wikimedia/wiki-dyk huggingface dataset:
... that Arvo Pärt composed the motet The Deer's Cry on a commission from Louth, Ireland, setting the conclusion of Saint Patrick's Breastplate, "Christ with me"?<!--Special occasion hook for March 17-->

page_title: Arvo Pärt
short_description: Estonian composer (born 1935)
page_title: Motet
short_description: Vocal composition in Western classical music
page_title: The Deer's Cry (Pärt)
short_description: Motet by Arvo Pärt
page_title: Louth, County Louth
short_description: Village in County Louth, Ireland
page_title: Saint Patrick's Breastplate
short_description: Old Irish prayer of protection
... that Indian activist S. Dharmambal was honoured as a Heroic Tamil Mother for her contributions to the Tamil language?

page_title: S. Dharmambal
page_title: Tamil language
short_description: Dravidian language
... that the upcoming Dr. Seuss book Horse Museum features horse-themed artwork by Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock, and other artists?

page_title: Dr. Seuss
short_description: American author and cartoonist (1904–1991)
page_title: Horse Museum
short_description: Topics referred to by the same term
page_title: Pablo Picasso
short_description: Spanish painter and sculptor (1881–1973)
page_title: Jackson Pollock
short_description: American painter (1912–1956)
... that Xu Shunshou, chief designer of China's first jet aircraft, died after being tortured during the Cultural Revolution?

page_title: Xu Shunshou
short_description: Chinese aircraft designer
page_title: Cultural Revolution
short_description: Period of sociopolitical turmoil in China (1966–1976)
... that 3,000-year-old Ancient Egyptian pictures of foreign prisoners were found by fertilizer-diggers in 1903?

page_title: Ancient Egypt
short_description: Cradle of civilization in North Africa
page_title: Ramesses III prisoner tiles
short_description: Egyptian archeological artifacts
page_title: Sebakh
short_description: Arabic word
... that the tasselled anglerfish is an ambush predator, attracting its prey with a worm-like lure?

page_title: Rhycherus filamentosus
short_description: Species of fish
... that after switching from black-and-white to color film in 1977, John Harding was out on the street taking pictures almost every day for more than three decades?

page_title: John Harding (photographer)
short_description: American photographer
... that although the yacare caiman (pictured) was "heading for oblivion" in the 1980s due to hunting, its current population in the Pantanal wetlands alone is about 10 million?

page_title: Yacare caiman
short_description: Species of reptile
page_title: Pantanal
short_description: Tropical wetland in Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay
... that Marcello Costa spent his career researching the links between the nervous system and the gut?

page_title: Marcello Costa
short_description: Australian medical researcher, academic, and public health advocate (1940 - 2024)
page_title: Nervous system
short_description: Part of an animal that coordinates actions and senses
page_title: Gastrointestinal tract
short_description: Organ system within humans and other animals
... that the British submarine HMS Stratagem sank only one ship in its 13-month-long career—only three days before it was itself sunk?

page_title: HMS Stratagem
short_description: S-class submarine of the Royal Navy
... that Venezuelan journalist Luz Mely Reyes was one of the "Guardians" spotlighted for the 2018 Time Person of the Year?

page_title: Luz Mely Reyes
short_description: Venezuelan journalist, writer, and analyst
page_title: Time Person of the Year
short_description: Annual influential person or idea chosen by magazine
... that leading black and white artists responded to the 1926 symposium The Negro in Art: How Shall He Be Portrayed? with their views on the extent to which black artists could avoid racial stereotypes?

page_title: The Negro in Art
short_description: 1926 symposium
... that Ian Eaves has catalogued the arms and armour of Queen Elizabeth II, and written about those of King Henry VIII?

page_title: Ian Eaves
short_description: British consultant on arms and armour
page_title: Elizabeth II
short_description: Queen of the United Kingdom from 1952 to 2022
page_title: Henry VIII
short_description: King of England from 1509 to 1547
... that a U.S. presidential candidate making a campaign announcement is said to "throw one's hat in the ring", after a boxing metaphor popularized by the Theodore Roosevelt 1912 presidential campaign?

page_title: Presidential campaign announcements in the United States
page_title: Boxing
short_description: Combat sport and martial art
page_title: Theodore Roosevelt
short_description: President of the United States from 1901 to 1909
... that in India, a postal officer became a spymaster?

page_title: Vikram Sood
short_description: Indian intelligence officer
... that the boarding net of the Mary Rose (pictured) trapped her crew aboard the ship as she was sinking?

page_title: Boarding net
short_description: Rope net used to prevent unwanted boardings of ships
page_title: Mary Rose
short_description: English Tudor warship (1511–1545)
... that preceding a 1948 Dutch attack, Daan Jahja recommended the creation of a contingent government in exile, which later became the Emergency Government of the Republic of Indonesia?

page_title: Operation Kraai
short_description: 1948–49 Dutch military offensive in Indonesia during the National Revolution
page_title: Daan Jahja
short_description: Indonesia politician and military governor of Jakarta
page_title: Emergency Government of the Republic of Indonesia
short_description: 1948–49 government during the National Revolution
... that Jules Van Nuffel, founder and conductor of the choir at the Mechelen Cathedral, set Psalm 93, Dominus regnavit, for choir and organ – but it was Psalm 92 for him?

page_title: Jules Van Nuffel
short_description: Battle Of Algier Between Alhoumi And The Byzantine Empire
page_title: St. Rumbold's Cathedral
short_description: Cathedral in Mechelen, Belgium
page_title: Psalm 93
short_description: Biblical psalm
... that E Dongchen participated in eleven polar expeditions, including China's first expeditions to Antarctica and the North Pole?

page_title: E Dongchen
short_description: Chinese earth scientist and polar explorer (1939–2019)
page_title: Antarctica
short_description: Earth's southernmost continent
page_title: North Pole
short_description: Northernmost point on Earth
... that the peanut worm Themiste cymodoceae can survive without oxygen for several days?

page_title: Themiste cymodoceae
short_description: Species of worm
... that Anatoli Khorozov is referred to as the father of ice hockey in Ukraine?

page_title: Anatoli Khorozov
short_description: Ukrainian ice hockey administrator (1925–2011)
page_title: Ukraine
short_description: Country in Eastern Europe
... that in 1870, inspectors found that most of the workers at the Peter's Hall sugar plantation in British Guiana were from India and China?

page_title: Plantation Peter's Hall
short_description: Coffee and sugar plantation
page_title: British Guiana
short_description: British colony from 1814 to 1966
... that despite killing every dog that he had tried the procedure on, Francis Fontan successfully operated on a young woman's heart in 1968?

page_title: Francis Fontan
short_description: French cardiologist and surgeon
page_title: Fontan procedure
short_description: Surgical procedure used in children with univentricular hearts
... that the 2019 book We Are Displaced by Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai (pictured) tells the stories of ten displaced girls, including herself?

page_title: We Are Displaced
short_description: Book by Malala Yousafzai
page_title: Malala Yousafzai
short_description: Pakistani education activist (born 1997)
... that Raymond Butt compiled a directory of "every station, halt, platform and stopping place on the British railway passenger network"?

page_title: Raymond Butt
short_description: British schoolteacher (1941–2018)
page_title: Train station
short_description: Railway facility for loading or unloading trains
... that the Guianan squirrel monkey has a varied diet that includes seeds, eggs, nectar, gum, insects, flowers, lizards, and occasionally bats?

page_title: Guianan squirrel monkey
short_description: Species of New World monkey
... that Roma producer Gabriela Rodríguez is the first Latin American woman to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture?

page_title: Roma (2018 film)
short_description: 2018 film by Alfonso Cuarón
page_title: Gabriela Rodríguez
short_description: Topics referred to by the same term
page_title: Latin Americans
short_description: Citizens of Latin American countries
page_title: Academy Award for Best Picture
short_description: Annual award by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
... that if Caesar had successfully carried out his planned invasions, he would, according to Plutarch, have ensured that his empire "would then be bounded on all sides by the ocean"?

page_title: Julius Caesar
short_description: Roman general and dictator (100–44 BC)
page_title: Julius Caesar's planned invasion of the Parthian Empire
short_description: Military campaign that Gaius Julius Caesar never executed
page_title: Plutarch
short_description: Greek philosopher and historian (c. AD 40 – 120s)
... that Frant Gwo science fiction film The Wandering Earth is the world's highest-grossing film of 2019 so far and the second highest-grossing film of all time in China?

page_title: Frant Gwo
short_description: Chinese filmmaker (born 1980)
page_title: The Wandering Earth
short_description: 2019 Chinese science fiction film directed by Frant Gwo
... that the Arianna String Quartet was praised by the Chicago Tribune as making music "with the tonal warmth, fastidious balance, and heightened communication skills of groups many years its senior"?

page_title: Arianna String Quartet
page_title: Chicago Tribune
short_description: Major American newspaper, founded 1847
... that Team Canada threatened to pull out of the 1972 Summit Series against the Soviet Union unless Ove Dahlberg officiated?

page_title: Summit Series
short_description: 1972 USSR-Canada ice hockey series
page_title: Ove Dahlberg
short_description: Ice hockey player
... that shortly after purchasing the coffin of Nedjemankh (pictured) for $4 million, the Metropolitan Museum of Art decided to return it to Egypt?

page_title: Coffin of Nedjemankh
short_description: Ancient Egyptian coffin
page_title: Metropolitan Museum of Art
short_description: Art museum in New York City
... that the career of pioneering scholar of public administration William A. Robson was made possible because playwright George Bernard Shaw wanted to experience an aeroplane flight?

page_title: William A. Robson
short_description: English jurist and reformer
page_title: George Bernard Shaw
short_description: Irish playwright, critic, and polemicist (1856–1950)
... that "Das Weizenkorn muss sterben" (The grain of wheat must die), the signature song written by Lothar Zenetti, deals with the mystery of faith that in death there is life?

page_title: Das Weizenkorn muss sterben
short_description: Poem by Lothar Zenetti
page_title: Lothar Zenetti
short_description: German Catholic theologian and writer (1926–2019)
page_title: Mystery of faith
short_description: Christian phrase
... that Nepal declared a national day of mourning after the 2019 Taplejung helicopter crash?

page_title: Nepal
short_description: Country in South Asia
page_title: 2019 Air Dynasty helicopter crash
short_description: 2019 aviation accident in Nepal
... that Wayne Messam, mayor of Miramar, Florida, won a national championship in American football with the Florida State Seminoles?

page_title: Wayne Messam
short_description: American businessman and politician (born 1974)
page_title: Miramar, Florida
short_description: City in Broward County, Florida
page_title: 1993 Florida State Seminoles football team
short_description: American college football season
page_title: Florida State Seminoles football
short_description: Team representing Florida State University in American football
... that party pieces may include reciting a poem, performing a dance, singing a song, or performing a trick?

page_title: Party piece
short_description: Entertainment at a gathering
... that Lu Xiaopeng designed a supersonic fighter said to be the lightest in the world, but it never entered service?

page_title: Lu Xiaopeng
short_description: Chinese aircraft designer
page_title: Nanchang J-12
short_description: Chinese jet fighter prototype
... that the black limpet feeds on the black turban snail without harming it?

page_title: Lottia asmi
short_description: Species of gastropod
page_title: Tegula funebralis
short_description: Species of black marine sea snail of the family Tegulidae
... that until 2002, researchers thought that the two species of Cuban warblers (Oriente warbler pictured) belonged in the New World warbler family?

page_title: Cuban warbler
short_description: Tiny family of birds found only in Cuba
page_title: Oriente warbler
short_description: Species of bird
page_title: New World warbler
short_description: Family of birds
... that future Phoenix mayor James D. Monihon regiment was attacked by an estimated 450 Apaches led by chief Cochise during the American Civil War?

page_title: Phoenix, Arizona
short_description: Capital and most populous city of Arizona, U.S.
page_title: James D. Monihon
short_description: American businessman and politician (1837–1904)
page_title: Apache
short_description: Indigenous peoples of the United States
page_title: Cochise
short_description: Apache tribe chief (c. 1805–1874)
page_title: American Civil War
short_description: 1861–1865 conflict in the United States
... that a 2016 Japanese light novel series received praise for its unique protagonist, who is a vending machine?

page_title: Reborn as a Vending Machine, I Now Wander the Dungeon
short_description: Japanese light novel series
page_title: Vending machine
short_description: Machine which dispenses products to customers
... that the conductor Marc Piollet recorded rarely performed symphonies by Norbert Burgmüller and Hugo Staehle, and a DVD of Carmen staged by Calixto Bieito?

page_title: Marc Piollet
short_description: French conductor (born 1962)
page_title: Norbert Burgmüller
short_description: German composer of the Romantic Era
page_title: Hugo Staehle
short_description: German composer (1826–1848)
page_title: Carmen
short_description: 1875 opera by Georges Bizet
page_title: Calixto Bieito
short_description: Spanish theater director
... that the U.S. Public Health Service can hire – but not fire – scientists "without regard to the civil-service laws" using a Title 42 appointment?

page_title: United States Public Health Service
short_description: Division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services which manages public health
page_title: Title 42 appointment
short_description: US federal civil service employment category
... that Swiss businessman Cesar Lüthi pioneered the use of revolving billboards in sports marketing?

page_title: Cesar Lüthi
short_description: Swiss sports marketing businessman (1930–2002)
page_title: Billboard
short_description: Advertising signage
page_title: Sports marketing
short_description: Marketing strategy for sporting products
... that fossils found at Granton Shrimp Bed provided evidence of the structure of conodonts?

page_title: Granton Shrimp Bed
short_description: Fossil-bearing deposit in Scotland
page_title: Conodont
short_description: Extinct agnathan chordates resembling eels
... that researchers Eileen Shore and Frederick Kaplan discovered the mutation responsible for a disease that turns muscle into bone?

page_title: Eileen Shore
short_description: American medical researcher
page_title: Frederick Kaplan
short_description: American medical researcher
page_title: Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva
short_description: Disease in which fibrous connective tissue turns into bone
... that Amina Gerba (pictured) beauty-care companies hire and give a portion of profits to the 2,000 women of the Songtaaba Cooperative in Burkina Faso?<!--Special occasion hook for March 14-->

page_title: Amina Gerba
short_description: Cameroonian-Canadian entrepreneur (born 1961)
page_title: Burkina Faso
short_description: Country in West Africa
... that despite being a co-author of The Spy Chronicles, Asad Durrani was not allowed to attend the launch of the book?

page_title: The Spy Chronicles
short_description: 2018 non-fiction book by Indian and Pakistani authors
page_title: Asad Durrani
short_description: Pakistan Army general (born 1941)
... that Heinz Henschel negotiated the return of Germany into the International Ice Hockey Federation in 1947?

page_title: Heinz Henschel
short_description: German ice hockey player and sports administrator (1920–2006)
page_title: International Ice Hockey Federation
short_description: Worldwide governing body for ice hockey
... that HMS Stonehenge disappeared with all hands in the Indian Ocean in 1944, and her exact location is still unknown?

page_title: HMS Stonehenge (P232)
short_description: British S-class submarine
page_title: Indian Ocean
short_description: Oceanic division
... that after Argentine politician Eduardo Bauzá retired from politics he produced noodles in his family business?

page_title: Eduardo Bauzá
short_description: Argentine lawyer and politician (1939–2019)
... that before Tanzanian soldiers could attack Lira in 1979, their commander gifted food and cooking oil to a ferry pilot so that he would ship them across a lake?

page_title: Tanzania People's Defence Force
short_description: Armed forces of Tanzania
page_title: Battle of Lira
short_description: 1979 battle of the Uganda–Tanzania War
... that in 1895, Edward Chauncey Luard, a planter in British Guiana, led a campaign to amend the colony's constitution?

page_title: Edward Chauncey Luard
short_description: British planter
page_title: British Guiana
short_description: British colony from 1814 to 1966
... that the jewelled squid has two unequal-sized eyes which look in different directions?

page_title: Stigmatoteuthis arcturi
short_description: Species of cephalopod known as the jewelled squid
... that Beethoven composed two symphonies during the eight years he lived in the Pasqualati House (pictured) in Vienna?

page_title: Ludwig van Beethoven
short_description: German composer (1770–1827)
page_title: Pasqualati House
short_description: Historic house in Austria
... that Douglas Albert Munro is the only member of the U.S. Coast Guard to receive the Medal of Honor?

page_title: Douglas Albert Munro
short_description: U.S. Coast Guard Medal of Honor recipient (1919–1942)
page_title: United States Coast Guard
short_description: Maritime law enforcement and rescue service branch of the U.S. military
page_title: Medal of Honor
short_description: Highest award in the United States Armed Forces
... that the New Zealand beetle Oemona hirta is called the "lemon tree borer", even though lemon trees are not native to New Zealand?

page_title: Oemona hirta
short_description: Species of beetle
... that after Huang Zhiqian, chief designer of the Chinese fighter jet Shenyang J-8, died in a plane crash in Egypt, his deputy Gu Songfen and other colleagues completed the project?

page_title: Huang Zhiqian
short_description: Chinese aerospace engineer (1914–1965)
page_title: Shenyang J-8
short_description: Chinese interceptor aircraft family
page_title: Gu Songfen
short_description: Chinese aircraft designer (1930–2026)
... that Ram Nath Chawla and Aspy Engineer were the first Indians to pilot an aircraft from India to England?

page_title: Ram Nath Chawla
short_description: Indian aircraft pilot
page_title: Aspy Engineer
short_description: Indian Air Marshal and diplomat
... that Amur senza fin is the first-ever Romansh language television film?

page_title: Hide and Seek (2018 film)
short_description: 2018 Swiss film directed by Christoph Schaub
page_title: Romansh language
short_description: Gallo-Romance language of Switzerland
... that footballer Pádraig Amond represented Carlow at hurling under a false name to avoid being discovered by his club?

page_title: Association football
short_description: Team sport played with a ball
page_title: Pádraig Amond
short_description: Irish footballer (born 1988)
page_title: Carlow GAA
short_description: County board of the Gaelic Athletic Association in Ireland
page_title: Hurling
short_description: Outdoor team stick and ball game
... that Véronique Aka (pictured) was the first woman to be elected president of an Ivorian regional council?

page_title: Véronique Aka
short_description: Ivorian politician
page_title: Ivory Coast
short_description: Country in West Africa
... that the binomial name of the coconut lorikeet translates as "bloody hair-tongue"?

page_title: Binomial nomenclature
short_description: Species naming system
page_title: Coconut lorikeet
short_description: Species of bird
... that Byron A. Stover was an American football letterman and forestry major at Ohio State University before moving to Oregon to become a successful businessman and state legislator?

page_title: Byron A. Stover
short_description: American businessman and politician (1890–1984)
page_title: Letterman (sports)
short_description: Classification of high school or college athlete in the United States
page_title: Ohio State University
short_description: Public university in Columbus, Ohio, US
page_title: Oregon
short_description: U.S. state
... that André Previn composed his Violin Concerto for Anne-Sophie Mutter, his future wife?

page_title: André Previn
short_description: American musician (1929–2019)
page_title: Violin Concerto (Previn)
short_description: Violin concerto by André Previn
page_title: Anne-Sophie Mutter
short_description: German violinist (born 1963)
... that Alfred Clayton Cole, a director of the Bank of England, said: "during any time of crisis... all that the Bank is called upon to do is to take care of itself"?

page_title: Alfred Clayton Cole
page_title: Bank of England
short_description: Central bank of the United Kingdom
... that the antisemitic tale "The Jew Among Thorns" was used to indoctrinate children in Nazi Germany?

page_title: Antisemitism
short_description: Hostility, prejudice, or discrimination against Jews
page_title: The Jew Among Thorns
short_description: German fairy tale
... that the Royal Navy damaged Samuel Travis' house in 1775, then returned 38 years later and attacked his ship?

page_title: Royal Navy
short_description: Naval warfare force of the United Kingdom
page_title: USRC Surveyor
short_description: US ship in War of 1812
... that John Leak was convicted of desertion by a court-martial, even though he had previously been awarded the Victoria Cross for most conspicuous bravery?

page_title: John Leak
short_description: Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross
page_title: Desertion
short_description: Abandonment of military duty without authorization
page_title: Court-martial
short_description: Judicial action in military forces
page_title: Victoria Cross
short_description: Highest military decoration for valour in the UK
... that all 15 torpedoes fired by HMS Simoom (pictured) during her career missed their targets, but 3 hit and sank a destroyer instead?

page_title: HMS Simoom (P225)
short_description: S-class submarine of the royal navy
... that the soprano Ursula Wendt-Walther appeared in more than 60 operatic roles at the Staatstheater Nürnberg, including Marei in the world premiere of Zemlinsky's Der Traumgörge?<!--Special occasion hook for March 13-->

page_title: Ursula Wendt-Walther
short_description: German operatic soprano (1934–2016)
page_title: Staatstheater Nürnberg
short_description: Theatre and opera house in Nuremberg, Germany
page_title: Der Traumgörge
short_description: Opera by Alexander Zemlinsky
... that Stephen Hendry compiled his 700th career century break during the first round of the 2007 Malta Cup snooker tournament?

page_title: Stephen Hendry
short_description: Scottish snooker player (born 1969)
page_title: Century break
short_description: Achievement in snooker
page_title: 2007 Malta Cup
short_description: Snooker tournament