Jump to content

Wikipedia:Recent additions/2012/July

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Did you know?
Introduction and rules
IntroductionWP:DYK
General discussionWT:DYK
GuidelinesWP:DYKCRIT
Reviewer instructionsWP:DYKRI
Nominations
Nominate an articleWP:DYKCNN
Awaiting approvalWP:DYKN
ApprovedWP:DYKNA
April 1 hooksWP:DYKAPRIL
Holding areaWP:SOHA
Preparation
Preps and queuesT:DYK/Q
Prepper instructionsWP:DYKPBI
Admin instructionsWP:DYKAI
Main Page errorsWP:ERRORS
History
StatisticsWP:DYKSTATS
Archived setsWP:DYKA
Just for fun
Monthly wrapsWP:DYKW
AwardsWP:DYKAWARDS
UserboxesWP:DYKUBX
Hall of FameWP:DYK/HoF
List of users ...
... by nominationsWP:DYKNC
... by promotionsWP:DYKPC
Administrative
Scripts and botsWP:DYKSB
On the Main Page
Main Page errorsWP:ERRORS
To ping the DYK admins{{DYK admins}}

This is a record of material that was recently featured on the Main Page as part of Did you know (DYK). Recently created new articles, greatly expanded former stub articles and recently promoted good articles are eligible; you can submit them for consideration.

Archives are generally grouped by month of Main Page appearance. (Currently, DYK hooks are archived according to the date and time that they were taken off the Main Page.) To find which archive contains the fact that appeared on Did you know, go to article's talk page and follow the archive link in the DYK talk page message box.

Current archive
2024 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov
2023 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2022 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2021 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2020 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2019 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2018 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2017 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2016 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2015 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2014 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2013 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2012 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2011 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2010 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2009 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2008 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2007 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2006 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2005 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2004 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Edit the DYK archive navigation template

Edit the DYK archive navigation template

Did you know...

[edit]

Please add the line ==={{subst:CURRENTDAY}} {{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}=== for each new day and the time the set was removed from the DYK template at the top for the newly posted set of archived hooks. This will ensure all times are based on UTC time and accurate. This page should be archived once a month. Thanks.

31 July 2012

[edit]
  • 16:00, 31 July 2012 (UTC)

Urera baccifera

  • 08:00, 31 July 2012 (UTC)

Justus Jonas

  • 00:00, 31 July 2012 (UTC)

Astoria Riverfront Trolley car crossing trestle over river inlet

30 July 2012

[edit]
  • 16:00, 30 July 2012 (UTC)

Woodblock print by Hiroshige

  • 08:00, 30 July 2012 (UTC)

Pheasant Coucal, Queensland

  • 00:00, 30 July 2012 (UTC)

The coronation of Alexander, from a 15th c. MS of the Histoire ancienne

29 July 2012

[edit]
  • 16:00, 29 July 2012 (UTC)

Isamu Kashiide in the 1940s

  • 08:00, 29 July 2012 (UTC)

The Matthes couple

  • 00:00, 29 July 2012 (UTC)

Drang-Drung Glacier

28 July 2012

[edit]
  • 16:00, 28 July 2012 (UTC)

Lieutenant John D. Bulkeley

  • 08:00, 28 July 2012 (UTC)

Acicular crystals of bultfonteinite from South Africa

  • 00:00, 28 July 2012 (UTC)

27 July 2012

[edit]
  • 16:00, 27 July 2012 (UTC)

Europa Point Lighthouse

  • 08:00, 27 July 2012 (UTC)

José Gil de Castro's portrait of José de San Martín

  • 00:00, 27 July 2012 (UTC)

Mary Dyer enroute to execution

26 July 2012

[edit]
  • 16:00, 26 July 2012 (UTC)

Laufen Hut in the Tennen Mountains

  • 08:00, 26 July 2012 (UTC)

The Great Map

  • 00:00, 26 July 2012 (UTC)

25 July 2012

[edit]
  • 16:00, 25 July 2012 (UTC)

Chace Crawford

  • 08:00, 25 July 2012 (UTC)

Sérandite from Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, Canada

  • 00:00, 25 July 2012 (UTC)

Hélio Castroneves climbs the fence to celebrate his win in 2012.

24 July 2012

[edit]
  • 16:00, 24 July 2012 (UTC)

Portrait of Juan Manuel de Rosas during the campaign

  • 08:00, 24 July 2012 (UTC)

Houdon's statue of George Washington

  • 00:00, 24 July 2012 (UTC)

Curtis Dvorak in character as Jaxson de Ville


23 July 2012

[edit]
  • 16:00, 23 July 2012 (UTC)

Vicia orobus, "wood bitter-vetch" (Fabaceae)

  • 08:00, 23 July 2012 (UTC)

Children competing in an egg-and-spoon race

  • 00:00, 23 July 2012 (UTC)

St. Mark's Pro-Cathedral, Hastings, Nebraska


22 July 2012

[edit]
  • 16:00, 22 July 2012 (UTC)

  • 08:00, 22 July 2012 (UTC)

Psilocybe makarorae

  • 00:00, 22 July 2012 (UTC)

Vue de toits (Effet de neige) by Gustave Caillebotte

21 July 2012

[edit]
  • 16:00, 21 July 2012 (UTC)

St Cuthbert's Church, Edenhall, in 2006

  • 08:00, 21 July 2012 (UTC)

William Thompson

  • 00:00, 21 July 2012 (UTC)

1: Olfactory bulb 2: Mitral cells 3: Bone 4: Nasal epithelium 5: Glomerulus (olfaction) 6: Olfactory receptor cells

20 July 2012

[edit]
  • 16:00, 20 July 2012 (UTC)

Billy Cooper

  • 08:00, 20 July 2012 (UTC)
  • 00:00, 20 July 2012 (UTC)

Labidiaster annulatus

19 July 2012

[edit]
  • 16:00, 19 July 2012 (UTC)

Tarbuttite from the type locality in Zambia

  • 08:00, 19 July 2012 (UTC)

Comparison of a properly and improperly scaled pictogram bar graph.

  • 00:00, 19 July 2012 (UTC)

Ortrun Enderlein at the German Luge Championships, in Oberhof, 14 February 1965

18 July 2012

[edit]
  • 16:00, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

The Altes Stadthaus in Berlin

  • 08:00, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

Rhodes in c. 1887

  • 00:00, 18 July 2012 (UTC)

Entoloma murrayi

17 July 2012

[edit]
  • 16:00, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

Depiction of use of Greek fire by the Byzantines

  • 08:00, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

Bathing at the Blue Hole on the Fiery Gizzard Trail

  • 00:00, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

Sapphire iris corsage designed by Paulding Farnham, featuring 120 Yogo sapphires

16 July 2012

[edit]
  • 16:00, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

Pascoite from the Gypsum Valley District in Colorado

  • 08:00, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

Over 100,000 Bahrainis took part in the protest, which stretched for several miles.

  • 00:00, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

Nik Wallenda as he begins to cross Niagara Falls on the highwire

15 July 2012

[edit]
  • 16:00, 15 July 2012 (UTC)

Rihanna performing live

  • 08:00, 15 July 2012 (UTC)

Saint Louis underway in 1903

  • 00:00, 15 July 2012 (UTC)

"Flowering" coral

14 July 2012

[edit]
  • 16:00, 14 July 2012 (UTC)

Dorothy's fully preserved bathroom, note the double-wide bathtub

  • 08:00, 14 July 2012 (UTC)

MacKenzie playing for the Columbus Blue Jackets during the 2011–12 NHL season

  • 00:00, 14 July 2012 (UTC)

Harold Macmillan

13 July 2012

[edit]
  • 16:00, 13 July 2012 (UTC)

Old Cooney Hospital

  • 08:00, 13 July 2012 (UTC)

Artist restoration of Bellubrunnus rothgaengeri

  • 00:00, 13 July 2012 (UTC)

Actress Helen Barry

12 July 2012

[edit]
  • 16:00, 12 July 2012 (UTC)

The British mare Gamos in a 1870 engraving by Edward Hacker

  • 08:00, 12 July 2012 (UTC)

The Taisun crane at the Yantai Raffles Shipyard holds the 17,100 metric ton deck box of Scarabeo 9 in the air as the barge is moved out from underneath.

  • 00:00, 12 July 2012 (UTC)

St Andrew's Church, Dacre, from the southwest

11 July 2012

[edit]
  • 16:00, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

Star-forming region around the star R Coronae Australis

  • 08:00, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

Tyler Clippard in 2011

  • 00:00, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

Harriet Hanson Robinson in 1843

10 July 2012

[edit]
  • 16:00, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

Flight Lieutenant Dave Shannon shortly before taking part in the "Dambuster" raid with No. 617 Squadron RAF, May 1943

  • 08:00, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

The twenty-one pieces of the Treasure of El Carambolo

  • 00:00, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

Christ as a Javanese King

9 July 2012

[edit]
  • 16:00, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

Anne Hutchinson trial

  • 08:00, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

Stropharia semiglobata

  • 00:00, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

A grey rock with a ruler indicating that it is about 8cm across

8 July 2012

[edit]
  • 16:00, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

The truffle Kalapuya brunnea

  • 08:00, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

Moonrise over Hauser Lake by Black Sandy

  • 00:00, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

The Hendre in Monmouthshire

7 July 2012

[edit]
  • 16:00, 7 July 2012 (UTC)

Samuel Charles Farr, Christchurch architect

  • 08:00, 7 July 2012 (UTC)

St. Mark's Church

  • 00:00, 7 July 2012 (UTC)

St James Square in the former Wye Bridge Ward

6 July 2012

[edit]
  • 16:00, 6 July 2012 (UTC)

Bill McAfee in 1930

  • 08:00, 6 July 2012 (UTC)

Go Green Racing's 2011 car

  • 00:00, 6 July 2012 (UTC)

LZ 129 Hindenburg in 1936

5 July 2012

[edit]
  • 16:00, 5 July 2012 (UTC)

Mamie Eisenhower

  • 08:00, 5 July 2012 (UTC)

Photovoltaic array on top of the James V. Forrestal Building

  • 00:00, 5 July 2012 (UTC)

A guitar fretboard with line-segments connecting the successive open-string notes (E-A, A-D, D-G, G-B, B-E) of the standard tuning E-A-D-G-B-E

4 July 2012

[edit]
  • 16:00, 4 July 2012 (UTC)

Original members of The Wiggles, 2004

  • 08:00, 4 July 2012 (UTC)

Don Eaddy in 1956

  • 00:00, 4 July 2012 (UTC)

Fort Smith Birney streetcar 224

3 July 2012

[edit]
  • 16:00, 3 July 2012 (UTC)

West front of St Mary's

  • 08:00, 3 July 2012 (UTC)

Psilocybe hoogshagenii

  • 00:00, 3 July 2012 (UTC)

1858 Moldavian Bull's Head stamp marked PORTO SCRISORI; "letters to be paid for by the recipient"

2 July 2012

[edit]
  • 16:00, 2 July 2012 (UTC)

Spon Gate on Spon Street, Coventry

  • 08:00, 2 July 2012 (UTC)

The Royal Oak, Monmouth

  • 00:00, 2 July 2012 (UTC)

John Herrnstein

1 July 2012

[edit]
  • 16:00, 1 July 2012 (UTC)

  • 08:00, 1 July 2012 (UTC)

Feynman diagram of photon–photon scattering

  • 00:00, 1 July 2012 (UTC)

Lactarius deterrimus