User:ColonelHenry/DYKHooks

07MAR14: DYK for William the Silent (statue)
The DYK project (nominate) 16:13, 7 March 2014 (UTC)

28FEB14: DYK for Poet Laureate of New Jersey
The DYK project (nominate) 14:33, 28 February 2014 (UTC)

27JAN14: DYK for New Brunswick Theological Seminary
Looks good. Thanks for helping with the DYK project Victuallers (talk)) 00:42, 27 January 2014 (UTC)

17DEC13: DYK for Meralda Warren
Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 03:02, 17 December 2013 (UTC)

05DEC13: DYK for Remember not, Lord, our offences
Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 08:01, 5 December 2013 (UTC)

23NOV13: DYK for Finn M. W. Caspersen
Gatoclass (talk) 01:52, 23 November 2013 (UTC)

21NOV13: DYK for Queens Campus
The DYK project (nominate) 00:02, 21 November 2013 (UTC)

19NOV13: DYK for Lieutenant Governor of New Jersey
Gatoclass (talk) 08:02, 19 November 2013 (UTC)

11NOV13: DYK for A Song for Simeon
The DYK project (nominate) 08:02, 11 November 2013 (UTC)

20OCT13: DYK for Daniel S. Schanck Observatory
The DYK project (nominate) 08:04, 20 October 2013 (UTC)

06OCT13: DYK for Geology Hall
The DYK project (nominate) 08:03, 6 October 2013 (UTC)

26SEP13: DYK for Samuel Merrill Woodbridge
Gatoclass (talk) 05:49, 26 September 2013 (UTC)

15SEP13: DYK for Kirkpatrick Chapel
The DYK project (nominate) 08:02, 15 September 2013 (UTC)

03FEB14: A Song for Simeon


"A Song for Simeon" is a 37-line poem written in 1928 by American-British poet T. S. Eliot (1888–1965). It is one of five poems that he contributed to the Ariel poems series of 38 illustrated pamphlets with holiday themes by several authors published by Faber and Gwyer and sent to the firm's clients and business acquaintances as Christmas greetings. Eliot had converted to Anglo-Catholicism in 1927 and his poetry, starting with the Ariel Poems (1927–31) and Ash Wednesday (1930), took on a decidedly religious character. The poem retells the story of Simeon from the Gospel of Luke. Simeon was a devout Jew told by the Holy Ghost that he would not die until he saw the Saviour of Israel. When he encounters Mary, Joseph and the infant Jesus entering the Temple of Jerusalem, he sees in the infant the Messiah promised by the Lord and asks God to permit him to "depart in peace." Eliot's poem employs references to the Nunc dimittis, a Christian liturgical prayer for Compline, and literary allusions to earlier writers Lancelot Andrewes, Dante Alighieri and St. John of the Cross. Several critics have debated whether Eliot's depiction of Simeon is evidence of Eliot's anti-Semitism.

21JAN14: Lieutenant Governor of New Jersey


The Lieutenant Governor of New Jersey is an elected constitutional officer in the executive branch of the state government of New Jersey in the United States. The person elected to this position is the second highest-ranking official in the state government. Before 2010, New Jersey was one of a few U.S. states that did not have a lieutenant governor. Two men were appointed to the office during brief periods in New Jersey's colonial era (1664–1776), but for most the state's history, the senate president would become "acting governor" during vacancies in the governor's office. After the resignations of Governors Christine Todd Whitman in 2001 and Jim McGreevey in 2004, the state had several acting governors in the span of a few years. Popular sentiment and political pressure from the state's residents and news media outlets sought a better rule for gubernatorial succession. In a referendum, the state's voters authorized a 2006 amendment to the State Constitution to create the position. In the 2009 gubernatorial election, voters elected Republican Kim Guadagno (pictured) to be the first to serve in the post in its modern form.

11DEC13: Samuel Merrill Woodbridge


Samuel Merrill Woodbridge (1819–1905) was an American clergyman, theologian, author, and college professor. A graduate of New York University and the New Brunswick Theological Seminary, Woodbridge served several congregations in New York and New Jersey for sixteen years as a minister in the Reformed Church in America. He was the eleventh generation in a large family of English and American clergymen dating back to the late fifteeth century. After accepting a pastoral call in New Brunswick, New Jersey, he was appointed professor of ecclesiastical history and church government at the New Brunswick Theological Seminary, where he taught for 44 years. He also taught for seven years as professor of "metaphysics and philosophy of the human mind" at Rutgers College (now Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey). Woodbridge later led the New Brunswick seminary as Dean and President of the Faculty from 1883 to 1901—both positions were equivalent to a seminary president. He was the author of three books and several published sermons and addresses covering various aspects of Christian faith, theology, church history and governance.

14OCT13: List of colonial governors of New Jersey
 

New Jersey was overseen by a succession of colonial governors in the 150 years prior to the American Revolution. James, Duke of York, divided New Jersey between George Carteret and John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton in 1664, to reward their support of the monarchy during the English Civil War and Interregnum. They sold their interests to two groups of proprietors who divided these holdings into two colonies—East Jersey and West Jersey. Remaining in England, these proprietors tended to administer the colony through deputies until the 1690s. The proprietors for East and West Jersey surrendered their political authority to the British Crown in 1702, and New Jersey was then unified as a crown colony under an appointed governor. At first, the colony shared its governor with the neighboring Province of New York (1702–38), and then had its own (1738–76). As tensions between colonists and the King rose to rebellion, the last royal governor, William Franklin (pictured), was deposed and arrested in June 1776 by order of the colony’s transitional government.

02AUG13: Duino Elegies
 The Duino Elegies are a collection of ten poems written by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926), a Bohemian-Austrian poet. The elegies are intensely religious, mystical poems that employ a rich symbolism of angels and salvation weighing beauty and existential suffering while addressing issues such as the limits of the human condition, loneliness, love and death. Rilke began writing the elegies in 1912 while a guest of Princess Marie von Thurn und Taxis (1855–1934) at Duino Castle near Trieste, and they were dedicated to her upon publication. Aside from brief episodes of writing in 1913 and 1915, Rilke did not return to the work until a few years after the end of World War I. With a sudden, renewed inspiration—writing in a frantic pace he described as a "boundless storm, a hurricane of the spirit"—he completed the collection in February 1922 while staying at Château de Muzot in Veyras, Switzerland. The delay in completing the work was because he suffered frequently from severe depression caused by the events of the war. The Duino Elegies are recognized by critics and scholars as his most important work, and have influenced many poets and writers in the twentieth century.

24APR13: Alcohol laws of New Jersey
 The state laws governing the control of alcohol beverages in New Jersey are unique; they are among of the most complex in the United States and contain many peculiarities not found in other states. New Jersey law grants individual municipalities substantial discretion in creating ordinances that regulate the sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages. A small percentage of municipalities in the state are "dry towns" that do not allow alcoholic beverages to be sold. Other towns permit alcohol sales 24 hours a day. New Jersey history of taverns and alcohol production dates to its early colonial period. A local distillery owner was asked by George Washington for his recipe for "cyder spirits." With the rise of the temperance movement, New Jersey's alcohol industry suffered; many breweries, wineries and distilleries either closed or relocated to other states. The legacy of Prohibition restricted and prevented the industry's recovery until the state legislature began loosening restrictions starting in 1981. New Jersey's alcohol industry is experiencing a renaissance, and recently enacted laws provide new opportunities for the state's wineries and breweries.