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This is my work of over 15 years creating Wikipedia articles in my retirement.
These are my articles in bold I have created, listed by the subject matter.
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An article I created was put into a DYK queue the same day one hour later. I created this article on July 24, 2015. It became an official Did You Know article on Wikipedia's main page on July 26, 2015 = a DYK record for quickest Did You Know from an article made from scratch - 36 hours.
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Airplanes and Airports

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  • Did you know that at the age of 17, Dean Cullom Smith (pictured) was the youngest flight instructor in U.S. Army history?
  • Did you know that the first transcontinental night airmail service was established at Hadley Field?
  • Did you know that the George Washington Air Junction was designed to be the world's largest airport, larger than the New York, London, Berlin, Paris, Chicago, and Philadelphia airports combined?'

Amazing

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  • Did you know that Max Deutsch intentionally destroyed his compositions so that his only surviving legacy would be his students?
  • Did you know that George Edward Hilt founded the largest farm-store retailer in the United States?
  • Did you know that Joseph Hobson designed the first underwater railroad tunnel to a foreign country?
  • Did You Know that the Rotolactor was the first invention for milking a large quantity of cows successively and largely automatically?
  • Did You Know that Project Loon is a project by Google to send thousands of high-altitude balloons into the stratosphere to beam wireless Internet to remote locations worldwide?
  • Did You Know that ablaq is an Arabic term for the use in stonework of alternating or fluctuating rows of light and dark color stone?
  • Did You Know that Abraham Lincoln was the only U.S. president to have a registered patent to an invention?
  • Did You Know that despite the devastation of the second U.S. Patent Office fire (pictured), in a supposedly fireproof building, not one patent was lost?
  • Did You Know that the U.S. Patent Office 1836 fire occurred in the same building that housed the local fire department?

American history

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  • Did You Know that Nicholas More was the first judge in colonial America to be impeached?
  • Did You Know that the Daniel Cragin Mill is the only remaining operating water-powered measure mill in the United States?
  • Did You Know that John Stuart Skinner and Francis Scott Key were on a mercy mission to get back Dr. William Beanes from British hands, when Key was inspired to write "The Star Spangled Banner?
  • Did You Know that Jacob Earl Fickel is credited with firing the first gunshots from an airplane?

American Civil War

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Ancient

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  • Did You Know that the overhead awning for the Colosseum was saturated with scented water which dripped on spectators' heads to cool them?
  • Did You Know that in the Greek mythology tale of Iole, Deianira (pictured) inadvertently killed her husband Heracles with a love charm because of jealousy?

Architecture and buildings

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  • Did you know that the historic I.O.O.F. Centennial Building (pictured) is a three-story commercial building with an exterior decoration of raised brickwork spelling out "Centennial 4 July 1876"?
  • Did you know that Tiny Town was the first complete modern city built in miniature?
  • Did you know that the Milam Building was both the tallest brick and reinforced concrete structure and first office building with built-in air conditioning in the United States when it opened in 1928?

Attractions

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Automobile

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  • Did you know that George Huebner is known as the "father of the automotive gas turbine engine"?
  • Did You Know that the American Motor League was the first automobile organization formed in the United States?
  • Did You Know that Owen Ray Skelton is credited with engineering a rubber engine mount system for cars known as "floating power" to greatly cut down on engine vibration to the chassis?
  • Did You Know that Jayco, the largest privately held manufacturer of recreational vehicles (collapsible model pictured) in North America, has mostly Amish and Mennonite employees?
  • Did You Know that a car cooler (pictured) is an early type automobile "air conditioner" that has been around since 1930?
  • Did You Know that Gottfried Schloemer (pictured with car) is considered by some to have built the first practical gasoline automobile in the United States?

Benjamin Franklin

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  • Did you know that the lightning rod fashion (lightning rod umbrella shown) was a fad in 18th-century Europe?

Bibles

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  • Did You Know that Isaac Collins published the first American family Bible?
  • Did You Know that Jane Aitken was the first woman to print an English-language Bible in the United States?
  • Did You Know that the Pony Express bible was given only with a signed frontier pledge of loyalty, honesty, and sobriety?

Biographies

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  • Did you know that puppeteer Bernard H. Paul performed the first children's television program?
  • Did you know that the scientist Harold Horton Sheldon wrote as early as 1929 about the serious possibility of man visiting other planets one day with the aid of rockets?
  • Did you know that the Great Lakes merchant Rasmus Rasmussen named his schooner after a postmaster's wife?
  • Did you know that actress Lo Kauppi was a singer and guitar player in the feminist punk band Vagina Grande?
  • Did You Know that Mildred Seydell was one of the first women newspaper journalists in the State of Georgia while breaking the gender barrier in journalism?

Books

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  • Did You Know that John Ratcliff is the first identifiable bookbinder in America?

Bowling and games

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  • Did you know that William V. Thompson preferred the title "Dean of Bowling" over "Father of Bowling" in recognition of his work promoting and standardizing ten-pin bowling?
  • Did you know that Moses Bensinger helped organize the American Bowling Congress, which standardized the rules of modern ten-pin bowling?

Business

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Construction

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Churches and religion

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  • Did You Know that Saint Illtyd Church on Caldey Island, established in the 6th century, is reputedly the oldest Celtic church in Wales?

Crafts & Housing

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Culture

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Electrical & Electronics

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  • Did you know that the electric fire engine had numerous advantages over the 19th-century steam fire engine, but was not put into service because a storm could knock out the power?
  • Did you know that the SS Jacona was the world's first seagoing electric generator powership?
  • Did You Know that Conrad Hubert was the first commercial vendor of flashlights?
  • Did you know that Charles A. Cheever constructed the first telephone line in New York City and was its owner?
  • Did you know that Sidney Howe Short produced the first electric motor without gears that operated a streetcar directly from its built-in armature?
  • Did You Know that Harrison Gray Dyar erected the first telegraph line and dispatched over it the first telegraph message ever sent in America?
  • Did You Know that an image within photosensitive glass is the most durable form of photography and will last as long as glass itself?

European history

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  • Did you know that Peniel Chapel (pictured) changed the practice of the traditional interior of a Welsh church to that of a theatre building with a ramped gallery floor for an auditorium experience?
  • Did you know that the Cronica Walliae helped popularise a legend that the Welsh discovered America in about 1170, a tale used to justify English encroachments on the early colonies of the Spanish Empire?
  • Did you know that William Maurice built a three-story library just for his personal book collection?
  • Did you know that Fittja gård became a popular overnight inn and station for exchange of horses for Swedish kings?
  • Did you know that Juozas Gabrys worked to liberate Lithuania, but became "virtually an unperson" in that country?
  • Did you know that British airman Tom Rees was killed in the first official victory credited to German flying ace the Red Baron?

Famous Firsts

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  • Did You Know that in 1852 Franz Johann Joseph Bock founded the first large exhibition of ancient masterpieces of Christian art?
  • Did You Know that the Sunmobile, world's first solar-powered automobile, was demonstrated in a 1955 General Motors car show?
  • Did You Know that the Cloth of St Gereon is the oldest known European tapestry still existing?
  • Did You Know that the oldest known museum labels are from c. 1900 BCE, describing 2000 BCE objects?
  • Did You Know that Hamburger Feuerkasse was the first official fire insurance company established in the world?

Fashion

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  • Did You Know that King of France Louis XIV (1638–1715) used toilet water for his shirts and called it "heavenly water"?
  • Did You Know that cameline, a middle ages "cheap" fabric of camel's hair, is considered by some authorities to be what we call today cashmere?
  • Did You Know that Georgia Cayvan was the first person to wear a glass dress?

Food and drink

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  • Did You Know that Albert P. Halfhill is considered the father of the tuna packing industry and is the first to use the slogan "chicken of the sea" as a sales gimmick?

Founders

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Health and medicine

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  • Did you know that Dixi Crosby was the first surgeon in the United States to be sued for medical malpractice?
  • Did You Know that the tainted wine from an antimonial cup (examples pictured) was used to make oneself vomit?
  • Did You Know that otium, a Latin term, has a variety of meanings including leisure time in which a person can enjoy eating, playing, resting, contemplation and academic endeavors?

Inventions

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  • Did you know that Carl Edgar Myers invented an air-bicycle (illustrated) that navigated through the air like a bicycle?
  • Did you know that when the early telephone was being developed, John Peirce (pictured) invented the mouthpiece that was used for the hand-held version?
  • Did you know that Chester H. Pond invented the first electrical self-winding clock?
  • Did you know that Isaac Dripps invented the railroad locomotive cowcatcher?
  • Did you know that Luther Atwood invented "coup oil", the first oil extracted from coal?
  • Did You Know that Giovanni Caselli made the world's first practical operating fax machine 11 years before Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone?
  • Did you know that Birdsill Holly invented a water pumping system for city mains that not only supplied drinking water for domestic service, but also furnished water under pressure for fire hydrants (Holly fire hydrant pictured)?

Ladies

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  • Did you know that Mary Florence Potts (pictured) patented various styles of cold handle clothes irons that were the most popular irons ever used?
  • Did you know that PFE Albee (pictured) is considered the first "Avon Lady", and was followed by over half a million others?
  • Did you know that women's rights activist Meaza Ashenafi noted that Amharic proverbs that place women only in domestic roles are to blame for the degrading of women in Ethiopia?
  • Did you know that Effie Maud Aldrich Morrison originated the concept and was the instigator for the plan of the first senior housing project in the United States?
  • Did You Know that Eleonora de Cisneros, an American opera singer, promoted the sale of Liberty bonds more than any other person during World War I?
  • Did You Know that Elizabeth Burchinal, considered America's leading authority on folk dancing, organized large folk dance gatherings – one in particular involving 10,000 schoolgirls?

Literature

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  • Did You Know that Mattheus Marinus Schepman's most significant work is "The Prosobranchia of the Siboga expedition", a publication of 494 pages encompassing 212 genera and 1,467 species of snails and slugs?
  • Did You Know that hundreds of words still in use today, including accident, cinnamon, desk, scissors, vacation, and Valentine, first appear in manuscripts written by Geoffrey Chaucer in the 1300s?
  • Did You Know that The Ladies' Mercury was the first periodical publication designed just for women?

Michigan

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  • Did You Know that the SS Andaste (pictured) – a hybrid whaleback Great Lakes cargo vessel – disappeared with all hands on Lake Michigan in 1929 and is still listed as not found?
  • Did you know that the Michigan Heritage Park (typical exhibit pictured) is an outdoor attraction that spans 10,000 years of Michigan history?
  • Did You Know that Kitch-iti-kipi is Michigan's largest freshwater spring and a major tourist attraction?

Bay City

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Cadillac and Manton

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  • Did you know that when Clam Lake Canal freezes over early in the Michigan winter, the lakes on each side remain unfrozen, but when the lakes later freeze over, the canal thaws and flows once more?
  • Did You Know that John Caldwell was originally given the name at birth of George Washington Caldwell because he was born on the Fourth of July?

Detroit

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  • Did you know that John Ward Westcott developed a marine mail system that eventually became the only floating ZIP Code in the United States?

Escanaba

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Grand Rapids

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Hart area

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  • Did you know that Dunes Forest Village was an exclusive "island" retreat in Hart, surrounded by sand rather than water, and owned by a newspaper publisher?
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  • Did You Know that John Mason Loomis determined through experimenting that boring for salt and distilling the brine could produce usable salt and brought about the salt industry that helped develop the city of Ludington, Michigan?
  • Did You Know that Delos L. Filer owned around two-thirds of the present day city of Manistee?
  • Did you know that a mural of William Rath depicts him drinking from a Fountain of Youth?
  • Did you know that cargo had to be loaded and unloaded by hand onto the SS John Sherman, the first freight ship used on Lake Michigan? (It crossed at Ludington, Michigan).
  • Did you know that the SS Pere Marquette was the first steel train ferry built in the world? (went between Michigan and Wisconsin on Lake Michigan)
  • Did you know that the House of Flavors's signature ice cream is the secret formula "Blue Moon" flavor (pictured) that they have been making available to their customers since 1935?
  • Did you know that that Henry L. Haskell patented a game board (1900 vintage board shown) through the Carrom Company to keep young boys out of pool halls where they might develop bad habits?
 
  • Did You Know that Burr Caswell built his farmhouse in 1849 out of old driftwood and it is now a museum centerpiece?

Manistee

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Military

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  • Did you know that C. C. Beall's 1945 Treasury poster (pictured) of Joe Rosenthal's photograph of the raising of the American flag on Iwo Jima was used for a World War II campaign which brought in $26 billion?
  • Did you know that the Army and Navy Union (badge shown) is the oldest veterans' organization in America?

Religion

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  • Did you know that Richard McNemar, the "father of Shaker music", was the most prolific composer of Shaker hymns and anthems?

Schools and training

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  • Did you know that Henry Ford considered Ralph Waldo Trine an old friend and had several conversations with him concerning success in life?
  • Did You Know that United States president Abraham Lincoln learned his ABCs when he attended a blab school which he walked to in his youth?

Shaker

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  • Did you know that Thomas Corbett, a Shaker doctor, developed an electrostatic medical device in 1810 as a "cure" for rheumatism?
  • Did you know that the Shaker tilting chair lets its occupant lean back without the chair slipping and scraping the floor?
  • Did you know that the Shakers were the first to package seeds for sale in small paper envelopes that were sold through the Shaker Seed Company?

Technology

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  • Did you know that Alexander Bonner Latta made the first steam fire engine to be used regularly by a city fire department in the United States?
  • Did You Know that the Red Cross (pictured) is a kitchen stove?
  • Did You Know that the Benson raft (pictured) was a huge sea-going log raft designed to transport millions of board-feet of timber at a time through the open ocean?
  • Did You Know that Bellifortis is the first illustrated manual of military techology?
  • Did You Know that Henry Clay Fry was the first to imitate cut glass from pressed blanks?
  • Did You Know that lithophane (example pictured) is an artwork in porcelain that can only be seen clearly when lit from behind?

Carferries

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Locomotives

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Newspapers & Printing

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  • Did You Know that Elizabeth Timothy was the first female publisher of a newspaper in America?
  • Did You Know that the American colonial newspaper publisher John Holt has been labeled by a modern day historian "the most important Radical printer outside Boston" during the American Revolution?
  • Did You Know that the American colonial printer William Parks established four new newspapers in his lifetime?

Photography

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  • Did you know that Frederick Langenheim made the first set of panoramic images of Niagara Falls and a sequential set of images of the first American total solar eclipse ever photographed?
  • Did you know that Valentin Wolfenstein owned the first successful photography studio in Los Angeles?

Steam

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Television

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Travel

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United States

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  • Did You Know that the Nebraska House (pictured) in Virginia was so named because Colonel Samuel D. McDearmon's wife refused to move to Nebraska?
  • Did You Know that the Julian Price Memorial Park, developed in Julian Price’s honor, and the Moses H. Cone Memorial Park are the largest developed recreational areas on the Blue Ridge Parkway?
  • Did You Know that the Golden Age Passport has been replaced by the "Senior Pass" of the new pass series now called "America the Beautiful - National Parks and Federal Recreational Lands Pass"?

World

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  • Did you know that Soviet economist Dimitri Navachine, assassinated in Paris in 1937, may have been killed for possessing documents showing that certain Soviet political prisoners were innocent?