User:Boston/DYK List

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 * 1) ...in 2005, Adam Bruce became the first herald appointed to Clan Donald of Scotland in 510 years?
 * 2) ...Alex Perelson is the youngest professional skaterboarder in the vert field?
 * 3) ...Alliance for Open Society International, operator of drug rehabilitation programs for heroin addicts in Central Asia, sued the U.S. Government over the anti-prostitution pledge?
 * 4) ... that Amedei Porcelana chocolate is used in a $1000 ice cream sundae?
 * 5) ...New York writer and socialite Anthony Haden-Guest is both son of the 4th Baron Haden-Guest and the brother-in-law of actress Jamie Lee Curtis?
 * 6) ...that Amherst College president Arthur Stanley Pease was an "indefatigable pedestrian" and mountaineer who studied plants in the White Mountains?
 * 7) ...at the Atlantic House on Cape Cod during World War I, Pulitzer Prize-winner Eugene O'Neill was arrested at gun point as a spy for the Kaiser?
 * 8) ...that archedictyon is a hypothetical scheme of wing venation proposed for the common ancestor of all winged insects?
 * 9) ...ball culture, as seen in Paris is Burning, has drag houses that compete for 12' tall trophies and prizes of $1000 or more?
 * 10) ...a banjee is a type of young Latino or Black man who has sex with men and dresses in urban fashion?
 * 11) ...Baudet de Poitou is a rare breed of donkey with a shaggy coat?
 * 12) ...Bartholomew Gilbert failed to establish a colony on Cape Cod in 1602 which would have been the first English colony in the Americas?
 * 13) ...that Irish television celebrity Bazil Ashmawy was born in Libya and is half Egyptian?
 * 14) ...there are stories of Metacomet, sachem of the Wampanoag Indians, meeting with allies near Bear's Den Falls to plan attacks on Massachusetts towns during King Philip's War?
 * 15) ...The Bostonian Society was formed in 1881 to prevent the Old State House, site of the Boston Massacre, from being moved to Chicago?
 * 16) ...a botánica is a Latin American store that sells religious goods, magical paraphernalia and brand name health care products?
 * 17) ...the Buffalo Treehopper is an insect named for its resemblance to the American Bison?
 * 18) ...Bridge Island Meadows is an inaccessible nature reserve on the floodplains of the Charles River in Massachusetts?
 * 19) ...Brookesia minima may be the smallest species of chameleon?
 * 20) ...Julius Caesar is believed to have taken a nap under the Caesarsboom yew in West Flanders?
 * 21) ...the Candystripe Leafhopper is a vector for Pierce's disease?
 * 22) ...shortly before Christmas 1942 a possible Nazi spy walked into the Irish village of Castletownroche and was apprehended by the Garda?
 * 23) ...Celebrity Bainisteoir is an Irish reality programme about managing Gaelic football clubs?
 * 24) ...Children's Wharf in Boston has a 40' tall milk bottle that was built during the Great Depression and transported to the wharf by barge in the 1970s?
 * 25) ...members of the Chinese Hand Laundry Alliance faced surveillance, interrogation, and harassment by the FBI?
 * 26) ...the Choctaw Hog is a "critically rare" breed of pig found in the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma?
 * 27) ...Chroogomphus is an edible mushroom that grows as a parasite in pine forests?
 * 28) ...that chemosynthesis, the process enabling deep sea invertebrates to survive without sunlight, was discovered by Colleen Cavanaugh?
 * 29) ...George Washington Morrison Nutt, better known by his stage name Commodore Nutt, grew only 37 in tall?
 * 30) ...the first president of the World Association of Copepodologists was a veteran of the Polish resistance movement in World War II?
 * 31) ...the Croaking Tetra is a tropical fish that "chirps" when it comes to the surface to gulp air?
 * 32) ..."Methuen Duck Cloth" manufactured by David Nevins, Jr. was used to make sails and tents in the tropics?
 * 33) ...Davi Kopenawa Yanomami, a shaman of the indigenous people of Brazil, received an award from the United Nations Environmental Program?
 * 34) ...Fitchburg State College researchers in Lancaster, Massachusetts used artificial lights to mimic the bioluminescence of fireflies on Dexter Drumlin?
 * 35) ...there are Dinosaur Footprints in the Connecticut River Valley?
 * 36) ...Frederick Law Olmsted planned for The Dorchesterway to extend his Emerald Necklace park system all the way to Boston Harbor?
 * 37) ...Dralasites are an amoeboid extraterrestrial race depicted in science fiction role-playing games for the past 25 years?
 * 38) ...Dwyer's Snake is only weakly venomous and coils into a ball when threatened?
 * 39) ...the Edmonson sisters were African American slaves who tried to escape to freedom and became celebrity abolitionists?
 * 40) ...the Emancipation Memorial, a monument in Washington, DC, was paid for by former slaves?
 * 41) ...Espiritismo is the Latin American and Caribbean belief that good and evil spirits can affect health, luck and other elements of human life?
 * 42) ...the 1983 song "Everyday I Write the Book" was Elvis Costello's first hit single in the United States?
 * 43) ..."Fart Proudly" is an essay about flatulence written by Benjamin Franklin?
 * 44) ..."Fight Fiercely, Harvard" is a satirical college fight song written by a mathematician?
 * 45) ...Creobroter is a praying mantis that uses ant mimicry as a juvenile and flower mimicry when adult?
 * 46) ...the Ghost Mantis looks like a dead leaf?
 * 47) ...Sphodromantis viridis, the Giant African Mantis, is kept worldwide as a pet?
 * 48) ...the Giant Dead Leaf Mantis falls to the ground and lies motionless when threatened?
 * 49) ...the Golden Resources Mall in Beijing, the second-largest shopping mall in the world, has attracted as few as 20 shoppers in an hour?
 * 50) ...the 25 species of Goodyera comprise just one of over 800 genera of orchids?
 * 51) ...the Great Trail created by Native Americans connected the Great Lakes region to New England and the mid-Atlantic?
 * 52) ...Haghpat Monastery in Armenia was placed on the World Heritage List over 1,000 years after it was founded?
 * 53) ...that philanthropist Harriet Nevins left an animal shelter, and a fountain to the people of Massachusetts?
 * 54) ...Hawayo Takata, a Nisei fluent in the language and culture of both Japan and the United States, introduced Reiki to the Western World?
 * 55) ...the face of Chicago native Hazel Lavery adorned the banknotes of Ireland for seventy years?
 * 56) ...Henri Lhote believed that prehistoric rock art in the Sahara Desert was evidence of ancient astronauts?
 * 57) ...the widow of Henry Coffin Nevins left a million dollars for the construction of a Home for Aged and Incurables?
 * 58) ...Henry Taylor Parker, a critic nicknamed "Hard-to-Please", was "Boston's oracle on theatre and music" for 29 years?
 * 59) ...there are more than 1,200 historical markers in Ohio?
 * 60) ...three members of the Hot 8 Brass Band have died as a result of gun violence in New Orleans?
 * 61) ...the university mascot called "the Ichabod" is named after Ichabod Washburn, an owner of the world's largest wire mill?
 * 62) ...Iraqi American scientist Ihsan Ali Al-Shehbaz is the world authority on bladderpods?
 * 63) ...more than 550 varieties of mango are showcased in the International Mango Festival held in Delhi?
 * 64) ...Mark Twain and General Custer visited P. T. Barnum in Iranistan?
 * 65) ..."James Brown Is Dead" is an electronic dance music reference to James Brown and the widespread sampling of his music?
 * 66) ...James Palacio of the HBO series Oz was an empress of the Imperial Court System?
 * 67) ...João Maria de Sousa is the current Attorney General of Angola?
 * 68) ...J-ska is contemporary Japanese music with origins in the music of Jamaica?
 * 69) ...Junqueirópolis, a municipality in São Paulo, Brazil, is nicknamed "Acerola Capital" for its agriculture?
 * 70) ...that Pierre Trudeau was "known to paddle" the Kazabazua River in Quebec?
 * 71) ...Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg is often cited as the longest place name in the United States?
 * 72) ...some Norton, Massachusetts residents have trouble selling their homes because Lake Winnecunnett is "a weed-infested, mosquito breeding swamp"?
 * 73) ...the Landmarks Foundation helps conserve sacred sites such as the stone spheres of Costa Rica and the moai of Easter Island?
 * 74) ...Larantuka is an Indonesian district known for Roman Catholic Holy Week processions?
 * 75) ...the Larz Anderson Bonsai Collection in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts has a Hinoki Cypress over 250 years old?
 * 76) ...Leonard Crofoot, a dancer in The Singing Detective, has had three Star Trek roles?
 * 77) ...there are approximately 2,000 species of mantis?
 * 78) ..."Woolwick" was a fictional name for Kent, Ohio in the writing of Boston Evening Transcript journalist Lucien Price?
 * 79) ...Macleay's Spectre is a stick insect that grows up to 20 cm (8 inches) long?
 * 80) ...Maxime de la Falaise, called "the only truly chic Englishwoman" by Cecil Beaton, said that "no straight man was attractive" in the 1970s' fashion industry?
 * 81) ...the Mediterranean mantis (Iris oratoria) is capable of virgin birth?
 * 82) ...Meller's Chameleon catches insects and birds 50 cm (20 inches) away with its tongue?
 * 83) ...mizuna is a cold-resistant mustard green grown extensively during winter in Japan?
 * 84) ...the Mobile Tigers, a Negro League baseball team, paid pitcher Satchel Paige "$1 when the gate was good and a keg of lemonade when it wasn't"?
 * 85) ...John Quincy Adams II, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and William Gordon Weld helped form the MSPCA?
 * 86) ...symbiotic moss animals live on the bristles of the crab known as the MudRunner?
 * 87) ...the Narragansett Turkey is a breed of domestic turkey unique to North America and named after Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island?
 * 88) ...the Normal School for Colored Girls was incorporated into the University of the District of Columbia?
 * 89) ...that Orthodera novaezealandiae is a praying mantis native only to New Zealand?
 * 90) ...that the sudden collape of the Pemberton Mill was one of the worst industrial accidents in American history?
 * 91) ...Petticoat Hill, a nature reserve in Williamsburg, Massachusetts, is said to be named after laundry hung on a clothesline?
 * 92) ...Photuris pennsylvanica, a species of lightning bug, is Pennsylvania's state insect?
 * 93) ...that pink tide is a term for the growing influence of left-wing politics in Latin America?
 * 94) ...Poecilostomatoida are parasitic crustaceans frequently with antennae modified to attachment to host organisms?
 * 95) ...Poli's Stellate Barnacle is hermaphroditic and has a penis significantly longer than its body?
 * 96) ...the Pomeranian Goose was developed by Northern German farmers centuries ago, but only officially recognized as a breed in 1912?
 * 97) ...Foxy Brown namechecks Sean Combs on the song Pretty Girl Bullshit?
 * 98) ...11-year old Prince Joseph Wenzel of Liechtenstein is regarded by Jacobites as heir to the throne of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland?
 * 99) ...pteridomania is the Victorian era craze for fern collecting and for fern motifs in decorative art?
 * 100) ..."Push It To The Limit", a pop rap song by Corbin Bleu, was recently the most downloaded song at the iTunes Store?
 * 101) ...Queen of Japan members use aliases that sound like Japanese names and are known for synthpop covers of artists such as John Lennon?
 * 102) ...Paul Simon's ballad "Rene And Georgette Magritte With Their Dog After The War" portrays the surrealist painter as an admirer of doo-wop music?
 * 103) ...the River Carron has given its name to a type of naval cannon, a line of bathtubs, two warships and an island in the Southern Hemisphere?
 * 104) ...Ruby Bundleflower, an abundant weed in parts of Mexico, produces beans used in salsa?
 * 105) ...the Rufous Songlark is an Australian songbird that sometimes ends up as roadkill?
 * 106) ...the Rum Swizzle is a often called "Bermuda's national drink?
 * 107) ...the Sajama Lines in Bolivia took 3,000 years to make and might be considered the largest artwork in the world?
 * 108) ...according to the New Mexico Legislature, the Sandia Hairstreak butterfly "symbolizes the ability of New Mexican residents to thrive year-round in a semiarid climate"?
 * 109) ...sang piao xiao is praying mantis egg case used in traditional Chinese medicine to treat impotence and premature ejaculation?
 * 110) ...male spiders, scorpions and mantids have special strategies to avoid sexual cannibalism?
 * 111) ...the song "Shambala" by Three Dog Night has a gospel music sound and Tibetan Buddhist subject matter?
 * 112) ...Shreve, Crump & Low, the oldest jeweler in North America, designed the Davis Cup and the Cy Young Award?
 * 113) ...the Silver Appleyard is one of the best egglayers amongst large breeds of duck?
 * 114) ...at less than 11 feet (3.4 m) wide, the Skinny House (pictured) is the narrowest house in Boston, Massachusetts?
 * 115) ...the Silver Appleyard is one of the best egglayers amongst large breeds of duck?
 * 116) ...the Silver Marten rabbit likes playthings to toss around its cage?
 * 117) ...sleeve garters were first used in the 19th century and are still worn by poker dealers and barbershop musicians?
 * 118) ...the spray pool on Boston Common doubles as an ice-skating rink in winter?
 * 119) ...St. Patrick's Blue, rather than green, was long the colour most associated with the patron saint of Ireland?
 * 120) ...Tantiusques, a graphite mine which John Winthrop purchased from the Nipmuck in 1644, became the Dixon Ticonderoga pencil company?
 * 121) ...according to Themba Mabaso, the State Herald of South Africa, the flag of South Africa is read like a written document?
 * 122) ...Thyrocopa is a genus of flightless moth endemic to Hawaii?
 * 123) ...Tiia Piili, four-time FISAF World Champion in sport aerobics, got food poisoning attending a competition in Morocco?
 * 124) ...trepanging is the harvesting of sea cucumbers?
 * 125) ...that pomologist Ulysses Prentiss Hedrick devoted separate monographs to cherries, grapes, peaches, pears, and plums?
 * 126) ...Valri Bromfield performed stand-up comedy on the first episode of Saturday Night Live?
 * 127) ...ancient herds of White Park, a rare breed of horned cattle, have been preserved in Great Britain from the Middle Ages?
 * 128) ...Travel + Leisure named Wasque ("way-squee") on Chappaquiddick the number one beach in New England?
 * 129) ...the Yokohama Museum of Art has Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dalí in its collection?
 * 130) Amphibios 9
 * 131) Anderson Ruffin Abbott
 * 132) Ancistrochilus rothschildianus
 * 133) Annunciation Melkite Catholic Cathedral
 * 134) '''Asher Roth
 * 135) Brachygobius nunus
 * 136) Bridges TV
 * 137) Callianassa subterranea
 * 138) Centruroides bicolor
 * 139) Centruroides limbatus
 * 140) Camponotus vagus
 * 141) Cripple and the Starfish
 * 142) Friends of Gilda
 * 143) Gold-whiskered Barbet
 * 144) Gigantotomy
 * 145) Indian Love Call
 * 146) John Nies
 * 147) Mantis in Lace
 * 148) Muzzammil Hassan
 * 149) Pheidologeton diversus
 * 150) Red Scapular of the Passion
 * 151) species group
 * 152) Vespula pensylvanica

Noms

 * 1) ....................? (I forget at least one)
 * 2) Cara Duff-MacCormick
 * 3) For the Love of Ray J
 * 4) Lorne Munroe
 * 5) Moonchildren
 * 6) Rosary and scapular
 * 7) Sonia Chang-Díaz