This is a list of receipts and hooks from DYKs proposed by Alekjds. 33 articles are of his own creation; 2 were "hooks" written for others' articles.
Please note that the precedent for the device used on this page was barbarically ripped off that of Howcheng.
[edit] Receipts
Receipts for articles I have proposed that have appeared on DYK
Hooks for articles I have proposed that have appeared on DYK
Did you know...
- ...that Saint Reineldis (pictured) is commonly depicted in art being dragged by the hair by Huns? (22 February 2007)
- ...that at the time of his martyrdom in 202, Saint Charalampus was 113 years old? (15 March 2007)
- ...that during the Holocaust, Capuchin friar Père Marie-Benoît created fake passports and baptism certificates in order to smuggle hundreds of Jews out of Southern France? (11 April 2007)
- ... that Stephana de Quinzanis once threw herself upon a cartload of thorns in imitation of a penance done by St Thomas Aquinas? (12 April 2007)
- ...that citizens from the city of Narni, Italy tried to kidnap Dominican mystic Columba of Rieti for their own city, but she escaped? (12 April 2007)
- ...that legend says that Osanna of Mantua miraculously learned to read just by looking at a piece of paper with the words Jesus and Mary written on it? (13 April 2007)
- ...that after being captured by pirates, Matthew Carrieri offered to remain a captive in place of others, which shocked the captain so much he set them all free? (14 April 2007)
- ...that the concentration ability of Augustine Fangi reportedly allowed him to undergo an operation without anesthetic and feel nothing? (16 April 2007)
- ...that the cities of Viterbo and Narni fought a two-year battle over where the popular nun Lucia Brocadelli of Narni would reside? (17 April 2007)
- ...that Dominican Anthony Neyrot renounced Christianity after being captured by Moorish pirates, but publicly reconverted and was stoned to death at Tunis? (18 April 2007)
- ...that Joachim Piccolomini (pictured) was repeatedly urged by his fellow Servites to become a priest, but felt unworthy to be anything more than an altar server? (19 April 2007)
- ...that towards the end of his career, Gothic painter Henri Bellechose made commissions for the Dukes of Burgundy even though he was not paid at all? (20 April 2007)
- ...that according to legend, when a peasant stole a donkey from Opportuna of Montreuil's abbey, she "left the matter up to God," and the next day, the peasant's field was sown with salt? (24 April 2007)
- ...that the villagers of Kotor referred to Dominican visionary and anchoress Osanna of Cattaro as "the trumpet of the Holy Spirit" and the "teacher of mysticism"? (25 April 2007)
- ...that William Firmatus, a Norman hermit, is said to have led a wild boar by the ear from a farmer's plot and instructed it to fast for the night in a solitary cell? (29 April 2007)
- ...that Saint Gorgonia supposedly cured herself of a life-threatening illness by anointing herself with elements of the Eucharist mixed with her own tears? (2 May 2007)
- ...that Wiborada, a spiritual mentor of Ulrich of Augsburg, was the first female saint to be canonized by the Vatican? (7 May 2007)
- ...that Beatus of Lungern, a first century Christian missionary to Switzerland, is often depicted as a monk fighting a dragon? (11 May 2007)
- ...that the Tarxien Temples (pictured) in Malta were discovered when the owner of a field figured that the large stones his workers kept hitting while ploughing may have some archaeological significance? (15 July 2007)
- ...that while Angelina di Marsciano (pictured) was preaching in Naples, she was arrested under charges of sorcery and Manichaeism, because of how readily young women accepted her call to virginity? (19 July 2007)
- ...that it took four sword strokes for St. Bademus' (pictured) terrified executioner to sever his head? (24 July 2007)
- ...that the Gangetic whiting (pictured) is the only known species of fish to host the intestinal parasite Dichelyne alatae? (25 July 2007) (Article created by Kare Kare)
- ...that of the sixty delegates to the Oregon Constitutional Convention, (Oregon Territory Seal pictured) thirty-four were farmers, while eighteen were lawyers, including three justices of the Oregon Supreme Court? (26 July 2007) (Article created by Aboutmovies)
- ...that Gal, Bishop of Clermont was known to be so even-tempered that once a man who had insulted him repented on the spot and threw himself at his feet? (13 November 2007)
- ...that the seventh century hermit Goar of Aquitaine (pictured) is said to have suspended his cloak on a beam of sunlight? (14 November 2007)
- ...that though legend says the mid-way bend in Pittsburgh's Armstrong Tunnel was a mistake and that the engineer responsible killed himself in shame, the chief engineer, Vernon R. Covell, did not commit suicide? (16 November 2007)
- ...that until the French Revolution, the Belgian village of Moorsel was divided in two distinct sections? (4 January 2008)
- ...that a legend says that when Philip de Braose irreverently spent the night in a church dedicated to Saint Afan, he was struck blind the next morning and his hunting dogs went mad? (5 January 2008)
- ...that, according to the martyrology, the early 4th century Christian martyr Aedesius of Alexandria was tortured and drowned for striking a judge who had been forcing consecrated virgins to work in brothels? (7 January 2008)
- ...that Blessed Veronica of Milan unsuccessfully tried to teach herself to read until an apparition of the Virgin told her that spiritual lessons were more important? (14 January 2008)
- ...that because Fr. Joseph Strub believed the Irish were not seen to be as hard-working as Germans, he specifically requested that Fr. William Power not be selected as the first rector of the Pittsburgh Catholic College? (2 February 2008)
- ...that Lambda Sigma, a college sophomore honor society originally founded for women only, was required to disband due to Title IX and was reestablished under its current name in 1975? (16 February 2008)
- ...that alleged paranormal activity at the Andrew Bayne Memorial Library in Bellevue, Pennsylvania reportedly peaked in 1998, when a 400-year-old elm tree on the property was dying of Dutch elm disease? (22 February 2008)
- ...that Desiderius Erasmus nicknamed his academic opponent Jacobus Latomus (pictured) "Hephestion," a reference to Latomus's distinct limp? (25 February 2008)
- ...that Frances Siedliska (pictured) founded 29 communities of the Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth between 1875 and 1902? (1 March 2008)
- ...that the Blessed Martyrs of Nowogródek were Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth who offered their lives during the Holocaust in exchange for the release of citizens of Nowogródek? (2 March 2008)
- ...that Roman Catholic priests afflicted with alcoholism or other ailments can use unfermented grape juice, known as mustum, in place of sacramental wine during the Eucharist? (23 March 2008 - hook composed by Agne27)
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