User:Flewis/DYK

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 * [[Image:LinkFA-star.png|14px|Featured list]] - Mark of the Year

DYK?
... that George Greville, 2nd Earl of Warwick was baptized at St. Mary's, Warwick, with King George I standing as his sponsor? ... that molecular farming is a type of genetic modification involving the use of plants, and potentially also animals, as the means to produce compounds of therapeutic value? ... that the resentment generated during the Drifts Crisis indirectly sparked the Second Boer War? ... that the British failure to break through Ottoman lines in the Battle of Wadi during WWI, led to Charles Townshend's disastrous surrender following the Siege of Kut? ... that the Local Void is an empty region of space, devoid of matter, lying adjacent to our own Milky Way galaxy? ... that Richard Marson, former chief editor of the BBC's Blue Peter also worked freelance for such companies as Disney, Planet 24 and LWT? ... that the Laughing Baby, a YouTube viral video which has expanded into a worldwide internet phenomenon, has been viewed by over 65 million people including Queen Elizabeth II?

... that U.S. president-elect Barack Obama delivered his acceptance speech (pictured) from behind 2 inches (51 mm) of bulletproof glass? ... that Ann Nixon Cooper, the subject of Barack Obama 's presidential acceptance speech, served for more than fifty years on the board of Gate City Nursery Association? ... that despite being captured during the Battle of the Philippines, the Nurse Corps regiment known as the Angels of Bataan continued to serve as a nursing unit throughout their internment?