Template:Did you know nominations/Precious Legacy

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The result was: promoted by 97198 (talk) 12:15, 25 August 2019 (UTC)

Precious Legacy

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• ... that an exhibit of Czech Jewish art and ritual objects confiscated by the Nazis for a planned "Museum of the Extinct Race" broke visitor records in its seven-week run at the Smithsonian? Source: "'The Precious Legacy: Judaic Treasures from the Czechoslovak State Collections' attracted more than 110,000 viewers between Nov. 9 and Jan. 1 at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History. That is the largest number to visit an exhibition there since that building opened in 1917." (New York Jewish Week, 27 January 1984)
  • ALT1: ... that an exhibit of Czech Jewish art and ritual objects confiscated by the Nazis for a planned "Museum of the Extinct Race" was seen by more than half a million people on its U.S. tour? Source: "The show had drawn more than 550,000 viewers to museums from Manhattan to San Diego." (Hartford Courant, August 14, 1985)
  • ALT2:... that Precious Legacy, an exhibit of Czech Jewish ritual objects confiscated by the Nazis, displayed 350 out of the 140,000 artifacts collected in Prague for a "Museum of the Extinct Race"?

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Valentina Tereshkova
• Comment: The source is offline; I'm waiting for the co-creator to provide the quote from the source.Sourcing provided.

Created by E.M.Gregory (talk) and Yoninah (talk). Nominated by Yoninah (talk) at 22:07, 24 July 2019 (UTC).

• Ready for review. Personally, I prefer ALT1. Yoninah (talk) 22:08, 28 July 2019 (UTC)

Interesting display, on good sources, offline sources accepted AGF, no copyvio obvious. I wonder if the pipe is a good idea, but won't insist to change it. I also prefer ALT1. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:55, 29 July 2019 (UTC)

• Thanks for the review. I originally had the exhibition name in there, but it made the hook far too long, so I piped it. Yoninah (talk) 11:12, 30 July 2019 (UTC)