User:Boston/DYK List

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...in 2005, Adam Bruce became the first herald appointed to Clan Donald of Scotland in 510 years?
...Alex Perelson is the youngest professional skaterboarder in the vert field?
...Alliance for Open Society International, operator of drug rehabilitation programs for heroin addicts in Central Asia, sued the U.S. Government over the anti-prostitution pledge?
... that Amedei Porcelana chocolate is used in a $1000 ice cream sundae?
...New York writer and socialite Anthony Haden-Guest is both son of the 4th Baron Haden-Guest and the brother-in-law of actress Jamie Lee Curtis?
...that Amherst College president Arthur Stanley Pease was an "indefatigable pedestrian" and mountaineer who studied plants in the White Mountains?
...at the Atlantic House on Cape Cod during World War I, Pulitzer Prize-winner Eugene O'Neill was arrested at gun point as a spy for the Kaiser?
...that archedictyon is a hypothetical scheme of wing venation proposed for the common ancestor of all winged insects?
...ball culture, as seen in Paris is Burning, has drag houses that compete for 12' tall trophies and prizes of $1000 or more?
...a banjee is a type of young Latino or Black man who has sex with men and dresses in urban fashion?
...Baudet de Poitou is a rare breed of donkey with a shaggy coat?
...Bartholomew Gilbert failed to establish a colony on Cape Cod in 1602 which would have been the first English colony in the Americas?
...that Irish television celebrity Bazil Ashmawy was born in Libya and is half Egyptian?
...there are stories of Metacomet, sachem of the Wampanoag Indians, meeting with allies near Bear's Den Falls to plan attacks on Massachusetts towns during King Philip's War?
...The Bostonian Society was formed in 1881 to prevent the Old State House, site of the Boston Massacre, from being moved to Chicago?
...a botánica is a Latin American store that sells religious goods, magical paraphernalia and brand name health care products?
...the Buffalo Treehopper is an insect named for its resemblance to the American Bison?
...Bridge Island Meadows is an inaccessible nature reserve on the floodplains of the Charles River in Massachusetts?
...Brookesia minima may be the smallest species of chameleon?
...Julius Caesar is believed to have taken a nap under the Caesarsboom yew in West Flanders?
...the Candystripe Leafhopper is a vector for Pierce's disease?
...shortly before Christmas 1942 a possible Nazi spy walked into the Irish village of Castletownroche and was apprehended by the Garda?
...Celebrity Bainisteoir is an Irish reality programme about managing Gaelic football clubs?
...Children's Wharf in Boston has a 40' tall milk bottle that was built during the Great Depression and transported to the wharf by barge in the 1970s?
...members of the Chinese Hand Laundry Alliance faced surveillance, interrogation, and harassment by the FBI?
...the Choctaw Hog is a "critically rare" breed of pig found in the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma?
...Chroogomphus is an edible mushroom that grows as a parasite in pine forests?
...that chemosynthesis, the process enabling deep sea invertebrates to survive without sunlight, was discovered by Colleen Cavanaugh?
...George Washington Morrison Nutt, better known by his stage name Commodore Nutt, grew only 37 inches (94 cm) tall?
...the first president of the World Association of Copepodologists was a veteran of the Polish resistance movement in World War II?
...the Croaking Tetra is a tropical fish that "chirps" when it comes to the surface to gulp air?
..."Methuen Duck Cloth" manufactured by David Nevins, Jr. was used to make sails and tents in the tropics?
...Davi Kopenawa Yanomami, a shaman of the indigenous people of Brazil, received an award from the United Nations Environmental Program?
...Fitchburg State College researchers in Lancaster, Massachusetts used artificial lights to mimic the bioluminescence of fireflies on Dexter Drumlin?
...there are Dinosaur Footprints in the Connecticut River Valley?
...Frederick Law Olmsted planned for The Dorchesterway to extend his Emerald Necklace park system all the way to Boston Harbor?
...Dralasites are an amoeboid extraterrestrial race depicted in science fiction role-playing games for the past 25 years?
...Dwyer's Snake is only weakly venomous and coils into a ball when threatened?
...the Edmonson sisters were African American slaves who tried to escape to freedom and became celebrity abolitionists?
...the Emancipation Memorial, a monument in Washington, DC, was paid for by former slaves?
...Espiritismo is the Latin American and Caribbean belief that good and evil spirits can affect health, luck and other elements of human life?
...the 1983 song "Everyday I Write the Book" was Elvis Costello's first hit single in the United States?
..."Fart Proudly" is an essay about flatulence written by Benjamin Franklin?
..."Fight Fiercely, Harvard" is a satirical college fight song written by a mathematician?
...Creobroter is a praying mantis that uses ant mimicry as a juvenile and flower mimicry when adult?
...the Ghost Mantis looks like a dead leaf?
...Sphodromantis viridis, the Giant African Mantis, is kept worldwide as a pet?
...the Giant Dead Leaf Mantis falls to the ground and lies motionless when threatened?
...the Golden Resources Mall in Beijing, the second-largest shopping mall in the world, has attracted as few as 20 shoppers in an hour?
...the 25 species of Goodyera comprise just one of over 800 genera of orchids?
...the Great Trail created by Native Americans connected the Great Lakes region to New England and the mid-Atlantic?
...Haghpat Monastery in Armenia was placed on the World Heritage List over 1,000 years after it was founded?
...that philanthropist Harriet Nevins left an animal shelter, and a fountain to the people of Massachusetts?
...Hawayo Takata, a Nisei fluent in the language and culture of both Japan and the United States, introduced Reiki to the Western World?
...the face of Chicago native Hazel Lavery adorned the banknotes of Ireland for seventy years?
...Henri Lhote believed that prehistoric rock art in the Sahara Desert was evidence of ancient astronauts?
...the widow of Henry Coffin Nevins left a million dollars for the construction of a Home for Aged and Incurables?
...Henry Taylor Parker, a critic nicknamed "Hard-to-Please", was "Boston's oracle on theatre and music" for 29 years?
...there are more than 1,200 historical markers in Ohio?
...three members of the Hot 8 Brass Band have died as a result of gun violence in New Orleans?
...the university mascot called "the Ichabod" is named after Ichabod Washburn, an owner of the world's largest wire mill?
...Iraqi American scientist Ihsan Ali Al-Shehbaz is the world authority on bladderpods?
...more than 550 varieties of mango are showcased in the International Mango Festival held in Delhi?
...Mark Twain and General Custer visited P. T. Barnum in Iranistan?
..."James Brown Is Dead" is an electronic dance music reference to James Brown and the widespread sampling of his music?
...James Palacio of the HBO series Oz was an empress of the Imperial Court System?
...João Maria de Sousa is the current Attorney General of Angola?
...J-ska is contemporary Japanese music with origins in the music of Jamaica?
...Junqueirópolis, a municipality in São Paulo, Brazil, is nicknamed "Acerola Capital" for its agriculture?
...that Pierre Trudeau was "known to paddle" the Kazabazua River in Quebec?
...Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg is often cited as the longest place name in the United States?
...some Norton, Massachusetts residents have trouble selling their homes because Lake Winnecunnett is "a weed-infested, mosquito breeding swamp"?
...the Landmarks Foundation helps conserve sacred sites such as the stone spheres of Costa Rica and the moai of Easter Island?
...Larantuka is an Indonesian district known for Roman Catholic Holy Week processions?
...the Larz Anderson Bonsai Collection in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts has a Hinoki Cypress over 250 years old?
...Leonard Crofoot, a dancer in The Singing Detective, has had three Star Trek roles?
...there are approximately 2,000 species of mantis?
..."Woolwick" was a fictional name for Kent, Ohio in the writing of Boston Evening Transcript journalist Lucien Price?
...Macleay's Spectre is a stick insect that grows up to 20 cm (8 inches) long?
...Maxime de la Falaise, called "the only truly chic Englishwoman" by Cecil Beaton, said that "no straight man was attractive" in the 1970s' fashion industry?
...the Mediterranean mantis (Iris oratoria) is capable of virgin birth?
...Meller's Chameleon catches insects and birds 50 cm (20 inches) away with its tongue?
...mizuna is a cold-resistant mustard green grown extensively during winter in Japan?
...the Mobile Tigers, a Negro League baseball team, paid pitcher Satchel Paige "$1 when the gate was good and a keg of lemonade when it wasn't"?
...John Quincy Adams II, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and William Gordon Weld helped form the MSPCA?
...symbiotic moss animals live on the bristles of the crab known as the MudRunner?
...the Narragansett Turkey is a breed of domestic turkey unique to North America and named after Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island?
...the Normal School for Colored Girls was incorporated into the University of the District of Columbia?
...that Orthodera novaezealandiae is a praying mantis native only to New Zealand?
...that the sudden collape of the Pemberton Mill was one of the worst industrial accidents in American history?
...Petticoat Hill, a nature reserve in Williamsburg, Massachusetts, is said to be named after laundry hung on a clothesline?
...Photuris pennsylvanica, a species of lightning bug, is Pennsylvania's state insect?
...that pink tide is a term for the growing influence of left-wing politics in Latin America?
...Poecilostomatoida are parasitic crustaceans frequently with antennae modified to attachment to host organisms?
...Poli's Stellate Barnacle is hermaphroditic and has a penis significantly longer than its body?
...the Pomeranian Goose was developed by Northern German farmers centuries ago, but only officially recognized as a breed in 1912?
...Foxy Brown namechecks Sean Combs on the song Pretty Girl Bullshit?
...11-year old Prince Joseph Wenzel of Liechtenstein is regarded by Jacobites as heir to the throne of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland?
...pteridomania is the Victorian era craze for fern collecting and for fern motifs in decorative art?
..."Push It To The Limit", a pop rap song by Corbin Bleu, was recently the most downloaded song at the iTunes Store?
...Queen of Japan members use aliases that sound like Japanese names and are known for synthpop covers of artists such as John Lennon?
...Paul Simon's ballad "Rene And Georgette Magritte With Their Dog After The War" portrays the surrealist painter as an admirer of doo-wop music?
...the River Carron has given its name to a type of naval cannon, a line of bathtubs, two warships and an island in the Southern Hemisphere?
...Ruby Bundleflower, an abundant weed in parts of Mexico, produces beans used in salsa?
...the Rufous Songlark is an Australian songbird that sometimes ends up as roadkill?
...the Rum Swizzle is a often called "Bermuda's national drink?
...the Sajama Lines in Bolivia took 3,000 years to make and might be considered the largest artwork in the world?
...according to the New Mexico Legislature, the Sandia Hairstreak butterfly "symbolizes the ability of New Mexican residents to thrive year-round in a semiarid climate"?
...sang piao xiao is praying mantis egg case used in traditional Chinese medicine to treat impotence and premature ejaculation?
...male spiders, scorpions and mantids have special strategies to avoid sexual cannibalism?
...the song "Shambala" by Three Dog Night has a gospel music sound and Tibetan Buddhist subject matter?
...Shreve, Crump & Low, the oldest jeweler in North America, designed the Davis Cup and the Cy Young Award?
...the Silver Appleyard is one of the best egglayers amongst large breeds of duck?
...at less than 11 feet (3.4 m) wide, the Skinny House (pictured) is the narrowest house in Boston, Massachusetts?
...the Silver Appleyard is one of the best egglayers amongst large breeds of duck?
...the Silver Marten rabbit likes playthings to toss around its cage?
...sleeve garters were first used in the 19th century and are still worn by poker dealers and barbershop musicians?
...the spray pool on Boston Common doubles as an ice-skating rink in winter?
...St. Patrick's Blue, rather than green, was long the colour most associated with the patron saint of Ireland?
...Tantiusques, a graphite mine which John Winthrop purchased from the Nipmuck in 1644, became the Dixon Ticonderoga pencil company?
...according to Themba Mabaso, the State Herald of South Africa, the flag of South Africa is read like a written document?
...Thyrocopa is a genus of flightless moth endemic to Hawaii?
...Tiia Piili, four-time FISAF World Champion in sport aerobics, got food poisoning attending a competition in Morocco?
...trepanging is the harvesting of sea cucumbers?
...that pomologist Ulysses Prentiss Hedrick devoted separate monographs to cherries, grapes, peaches, pears, and plums?
...Valri Bromfield performed stand-up comedy on the first episode of Saturday Night Live?
...ancient herds of White Park, a rare breed of horned cattle, have been preserved in Great Britain from the Middle Ages?
...Travel Leisure named Wasque ("way-squee") on Chappaquiddick the number one beach in New England?
...the Yokohama Museum of Art has Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dalí in its collection?
Amphibios 9
Anderson Ruffin Abbott
Ancistrochilus rothschildianus
Annunciation Melkite Catholic Cathedral
Asher Roth
Brachygobius nunus
Bridges TV
Callianassa subterranea
Centruroides bicolor
Centruroides limbatus
Camponotus vagus
Cripple and the Starfish
Friends of Gilda
Gold-whiskered Barbet
Gigantotomy
Indian Love Call
John Nies
Mantis in Lace
Muzzammil Hassan
Pheidologeton diversus
Red Scapular of the Passion
species group
Vespula pensylvanica

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Cara Duff-MacCormick
For the Love of Ray J
Lorne Munroe
Moonchildren
Rosary and scapular
Sonia Chang-Díaz