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  1. 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?
    • 2,513 views
    • Recognized content: New Jersey (1)
  2. 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?
    • 1,582 views
    • Recognized content: Maryland (1)
  3. 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?
    • 1,548 views
    • Recognized content: Ships (1)
  4. 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?
    1,238 views
  5. 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?
    3,085 views
  6. 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?
    • 2,296 views
    • Recognized content: New Jersey (2), NRHP (1)
  7. 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)?
    998 views
  8. 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?
  9. DYK
    On 00:45–12:00, 24 February 2015 (UTC),
    ... that while at Ross Hall, General George Washington ordered a feu de joie?
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  11. 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?
    • Photo by Zeete (1)
    739 views
  12. 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)?
    1,486 views
  13. 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?
  14. DYK
    On 07:20–19:30, 4 May 2015 (UTC),
    ... that Monmouth University Library was originally the summer home of Murry and Leonie Guggenheim?
    • 1,918 views
    • Recognized content: New Jersey (4), NRHP (2)
  15. DYK
    On 00:00–14:00, 20 May 2015 (UTC),
    ... that Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zuñiga (1784–1792) was recently reunited with his parents?
  16. 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?
    1,219 views
  17. 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?
    • 1,180 views
    • Recognized content: Calvinism (1), New Jersey (6), NRHP (3)
  18. 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?
  19. 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?
  20. 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?
  21. 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?
    • 3,417 views
    • Recognized content: New York (1), Vermont (1)
  22. 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?
    • 2,240 views
    • Recognized content: New York (2), Scotland (2)
  23. 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?
    803 views
  24. 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?
    1,552 views
  25. DYK
    On 00:00–12:00, 26 February 2017 (UTC),
    ... that Theodore Sizer was named Yale University's first Pursuivant of Arms in 1963?
    • 605 views
    • Recognized content: Connecticut (1), New York City (3)
  26. 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?
    1,186 views
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  28. 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"?
    1,339 views
  29. 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?
  30. 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?
    • Photo by Zeete (2)
    778 views
  31. 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?
    1,071 views
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  33. 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?
    366 views
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  35. 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?
    • Photo by Zeete (3)
    581 views
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  37. 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?
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  39. 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?
    1,021 views
  40. 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?
    3,334 views
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  42. 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)
    • Photo by Zeete (4)
    976 views
  43. DYK
    On 00:00–00:00, 21 February 2022 (UTC), lead item (18),
    ... that the President's House (pictured) never housed a president?
    1,325 views
  44. 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?
    2,325 views
  45. 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?
    • 2,968 views
    • Recognized content: New Jersey (20), NRHP (9), Golf (1), African diaspara (1)
    • Photo by Zeete (5)
    537 views
  46. 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?
    • 4,912 views
    • Recognized content: New Jersey (21), NRHP (10)
    • Photo by Zeete (6)
    810 views
  47. 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?
    • 6,821 views
    • Recognized content: New Jersey (22), U.S. Presidents (2), Visual arts (1)
    • Photo by Zeete (7)
    919 views
  48. 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?
    1,148 views
  49. DYK
    On 00:00–00:00, 4 April 2023 (UTC),
    ... that a special case was instrumental to harpist Steffy Goldner's professional career and legacy?
    • 3,798 views
    • Recognized content: Austria (1), New York City (5), Women's History (3), Women in Red (2), Women in Music (1)
  50. 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?
    • Photo by Zeete (8)
    1,075 views
  51. 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)?
    • 6,901 views
    • Recognized content: New Jersey (25), NRHP (12)
    • Photo by Zeete (9)
    933 views
  52. 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"?
    • 7,119 views
    • Recognized content: New Jersey (26), NRHP (13)
  53. 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?
    • 6,370 views
    • Recognized content: New Jersey (27), NRHP (14), Organizations (1), Women's History (4)
    • Photo by Zeete (10)
    537 views
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  55. 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)
    • Photo by Zeete (11)
    801 views
  56. 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?
    994 views
  57. 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?
    • 6,417 views
    • Recognized content: Food and drink (1), New York (5)
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