wikimedia/wiki-dyk huggingface dataset:
... that Esther Lurie (pictured) used photographs of drawings to reconstruct most of her artwork that did not survive World War II?

page_title: Esther Lurie
short_description: Israeli painter (1913–1998)
... that even after narrowing the list of suspects in Geetha Angara's unsolved killing, 15 years ago today, down to three men, police could not charge any of them?<!--Special occasion hook for February 8-->

page_title: Killing of Geetha Angara
short_description: Unsolved 2005 homicide in New Jersey, US
... that Richard Scrob built Richard's Castle, one of the few castles in England built before the Norman conquest?

page_title: Richard Scrob
short_description: 11th century landholder in England
page_title: Richard's Castle
short_description: Village in Herefordshire and Shropshire, England
page_title: Norman Conquest
short_description: 11th-century invasion of England
... that Capricorn Seamount is an underwater mountain that is breaking up as it enters the Tonga Trench?

page_title: Capricorn Seamount
short_description: Seamount in the Pacific Ocean
page_title: Guyot
short_description: Flat-topped underwater mountain
page_title: Tonga Trench
short_description: Deepest oceanic trench in the southwestern Pacific Ocean
... that the Cymmer Colliery explosion of 1856 in Wales resulted in a "sacrifice of human life to an extent unparalleled in the history of coal mining of this country"?

page_title: Cymmer Colliery explosion
short_description: July 1856 mining disaster in Wales
... that Supreme Court of British Columbia justice Dev Dley previously served as commissioner of the Western Hockey League?

page_title: Supreme Court of British Columbia
short_description: British Columbia's superior trial court
page_title: Dev Dley
short_description: Canadian lawyer and judge (born 1950/1951)
page_title: Western Hockey League
short_description: Junior ice hockey league in North America
... that Captain Tilly Park contains the "smallest island in the smallest natural body of water" within New York City?

page_title: Captain Tilly Park
short_description: Public park in Queens, New York
... that rioters in Leicester, England, destroyed a hydrogen balloon in 1864?

page_title: Leicester balloon riot
short_description: 1864 riot in Leicester, England
... that Italian Renaissance artist Raphael died in 1520 in his palace on the now demolished Borgo Nuovo (pictured) in Rome?

page_title: Raphael
short_description: Italian painter and architect (1483–1520)
page_title: Palazzo Caprini
short_description: Destroyed palazzo in Rome, designed by Donato Bramante for Raphael
page_title: Borgo Nuovo (Rome)
short_description: Former road in Rome
... that V. S. Lelchuk joined dissident and revisionist historians in a "historical glasnost" during the collapse of the Soviet Union?

page_title: V. S. Lelchuk
short_description: Russian historian (born 1929)
page_title: Glasnost
short_description: 1980s policy of the Soviet Union promoting openness and freedom of information
page_title: Dissolution of the Soviet Union
short_description: 1988–1991 breakup of the sovereign state
... that Jon Favreau created the role of Cara Dune in The Mandalorian with former mixed martial artist Gina Carano in mind, and did not audition any other actresses for the role?

page_title: Jon Favreau
short_description: American actor and filmmaker (born 1966)
page_title: Cara Dune
short_description: Star Wars character
page_title: The Mandalorian
short_description: American television series
page_title: Gina Carano
short_description: American actress and mixed martial artist (born 1982)
... that Mar Field Fen is "one of the best examples of fen habitat in the Vale of York"?

page_title: Mar Field Fen
short_description: Site of Special Scientific Interest in North Yorkshire, England
page_title: Fen
short_description: Type of wetland fed by mineral-rich ground or surface water
page_title: Vale of York
short_description: Low-lying plain in North Yorkshire, England
... that during her final performance at the 1994 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, Louisiana Creole singer Inez Catalon chastised female audience members for dressing immodestly?

page_title: New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
short_description: Annual music festival
page_title: Louisiana Creole people
short_description: Ethnic group of Louisiana, USA
page_title: Inez Catalon
short_description: American Creole singer (1913–1994)
... that the title of the book A Very Stable Genius comes from a tweet by Donald Trump?

page_title: A Very Stable Genius
short_description: 2020 book about Donald Trump
page_title: Donald Trump
short_description: President of the United States (2017–2021; since 2025)
... that Iranian women's rights activist Mastoureh Afshar organized the second Eastern Women's Congress, held in Tehran in 1932, which drew delegates from Afghanistan to Zanzibar?

page_title: Mastoureh Afshar
short_description: Iranian women's rights activist (1898–1951)
page_title: Tehran
short_description: Capital and largest city of Iran
page_title: Afghanistan
short_description: Country in Central and South Asia
page_title: Zanzibar
short_description: Semi-autonomous region of Tanzania
... that television station WETV in Key West, Florida, was forced off the air by an act of Congress?

page_title: WETV (Florida)
short_description: Television station in Key West, Florida (1989–1990)
page_title: Key West
short_description: Island and city in Florida, United States
... that David Roberts's The Holy Land, a collection of 250 orientalist lithographs (example shown), has been called the "most pervasive and enduring" 19th-century depiction of the East in the West?

page_title: David Roberts (painter)
short_description: Scottish orientalist painter (1796–1864)
page_title: The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, and Nubia
short_description: 19th-century travelogue by painter David Roberts
page_title: Orientalism
short_description: Imitation or depiction of Eastern cultures
page_title: Eastern world
short_description: Countries predominantly situated in Asia
page_title: Western world
short_description: Countries with an originally European shared culture
... that software engineer David Notkin worked to expand computer science research to a wider demographic, particularly women?

page_title: David Notkin
short_description: American professor and software engineer
... that salmon conservation measures are threatening the survival of a fishing technique first brought to Britain a thousand years ago by the Vikings?

page_title: Salmon conservation
page_title: Haaf net fishing
short_description: Ancient British fishing technique
page_title: Vikings
short_description: Norse seafarers, merchants and raiders
... that Italian mathematician Giovanni Prodi was initially drafted into the National Republican Army and trained as a telephonist during World War II?

page_title: Giovanni Prodi
short_description: Italian mathematician (1925–2010)
page_title: National Republican Army
short_description: Army of the Italian Social Republic
... that images of the widowed queen who commissioned the first major work of Indian Deccan painting were erased after her son rebelled and imprisoned her?

page_title: Deccan painting
short_description: Form of miniature painting
page_title: Murtaza Nizam Shah I
short_description: Sultan of Ahmadnagar from 1565 to 1588
... that Jean Bégin was the first coach in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League to make three appearances at the Memorial Cup?

page_title: Jean Bégin
short_description: Canadian ice hockey coach
page_title: Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League
short_description: Junior ice hockey league in Canada
page_title: Memorial Cup
short_description: Championship trophy of the Canadian Hockey League
... that Fort Tryon Park, located on steep terrain in Manhattan, was designed as a landscaped park with the Cloisters museum as the main point of interest?

page_title: Fort Tryon Park
short_description: Public park in Manhattan, New York
page_title: Manhattan
short_description: Borough in New York City and county in New York State
page_title: The Cloisters
short_description: Museum in New York City
... that Edda Tasiemka was known as the "human Google"?

page_title: Edda Tasiemka
short_description: German archivist (1922–2019)
... that the alga Acetabularia acetabulum (pictured) resembles a green parasol?

page_title: Acetabularia acetabulum
short_description: Species of alga
... that hedge fund manager Jacob Gottlieb hired Status Labs to counteract negative news coverage of him over the closure of Visium Asset Management?

page_title: Hedge fund
short_description: Privately pooled investment fund using diverse strategies to seek high returns
page_title: Status Labs
short_description: Reputation management company
page_title: Visium Asset Management
short_description: Former American hedge fund
... that Wolfgang J. Fuchs, an early German comics scholar who co-wrote a 1971 standard work on the topic, translated Garfield and Mom's Cancer

page_title: Wolfgang J. Fuchs
short_description: German author (1945–2020)
page_title: Comics studies
short_description: Academic study of comics and graphic novels
page_title: Garfield
short_description: Comic strip created by Jim Davis
page_title: Mom's Cancer
short_description: Webcomic and graphic novel by Brian Fies
... that according to The Independent, KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps "renders the unimaginable evil of the camps relatable"?

page_title: The Independent
short_description: British online daily newspaper
page_title: KL – A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps
short_description: Book by Nikolaus Wachsmann, 2015
... that Eric Bowen paintings were inspired by tantra?

page_title: Eric Bowen
short_description: Indian artist (1929–2002)
page_title: Tantra
short_description: Esoteric traditions of Hinduism and Buddhism
... that the studio building used by Oklahoma City radio station KJEM was the last structure that was demolished to make way for the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building?

page_title: Oklahoma City
short_description: Capital city of Oklahoma, United States
page_title: KQCV (AM)
short_description: Bott Radio Network station in Oklahoma City
page_title: Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building
short_description: Oklahoma building bombed in 1995
... that Thomas H. Lee, who developed the vacuum interrupter at General Electric, won an Asian table tennis championship while in college?

page_title: Thomas H. Lee (power engineer)
page_title: Vacuum interrupter
short_description: Switch using electrical contacts in a vacuum
page_title: General Electric
short_description: American multinational conglomerate (1892–2024)
... that the Austins Quarter of Newton Abbot in Devon, England, is named after a department store?

page_title: Newton Abbot
short_description: Town in Teignbridge District, Devon, England
page_title: Devon
short_description: County of England
page_title: Austins, Newton Abbot
short_description: English department store
... that Johann Baptist Sigl (pictured) was imprisoned multiple times for publishing insulting articles about the German chancellor Otto von Bismarck and the German emperor?

page_title: Johann Baptist Sigl
short_description: German journalist (1839–1901)
page_title: Otto von Bismarck
short_description: Chancellor of Germany from 1871 to 1890
... that the Courtois Hills region has the most rugged terrain and steepest average slopes of any sub-region of the Missouri Ozarks?

page_title: Courtois Hills
short_description: Region of the Ozark Mountains, Missouri, U.S.
page_title: Ozarks
short_description: Highland region in central-southern United States
... that Skandinavskii sbornik (Scandinavian Review) was the principal forum for Soviet scholars of Nordic studies for 35 years until the collapse of the Soviet Union?

page_title: Skandinavskii sbornik
short_description: Academic journal
page_title: Dissolution of the Soviet Union
short_description: 1988–1991 breakup of the sovereign state
... that during the Cultural Revolution, Zhu Yuli was denounced as a counterrevolutionary and suffered beatings which caused disability in his right hand?

page_title: Cultural Revolution
short_description: Period of sociopolitical turmoil in China (1966–1976)
page_title: Zhu Yuli
short_description: Chinese politician and aerospace executive (1934–2020)
... that the Tulsa Club Building suffered four major fires in 2010, including three in a two-week period, yet remained strong enough to allow conversion to a hotel instead of demolition?

page_title: Tulsa Club Building
short_description: Building in Tulsa, Oklahoma, US
... that Cueros de Purulla volcano had a large eruption 7820 years ago and was later a source of obsidian?

page_title: Cueros de Purulla
short_description: Volcano in Argentina
page_title: Obsidian
short_description: Naturally occurring volcanic glass
... that at the time of her retirement in 2008, Florida State Seminoles coach JoAnne Graf held the record for most wins in the history of NCAA  softball?

page_title: Florida State Seminoles
short_description: Athletic teams representing Florida State University
page_title: JoAnne Graf
short_description: American softball coach
... that the differences between live versions of Rush's "Witch Hunt" were seen as an instance of "translation" à la Walter Benjamin?

page_title: Rush (band)
short_description: Canadian rock band
page_title: Witch Hunt (song)
short_description: Song by Rush
page_title: Walter Benjamin
short_description: German cultural critic, philosopher and social critic (1892–1940)
... that religious timekeepers employed by the Umayyad Mosque (pictured) in Damascus included a 14th-century astronomer who proposed geocentric models mathematically identical to those later proposed by Copernicus?

page_title: Muwaqqit
short_description: Historical astronomer and timekeeper in Islamic institutions
page_title: Umayyad Mosque
short_description: Mosque in Damascus, Syria
page_title: Ibn al-Shatir
short_description: Arab astronomer and clockmaker (1304–1375)
page_title: Geocentrism
short_description: Superseded description of the Universe with Earth at the center
page_title: Nicolaus Copernicus
short_description: Mathematician and astronomer (1473–1543)
... that Mollie Hughes is the youngest woman to ski solo to the South Pole?

page_title: Mollie Hughes
short_description: British mountaineer and sports adventurer (born 1990)
... that the first president of the University of Kentucky, James Kennedy Patterson, personally financed its first three buildings?

page_title: List of presidents of the University of Kentucky
page_title: James Kennedy Patterson
short_description: British-American academic
... that although author Lao She declared his satirical novel Cat Country a failure, it has been translated into at least six languages?

page_title: Lao She
short_description: Chinese writer (1899–1966)
page_title: Cat Country
short_description: 1933 novel by Lao She
... that despite an early career spent with the Soviet and Russian Airborne Forces, Viktor Astapov is currently a deputy commander-in-chief of the Russian Navy?

page_title: Russian Airborne Forces
short_description: Russian Armed Forces airborne combat arm
page_title: Viktor Astapov
short_description: Russian military officer
... that there have been 49 captains in the Big Bash League?

page_title: List of Big Bash League captains
short_description: Cricket captain list
page_title: Big Bash League
short_description: Australian professional Twenty20 cricket franchise league
... that American missionary Vernon Andy Anderson noted that those accused of witchcraft in the Belgian Congo were likely to be women over 55 and subject to murder by vigilantes?

page_title: Vernon Andy Anderson
page_title: Belgian Congo
short_description: 1908–1960 Belgian colony in Central Africa
... that the final of the 2020 Masters snooker tournament was interrupted by a "whoopee cushion" device?

page_title: 2020 Masters (snooker)
short_description: Professional non-ranking snooker tournament
page_title: Whoopee cushion
short_description: Practical joke device made by JEM Rubber Co
... that Acer diabolicum, the devil maple, gets its scientific and common names from the curly stigmas of its flowers (pictured)?

page_title: Acer diabolicum
short_description: Species of plant in the maple genus
page_title: Stigma (botany)
short_description: Part of a flower
... that Josef Protschka, who sang as a soloist in Stockhausen's Gesang der Jünglinge at age 12, later appeared in leading tenor roles in the Mozart cycle staged by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle at the Cologne Opera?<!--Special occasion hook for February 5-->

page_title: Josef Protschka
short_description: German singer (born 1944)
page_title: Gesang der Jünglinge
short_description: Electronic music work by Karlheinz Stockhausen
page_title: Tenor
short_description: Classical male singing voice
page_title: Jean-Pierre Ponnelle
short_description: French opera director (1932 – 1988)
page_title: Cologne Opera
short_description: Building in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
... that when the LineageOS operating system refused to integrate MicroG software, the project forked its own version, with MicroG pre-installed?

page_title: LineageOS
short_description: Free and open-source Android-based operating system
page_title: MicroG
short_description: Free and open-source alternative to Google Android libraries
page_title: Fork (software development)
short_description: Independent software derived from existing software
page_title: Pre-installed software
short_description: Software already installed and licensed on a computer by OEM
... that Romanian neuroscientist Viviana Gradinaru was part of the research team from Caltech that found that serotonin is necessary for sleep in zebrafish and mice?

page_title: Viviana Gradinaru
short_description: American neuroscientist and biomedical engineer
page_title: California Institute of Technology
short_description: Private university in Pasadena, California
page_title: Serotonin
short_description: Monoamine neurotransmitter
page_title: Zebrafish
short_description: Species of fish
... that drag queens Trixie Mattel and Katya Zamolodchikova have hosted the entertainment series UNHhhh, The Trixie & Katya Show, and I Like to Watch?

page_title: Trixie Mattel
short_description: American drag queen and musician (born 1989)
page_title: Katya Zamolodchikova
short_description: American drag queen (born 1982)
page_title: UNHhhh
short_description: Comedy web series
page_title: The Trixie & Katya Show
short_description: Television series
page_title: I Like to Watch
short_description: 2019 American web series
... that the National Institute of Food Technology Entrepreneurship and Management has conducted research to improve the taste and nutrition of a children's dietary supplement distributed by the government of Kerala?

page_title: National Institute of Food Technology Entrepreneurship and Management
short_description: Higher education institute in Haryana, India
page_title: Dietary supplement
short_description: Product providing additional nutrients
page_title: Kerala
short_description: State in southwestern India
... that Harun el-Raschid Hintersatz, a German convert to Islam, led a Muslim SS unit comprising Turkmens and Tatars during World War II?

page_title: Harun el-Raschid Bey
short_description: German military officer (1886–1963)
page_title: Schutzstaffel
short_description: German Nazi paramilitary organisation (1925–1945)
page_title: Turkmens
short_description: Turkic ethnic group
page_title: Tatars
short_description: Turkic ethnic groups in Eurasia
... that during a renovation of New York City's Bowne Park, some fish from its pond ended up in refrigerators of nearby homes?

page_title: Bowne Park
short_description: Public park in Queens, New York
... that William Rose illustrated dozens of film posters of the Classical Hollywood era, but only a fraction – including an alternate poster for Citizen Kane (pictured) – have been attributed to him by name?

page_title: William Rose (illustrator)
short_description: American illustrator of film posters (1909–1972)
page_title: Film poster
short_description: Printed advertising sheet for a motion picture
page_title: Classical Hollywood cinema
short_description: Style of filmmaking
page_title: Citizen Kane
short_description: 1941 drama film by Orson Welles
... that the blue pitta is a shy, secretive bird, but will respond to a recording of its call?

page_title: Blue pitta
short_description: Species of bird
... that Italian soprano Carolina Crespi was born in Prague, appeared in Barcelona in a child role, met her husband in Paris, and performed with him in world premieres of operas at La Scala in Milan?

page_title: Carolina Crespi
short_description: Italian opera singer
page_title: Eliodoro Bianchi
short_description: Italian opera singer
page_title: La Scala
short_description: Opera house in Milan, Italy
... that in 2016, New York became the 50th U.S. state to legalize and regulate mixed martial arts?

page_title: New York (state)
short_description: U.S. state
page_title: Mixed martial arts in New York
... that Bill Gates is a foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering?

page_title: Bill Gates
short_description: American businessman and philanthropist (born 1955)
page_title: List of members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering
... that the serial novel and manga series Nokemono to Hanayome was inspired by the Tokyo subway sarin attack?

page_title: Serial (literature)
short_description: Publishing format
page_title: Manga
short_description: Japanese comics or graphic novels
page_title: Nokemono to Hanayome
short_description: Japanese serial novel and manga
page_title: Tokyo subway sarin attack
short_description: 1995 terrorist attack by Aum Shinrikyo
... that the Survey of Palestine was led by the man who "wants you", the man who was too late to save Gordon of Khartoum, a Jack the Ripper suspect, and the police chief who chased him?

page_title: PEF Survey of Palestine
short_description: 1872–1877 and 1880 map surveys
page_title: Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener
short_description: British army officer and colonial administrator (1850–1916)
page_title: Lord Kitchener Wants You
short_description: 1914 British military recruitment poster
page_title: Charles Wilson (British Army officer)
short_description: British army officer and explorer (1836–1905)
page_title: Nile Expedition
short_description: Failed rescue mission
page_title: Claude Reignier Conder
short_description: British Army officer, explorer and antiquarian (1848–1910)
page_title: Charles Warren
short_description: British army officer and archaeologist (1840–1927)
... that Leitmeritz concentration camp (memorial pictured) was not liberated, but dissolved by the German Instrument of Surrender?

page_title: Leitmeritz concentration camp
short_description: Concentration camp
page_title: German Instrument of Surrender
short_description: 1945 agreement ending WWII in Europe
... that Edith Hern Fossett, one of Thomas Jefferson's slaves, was taught French cuisine in the White House and became the head chef at Monticello?

page_title: Edith Hern Fossett
short_description: Slave who cooked for Thomas Jefferson
page_title: Thomas Jefferson
short_description: Founding Father, U.S. president from 1801 to 1809
page_title: White House
short_description: Residence and workplace of the US president
page_title: Monticello
short_description: Primary residence of U.S. Founding Father Thomas Jefferson
... that before becoming a passenger ferry, the '' made a round-the-world cruise, belonged to a Dominican Republic dictator, and served in the United States Navy?

page_title: MV Star of Malta
short_description: Yacht, later a patrol yacht and a passenger ferry
page_title: Rafael Trujillo
short_description: Dictator of the Dominican Republic from 1930 to 1961
page_title: United States Navy
short_description: Maritime service branch of the U.S. military
... that Lin Zonghu was China's first graduate student to major in boilers?

page_title: Lin Zonghu
short_description: Chinese thermal engineer and professor (1933–2019)
page_title: Boiler
short_description: Closed vessel in which fluid is heated