A fact from Clemens Herschel appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 23 December 2012 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that while travelling in Italy in 1898, American hydraulic engineer Clemens Herschel found an ancient manuscript about the water system of Rome, and translated and published it in English?
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