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Conestoga wagon on display ... that of the 146 Conestoga wagons (pictured) employed by the Braddock Expedition in the French and Indian War, only one remained intact by the campaign's end? ... that the Yogini with a Mynah Bird has the attributes of an ascetic as well as a princess? ... that artist Dan Hays uses what he calls "the tactile, flawed and time-consuming medium of painting" to reproduce the effect of a low-resolution JPEG? ... that the owner of a South Carolina TV station admitted, "I'm not a broadcaster"? ... that after serving as Malawi's first speaker of the assembly following independence, Alec Nyasulu was a tobacco farmer? ... that the "white rose" in The Valiant Girl White Rose refers to both its star and character, but neither share a name? ... that in 1860, engineer Andreas Kordellas helped restart operations at an ancient Athenian mine? ... that in "Skin of My Teeth", Demi Lovato declared that she barely escaped death? ... that for some time the penguin Happy Feet got more media attention than New Zealand Prime Minister John Key? Archive Start a new article Nominate an article

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October 14

• ...that Hong San See, a Chinese temple and national monument in Singapore, was sited on a small hill for good fengshui and once commanded a good view of the sea? —self-nom by Sengkang 19:01, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
• ...that recently died Tatar opera singer Azat Abbasov worked as designer at plant? by me --Üntïflër (ә?) 17:14, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
• ...that Swedish goalkeeper Karl Svensson was given his nickname Rio-Kalle after two heroic matches in the 1950 FIFA World Cup that were actually played in São Paulo and not in Rio de Janeiro? Note that this was not tagged as a stub before the October 14 expand, but it should have been. The expand was also more than 1,000 chars. – Elisson • T • C • 12:09, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

October 13

• ...that Ravensburg State Park in Pennsylvania, built by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930s, is named for the ravens that still roost there? -- Dincher 04:11, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

• ...that Semuliki National Park in Uganda is one of the richest areas of floral and faunal diversity in Africa? (self-nomination) Bláthnaid 09:47, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

• ... that Danish linguist and professor Jørgen Rischel, one of the leading specialists in Eskimo-Aleut and Mon-Khmer languages, was knighted into the Order of the Dannebrog by Queen Margrethe II of Denmark in 1991? (self-nomination) Maunus 11:43, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
  • Stub BigHaz - Schreit mich an 23:05, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

• ...that Leonarda Cianciulli, the "Soap-Maker of Correggio", murdered three women and turned their bodies into soap and tea cakes? (self-nom) --AlbertHerring 18:21, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

• ...that British athlete Don Thompson was nicknamed "Il Topolino" (Italian for "Little Mouse") when he raced to victory in the 50km walk at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome while wearing a képi and sunglasses ? -- ALoan (Talk) 23:01, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
  • Stub BigHaz - Schreit mich an 23:05, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

• ...that Fighting Solidarity, created in response to the martial law in Poland of 1982, was among the most radical splinters of Solidarity? --self-nom by  _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk}  00:15, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

• ...that if you ever responded to a shaky telemarketing or sweepstakes solicitation, chances are that you have been placed into a sucker list and in the future you will be approached with a reloading scam? -- double-nom (self) `'mikka (t) 02:57, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

• ...that the needle-exchange programme John Turvey helped create in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside eventually became North America's first safe injection site? --maclean25 04:15, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

• ...that although the earliest attempt at dividing Midnapore District, the most populous district in India, was scrapped in 1921, the Partition of Midnapore was achieved 81 years later? --Antorjal 04:48, 14 October 2006 (UTC)(self-nom)

• ...that the Smith Flyer was an automobile formed out of a wooden plank, two bucket seats, a driving mechanism and a power unit? (self-nom) --AlbertHerring 05:21, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

• ...that vulvar cancer is such a neglected topic that Misplaced Pages had not yet had an article on it? (self-nom) - Ekem 14:03, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
  • (alt) ... that it has been predicted that vulvar cancer will kill about 880 women in the United States in 2006? Ekem 17:12, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

October 12

• ...that the Viipuri Municipal Library, built to Aalto's groundbreaking design in 1935, was abandoned for a decade following the transfer of Viipuri to the Soviet Union? --article by User:TTKK, nom by Ghirla 14:45, 12 October 2006 (UTC), tweaks are welcome
• ...that the "Shakespeare Lady", a schizophrenic street performer in Downtown New Haven, Connecticut, has her own trading card? -- StAkAr Karnak 13:06, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

  

• ...that the strongest artistic personality to emerge from Leonardo's studio was Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio? (self-nom Wetman 16:53, 12 October 2006 (UTC))

  Can I endorse one? I got an edit conflict whilst trying to add this same article. ~ ONUnicorn (Talk / Contribs) 16:59, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

• ...that the Sannyasi Rebellion was a series of clashes between Indian ascetics and the British East India Company during the eighteenth century in Bengal? --Antorjal 03:47, 13 October 2006 (UTC) (self-nom)
• ...that passum was a raisin wine, apparently developed in Carthage, that was quite popular in Italy under the Roman Empire? (article by Andrew Dalby, nominated by --AlbertHerring 06:18, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
  • No source/reference information. --Peta 07:38, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
    • What about the quote in the center, from the ancient source - does that count? --AlbertHerring 18:22, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
• ...that Islay Herald Don Pottinger only became interested in heraldry when commissioned to paint a portrait of Sir Thomas Innes of Learney? --dave-- 13:33, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
• ...that Sir John Gonson, a British Justice of the Peace for nearly 50 years in the early 18th century, was depicted twice in William Hogarth's A Harlot's Progress? -- ALoan (Talk) 23:09, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
• ...that an employee resignation letter from the son of the patent attorney to the Wright Brothers (inventors of the airplane) lead to the demise of the Tucker Car Company and a $62 Million donation to Georgetown University Medical Center? -- Self nominated by Jreferee 17:52, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

October 11

• ...that the Shelter was an experimental city car of the early 1950s designed and built by a Dutch engineering student with financial backing by the government of the Netherlands? Yet another self-nom by Lucky 6.9 08:20, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

• ...that the Islamic Republic of Iran uses government-organized demonstrations to mislead foreigners about the sentiments of everyday citizens?

Seems stubby. GeeJo ⁄_(c) • 17:56, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

...and is hardly NPOV, to my eyes at least. Badgerpatrol 00:41, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

• ...that after collaborating on the score for the Spike Jonze-directed commercial Hello Tomorrow, Jonze's then-girlfriend Karen O asked his brother Sam Spiegel to produce her band's next album, whose first single would be named after an award won by the advertisement? -- Kicking222 15:39, 11 October 2006 (UTC) (self-nom) (And yes, I know that the sentence is a bit long, but there are a few interesting facts in there, and I'm not sure how to shorten it.)
  • Article does not explain why this commercial is encyclopedic.--Peta 07:41, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

• ... that listening to Mangalkavya epics were said to bring spiritual and material benefits? (self-nom) Bakaman _Bakatalk 23:53, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
• ...that numismatists billed the United States Series of 1896 Educational Series Silver Certificates as the most beautiful designed bills due to their use of neoclassical allegorical motifs? (notes pictured to the side) {self-nom]--293.xx.xxx.xx 00:09, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

• ...that in the 2003 film Eloise at the Plaza, Julie Andrews (of Mary Poppins fame) once again played a nanny in a film that was part live action and part animation? — Catherine\ 05:57, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
  • Article has very little content beyond the cast list. --Peta 07:41, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

• ...that Nancy Dickerson, in 1960, became the first female news correspondent on the CBS television network? — Catherine\ 05:57, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

October 10

• ...that Iridodialysis sometimes known as a coredialysis, is a localized separation or tearing away of the iris from its attachment to the ciliary body. (self-nom, date of creation) EyeMD 10:41, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

May I suggest:

...that iridodialysis is a localized separation or tearing away of the iris from its attachment to the ciliary body?

--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 16:12, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

• ...that the Sunflower Showdown, the athletic competition between Kansas State University and the University of Kansas, traces its history back to a fight over the location of the state university in the 1860s? (self nom, date of significant expansion) Kgwo1972 21:36, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
  • I just made a slight revision to above submission. Kgwo1972 20:51, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

• ...that the Dunkeld Lectern, looted from Edinburgh in 1544, was stolen from by the Scottish independence group, Siol nan Gaidheal in 1984, and hidden in a highland grave for 15 years? (self nom - sorry, 1 day out - I was trying to get a picture - still a great story though) Legis 07:31, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
  • Please shorten. --Ghirla 07:41, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
    • Shortened. Legis 09:14, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
      • Belongs under 4 October, go by the day of substantial expansion, not day of nomination. ++Lar: t/c 10:27, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

• ...that in the Battle of Stone Houses, fought in 1837, a band of American Indians defeated a group of Texas Rangers by smoking them out of their shelter? (self-nom)--AlbertHerring 06:36, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
  • No references and it is a stub.--Peta 07:44, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
    • How's this? --AlbertHerring 05:25, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

• ...that the famous Russian orientalist of Azeri origin, Muhammad Ali Kazim-bey, was converted to Christianity by Scottish Presbyterian missionaries in 1821? --article by User:Parishan, nom by Ghirla 07:41, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
• ...that a specimen of Australia's largest mushroom Phlebopus marginatus from Western Victoria weighed in at 29 kg, and caps can sometimes reach 1 metre across? (self nom) Cas Liber 11:56, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
• ...that Yakov Bulgakov, Catherine II's emissary in Istanbul, managed to obtain a plan of the Turkish naval offensive while being imprisoned in Yedikule during the Russo-Turkish War, 1787-1792? --self-nom by Ghirla 14:54, 10 October 2006 (UTC), please tweak my nom

• ...that Francesco Xanto Avelli was unusual among Umbrian maiolica painters because he signed and dated much of his work? (another self-nom) --AlbertHerring 20:59, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
  • No references and marked as a stub.--Peta 07:44, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
    • How's this? --AlbertHerring 05:25, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

• ...that Czech Second World War fighter pilot František Fajtl briefly flew for the French Air Force before commanding units in the Royal Air Force and then a Czechoslovak regiment formed by the Soviet Union? (expanded stub today from obituaries) -- ALoan (Talk) 22:13, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
  • Are the ex links the references?--Peta 07:44, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
    • A couple are, yes; sorry - fixed. -- ALoan (Talk) 14:04, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

October 9

• ...that the 1989 Glasnost Bowl was an attempt to schedule an American college football game in Soviet Russia at Moscow's Dynamo Stadium? -- (self nom), Bobak 22:47, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
  • Stub.--Peta 01:31, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

• Stub? It's over 1000 characters (w/o spaces), the only reason I left the "stub" is that there's the possibility for more information. --Bobak 03:43, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

  This is indeed a stub. Please expand. --Ghirla 15:01, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

Meh, f--- it; I don't know how to get more information at this point. --Bobak 16:04, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

You got more information by posting your frustration here. See my addition to Glasnost Bowl. I'm not a big sports fan, but I love hidden treasures like Glasnost Bowl. -- Henry998 20:55, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

• ... that the The Officer Down Memorial Page, Inc is a non-profit organization dedicated to honoring police and corrections officers who have lost their lives in the line of duty? (Article created by User: Chainclaw at 12:16 a.m, self nomination)
  • The article does not make it clear why this group is of interest to an encyclopedia reader.--Peta 05:18, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

October 8

• ...that the famous Victor Jubilee Palace, a landmark in the Cooch Behar city, was designed after the model of Buckingham Palace of London in 1887 during the reign of Maharaja Nripendra Narayan? (self-nominated) Amartyabag 06:33, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

The article on the said palace is missing! Which article are you nominating?--Dwaipayan (talk) 11:51, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

Assuming from your contributions that it's actually Cooch Behar you wish to submit, the article isn't new, and hasn't been a stub since September 6, 2006. GeeJo ⁄_(c) • 15:25, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

• ...that the Michigan State University School of Hospitality Business created the United States' first Master of Business Administration program in Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Management? — Created by a new user, Guff15, and nominated by Lovelac7 02:45, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
  • Article should make it clear why this is relevant to an encyclopedia.--Peta 13:28, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

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