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These are the Did you know (DYK) WikiProject credits I have received for:

  1. creating or expanding articles;
  2. 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

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Picture acceptance/nomination ratio = 2/15 (13%).

No. DYK article Did you know ... Date Views Comments
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.
Arthur C. Clarke in 2005
Arthur C. Clarke in 2005

... 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.
Artist's conception of a manned mission to Mars
Artist's conception of a manned mission to Mars

... 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

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Picture acceptance/nomination ratio = 15/23 (65%).

No. DYK article Did you know ... Date Views Comments
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.
"A Victim of the Mormons" ad
"A Victim of the Mormons" ad

... 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.
Itzcuintli
Itzcuintli

... 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.
Spectacle Reef Light
Spectacle Reef Light

... 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.
Norton 16H 1942
Norton 16H 1942

... 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.
Robert de LaSalle
Robert de LaSalle

... 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.
Tirggel
Tirggel

... 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.
Laura M. Cobb
Laura M. Cobb

... 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.
McCann Rescue Chamber
McCann Rescue Chamber

... 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.
Trojan wave packet animation
Trojan wave packet animation

... 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.
The Tutte 12-cage with a chromatic index of 3
The Tutte 12-cage with a chromatic index of 3

... that the Tutte 12-cage (example pictured) is a 3-regular graph with 126 vertices and 189 edges?

2009.09.21 5,800
56.
Artist's conception of a manned mission on the surface of Mars
Artist's conception of a manned mission on the surface of Mars

... 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.
Mockup of the Voyager spacecraft
Mockup of the Voyager spacecraft

... 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.
Psalmopoeus cambridgei, subadult
Psalmopoeus cambridgei, subadult

... that psalmotoxin is a spider toxin from the venom of the South American tarantula Psalmopoeus cambridgei (pictured)?

2009.10.21 8,600
59.
TiME lander (artist's rendering)
TiME lander (artist's rendering)

... 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.
Mariner 10 space probe
Mariner 10 space probe

... 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

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  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ The page view statistics for 12 June 2010 were much lower than expected. See Wikipedia Signpost/2010-06-14/Technology report.