User:Rigadoun/DYK

Wrote

...that the rulers of Yogyakarta brought female bedhaya dancers with them into battle?
...that the macapat forms of Javanese poetry are classified on the basis of the patterns of syllables and the final vowels of each line?
...that the rhinoceros botfly Gyrostigma rhinocerontis is the largest fly known in Africa?
...that the primary disposal method for human feces in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya, is the unsanitary flying toilet?
...that the Buddhist scholar Jizang spent eleven years transcribing 2,000 copies of the Lotus Sutra by hand?
...that the twelfth sultan of Aceh, Iskandar Muda, had his own son killed and named as his successor the son of the sultan of Pahang, whom he had brought to Aceh twenty years earlier?
...that the streak of a mineral, the color of the mark it makes when rubbed on a plate, is usually a more consistent identifier than the color of the original mineral?
...that Lake Kutubu, the largest upland lake in Papua New Guinea, has 12 endemic species of fish?
...that the South Seas Evangelical Church, the third-largest religious affiliation in the Solomon Islands, traces its history to a mission for Kanakas in Queensland, Australia?
...that William R. Bell, the District Officer for Malaita in the British Solomon Islands Protectorate from 1915 to 1927, was killed while collecting a head tax from the resistant Kwaio?
...that Jack Hides led what Lieutenant-Governor Hubert Murray described as "the most difficult and dangerous" patrol ever carried out in Papua?
...that Semar, although depicted as a clown in Indonesian wayang shadow puppetry, is said to be the guardian spirit of Java and a god in human form?
...that 173 of the 198 Kwaio arrested during the Malaita massacre were hospitalized for dysentery while awaiting trial in Tulagi, the Solomon Islands?
...that voice exchange, the preeminent compositional technique of the medieval Notre Dame school, died out in art music but remains a characteristic feature of rounds?
...that though musicologist Knud Jeppesen wrote that without voice crossing "no real polyphony is possible," many counterpoint exercises prohibit it?
...that in one Indonesian legend, Prince Panji's vanished bride disguised herself as a man and became king of Bali?
...that Choir is the site of the longest runway in Mongolia?
...that the Javanese Damarwulan legend may be based on events during the reign of Queen Suhita of the Majapahit Empire?
...that the South American rubber boom ceased in 1912 when plantations in Malaysia, Sri Lanka, and tropical Africa grown from seed smuggled out of Brazil 36 years earlier began producing rubber?
...that Brazil's 1838 Balaiada uprising was named after the job of one of its leaders, a basketmaker?
...that the Solomon Islander Peter Ambuofa, who had converted to Christianity while working on a sugar plantation in Queensland, was left to starve by his own relatives when he returned home?
...that the Solomon Islands Christian Association came out of a meeting of church representatives that included the future first Prime Minister and first Governor-General?
...that the Christian mission founded by Florence Young on her brothers’ sugar plantation in Queensland led her to make annual trips to the Solomon Islands for twenty years?
...that Charles Morris Woodford wrote a dispatch appointing himself the first Deputy Commissioner of the Solomon Islands Protectorate, and then convinced the High Commissioner to sign it?

Expanded

...that, in addition to the seven-day week, the Javanese calendar incorporates a five-day week, which runs concurrently to produce a repeating cycle of 35 days?
...that on Malaita in the Solomon Islands, the mean daily temperature in the warmest month is only 3.4°F warmer than that of the coolest?
...that the Sutra of Forty-two Chapters, the earliest extant Chinese Buddhist sutra, is similar in form to the Analects of Confucius?
...that Iraqi refugee Wafaa Bilal was shot by more than 60,000 paintballs in a month-long performance art piece in Chicago?

Nominated/rewrote hook

...that despite having no prior experience as a professional actress, Teresa Cheung was nominated for Best Actress in the 2004 Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards for her performance in Colour Blossoms?
...that Chabad rabbi Milton Balkany misappropriated more than $700,000 of federal grant money from a charitable organisation that cared for disabled children?
...that the people of the Bronze Age Elp culture (in the present-day Netherlands) lived in longhouses similar to those inhabited by the area's farmers today?
...that the Crotalus tigris has the highest toxicity of venoms among rattlesnakes, even though it has a low venom yield?
...that the Palazzo Malta in Rome, Italy was granted extraterritoriality by the Italian Government and is the property of the Sovereign Order of Malta?
...that political donations in Australia up to $1500 were made tax-deductible in 2006?