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This is a record of material that was recently featured on the Main Page as part of Did you know (DYK). Recently created new articles, greatly expanded former stub articles and recently promoted good articles are eligible; you can submit them for consideration.
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4 October 2020
- 00:00, 4 October 2020 (UTC)
The Greek Volunteer Legion takes an oath during the Siege of Sevastopol.
- ... that the Greek Volunteer Legion (pictured) fought on the side of Russia during the Crimean War?
- ... that scientist Emma Teeling of the BatLab in Dublin studies a genus of bats which do not appear to die of old age?
- ... that the Excelsior Power Company Building, the oldest known surviving power plant in Manhattan, now contains apartments?
- ... that mezzo-soprano Marina de Gabaráin appeared as Bizet's Carmen in Scotland, and as Rossini's La Cenerentola in Glyndebourne in 1952, recorded the following year?
- ... that step aerobics attracted 11.4 million people in 1995?
- ... that New York's Continental Iron Works, founded in 1861 by Thomas F. Rowland, built the Union Navy warship that engaged in the first battle between ironclads?
- ... that in the early 20th century, residents of Mġarr, Malta, were encouraged to contribute eggs to raise funds for the construction of their parish church?
- ... that The Ghost and the Guest is one in a long line of Hollywood films that validate skepticism about paranormal activity by depicting "a haunted house that is not truly haunted"?
3 October 2020
- 00:00, 3 October 2020 (UTC)
Cross of Camargue
- ... that both the Cross of Camargue (example pictured) and the anchored cross use a cross and anchor to represent a relationship to the sea?
- ... that a former department store building in New York City was converted into a graduate school, publisher's offices, and research library?
- ... that when Annette Jahns portrayed Bettina von Arnim in an opera by Friedrich Schenker, the role required her to scream as well as sing?
- ... that unauthorized persons are not allowed to go to Hooks Island?
- ... that The Lodger, released in 1913, was the first fictional work based on the story of the serial killer known as Jack the Ripper?
- ... that President Franklin D. Roosevelt regarded Senator Huey Long of Louisiana as "one of the two most dangerous men in America"?
- ... that according to the superseded Catholic doctrine that "error has no rights", non-Catholics did not deserve civil or political rights?
- ... that traditional English singer Pop Maynard was also captain of a world-champion marbles team?
2 October 2020
- 00:00, 2 October 2020 (UTC)
Holly Bradshaw
- ... that pole vaulter Holly Bradshaw (pictured) won her eighth national title at the 2020 British Athletics Championships?
- ... that Polish-French author Anna Langfus, a Holocaust survivor, wrote novels that had her own life experiences interwoven into the fiction?
- ... that the 1960 television play Sacco-Vanzetti Story was called "one of the most controversial ever seen on television"?
- ... that Robert Burg, a leading baritone at the Semperoper in Dresden between the First and Second World Wars, performed the title roles of Busoni's Doktor Faust and Hindemith's Cardillac there?
- ... that as one of its campus traditions, Pomona College reveres the number 47, having the bell in its clock tower chime on the 47th minute of the hour?
- ... that the Maratha Empire's direct rule came to an end in the Carnatic region when Murari Rao surrendered to Nizam I after the 1743 siege of Trichinopoly?
- ... that Bill Nation rejected an attempt by the American Nazi Party to establish a headquarters in Cheyenne, Wyoming?
- ... that after an erotic encounter with a young wife in London's Seething Lane, diarist Samuel Pepys bought the lady eight pairs of gloves?
1 October 2020
- 00:00, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
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National Burns Memorial
- ... that William Fraser won a commission in 1896 to design a memorial in Mauchline honouring Scottish poet Robert Burns, which incorporates a tower (pictured) in the Scottish baronial style?
- ... that the Eocene-age plant Paraconcavistylon was described from a "Rosetta Stone" fossil?
- ... that as an advisor to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Paul Alexander tried unsuccessfully to tell Dr. Anthony Fauci what he could and could not say about the coronavirus?
- ... that Greece is the only state to have left the Council of Europe?
- ... that the owners of Florida radio station WPAS blamed an Associated Press teletype machine for starting a fire that burned it down?
- ... that Saefullah was acting governor of Jakarta for 40 hours?
- ... that the Madison Belmont Building contains one of the first Art Deco designs in a building in the United States?
- ... that Leon Uris called Rod Serling's In the Presence of Mine Enemies "the most disgusting presentation in the history of American television" and demanded that the negative be burned?