Wikipedia:Recent additions#October 23 2009

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• 00:00, 4 July 2025 (UTC)

Sylvilagus nuttallii

• ... that the mountain cottontail (pictured) is abundant in the Hanford Site, a decommissioned nuclear production complex?
• ... that the YouTuber behind Stop Killing Games compared video-game publishers shutting down online-only games to silent-era film studios "burning their own films ... to recover the silver content"?
• ... that 17-year-old José Segundo Decoud helped to convince Antonio Estigarribia to surrender during the siege of Uruguaiana?
• ... that nucleariid amoebae are among the closest relatives of fungi?
• ... that a Thompson Seattle rooftop bar distributes drinks from copper containers shaped like flamingos?
• ... that one of the priority programmes announced by Supian Suri as mayor of Depok involved repairing school toilets?
• ... that a New Jersey TV station claimed that potential advertisers were "hostile" to efforts to encourage them to air commercials?
• ... that surgeon Stuart Stanton popularised an operation for stress incontinence?
• ... that Cybersocket, Inc., started by repackaging public domain information into a niche paperback guide to gay pornographic sites?

• 00:00, 3 July 2025 (UTC)

Costume parade at the McMenamins UFO festival

• ... that the McMenamins Hotel Oregon UFO Festival (parade pictured) was established in 2000 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the McMinnville UFO hoax?
• ... that gender-neutral grammatical forms used by some non-binary people in Poland originated from a science fiction novel about posthumans and are named after its author?
• ... that the Trump administration researched whether it could incarcerate American citizens abroad?
• ... that Taraxacum akteum was first identified in some parts of Britain in 2016, more than 40 years after it was described from Dutch coastal meadows?
• ... that while serving as an artilleryman in World War I, Herbert Morton Stoops sent sketches of soldiers and battles back to the US?
• ... that continental snowpacks are associated with more avalanche fatalities than other types?
• ... that the Miley Cyrus song "Easy Lover" was intended for three different albums before its release?
• ... that Archbishop Letard I died while trying to get his king married?
• ... that a 2018 film by David Wilcock has been described by Vice as making the case that space aliens "occupy large swaths of Antarctica [and] are massing for an invasion"?

• 12:00, 2 July 2025 (UTC)

Harpagofututor

• ... that male fish in the subclass Holocephali (pictured) often have special organs on top of their head that are used to grasp females while mating?
• ... that Simmie Knox was recommended to paint the official White House portraits of Hillary and Bill Clinton by Ruth Bader Ginsburg?
• ... that My Schizophrenic Life concludes by its author realizing her illness is not a "life sentence"?
• ... that although he was only active for three games with them, NFL player Dick Capp made a play that helped his team win the Super Bowl?
• ... that a Christian army was allegedly saved from a fire when Archbishop Robert I of Nazareth raised the True Cross against the flames?
• ... that in 1956 a brand new Swissair plane crashed on delivery?
• ... that the colour of Rockbank railway station's pedestrian bridge represents the earth surrounding the station?
• ... that Windsor-style pizza features shredded pepperoni and canned mushrooms?
• ... that Liquid Glass was criticised for being too transparent?

• 00:00, 2 July 2025 (UTC)

Women's 400 metres final at the 2016 European Athletics Championships

• ... that Libania Grenot was the first woman in three decades to successfully defend the European 400-metres title (final pictured)?
• ... that Captain James Cook and his crew were some of the first Europeans to witness and record Polynesians surfing?
• ... that Hanahaki disease, a fictional illness in which a person coughs up flowers due to unrequited love, is often used in queer fan fiction to symbolize repressed desire?
• ... that Carmel Naughton, having been told that girls were "stupid and couldn't do maths", sponsored a STEM scholarship fund?
• ... that after moving into the Samuel Freeman House, the owners sat on cardboard boxes because they could not afford real furniture?
• ... that Nicolas Cage was trained by award-winning chef Gabriel Rucker for one of his films?
• ... that a subcontractor working on the tower of a Nevada TV station recorded footage of the PEPCON disaster as it unfolded nearby?
• ... that Maude Simmons played the mother of Paul Robeson on stage and the mother of Sidney Poitier on screen?
• ... that the Japanese government responded to the rice riots of 1918, which involved up to 10 million participants, with a "candy and whip" policy?

• 12:00, 1 July 2025 (UTC)

Jean-Baptiste Belley

• ... that in 1793, Jean-Baptiste Belley (pictured), a former black slave, was elected as a deputy to the French National Convention?
• ... that "Seigfried" by Frank Ocean credits all four Beatles as songwriters?
• ... that the McKenzie & Willis Store was demolished after the 2011 Christchurch earthquake, but its facade was kept and restored?
• ... that Suzy Knickerbocker called James Ross Mellon one of the world's most eligible bachelors?
• ... that a 44-point comeback in a 2024 semi-final was the Australian Football League's largest semifinal comeback ever?
• ... that Alena Veselá, at age 101, was present at the cornerstone ceremony for a new concert hall in Brno, which she had promoted for decades?
• ... that residents of the Acres hired Frank Lloyd Wright to design their houses, but eventually lost patience with him over his approach to the project?
• ... that artist Agnes Gallus fled Hungary for Canada during the 1956 revolution?
• ... that a single horsehair helped solve the murder of Nancy Titterton?

• 00:00, 1 July 2025 (UTC)

Terrorism Confinement Center, El Salvador

• ... that the Terrorism Confinement Center (pictured) in El Salvador has a capacity of 40,000 inmates?
• ... that operatic tenor Vladyslav Gorai was a Merited Artist of Ukraine who died while on a volunteer mission during the Russo-Ukrainian War?
• ... that although abortion in Tunisia has been available for free at government clinics since 1965, it is estimated that most abortions take place at private facilities?
• ... that the Town Walls of Index, Washington, have 402 climbing routes?
• ... that Jonas I Losovičius's relocation of the main residence of the bishops of Lutsk would last for three centuries?
• ... that a Serbian columbine species might be luring some animals with mixtures of molecular compounds?
• ... that after playing in the NFL, Eddie Garcia became a salesman who "could sell ice to a penguin"?
• ... that a scene of a man eating a crab in the music video for "Dungka!" symbolised a crab mentality among Filipinos?
• ... that Giulio Basetti-Sani began as a missionary believing Muhammad to be a "prophet of Satan" and ended believing that the Quran was a prophecy of Christ?