Wikipedia:Recent additions/2010/April

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
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
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
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


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.

30 April 2010[edit]

  • 16:00, 30 April 2010 (UTC)

An ornately carved stone building seen across a paved courtyard


  • 08:00, 30 April 2010 (UTC)

Head-and-shoulders portrait of a Caucasian man in dark tie, light shirt, and dark jacket with pilot's wings on left-breast pocket, wearing peaked cap


  • 00:00, 30 April 2010 (UTC)

"The Liberation of St. Peter" by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo

29 April 2010[edit]

  • 16:00, 29 April 2010 (UTC)

a blue monster without a head and with a big face on his chest. Two men holding swords seated on his two arms


  • 08:00, 29 April 2010 (UTC)

a bronze-colored shark viewed against the water surface


  • 00:00, 29 April 2010 (UTC)

greenish horned fruit

28 April 2010[edit]

  • 16:00, 28 April 2010 (UTC)

Water under a blue sky in late afternoon light, with the sky and trees behind it reflected in its still surface


  • 08:00, 28 April 2010 (UTC)

sports photo of Rachael Haynes


  • 00:00, 28 April 2010 (UTC)

Drawing of an opera house

27 April 2010[edit]

  • 16:00, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

A long, low, flint building in low sunlight, with many square- and round-headed windows


  • 08:00, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

Sports photo of Rene Farrell


  • 00:00, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

A bespectacled man wearing a hat and holding a pigeon in one hand and a small camera in the other

26 April 2010[edit]

  • 16:00, 26 April 2010 (UTC)

Head-and-shoulders informal portrait of dark-haired man wearing flying jacket


  • 08:00, 26 April 2010 (UTC)

A long-bodied, short=legged amphibian, pinkish-brown with dark brown spots on its side


  • 00:00, 26 April 2010 (UTC)

25 April 2010[edit]

  • 16:00, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

Black and white portrait of an older, bearded man wearing a suit and a hat


  • 08:00, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

15 Broad Street


  • 00:00, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

Manimahesh Kailash peak

24 April 2010[edit]

  • 16:00, 24 April 2010 (UTC)

A man standing, wearing a red and white cloak, and white trousers and stockings


  • 08:00, 24 April 2010 (UTC)

A large gray ship sits at rest; the area above the main deck is almost entirely incomplete


  • 00:00, 24 April 2010 (UTC)

The wreck of LST-480 in West Loch, Pearl Harbor

23 April 2010[edit]

  • 16:00, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

Huge stone-built castle with rounded towers and flags on top


  • 08:00, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

Donald Brown


  • 00:00, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

The Virgin of El Rocío

22 April 2010[edit]

  • 18:00, 22 April 2010 (UTC)

Close-up of a brown shrimp resting on three fingers of a person's hand


  • 12:00, 22 April 2010 (UTC)

A rock formed of rounded pebbles of various types in a sandy matrix; the sea is visible in the background


  • 06:00, 22 April 2010 (UTC)

Dean Alfange


  • 00:00, 22 April 2010 (UTC)

Alebrijes at the Pochote Market

21 April 2010[edit]

  • 18:00, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

Stone church with a slim metal spire


  • 12:00, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

Rodent skull, seen from above, below, and the left


  • 06:00, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

A molecular model of a DNA tetrahedron, where each edge is a DNA duplex and each vertex is a three-arm junction.


  • 00:00, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

"A white dog with brown markings and a black nose wears blue goggles."

20 April 2010[edit]

  • 18:00, 20 April 2010 (UTC)

Jousselin's bridge was 3 km long.


  • 12:00, 20 April 2010 (UTC)

Surise view of Manaslu


  • 06:00, 20 April 2010 (UTC)

old black and photo of the Fernie Swastikas hockey team


  • 00:00, 20 April 2010 (UTC)

Photograph of Roger Sherman lying on his side

19 April 2010[edit]

  • 18:00, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

A seated middle-aged man, dressed in black, holding a crucifix in his left hand and a heart in his right


  • 12:00, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

An image of the Braer Storm at the peak of its intensity to the south of Iceland


  • 06:00, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

A two story house with dormers and a porch, with trees around it in the sunshine


  • 00:00, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

Men in Indonesian costume

18 April 2010[edit]

  • 18:00, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

Olana State Historic Site, main building. The inner courtyard of an ornate stone mansion showing Persian influences mixed with European and American.


  • 12:00, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

Blue-leaved stringybark tree


  • 06:07, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

Painted portrait of a nun, sitting, with hands clasped around a book


  • 00:00, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

Amar Mahal Palace view from the garden

17 April 2010[edit]

  • 18:00, 17 April 2010 (UTC)

A row of four brick and stone townhouses with large lower doors


  • 12:00, 17 April 2010 (UTC)

Large tranquil pool with birch trees and scrub at the margin.


  • 06:00, 17 April 2010 (UTC)

painting of coach and horses


  • 00:00, 17 April 2010 (UTC)

Photograph of George Dygert cropped from Michigan team photograph

16 April 2010[edit]

  • 18:00, 16 April 2010 (UTC)

Devil's Kettle Falls


  • 12:00, 16 April 2010 (UTC)

Two red flowerheads nestled among some green leaves


  • 06:00, 16 April 2010 (UTC)


  • 00:00, 16 April 2010 (UTC)

Photograph of James Duffy cropped from the Michigan football team's 1889 team photograph

15 April 2010[edit]

  • 18:00, 15 April 2010 (UTC)

View of Wat Phra Kaew temple complex from the Palace


  • 12:00, 15 April 2010 (UTC)

Red-brick building in a field, with a two-storey wing at right angles to a second long wing with a lower roof level. Ventilation gratings are visible in the second wing.


  • 06:00, 15 April 2010 (UTC)

Pennsylvania Avenue Historic Site, showing Pennsylvania Avenue NW and the Federal Triangle group of buildings in 2007


  • 00:00, 15 April 2010 (UTC)

A large gray battleship sits in dock, crew members in white uniforms crowd the ship's deck

14 April 2010[edit]

  • 18:00, 14 April 2010 (UTC)

Rosa willmottiae at the University of California Botanical Garden, Berkeley, California


  • 11:50, 14 April 2010 (UTC)

A man dressed in a dark red training top and black shorts with a dark red stripe crouches behind a stump with his gloved hands poised in front of him.


  • 05:40, 14 April 2010 (UTC)

Two reddish fungi with tentacle-like arms extending upward

13 April 2010[edit]

  • 23:30, 13 April 2010 (UTC)

Resolution and Adventure with fishing craft in Matavai Bay, painted by William Hodges in 1776


  • 17:20, 13 April 2010 (UTC)

Electron microscope images of carbon nanocones


  • 11:10, 13 April 2010 (UTC)

Painting by Cappelle named A calm


  • 05:00, 13 April 2010 (UTC)

Ysleta Mission

12 April 2010[edit]

  • 22:50, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

A whitish fungus somewhat resembling a marine coral, growing in the ground


  • 16:40, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

Mount Graham Red Squirrel


  • 10:30, 12 April 2010 (UTC)
The Commando Memorial


  • 04:20, 12 April 2010 (UTC)
Front of St. Louis' Catholic Church (North Star, Ohio)

11 April 2010[edit]

  • 22:10, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

Kyaiktiyo Pagoda


  • 16:00, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

A galette pancake


  • 09:50, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

A gentleman wearing a wig, standing, and dressed mainly in bright red


  • 03:40, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

Gerald Ford, MVP of the 1934 Michigan football team and 38th U.S. President

10 April 2010[edit]

  • 21:30, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

Formal portrait of a bearded man of about 60


  • 15:20, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

Richard II of England


  • 09:10, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

The Buddha Dhatu Zadi (Golden Temple)


  • 03:00, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

Outdoor picture of an atrium with a cobbled path leading to a stone structure with five arches. An altar is carved into the wall behind the central arch.

9 April 2010[edit]

  • 20:50, 9 April 2010 (UTC)

VAMTAC on patrol


  • 14:40, 9 April 2010 (UTC)

Punakha Dzong


  • 08:30, 9 April 2010 (UTC)

A large battleship plows through the water at high speed, thick black smoke pours from the smoke stacks


  • 02:30, 9 April 2010 (UTC)

Woodhead Dam in South Africa

8 April 2010[edit]

  • 20:30, 8 April 2010 (UTC)

A long line of large, light gray warships sail through calm waters, each belching thick black smoke


  • 12:00, 8 April 2010 (UTC)

Manas River


  • 06:00, 8 April 2010 (UTC)

A lightly colored building


  • 00:00, 8 April 2010 (UTC)

Several mushrooms growing from rotting wood, with white stems and scarlet red cup-shaped caps.

7 April 2010[edit]

  • 18:00, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

Duke of Wellington public house with inn sign showing portrait of Wellington


  • 12:00, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

A number of sailing warships in groups on the left and right side of a painting, set on a choppy green sea, and overcast sky, obscured by smoke.


  • 06:00, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

Medium-sized primate, with a long snout; grey fur on the back, arms, and top of the head; white fur on the chest, ears, and face; and black around the eyes and nose


  • 00:00, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

Fata Morgana of a boat

6 April 2010[edit]

  • 18:00, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

a mottled skate at a public aquarium


  • 12:00, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

Moses Maimonides


  • 06:00, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

Patuxay monument


  • 00:00, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

Butler coach Brad Stevens watch from the sidelines during a 2008 game

5 April 2010[edit]

  • 18:00, 5 April 2010 (UTC)

Small bird with yellow breast, belly and slate-blue head and small spot in front of eye sits on branch


  • 12:00, 5 April 2010 (UTC)

a square emerald set in a circular platinum brooch covered in diamonds


  • 06:00, 5 April 2010 (UTC)

A close-up of the head of a medium-sized primate with brown fur, a long snout, orange eyes, small ears, and orange fur on the throat


  • 00:00, 5 April 2010 (UTC)

A large, light gray battleship bristling with guns sits in harbor

4 April 2010[edit]

  • 18:00, 4 April 2010 (UTC)

Seam along eastern wall of Temple Mount


  • 12:00, 4 April 2010 (UTC)

Gordonstoun House is a 17th century building located on campus


  • 06:00, 4 April 2010 (UTC)

Small bird with long tail, thin bill, patterend upperparts and pale underparts stands on a rock


  • 00:00, 4 April 2010 (UTC)

A statue of Maha Muni Buddha enshrined in a temple/pagoda at Mandalay

3 April 2010[edit]

  • 18:00, 3 April 2010 (UTC)

St Mary's Church viewed from the north


  • 12:00, 3 April 2010 (UTC)


  • 06:00, 3 April 2010 (UTC)

the front view of a white stock car


  • 00:00, 3 April 2010 (UTC)

A large gray warship with two tall masts and two thin smoke stacks sits idly offshore

2 April 2010[edit]

  • 18:00, 2 April 2010 (UTC)

Inimicus filamentosus (Filament-finned stinger or Two-stick stingfish)


  • 12:00, 2 April 2010 (UTC)

GCV Infantry Fighting Vehicle


  • 06:00, 2 April 2010 (UTC)

Saint Peter of Alcantara Church


  • 00:00, 2 April 2010 (UTC)

Termitaradus mitnicki fossilized in amber

1 April 2010[edit]

  • 18:00, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

Adult-sized wooden cradle with "Henpeck'd Club's peace box" written on the side


  • 12:00, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

A red Škoda Fabia II car.


  • 06:00, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

Ruth Belville, also known as the "Greenwich Time Lady", who made money selling people the time


  • 00:00, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

An eight-armed seated woman dressed in a sari, holding a child and various weapons, ripping the womb of a woman, lying on her lap, while trampling a man