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My "Did you know?" entries, in reverse chronological order:

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Article Date Image DYK views Did you know... Authors
We Work the Black Seam5-3-2024... that Sting wrote "We Work the Black Seam" because he felt that "the case for coal was never put to the nation" during the 1984–85 British miners' strike (which began 40 years ago today)?User:Daniel Case, with a tiny touch from me
Body and Soul (Joe Jackson album)29-1-20212300... that Joe Jackson's 1984 album Body and Soul emulated the artwork of the 1957 jazz album Sonny Rollins, Vol. 2?Binksternet
Mats Löfving11-6-20204000...that a radio interview with Swedish police chief Mats Löfving was described as "a bombshell"?Moonraker, Binksternet
L'eggs10-31-20202100...that actress Jamie Lee Curtis insured her legs for $1 million after signing an endorsement with L'eggs pantyhose?Binksternet
"Welcome to the LBJ Ranch!"10-30-20206800...that on the 1965 comedy album "Welcome to the LBJ Ranch!", Nelson Rockefeller (pictured) is heard saying that he gave his wife the states of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut as an anniversary gift?Binksternet
Worth Waiting For10-25-20201100...that the smooth jazz–jazz fusion album Worth Waiting For was keyboardist Jeff Lorber's only solo album to reach number one on the Billboard Contemporary Jazz Chart?Binksternet
Alice Kahn10-18-20204100...that Berkeley humorist Alice Kahn described the Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia as a "hippie abominable snowman"—and he liked it?Binksternet
Brown Meggs10-10-20203800...that Paul McCartney named a puppy after Brown Meggs, who signed the Beatles to Capitol Records?Binksternet
Andy Spahn10-6-20205700...that political consultant Andy Spahn said that Cuba is "nothing like" how it has been portrayed by U.S. politicians?Binksternet
Jacki Sorensen10-5-20205800...that aerobics pioneer Jacki Sorensen was voted the best dancer in the 1962 Miss California pageant?Binksternet
Step aerobics10-3-20203100... that step aerobics attracted 11.4 million people in 1995?Binksternet
Campaign for Economic Democracy9-28-20201900... that Tom Hayden used his Campaign for Economic Democracy to help pass a rent-control measure in Santa Monica, California?Binksternet
Jane Fonda's Workout9-25-20203100... that Jane Fonda paid for her political activism from the profits of her Workout videos?Binksternet
Ampersand's Entertainment Guide9-21-20202200... that Wolfman Jack helped finance his nephew's Ampersand magazine?Binksternet
Hollywood Women's Political Committee9-20-20201400... that the Hollywood Women's Political Committee was formed in 1984 to help elect Geraldine Ferraro (pictured), the first U.S. woman vice-presidential candidate for a major party?Binksternet
Jacoba Atlas9-18-20202100... that among rock critic Jacoba Atlas's many concert reviews was a "disastrous appearance" by Joe Cocker?Binksternet
TeenSet9-17-20201900... that even though Judith Sims of TeenSet magazine was touring with the Beatles, she was not, "alas", sleeping with them?Binksternet
Judith Sims9-17-20208500... that even though Judith Sims of TeenSet magazine was touring with the Beatles, she was not, "alas", sleeping with them?Binksternet
Susan Lydon9-17-20204000... that Susan Lydon wrote about fake orgasm and real addiction?Binksternet
Doris Willens9-12-2020700... that writer Doris Willens, Lee Hays of the Weavers, and actor Alan Arkin were all Baby Sitters?Binksternet
Harold Willens9-11-20206100... that U.S. Marine Corps captain Harold Willens returned four samurai swords to Japan after 27 years?Binksternet
No Sad Song9-10-20203900... that Helen Reddy said that her single "No Sad Song" sold poorly "because it put down men too much"?Binksternet
Star-Spangled Women for McGovern–Shriver9-8-20201600... that Shirley MacLaine (pictured) served as an usher at her brother Warren Beatty's political concert Together for McGovern, and he returned the favor at her political variety show Star-Spangled Women for McGovern?Binksternet
Together for McGovern9-8-20202800... that Shirley MacLaine (pictured) served as an usher at her brother Warren Beatty's political concert Together for McGovern, and he returned the favor at her political variety show Star-Spangled Women for McGovern?Binksternet
Malibu Mafia9-6-202017300... that married actors Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman (both pictured) fronted for the Malibu Mafia?Binksternet
Four for McGovern8-30-20202700...that during the 1972 concert Four for McGovern, Barbra Streisand pretended, as she had before in Las Vegas shows, to smoke a joint?Binksternet
Back in the High Life8-7-20208600 (4472 + 969 + 3172)... that John "JR" Robinson (pictured) kicked off the Steve Winwood album Back in the High Life with a drum solo he played on his own drum kit at Unique Recording Studios in New York?Binksternet, Isento
John Robinson (drummer)8-7-20208600... that John "JR" Robinson (pictured) kicked off the Steve Winwood album Back in the High Life with a drum solo he played on his own drum kit at Unique Recording Studios in New York?Binksternet
Unique Recording Studios8-7-20208600... that John "JR" Robinson (pictured) kicked off the Steve Winwood album Back in the High Life with a drum solo he played on his own drum kit at Unique Recording Studios in New York?Binksternet
Lady Tambourine7-27-20207400... that videos of Lady Tambourine (pictured) playing the tambourine at Southern Louisiana football games went viral in 2017?Binksternet
Paul Gilley12-2-20186300... that songwriter Paul Gilley gave a neighbor the lyrics to the 1950 Hank Williams song "They'll Never Take Her Love from Me" before it was heard on the radio, as proof that he had written it?Binksternet
Seder-Masochism9-10-201817500... that the 2018 animated film Seder-Masochism was said to turn parts of the Exodus (God figure pictured) "into Busby Berkeley-style song-and-dance numbers"?Binksternet
Truth in Music Advertising8-11-201714800... that former Sha Na Na member Jon "Bowzer" Bauman was the co-author of Truth in Music Advertising legislation in most of the United States?Binksternet
Sarah Nash Gates3-26-20161300... that costume designer Sarah Nash Gates once taught at Clown College?Binksternet
Shadows (1959 film)9-24-20154800... that film professor Ray Carney found the first version of Shadows after searching for decades?Binksternet
Shot grouping8-13-20156000... that a grouping of shots on a target has a mean point of impact?Binksternet
Switched-On Rock5-15-20151400... that the producer Norman Dolph re-tuned the Moog modular synthesizer every 15 minutes during the recording of Switched-On Rock?Binksternet
No-Li Brewhouse10-19-20141700... that the logo of No-Li Brewhouse depicts the Skyride over Spokane Falls?Binksternet
Willis E. Davis (painter)10-17-20141400... that the landscape painter Willis E. Davis was informed over the phone of his daughter's elopement?Binksternet
Heather Willauer6-23-201411300... that Heather Willauer (pictured) is working to enable U.S. Navy warships to synthesize jet fuel from seawater?Binksternet
Geraldine Jones (character)6-17-20141200... that Little David's first record, The Devil Made Me Buy This Dress, was named for a line spoken by Flip Wilson's character Geraldine?Binksternet
The Devil Made Me Buy This Dress6-17-2014900... that Little David's first record, The Devil Made Me Buy This Dress, was named for a line spoken by Flip Wilson's character Geraldine?Binksternet
Little David Records6-17-20141000... that Little David's first record, The Devil Made Me Buy This Dress, was named for a line spoken by Flip Wilson's character Geraldine?Binksternet
Black genocide5-29-20142600... that after the birth control pill was subsidized in the U.S. for poor Americans, black militants claimed that this was a form of black genocide?Binksternet
Charles R. Blyth5-9-2014380... that an investment fund named in honor of Charles R. Blyth was established at Stanford University to allow finance students to make decisions with real money?Binksternet
Jane Kim3-13-20142500... that San Francisco Supervisor Jane Kim plays bass guitar, and her favorite song is by the Wu-Tang Clan?Binksternet
Tim Weed11-23-2013690... that banjoist Tim Weed "nailed" Larry McNeely's version of Benny Goodman's "Slipped Disc" in 30 minutes when he was in his teens?Binksternet
The Punk Singer10-7-20131400... that Bikini Kill's Kathleen Hanna wanted to have the documentary film The Punk Singer feature women as experts?Binksternet
Ted Andrews8-1-2013560... that Ted Andrews' book Animal Speak aims to help the reader learn how "to listen with animal ears and to see through animal eyes"?Binksternet
Murray Korman7-17-20139700... that New York photographer Murray Korman was known for his portraits of strippers and socialites?Ailemadrah,
Jacqke,
Binksternet
Miriam Battista7-7-20138,000... that child star Miriam Battista (pictured) was often called upon to cry on camera?Ailemadrah,
Binksternet
Gun harmonisation6-18-20139700... that British Air Chief Marshall Hugh Dowding initially instructed his Spitfire and Hurricane groups to use a gun harmonisation scheme that aimed eight guns at a 12-foot-wide (3.7 m) rectangle?Binksternet
David Jay Brown6-2-2013900... that David Jay Brown wrote about the possible use of MDMA ("ecstasy") to treat post-traumatic stress disorder?Binksternet
Scientific pitch5-10-20133300... that pioneering French acoustician Joseph Sauveur proposed unsuccessfully that middle C be set to 256 Hz, the system later called scientific pitch?Binksternet
Eliel Saarinen's Tribune Tower design5-1-20132600... that Eliel Saarinen's Tribune Tower design for the Chicago Tribune earned him $20,000 but was never built?Binksternet
Phase plug2-27-20133200... that the first phase plug in a horn loudspeaker was developed in the 1920s by Bell System engineers?Binksternet
David Gunness1-22-20139500... that Dave Gunness (pictured) designed concert loudspeakers used by Eric Clapton, Paul McCartney, Iron Maiden, Pearl Jam, Usher, and Snoop Dogg?Binksternet
Imperial German plans for the invasion of the United States12-31-201227500... that Kaiser Wilhelm II (pictured) ordered plans drawn up for Germany to invade two US cities: Boston and New York?Binksternet
Pseudo-documentary12-21-20122900... that Orson Welles used a pseudo-documentary sequence in his film Citizen Kane?Binksternet
Matrix mixer11-06-20125300... that a matrix mixer (example pictured) may be used during a concert to stream a different blend of sound to distant audiences?Binksternet
Truman Committee10-25-20122100... that war profiteering by U.S. military contractors in Iraq brought calls for a new form of the investigative Truman Committee which operated in World War II?Binksternet
Jazzschool09-18-2012600... that poet Ishmael Reed learned to play jazz piano at the Jazzschool beginning when he was 60?Binksternet
Portola Road Race09-13-20121500... that two men and a dog died during the 1909 Portola Road Race in Oakland, California?Binksternet
John Hilliard (artist)09-10-20125600... that John Hilliard's Cause of Death (1974) suggested four different interpretations of one photographic negative?Binksternet
David Eppstein
Iran Constituent Assembly, 194908-22-2012800... that the Shah of Iran used public sympathy resulting from a failed assassination attempt to call for a Constituent Assembly in 1949 to increase his royal power?Binksternet
Makoto Ogawa (pilot)08-14-20129800... that among pilots of his air group, Japanese ace Makoto Ogawa downed the highest number of Boeing B-29 Superfortresses?Binksternet
Bukochosho08-12-20121200... that fighter pilot Yoshio Yoshida shot down six confirmed Boeing B-29 Superfortresses over Japan but was awarded the high military honor of Bukosho for an earlier "probable" in Manchuria?Binksternet
Yoshio Yoshida (pilot)08-12-20123800... that fighter pilot Yoshio Yoshida shot down six confirmed Boeing B-29 Superfortresses over Japan but was awarded the high military honor of Bukosho for an earlier "probable" in Manchuria?Binksternet
Isamu Kashiide07-29-201213700... that Japanese fighter pilot Isamu Kashiide (pictured) shook the hand of a crewmember of one of the Boeing B-29 Superfortresses that he shot down?Binksternet
Notification (Holy See)07-13-20121500... that the Catholic Church issued two notifications regarding the Divine Mercy devotion, the second one reversing the first?Binksternet
Esoglou
The Alley06-14-20123300... that The Alley piano bar has walls papered with thousands of business cards, including ones from Jerry Brown and Gregg Allman?SarahStierch
Binksternet
Out of left field05-16-20124100... that the first known use of the phrase out of left field in its idiomatic sense was by the American music industry?Binksternet
Milonguero05-12-2012700... that milonguero-style tango is danced with a close embrace?Binksternet
San Francisco plague of 1900–190404-25-20126600... that California governor Henry Gage publicly denied there was a San Francisco plague of 1900–1904?Binksternet
MSC Fabiola04-02-20129900... that the MSC Fabiola is the largest container ship to dock in North America?Binksternet
Napoléon (1927 film)03-14-20123800... that, at the age of 89, producer and director Abel Gance (pictured) viewed a restoration of his French epic silent film Napoléon in Telluride, Colorado?Binksternet
BladeRunner391
We Can Do It!03-08-201220500... that the wartime poster "We Can Do It!" (pictured) was parodied using Marge Simpson?Binksternet
Wings Club02-17-20121200... that Igor Sikorsky told the Wings Club in 1964 that the helicopter would not be replaced by vertical take-off and landing aircraft?Binksternet
Arizona Pioneers' Home02-14-20121900... that Old West madam Big Nose Kate spent her final years at the Arizona Pioneers' Home?Binksternet
Disco Fever02-14-2012650... that hip hop artist Run-D.M.C. performed their first paying gig at the Disco Fever nightclub in the Bronx?Binksternet
Malloch Building02-08-20124600... that the Malloch Building (pictured) was used to represent Lauren Bacall's apartment in a film with Humphrey Bogart?Binksternet
Kill zone01-15-20125300... that in a successful military ambush, every enemy soldier in the kill zone might be killed in less than one minute?Binksternet
Kaneyoshi Muto01-01-201215300... that Japanese flying ace Kaneyoshi Muto (pictured) was compared to the legendary swordsman Miyamoto Musashi?Binksternet
Grotrian-Steinweg12-19-2011860... that a trademark dispute between piano makers Steinway & Sons and Grotrian-Steinweg resulted in establishing the legal concept of "initial interest confusion"?Binksternet
Marching fire12-18-201129800... that General George S. Patton (pictured) praised the tactic of marching fire during World War II?Binksternet
Mt. Shasta Brewing Company12-12-20115500... that Mt. Shasta Brewing Company's slogan, "Try Legal Weed", was initially refused by the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau?Binksternet
Kurt Chew-Een Lee12-10-20115400... that after earning the Navy Cross and getting wounded in combat, Lieutenant Kurt Chew-Een Lee took a Jeep and returned to the battle arena with his arm in a sling?Binksternet
On The Issues (magazine)12-08-2011570... that the progressive feminist magazine On The Issues has also published articles about animal rights?Binksternet
Catherine Sandoval10-27-2011770... that Catherine Sandoval is the first Hispanic member of the California Public Utilities Commission?Binksternet
San Francisco Sentinel10-17-2011410... that, in 1980, U.S. presidential candidate John Anderson wrote in the San Francisco Sentinel that, if elected, he would end federal government discrimination based on sexual orientation?Binksternet
Rachel MacNair09-10-2011840... that peace activist Rachel MacNair founded the pro-life Susan B. Anthony List in 1993?Binksternet
Agnes Mary Mansour09-02-2011550... that Sister Agnes Mary Mansour left the Sisters of Mercy after three decades of service rather than make a statement against abortion?Binksternet
A Catholic Statement on Pluralism and Abortion08-27-20114600... that after 26 nuns signed A Catholic Statement on Pluralism and Abortion, the Vatican stated that all but two had recanted, leading 11 others to issue a statement of solidarity denying that they had done so?Binksternet
Jeanne L. Noble08-19-2011760... that Jeanne L. Noble published the first studies about African-American women in college?Binksternet
Severed Ways07-28-20114400... that the Viking adventure film Severed Ways was shot partly in L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland, the site of an 11th-century Norse settlement?Binksternet
On Becoming Baby Wise07-22-20112300... that the parenting book On Becoming Baby Wise tells parents to put their infant down to sleep while he is awake?Binksternet
Remote recording07-22-2011850... that Wally Heider engineered the remote recording of the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival?Binksternet
H. S. Wong07-14-20113300... that the Japanese government once put a bounty on the head of photojournalist H. S. Wong?Binksternet
PFHLai
Quiet Birdmen07-12-20117700... that the Quiet Birdmen were noisy?Binksternet
The Automatt06-30-20112400... that The Clash adopted the song "I Fought the Law" after Joe Strummer and Mick Jones heard it on a vintage jukebox at The Automatt?Binksternet
Faith and Freedom Coalition06-20-20111100... that the Faith and Freedom Coalition was founded by Ralph Reed as "a 21st century version of the Christian Coalition"?NYyankees51,
Binksternet
Record Plant06-17-20113000... that the Sausalito Record Plant served for a time as the residence for Rick James who slept in a conference room built with a waterbed floor?Binksternet
Charles A. Lindbergh Chair in Aerospace History06-04-2011940... that the annual winner of the Charles A. Lindbergh Chair in Aerospace History may receive as much as US$100,000?Binksternet
Desegregation in the United States Marine Corps06-01-201116600... that Howard P. Perry (pictured) was the first African American recruit in the United States Marine Corps?Binksternet
Gain before feedback05-11-20113400... that gain before feedback is reduced when using multiple microphones for live sound?Binksternet
Coaxial speakers05-09-20112100... that the Altec Lansing 604 coaxial speaker became the standard U.S. studio monitor after 1945?Binksternet
David Lane (activist)05-01-20111900... that born-again Christian political activist David Lane, who works to support right-wing politics in the US, was called the "stealth weapon for the right"?Binksternet
Phoenix (fireboat)04-13-20113400... that San Francisco fireboat Phoenix (pictured) pumped some 5.5 million gallons (20.8 ML) of seawater to help fight fires after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake?Microfirmware,
Binksternet
Dan Dugan (audio engineer)04-03-2011456... that frustration in mixing all of the microphones in a musical production of Hair was what sparked Dan Dugan's invention of the automixer?Binksternet
Wyntoon03-28-20115700... that 26-year-old John F. Kennedy swam in the freezing McCloud River while wintering with William Randolph Hearst at Wyntoon?Binksternet
Charles Stetson Wheeler03-26-20111100... that California attorney Charles Stetson Wheeler built a temple to fishing at his hunting lodge on McCloud River?Binksternet
Gary Rader03-21-20114700... that U.S. Army Special Forces reservist Gary Rader was arrested in 1967 for draft-card burning?Binksternet
Draft-card burning03-21-20112500... that U.S. Army Special Forces reservist Gary Rader was arrested in 1967 for draft-card burning?Binksternet
Santa Maria de Ovila03-18-20116000... that William Randolph Hearst removed 10,000 stones of the Spanish monastery Santa Maria de Ovila (pictured), but never used them in a building?Binksternet
Rabatment of the rectangle03-10-20114300... that Renaissance artists and architects used rabatment of the rectangle as a compositional tool in their work?Mattdm,
Binksternet
ProtectMarriage.com03-09-20111400... that ProtectMarriage.com was formed to pass California Proposition 8, a voter initiative against same-sex marriage?Lionelt,
Binksternet
Pacifica (statue)03-02-20113900... that Ralph Stackpole's 81-foot (25 m) statue Pacifica was at one time planned for permanent construction on an island in San Francisco Bay?LadyKiwi,
Binksternet
Machito02-25-20112100... that during his United States Army service, Graciela replaced her foster brother Machito (pictured) as the lead singer of his band, the Afro-Cubans?Binksternet
Bruce Jackson (audio engineer)02-09-20113200... that Bruce Jackson, who mixed concert sound for Elvis Presley and Bruce Springsteen, was described by Barbra Streisand as "the best sound engineer in the world"?Binksternet
Bloody Saturday (photograph)01-27-201124400... that Life magazine estimated 136 million people saw the photograph "Bloody Saturday" (detail pictured) after the August 1937 bombing of Shanghai?Binksternet
Calafia01-20-20112300... that Queen Calafia, fictional ruler of the Island of California, was the subject of a sculpture garden designed by Niki de Saint Phalle?Binksternet
Smaart01-19-20111400... that Smaart software was used to tune the sound reinforcement system during U2's PopMart Tour 1997–1998?Binksternet
Graham Blyth12-14-2010873... that before he co-founded Soundcraft, Graham Blyth helped build the mixing console used by Emerson, Lake & Palmer at the Isle of Wight Festival 1970?Binksternet
Nilsson Sings Newman11-21-20102800... that a record store clerk once told Randy Newman that the 1970 album Nilsson Sings Newman nearly finished off Harry Nilsson's career?Binksternet
1945 Japan–Washington flight10-26-20104700... that the 1945 Japan–Washington flight made by three American air generals in three Boeing B-29 Superfortresses was the first nonstop flight from Japan to the United States?Binksternet
Ann Dexter Gordon10-15-2010515... that American history researcher Ann Dexter Gordon leads a project at Rutgers University which has cataloged more than 14,000 papers related to Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony?Binksternet
Bobbye Hall08-15-20102300... that Bob Dylan paid US$2,500 per week to percussionist Bobbye Hall to get her to tour with him in 1978, in compensation for missed session musician work?Pawnkingthree
Binksternet
Bill Porter (sound engineer)07-18-2010881... that audio engineer Bill Porter nearly ruined his first number one record, "The Three Bells" by The Browns, and had to splice two takes together to fix it?Binksternet
Olana State Historic Site04-18-20101800... that New York's Olana State Historic Site (pictured) was named "Olana" by artist Frederic Edwin Church after he read about Olana, an ancient treasury in Artaxata, Armenia, overlooking the Araxes River?Binksternet,
Karen Zukowski
Parallel compression03-27-20102000... that New York-based mix engineer Michael Brauer uses five compressors in his parallel compression method, to achieve the desired vocal sound for The Rolling Stones, KT Tunstall and Coldplay?Binksternet
BevMo!03-14-20101200... that Wilfred Wong, BevMo!'s cellar master, tastes some 8,000 wines each year for the large retail chain?Binksternet
Chrystal Macmillan03-09-20103100... that Chrystal Macmillan (pictured) was the first female graduate with a degree in science from the University of Edinburgh, and the first woman to argue before the House of Lords?Binksternet
Michele S. Jones03-08-20107400... that Michele S. Jones (pictured) was the first woman in the U.S. Army to attain the rank of command sergeant major before she retired to a military liaison position in the Obama Administration?Binksternet
Bimbo's 365 Club03-07-20104700... that an early incarnation of Bimbo's 365 Club in San Francisco included Dolfina, a nude woman who appeared to swim inside a large aquarium over the bar?Binksternet
Quartet San Francisco02-27-2010254... that eclectic and non-traditional Quartet San Francisco has been nominated five times for Grammy Awards, most recently for QSF Plays Brubeck, the first all-Dave Brubeck string quartet recording?Binksternet
Vance Haynes02-15-2010696... that archaeologist Vance Haynes challenged the right of Native Americans to rebury Kennewick Man—skeletal bone fragments about 9,000 years old—which Haynes said should be studied further?Binksternet
Caleb V. Haynes02-13-20102600... that United States Air Force Major General Caleb V. Haynes was the grandson of Chang Bunker, one of the original "Siamese Twins"?Binksternet
Rancho Little Temecula02-08-2010(server down)... that the Mexican land grant Rancho Little Temecula in California was one of the few granted to an indigenous American, though the court's decision came after the death of the applicant?Emargie,
Binksternet
Hotel Valley Ho01-07-20105000... that Bette Davis, Roy Rogers, Frankie Avalon, Humphrey Bogart, Betty Grable, Janet Leigh, Cary Grant and Tony Curtis all stayed at the Hotel Valley Ho (pictured) in Scottsdale, Arizona?Binksternet,
Dr. Blofeld
Helen Bright Clark12-25-2009338... that Helen Bright Clark was one of the first British women to sign the Open Christmas Letter which sought to extend the hand of peace "To the Women of Germany and Austria" during World War I?Binksternet
Open Christmas Letter12-25-2009806... that Helen Bright Clark was one of the first British women to sign the Open Christmas Letter which sought to extend the hand of peace "To the Women of Germany and Austria" during World War I?Binksternet
Hans-Georg von Seidel12-23-20095400... that the Quartermaster General of the Luftwaffe, Hans-Georg von Seidel, said after World War II that "Hitler understood nothing about flying and cared less"?Binksternet
Seenotdienst12-19-20095400... that the German Seenotdienst (early aircraft pictured) was the first air-sea rescue service?Binksternet
Rancho Monserate12-19-2009817... that the adobe chapel built by Tomas Alvarado on the eastern third of Rancho Monserate in California is the only 1870s structure still standing?Emargie,
Binksternet
Type (designation)12-11-20092000... that the Type numbering system in Japan specified that the Mitsubishi A6M of 1940 would be designated "Type 0 Carrier Fighter", giving rise to the popular name "Zero"?Binksternet
Rommelspargel12-06-20099100... that during the invasion of Normandy, more than a million Rommelspargel poles (pictured) placed to injure Allied paratroopers and glider infantry proved ineffective?Binksternet
Associated Motion Picture Pilots12-04-2009498... that Paul Mantz was permitted to join the Associated Motion Picture Pilots, a union of Hollywood stunt fliers, after performing a world record 46 outside loops in a row?Binksternet
St. Clair Streett11-30-20093600... that the controls of St. Clair Streett's biplane became immobile at high altitude, where the temperature was −78 °F (−61 °C)?Binksternet
Gordon P. Saville11-26-2009729... that after the heavy American casualties over the oil refineries of Ploieşti in Operation Tidal Wave, General Gordon P. Saville called it "ridiculous and suicidal"?Binksternet
Vernon Burge11-23-20091800... that Vernon Burge was the first American enlisted man to be certified as a military aviator?Binksternet
John C. "Pappy" Herbst11-22-2009(server down)... that American flying ace John C. "Pappy" Herbst painted a swastika on his P-51B Mustang to indicate an aerial victory he said he earned while flying with the Royal Canadian Air Force?Binksternet
Clinton D. "Casey" Vincent11-20-20093700... that fighter ace Clinton D. "Casey" Vincent served as the prototype for two comic strip characters after his wife sent photographs to cartoonist Milton Caniff?Binksternet
Harold M. McClelland11-20-20092500... that, in a publicity stunt from an aircraft, Harold M. McClelland dropped three baseballs on Babe Ruth who was "knocked flat" by the first two?Binksternet
Jet blast deflector11-17-20097600... that the most recent jet blast deflector (example pictured) developed for the USS George H.W. Bush is covered with heat-dissipating ceramic tiles similar to those used on the Space Shuttle?Binksternet
Industrial web theory11-12-20096200... that the industrial web theory was originally based on the conviction by Air Corps Tactical School instructors that a fleet of heavy bombers was invincible?Binksternet
Air War Plans Division11-11-20092200... that secret bombing priorities drawn up by the Air War Plans Division were compromised by Senator Burton K. Wheeler three days before the attack on Pearl Harbor?Binksternet
Robert M. Webster11-10-20091500... that Robert M. Webster studied New York City utilities in the 1930s to determine the best way to bomb an enemy's industrial base?Binksternet
Lozenge camouflage11-10-20099400... that Central Powers combat pilots often painted individual color schemes on their personal aircraft (example pictured) in spite of the factory-applied lozenge camouflage?Binksternet
Odas Moon11-07-20094000... that Lieutenant Odas Moon "bombed" the USS Langley with three ripe tomatoes?Binksternet
Aircraft camouflage11-04-200927400... that experiments with modern aircraft camouflage (pictured) have used panels that emit light?Binksternet
Aerial torpedo11-02-200910400... that Rear Admiral Bradley A. Fiske patented the aerial torpedo (example pictured) in 1912, and said it could be used against an enemy fleet in its own harbor?Binksternet
Amphibious helicopter09-28-200911000... that the first practical amphibious helicopter was created in 1941 when Igor Sikorsky fitted floats to his VS-300 (pictured)?Binksternet
A-1 lifeboat09-21-20096600... that the Higgins Industries A-1 lifeboat was first dropped by parachute to save six American airmen stranded in the North Sea in 1945?Binksternet
Rancho Buena Ventura09-19-2009919... that Rancho Buena Ventura, the northernmost Mexican land grant in California, was given to Pierson B. Reading in 1844 even though he was never a Mexican citizen?Emargie,
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Airborne lifeboat09-12-20092700... that the first airborne lifeboat carried by bombers converted to air-sea rescue service was designed in the UK by Uffa Fox?Binksternet
Air-sea rescue09-12-2009694... that the first peace-time air-sea rescue unit equipped entirely with helicopters was No. 275 Squadron RAF in 1953?Binksternet
Dumbo (air-sea rescue)09-11-200910800... that American Dumbo rescue flights (aircraft pictured) worked with submarines and surface boats to help save downed airmen in the Pacific War?Binksternet
Rancho Cañada de Pogolimi09-07-20091300... that Rancho Cañada de Pogolimi, a fertile California ranch exceeding 8,780 acres (35.5 km2), was granted in 1844 to María Antonia Cazares who was married at 14 and widowed at 17?Emargie,
Binksternet
Parabolic loudspeaker08-31-20092600... that one of the public address applications of parabolic loudspeakers is to project sound waves in a 10° cone pattern 300 feet (90 m) away?Binksternet
Monticello, California08-29-20093900... that Dorothea Lange and Pirkle Jones were commissioned to take photographs of Monticello, California as it was being prepared for destruction?Binksternet
Rancho Las Putas08-19-20092700... that the majority of Mexican land grant Rancho Las Putas was covered by Lake Berryessa in 1957?Emargie,
Binksternet
San Francisco Art Association08-10-2009292... that the San Francisco Art Association used the expansive Palace of Fine Arts to show a small collection of public art, and lost money each year from 1915 to 1922?Binksternet
The Californian (1840s newspaper)08-06-20091200... that The Californian, California's first newspaper, appeared first in August 1846 on large sheets of cigarette paper, with English on one side and Spanish on the other?Binksternet
Richard Henry Savage08-05-20094000... that Richard Henry Savage (pictured) served in Egypt for a year with Charles Pomeroy Stone in the Egyptian Army, under Khedive Isma'il Pasha?Binksternet
The Californian (1880s magazine)08-05-2009217... that Anton Roman's literary magazine The Californian, published in 1880, was a continuation of his earlier Overland Monthly?Binksternet
The Californian (1860s newspaper)08-04-2009253... that "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" was one of the stories Mark Twain published in the San Francisco weekly literary newspaper The Californian?Binksternet
James F. Bowman08-02-2009429... that journalist James F. Bowman wrote a grandiose poetry review for The Californian newspaper, then published an anonymous review in the Dramatic Chronicle savaging his earlier review?Binksternet
Henry Edwards (entomologist)08-01-2009280... that a farewell gathering for entomologist Henry Edwards in the woods of Marin County in 1878 was the beginning of the Bohemian Club's tradition of a yearly encampment at the Bohemian Grove?Binksternet
Daniel O'Connell (journalist)07-30-2009507... that Irish-born journalist and poet Daniel O'Connell worked for a number of newspapers in San Francisco and was one of the co-founders of the Bohemian Club?Binksternet
Harvey Hancock07-27-2009566... that, when Murray Chotiner produced the infamous "pink sheet" against opponent Helen Gahagan Douglas, Richard Nixon's Northern California campaign manager Harvey Hancock refused to run it?Binksternet
Harold L. George07-24-20092300... that USAAF Lieutenant General Harold L. George (pictured), the unofficial leader of the "Bomber Mafia", became mayor of Beverly Hills, California, after World War II?Binksternet
Bomber Mafia07-24-200911700... that USAAF Lieutenant General Harold L. George (pictured), the unofficial leader of the "Bomber Mafia", became mayor of Beverly Hills, California, after World War II?Binksternet
Peter R. Arnott07-24-2009737... that the band "Goodtime Washboard Three", with Peter R. Arnott on banjo, played on April Fools' Day in 1967 for Bing Crosby as he hosted the television show The Hollywood Palace?Binksternet
Joe Knowland07-23-20091600... that wealthy newspaper publisher Joe Knowland played a prison guard in his first feature film, Escape from Alcatraz, at the age of 49?Binksternet
Elliott Cresson07-21-20091100... that philanthropist Elliott Cresson received autographs of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson from ex-president James Madison?Binksternet
Ina Coolbrith07-17-20091400... that Ina Coolbrith (pictured), the first woman granted honorary membership in the Bohemian Club, was also the first California Poet Laureate?Binksternet
Richard Bunger Evans07-13-2009282... that in 1973, composer Richard Bunger Evans wrote The Well-Prepared Piano, a classic work describing prepared piano technique?Binksternet
Nino Marcelli07-12-2009203... that Italian composer and American citizen Nino Marcelli led the San Diego High School orchestra to achieve a national reputation in the 1930s?Binksternet
Wallace Arthur Sabin07-09-2009500... that England-born American composer Wallace Arthur Sabin was the first dean of the San Francisco chapter of the American Guild of Organists?Binksternet
Cremation of Care07-09-20092000... that the Cremation of Care ceremony is performed on the first night of the Bohemian Club's annual summer encampment at the Bohemian Grove?Binksternet
Ulderico Marcelli07-08-2009628... that Italian composer and bandleader Ulderico "Rico" Marcelli married the violin soloist from his own Fibber McGee and Molly radio show band?Binksternet
Domenico Brescia07-08-2009300... that Domenico Brescia wrote in 1919 that he was probably the first composer to use a chromatic set of cowbells as a symphony instrument?Binksternet
Headroom (photographic framing)07-03-20099500... that the concept of headroom (pictured) in still and motion picture photography originates in the rule of thirds from classic portrait painting?Binksternet
List of Grove Plays07-03-2009609... that the annual Grove Plays staged by the Bohemian Club at the Bohemian Grove have been described as "lumbering pageants?Binksternet
Joel Selvin06-27-2009202... that San Francisco Chronicle pop music critic Joel Selvin was an early member of the rock and roll band Rock Bottom Remainders, made up of authors and journalists?Binksternet
Barney M. Giles06-11-20092200... that, in September 1945, Lieutenant General Barney M. Giles piloted one of three B-29 Superfortresses that were the first to fly nonstop from Japan to the United States?Binksternet
Oliver P. Echols06-11-20091800... that Chief Engineer Oliver P. Echols (pictured) arranged a high-level military demonstration for the Hughes H-1 Racer but Howard Hughes and the plane did not show up?Binksternet
Hannah Tracy Cutler06-02-2009736... that Hannah Tracy Cutler wrote an advice column for farm girls before she became president of the American Woman Suffrage Association in 1870?Binksternet
The Woman's Bible06-01-20096300... that her controversial publishing of The Woman's Bible in the 1890s effectively ended Elizabeth Cady Stanton's further influence in the woman suffrage movement?Binksternet
Abigail Bush05-11-2009960... that Abigail Bush, in 1848, was the first American woman to serve as president of a women's rights convention?Binksternet
Free produce movement05-05-2009735... that an 1830s newspaper article in Freedom's Journal in favor of the free produce movement determined that the sugar consumption of 25 people required the toil of one slave?Binksternet
Howard A. Chinn04-23-20091100... that Howard A. Chinn, while working as chief audio engineer at CBS in 1943, wrote a classified report about enemy radar?Binksternet
Come-outer04-22-20092700... that several abolitionist come-outers put on trial in Barnstable, Massachusetts in 1851 were called "poor deluded beings" in The Barnstable Patriot?Binksternet
Stephen Symonds Foster04-13-20091900... that abolitionist Stephen Symonds Foster was thrown in jail in 1838 for two weeks during his senior year at Dartmouth but still managed to graduate third in his class?Binksternet
National Women's Rights Convention04-11-2009458... that, at the National Women's Rights Convention in Cincinnati in 1855, Lucy Stone responded to a heckler, saying "...disappointment is the lot of woman"?Binksternet
Benjamin S. Kelsey04-04-20091000... that, as Fighter Project Officer for the United States Army Air Corps, Ben Kelsey crashed two P-38 Lightning aircraft including the only prototype built?Binksternet
Clarence W. W. Mayhew11-29-2008743... that architect Clarence W. W. Mayhew, known as an innovator of the contemporary ranch house in California, admitted copying "the underlying principle" from Japanese architecture?Binksternet
100 McAllister Street11-26-20081700... that the tower located at 100 McAllister St (pictured) in San Francisco used to be a Methodist church, a hotel and an IRS office building before it was refurbished for residential use by students at UC Hastings?Binksternet
Yucca Flat07-12-20085400... that a subsidence crater (pictured) resulting from a nuclear test in 1962 at Yucca Flat is listed in the U.S. National Register of Historic Places?Binksternet
Did you know nominations of others' articles
Article Date Image DYK views DYK hook Authors
The Saguache Crescent03-04-20142500... that The Saguache Crescent might be the last newspaper in the world to use linotype?Gandydancer
Fantasy Studios08-13-20111600... that Fantasy Studios was built on profits from hit songs by Creedence Clearwater Revival?Skallikat
Tim Ryan (engineer)03-31-20117100... that Tim Ryan's first electronic product was supposed to compete with a US$15 synthesizer module but ended up at a price of US$30,000?Synthfiend
Rancho New Helvetia02-07-20101300... that the Mexican land grant, Rancho New Helvetia, was given to German-Swiss immigrant John Sutter to serve as a buffer between Californio lands and "marauding bands of hunters and trappers"?Emargie
Ralph Royce12-25-20091700... that, in 1930, Ralph Royce flew aircraft in such severe cold weather operations that the Mackay Trophy was awarded to him?Hawkeye7
Rancho Los Medanos08-06-20091900... that Mexican land grant Rancho Los Medanos was called "New York of the Pacific" by the New York army colonel who bought it?Emargie
Rancho Los Meganos08-04-20092200... that John Marsh, the first Anglo owner of Rancho Los Meganos, was murdered in 1856 by employees who thought he was cheating them?Emargie
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