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07MAR14: DYK for William the Silent (statue) edit
On 7 March 2014, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article William the Silent (statue), which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that student tradition at Rutgers University says that a bronze statue of William the Silent will whistle if a virgin happens to pass by? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/William the Silent (statue). You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. |
The DYK project (nominate) 16:13, 7 March 2014 (UTC)
28FEB14: DYK for Poet Laureate of New Jersey edit
On 28 February 2014, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Poet Laureate of New Jersey, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that upon his appointment as Poet Laureate of New Jersey in 2002, provocative African-American poet Amiri Baraka told Governor Jim McGreevey, "You're gonna catch hell for this"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Poet Laureate of New Jersey. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it may be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
The DYK project (nominate) 14:33, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
27JAN14: DYK for New Brunswick Theological Seminary edit
On 27 January 2014, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article New Brunswick Theological Seminary, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the New Brunswick Theological Seminary, the oldest Protestant seminary in the United States, started in the New York City home of the Rev. John Henry Livingston in 1784? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/New Brunswick Theological Seminary. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Looks good. Thanks for helping with the DYK project Victuallers (talk)) 00:42, 27 January 2014 (UTC)
17DEC13: DYK for Meralda Warren edit
On 17 December 2013, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Meralda Warren, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Meralda Warren and several children on Pitcairn Island wrote the first book published in both English and Pitkern, a South Pacific creole language? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Meralda Warren. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 03:02, 17 December 2013 (UTC)
05DEC13: DYK for Remember not, Lord, our offences edit
On 5 December 2013, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Remember not, Lord, our offences, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Henry Purcell's (pictured) choral anthem Remember not, Lord, our offences is a setting of a passage from Thomas Cranmer's Exhortation and Litany? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Remember not, Lord, our offences. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 08:01, 5 December 2013 (UTC)
23NOV13: DYK for Finn M. W. Caspersen edit
On 23 November 2013, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Finn M. W. Caspersen, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that in 1982, financier and philanthropist Finn M. W. Caspersen drove the new and the former New Jersey Governor to an inauguration party in period costume in a four-horse carriage? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Finn M. W. Caspersen. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Gatoclass (talk) 01:52, 23 November 2013 (UTC)
21NOV13: DYK for Queens Campus edit
On 21 November 2013, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Queens Campus, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Rutgers University's Queens Campus was built on a hilltop where Alexander Hamilton positioned cannons to cover George Washington's retreat after surrendering New York in 1776? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Queens Campus. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
The DYK project (nominate) 00:02, 21 November 2013 (UTC)
19NOV13: DYK for Lieutenant Governor of New Jersey edit
On 19 November 2013, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Lieutenant Governor of New Jersey, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that four years before voters approved the creation of the post of Lieutenant Governor of New Jersey, the state had four acting governors in one week? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Lieutenant Governor of New Jersey. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Gatoclass (talk) 08:02, 19 November 2013 (UTC)
11NOV13: DYK for A Song for Simeon edit
On 11 November 2013, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article A Song for Simeon, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that T.S. Eliot's 1928 poem "A Song for Simeon" includes passages from the Nunc dimittis prayer with allusions to the writings of Lancelot Andrewes, Dante, and John of the Cross? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/A Song for Simeon. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
The DYK project (nominate) 08:02, 11 November 2013 (UTC)
20OCT13: DYK for Daniel S. Schanck Observatory edit
On 20 October 2013, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Daniel S. Schanck Observatory, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the Daniel S. Schanck Observatory, Rutgers University's first astronomical observatory, was designed after the Tower of the Winds in Athens' ancient agora? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Daniel S. Schanck Observatory. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
The DYK project (nominate) 08:04, 20 October 2013 (UTC)
06OCT13: DYK for Geology Hall edit
On 6 October 2013, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Geology Hall, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the museum in Geology Hall at Rutgers University displays a Ptolemaic-era female Egyptian mummy? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Geology Hall. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
The DYK project (nominate) 08:03, 6 October 2013 (UTC)
26SEP13: DYK for Samuel Merrill Woodbridge edit
On 26 September 2013, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Samuel Merrill Woodbridge, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Rev. Samuel Merrill Woodbridge, a Rutgers College and New Brunswick Theological Seminary professor and minister, was the 11th generation in a family of clergymen stretching back to 1493? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Samuel Merrill Woodbridge. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
Gatoclass (talk) 05:49, 26 September 2013 (UTC)
15SEP13: DYK for Kirkpatrick Chapel edit
On 15 September 2013, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Kirkpatrick Chapel, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Kirkpatrick Chapel (pictured) at Rutgers University, built in 1873, was designed by architect Henry Janeway Hardenbergh, and features four stained-glass windows from the studios of Louis Comfort Tiffany? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Kirkpatrick Chapel. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
The DYK project (nominate) 08:02, 15 September 2013 (UTC)
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03FEB14: A Song for Simeon edit
21JAN14: Lieutenant Governor of New Jersey edit
11DEC13: Samuel Merrill Woodbridge edit
14OCT13: List of colonial governors of New Jersey edit
New Jersey was overseen by a succession of colonial governors in the 150 years prior to the American Revolution. James, Duke of York, divided New Jersey between George Carteret and John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton in 1664, to reward their support of the monarchy during the English Civil War and Interregnum. They sold their interests to two groups of proprietors who divided these holdings into two colonies—East Jersey and West Jersey. Remaining in England, these proprietors tended to administer the colony through deputies until the 1690s. The proprietors for East and West Jersey surrendered their political authority to the British Crown in 1702, and New Jersey was then unified as a crown colony under an appointed governor. At first, the colony shared its governor with the neighboring Province of New York (1702–38), and then had its own (1738–76). As tensions between colonists and the King rose to rebellion, the last royal governor, William Franklin (pictured), was deposed and arrested in June 1776 by order of the colony’s transitional government.