These are the Did you know (DYK) WikiProject credits I have received for:
- creating or expanding articles;
- nominating articles created or expanded by other users.
The highlighted rows indicate those articles that received over 5,000 page views while in DYK on the Main Page.[1]
Created/expanded
Picture acceptance/nomination ratio = 2/15 (13%).
No. | Did you know ... | Date | Views | Comments |
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1. | ... that German record producer and journalist Uwe Nettelbeck changed the face of German rock music in the early 1970s? | 2008.01.23 | 2,200 | |
2. | ... that The Portage to San Cristobal of A.H. is a controversial 1981 novella by George Steiner in which Hitler is found alive in the Amazon jungle and claims to be the Jews' benefactor? | 2008.03.09 | 3,400 | Promoted to GA & FA |
3. | ... that the San Francisco-based electro-acoustic improvisation music ensemble Maybe Monday features a traditional Japanese musical instrument, the koto? | 2008.03.25 | 423 | |
4. | ... that George Steiner's 1975 book on language and translation, After Babel, was the first comprehensive study of the subject? | 2008.04.21 | 2,100 | |
5. | ... that The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five, a science fiction novel by Doris Lessing, was adapted for the opera in 1997 by Philip Glass? | 2008.08.17 | 3,200 | Promoted to GA |
6. | ... that Charlie Nothing created the dingulator? | 2008.09.15 | 5,800 | |
7,8. | ... that Robert Falcon Scott's ill-fated 1910–13 Antarctic expedition was the inspiration for two of Doris Lessing's novels, The Sirian Experiments and The Making of the Representative for Planet 8? | 2008.10.21 | n/a n/a |
Double DYK |
9. | ... that in Doris Lessing's 1983 novel, The Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire, language becomes so distorted that some of the characters succumb to a condition called "undulant rhetoric"? | 2008.12.26 | 1,300 | |
10,11. | ... that K-Space's third album, Infinity, was a new type of CD that is different every time it is played? | 2009.02.06 | 950 + 3,700 = 4,650 |
Double DYK |
12. | ... that the lyrics on the album Kew. Rhone. are filled with anagrams, palindromes, and other verbal puzzles? | 2009.04.13 | 4,400 | |
13. | ... that Belgian avant-garde singer Catherine Jauniaux has been described as a "one-woman orchestra" and a "human sampler"? | 2009.04.24 | 2,700 | |
14. | ... that The Orckestra's debut performance was at the Moving Left Revue, a Communist Party benefit concert in London in 1977? | 2009.05.19 | 1,100 | |
15. | ... that The Last Nightingale was an album recorded to raise money for striking coal miners in the 1984–1985 UK miners' strike? | 2009.05.23 | 524 | |
16. | ... that the Feminist Improvising Group challenged the male-dominated musical improvisation scene in the late 1970s? | 2009.06.23 | 914 | Promoted to GA |
17. | ... that Centipede were an English jazz/progressive rock band with more than 50 members? | 2009.06.29 | 2,900 | |
18. | ... that the "anti-energy" drink Slow Cow is a parody of Red Bull? | 2009.08.09 | 7,400 | |
19. | ... that the Canadian documentary film Act of God investigates the metaphysical effects of being struck by lightning? | 2009.08.28 | 4,300 | |
20,21. | ... that the songs on Ferdinand Richard's solo album En Avant are sung in eight different languages? | 2009.09.08 | 352 + 392 = 744 |
Double DYK |
22. | ... that the American progressive rock/avant-jazz group The Muffins were influenced by the English Canterbury scene? | 2009.10.05 | 652 | |
23,24. | ... that P53, a live album by experimental music group P53, features two classical grand pianists, a turntablist and a real-time sampler/processor? | 2009.10.22 | 733 + 762 = 1,495 |
Double DYK |
25. | ... that Kobaïan is a lyrical language created by French drummer and composer Christian Vander for his progressive rock band Magma? | 2009.10.26 | 1,700 | |
26,27. | ... that What Leave Behind is a concerto for electric guitar and toy orchestra performed by Toychestra and Fred Frith? | 2009.11.08 | 651 + 877 = 1,528 |
Double DYK |
28. |
... that in The Last Theorem, science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke (pictured) moved the equator north to Sri Lanka to allow for the building of a space elevator there? |
2010.01.13 | 7,500 | Promoted to GA |
29. | ... that drummer Dave Clark was a stuntman who performed in over 40 films before he formed the 1960s British Invasion band The Dave Clark Five? | 2010.01.15 | 1,900 | |
30. | ... that Andy White replaced Ringo Starr on drums on The Beatles's first single, "Love Me Do"? | 2010.01.23 | n/a | |
31. | ... that Richard Coughlan has been called "one of art rock's longest tenured musicians"? | 2010.02.17 | 1,100 | |
32. | ... that an essay in The Cherryh Odyssey describes American science fiction author C. J. Cherryh as "a master of detail, tone, and emotional wallop"? | 2010.03.09 | 1,100 | |
33. |
... that The Mars Project, written by Wernher von Braun in 1948, has been regarded as "the most influential book" on manned missions to Mars (artist's conception pictured)? |
2010.03.10 | 9,500 | |
34. | ... that writer John Irving and the main character in his novel Last Night in Twisted River were "Kennedy fathers"? | 2010.04.28 | 2,100 | Promoted to GA |
35. | ... that Animal's drumming on The Muppet Show was performed by English drummer Ronnie Verrell? | 2010.05.02 | 2,400 | |
36. | ... that English drummer Chris Townson replaced The Who's Keith Moon on a 1967 UK tour? | 2010.05.04 | 2,800 | |
37. | ... that a reviewer described each successive solo album by Bob Drake as "a more twisted aural journey than the previous one"? | 2010.05.17 | 1,200 | |
38. | ... that singer-songwriter Azalia Snail was dubbed the "Queen of lo-fi"? | 2010.05.18 | 1,700 | |
39. | ... that Johnny Noble was the first Hawaiian composer to be inducted into the ASCAP? | 2010.05.25 | 1,200 | |
40. | ... that Dorsey Dixon's song "Babies in the Mill" is about the Southern United States textile industry's exploitation of child labor in the early 20th century? | 2010.06.12 | 207[2] | |
41,42. | ... that The New Christy Minstrels' 1962 debut album won a Grammy Award and sat in the Billboard charts for two years? | 2010.08.03 | 4,038 + 1,554 = 5,592 |
Double DYK |
43. | ... that The Back Porch Majority was chosen by Life magazine to provide entertainment at the White House in 1965? | 2010.08.09 | 2,100 | |
44. | ... that American feminist author and journalist Inez Haynes Irwin estimated that between 500,000 and 750,000 women were killed in World War I? | 2010.09.10 | 1,300 | |
45. | ... that Nadine Gordimer says her novel Burger's Daughter was "a coded homage" to Bram Fischer, Nelson Mandela's treason trial defence lawyer? | 2010.09.23 | 1,600 | Promoted to GA & FA |
46. | ... that Inez Haynes Gillmore's 1914 science fiction novel Angel Island has been called a "classic of early feminist literature"? | 2010.10.09 | 936 | |
47. | ... that arranger and conductor Peter Matz won a Grammy and an Emmy Award for his work with Barbra Streisand? | 2010.10.24 | 856 | |
48. | ... that American guitarist Frankie Lee Sims is regarded as "one of the great names in post-war Texas country blues"? | 2010.10.27 | 1,100 | |
49. | ... that B.B. King and Eric Clapton won a Grammy Award in 2000 for their collaborative album Riding with the King? | 2010.11.07 | 1,300 | |
50,51. | ... that the 1974 folk rock album The Children of Lir by Loudest Whisper is one of the most sought after records in Ireland? | 2010.11.20 | 764 + 1,100 = 1,864 |
Double DYK |
52. | ... that Guy Touvron has been called "one of the leading pedagogues of trumpet technique and interpretation France has ever produced"? | 2010.12.19 | 948 | |
53. | ... that Australian writer Kaaron Warren won two national awards for her debut novel, Slights, a horror story about near death experiences? | 2011.01.02 | 700 | |
54. | ... that composers Itaal Shur and Rob Thomas won the 1999 Grammy Award for Song of the Year for Santana's hit song "Smooth"? | 2011.01.21 | 1,080 | |
55,56. | ... that André Duchesne's group, Les 4 Guitaristes de l'Apocalypso-Bar (The 4 Guitarists of the Apocalypso Bar) was billed as a band from post-apocalypse Canada "inspired by the ghost of Jimi Hendrix"? | 2011.01.26 | 841 + 1,536 = 2,377 |
Double DYK |
57,58. | ... that Casper the Commuting Cat is a book about the true story of a cat who was a regular bus commuter in Plymouth, England? | 2011.02.03 | 5,100 + 2,900 = 8,000 |
Double DYK (Listed here 300,000 views over 30 days) |
59. | ... that Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman began the last of three lectures collected in The Meaning of It All by saying, "I have completely run out of organized ideas"? | 2011.02.18 | 1,900 | |
60. | ... that British Army lieutenant Hubert G. Chevis was murdered in 1931 with a plate of poisoned partridge? | 2011.03.01 | 4,800 | |
61. | ... that music writer Piero Scaruffi called the 1980s American experimental rock group the Orthotonics, "one of the most surreal and unpredictable combos of the era"? | 2011.04.24 | 993 | |
62. | ... that even though ...And the Native Hipsters's first single, "There Goes Concorde Again" was initially a 500-copy private release, it went on to reach number five on the UK Indie Charts? | 2011.04.26 | 926 | |
63. | ... that Orgasm is a fake live album John's Children recorded in the studio with overdubbed screams taken from The Beatles's Hard Day's Night soundtrack? | 2011.06.04 | 1,500 | |
64. | ... that A Glorious Way to Die is a book about the World War II kamikaze mission of the world's largest battleship, the Yamato, against the American Pacific Fleet? | 2011.06.20 | 5,800 | Promoted to GA |
65. | ... that Slim Dunlap has been called "one of the last old-school cool guitar players"? | 2011.06.25 | 1,500 | |
66. | ... that the world's fastest computer is the Japanese K? | 2011.06.27 | 7,600 | |
67. | ... that Greg Bear's 2008 science fiction novel City at the End of Time pays homage to William Hope Hodgson's 1912 novel, The Night Land? | 2011.08.31 | 3,200 | Promoted to GA |
68. | ... that science fiction author Lisa Tuttle is the only person to have refused a Nebula Award? | 2011.09.14 | 5,900 | |
69. | ... that Brian Eno described Kaddish, an album that reflects on the Holocaust, as "the most frightening record I have ever heard"? | 2012.01.02 | 5,800 | |
70. | ... that science fiction author Greg Egan was praised for taking Zendegi "into the street demos and sitting rooms of near-future Tehran"? | 2012.03.06 | 2,204 | |
71. | ... that Oh Moscow, by English musician Lindsay Cooper, is a song cycle that reflects on the Cold War? | 2012.03.21 | 1,010 | |
72. | ... that film director Peter Mettler said his documentary Gambling, Gods and LSD was not scripted, but "was making itself while I acted as a medium"? | 2012.05.21 | 2,549 | |
73. | ... that an obituary in The Independent called Lady June "a great British eccentric and cosmic prankster"? | 2012.05.29 | 5,060 | |
74. | ... that Canadian artist Jubal Brown deliberately vomited primary colors on paintings in the Museum of Modern Art and the Art Gallery of Ontario? | 2012.06.25 | 3,664 | |
75. | ... that Charles Singleton wrote the lyrics for "Strangers in the Night", a song Frank Sinatra initially called "a piece of shit"? | 2012.07.30 | 1,140 | |
76. | ... that in his memoir Who I Am, Pete Townshend of The Who says that Mick Jagger "is the only man I've ever seriously wanted to" have sex with? | 2013.01.16 | 3,255 | |
77. | ... that the documentary film Touch the Sound features profoundly deaf Scottish percussionist Evelyn Glennie, who has learnt to "hear with her body"? | 2013.05.12 | 729 | |
78. | ... that a critic said that the heroine of Doris Lessing's novel The Good Terrorist is neither a good person nor a good revolutionary? | 2015.03.28 | 1,195 | Promoted to GA & FA |
79. | ... that Horst Rosenthal's 1942 comic Mickey au Camp de Gurs is "perhaps the earliest sequential art narrative dealing with the Holocaust"? | 2019.06.10 | 9,553 | |
80. | ... that The Hidden People by Alison Littlewood is based on the 1895 incident in Ireland where Bridget Cleary was burnt alive by her husband, who believed she was a fairy changeling? | 2021.07.19 | 3,244 | |
81. | ... that US embassy staff in Moscow during the Cold War used Magic Slates to stop the KGB from intercepting their communications? | 2023.04.26 | 14,080 |
Nominated
Picture acceptance/nomination ratio = 15/23 (65%).
No. | Did you know ... | Date | Views | Comments |
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1. | ... that audiences of the 1658 theatrical presentation The Cruelty of the Spaniards in Peru were entertained by acrobats and trained apes between the scenes? | 2008.09.21 | 1,100 | |
2. |
... that A Victim of the Mormons (ad pictured) is a 1911 Danish silent film that initiated a decade of anti-Mormon films in the United States? |
2008.09.24 | 9,400 | |
3. | ... that whitewater kayaker Douglas C. Gordon died while attempting the first descent of the Tsangpo River in Tibet? | 2008.09.24 | 1,400 | |
4. | ... that rock band The Waxwings took their name from a poem in Vladimir Nabokov's novel Pale Fire? | 2008.09.24 | 1,100 | |
5. | ... that the 2002 Battle of Nablus continued for two hours after the Palestinian fighters announced their willingness to surrender? | 2008.10.03 | 1,900 | |
6. | ... that "The Nose" is a 1916 Japanese short story by Akutagawa Ryūnosuke about a Buddhist priest who is obsessed with his ungainly nose? | 2008.10.03 | 2,100 | |
7. | ... that after witnessing first hand the carnage of the First World War, English artist David Bomberg lost his faith in modernism and Russian Ballet was his last work in a vorticist idiom? | 2008.10.05 | 762 | |
8. | ... that the 2004 Cairns Tilt Train derailment was the result of excessive speed which may have been caused by the driver leaving his seat? | 2008.10.07 | 5,500 | |
9. | ... that the British late night satire show Up Sunday was described by one of the cast members as "aimed at dirty-minded insomniacs"? | 2008.10.13 | 1,800 | |
10. | ... that the Celts were animists who believed that all aspects of the natural world contained spirits? | 2008.10.15 | 2,100 | |
11. | ... that the jeep problem is a mathematical problem in which a jeep must maximise the distance it can travel into a desert with a given amount of fuel? | 2008.10.18 | 4,300 | |
12. | ... that discontinuous gas exchange is a respiratory system used by over 50 species of insect? | 2008.10.25 | 1,600 | |
13. | ... that The Best Little Girl in the World, a 1981 film about anorexia nervosa, was back in the news in 1983 when performer Karen Carpenter died of complications from the same disorder? | 2008.10.27 | 6,700 | |
14. | ... that key relevance is a locksmithing term that refers to the measurable difference between an original key and a copy made of that key? | 2008.10.30 | 2,800 | |
15. |
... that in Mesoamerican folklore, it is believed that a dog (mythical dog pictured) carries the newly deceased across a body of water into the afterlife? |
2008.10.31 | 3,800 | |
16. | ... that sightings of a ghostly figure in the Culbertson Mansion is one of Indiana's many ghost legends? | 2008.11.01 | 682 | |
17. |
... that Spectacle Reef Light (pictured), a lighthouse on Lake Huron, Michigan, has been described as "one of the greatest engineering feats on the Great Lakes"? |
2008.11.06 | 4,600 | |
18. |
... that the British War Office placed orders for the Norton 16H (pictured) longer than for any other single make of motorcycle? |
2008.11.08 | 3,100 | |
19. | ... that the Observer Group was the first joint-United States Army/Marine unit to be organized and trained specifically for amphibious reconnaissance? | 2008.11.08 | 649 | |
20. | ... that quartic reciprocity was first conjectured by Swiss mathematician Euler in 1748–1750, but not proved until 1836–37 by Prussian mathematician Jacobi? | 2008.11.12 | 3,400 | |
21. | ... that Jack Bruce's 1969 LP Songs for a Tailor was titled in tribute to the wardrobe designer for Bruce's former band, Cream? | 2008.11.13 | 686 | |
22. | ... that anthropologist Richard Price was one of the first to show that Maroons, previously considered largely "without history," possessed rich and deep historical consciousness? | 2008.11.16 | 311 | |
23. | ... that Father Goose: His Book, an 1899 collection of poetry for children and considered at the time a liberal portrayal of multi-cultural America, is now seen as stereotyped, racist and offensive? | 2008.11.23 | 3,400 | |
24. |
... that French explorer Robert de LaSalle (pictured) was murdered by a member of his own expedition while trying to locate the Mississippi River in 1687? |
2008.11.23 | 2,800 | |
25. | ... that Uskmouth Power Station has been described as one of the cleanest coal-fired power stations in the United Kingdom? | 2008.11.24 | 1,600 | |
26. | ... that Thomas Leavitt and his brother Martin patented the first practical device in the United States to machine postmark letters? | 2008.12.14 | 259 | |
27. | ... that the 1883 utopian novel The Diothas has been called "the second most important American nineteenth-century ideal society"? | 2008.12.19 | 2,700 | |
28. |
... that Tirggel (pictured), traditional Christmas cookies from Switzerland, are said to have originated as pagan offertory cakes, cut in the shape of sacrificial animals? |
2008.12.25 | 1,500 | |
29. | ... that Israel has the highest solar energy use per capita in the world? | 2009.01.01 | 1,800 | |
30. | ... that the Cape Grim massacre, in which four shepherds killed up to thirty Tasmanian aborigines, was an escalation of a previous fight over women? | 2009.01.05 | 5,800 | |
31. | ... that according to Just Detention International, 67 percent of all LGBT people in prison report being assaulted? | 2009.01.07 | 3,000 | |
32. | ... that the Skyscraper Index has shown that the world's tallest buildings have risen on the eve of economic downturns? | 2009.01.11 | 3,200 | |
33,34. | ... that according to the magico-medical text Cyranides, miscarriages caused by female demons such as Gello can be prevented by wearing an aetite as an amulet? | 2009.04.06 | 1,500 + 1,800 = 3,300 |
Double DYK |
35. | ... that the 2008 nature documentary film The Meerkats was narrated by Paul Newman and is believed to be one of his last film credits? | 2009.04.10 | 1,400 | |
36. | ... that "Flip Decision", a 1952 Donald Duck comic book story, introduced the term flipism? | 2009.04.27 | 1,300 | |
37. | ... that the Liberator that crashed in 1943 in New Zealand during World War II was transferring Japanese men, women and children from the consular corps to exchange for Allied POWs? | 2009.04.30 | 5,700 | |
38. | ... that Irving Phillips's comic strip The Strange World of Mr. Mum is cited as paving the way for later titles like The Far Side and Bizarro? | 2009.05.10 | 313 | |
39. | ... that the objective of the Nazi board game Juden Raus! (Jews Out) was to move figurines representing Jews across a map to "collection points" outside the city walls for deportation? | 2009.05.20 | 9,300 | |
40. | ... that during action by the UK Gay Liberation Front (GLF) to disrupt a Christian morality campaign in 1971, a GLF "bishop" began an impromptu sermon urging people to "keep on sinning"? | 2009.05.27 | 1,800 | |
41. | ... that "One Rainy Wish" was one of Jimi Hendrix's many songs inspired by dreams? | 2009.05.30 | 821 | |
42. | ... that the Sopwith Bulldog, a prototype British World War I fighter plane, was so unreliable that one test pilot said "I never remember being able to get all cylinders to fire at the same time"? | 2009.06.02 | 6,300 | |
43. | ... that during World War I, a British propaganda claim that Germans converted the bodies of their dead soldiers into various products, was based on a mistranslation of the German word Kadaver? | 2009.06.06 | 4,400 | |
44. | ... that Tom Kruse was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for his work in the Australian outback? | 2009.06.13 | 2,100 | |
45. |
... that Laura M. Cobb (pictured) of the US Navy Nurse Corps was a Japanese POW in World War II for 37 months, during which time she continued to serve as Chief Nurse for ten other imprisoned Navy nurses? |
2009.06.24 | 14,000 | |
46. | ... that it was speculated that J.K. Rowling based the Harry Potter character Albus Dumbledore on the "splendidly bearded" T.P. Wiseman, her classics professor at Exeter University? | 2009.07.03 | 3,300 | |
47. |
... that Charles Wesley Shilling, a physician in the United States Navy, was the first person to transfer from a submarine to the surface in a rescue diving bell (pictured)? |
2009.07.06 | 3,900 | |
48. | ... that Toys in the Attic, a semi-autobiographical play by American playwright Lillian Hellman, won the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best American Play in 1960? | 2009.07.13 | 3,000 | |
49. | ... that Bed and Sofa is a 1927 Soviet silent film that satirizes polygamous relationships amongst the Moscow working poor? | 2009.07.17 | 2,100 | |
50. | ... that the intensity of sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been described as the worst in the world? | 2009.07.18 | 7,000 | |
51. | ... that Moss Force, a waterfall in the English Lake District, was described by poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge as "an awful Image and Shadow of God and the World"? | 2009.07.24 | 3,900 | |
52. |
... that in physics, a Trojan wave packet (animation pictured) is a type of wave packet that is nonstationary and nonspreading? |
2009.07.28 | 9,300 | |
53. | ... that The Chicago Reader in 2007 said the 1971 science fiction theatrical production Warp! "anticipated the Star Wars phenom by several years"? | 2009.09.15 | 8,300 | |
54. | ... that Arthur P. Luff is considered one of the founders of 20th century forensic medicine? | 2009.09.19 | 518 | |
55. |
... that the Tutte 12-cage (example pictured) is a 3-regular graph with 126 vertices and 189 edges? |
2009.09.21 | 5,800 | |
56. |
... that the first engineering analysis of a manned mission to Mars (artist's conception pictured) was made by Wernher von Braun in 1948, which included ten ships with seventy crewmembers? |
2009.09.25 | 9,600 | |
57. |
... that images from the 1965 book A Child Is Born were sent into space aboard the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 space probes (replica pictured)? |
2009.10.06 | 4,900 | |
58. |
... that psalmotoxin is a spider toxin from the venom of the South American tarantula Psalmopoeus cambridgei (pictured)? |
2009.10.21 | 8,600 | |
59. |
... that TiME (artist's rendering pictured) is a boat that is not designed to sail on any water on this planet? |
2009.11.10 | 27,400 | |
60. | ... that studies across 20 countries show a strong association between schizophrenia and smoking? | 2009.12.28 | 3,300 | |
61. | ... that the Armley asbestos disaster involved the contamination of about 1,000 houses in West Yorkshire, England, with asbestos dust? | 2010.04.28 | 3,800 | |
62. | ... that Gernot Bergold is considered the father of biochemical insect virology? | 2010.05.27 | 540 | |
63. | ... that in 1953, Austrian aerospace designer Ferdinand Brandner led a team that created the world's most powerful turboprop aircraft engine, the Soviet Kuznetsov NK-12? | 2010.05.30 | 1,400 | |
64. | ... that in the early 1930s, mathematician Gerhard Kowalewski persuaded more women at German universities than anyone else to become doctors in mathematics? | 2010.06.03 | 1,900 | |
65. | ... that Operation Moolah was an attempt during the Korean War by the United States Air Force to capture a fully operational Russian MiG-15? | 2011.03.09 | 12,100 | |
66. | ... that the debut album by American singer-songwriter Lotti Golden was listed by New York Times music critic Nat Hentoff as one of the most influential albums of the late 1960s? | 2011.04.10 | 988 | |
67. | ... that The Guardian called Thomas Glavinic's debut novel Carl Haffner's Love of the Draw "one of chess's finest novels"? | 2011.06.28 | 1,000 | |
68. | ... that Doris Lessing's book The Sweetest Dream was originally intended to be volume three of her autobiography, but she made it a novel to avoid offending people? | 2011.07.02 | 911 | |
69. | ... that shortly before Doris Lessing's Alfred and Emily was published, the Nobel Prize-winning novelist announced it was her final book? | 2011.07.06 | 749 | |
70. | ... that, in 1913, American aviator Albert Jewell disappeared off Long Island, New York, on his way to an air race? | 2011.07.09 | 2,100 | |
71. | ... that Morges Castle in Switzerland had a fortified kitchen that was attached to the castle's exterior walls? | 2011.07.23 | 3,000 | |
72. | ... that the late 1890s, British philatelist Percival Loines Pemberton participated in stamp auctions in London where potential buyers were sometimes given alcoholic drinks to encourage bidding? | 2011.07.26 | 808 | |
73. |
... that data from Mariner 10 (pictured) led to the discovery of Mercury's magnetic field in 1974? |
2011.07.27 | 3,300 | |
74. | ... that I Am a Camera is a 1955 British film that received an X certificate from the BBFC, but only after dialogue suggesting foot fetishism was removed? | 2011.07.27 | 5,900 | |
75. | ... that Polish-born cosmetics entrepreneur Lydia Sarfati is credited with introducing seaweed-based skin treatments in the United States? | 2011.07.28 | 851 |
Footnotes
- ^ The number of page views an article receives while in DYK is influenced by several factors, including how long it spent on the Main Page and the time of day.
- ^ The page view statistics for 12 June 2010 were much lower than expected. See Wikipedia Signpost/2010-06-14/Technology report.