You're right, this is mindnumbing. I'm not around on the weekends, so let me know if you need anything more done on this by Monday and I'll start again. What dates, specifically, should I be sorting through? I have read all the entries August 1 through August 13. I've added anything that seems even remotely relevent...you can further narrow it down as you see fit.
DYK's August 1 through 13 -
14:14, 1 August 2009 (UTC) ... that Walter Scott met the explorer Mungo Park by the banks of the Yarrow Water, and that William Wordsworth journeyed there with "The Ettrick Shepherd"?
08:14, 2 August 2009 (UTC) ... that Jane Weinberger, wife of Caspar Weinberger, began writing and publishing children's books in response to budget cuts by the Reagan administration?
08:14, 3 August 2009 (UTC) ... that Susan Mary "Lily" Yeats, the sister of Irish poet W. B. Yeats, was a professional embroiderer who studied the craft under May Morris?
14:14, 3 August 2009 (UTC) ... that Grub Street (pictured), in London's Moorfields district, was home to hack writers, and later became a pejorative term for impoverished authors?
08:14, 4 August 2009 (UTC) ... that "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" was one of the stories Mark Twain published in the San Francisco weekly literary newspaper The Californian?
02:14, 4 August 2009 (UTC) ... that in the Dutch children's book Pluk van de Petteflet, a group of grown-ups get intoxicated from eating mysterious berries, a scene praised by educators?
20:14, 4 August 2009 (UTC) ... that an 1848 novel claimed that Ernst Ludwig, Duke of Pomerania (pictured) had been the lover of Sidonia von Borcke, a convicted witch?
14:14, 5 August 2009 (UTC) ... that Anton Roman's literary magazine The Californian, published in 1880, was a continuation of his earlier Overland Monthly?
08:14, 6 August 2009 (UTC) ... that Alexander Valentine, Chairman of London Transport from 1959 to 1965, published a book Tramping round London?
02:14, 7 August 2009 (UTC) ... that the Queen of Hearts (illustration pictured) first had her tarts stolen in April 1782?
08:14, 12 August 2009 (UTC) ... that award-winning romance novelist Jeffrey McClanahan has written under three distinct pen names: "Dixie Cash", "Anna Jeffrey", and "Sadie Callahan"?