Wikipedia:Recent additions#7 August 2012

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• 00:00, 9 November 2025 (UTC)

Landscape watercolour by Claude Hayes

• ... that Claude Hayes ran away to sea in the 1860s before beginning his career as a landscape painter (painting pictured)?
• ... that an activist remotely projected anti-CCP slogans onto a building in Chongqing University Town in August 2025?
• ... that Amon G. Carter Jr. worked as a newspaper salesman as a child, despite his father being a successful businessman?
• ... that the title of "Best of Wives and Best of Women" in Hamilton came directly from Alexander's farewell letter to Eliza before his fatal duel with Aaron Burr?
• ... that "DJ booths" are used for announcements at the Meitetsu Nagoya Station?
• ... that, in a civil case between Mark Aldridge and a shop owner, South Australia's district court found that a person can be liable for the defamatory comments of others on their social media posts?
• ... that Tom Cruise attended St. Francis Seminary, a Catholic high-school seminary run by the Franciscan Order?
• ... that Taylor Swift recently released a song about her fiancé's penis?

• 00:00, 8 November 2025 (UTC)

Dianna Cowern

• ... that YouTuber Dianna Cowern (pictured) has an asteroid named after her?
• ... that the song "Seasons of Change" featured future AC/DC lead vocalist Bon Scott on the recorder?
• ... that Jocelyn Borgella was the first Haitian to be selected in the NFL draft?
• ... that the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association operated its own Diocese of Zhangjiakou prior to Pope Leo XIV establishing a diocese of the same name?
• ... that Japanese businessman Yasuyoshi Kato used embezzled funds to support his wife, who bought twenty Arabian horses, several emus, llamas, potbellied pigs, miniature cattle, and nurse sharks?
• ... that field propulsion comprises types of spacecraft propulsion that move a ship without conventional rocket engines?
• ... that the Regional Workers' Center of Paraguay was largely made up of native Paraguayans, even though its predecessor had been dominated by European and Argentine immigrants?
• ... that Kevo Muney has a mixtape cover that depicts himself being birthed by an anthropomorphic goat?

• 00:00, 7 November 2025 (UTC)

Alex the Great

• ... that Alex the Great (pictured) signed autographs by biting the corners of business cards?
• ... that San Marino politician Lorenzo Bugli first ran for office when he was a teenager?
• ... that John F. Kennedy's pollster found many West Virginia voters concerned that a Pope in the White House would arrive by transatlantic tunnel?
• ... that Kyōka Moriya cosplayed for her driver's license photo?
• ... that Corbin/Hanner's "Work Song" has been described as "hillbilly reggae"?
• ... that the parasitic disease enterobiasis once affected nearly 30% of General Mansilla?
• ... that civil rights activist Dorothy Burnham is also a supercentenarian?
• ... that Messenger players can communicate with each other via poop emojis?
• ... that Amy Louise Daniels worked with wobbly rats?

• 00:00, 6 November 2025 (UTC)

Statue of Ko Myo Shin

• ... that legend has it that Ko Myo Shin (statue pictured) became a spirit after allowing his head to be cut off?
• ... that the children's music singer Damaris Gelabert was the first Catalan music channel on YouTube to win a Silver Button?
• ... that a 2025 ecclesiastical trial had three successive prosecutors during its first three weeks?
• ... that Argentine admiral Enrique Molina Pico commanded the destroyer ARA Hércules during the Falklands War, and later coordinated the operations of Argentine forces in the Gulf War?
• ... that the film The Taverna was shot at a Greek restaurant in Melbourne over sixteen days?
• ... that Kelley Dolphus Stroud hitchhiked from Colorado Springs to Boston in twelve days to compete in the 1928 United States Olympic trials?
• ... that Edward D. Maryon's art was heavily influenced by his time stationed at the Presidio of Monterey after being drafted into the army?
• ... that condensed-matter physicist Zachary Fisk conducted chemistry experiments in secret because his father disapproved of his interest?
• ... that Max Verstappen won a record 19 Grands Prix in a season on his way to the 2023 Formula One World Drivers' Championship?

• 00:00, 5 November 2025 (UTC)

Maher Abbas

• ... that future Olympic runner Maher Abbas (pictured) switched from basketball to track over his frustration of referees being "easy to bribe"?
• ... that non-destructive virtual unfolding was used to read burned or otherwise highly damaged scrolls?
• ... that the Hongguang Emperor was betrayed by his troops and handed over to the enemy, who criticised his poor battle strategy and allowed locals to humiliate him?
• ... that in 2025 the Pfizer Building was cited as the largest office-to-residential building conversion in the United States?
• ... that tenor Jean Bonhomme played for seven years on his university's Canadian football team before becoming an international opera star?
• ... that the Illinois Institute of Technology Academic Campus has been ranked as both one of the US's most significant architectural works and its least beautiful college campus?
• ... that, after proclaiming it was her duty as a revolutionary never to be "tied down by a family", Lyubov Radchenko got married and had a child?
• ... that Nejishiki was a manga with a following among the 1960s avant-garde movement?

• 00:00, 4 November 2025 (UTC)

Seated Rāgarāja

• ... that a 13th-century wooden sculpture (pictured) of Rāgarāja was carved from the debris of the Great Buddha Hall at Tōdai-ji in Nara, Japan?
• ... that Habib Mousa wrote a song about the village of Enhil to object to the Turkification of Assyrian villages in Tur Abdin?
• ... that the leading engineer during the 1702 siege of Liège was so angered by a colleague's disobedience that he threatened to abandon the siege?
• ... that Antirrhinum barrelieri was split into two species in 1896, the other being Antirrhinum controversum?
• ... that Soebekti Soenarto performed the duties of the governor, vice governor, and provincial secretary of the Special Region of Yogyakarta simultaneously for several weeks in 1998?
• ... that the roof designs of Bukit Gombak and Bukit Batok stations were based on the logo of the Singapore Housing and Development Board?
• ... that actor Rory Gibson was cast on The Young and the Restless despite the producers not liking his initial self-tape?
• ... that A Far Better Thing is a retelling of Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities with fairy changelings?

• 00:00, 3 November 2025 (UTC)

Sursock bronze

• ... that the Sursock bronze (pictured) was discovered in a damaged state with hacked parts, possibly after being vandalized by early Christian iconoclasts?
• ... that, according to a 2025 book about artificial superintelligence, If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies?
• ... that a Dutch publisher pirated the first four volumes of Memoirs and Adventures of a Man of Quality, then hired the author to write more?
• ... that King Owodo, the last Ogiso of Igodomigodo, was deposed after killing a pregnant widow, an act punishable by deposition under the kingdom's law?
• ... that NFL player Bill Gutteron estimated that he helped over 50,000 people learn how to swim?
• ... that an early Chinese women's magazine ran afoul of a government ministry due to its sexual content and nudity?
• ... that the first bank of the Republic of Lithuania was bankrupt after nine years of operation?
• ... that the Fernald Feed Materials Production Center produced uranium for nuclear weapons between 1951 and 1989?
• ... that Hilaire Belloc and G. K. Chesterton's first collaboration sold only thirty-five copies?

• 00:00, 2 November 2025 (UTC)

D. M. Clemson

• ... that the freighter D. M. Clemson (pictured) was one of the largest vessels on the Great Lakes in 1903?
• ... that Filipino politician Miriam Defensor Santiago is known as the "Iron Lady of Asia"?
• ... that a 16th-century ethnic term used in Africa is still used today for a Brazilian religion, a Togolese and Beninese ethnic group, and their language?
• ... that it took 40 years for Raghunath Brahmbhatt to be credited for the lyrics to a popular song he wrote, 21 years after his death?
• ... that My Dad, the first entry in My Family Member, a series of illustrated children books, was inspired by the author's discovery of his father's old gown?
• ... that John Adams Cameron lost twice to John Culpepper in elections for the United States Congress that were 14 years apart?
• ... that neighbors thought Naughty Dog was filming adult films due to their setup of shooting moves for Way of the Warrior from an apartment hallway?
• ... that painter and designer Mia Lee used to make doll fashions from her grandmother's scraps?
• ... that Jack Fleck defeated Ben Hogan in a playoff to win the 1955 U.S. Open using Hogan's golf clubs?

• 00:00, 1 November 2025 (UTC)

Three of the Deir el-Balah sarcophagi

• ... that some of the Bronze Age Deir el-Balah sarcophagi (pictured) looted by Moshe Dayan became part of his private collection?
• ... that movie characters like Pennywise have been cited as contributing to some people's fear of clowns?
• ... that the Willows Inn, headed by chef Blaine Wetzel, was one of the restaurants that inspired the horror comedy film The Menu?
• ... that the animator of the Magic Cat Academy Halloween-themed Google Doodles overcame her arachnophobia to design a spider boss that was ultimately rejected as "way too scary"?
• ... that Cthulhu, Dagon, and Hydra are actually mud dragons living off the coast of Madagascar?
• ... that photographer Hal Hirshorn recreated the 1865 funeral of a wealthy Manhattanite for a 2011 photo series?
• ... that Charlie the goat hospitalized his co-star three times on the set of The Witch?
• ... that when a prospective funder called the script for his horror film All You Need Is Death "weird and confusing", Paul Duane got the phrase tattooed on his arm and funded the film himself?