User:Julia W/Navel gazing
Appearance
Creation
[edit]- Costus curvibracteatus—thirty-first DYK
- Holly Smale
- Eutricha capensis—twenty-ninth DYK
- Sphecodopsis—twenty-seventh DYK
- Scelophysa trimeni—twenty-fifth DYK
- Psathyrella ammophila—twenty-fourth DYK
- Palais Saint-Georges—twenty-third DYK
- Nemesia cheiranthus
- Saint Paulin Church—sixteenth DYK
- Church of Saint Ildefonso—fifteenth DYK
- Aneilema aequinoctiale—fourteenth DYK
- Ursus C-45
- Elaine M Goodwin—eleventh DYK
- Simon Radley—seventh DYK
- Chester Grosvenor and Spa—sixth DYK
- Tomb of Hafez—fifth DYK
- Abantiades latipennis—fourth DYK
- Carola Roloff—third DYK
- Claire Curran—now a full article, but I only got it to a decent stub
- Lauren Albanese—stub
- Piotr Tomaszewski—my first article
Article expansion and rescue
[edit]- Heliophila—thirtieth DYK
- Albanian water frog—twenty-eighth DYK
- Kuremaa—twenty-sixth DYK
- Großbottwar—twenty-second DYK
- Bolinus cornutus—twenty-first DYK
- Colpophyllia natans—twentieth DYK
- Ebbe Nielsen—nineteenth DYK
- Pollanisus nielseni—eighteenth DYK
- Senostoma—seventeenth DYK
- Vexi Salmi—thirteenth DYK. Jafeluv did a lot of work with Finnish references to help me expand this.
- Erlebnispark Tripsdrill—twelfth DYK
- Rock Creek Canyon Bridge—tenth DYK
- Myrmecia esuriens—ninth DYK
- Swaledale (sheep)—eighth DYK
- Kothduwa temple—worked on with Paxse; second DYK
- List of female tennis players—with some assistance from Tennis expert, took the article from a sparse and not-very-useful list to a mammoth table.
- Battle of Crogen—first DYK.
- Jakob Liv Rosted Sverdrup—from these three lines to this referenced stub. Almost four months later, someone who actually knows Norwegian came along and improved it even further.
DYKs
[edit]Did you know . . .
no | date | article | hook | picture |
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31 | 12 August 2015 | Costus curvibracteatus | ... that the orange tulip ginger is not a citrus fruit, nor a tulip, nor a spice? | ![]() |
30 | 13 February 2014 | Heliophila | ... that molecular phylogenetics led to six genera of Brassicaceae resolving into the southern Africa genus Heliophila? | ![]() |
29 | 14 November 2013 | Eutricha capensis | ... that caterpillars of the Cape lappet moth (pictured) are described as "gregarious" because they clump together in great numbers for unknown reasons? | ![]() |
28 | 27 September 2013 | Albanian water frog | ... that populations of the endangered Albanian water frog (pictured) are declining due to over-collection for the food industry and pet trade? | ![]() |
27 | 24 February 2013 | Sphecodopsis | ... that after hatching, Sphecodopsis cuckoo bee larvae use their long sickle-shaped mandibles to destroy any other eggs or larvae around them? | ![]() |
26 | 4 October 2012 | Kuremaa | ... that Arthur von Oettingen and his family lost their farm and family home in Kuremaa when Estonia expropriated all land from the Baltic nobility in 1919? | ![]() |
25 | 16 August 2012 | Scelophysa trimeni | ... that blue monkey beetles (pictured) both feed and mate in the dark centres of unscented flowers? | ![]() |
24 | 7 August 2012 | Psathyrella ammophila | ... that the dune brittlestem (pictured) has a symbiotic relationship with marram grass? | ![]() |
23 | 3 May 2012 | Saint George Palace | ... that French revolutionary forces in Rennes evicted almost forty nuns from their abbey residence, the Palais Saint-Georges (pictured), and used the building as a barracks? | ![]() |
22 | 10 January 2011 | Großbottwar | ... that a wooden stork on the façade of the Rathaus (pictured) in the German town of Großbottwar nods its head when the town hall clock strikes the hour? | ![]() |
21 | 5 January 2011 | Bolinus cornutus | ... that a Tyrian purple dye can be extracted from the West African Horned Murex sea snail (shell pictured)? | ![]() |
20 | 19 November 2010 | Colpophyllia natans | ... that some stony corals, such as the aptly named boulder brain corals (pictured), resemble over-sized cerebra? | ![]() |
19 | 1 November 2010 | Pollanisus nielseni | ... that Pollanisus nielseni, a moth of Western Australia with brilliantly shiny wings, was given its species name in 2005 as a tribute to Ebbe Nielsen, a noted Danish entomologist? | |
18 | 1 November 2010 | Ebbe Nielsen | ... that Pollanisus nielseni, a moth of Western Australia with brilliantly shiny wings, was given its species name in 2005 as a tribute to Ebbe Nielsen, a noted Danish entomologist? | |
17 | 11 September 2010 | Senostoma | ... that members of Senostoma (pictured) kill their hosts when ready to emerge? | ![]() |
16 | 13 June 2010 | Saint Paulin Church | . . . that the crypt of St. Paulinskirche (pictured) in Trier allegedly contains the remains of approximately one dozen of the martyred soldiers of the legendary Theban Legion? | ![]() |
15 | 29 March 2010 | Church of Saint Ildefonso | . . . that the façade of the Igreja de Santo Ildefonso (pictured) in Porto, Portugal, is covered in approximately 11,000 azulejos? | ![]() |
14 | 20 March 2010 | Aneilema aequinoctiale | . . . that chimpanzees in the wild may self-medicate by swallowing the leaves of Aneilema aequinoctiale (pictured) whole, in order to rid their intestines of parasitic nematodes? | ![]() |
13 | 15 March 2010 | Vexi Salmi | . . . that from 1965 to present, Finnish lyricist Vexi Salmi (pictured) has written over 4000 song lyrics, more than 2400 of which have been recorded? | ![]() |
12 | 02 March 2010 | Erlebnispark Tripsdrill | . . . that German extreme in-line skater Dirk Auer roller skated down a large wooden roller coaster (pictured) at Erlebnispark Tripsdrill, reaching speeds of 90 kilometres per hour (56 mph)? | ![]() |
11 | 19 September 2009 | Elaine M Goodwin | . . . that when British mosaicist Elaine M Goodwin and three fellow artists founded an exhibiting group in 2008, they deliberately avoided the word "mosaic" due to its negative perception in the art world? | |
10 | 31 August 2009 | Rock Creek Canyon Bridge | . . . that when the narrow Rock Creek Canyon Bridge (pictured) in British Columbia was widened and strengthened in 1992, the works were carried out while keeping one lane open to traffic? | ![]() |
9 | 26 August 2009 | Myrmecia esuriens | . . . that William Anderson, a surgeon and naturalist aboard Captain James Cook's HMS Resolution, wrote in 1777 that the Tasmanian Inchman (pictured) had an "almost intolerable" bite? | ![]() |
8 | 26 July 2009 | Swaledale (sheep) | . . . that the possibility of scrapie resistance in sheep was tested by experimentation with a selection of Swaledales (pictured), a breed of domesticated sheep native to the Yorkshire Dales and the fells of Cumbria? | ![]() |
7 | 14 July 2009 | Simon Radley | . . . that the restaurant of the hotel Chester Grosvenor and Spa, overseen by executive chef Simon Radley, was awarded its 19th consecutive Michelin star in 2009? | |
6 | 14 July 2009 | Chester Grosvenor and Spa | . . . that the restaurant of the hotel Chester Grosvenor and Spa (pictured), overseen by executive chef Simon Radley, was awarded its 19th consecutive Michelin star in 2009? | ![]() |
5 | 19 June 2009 | Tomb of Hafez | . . . that a shrine in Shiraz over the tomb (pictured) of the famed Persian poet Hafez was pulled down in 1899 by protesters, because it was being built by a Zoroastrian? | ![]() |
4 | 10 June 2009 | Abantiades latipennis | . . . that the Australian moth Abantiades latipennis (pictured) is well-adapted to surviving clearfelling and thrives in regrowth forests? | ![]() |
3 | 8 May 2009 | Carola Roloff | . . . that Jampa Tsedroen, the monastic name of German Buddhist nun Carola Roloff, means "loving kindness" and "lamp of life" in Tibetan? | |
2 | 8 May 2009 | Kothduwa temple | . . . that the site of Kothduwa temple is reputed to be one of the places where the Buddha’s tooth was hidden when it was brought to Sri Lanka (tooth smuggling pictured)? | |
1 | 2 January 2009 | Battle of Crogen | . . . that Owain Gwynedd led Welsh forces to victory against King Henry II of England at the Battle of Crogen in 1165? |