User:Zeete/DYK

  DYK On 00:00–08:00, 29 May 2012 (UTC), ... that the first privateer battle of the American Revolutionary War was fought at Turtle Gut Inlet?  DYK On 16:00–00:00, 2 June 2012 (UTC), ... that Richard Wickes was the first American casualty of the American Revolutionary War in New Jersey?  DYK On 16:00–00:00, 18 August 2012 (UTC), ... that during the American Revolutionary War, HMS Kingfisher (1770) served in the Burning of Norfolk and the Battle of Turtle Gut Inlet, and was ultimately burnt by her own crew to avoid capture?  DYK On 00:00–12:00, 13 July 2013 (UTC), lead item (1),  ... that the captain of the brig Nancy (pictured) is said to have raised the first American flag in a foreign port, during the Revolutionary War?
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 * Recognized content: Maryland (1)
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 * Recognized content: Ships (1)
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 DYK On 13:15–01:00, 12–13 August 2013 (UTC), lead item (2),  ... that the Government House (pictured) in New York, built in 1790 by the state, was intended to be the executive mansion of President George Washington, but he never occupied it?
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 * Recognized content: New York City (1)
 * DYKSTATS (1)



 DYK On 15:15–03:00, 16–17 December 2013 (UTC), ... that the General John Frelinghuysen House, originally a c. 1756 tavern and town hall, is now the public library in Raritan, New Jersey?  DYK On 18:20–02:00, 11–12 January 2014 (UTC), lead item (3), ... that Thomas Davies, a Royal Artillery officer, was the first to illustrate and describe the Superb Lyrebird (pictured)?
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 * Recognized content: New Jersey (2), NRHP (1)
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 * Superb Lyrebird – 2,564 views



 DYK On 08:45–21:00,16 January 2015 (UTC), ... that the British Captain William Leslie was buried with military honours after the Battle of Princeton by the American General George Washington?  DYK On 00:45–12:00, 24 February 2015 (UTC), ... that while at Ross Hall, General George Washington ordered a feu de joie?  DYK  Double entry (1) On 00:45–08:30, 14 April 2015 (UTC), lead item (4), ... that the sculptor whose bust of Alexander Hamilton was used as a model for the head of another sculptor's statue (pictured) later lost his own head?
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 * Recognized content: Scotland (1)
 * DYKSTATS (2)
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 * Recognized content: New Jersey (3)
 * feu de joie – 7,515 views
 * Bust – 2,133 views
 * Recognized content: Sculpture (1)
 * Statue – 1,660 views
 * Recognized content: New York City (2), Sculpture (2)
 * Combined entry – 3,793 views
 * Sculptor – 3,128 views


 * Photo by Zeete (1)

 DYK On 05:30–13:45, 22 April 2015 (UTC), lead item (5), ... that Kathryn Bache Miller fell in love with the Red Boy (pictured)?
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 * Recognized content: Women's History (1)
 * DYKSTATS (3)



 DYK On 15:15–23:30, 24 April 2015 (UTC), ... that George Washington refused to accept a marble bust of himself as a gift, and wouldn't pay $1,500 for it either?  DYK On 07:20–19:30, 4 May 2015 (UTC), ... that Monmouth University Library was originally the summer home of Murry and Leonie Guggenheim?  DYK On 00:00–14:00, 20 May 2015 (UTC), ... that Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zuñiga (1784–1792) was recently reunited with his parents? <li> DYK On 00:00–12:00, 20 January 2016 (UTC), lead item (6), ... that in The Death of General Mercer at the Battle of Princeton, January 3, 1777 (pictured), the painter used the general's son as a model?
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 * Recognized content: Sculpture (3)
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 * Recognized content: New Jersey (4), NRHP (2)
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 * Recognized content: Spain (1)
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 * Recognized content: New Jersey (5)
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<li> DYK On 00:00–12:00, 23 January 2016 (UTC), ... that the steeple of the Readington Reformed Church was blown over by a cyclone on January 3, 1913, and restored one hundred years later? <li> DYK On 12:00–00:00, 31 January 2016 (UTC), ... that a January 1913 Atlantic coast storm set the lowest confirmed barometric pressure reading for a non-tropical system in the continental United States? <li> DYK On 12:00–00:00, 4 February 2016 (UTC), ... that the Great Comet of 1819 was the first comet analyzed using polarimetry, by François Arago? <li> DYK On 12:00–00:00, 21 February 2016 (UTC), that An East View of the Great Cataract of Niagara (1762) by British Army officer Thomas Davies was the first eyewitness painting of Niagara Falls? <li> DYK On 12:00–00:00, 7 March 2016 (UTC), ... that Lt. Col. Udney Hay, although highly recommended by Gen. George Washington, was not appointed Quartermaster General by the Congress? <li> DYK On 12:00–00:00, 12 March 2016 (UTC), ... that Colonel Ann Hawkes Hay, born in Jamaica, lost his Haverstraw, New York house to British raiders? <li> DYK On 12:00–00:00, 20 February 2017 (UTC), lead item (7), ... that in General George Washington at Trenton (pictured), Trumbull painted Washington in "the most sublime moment", the night before the Battle of Princeton?
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 * Recognized content: Calvinism (1), New Jersey (6), NRHP (3)
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 * Recognized content: Astronomy (1)
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 * Recognized content: New York (1), Vermont (1)
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 * Recognized content: New York (2), Scotland (2)
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 * Recognized content: New Jersey (7)
 * DYKSTATS (5)



<li> DYK On 12:00–00:00, 22 February 2017 (UTC), lead item (8), ... that in The Capture of the Hessians at Trenton, December 26, 1776 (pictured), the artist wanted to show the compassion of General George Washington?
 * 12,324 views
 * Recognized content: Germany (1), New Jersey (8)
 * DYKSTATS (6)



<li> DYK On 00:00–12:00, 26 February 2017 (UTC), ... that Theodore Sizer was named Yale University's first Pursuivant of Arms in 1963? <li> DYK On 00:00–00:00, 23 April 2017 (UTC), lead item (9), ... that Washington at Verplanck's Point (pictured), a gift from John Trumbull to the president's wife, Martha Washington, was praised as “the most perfect extant” by her grandson?
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 * Recognized content: Connecticut (1), New York City (3)
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 * Recognized content: New York (3), New York City (4)
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<li> DYK <li> Double entry (2) On 00:00–00:00, 22 February 2018 (UTC), lead item (10), ... that John Trumbull, the painter of General George Washington Resigning His Commission (pictured), considered Washington's resignation "one of the highest moral lessons ever given to the world"?
 * Painting - 10,546 views
 * Recognized content: Maryland (2), U.S. Congress (1)
 * Event - 22,649 views
 * Recognized content: Maryland (3)
 * Combined entry - 33,195 views
 * John Trumbull - 3,063 views
 * DYKSTATS (8)
 * DYKSTATS Lead hooks (1)



<li> DYK On 00:00–00:00, 14 March 2018 (UTC), ... that during the American Revolutionary War, George Washington participated in "a pretty little frisk" at the Van Veghten House? <li> DYK On 00:00–00:00, 13 April 2018 (UTC), lead item (11), ... that at the Van Horne House (pictured) following the Battle of Bound Brook, the owner hosted British General Cornwallis for breakfast and American Generals Lincoln and Greene for supper?
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 * Recognized content: New Jersey (9), NRHP (4)
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 * Recognized content: New Jersey (10), NRHP (5)
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 * Photo by Zeete (2)

<li> DYK On 00:00–00:00, 31 December 2018 (UTC), lead item (12), ... that American John Trumbull's The Death of General Montgomery in the Attack on Quebec, December 31, 1775 (pictured) was painted in the London studio of Benjamin West?
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<li> DYK <li> Double entry (3) On 12:00–00:00, 22 February 2019 (UTC), lead item (13), ... that the North Carolina State House and Canova's George Washington (engraving shown) were both destroyed by an "awful conflagration" that began while the building was being fireproofed?
 * Sculpture - 3,734 views
 * Recognized content: North Carolina (1), Sculpture (4)
 * Building - 2,168 views
 * Recognized content: North Carolina (2)
 * Combined entry - 5,902 views
 * Antonio Canova - 1,368 views
 * DYKSTATS (12)



<li> DYK <li> Double entry (4) On 00:00–00:00, 22 February 2020 (UTC), lead item (14), ... that a painting (pictured) by N. C. Wyeth portraying George Washington's reception at Trenton was the most expensive gift ever given to Thomas Edison State University?
 * Painting - 1,770 views
 * Recognized content: New Jersey (11)
 * Event - 3,544 views
 * Recognized content: New Jersey (12)
 * Combined entry - 5,314 views
 * N. C. Wyeth - 1,380 views
 * DYKSTATS (13)


 * Photo by Zeete (3)

<li> DYK <li> Double entry (5) On 00:00–12:00, 30 April 2020 (UTC), ... that Mary Catherine Phillips, author of Skin Deep. The Truth About Beauty Aids – Safe and Harmful, was a member of the board of directors of Consumers' Research in Bowerstown, New Jersey?
 * Author - 685 views
 * Recognized content: New Jersey (13), Women's History (2), Women Writers (1), Women In Red (1)
 * Historic District - 354 views
 * Recognized content: New Jersey (14), NRHP (6)
 * Combined entry - 1,038 views

<li> DYK <li> Double entry (6) On 00:00–12:00, 15 January 2021 (UTC), lead item (15), ... that a Deats plow (illustrated), patented by John Deats in 1828 and manufactured by his son Hiram Deats, was donated by his grandson Hiram Edmund Deats to Rutgers University for an agricultural museum in 1929?
 * John Deats - 3,049 views
 * Recognized content: New Jersey (15)
 * Hiram Deats - 891 views
 * Recognized content: New Jersey (16)
 * Combined entry - 3,940 views



<li> DYK On 00:00–00:00, 22 February 2021 (UTC), lead item (16), ... that John Trumbull finished his painting George Washington (pictured) before he was arrested for high treason?
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 * John Trumbull - 36,251 views
 * Recognized content: New York (4)
 * DYKSTATS (14)



<li> DYK <li> Double entry (7) On 00:00–12:00, 19 April 2021 (UTC), lead item (17), ... the Hunterdon Art Museum (pictured), located in a historic stone mill, was described as the "most charming and picturesque" museum in New Jersey?
 * Hunterdon Art Museum - 3,047 views
 * Recognized content: New Jersey (17)
 * Dunham's Mill - 1,538 views
 * Recognized content: New Jersey (18), NRHP (7)
 * Combined entry - |File:7_Lower_Center_Street,_Clinton,_NJ.jpg|Dunham%27s_Mill 4,585 views


 * Photo by Zeete (4)

<li> DYK On 00:00–00:00, 21 February 2022 (UTC), lead item (18), ... that the President's House (pictured) never housed a president?
 * |File:House_intended_for_the_President_Birch%27s_Views_Plate_13_(cropped).jpg 28,583 views


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<li> DYK On 00:00–00:00, 22 February 2022 (UTC), lead item (19), ... that George Washington (pictured) was dedicated on the anniversary of his saying farewell to the troops?
 * |File:Washington_in_Washington_Pk_jeh.jpg 10,739 views
 * Recognized content: New Jersey (19), NRHP (8), Sculpture (5), U.S. Presidents (1)
 * DYKSTATS (16)



<li> DYK On 00:00–12:00, 7 September 2022 (UTC), lead item (20), ... that the Shady Rest Golf and Country Club (pictured) was the home of John Shippen, the first African American to compete in the U.S. Open?
 * |File:Shady_Rest_Clubhouse,_Scotch_Plains,_NJ.jpg 2,968 views
 * Recognized content: New Jersey (20), NRHP (9), Golf (1), African diaspara (1)


 * Photo by Zeete (5)

<li> DYK On 12:00–00:00, 9 September 2022 (UTC), lead item (21), ... tthat Fernbrook Farms (pictured) was once a model breeding farm named New Warlaby?
 * |File:John_Newbold_House,_Chesterfield_Township,_NJ.jpg 4,912 views
 * Recognized content: New Jersey (21), NRHP (10)


 * Photo by Zeete (6)

<li> DYK On 00:00–00:00, 20 February 2023 (UTC), lead item (22), ... that the horse in an equestrian statue of George Washington (pictured) was modeled on a workhorse that had been seen pulling a milk wagon?
 * |File:George_Washington_by_Frederick_Roth,_Morristown,_NJ.jpg 6,821 views
 * Recognized content: New Jersey (22), U.S. Presidents (2), Visual arts (1)


 * Photo by Zeete (7)

<li> DYK On 00:00–00:00, 22 February 2023 (UTC), lead item (23), ... that the head in the Portrait of George Washington Taking the Salute at Trenton (pictured) is based on the work of another painter?
 * |File:Portrait-of-george-washington-taking-the-salute-at-trenton-john-faed.jpg 13,040 views
 * Recognized content: New Jersey (23), Scotland (3), U.S. Presidents (3), Visual arts (2)
 * DYKSTATS (17)



<li> DYK On 00:00–00:00, 4 April 2023 (UTC), ... that a special case was instrumental to harpist Steffy Goldner professional career and legacy?
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 * Recognized content: Austria (1), New York City (5), Women's History (3), Women in Red (2), Women in Music (1)

<li> DYK On 00:00–00:00, 13 May 2023 (UTC), lead item (24), ... that parishioners collected the stones used to build St. Mary's Church (pictured) from the iron mines where they worked?
 * |File:St._Mary%27s_Church,_Wharton,_NJ.jpg 11,120 views
 * Recognized content: New Jersey (24), NRHP (11), Catholicism (1)
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 * Photo by Zeete (8)

<li> DYK On 00:00–00:00, 4 July 2023 (UTC), lead item (25), ... that the highest point on Blackwell Street is the bell tower of the First Memorial Presbyterian Church (pictured)?
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 * Recognized content: New Jersey (25), NRHP (12)


 * Photo by Zeete (9)

<li> DYK On 00:00–00:00, 26 December 2023 (UTC), ... that to encourage upscale development of the neighborhood, J. Harper Smith had the street leading to his Victorian mansion renamed to have a "higher tone"?
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 * Recognized content: New Jersey (26), NRHP (13)

<li> DYK On 12:00–00:00, 4 February 2024 (UTC), lead item (26), ... that the Kalmia Club (clubhouse pictured) is named after the mountain laurel?
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 * Recognized content: New Jersey (27), NRHP (14), Organizations (1), Women's History (4)


 * Photo by Zeete (10)

<li> DYK <li> Double entry (8) On 00:00–00:00, 11 February 2024 (UTC), lead item (27), ... that the terracotta statue of George Washington (pictured) by the Danish-American sculptor Nels N. Alling was entirely funded by the local Scandinavian community?
 * Statue of George Washington - 11,175 views
 * Recognized content: New Jersey (28), U.S. Presidents (3), Visual arts (3)
 * Nels N. Alling - 2,870 views
 * Recognized content: New Jersey (29), Visual arts (4)
 * Combined entry - |Nels_N._Alling|File:George_Washington_by_Nels_N._Alling,_Market_Square,_Perth_Amboy,_NJ.jpg 14,171 views


 * Photo by Zeete (11)

<li> DYK On 00:00–12:00, 6 April 2024 (UTC), lead item (28), ... that The Feast of Bacchus (pictured) went viral following a football game?
 * |File:Philips_Koninck_-_The_Feast_of_Bacchus_-_crop.jpg 11,238 views
 * Recognized content: Visual arts (5)



<li> DYK On 00:00–00:00, 19 April 2024 (UTC), ... that Bob Born became known as the "Father of Peeps" for automating the production of an Easter marshmallow treat?
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 * Recognized content: Food and drink (1), New York (5)