Wikipedia:Recent additions/2004/June

30 June 2004

 * ...that the Communist League of America was formed after some members of the Communist Party USA were expelled for Trotskyism?
 * ...that Polish Communists forbade the use of Wymysojer shortly after World War II, and now only about 100 native speakers remain?
 * ...that a 1939 conflict between Soviet and Japanese troops in the village of Nomonhan is thought to have led to the attack on Pearl Harbor?
 * ...that California's Owens River has been entirely diverted for irrigation and drinking water?

28 June 2004

 * ...that the Vietnam Women's Memorial is a memorial dedicated to the women who served in the Vietnam War?
 * ...that there are many uses for trigonometry?
 * ...that Dudley Pope wrote many of his books aboard a 54-foot wooden yacht?
 * ...that the tallest structure in California is a television antenna tower, while in Arizona it is a chimney?

25 June 2004

 * ...that in his later years Dick Dastardly was often Yogi Bear's nemesis?
 * ...that the Snellen chart is used to measure visual acuity?
 * ...that a wrecking amendment is added to legislation in bad faith?


 * ...that the Almanach de Gotha is a directory of European nobility first published in 1763?

24 June 2004
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 * ...that the Honolulu Police Department became a deputized military force during World War II?
 * ...that a kammback is an aerodynamic drag-reducing car body style?
 * ...that both Cliff and Nina and Greg and Jenny are considered supercouples?
 * ...that while Tom Foley was the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, he was not re-elected by his constituents?

23 June 2004

 * ...that the California Gull is the state bird of Utah?
 * ...that the flags of the Yugoslav Socialist Republics were the old flags of the constituent nations, with a red star added to represent communism?
 * ...that the United States Mint produced a half dime coin from 1792 until 1873?
 * ...that the edge of space is about 100 kilometers above mean sea level?

22 June 2004

 * ...that the Pitstone Windmill in Buckinghamshire is believed to be the oldest windmill in the British Isles?

20 June 2004

 * ...that American feminist magazine Ms. has not carried advertisements since 1989?
 * ...that the Brown Dog affair, a Edwardian era vivisection controversy, led to massive riots?
 * ...that the ideal cellular network has evenly distributed hexagonal cells?
 * ...that the Third Taiwan Strait Crisis was sparked by a visit to Cornell by Lee Teng-hui?

19 June 2004

 * ...that king Naresuan ruled Thailand at its greatest territorial extent?

18 June 2004

 * ...that the Union Pacific Railroad still has offices in the historic Salt Lake City Union Pacific Depot?
 * ...that the Iliad and the Odyssey were just two parts of the eight-part Trojan War cycle of epic poems?
 * ...that automatic differentiation is a method for evaluating the derivative of a function at a given point?
 * ...that in Canada there were once eight districts of the Northwest Territories?
 * ...that Occidental Petroleum head Armand Hammer bought into Church and Dwight in order to hold a stake in their Arm and Hammer baking soda trademark, apparently finding humor in the coincidence of their names?


 * ...that Hurricane Audrey, which killed 390 in Louisiana in 1957, was one of the first hurricanes observed by weather radar?
 * ...that in linguistics, the La Spezia-Rimini Line separates eastern Romance languages from the western Romance languages using isoglosses?
 * ...that the dog called the Miniature Fox Terrier (or Mini Foxie) originated in Australia?
 * ...that the Great Basin tribes of North America originated the Ghost Dance movement?
 * ...that manscaping is the practice of men shaving their body hair?

15 June 2004

 * ...that Jacaranda grows almost everywhere in the world that does not have frost?
 * ... that Manscaping is the practice of a man shaving his body hair?
 * ...that since the introduction of antivenin in 1956, only one person has died from the bite of the Australian red-back spider, a cousin of the black widow?
 * ...that the 1922 Red Ruhr Army workers' revolt was a response to the Kapp Putsch?
 * ...that the longest-running show in Broadway theater history was Cats with 7,485 performances?

14 June 2004

 * ...that 12 died in the 1959 Knox Mine Disaster when the Susquehanna River crashed into a Pennsylvania anthracite coal mine?


 * ...that the Royal Poinciana has been called the most colourful tree in the world?
 * ...that Stonehenge is surrounded by 56 pits known as Aubrey holes?
 * ...that Chicago's Lincoln Park was originally a cemetery?
 * ...that the ventral stream makes up one half of the visual cortex?
 * ...that postoperative nausea and vomiting is an unpleasant complication affecting about two million people in the United Kingdom annually?
 * ...that devout Catholics believe in the Perpetual Virginity of Mary?

13 June 2004

 * ...that the Sitka is the largest species of spruce tree?

12 June 2004

 * ...that Chicago's Lincoln Park was originally a cemetery?

11 June 2004

 * ...that residents of the old soldiers' home known as Royal Hospital Chelsea are called Chelsea pensioners?
 * ...that the Outlawries Bill has been read in the British House of Commons nearly every year since 1727?
 * ...that the U.S. Navy experienced its largest peacetime loss of ships in the 1923 Honda Point Disaster?
 * ...that Japanese Imari porcelain was made specifically for export to Europe?
 * ...that in Upper and Lower Canada, the colonial government used concession roads to define lots which were to be developed?

10 June 2004

 * ...that the collections of the Chicago Public Library began with the 8,000-volume "English Book Donation" which came in response to the Great Chicago Fire of 1871?
 * ...that the Chislehurst Caves of Kent are actually mines that were first worked in 1250?

9 June 2004

 * ...that short leading men often stand on apple boxes to make themselves look taller on film?
 * ...that a member of the Gelechiidae family of moths is used to control spotted knapweed?
 * ...that the London Charter of the International Military Tribunal established the legal basis for the Nuremberg trials?
 * ...that the Sacramento River Delta is an inverted river delta and that it once had an extensive system of cable ferries?


 * ...that the singer Scott Walker produced an album for British band Pulp?

6 June 2004

 * ...that the radio industry can be divided into public service, commercial and community radio?

4 June 2004

 * ...that Azerbaijanis live in Iran, Georgia, Turkey, Iraq and the United States, as well as Azerbaijan?
 * ...that there are 14 gases which are lighter than air?
 * ...that the Barnburners supported Martin Van Buren in the U.S. presidential election of 1848?
 * ...that in physics, a Landau pole is the energy scale where a coupling constant of a quantum field theory becomes infinite?

3 June 2004

 * ...that the nectar of Yellow Jessamine causes brood death when gathered by honeybees?
 * ...that the Humboldt River in Nevada is the longest river in the Great Basin and furnished the route of the Central Pacific segment of the transcontinental railroad?
 * ...that the Trumpeter Swan is the largest swan native to North American?
 * ...that Scandanavia's High North Alliance works to protect the whaling interests of member countries?

2 June 2004

 * ...that the Brazil nut effect, a law of physics, dictates that when a mixture of granular material is shaken the biggest particles end up on the top?
 * ...that 1943 Triple Crown winner Count Fleet was both sire of and sired by Kentucky Derby winners?
 * ...that the music genre known as bouncy techno originated in Scotland?


 * ...that the original orange-red Fiestaware dinnerware contained a substantial quantity of uranium?
 * ...that visually impaired musicians can begin learning Music Braille once they are competent in grade-two level literary Braille?
 * ...that the 1539 Ordinance of Villers-Cotterêts, which mandated the use of French in official documents, contributed to the rise of French nationalism?
 * ...that the indigenous peoples of Brazil domesticated cassava?


 * ...that the Oxford University Museum was the site of a major debate in evolutionary biology?
 * ... that a "rain of fish" (a tornado that travels over the ocean, sucks up fish and then drops them over villages) is a common theme appearing in Honduran art - part of the culture of Honduras?
 * ...that Charley Fox, a Canadian flight lieutenant, was credited with injuring Erwin Rommel?
 * ...that body surface area is an important measure used in medicine to calculate chemotherapy dosage?

1 June 2004

 * ... that a "rain of fish" (a tornado that travels over the ocean, sucks up fish and then drops them over villages) is a common theme appearing in Honduran art - part of the Culture of Honduras?
 * ...that Body surface area is an important measure used in medicine to calculate chemotherapy dosage?