not appear until half a millenium later? --article adapted from Schaff-Herzog by User:Kmorozov, nom by Ghirla -трёп- 09:24, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
- ... that the minerals found in the water of Soap Lake, Washington can cure Buerger's disease? [note that page existed as a redirect to the town of Soap Lake, Washington for 1.5 yrs before I made an article about the lake]. Self-nom by howcheng {chat} 07:16, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
- ... that Jan Andrzej Morsztyn, now recognized as one of the leading poets of Polish baroque, considered his career as a courtier much more important then that of a poet? self-nom by --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 05:50, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
- ... that Cicisbei were legal and generally respected companions and often lovers of married women in eighteenth-century Italy? — (self-nomination - I fleshed out an old, basic stub of mine in to a small article)
File:Luigi Ponelato Cicisbeo.jpg - Mstroeck 23:11, 27 March 2006 (UTC) - ... that during the 2006 NCAA basketball tournament game that put George Mason University in the tournament's Final Four, Patriots head coach Jim Larranaga motivated his players by telling them that the opposing players from the University of Connecticut didn't know what conference the Patriots were in? — Dale Arnett 15:20, 27 March 2006 (UTC) (effectively a self-nom; I took a one-line blurb that was even worse than a stub and turned it into a real article)
- ... that future President of the United States Herbert Hoover was married at the Royal Presidio Chapel in Monterey, California?
(self-nomination) Gentgeen 08:33, 27 March 2006 (UTC) - ... that Perry Greeley Holden was the first professor of agronomy in the United States? (img: Image:Perry Greeley Holden.jpg) self-nom. Lupo 13:18, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
- ... that Rusumo Falls was a significant site during the 1994 Rwandan genocide as thousands of dead bodies flowed underneath the bridge while a simultaneous stream of refugees crossed over it, fleeing into Tanzania to escape the fighting? (self-nomination) — SteveRwanda 13:42, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
- ...that Adwaita, the reportedly 255 years old Aldabra Giant Tortoise that recently died in Kolkata zoo, was a pet of Robert Clive, the Commander-in-Chief, India of British East India Company?--Dwaipayanc 14:28, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
March 26
- ...that the Golden Charter of Bern — the bull that made Berne, Switzerland, an Imperial Free City in 1218 — is now considered to have been forged decades later by the Bernese themselves to confirm the rights they had seized?
- Self-nom. Sandstein 21:39, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
- ...that Amantaní, an island on Lake Titicaca, is also known as the "Island of the Kantuta", the national flower of Peru and Bolivia? (self-nomination) bcasterline t 21:20, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
- ... that the recent Capitol Hill massacre was the worst mass-killing in Seattle since the 1983 Wah Mee Massacre. SchmuckyTheCat 03:05, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
- Would it be more appropriate for WP:ITN? --Gurubrahma 08:00, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
- It was on ITN, but there wasn't an article for the event. We're now at three days out, it's no longer big news - and, we now have a fairly comprehensive article. SchmuckyTheCat 08:05, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
March 25
- ...that Garry Davis founded the World Service Authority, which issues World Passports that have been accepted, according to the WSA, by as many as 150 countries?
- Short. --Gurubrahma 18:08, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
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- ...that Repnin Sejm of 1767-68 in Poland was so named after the Russian Empire ambassador Nicholas Repnin, who coerced the Sejm (Polish parliament) into accepting his demands? self nom by --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 00:05, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
- Yes please, and btw, let us not have too many long-winded arguments about pros and cons of the blurb in its current form. --Gurubrahma 07:26, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
- I don't see what's wrong with this, the article has an academic reference for each of the facts (and specific terms!) used here. But in the spirit of cooperation and keeping the entries as short as possible, I replaced the 'intimidated and bribed' with 'coerced'. Better?--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 18:45, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
- ...that the Eurasian Oystercatcher is the national bird of the Faroe Islands, and its yearly arrival on March 12th is celebrated as being the first day of spring by the locals. --{{User:Wonderfool/sig}} 16:10, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
- On the shorter side. --Gurubrahma 07:26, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
- ...that Nordic Blading is a form of exercising which uses special poles to train the muscles of the upper body? (self nom) Leidiot 08:20, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
- Under 1000 words; originally a copyvio. NSLE (T+C) at 08:28 UTC (2006-03-25)
- Since the first version of the article is a copyvio, the article needs to be deleted per WP:CP. --Gurubrahma 07:26, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
- ...that the stoplight loosejaw fish gets its name from the red and green photophores on its face? DS 17:52, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
- Short. --Gurubrahma 18:08, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
- ...that the 2005 documentary Fuck, dedicated to gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson, uses the title word 629 times in 93 minutes, for an average of 6.76 uses per minute? Self-nom Cigarette 20:02, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
- Somewhat stubby, and this article is sure to bring strong comments if it were to appear on the main page. While Wikipedia is not censored, it also should not intentionally try to offend. --Allen3 talk 23:19, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
- Well, I've expanded it a little, given it an infobox, finished the Interviewees section, added a bit more information. For not having had anyone else work on it, I think it's pretty f*ing good. ;) Cigarette 02:28, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
- While I have no problem in putting it on DYK, I feel that it still needs to be expanded - for example, plot details or the synopsis would be a welcome addition. Critiques of the movie and on the usage of the word in the context of the movie would add value to the article. I expect the article to be vandalised with the current form of the blurb and suggest that the title be mentioned as F*, the alternative title of the documentary. Also, the caveat that "other admins may deem it to be offensive and hence remove it" would apply. --Gurubrahma 07:26, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
- Well, I've expanded it a little, given it an infobox, finished the Interviewees section, added a bit more information. For not having had anyone else work on it, I think it's pretty f*ing good. ;) Cigarette 02:28, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
March 24
- ...that Sea Lion Caves near Florence, Oregon is home only year-round colony of Steller's Sea Lions in North America? PDXblazers 07:07, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
- too stubby. --Gurubrahma 19:17, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
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- ...that over 5,000 Rosenwald Schools in the United States were built primarily for the education of African Americans with funds donated by Julius Rosenwald, who was part-owner of Sears, Roebuck and Company?
- ...that the spangenhelm was the most popular war helmet in Europe and the Middle East during the early Middle Ages? (right|Spangenhelm)
- ...that January 26th, which in 1950 became the Republic Day of India, was also the day of the promulgation of Purna Swaraj Declaration in 1930?
- ...that the Soviet ideologue and foreign minister Dmitri Shepilov denounced jazz and rock music as "wild cave-men orgies" and the "explosion of basic instincts and sexual urges"?
- ...that the name Japanese War Tuba was a name applied to the acoustic locators used by Japan during World War II?
- ...that Richard Ingoldesby, Governor of New Jersey, caused the defeat of a bill to raise 200 men for an invasion of Canada in order to remove the Quakers from all public offices in New Jersey?
- ...that rumour had it that Hugh Owen Thomas, pioneer of British orthopaedic surgery, would attack people and break their bones in order to reset them? (right|Hugh Owen Thomas)
- ...that the race movie, a genre of films produced for black audiences and featuring black casts, was very popular among African Americans in the United States between 1915 and 1945?
- ...that the aluminum smelting plant in Tursunzade is the largest aluminum manufacturing plant in Central Asia?
- ...that the oldest written constitution of a Greek city was discovered in an inscription at Dreros in Crete?
- ...that the Council of Nablus, held in the crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem in 1120, established punishments for adultery, bigamy, homosexuality, and sexual relations with Muslims?
- ...that the Allies broke through the largest German entrenched position in World War One at the Battle of the Hindenburg Line? (right|Battle of the Hindenburg Line, 1918)
- ...that the compound 4-ethylphenol, produced by the spoilage yeast Brettanomyces, can make wine smell like band-aids?
- ...that jazz singer Ilse Huizinga is known in the Netherlands as the First Lady of Jazz?
- ...that the Pickens County Courthouse in Carrollton, Alabama is famous for the ghostly image of a murdered man's face that can be seen in one of its windows?
- ...that the Afghan Church in Mumbai was built to commemorate the dead of the First Afghan War of 1838?
- ...that the Ancient Greeks credited Broteas, the ugly son of Tantalus, with an ancient rock-cut cliff-face carving of the Great Mother of the Gods in modern Turkey?
- ...that the Great Atlanta fire of 1917 destroyed 300 acres and nearly 2,000 buildings and was put out with help from fire engines as far away as Knoxville, Tennessee? (The extent of Atlanta Fire, 1917)
- ...that Jerry Reuss was one of a few players in Major League Baseball history to play in four different decades?
- ...that Super typhoon Nancy is one of the eight typhoons to receive a special name from the Japan Meteorological Agency?
- ...that the recently discovered deep-sea decapod Kiwa hirsuta was dubbed the yeti crab by its discoverers on account of its hairy appearance?
- ...that Matvei Muranov was one of the few Old Bolsheviks to survive the Great Purge?
- ...that although the Park Theatre was considered the highest-class playhouse in New York, Edgar Allan Poe criticized it for being infested by rats? (right|Park Theatre, Manhattan)
- ...that Stephanie von Hohenlohe, a Jew, was a close friend of Hitler and according to a MI6 report, perhaps the only woman who could exercise influence on him?
- ...that the docu-drama The Road to Guantanamo, depicting the incarceration of three British detainees at Guantanamo Bay, is the first film to be released simultaneously in theatres, on DVD and on the Internet?
- ...that the early contact lens pioneer August Müller demonstrated his technique for grinding scleral lenses by correcting his own severe myopia?
- ...that Ramy Brooks, a competitor in the 1,049 mi 2006 Iditarod dog sled race across Alaska, is one of the few Native Alaskans competing in the event?
- ...that a steam-powered locomotive built specifically by the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad in 1893 for its Empire State Express passenger train was the first manmade object on wheels to exceed 100 miles-per-hour? (right|Empire State Express 1905)
- ...that at its first years Kiev Zoo had to move its animals into the food storage of the main Kiev railway station for the winter?
- ...that an agent of the Malaysian Special Branch so successfully infiltrated the Malayan Communist Party that he was in turn ordered by them to infiltrate the Special Branch?
- ...that Tom Cousineau was drafted first overall in the 1979 NFL Draft by the Buffalo Bills, but never played a game with them?
- ...that Bonnybridge, forming part of the "Falkirk Triangle" in Scotland, is considered by many UFO enthusiasts to be world's number one UFO hotspot, with around 300 sightings every year?
- ...that in local gigantism, parts of a limb can take gigantic shapes, without affecting other parts of the body? (right|Local gigantism)
- ...that Bhulabhai Desai negotiated a secret power-sharing deal with Liaquat Ali Khan in 1945 that would have prevented the partition of India and the creation of Pakistan?
- ...that the Renaissance composer Cornelis Verdonck wrote the only known motet written to be performed on the back of an elephant?
- ...that while the female and male sexual organs of Congdon silktassel are on separate plants, it is the pendant male catkins that are more showy?
- ...that an Indo-Corinthian capital is a Buddhist adaption of the Greek Corinthian capital, often incorporating images of the Buddha?
- ...that the Lübeck Cathedral collapsed during an Allied bomb raid in 1942 but was subsequently restored? (right|Lübeck Cathedral)
- ...that the German hip-hop crew Fünf Sterne Deluxe made their 1999 comeback with the single "Ja Ja..., deine Mudder", a German take on the dozens?
- ...that Stony Clove Notch, a pass in the Catskill Mountains, was once so narrow that it could only be traversed by people walking in single file?
- ...the Siege of Compiègne was Joan of Arc's final military action?
- ...that botanist Tomitaro Makino, despite dropping out of grammar school, named over 2500 plants and is known as the "Father of Japanese Botany"?
- ...that the Cossack Hetman and the later Muscovite voyevoda Petro Doroshenko signed a treaty with Sultan Mehmed IV recognizing the Cossack Hetmanate as a vassal of the Ottoman Empire? (right|Petro Doroshenko)
- ...that until 1988, a woman could apply for and receive an Australian Passport in her future married name, before she was actually married?
- ...that the Italian scholar Girolamo Maggi wrote and illustrated two detailed treatises, from memory, while chained in a dungeon in Istanbul?
- ...that a fall of red rain in Kerala in 2001 might have contained microbes of extraterrestrial origin?
- ...that the Mexican actress Leticia Palma's dispute with Jorge Negrete led to the end of a career described as "one of the most interesting presences" of the cinema of Mexico?
- ...that Klarälven, Sweden's longest river, was the last Swedish river where log driving was practiced, ending in 1991? (right|Map of Klarälven delta)
- ...that Hieronymus Bosch paintings helped inspire the Surrealist movement?
- ...that Blanton C. Winship, a veteran of Spanish-American War and World War I survived an assassination attempt while he was Governor of Puerto Rico in 1938?
- ...that Tran Duc Thao, a Vietnamese philosopher, attempted to reconcile Marxist philosophy's dialectical materialism with Husserlian phenomenology?
- ...that gastric lymphoma is the most common lymphoma affecting the gastrointestinal tract?
- ...that Peter Joseph Lenné's gardening academy in Potsdam was the first school to formally teach garden architecture? (right|Peter Joseph Lenné)
- ...that Mustelus hacat is a species of smooth-hound shark discovered in 2003 in the Sea of Cortez, off the coast of Mexico?
- ...that the Episcopal Diocese of Dallas was formed in December 20, 1895, when the Missionary District of Northern Texas was granted diocesan status and that it now includes more than seventy parishes and schools in the diocese?
- ...that in Islam, Tahrif is the charge that Jewish and Christian holy books have been subject to change, alteration or forgery?
- ...that Anna of Kashin, a Russian medieval princess, was twice canonized as a holy protectress of women who suffer the loss of relatives? (right|Anna of Kashin)
- ...that Clarence L. "Biggie" Munn was Michigan State University's most successful football coach with a winning percentage of 85.7 over seven years, including a 28-game winning streak from October 14, 1950 through October 17, 1953?
- ...that the English Canal was a partially completed canal project started in 1864 that would connect the iron ore fields in northern Sweden with the Gulf of Bothnia?
- ...that The Exile, the first African American talking film, was a semi-autobiographical film about a Black rancher in South Dakota, with elements of interracial romance and some nightclub scenes set in Chicago?
- ...that Catherine the Great wrote several comedies and an opera libretto for the productions of the Hermitage Theatre in Saint Petersburg? (right|Hermitage Theatre)
- ...that Jatin Das, an Indian freedom fighter, died after sixty three days of hunger strike demanding rights for prisoners and undertrials in Lahore jail in 1929?
- ...that The Observatory, a Singaporean space rock band released their first album packaged as a diary, complete with torn pages and paperclipped photos?
- ...that NKVD official Yakov Blumkin organised and personally took part in an expedition to find the Shambhala, a mystical kingdom hidden in the Himalayas?
- ...that the Sanssouci Picture Gallery is the oldest extant museum built for a German ruler?
- ...that the Iberian Ribbed Newt's ability to keep live sperm in its cloaca for up to 5 months was a reason it was chosen to be flown into space? (Image:Pleurodeles waltl BUD.jpg)
- ...that Public Square in Cleveland, Ohio became lit with electric street lights as early as 1879 ?
- ...that Rough Castle Fort is the best preserved Roman fort along the Antonine Wall?
- ...that the S500 was the first production car from Honda?
- ...that the endangered species California Clapper Rail, a chicken-sized bird that rarely flies, has chicks that can swim when they are just two hours old? (Image:Raildumbartrazorback.jpg)
- ...that the 1934 jazz standard "Stars Fell on Alabama" was inspired by the Leonid meteor shower that was observed in Alabama a century earlier, in 1833?
- ...that S. R. Rao led the excavations of Dwaraka — the mythical city of Krishna submerged in the Arabian Sea?
- ...that Preparing for Emergencies was a British Home Office programme to increase public safety after several major disasters, including the Madrid bombings, SARS outbreak and UK foot and mouth crisis?
- ...that Italo Santelli is widely considered to be the "father of modern sabre fencing"? (right|Italo Santelli)
- ...that in 1998, a study proposed to relocate Jordanhill railway station, a station currently located near the Jordanhill Campus of the University of Strathclyde and the Jordanhill School that opened in 1887?