Template:Did you know nominations/Cube sugar

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The result was: promoted by AirshipJungleman29 talk 17:40, 5 October 2023 (UTC)

Cube sugar

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... that sugar cubes were used to deliver polio vaccine? Source: Grigorieva, Alexandra (2015). "sugar cubes". The Oxford Companion to Sugar and Sweets. Oxford University Press: "At midcentury the cubes became a vehicle for delivering the polio vaccine, and later for delivering LSD"
- ALT1: ... that the inventor of cube sugar was driven by his wife's injury? Source: Kennedy, Pagan (November 16, 2012). "Who Made That Sugar Cube?". The New York Times Magazine: "In the 1840s, progress was made when Juliana Rad, who was married to the head of a sugar refinery in Moravia, cut a finger while chopping sugar."
- ALT2: ... that the first manufacturer of cube sugar went bankrupt, and the second one came close? Source: Part 1: Drahoňovská, Lucie Pantazopoulou (2018). "From Round to Square". Fehler. Goethe-Institut: "the Datschitz company went bankrupt. Rad returned to Vienna in the autumn of 1846" Part 2: Chalmin, P. (1990). "Thames Refinery and the Cubes". The Making of a Sugar Giant: Tate and Lyle, 1859-1989. Harwood Academic Publishers: "We only know that Henry Tate went through a rough financial period [while opening the factory]"
- ALT3: ... that architects reinvent the sugar-cube metaphor every few years? Source: Jencks, C. (2002). The New Paradigm in Architecture: The Language of Post-modernism. Yale University Press: "the metaphor of stacking rooms like bricks or sugar cubes has re-emerged every five years or so ever since Walter Gropius proposed it in 1922"
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Converted from a redirect by Викидим (talk). Self-nominated at 07:34, 2 October 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Cube sugar; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.

@Викидим: What wonderful facts these all are. I personally favour the first hook, it is just so fascinating. Article is long/new enough as it was recently converted from a redirect. Article is adequately sourced, looks good and Earwig's is clean. I was able to verify the main hook in the book (pg 679), thanks for the quote. Article also matches hook. It appears that Викидим has no previous DYKs (one approved nomination), so QPQ isn't required. Everything looks good here, well done. —Panamitsu (talk) 07:22, 3 October 2023 (UTC)