User:Binksternet/DYK
My "Did you know?" entries, in reverse chronological order:
| Article | Date | Image | DYK views | Did you know... | Authors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| We Work the Black Seam | 5-3-2024 | ... that Sting wrote "We Work the Black Seam" because he felt that "the case for coal was never put to the nation" during the 1984–85 British miners' strike (which began 40 years ago today)? | User:Daniel Case, with a tiny touch from me | ||
| Body and Soul (Joe Jackson album) | 29-1-2021 | 2300 | ... that Joe Jackson's 1984 album Body and Soul emulated the artwork of the 1957 jazz album Sonny Rollins, Vol. 2? | Binksternet | |
| Mats Löfving | 11-6-2020 | 4000 | ...that a radio interview with Swedish police chief Mats Löfving was described as "a bombshell"? | Moonraker, Binksternet | |
| L'eggs | 10-31-2020 | 2100 | ...that actress Jamie Lee Curtis insured her legs for $1 million after signing an endorsement with L'eggs pantyhose? | Binksternet | |
| "Welcome to the LBJ Ranch!" | 10-30-2020 |  |
6800 | ...that on the 1965 comedy album "Welcome to the LBJ Ranch!", Nelson Rockefeller (pictured) is heard saying that he gave his wife the states of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut as an anniversary gift? | Binksternet |
| Worth Waiting For | 10-25-2020 | 1100 | ...that the smooth jazz–jazz fusion album Worth Waiting For was keyboardist Jeff Lorber's only solo album to reach number one on the Billboard Contemporary Jazz Chart? | Binksternet | |
| Alice Kahn | 10-18-2020 | 4100 | ...that Berkeley humorist Alice Kahn described the Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia as a "hippie abominable snowman"—and he liked it? | Binksternet | |
| Brown Meggs | 10-10-2020 | 3800 | ...that Paul McCartney named a puppy after Brown Meggs, who signed the Beatles to Capitol Records? | Binksternet | |
| Andy Spahn | 10-6-2020 | 5700 | ...that political consultant Andy Spahn said that Cuba is "nothing like" how it has been portrayed by U.S. politicians? | Binksternet | |
| Jacki Sorensen | 10-5-2020 | 5800 | ...that aerobics pioneer Jacki Sorensen was voted the best dancer in the 1962 Miss California pageant? | Binksternet | |
| Step aerobics | 10-3-2020 | 3100 | ... that step aerobics attracted 11.4 million people in 1995? | Binksternet | |
| Campaign for Economic Democracy | 9-28-2020 | 1900 | ... that Tom Hayden used his Campaign for Economic Democracy to help pass a rent-control measure in Santa Monica, California? | Binksternet | |
| Jane Fonda's Workout | 9-25-2020 | 3100 | ... that Jane Fonda paid for her political activism from the profits of her Workout videos? | Binksternet | |
| Ampersand's Entertainment Guide | 9-21-2020 | 2200 | ... that Wolfman Jack helped finance his nephew's Ampersand magazine? | Binksternet | |
| Hollywood Women's Political Committee | 9-20-2020 |  |
1400 | ... that the Hollywood Women's Political Committee was formed in 1984 to help elect Geraldine Ferraro (pictured), the first U.S. woman vice-presidential candidate for a major party? | Binksternet |
| Jacoba Atlas | 9-18-2020 | 2100 | ... that among rock critic Jacoba Atlas's many concert reviews was a "disastrous appearance" by Joe Cocker? | Binksternet | |
| TeenSet | 9-17-2020 | 1900 | ... that even though Judith Sims of TeenSet magazine was touring with the Beatles, she was not, "alas", sleeping with them? | Binksternet | |
| Judith Sims | 9-17-2020 | 8500 | ... that even though Judith Sims of TeenSet magazine was touring with the Beatles, she was not, "alas", sleeping with them? | Binksternet | |
| Susan Lydon | 9-17-2020 | 4000 | ... that Susan Lydon wrote about fake orgasm and real addiction? | Binksternet | |
| Doris Willens | 9-12-2020 | 700 | ... that writer Doris Willens, Lee Hays of the Weavers, and actor Alan Arkin were all Baby Sitters? | Binksternet | |
| Harold Willens | 9-11-2020 | 6100 | ... that U.S. Marine Corps captain Harold Willens returned four samurai swords to Japan after 27 years? | Binksternet | |
| No Sad Song | 9-10-2020 | 3900 | ... that Helen Reddy said that her single "No Sad Song" sold poorly "because it put down men too much"? | Binksternet | |
| Star-Spangled Women for McGovern–Shriver | 9-8-2020 |  |
1600 | ... that Shirley MacLaine (pictured) served as an usher at her brother Warren Beatty's political concert Together for McGovern, and he returned the favor at her political variety show Star-Spangled Women for McGovern? | Binksternet |
| Together for McGovern | 9-8-2020 | |
2800 | ... that Shirley MacLaine (pictured) served as an usher at her brother Warren Beatty's political concert Together for McGovern, and he returned the favor at her political variety show Star-Spangled Women for McGovern? | Binksternet |
| Malibu Mafia | 9-6-2020 |  |
17300 | ... that married actors Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman (both pictured) fronted for the Malibu Mafia? | Binksternet |
| Four for McGovern | 8-30-2020 | 2700 | ...that during the 1972 concert Four for McGovern, Barbra Streisand pretended, as she had before in Las Vegas shows, to smoke a joint? | Binksternet | |
| Back in the High Life | 8-7-2020 | .jpg) |
8600 (4472 + 969 + 3172) | ... that John "JR" Robinson (pictured) kicked off the Steve Winwood album Back in the High Life with a drum solo he played on his own drum kit at Unique Recording Studios in New York? | Binksternet, Isento |
| John Robinson (drummer) | 8-7-2020 | |
8600 | ... that John "JR" Robinson (pictured) kicked off the Steve Winwood album Back in the High Life with a drum solo he played on his own drum kit at Unique Recording Studios in New York? | Binksternet |
| Unique Recording Studios | 8-7-2020 | |
8600 | ... that John "JR" Robinson (pictured) kicked off the Steve Winwood album Back in the High Life with a drum solo he played on his own drum kit at Unique Recording Studios in New York? | Binksternet |
| Lady Tambourine | 7-27-2020 |  |
7400 | ... that videos of Lady Tambourine (pictured) playing the tambourine at Southern Louisiana football games went viral in 2017? | Binksternet |
| Paul Gilley | 12-2-2018 | 6300 | ... that songwriter Paul Gilley gave a neighbor the lyrics to the 1950 Hank Williams song "They'll Never Take Her Love from Me" before it was heard on the radio, as proof that he had written it? | Binksternet | |
| Seder-Masochism | 9-10-2018 | 17500 | ... that the 2018 animated film Seder-Masochism was said to turn parts of the Exodus (God figure pictured) "into Busby Berkeley-style song-and-dance numbers"? | Binksternet | |
| Truth in Music Advertising | 8-11-2017 | 14800 | ... that former Sha Na Na member Jon "Bowzer" Bauman was the co-author of Truth in Music Advertising legislation in most of the United States? | Binksternet | |
| Sarah Nash Gates | 3-26-2016 | 1300 | ... that costume designer Sarah Nash Gates once taught at Clown College? | Binksternet | |
| Shadows (1959 film) | 9-24-2015 | 4800 | ... that film professor Ray Carney found the first version of Shadows after searching for decades? | Binksternet | |
| Shot grouping | 8-13-2015 | 6000 | ... that a grouping of shots on a target has a mean point of impact? | Binksternet | |
| Switched-On Rock | 5-15-2015 | 1400 | ... that the producer Norman Dolph re-tuned the Moog modular synthesizer every 15 minutes during the recording of Switched-On Rock? | Binksternet | |
| No-Li Brewhouse | 10-19-2014 | 1700 | ... that the logo of No-Li Brewhouse depicts the Skyride over Spokane Falls? | Binksternet | |
| Willis E. Davis (painter) | 10-17-2014 | 1400 | ... that the landscape painter Willis E. Davis was informed over the phone of his daughter's elopement? | Binksternet | |
| Heather Willauer | 6-23-2014 |  |
11300 | ... that Heather Willauer (pictured) is working to enable U.S. Navy warships to synthesize jet fuel from seawater? | Binksternet |
| Geraldine Jones (character) | 6-17-2014 | 1200 | ... that Little David's first record, The Devil Made Me Buy This Dress, was named for a line spoken by Flip Wilson's character Geraldine? | Binksternet | |
| The Devil Made Me Buy This Dress | 6-17-2014 | 900 | ... that Little David's first record, The Devil Made Me Buy This Dress, was named for a line spoken by Flip Wilson's character Geraldine? | Binksternet | |
| Little David Records | 6-17-2014 | 1000 | ... that Little David's first record, The Devil Made Me Buy This Dress, was named for a line spoken by Flip Wilson's character Geraldine? | Binksternet | |
| Black genocide | 5-29-2014 | 2600 | ... that after the birth control pill was subsidized in the U.S. for poor Americans, black militants claimed that this was a form of black genocide? | Binksternet | |
| Charles R. Blyth | 5-9-2014 | 380 | ... that an investment fund named in honor of Charles R. Blyth was established at Stanford University to allow finance students to make decisions with real money? | Binksternet | |
| Jane Kim | 3-13-2014 | 2500 | ... that San Francisco Supervisor Jane Kim plays bass guitar, and her favorite song is by the Wu-Tang Clan? | Binksternet | |
| Tim Weed | 11-23-2013 | 690 | ... that banjoist Tim Weed "nailed" Larry McNeely's version of Benny Goodman's "Slipped Disc" in 30 minutes when he was in his teens? | Binksternet | |
| The Punk Singer | 10-7-2013 | 1400 | ... that Bikini Kill's Kathleen Hanna wanted to have the documentary film The Punk Singer feature women as experts? | Binksternet | |
| Ted Andrews | 8-1-2013 | 560 | ... that Ted Andrews' book Animal Speak aims to help the reader learn how "to listen with animal ears and to see through animal eyes"? | Binksternet | |
| Murray Korman | 7-17-2013 | 9700 | ... that New York photographer Murray Korman was known for his portraits of strippers and socialites? | Ailemadrah, Jacqke, Binksternet | |
| Miriam Battista | 7-7-2013 |  |
8,000 | ... that child star Miriam Battista (pictured) was often called upon to cry on camera? | Ailemadrah, Binksternet |
| Gun harmonisation | 6-18-2013 | 9700 | ... that British Air Chief Marshall Hugh Dowding initially instructed his Spitfire and Hurricane groups to use a gun harmonisation scheme that aimed eight guns at a 12-foot-wide (3.7 m) rectangle? | Binksternet | |
| David Jay Brown | 6-2-2013 | 900 | ... that David Jay Brown wrote about the possible use of MDMA ("ecstasy") to treat post-traumatic stress disorder? | Binksternet | |
| Scientific pitch | 5-10-2013 | 3300 | ... that pioneering French acoustician Joseph Sauveur proposed unsuccessfully that middle C be set to 256 Hz, the system later called scientific pitch? | Binksternet | |
| Eliel Saarinen's Tribune Tower design | 5-1-2013 | 2600 | ... that Eliel Saarinen's Tribune Tower design for the Chicago Tribune earned him $20,000 but was never built? | Binksternet | |
| Phase plug | 2-27-2013 | 3200 | ... that the first phase plug in a horn loudspeaker was developed in the 1920s by Bell System engineers? | Binksternet | |
| David Gunness | 1-22-2013 |  |
9500 | ... that Dave Gunness (pictured) designed concert loudspeakers used by Eric Clapton, Paul McCartney, Iron Maiden, Pearl Jam, Usher, and Snoop Dogg? | Binksternet |
| Imperial German plans for the invasion of the United States | 12-31-2012 |  |
27500 | ... that Kaiser Wilhelm II (pictured) ordered plans drawn up for Germany to invade two US cities: Boston and New York? | Binksternet |
| Pseudo-documentary | 12-21-2012 | 2900 | ... that Orson Welles used a pseudo-documentary sequence in his film Citizen Kane? | Binksternet | |
| Matrix mixer | 11-06-2012 |  |
5300 | ... that a matrix mixer (example pictured) may be used during a concert to stream a different blend of sound to distant audiences? | Binksternet |
| Truman Committee | 10-25-2012 | 2100 | ... that war profiteering by U.S. military contractors in Iraq brought calls for a new form of the investigative Truman Committee which operated in World War II? | Binksternet | |
| Jazzschool | 09-18-2012 | 600 | ... that poet Ishmael Reed learned to play jazz piano at the Jazzschool beginning when he was 60? | Binksternet | |
| Portola Road Race | 09-13-2012 | 1500 | ... that two men and a dog died during the 1909 Portola Road Race in Oakland, California? | Binksternet | |
| John Hilliard (artist) | 09-10-2012 | 5600 | ... that John Hilliard's Cause of Death (1974) suggested four different interpretations of one photographic negative? | Binksternet David Eppstein | |
| Iran Constituent Assembly, 1949 | 08-22-2012 | 800 | ... that the Shah of Iran used public sympathy resulting from a failed assassination attempt to call for a Constituent Assembly in 1949 to increase his royal power? | Binksternet | |
| Makoto Ogawa (pilot) | 08-14-2012 | 9800 | ... that among pilots of his air group, Japanese ace Makoto Ogawa downed the highest number of Boeing B-29 Superfortresses? | Binksternet | |
| Bukochosho | 08-12-2012 | 1200 | ... that fighter pilot Yoshio Yoshida shot down six confirmed Boeing B-29 Superfortresses over Japan but was awarded the high military honor of Bukosho for an earlier "probable" in Manchuria? | Binksternet | |
| Yoshio Yoshida (pilot) | 08-12-2012 | 3800 | ... that fighter pilot Yoshio Yoshida shot down six confirmed Boeing B-29 Superfortresses over Japan but was awarded the high military honor of Bukosho for an earlier "probable" in Manchuria? | Binksternet | |
| Isamu Kashiide | 07-29-2012 |  |
13700 | ... that Japanese fighter pilot Isamu Kashiide (pictured) shook the hand of a crewmember of one of the Boeing B-29 Superfortresses that he shot down? | Binksternet |
| Notification (Holy See) | 07-13-2012 | 1500 | ... that the Catholic Church issued two notifications regarding the Divine Mercy devotion, the second one reversing the first? | Binksternet Esoglou | |
| The Alley | 06-14-2012 | 3300 | ... that The Alley piano bar has walls papered with thousands of business cards, including ones from Jerry Brown and Gregg Allman? | SarahStierch Binksternet | |
| Out of left field | 05-16-2012 | 4100 | ... that the first known use of the phrase out of left field in its idiomatic sense was by the American music industry? | Binksternet | |
| Milonguero | 05-12-2012 | 700 | ... that milonguero-style tango is danced with a close embrace? | Binksternet | |
| San Francisco plague of 1900–1904 | 04-25-2012 | 6600 | ... that California governor Henry Gage publicly denied there was a San Francisco plague of 1900–1904? | Binksternet | |
| MSC Fabiola | 04-02-2012 | 9900 | ... that the MSC Fabiola is the largest container ship to dock in North America? | Binksternet | |
| Napoléon (1927 film) | 03-14-2012 |  |
3800 | ... that, at the age of 89, producer and director Abel Gance (pictured) viewed a restoration of his French epic silent film Napoléon in Telluride, Colorado? | Binksternet BladeRunner391 |
| We Can Do It! | 03-08-2012 |  |
20500 | ... that the wartime poster "We Can Do It!" (pictured) was parodied using Marge Simpson? | Binksternet |
| Wings Club | 02-17-2012 | 1200 | ... that Igor Sikorsky told the Wings Club in 1964 that the helicopter would not be replaced by vertical take-off and landing aircraft? | Binksternet | |
| Arizona Pioneers' Home | 02-14-2012 | 1900 | ... that Old West madam Big Nose Kate spent her final years at the Arizona Pioneers' Home? | Binksternet | |
| Disco Fever | 02-14-2012 | 650 | ... that hip hop artist Run-D.M.C. performed their first paying gig at the Disco Fever nightclub in the Bronx? | Binksternet | |
| Malloch Building | 02-08-2012 |  |
4600 | ... that the Malloch Building (pictured) was used to represent Lauren Bacall's apartment in a film with Humphrey Bogart? | Binksternet |
| Kill zone | 01-15-2012 | 5300 | ... that in a successful military ambush, every enemy soldier in the kill zone might be killed in less than one minute? | Binksternet | |
| Kaneyoshi Muto | 01-01-2012 |  |
15300 | ... that Japanese flying ace Kaneyoshi Muto (pictured) was compared to the legendary swordsman Miyamoto Musashi? | Binksternet |
| Grotrian-Steinweg | 12-19-2011 | 860 | ... that a trademark dispute between piano makers Steinway & Sons and Grotrian-Steinweg resulted in establishing the legal concept of "initial interest confusion"? | Binksternet | |
| Marching fire | 12-18-2011 |  |
29800 | ... that General George S. Patton (pictured) praised the tactic of marching fire during World War II? | Binksternet |
| Mt. Shasta Brewing Company | 12-12-2011 | 5500 | ... that Mt. Shasta Brewing Company's slogan, "Try Legal Weed", was initially refused by the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau? | Binksternet | |
| Kurt Chew-Een Lee | 12-10-2011 | 5400 | ... that after earning the Navy Cross and getting wounded in combat, Lieutenant Kurt Chew-Een Lee took a Jeep and returned to the battle arena with his arm in a sling? | Binksternet | |
| On The Issues (magazine) | 12-08-2011 | 570 | ... that the progressive feminist magazine On The Issues has also published articles about animal rights? | Binksternet | |
| Catherine Sandoval | 10-27-2011 | 770 | ... that Catherine Sandoval is the first Hispanic member of the California Public Utilities Commission? | Binksternet | |
| San Francisco Sentinel | 10-17-2011 | 410 | ... that, in 1980, U.S. presidential candidate John Anderson wrote in the San Francisco Sentinel that, if elected, he would end federal government discrimination based on sexual orientation? | Binksternet | |
| Rachel MacNair | 09-10-2011 | 840 | ... that peace activist Rachel MacNair founded the pro-life Susan B. Anthony List in 1993? | Binksternet | |
| Agnes Mary Mansour | 09-02-2011 | 550 | ... that Sister Agnes Mary Mansour left the Sisters of Mercy after three decades of service rather than make a statement against abortion? | Binksternet | |
| A Catholic Statement on Pluralism and Abortion | 08-27-2011 | 4600 | ... that after 26 nuns signed A Catholic Statement on Pluralism and Abortion, the Vatican stated that all but two had recanted, leading 11 others to issue a statement of solidarity denying that they had done so? | Binksternet | |
| Jeanne L. Noble | 08-19-2011 | 760 | ... that Jeanne L. Noble published the first studies about African-American women in college? | Binksternet | |
| Severed Ways | 07-28-2011 | 4400 | ... that the Viking adventure film Severed Ways was shot partly in L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland, the site of an 11th-century Norse settlement? | Binksternet | |
| On Becoming Baby Wise | 07-22-2011 | 2300 | ... that the parenting book On Becoming Baby Wise tells parents to put their infant down to sleep while he is awake? | Binksternet | |
| Remote recording | 07-22-2011 | 850 | ... that Wally Heider engineered the remote recording of the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival? | Binksternet | |
| H. S. Wong | 07-14-2011 | 3300 | ... that the Japanese government once put a bounty on the head of photojournalist H. S. Wong? | Binksternet PFHLai | |
| Quiet Birdmen | 07-12-2011 | 7700 | ... that the Quiet Birdmen were noisy? | Binksternet | |
| The Automatt | 06-30-2011 | 2400 | ... that The Clash adopted the song "I Fought the Law" after Joe Strummer and Mick Jones heard it on a vintage jukebox at The Automatt? | Binksternet | |
| Faith and Freedom Coalition | 06-20-2011 | 1100 | ... that the Faith and Freedom Coalition was founded by Ralph Reed as "a 21st century version of the Christian Coalition"? | NYyankees51, Binksternet | |
| Record Plant | 06-17-2011 | 3000 | ... that the Sausalito Record Plant served for a time as the residence for Rick James who slept in a conference room built with a waterbed floor? | Binksternet | |
| Charles A. Lindbergh Chair in Aerospace History | 06-04-2011 | 940 | ... that the annual winner of the Charles A. Lindbergh Chair in Aerospace History may receive as much as US$100,000? | Binksternet | |
| Desegregation in the United States Marine Corps | 06-01-2011 |  |
16600 | ... that Howard P. Perry (pictured) was the first African American recruit in the United States Marine Corps? | Binksternet |
| Gain before feedback | 05-11-2011 | 3400 | ... that gain before feedback is reduced when using multiple microphones for live sound? | Binksternet | |
| Coaxial speakers | 05-09-2011 | 2100 | ... that the Altec Lansing 604 coaxial speaker became the standard U.S. studio monitor after 1945? | Binksternet | |
| David Lane (activist) | 05-01-2011 | 1900 | ... that born-again Christian political activist David Lane, who works to support right-wing politics in the US, was called the "stealth weapon for the right"? | Binksternet | |
| Phoenix (fireboat) | 04-13-2011 |  |
3400 | ... that San Francisco fireboat Phoenix (pictured) pumped some 5.5 million gallons (20.8 ML) of seawater to help fight fires after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake? | Microfirmware, Binksternet |
| Dan Dugan (audio engineer) | 04-03-2011 | 456 | ... that frustration in mixing all of the microphones in a musical production of Hair was what sparked Dan Dugan's invention of the automixer? | Binksternet | |
| Wyntoon | 03-28-2011 | 5700 | ... that 26-year-old John F. Kennedy swam in the freezing McCloud River while wintering with William Randolph Hearst at Wyntoon? | Binksternet | |
| Charles Stetson Wheeler | 03-26-2011 | 1100 | ... that California attorney Charles Stetson Wheeler built a temple to fishing at his hunting lodge on McCloud River? | Binksternet | |
| Gary Rader | 03-21-2011 | 4700 | ... that U.S. Army Special Forces reservist Gary Rader was arrested in 1967 for draft-card burning? | Binksternet | |
| Draft-card burning | 03-21-2011 | 2500 | ... that U.S. Army Special Forces reservist Gary Rader was arrested in 1967 for draft-card burning? | Binksternet | |
| Santa Maria de Ovila | 03-18-2011 |  |
6000 | ... that William Randolph Hearst removed 10,000 stones of the Spanish monastery Santa Maria de Ovila (pictured), but never used them in a building? | Binksternet |
| Rabatment of the rectangle | 03-10-2011 | 4300 | ... that Renaissance artists and architects used rabatment of the rectangle as a compositional tool in their work? | Mattdm, Binksternet | |
| ProtectMarriage.com | 03-09-2011 | 1400 | ... that ProtectMarriage.com was formed to pass California Proposition 8, a voter initiative against same-sex marriage? | Lionelt, Binksternet | |
| Pacifica (statue) | 03-02-2011 | 3900 | ... that Ralph Stackpole's 81-foot (25 m) statue Pacifica was at one time planned for permanent construction on an island in San Francisco Bay? | LadyKiwi, Binksternet | |
| Machito | 02-25-2011 | .jpg) |
2100 | ... that during his United States Army service, Graciela replaced her foster brother Machito (pictured) as the lead singer of his band, the Afro-Cubans? | Binksternet |
| Bruce Jackson (audio engineer) | 02-09-2011 | 3200 | ... that Bruce Jackson, who mixed concert sound for Elvis Presley and Bruce Springsteen, was described by Barbra Streisand as "the best sound engineer in the world"? | Binksternet | |
| Bloody Saturday (photograph) | 01-27-2011 |  |
24400 | ... that Life magazine estimated 136 million people saw the photograph "Bloody Saturday" (detail pictured) after the August 1937 bombing of Shanghai? | Binksternet |
| Calafia | 01-20-2011 | 2300 | ... that Queen Calafia, fictional ruler of the Island of California, was the subject of a sculpture garden designed by Niki de Saint Phalle? | Binksternet | |
| Smaart | 01-19-2011 | 1400 | ... that Smaart software was used to tune the sound reinforcement system during U2's PopMart Tour 1997–1998? | Binksternet | |
| Graham Blyth | 12-14-2010 | 873 | ... that before he co-founded Soundcraft, Graham Blyth helped build the mixing console used by Emerson, Lake & Palmer at the Isle of Wight Festival 1970? | Binksternet | |
| Nilsson Sings Newman | 11-21-2010 | 2800 | ... that a record store clerk once told Randy Newman that the 1970 album Nilsson Sings Newman nearly finished off Harry Nilsson's career? | Binksternet | |
| 1945 Japan–Washington flight | 10-26-2010 | 4700 | ... that the 1945 Japan–Washington flight made by three American air generals in three Boeing B-29 Superfortresses was the first nonstop flight from Japan to the United States? | Binksternet | |
| Ann Dexter Gordon | 10-15-2010 | 515 | ... that American history researcher Ann Dexter Gordon leads a project at Rutgers University which has cataloged more than 14,000 papers related to Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony? | Binksternet | |
| Bobbye Hall | 08-15-2010 | 2300 | ... that Bob Dylan paid US$2,500 per week to percussionist Bobbye Hall to get her to tour with him in 1978, in compensation for missed session musician work? | Pawnkingthree Binksternet | |
| Bill Porter (sound engineer) | 07-18-2010 | 881 | ... that audio engineer Bill Porter nearly ruined his first number one record, "The Three Bells" by The Browns, and had to splice two takes together to fix it? | Binksternet | |
| Olana State Historic Site | 04-18-2010 |  |
1800 | ... that New York's Olana State Historic Site (pictured) was named "Olana" by artist Frederic Edwin Church after he read about Olana, an ancient treasury in Artaxata, Armenia, overlooking the Araxes River? | Binksternet, Karen Zukowski |
| Parallel compression | 03-27-2010 | 2000 | ... that New York-based mix engineer Michael Brauer uses five compressors in his parallel compression method, to achieve the desired vocal sound for The Rolling Stones, KT Tunstall and Coldplay? | Binksternet | |
| BevMo! | 03-14-2010 | 1200 | ... that Wilfred Wong, BevMo!'s cellar master, tastes some 8,000 wines each year for the large retail chain? | Binksternet | |
| Chrystal Macmillan | 03-09-2010 |  |
3100 | ... that Chrystal Macmillan (pictured) was the first female graduate with a degree in science from the University of Edinburgh, and the first woman to argue before the House of Lords? | Binksternet |
| Michele S. Jones | 03-08-2010 |  |
7400 | ... that Michele S. Jones (pictured) was the first woman in the U.S. Army to attain the rank of command sergeant major before she retired to a military liaison position in the Obama Administration? | Binksternet |
| Bimbo's 365 Club | 03-07-2010 | 4700 | ... that an early incarnation of Bimbo's 365 Club in San Francisco included Dolfina, a nude woman who appeared to swim inside a large aquarium over the bar? | Binksternet | |
| Quartet San Francisco | 02-27-2010 | 254 | ... that eclectic and non-traditional Quartet San Francisco has been nominated five times for Grammy Awards, most recently for QSF Plays Brubeck, the first all-Dave Brubeck string quartet recording? | Binksternet | |
| Vance Haynes | 02-15-2010 | 696 | ... that archaeologist Vance Haynes challenged the right of Native Americans to rebury Kennewick Man—skeletal bone fragments about 9,000 years old—which Haynes said should be studied further? | Binksternet | |
| Caleb V. Haynes | 02-13-2010 | 2600 | ... that United States Air Force Major General Caleb V. Haynes was the grandson of Chang Bunker, one of the original "Siamese Twins"? | Binksternet | |
| Rancho Little Temecula | 02-08-2010 | (server down) | ... that the Mexican land grant Rancho Little Temecula in California was one of the few granted to an indigenous American, though the court's decision came after the death of the applicant? | Emargie, Binksternet | |
| Hotel Valley Ho | 01-07-2010 |  |
5000 | ... that Bette Davis, Roy Rogers, Frankie Avalon, Humphrey Bogart, Betty Grable, Janet Leigh, Cary Grant and Tony Curtis all stayed at the Hotel Valley Ho (pictured) in Scottsdale, Arizona? | Binksternet, Dr. Blofeld |
| Helen Bright Clark | 12-25-2009 | 338 | ... that Helen Bright Clark was one of the first British women to sign the Open Christmas Letter which sought to extend the hand of peace "To the Women of Germany and Austria" during World War I? | Binksternet | |
| Open Christmas Letter | 12-25-2009 | 806 | ... that Helen Bright Clark was one of the first British women to sign the Open Christmas Letter which sought to extend the hand of peace "To the Women of Germany and Austria" during World War I? | Binksternet | |
| Hans-Georg von Seidel | 12-23-2009 | 5400 | ... that the Quartermaster General of the Luftwaffe, Hans-Georg von Seidel, said after World War II that "Hitler understood nothing about flying and cared less"? | Binksternet | |
| Seenotdienst | 12-19-2009 |  |
5400 | ... that the German Seenotdienst (early aircraft pictured) was the first air-sea rescue service? | Binksternet |
| Rancho Monserate | 12-19-2009 | 817 | ... that the adobe chapel built by Tomas Alvarado on the eastern third of Rancho Monserate in California is the only 1870s structure still standing? | Emargie, Binksternet | |
| Type (designation) | 12-11-2009 | 2000 | ... that the Type numbering system in Japan specified that the Mitsubishi A6M of 1940 would be designated "Type 0 Carrier Fighter", giving rise to the popular name "Zero"? | Binksternet | |
| Rommelspargel | 12-06-2009 |  |
9100 | ... that during the invasion of Normandy, more than a million Rommelspargel poles (pictured) placed to injure Allied paratroopers and glider infantry proved ineffective? | Binksternet |
| Associated Motion Picture Pilots | 12-04-2009 | 498 | ... that Paul Mantz was permitted to join the Associated Motion Picture Pilots, a union of Hollywood stunt fliers, after performing a world record 46 outside loops in a row? | Binksternet | |
| St. Clair Streett | 11-30-2009 | 3600 | ... that the controls of St. Clair Streett's biplane became immobile at high altitude, where the temperature was −78 °F (−61 °C)? | Binksternet | |
| Gordon P. Saville | 11-26-2009 | 729 | ... that after the heavy American casualties over the oil refineries of Ploieşti in Operation Tidal Wave, General Gordon P. Saville called it "ridiculous and suicidal"? | Binksternet | |
| Vernon Burge | 11-23-2009 | 1800 | ... that Vernon Burge was the first American enlisted man to be certified as a military aviator? | Binksternet | |
| John C. "Pappy" Herbst | 11-22-2009 | (server down) | ... that American flying ace John C. "Pappy" Herbst painted a swastika on his P-51B Mustang to indicate an aerial victory he said he earned while flying with the Royal Canadian Air Force? | Binksternet | |
| Clinton D. "Casey" Vincent | 11-20-2009 | 3700 | ... that fighter ace Clinton D. "Casey" Vincent served as the prototype for two comic strip characters after his wife sent photographs to cartoonist Milton Caniff? | Binksternet | |
| Harold M. McClelland | 11-20-2009 | 2500 | ... that, in a publicity stunt from an aircraft, Harold M. McClelland dropped three baseballs on Babe Ruth who was "knocked flat" by the first two? | Binksternet | |
| Jet blast deflector | 11-17-2009 | _before_flight_operations_on_the_flight_deck_of_USS_John_C._Stennis_(CVN_74).jpg) |
7600 | ... that the most recent jet blast deflector (example pictured) developed for the USS George H.W. Bush is covered with heat-dissipating ceramic tiles similar to those used on the Space Shuttle? | Binksternet |
| Industrial web theory | 11-12-2009 | 6200 | ... that the industrial web theory was originally based on the conviction by Air Corps Tactical School instructors that a fleet of heavy bombers was invincible? | Binksternet | |
| Air War Plans Division | 11-11-2009 | 2200 | ... that secret bombing priorities drawn up by the Air War Plans Division were compromised by Senator Burton K. Wheeler three days before the attack on Pearl Harbor? | Binksternet | |
| Robert M. Webster | 11-10-2009 | 1500 | ... that Robert M. Webster studied New York City utilities in the 1930s to determine the best way to bomb an enemy's industrial base? | Binksternet | |
| Lozenge camouflage | 11-10-2009 |  |
9400 | ... that Central Powers combat pilots often painted individual color schemes on their personal aircraft (example pictured) in spite of the factory-applied lozenge camouflage? | Binksternet |
| Odas Moon | 11-07-2009 | 4000 | ... that Lieutenant Odas Moon "bombed" the USS Langley with three ripe tomatoes? | Binksternet | |
| Aircraft camouflage | 11-04-2009 | .jpg) |
27400 | ... that experiments with modern aircraft camouflage (pictured) have used panels that emit light? | Binksternet |
| Aerial torpedo | 11-02-2009 |  |
10400 | ... that Rear Admiral Bradley A. Fiske patented the aerial torpedo (example pictured) in 1912, and said it could be used against an enemy fleet in its own harbor? | Binksternet |
| Amphibious helicopter | 09-28-2009 | 11000 | ... that the first practical amphibious helicopter was created in 1941 when Igor Sikorsky fitted floats to his VS-300 (pictured)? | Binksternet | |
| A-1 lifeboat | 09-21-2009 | 6600 | ... that the Higgins Industries A-1 lifeboat was first dropped by parachute to save six American airmen stranded in the North Sea in 1945? | Binksternet | |
| Rancho Buena Ventura | 09-19-2009 | 919 | ... that Rancho Buena Ventura, the northernmost Mexican land grant in California, was given to Pierson B. Reading in 1844 even though he was never a Mexican citizen? | Emargie, Binksternet | |
| Airborne lifeboat | 09-12-2009 | 2700 | ... that the first airborne lifeboat carried by bombers converted to air-sea rescue service was designed in the UK by Uffa Fox? | Binksternet | |
| Air-sea rescue | 09-12-2009 | 694 | ... that the first peace-time air-sea rescue unit equipped entirely with helicopters was No. 275 Squadron RAF in 1953? | Binksternet | |
| Dumbo (air-sea rescue) | 09-11-2009 |  |
10800 | ... that American Dumbo rescue flights (aircraft pictured) worked with submarines and surface boats to help save downed airmen in the Pacific War? | Binksternet |
| Rancho Cañada de Pogolimi | 09-07-2009 | 1300 | ... that Rancho Cañada de Pogolimi, a fertile California ranch exceeding 8,780 acres (35.5 km2), was granted in 1844 to María Antonia Cazares who was married at 14 and widowed at 17? | Emargie, Binksternet | |
| Parabolic loudspeaker | 08-31-2009 | 2600 | ... that one of the public address applications of parabolic loudspeakers is to project sound waves in a 10° cone pattern 300 feet (90 m) away? | Binksternet | |
| Monticello, California | 08-29-2009 | 3900 | ... that Dorothea Lange and Pirkle Jones were commissioned to take photographs of Monticello, California as it was being prepared for destruction? | Binksternet | |
| Rancho Las Putas | 08-19-2009 | 2700 | ... that the majority of Mexican land grant Rancho Las Putas was covered by Lake Berryessa in 1957? | Emargie, Binksternet | |
| San Francisco Art Association | 08-10-2009 | 292 | ... that the San Francisco Art Association used the expansive Palace of Fine Arts to show a small collection of public art, and lost money each year from 1915 to 1922? | Binksternet | |
| The Californian (1840s newspaper) | 08-06-2009 | 1200 | ... that The Californian, California's first newspaper, appeared first in August 1846 on large sheets of cigarette paper, with English on one side and Spanish on the other? | Binksternet | |
| Richard Henry Savage | 08-05-2009 |  |
4000 | ... that Richard Henry Savage (pictured) served in Egypt for a year with Charles Pomeroy Stone in the Egyptian Army, under Khedive Isma'il Pasha? | Binksternet |
| The Californian (1880s magazine) | 08-05-2009 | 217 | ... that Anton Roman's literary magazine The Californian, published in 1880, was a continuation of his earlier Overland Monthly? | Binksternet | |
| The Californian (1860s newspaper) | 08-04-2009 | 253 | ... that "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" was one of the stories Mark Twain published in the San Francisco weekly literary newspaper The Californian? | Binksternet | |
| James F. Bowman | 08-02-2009 | 429 | ... that journalist James F. Bowman wrote a grandiose poetry review for The Californian newspaper, then published an anonymous review in the Dramatic Chronicle savaging his earlier review? | Binksternet | |
| Henry Edwards (entomologist) | 08-01-2009 | 280 | ... that a farewell gathering for entomologist Henry Edwards in the woods of Marin County in 1878 was the beginning of the Bohemian Club's tradition of a yearly encampment at the Bohemian Grove? | Binksternet | |
| Daniel O'Connell (journalist) | 07-30-2009 | 507 | ... that Irish-born journalist and poet Daniel O'Connell worked for a number of newspapers in San Francisco and was one of the co-founders of the Bohemian Club? | Binksternet | |
| Harvey Hancock | 07-27-2009 | 566 | ... that, when Murray Chotiner produced the infamous "pink sheet" against opponent Helen Gahagan Douglas, Richard Nixon's Northern California campaign manager Harvey Hancock refused to run it? | Binksternet | |
| Harold L. George | 07-24-2009 |  |
2300 | ... that USAAF Lieutenant General Harold L. George (pictured), the unofficial leader of the "Bomber Mafia", became mayor of Beverly Hills, California, after World War II? | Binksternet |
| Bomber Mafia | 07-24-2009 | |
11700 | ... that USAAF Lieutenant General Harold L. George (pictured), the unofficial leader of the "Bomber Mafia", became mayor of Beverly Hills, California, after World War II? | Binksternet |
| Peter R. Arnott | 07-24-2009 | 737 | ... that the band "Goodtime Washboard Three", with Peter R. Arnott on banjo, played on April Fools' Day in 1967 for Bing Crosby as he hosted the television show The Hollywood Palace? | Binksternet | |
| Joe Knowland | 07-23-2009 | 1600 | ... that wealthy newspaper publisher Joe Knowland played a prison guard in his first feature film, Escape from Alcatraz, at the age of 49? | Binksternet | |
| Elliott Cresson | 07-21-2009 | 1100 | ... that philanthropist Elliott Cresson received autographs of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson from ex-president James Madison? | Binksternet | |
| Ina Coolbrith | 07-17-2009 |  |
1400 | ... that Ina Coolbrith (pictured), the first woman granted honorary membership in the Bohemian Club, was also the first California Poet Laureate? | Binksternet |
| Richard Bunger Evans | 07-13-2009 | 282 | ... that in 1973, composer Richard Bunger Evans wrote The Well-Prepared Piano, a classic work describing prepared piano technique? | Binksternet | |
| Nino Marcelli | 07-12-2009 | 203 | ... that Italian composer and American citizen Nino Marcelli led the San Diego High School orchestra to achieve a national reputation in the 1930s? | Binksternet | |
| Wallace Arthur Sabin | 07-09-2009 | 500 | ... that England-born American composer Wallace Arthur Sabin was the first dean of the San Francisco chapter of the American Guild of Organists? | Binksternet | |
| Cremation of Care | 07-09-2009 | 2000 | ... that the Cremation of Care ceremony is performed on the first night of the Bohemian Club's annual summer encampment at the Bohemian Grove? | Binksternet | |
| Ulderico Marcelli | 07-08-2009 | 628 | ... that Italian composer and bandleader Ulderico "Rico" Marcelli married the violin soloist from his own Fibber McGee and Molly radio show band? | Binksternet | |
| Domenico Brescia | 07-08-2009 | 300 | ... that Domenico Brescia wrote in 1919 that he was probably the first composer to use a chromatic set of cowbells as a symphony instrument? | Binksternet | |
| Headroom (photographic framing) | 07-03-2009 |  |
9500 | ... that the concept of headroom (pictured) in still and motion picture photography originates in the rule of thirds from classic portrait painting? | Binksternet |
| List of Grove Plays | 07-03-2009 | 609 | ... that the annual Grove Plays staged by the Bohemian Club at the Bohemian Grove have been described as "lumbering pageants? | Binksternet | |
| Joel Selvin | 06-27-2009 | 202 | ... that San Francisco Chronicle pop music critic Joel Selvin was an early member of the rock and roll band Rock Bottom Remainders, made up of authors and journalists? | Binksternet | |
| Barney M. Giles | 06-11-2009 | 2200 | ... that, in September 1945, Lieutenant General Barney M. Giles piloted one of three B-29 Superfortresses that were the first to fly nonstop from Japan to the United States? | Binksternet | |
| Oliver P. Echols | 06-11-2009 |  |
1800 | ... that Chief Engineer Oliver P. Echols (pictured) arranged a high-level military demonstration for the Hughes H-1 Racer but Howard Hughes and the plane did not show up? | Binksternet |
| Hannah Tracy Cutler | 06-02-2009 | 736 | ... that Hannah Tracy Cutler wrote an advice column for farm girls before she became president of the American Woman Suffrage Association in 1870? | Binksternet | |
| The Woman's Bible | 06-01-2009 | 6300 | ... that her controversial publishing of The Woman's Bible in the 1890s effectively ended Elizabeth Cady Stanton's further influence in the woman suffrage movement? | Binksternet | |
| Abigail Bush | 05-11-2009 | 960 | ... that Abigail Bush, in 1848, was the first American woman to serve as president of a women's rights convention? | Binksternet | |
| Free produce movement | 05-05-2009 | 735 | ... that an 1830s newspaper article in Freedom's Journal in favor of the free produce movement determined that the sugar consumption of 25 people required the toil of one slave? | Binksternet | |
| Howard A. Chinn | 04-23-2009 | 1100 | ... that Howard A. Chinn, while working as chief audio engineer at CBS in 1943, wrote a classified report about enemy radar? | Binksternet | |
| Come-outer | 04-22-2009 | 2700 | ... that several abolitionist come-outers put on trial in Barnstable, Massachusetts in 1851 were called "poor deluded beings" in The Barnstable Patriot? | Binksternet | |
| Stephen Symonds Foster | 04-13-2009 | 1900 | ... that abolitionist Stephen Symonds Foster was thrown in jail in 1838 for two weeks during his senior year at Dartmouth but still managed to graduate third in his class? | Binksternet | |
| National Women's Rights Convention | 04-11-2009 | 458 | ... that, at the National Women's Rights Convention in Cincinnati in 1855, Lucy Stone responded to a heckler, saying "...disappointment is the lot of woman"? | Binksternet | |
| Benjamin S. Kelsey | 04-04-2009 | 1000 | ... that, as Fighter Project Officer for the United States Army Air Corps, Ben Kelsey crashed two P-38 Lightning aircraft including the only prototype built? | Binksternet | |
| Clarence W. W. Mayhew | 11-29-2008 | 743 | ... that architect Clarence W. W. Mayhew, known as an innovator of the contemporary ranch house in California, admitted copying "the underlying principle" from Japanese architecture? | Binksternet | |
| 100 McAllister Street | 11-26-2008 |  |
1700 | ... that the tower located at 100 McAllister St (pictured) in San Francisco used to be a Methodist church, a hotel and an IRS office building before it was refurbished for residential use by students at UC Hastings? | Binksternet |
| Yucca Flat | 07-12-2008 |  |
5400 | ... that a subsidence crater (pictured) resulting from a nuclear test in 1962 at Yucca Flat is listed in the U.S. National Register of Historic Places? | Binksternet |
- Did you know nominations of others' articles
| Article | Date | Image | DYK views | DYK hook | Authors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Saguache Crescent | 03-04-2014 | 2500 | ... that The Saguache Crescent might be the last newspaper in the world to use linotype? | Gandydancer | |
| Fantasy Studios | 08-13-2011 | 1600 | ... that Fantasy Studios was built on profits from hit songs by Creedence Clearwater Revival? | Skallikat | |
| Tim Ryan (engineer) | 03-31-2011 | 7100 | ... that Tim Ryan's first electronic product was supposed to compete with a US$15 synthesizer module but ended up at a price of US$30,000? | Synthfiend | |
| Rancho New Helvetia | 02-07-2010 | 1300 | ... that the Mexican land grant, Rancho New Helvetia, was given to German-Swiss immigrant John Sutter to serve as a buffer between Californio lands and "marauding bands of hunters and trappers"? | Emargie | |
| Ralph Royce | 12-25-2009 | 1700 | ... that, in 1930, Ralph Royce flew aircraft in such severe cold weather operations that the Mackay Trophy was awarded to him? | Hawkeye7 | |
| Rancho Los Medanos | 08-06-2009 | 1900 | ... that Mexican land grant Rancho Los Medanos was called "New York of the Pacific" by the New York army colonel who bought it? | Emargie | |
| Rancho Los Meganos | 08-04-2009 | 2200 | ... that John Marsh, the first Anglo owner of Rancho Los Meganos, was murdered in 1856 by employees who thought he was cheating them? | Emargie |