User:DiverDave/DYK
List of articles featured in the Wikipedia:Did you know... series
[edit]| Article | Date | Image | DYK views | DYK hook | Comments |
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| List of heaviest bells | 11 January 2010 | 
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5,700 DYKSTATS | *... that the 90-ton Mingun Bell (pictured) in Mingun, Myanmar, was the world's heaviest hanging bell until 2000, when the 116-ton Bell of Good Luck was erected in Pingdingshan, China? | new article by me, DYK nomination by me |
| Htoo Group of Companies | 15 January 2010 | no image | 608 DYKSTATS | *... that Htoo Group of Companies, among Myanmar's largest privately held companies, has been under sanctions by the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control OFAC) since 2008? | new article by me, DYK nomination by me |
| Ichabod Wiswall | 19 March 2010 | no image | 2,000 DYKSTATS | *... that in 1697, Reverend Ichabod Wiswall delivered the first known funeral sermon in British America? | new article by me, DYK nomination by me |
| Thomas Wiswall | 24 March 2010 | no image | 1,600 DYKSTATS | *... that in 1656, Thomas Wiswall signed a petition that ultimately led to the founding of the city of Newton, Massachusetts? | new article by me, DYK nomination by me |
| Inimicus filamentosus | 2 April 2010 | 
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3,400 DYKSTATS | *... that genus Inimicus includes highly venomous benthic stonefishes, such as Inimicus filamentosus (pictured), which use their pectoral fins as legs to walk on the seabed? (double hook) | new article by me, DYK nomination by me |
| Inimicus | 2 April 2010 | .jpg)
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1,800 DYKSTATS | *... that genus Inimicus includes highly venomous benthic stonefishes, such as Inimicus filamentosus (pictured), which use their pectoral fins as legs to walk on the seabed? (double hook) | new article by me, DYK nomination by me |
| Serpula | 4 May 2010 | 
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5,100 DYKSTATS | *... that the blood of Serpula tubeworms (pictured) appears green when deoxygenated, though it is light red when oxygenated? | new article by me, DYK nomination by me |
| Radiole | 9 May 2010 | 
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3,400 DYKSTATS | *... that while they are primarily feeding structures, radioles (pictured) also serve as respiratory organs for certain sessile marine polychaetes? | new article by me, DYK nomination by me |
| Thomas C. Kinkaid | 24 May 2010 | 
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5,200 DYKSTATS | *... that Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid (pictured) received the Navy Distinguished Service Medal on three separate occasions, for his actions during the Battle of the Coral Sea, the Battle of the Eastern Solomons, and the Battle of Attu? | 5x expansion by Hawkeye7, DYK nomination by me |
| Abyssal plain | 25 May 2010 | 
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9,500 DYKSTATS | *... that despite covering more than 50% of this planet's surface, abyssal plains are among the least explored regions on Earth? | 5x expansion by me, DYK nomination by me |
| Baudissin Glacier | 9 June 2010 | .svg)
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1,000 DYKSTATS | *... that Baudissin Glacier and Challenger Glacier on Heard Island were charted in 1874 by the Challenger expedition, revisited in 1903 by the 1st German AE, but not officially named by the ANCA until 1957? (double hook) | new article by me, DYK nomination by me |
| Challenger Glacier | 9 June 2010 |
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980 DYKSTATS | *... that Baudissin Glacier and Challenger Glacier on Heard Island were charted in 1874 by the Challenger expedition, revisited in 1903 by the 1st German AE, but not officially named by the ANCA until 1957? (double hook) | new article by me, DYK nomination by me |
| Allison Glacier (Heard Island) | 11 June 2010 |
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230 DYK Hall of Fame | *... that many subantarctic glaciers on Heard Island, including Allison, Compton, Deacock, Downes, Ealey, Fiftyone, Gotley, Lied, Schmidt, Stephenson, Vahsel and Winston, have a negative mass balance and are in retreat? (13-article hook) | new article by me, DYK nomination by me |
| Compton Glacier | 11 June 2010 |
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193 DYK Hall of Fame | *... that many subantarctic glaciers on Heard Island, including Allison, Compton, Deacock, Downes, Ealey, Fiftyone, Gotley, Lied, Schmidt, Stephenson, Vahsel and Winston, have a negative mass balance and are in retreat? (13-article hook) | new article by me, DYK nomination by me |
| Deacock Glacier | 11 June 2010 |
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173 DYK Hall of Fame | *... that many subantarctic glaciers on Heard Island, including Allison, Compton, Deacock, Downes, Ealey, Fiftyone, Gotley, Lied, Schmidt, Stephenson, Vahsel and Winston, have a negative mass balance and are in retreat? (13-article hook) | new article by me, DYK nomination by me |
| Downes Glacier | 11 June 2010 |
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185 DYK Hall of Fame | *... that many subantarctic glaciers on Heard Island, including Allison, Compton, Deacock, Downes, Ealey, Fiftyone, Gotley, Lied, Schmidt, Stephenson, Vahsel and Winston, have a negative mass balance and are in retreat? (13-article hook) | new article by me, DYK nomination by me |
| Ealey Glacier | 11 June 2010 |
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197 DYK Hall of Fame | *... that many subantarctic glaciers on Heard Island, including Allison, Compton, Deacock, Downes, Ealey, Fiftyone, Gotley, Lied, Schmidt, Stephenson, Vahsel and Winston, have a negative mass balance and are in retreat? (13-article hook) | new article by me, DYK nomination by me |
| Fiftyone Glacier | 11 June 2010 |
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208 DYK Hall of Fame | *... that many subantarctic glaciers on Heard Island, including Allison, Compton, Deacock, Downes, Ealey, Fiftyone, Gotley, Lied, Schmidt, Stephenson, Vahsel and Winston, have a negative mass balance and are in retreat? (13-article hook) | new article by me, DYK nomination by me |
| Gotley Glacier | 11 June 2010 | 
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197 DYK Hall of Fame | *... that many subantarctic glaciers on Heard Island, including Allison, Compton, Deacock, Downes, Ealey, Fiftyone, Gotley, Lied, Schmidt, Stephenson, Vahsel and Winston, have a negative mass balance and are in retreat? (13-article hook) | new article by me, DYK nomination by me |
| Lied Glacier | 11 June 2010 |
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188 DYK Hall of Fame | *... that many subantarctic glaciers on Heard Island, including Allison, Compton, Deacock, Downes, Ealey, Fiftyone, Gotley, Lied, Schmidt, Stephenson, Vahsel and Winston, have a negative mass balance and are in retreat? (13-article hook) | new article by me, DYK nomination by me |
| Schmidt Glacier | 11 June 2010 |
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198 DYK Hall of Fame | *... that many subantarctic glaciers on Heard Island, including Allison, Compton, Deacock, Downes, Ealey, Fiftyone, Gotley, Lied, Schmidt, Stephenson, Vahsel and Winston, have a negative mass balance and are in retreat? (13-article hook) | new article by me, DYK nomination by me |
| Stephenson Glacier | 11 June 2010 |
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221 DYK Hall of Fame | *... that many subantarctic glaciers on Heard Island, including Allison, Compton, Deacock, Downes, Ealey, Fiftyone, Gotley, Lied, Schmidt, Stephenson, Vahsel and Winston, have a negative mass balance and are in retreat? (13-article hook) | new article by me, DYK nomination by me |
| Vahsel Glacier | 11 June 2010 |
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215 DYK Hall of Fame | *... that many subantarctic glaciers on Heard Island, including Allison, Compton, Deacock, Downes, Ealey, Fiftyone, Gotley, Lied, Schmidt, Stephenson, Vahsel and Winston, have a negative mass balance and are in retreat? (13-article hook) | new article by me, DYK nomination by me |
| Winston Glacier | 11 June 2010 |
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229 DYK Hall of Fame | *... that many subantarctic glaciers on Heard Island, including Allison, Compton, Deacock, Downes, Ealey, Fiftyone, Gotley, Lied, Schmidt, Stephenson, Vahsel and Winston, have a negative mass balance and are in retreat? (13-article hook) | new article by me, DYK nomination by me |
| Subantarctic | 11 June 2010 | 
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419 DYK Hall of Fame | *... that many subantarctic glaciers on Heard Island, including Allison, Compton, Deacock, Downes, Ealey, Fiftyone, Gotley, Lied, Schmidt, Stephenson, Vahsel and Winston, have a negative mass balance and are in retreat? (13-article hook) | 5x expansion by me, DYK nomination by me |
| Kaikō ROV | 2 July 2010 | 
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2,300 DYKSTATS | *... that in 1995, the ROV Kaikō (pictured) became the first vessel to visit the Challenger Deep since the landmark Trieste expedition in 1960? | 5x expansion by me, DYK nomination by me |
| List of submarine topographical features | 3 July 2010 | 
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1,653 DYKSTATS | *... that using a continuously recording fathometer, WHOI scientists aboard RV Atlantis located and described the first abyssal plain in 1947? | new article by me, DYK nomination by me |
| ABISMO | 7 July 2010 | no image | 9 DYKSTATS | *... that the Japanese ROV ABISMO collected core samples of sediment from the seabed at a depth of 9,760 meters in the Izu-Ogasawara Trench during sea trials in 2007? | new article by me, DYK nomination by me |
| Richie Castellano | 14 July 2010 | 
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1,200 DYKSTATS | *... that in 1997, Blue Öyster Cult guitarist Richie Castellano persuaded Paul McCartney to sing with the CHS Guitar Ensemble at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts? | new article by me, DYK nomination by me |
| History of general anesthesia | 20 September 2010 | 
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3,900 DYKSTATS | *... that Japanese surgeon Hanaoka Seishū (illustrated) performed the world's first operation under general anesthesia in 1804? | new article by me, DYK nomination by me |
| World's littlest skyscraper | 14 October 2010 | 
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11,300 DYKSTATS | *... that the world's littlest skyscraper, located in downtown Wichita Falls, Texas, is only 40 ft (12 m) tall, with exterior dimensions of 18 ft (5.5 m) by 10 ft (3.0 m)? | new article by me, DYK nomination by me |
| Trauma in children | 15 November 2010 | 
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in children 2,800 DYKSTATS | *... that pediatric trauma accounted for 59.5% of all mortality in the United States for children in 2004? | new article by Peter.C, DYK nomination by me |
| Methoxyflurane | 22 November 2010 | 
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2,839 DYKSTATS | *... that methoxyflurane, an emergency analgesic self-administered with a disposable inhaler, was first synthesized as a by-product of chemistry research on uranium enrichment in the Manhattan Project? | 5x expansion by me, DYK nomination by me |
| Geriatric trauma | 5 December 2010 | 
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1,336 DYKSTATS | *... that the three prevailing causes of geriatric trauma are falls, traffic collisions and burns? | new article by Peter.C, DYK nomination by me |
| Teuthidodrilus | 8 December 2010 | no image | 4,200 DYKSTATS | *... that the squidworm is a newly discovered genus of deep water worms with physical characteristics of both seabed-dwelling and free-swimming worms? | new article by me, DYK nomination by me |
| Low Head Lighthouse | 24 January 2011 | 
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1,900 DYKSTATS | *... that Low Head Lighthouse (pictured) is Australia's oldest continuously used pilot station and was only the third lighthouse to be constructed in Australia? | new article by me, DYK nomination by me |
| Battle for Río San Juan de Nicaragua | 5 May 2011 | 
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for Río San Juan de Nicaragua 2,700 DYKSTATS DYK Hall of Fame | *... that during a 1762 British siege of the Fortress of the Immaculate Conception (pictured) in El Castillo village within El Castillo municipality, Nicaragua, Rafaela Herrera inspired the outnumbered Spanish defenders to victory? (5-article hook) | new article by me, DYK nomination by me |
| Fortress of the Immaculate Conception | 5 May 2011 |
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4,300 DYKSTATS DYK Hall of Fame | *... that during a 1762 British siege of the Fortress of the Immaculate Conception (pictured) in El Castillo village within El Castillo municipality, Nicaragua, Rafaela Herrera inspired the outnumbered Spanish defenders to victory? (5-article hook) | 5x expansion by me, DYK nomination by me |
| El Castillo (village) | 5 May 2011 |
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440 DYKSTATS DYK Hall of Fame | *... that during a 1762 British siege of the Fortress of the Immaculate Conception (pictured) in El Castillo village within El Castillo municipality, Nicaragua, Rafaela Herrera inspired the outnumbered Spanish defenders to victory? (5-article hook) | new article by me, DYK nomination by me |
| El Castillo (municipality) | 5 May 2011 |
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287 DYKSTATS DYK Hall of Fame | *... that during a 1762 British siege of the Fortress of the Immaculate Conception (pictured) in El Castillo village within El Castillo municipality, Nicaragua, Rafaela Herrera inspired the outnumbered Spanish defenders to victory? (5-article hook) | 5x expansion by me, DYK nomination by me |
| Rafaela Herrera | 5 May 2011 |
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1,700 DYKSTATS DYK Hall of Fame | *... that during a 1762 British siege of the Fortress of the Immaculate Conception (pictured) in El Castillo village within El Castillo municipality, Nicaragua, Rafaela Herrera inspired the outnumbered Spanish defenders to victory? (5-article hook) | new article by me, DYK nomination by me |
| VX-6 | 17 May 2011 | 
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x,xxx DYKSTATS | *... that the first people to visit the South Pole since Robert Falcon Scott (1912) arrived in 1956 in a U.S. Navy R4D Skytrain (pictured) of the VX-6 squadron? | new article by me, DYK nomination by me |
| VXE-6 | 20 May 2011 | 
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x,xxx DYKSTATS | *... that the first all-female crew to open up Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station was a Lockheed LC-130 crew of VXE-6 squadron (insignia pictured) in 1991? | new article by me, DYK nomination by me |
| Louis Agassiz Shaw Jr. | 14 July 2011 | no image | Agassiz Shaw Jr. x,xxx DYKSTATS | *... that Louis Agassiz Shaw Junior, grandson of Quincy Adams Shaw and a member of an influential Boston Brahmin family, was co-inventor of the iron lung? | new article by me, DYK nomination by me |
| Quincy Adams Shaw | 14 July 2011 | 
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Adams Shaw x,xxx DYKSTATS | *... that Louis Agassiz Shaw Junior, grandson of Quincy Adams Shaw and a member of an influential Boston Brahmin family, was co-inventor of the iron lung? | new article by me, DYK nomination by me |
| Robert Gould Shaw II | 17 July 2011 | 
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Gould Shaw II x,xxx DYKSTATS | *... that the campus of Mount Ida College is situated on land that once was the estate of Robert Gould Shaw II, a cousin of Robert Gould Shaw? | new article by me, DYK nomination by me |
| List of largest giant sequoias | 20 August 2011 | 
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of largest giant sequoias x,xxx DYKSTATS | *... that Washington was the second largest tree of its kind until its collapse in 2005? | new article by me, DYK nomination by me |
| History of neuraxial anesthesia | 8 July 2012 | 
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x,xxx DYKSTATS | *... that in 1885, American neurologist James Leonard Corning became the first to perform neuraxial anesthesia? (2-article hook) | new article by me, DYK nomination by me |
| James Leonard Corning | 8 July 2012 |
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Leonard Corning x,xxx DYKSTATS | *... that in 1885, American neurologist James Leonard Corning became the first to perform neuraxial anesthesia? (2-article hook) | new article by me, DYK nomination by me |
| Mount Billy Mitchell (Chugach Mountains) | 7 August 2012 | 
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Billy Mitchell (Chugach Mountains) x,xxx DYKSTATS | *... that Mount Billy Mitchell (pictured) was named for "Billy" Mitchell, who is often referred to as the "father of the United States Air Force"? | new article by me, DYK nomination by me |
| Panoploscelis | 14 March 2013 | 
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x,xxx DYKSTATS | *... that the male spiny lobster katydid was described for the first time in 2003? | new article by me, DYK nomination by me |
| Megacrania batesii | 25 January 2021 | 
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x,xxx DYKSTATS | *... that the peppermint stick insect possesses an aposematic coloration and a robust chemical defense mechanism? | new article by me, DYK nomination by me |
| Calliphara nobilis | 28 January 2021 | 
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6,309 DYKSTATS | *... that larvae of the mangrove jewel bug (pictured) feed only on the seeds of the river poison tree? | new article by me, DYK nomination by me |
| Tropicagama | 1 February 2021 | .jpg)
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x,xxx DYKSTATS | *... that the northern water dragon migrated from New Guinea into Wallacea less than one million years ago? | new article by me, DYK nomination by me |
| Giriyak Stupa | 1 January 2023 | 
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x,xxx DYKSTATS | *... that according to legend, Giriyak Stupa was constructed over the body of a dead goose? | new article by me, DYK nomination by me |
| Buchanania cochinchinensis | 12 March 2023 | .jpg)
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x,xxx DYKSTATS | *... that the Buddha is said to have sat under a charoli tree (example pictured) at Bodh Gaya for seven days without eating, drinking, washing, excreting, or lying down? | new article by me, DYK nomination by me |
- 19 May 2023: Wager Island
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