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(Complete 5/21/07-7/24/20)

Basketball

 * 1) 1973–74 Detroit Pistons season (52–30 fourth place in the Western Conference)
 * 2) Charles Bemies DYK ... ... that Charles Bemies organized the first college basketball team in the 1890s and later became a Presbyterian minister and evangelist?
 * 3) Cleveland Rosenblums DYK  ... that the Cleveland Rosenblums, owned by department store owner Max Rosenblum, won the first championship of the newly formed American Basketball League in 1926?
 * 4) Fred Cozens (first head coach of both basketball and football at UCLA and athletic director from 1919-42)
 * 5) Robert Duax (head coach at St. Ambrose, 1951-1966; AfD rescue) [expanded 2015]
 * 6) Newman Ertell (Wayne State basketball coach 1929-1948) [created 2017]
 * 7) Indiana Hoosiers basketball coaches: Ed Cook (1908), Robert Harris (1909), Oscar Rackle (1911), James Kase (1912), Arthur Berndt (1914-15), Allan Williford (1916), Dana Evans (1917-19), Leslie Mann (1923-24)
 * 8) Max Kase DYK ... that Max Kase wrote in support of jazz and flappers in 1922, helped found the NBA in 1946, and won a Pulitzer Prize in 1952 for exposing college basketball point-shaving scandals?
 * 9) Bill Lange DYK ... that Bill Lange led the North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball program to its first ever NCAA Tournament appearance in 1941?
 * 10) Emil Liston DYK ... that Emil "Liz" Liston, founder of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics and organizer of the NAIA college basketball tournament, was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1975?
 * 11) Michigan State Spartans men's basketball coaches: Charles Bemies (1899-1901), George Denman (1901-03), John Macklin (1910-16), George Gauthier (1916-20), Lyman Frimodig (1920-22), Mysterious Walker (1922-24), John Kobs (1924-26)
 * 12) Buck Read (Western Michigan basketball coach 1922-1949) [expanded 2017]
 * 13) Christian Steinmetz DYK  ... that Christian Steinmetz was the inaugural Helms Foundation College Basketball Player of the Year in 1905, despite being only 5 ft tall and weighing 137 lb?

Detroit Red Wings

 * 1) Nick Libett (left wing, 1967-79; led the NHL in games played four times, scored at least 20 goals six times, averaged over 50 points a season from 1971 to 1975, represented Detroit in the 1977 NHL All-Star Game, and finished seventh in the voting for the Frank J. Selke Trophy during the 1978-79 season)
 * 2) 1935–36 Detroit Red Wings season - Stanley Cup champion [expanded 2019]

College hockey coaches

 * 1) List of college men's ice hockey coaches with 400 wins
 * 2) List of college women's ice hockey coaches with 250 wins
 * 3) Bill Beaney DYK... that Bill Beaney led Middlebury College to an unprecedented five straight national men's ice hockey championships and ranks 11th on the all-time NCAA hockey win list?
 * 4) Don Brose (head hockey coach at Concordia and Minn. St., 1958-200; record of 540–363–79 (.590))
 * 5) Tim Coghlin DYK... that Tim Coghlin advanced to the Frozen Four in six of the past eight years and has the second highest career winning percentage among the 100 all-time winningest college men's hockey coaches?
 * 6) Bob Emery DYK ... that Bob Emery at age 46 already ranks among the 20 all-time winningest college men's ice hockey coaches, with 465 wins?
 * 7) John Kobs DYK ... that John Kobs, Michigan State's first ice hockey coach, switched Baseball Hall of Famer Robin Roberts from a first baseman to a pitcher? (head baseball coach at Michigan State, 1925-63)
 * 8) Mike McShane DYK ... that Mike McShane led Norwich University to eight Frozen Fours and ranks ninth all-time among NCAA men's ice hockey coaches with 564 wins?
 * 9) Don Roberts DYK... that Legends of College Hockey Don Roberts was assigned to coach hockey despite having never played the sport and coached his team in boots due to his unsteadiness on skates?
 * 10) John Rolli (head hockey coach at Mass. Dartmouth, 1985-2010; record of 511–151–24 (.762))
 * 11) Ed Saugestad DYK ... that Ed Saugestad began coaching the Augsburg College hockey team while he was still a student and led the school to three NAIA national championships in 37 years as the coach?

Other

 * 1) Hobey Baker Legends of College Hockey Award

Sports journalism

 * 1) Edward A. Batchelor DYK: ... that Detroit sportswriter E.A. Batchelor popularized a nickname for the Notre Dame football team by opening a 1909 game account, "Eleven fighting Irishmen wrecked the Yost machine this afternoon"?
 * 2) Norman E. Brown (sportswriter and sports editor for the Central Press Association)
 * 3) Paul H. Bruske DYK ... that Detroit sportswriter Paul Bruske drove a Flanders "20" roadster from Quebec City to Mexico City in 1910 and later managed Eddie Rickenbacker's racing team?
 * 4) Central Press Association (newspaper syndication company, 1910-71; supplied content to more than 400 newspapers and 12 million daily readers at its peak)
 * 5) Gordon Cobbledick (journalist for the Cleveland Plain Dealer and Cleveland Times, 1923-64)
 * 6) John Drebinger (sportswriter for The New York Times, 1923-64; writer's wing of Baseball Hall of Fame)
 * 7) Charles Dryden DYK ... that baseball humorist Charles Dryden dubbed the 1906 White Sox the "Hitless Wonders" and said of the 1909 Senators: "Washington – first in war, first in peace and last in the American League"?
 * 8) Joe Falls (sportwriter in Detroit, 1945-2003; writer's wing of Baseball Hall of Fame)
 * 9) Wilton S. Farnsworth DYK ... that sportswriter Bill Farnsworth teamed with Damon Runyon in promoting boxing bouts that raised more than $1 million for Hearst's Free Milk Fund for Babies?
 * 10) Charley Feeney (sportswriter in New York, 1946-63, and Pittsburgh, 1966-86; inducted into writer's wing of Baseball Hall of Fame)
 * 11) Dick Gordon DYK ... that sportswriter Dick "Scoop" Gordon earned his nickname for reporting at The Daily Princetonian in 1930, and filed his last sports story for the Villager in 2008?
 * 12) Alan J. Gould DYK ... that sports editor Alan J. Gould invented college football's AP Poll in 1936 as an "exercise in hoopla," to fill space between games, and "to keep the pot boiling"?
 * 13) Frank Graham DYK ... that Baseball Hall of Fame sportswriter Frank Graham, once described as "psychopathically polite," loved the "shadowy figures and rogues that dwelt on the fringes of his favorite sports"?
 * 14) Harry Grayson (sporting editor of the Newspaper Enterprise Association from 1934 to 1963)
 * 15) Jerry Green DYK ... that Jerry Green was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2005 and is one of four sports writers to cover each of the first 45 Super Bowls?
 * 16) Sam Greene DYK ... that Sam Greene, who covered Detroit sports from 1922 to 1963, was called "one of America's best known sports chroniclers," "a gentlemanly patriarch" and one of sport's "most beloved figures"?
 * 17) James Isaminger (Philadelphia sportswriter who played a major role, along with Hugh Fullerton and Ring Lardner, in breaking the story of the Black Sox scandal in 1919)
 * 18) Joe S. Jackson DYK ... that Joe S. Jackson founded the Baseball Writers Association after reporters at the 1908 World Series had "to climb a ladder to the roof of the first base pavillion and write in the rain and snow"?
 * 19) Max Kase DYK ... that Max Kase wrote in support of jazz and flappers in 1922, helped found the NBA in 1946, and won a Pulitzer Prize in 1952 for exposing college basketball point-shaving scandals?
 * 20) Earl Lawson DYK ... that after Baseball Hall of Fame sportswriter Earl Lawson had altercations with both Johnny Temple and Vada Pinson, he joked that Pinson was a harder puncher?
 * 21) Leo Macdonell (sports writer at the Detroit Times, 1924-57, president of the Baseball Writers Association of America in 1946)
 * 22) Frank G. Menke (wrote for Hearst Newspapers, 1912-32; articles appeared daily in 300 newspapers and billed as "America's Foremost Sport Writer")
 * 23) Paul Purman (syndicated writer who in 1910s selected an All-America football team for the Newspaper Enterprise Association)
 * 24) George Puscas (sports writer) (sports writer for Detroit Free Press 1946-2006) [created 2017]
 * 25) H. G. Salsinger (sports editor of The Detroit News, 1909-58; president of both the Baseball Writers Association of America and the Football Writers Association of America; writer's wing of Baseball Hall of Fame)
 * 26) Lyall Smith DYK: ... that Lyall Smith successfully lobbied for the first post-bowl AP Poll in 1948 to settle competing championship claims by undefeated Notre Dame and Michigan football teams?
 * 27) Watson Spoelstra (sportswriter for The Detroit News, 1945-73; president of the Baseball Writers Association of America, 1968; grandfather of Erik Spoelstra)
 * 28) Sporting Life
 * 29) Jack Veiock (sporting editor of the International News Service from 1916 to 1921)

Other sports

 * 1) List of college field hockey coaches with 250 wins
 * 2) List of college men's soccer coaches with 350 wins
 * 3) List of college women's basketball coaches with 600 wins
 * 4) List of college women's lacrosse coaches with 250 wins
 * 5) List of college women's soccer coaches with 250 wins
 * 6) List of college women's volleyball coaches with 700 wins
 * 7) NCAA Men's Track and Field Championships: 1921, 1922, 1923, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1948, 1956, 1960
 * 8) Lorri Bauman DYK ... that Lorri Bauman in 1984 became the first women's collegiate basketball player to score 3,000 points and still holds all-time NCAA records for field goals and free throws?
 * 9) Claude Bracey DYK ... that Claude Bracey, know as "the Texas Flyer," won the 100- and 220-yard sprints at the 1928 NCAA Men's Track and Field Championships and tied the world record in the 100-meter race in 1932?
 * 10) Dick Gould DYK... that NCAA tennis coach Dick Gould was named "Coach of the Decade" for both the 1980s and 1990s and coached 50 All-Americans, including John McEnroe and the Bryan Brothers?
 * 11) Flint Hanner DYK... that Stanford's Flint Hanner, winner of the first 1921 NCAA javelin championship, later coached the Fresno State Bulldogs to 27 track and field championships?
 * 12) Ernie Lopez DYK... that the selection of Ernie "Indian Red" Lopez for the California Boxing Hall of Fame led to his discovery in a Texas homeless shelter after being missing for 12 years?
 * 13) J. D. Morgan (UCLA tennis coach from 1949-66, with 8 NCAA tennis championships; athletic director, 1963-79, a period during which UCLA won 30 NCAA championships, including 10 basketball championships)
 * 14) Chet Murphy DYK... that Big Ten champion Chet Murphy defeated America's top-ranked woman tennis player Alice Marble in a 1939 exhibition match played in front of a "throng" of spectators?
 * 15) Gloria Nord DYK ... that pin-up girl Gloria Nord attracted more than a million people to her rolling skating exhibitions in 1942 and 1943 and later gave a command performance for Queen Elizabeth II?
 * 16) Leonard Paulu DYK... that Leonard Paulu won consecutive NCAA championships in the 100 yard dash despite war injuries that included the loss of an eye and a right-leg stride four inches shorter than his left?
 * 17) Charles Redmon (first NCAA hammer throw champion, 1921)
 * 18) John Romig DYK... that Penn State's  John Romig, the first NCAA champion in the two-mile run, later became an explosives expert?
 * 19) Frank Shea (first NCAA 440-yard dash champion, 1921)
 * 20) Longino Welch (first NCAA pole vault champion, 1921; Georgia Tech Hall of Fame)
 * 21) Eric Wilson DYK... that American athlete Eric Wilson won the 220-yard dash at the first NCAA track and field championships in 1921?

Michigan

 * 1) 1865 in Michigan (created 2017)
 * 2) 1875 in Michigan (created 2017)
 * 3) 1885 in Michigan (created 2017)
 * 4) 1895 in Michigan (created 2017)
 * 5) 1901 in Michigan (created 2017)
 * 6) 1905 in Michigan (created 2017)
 * 7) 1910 in Michigan (created 2017)
 * 8) 1915 in Michigan (created 2017)
 * 9) 1920 in Michigan (created 2017)
 * 10) 1924 in Michigan-1994 in Michigan (70 articles, created 2017-19)
 * 11) 2017 in Michigan-2020 in Michigan (created 2018-2020)
 * 12) Michigan population templates: 1860 1870 1880 1890, 1900, 1910, 1920, 1930, 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1980
 * 13) Ralph Crego (mayor of Lansing, 1943-1961) [created 2017]
 * 14) School of Information Sciences, Wayne State University (AfD rescue 2018)
 * 15) Wayne State University School of Social Work (AfD rescue 2018)
 * 16) Anita Cantaline - Michigan bowler (created 2019)

Movies

 * 1) Aram Avakian (Armenian-American film editor and director; directed Jazz on a Summer's Day (1960) and End of the Road (1970). [expanded 2009]
 * 2) Art Directors Guild Hall of Fame [created 2009]
 * 3) George Beban DYK ... that the 1915 film The Italian tells the story of an immigrant played by George Beban who goes to America in search of fortune but finds a "Darwininan jungle" on New York's Lower East Side?
 * 4) Wilfred Buckland DYK ... that an exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1980 argued that "everything we know as Hollywood traces to Wilfred Buckland, film innovator and Hollywood's first art director?
 * 5) Branding Broadway (1918 American western film directed by and starring William S. Hart, written by C. Gardner Sullivan) [created 2009]
 * 6) Cheap Kisses (1924 silent drama film starring Jean Hersholt as a famous sculptor, written by C. Gardner Sullivan) [created 2009]
 * 7) Civilization (film) DYK ... that the epic anti-war film Civilization, depicting Jesus walking through the carnage of war, was credited with helping re-elect U.S. President Woodrow Wilson in 1916?
 * 8) The Corner (1916 film western written by C. Gardner Sullivan) [created 2009]
 * 9) The Coward (1915 silent historical war drama film with story and scenario by C. Gardner Sullivan) [created 2009]
 * 10) Dulcy (1923 silent American comedy film starring Constance Talmadge) [created 2009]
 * 11) Dynamite Smith (1924 American silent drama film directed by Ralph Ince and written by C. Gardner Sullivan) [created 2009]
 * 12) Rob Epstein DYK ... that Rob Epstein, Academy Award-winning director of The Times of Harvey Milk, also directed Paragraph 175 chronicling the treatment of homosexuals in Nazi Germany?
 * 13) The Golden Claw (1915 American dramatic film produced by Thomas H. Ince, written by C. Gardner Sullivan) [created 2009]
 * 14) The Green Swamp (1916 silent drama starring Bessie Barriscale and written by C. Gardner Sullivan) [created 2009]
 * 15) Shorty Hamilton DYK ... that silent film comedian Shorty Hamilton died in 1925 when his automobile crashed into a steam shovel in Hollywood?
 * 16) Happiness (1917 comedy-drama feature film written by C. Gardner Sullivan and starring Enid Bennett and Charles Gunn) [created 2009]
 * 17) Hell's Hinges (1916 silent film starring William S. Hart and Clara Williams written by C. Gardner Sullivan) [expanded 2009]
 * 18) John Herzfeld DYK ... that Daytime Emmy Award winner and Golden Raspberry Awards nominee John Herzfeld has directed films about the Long Island Lolita, the Preppie Murder, Ryan White, Don King, and 2 days in the Valley?
 * 19) If Marriage Fails (lost 1925 film directed by John Ince and written by C. Gardner Sullivan) [created 2009]
 * 20) The Italian DYK ... that the 1915 film The Italian tells the story of an immigrant played by George Beban who goes to America in search of fortune but finds a "Darwininan jungle" on New York's Lower East Side?
 * 21) The Lady of Red Butte (1919 Western written by C. Gardner Sullivan; Dorothy Dalton stars as a benevolent saloonkeeper in conflict with a fanatical religious zealot) [created 2009]
 * 22) Arnold Laven DYK ...  that Arnold Laven directed feature films about a psychotic gardener/serial killer, an army of giant mollusks and George Armstrong Custer, and episodes of The A-Team?
 * 23) Bill Littlejohn DYK ... that the work of "animation God" Bill Littlejohn includes Tom and Jerry, A Charlie Brown Christmas and an Oscar-winning short with Dizzie Gillespie debating the possibility of nuclear war?
 * 24) Luke Matheny DYK ... that Luke Matheny, whose hair was described as "a vast black bouffant that makes him look like an untidy microphone", began his Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film acceptance speech by joking, "I should've gotten a haircut"?  [created 2011]
 * 25) ''Naughty, Naughty (1918 American silent comedy film starring Enid Bennett and written by C. Gardner Sullivan) [created 2009]
 * 26) Ninjas vs. Zombies (2008 independent film parodying the science fiction, horror, zombie and ninja genres) [expanded 2008]
 * 27) The Return of Draw Egan (1916 silent era western drama motion picture starring William S. Hart, Louise Glaum, written by C. Gardner Sullivan) [created 2009]
 * 28) Sahara (1919 American dramatic film written by C. Gardner Sullivan starring Louise Glaum; story of love and betrayal in the Egyptian desert) [created 2009]
 * 29) The Scourge of the Desert (915 American silent short Western starring William S. Hart written by C. Gardner Sullivan) [created 2009]
 * 30) Sex (film) DYK ... that the 1920 film Sex, opening with its star performing a seductive "spider dance" clad in "a translucent cloak of webs", had its title censored in Pennsylvania?
 * 31) Shell 43 (1916 American war film written by C. Gardner Sullivan) [created 2009]
 * 32) C. Gardner Sullivan DYK ... that C. Gardner Sullivan, once named among the ten greatest contributors to the motion picture industry, has four films in the U.S. National Film Registry?
 * 33) Lorenzo Tucker DYK ... that a scandal arose when African-American actor Lorenzo Tucker, known as the "Black Valentino", playing a pimp in a play, kissed Mae West, playing a prostitute?
 * 34) Wagon Tracks DYK ... that The Atlanta Constitution wrote that William S. Hart's face was "the synonym for power and manliness" in its review of the film Wagon Tracks?
 * 35) Paul Weiland DYK ... that director Paul Weiland, whose credits include Mr. Bean, Sixty Six and more than 500 television commercials, owns an 18th-century country estate in Wiltshire, England?
 * 36) Raymond B. West DYK ... that Raymond B. West developed a new standard of double exposure photography while directing a 1917 film in which one actress played two sisters?
 * 37) Clara Williams DYK ... that silent film star Clara Williams, known for her "forty famous frocks", appeared in more than 100 films between 1910 and 1918?
 * 38) The Witch of Salem (1913 silent short written by C. Gardner Sullivan, stars Clara Williams and Charles Ray) [created 2009]
 * 39) The Wolf Woman DYK ... that reviewers called The Wolf Woman the "greatest vampire picture of all" and its star, Louise Glaum, "the greatest vampire woman of all time"?
 * 40) The Yankee Clipper (1927 American adventure film produced by Cecil B. DeMille) [created 2009]

Television

 * 1) Grace and Glorie
 * 2) Jan Leighton DYK ... that Jan Leighton played over 1,200 famous persons in television and print advertisements, and 1,800 more on radio?
 * 3) The Lie (CBS Playhouse 90)
 * 4) Montserrat (Hollywood Television Theatre)
 * 5) Sacco-Vanzetti Story (created 2020)
 * 6) The Scarecrow (Hollywood Television Theatre)
 * 7) Victoria Regina (Hallmark Hall of Fame)

Playhouse 90

 * Template:Playhouse 90 (created 2020)
 * 1) In the Presence of Mine Enemies (Playhouse 90) (created 2020)
 * 2)  The Killers of Mussolini (Playhouse 90) (created 2020)
 * 3) The Plot To Kill Stalin (Playhouse 90) (created 2020)
 * 4) Martin Manulis DYK ... that Martin Manulis was the producer of Playhouse 90, voted the greatest television series of all time in a 1970 poll of television editors? (start 2014)
 * 5) Massacre at Sand Creek (Playhouse 90) (expanded 2020)
 * 6) Before I Die (Playhouse 90)
 * 7) The Edge of Innocence (Playhouse 90)
 * 8) Homeward Borne (Playhouse 90)
 * 9) The Fabulous Irishman (Playhouse 90)
 * 10) The Hostess with the Mostes' (Playhouse 90)
 * 11) Eloise (Playhouse 90)
 * 12) Heritage of Anger (Playhouse 90)
 * 13) The Country Husband (Playhouse 90)
 * 14) Rendevous in Black (Playhouse 90)
 * 15) Sizeman and Son (Playhouse 90)
 * 16) The Blackwell Story (Playhouse 90)
 * 17) Heart of Darkness (Playhouse 90)
 * 18) Helen Morgan (Playhouse 90)
 * 19) No Time at All (Playhouse 90)
 * 20) A Town Has Turned to Dust (Playhouse 90)
 * 21) Forbidden Area (Playhouse 90)
 * 22) The Big Slide (Playhouse 90)
 * 23) Sincerely, Willis Wayde (Playhouse 90)
 * 24) Alas, Babylon (Playhouse 90)
 * 25) The Hiding Place (Playhouse 90)
 * 26) Tomorrow (Playhouse 90)
 * 27) The Shape of the River (Playhouse 90)
 * 28) Journey to the Day (Playhouse 90)
 * 29) The Cruel Day (Playhouse 90)
 * 30) To the Sound of Trumpets (Playhouse 90)
 * 31) A Dream of Treason (Playhouse 90)
 * 32) The Silver Whistle (Playhouse 90)
 * 33) The Tunnel (Playhouse 90)
 * 34) The Grey Nurse Said Nothing (Playhouse 90)
 * 35) The Hidden Image (Playhouse 90)
 * 36) Misalliance (Playhouse 90)
 * 37) The Sounds of Eden (Playhouse 90)
 * 38) Target for Three (Playhouse 90)

Music, art and writers

 * 1) Template:Lucinda Williams [created 2007]
 * 2) A Sleepin' Bee [created 2007]
 * 3) Animals albums/songs: Template:The Animals, The Twain Shall Meet, Winds of Change, Good Times, Monterey, San Franciscan Nights [created 2007]
 * 4) Hugo Bettauer DYK ... that Hugo Bettauer, author of a satire depicting Vienna after expulsion of its Jews, was shot and killed in 1925 after Nazis branded him a "Red poet" and "corruptor of youth"?
 * 5) Junior Coghlan DYK ...  that Frank Coghlan said "damn" in Gone with the Wind, but is best known known for saying "Shazam" in The Adventures of Captain Marvel, the first big screen depiction of a comic book superhero?
 * 6) Confession Blues (the first single by Ray Charles record to chart)
 * 7) Celso Duarte DYK ... that Paraguayan and jarocho harpist Celso Duarte began touring at age 10 and has performed with his band at Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center and the Getty Center?
 * 8) Bruno Fonseca DYK ... that Bruno Fonseca's paintings The War Murals, inspired by violence in Eastern Europe, have been called "the most powerful statement of their kind since Picasso's great Guernica"?
 * 9) Jesse Fortune DYK ... that blues singer Jesse Fortune, better known as the "Fortune Tellin' Man," passed on performing in Europe because he did not want to disappoint customers at his Chicago barbershop?
 * 10) Gerry Goffin [expanded 2007]
 * 11) Mary Ann (Ray Charles song) (the third Ray Charles song to reach No. 1 on the Billboard Best Selling Rhythm & Blues chart)
 * 12) Madelon Mason (newspapers dubbed her "America's Cover Girl" for 1946)
 * 13) Skip Miller DYK ... that former Motown Records president Skip Miller began his career as a stock clerk and has been credited with helping to develop the rap genre?
 * 14) My Mammy [created 2007]
 * 15) Joanne Siegel DYK ... that Joanne Siegel was the original model for Lois Lane and later married Superman's co-creator?
 * 16) The Swimming Hole (an 1884–85 painting by the American artist Thomas Eakins depicting six men swimming naked in a lake, is considered a masterpiece of American painting) [expanded a bit 2008]
 * 17) Yes Sir, That's My Baby (song) [created 2007]
 * 18) You're Driving Me Crazy [created 2007]
 * 19) Anton Zamloch  DYK ... that 19th century magician and vaudeville star Anton Zamloch was accused, and then exonerated, of having "bewitched" a woman's wedding ring from her gloved hand?

Exotica and tiki culture

 * 1) Chaino DYK ... that bongo player Chaino, whose albums included Jungle Mating Rhythms, claimed to be an orphan from a lost tribe in central Africa but was actually born in Philadelphia and raised in Chicago? [created 2011]
 * 2) Augie Colon (percussionist in exotica genre) [created 2017]
 * Template:Martin Denny [created 2017]
 * Primitiva [created 2017]
 * Forbidden Island (album) [created 2017]
 * Quiet Village: The Exotic Sounds of Martin Denny [created 2017]
 * Hypnotique [created 2017]
 * 1) Orienta (album) DYK ... that the exotica album Orienta by "Star Trek" composer Gerald Fried was said to resemble the dreams of a person who has fallen asleep during a Fu Manchu movie on television? [created 2011]
 * 2) Polynesian Fantasy (album by The Out-Islanders released in 1961) [created 2011]
 * 3) Tak Shindo DYK ... that Manzanar internee Tak Shindo went on to become a "Giant of Jazz" for exotica albums like Mganga! and Brass and Bamboo? [created 2011]

Southern California

 * 1) Obadiah J. Barker (businessman) [created 2009]
 * 2) Charles H. Crawford DYK ... that George Cryer, Mayor of Los Angeles in the Roaring Twenties, was allegedly controlled by the city's political boss Kent Kane Parrot and vice king Charles H. Crawford, whose coterie of bootleggers and criminals was known as the "City Hall Gang"?
 * 3) George E. Cryer DYK ... that George Cryer, Mayor of Los Angeles in the Roaring Twenties, was allegedly controlled by the city's political boss Kent Kane Parrot and vice king Charles H. Crawford, whose coterie of bootleggers and criminals was known as the "City Hall Gang"?
 * 4) Mentryville, California [created 2008]
 * 5) Montecito Tea Fire DYK ... that the Montecito Tea Fire, which destroyed more than 200 homes in California, was caused by smoldering embers from a bonfire party at an abandoned tea house?
 * 6) Victor Orsatti (Hollywood agent in the 1930s)
 * 7) Bill Paparian DYK ... that Bill Paparian, who visited Cuba while mayor of Pasadena, California, was reported to admire both Che Guevara and the U.S. Marine Corps?
 * 8) Kent Kane Parrot DYK ... that George Cryer, Mayor of Los Angeles in the Roaring Twenties, was allegedly controlled by the city's political boss Kent Kane Parrot and vice king Charles H. Crawford, whose coterie of bootleggers and criminals was known as the "City Hall Gang"?
 * 9) Pico Boulevard DYK ...that the 1947 song "Pico and Sepulveda" by Felix Figueroa & His Orchestra about an intersection along LA's Pico Boulevard was frequently featured on Dr. Demento's syndicated radio show?
 * 10) Procopio DYK ... that 19th-century California bandit Procopio, also known as Red-Handed Dick, was said to "love the feel and the color of warm blood," and his name was used by mothers to frighten their children?
 * 11) Santa Monica State Beach DYK ...that the Veterans for Peace erect a memorial called Arlington West every Sunday at Santa Monica Beach consisting of a cross in the sand for each U.S. military person who has died in the Iraq War? (2008)
 * 12) Sayre Fire DYK ... that the Sayre Fire resulted in the worst loss of homes due to fire in the history of Los Angeles, surpassing the loss of 484 residences in the 1961 Bel Air fire? (2008)
 * 13) Robert P. Shuler DYK ... that radio evangelist "Fighting Bob" Shuler, known for his attacks on politicians and support of the Ku Klux Klan, received 25% of the votes in a 1932 US Senate election in California?

Miscellaneous

 * 1) Animal furniture (refers both to furniture used by animals and to furniture made from animals) (AfD rescue)
 * 2) John F. Antisdel (hotelier) [created 2010]
 * 3) David Avadon DYK ... that David Avadon earned his livelihood for 30 years as "a daring pickpocket with dashing finesse"?
 * 4) Berthold Beitz DYK ... that businessman Berthold Beitz saved hundreds of Jews, including tailors, hairdressers and Talmudic scholars, by designating them as essential to Nazi Germany's war effort?
 * 5) Charles Bond DYK ... that Maj. Gen. Charles Bond was credited with shooting down nine-and-a-half Japanese planes and was himself shot down twice while serving with the Flying Tigers in Burma and China?
 * 6) Lincoln "Babe" Broyhill DYK ... that B-17 Flying Fortress tailgunner "Babe" Broyhill set a record by destroying two Messerschmitt ME-262 jet fighters in a mission over Berlin in March 1945?
 * 7) Chilocco Indian Agricultural School [created 2009]
 * 8) W.I.B. Crealock DYK... that naval architect and author W.I.B. Crealock designed a yacht that was inducted into the American Sailboat Hall of Fame?
 * 9) Death of Jane Bashara (AfD rescue 2012)
 * 10) Death by coconut DYK ... that according to an urban legend, coconuts kill more people than sharks each year?
 * 11) Dickshooter, Idaho DYK ... that Dickshooter was named for Dick Shooter?
 * 12) Louis R. Douglass (Bureau of Reclamation, 1933-54; in charge of Hoover Dam and surrounding park land for four years)
 * 13) John T. Elson DYK ... that John T. Elson, who famously asked, "Is God Dead?" in 1966, is dead at age 78? (2009)
 * 14) Bobbi Fiedler (a former U.S. Representative from California who made a name for herself as a strong opponent of forced busing)[created 2008]
 * 15) Garden Gnome Liberationists DYK ... that the leader of the French Garden Gnome Liberation Front was given a suspended sentence after the group "liberated" over 150 garden gnomes in 1997? (AfD rescue)
 * 16) Donald Goerke DYK... that Donald Goerke invented SpaghettiOs, choosing the "O" over pasta shaped like baseballs, cowboys, and spacemen, and later ran the company's dog food division?
 * 17) Gogebic Range DYK  ...that Ralph Heikkinen was the first All-American football player from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, being raised in the Finnish-American communities of the Gogebic Range?
 * 18) Maria Gulovich Liu DYK... that Maria Gulovich sheltered Jews, worked for the anti-fascist underground, and was awarded the Bronze Star for saving the lives of OSS agents during World War II?
 * 19) Rachel Hirschfeld DYK... that attorney Rachel Hirschfeld works in the field of pet rights, including the creation of pet trusts allowing pets to inherit property?
 * 20) Zoia Horn DYK ... that the Zoia Horn Intellectual Freedom Award is named for a librarian who was jailed for refusing to testify in the 1972 trial of the Harrisburg Seven anti-war activists?
 * 21) Clarence Chesterfield Howerton DYK ... that Clarence Chesterfield Howerton, aka Major Mite, was billed as the world's smallest man?
 * 22) Royce Howes DYK ... that Royce Howes won the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing for an editorial on the shared responsibility of labor and management for an unauthorized strike that put 45,000 Chrysler workers out of work?
 * 23) Orville L. Hubbard (mayor of Dearborn, Michigan, 1942-78; outspoken segregationist; during his administration, non-whites were aggressively discouraged from residing in Dearborn, and Hubbard's longstanding campaign to "Keep Dearborn Clean" was widely understood to mean "Keep Dearborn White")
 * 24) Waldo Hunt DYK... that Waldo Hunt, "King of the Pop-Ups," could "make dinosaurs rear up, ships set sail and bats quiver in belfries"?
 * 25) John Hyson DYK... that John Hyson published articles on the history of the toothbrush, George Washington's dentures, and one entitled "Did You Know A Dentist Embalmed President Lincoln?"?
 * 26) June Krauser (co-founder of masters swimming who set 154 national records and 73 world records)
 * 27) Dick Liddil DYK... that James-Younger Gang member "Dick" Liddil surrendered to authorities after killing Jesse James' cousin, reportedly out of fear of that James would seek revenge?
 * 28) Willie Louis DYK ... that Willie Louis has been called a hero of the African-American Civil Rights Movement for testifying in 1955 against two white men accused of murdering 14-year-old Emmett Till?
 * 29) Iolani Luahine DYK... that Iolani Luahine, considered the high priestess of the ancient hula, was said to be able to "call up the wind and the rain" and to "make animals do her bidding"?
 * 30) Stuart Macrae DYK ... that the sticky bomb was designed by Stuart Macrae at a laboratory known as "Winston Churchill's Toyshop"?
 * 31) Victor Martinez (Mexican American poet and author; won the 1996 U.S. National Book Award for Young People's Literature for his first novel, Parrot in the Oven: Mi Vida) [created 2011]
 * 32) John P. McCormick DYK ... that the Chicago Tribune ' s John P. McCormick received the 2002 Distinguished Writing Award for Editorial Writing for his work on 9/11, Afghanistan, and the sale of naming rights for Soldier Field?
 * 33) Alice McGrath DYK ... that Luis Valdez called American activist Alice McGrath, who inspired his play Zoot Suit, "one of the heroines of the 20th century"?
 * 34) Joseph Thomas McGucken (Archbishop of San Francisco, 1962-77) [created 2008]
 * 35) Donna Mae Mims DYK... that Donna Mae Mims, known as the "Pink Lady" of racing, became the first woman to win a Sports Car Club of America national championship in 1963?
 * 36) Dodge Morgan DYK ... that radar detector millionaire Dodge Morgan at age 54 sailed solo around the globe without stops in 150 days, shattering the prior record of 292 days?
 * 37) Charles Muscatine (Chaucer scholar fired from Berkeley for refusing to sign a McCarthyite oath; later won reinstatement to his post at Berkeley in a landmark 1951 court decision) [expanded 2010]
 * 38) New Bethel Baptist Church (Detroit, Michigan) (church led by the Rev. C. L. Franklin, 1946-1979) [expanded 2017]
 * 39) Arnall Patz DYK... that ophthalmologist Arnall Patz received the Presidential Medal of Freedom for solving one of "the great medical mysteries of the postwar?
 * 40) Nicolae Pleşiţă DYK ... that former Romanian secret police chief Nicolae Pleşiţă, notorious for his dealings with Carlos the Jackal, admitted dragging dissident writer Paul Goma around his cell by his beard?
 * 41) Lee Robins DYK... that Lee Robins "pioneered the field of psychiatric epidemiology" and "played a key role in determining the prevalence of mental problems in the United States and the world"?
 * 42) Henri Salmide DYK... that Heinz Stahlschmidt was credited with saving 3,500 French lives when he refused to blow up the port of Bordeaux and instead blew up the munitions bunker, killing approximately 50 Germans?
 * 43) Murray Sayle DYK ... that Australian Murray Sayle, known for his "rat-like cunning", was a war correspondent in Vietnam, tracked Che Guevara through the Bolivian jungle, climbed Mt. Everest and sailed solo across the Atlantic?
 * 44) Sylvia Schur (food columnist credited with developing Clamato and cranapple juice) [expanded 2009]
 * 45) Robert Searcy DYK ... that Robert Searcy, who served with the Tuskegee Airmen in World War II, was employed after the war by United Airlines cleaning aircraft?
 * 46) Shamir DYK ... that "If It Wasn't True" from countertenor Shamir's 2014 Northtown EP was called "Your Favorite Breakup Song" by Vogue and "semidissonant pulses tickled by antsy snares and hi-hats" by Dazed?
 * 47) Lester Shubin DYK... that chemist Lester Shubin has been credited with saving the lives of thousands of police officers?
 * 48) Leonard Skinner DYK ... that The New York Times called Leonard Skinner, the namesake of Lynyrd Skynyrd, "arguably the most influential high school gym teacher in American popular culture"?
 * 49) Herbert Spiegel DYK... that psychiatrist Herbert Spiegel, whose work established hypnosis as a legitimate medical therapy, used "Sybil" as a demonstration case for his hypnosis classes at Columbia University?
 * 50) Sunburst (community) (a spiritual community in the late 1960s, inspired by an idea for self-sustaining World Brotherhood Colonies) [expanded a bit 2008]
 * 51) Bartlett L. Thane (American mining engineer who pioneered hydroelectric power in Juneau, Alaska, and designed the world's first thin arch dam, Salmon Creek Dam) [created 2011]
 * 52) The Tidings [created 2008]
 * 53) George H. Torney (Surgeon General of Navy 1909-13) [created 2010]
 * 54) Gene Wettstone (Penn State gymnastics coach, 1939-76)
 * 55) World Charter for Prostitutes' Rights DYK ... that the World Charter for Prostitutes' Rights, adopted in 1985, calls for the right to unemployment insurance and decriminalization of adult prostitution?
 * 56) Felix Wurman DYK... that cellist Felix Wurman founded the Church of Beethoven, described by NPR as "a church for people who don't go to church," in an abandoned gas station off Route 66 in New Mexico?