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Getting a new article onto Wikipedia's main page is pretty simple. First, find an encyclopedic topic that Wikipedia doesn't already cover and start an article. Expand it to more than 1500 characters and include at least one reference. Before the new article is five days old, write a catchy summary and submit it to Template talk:Did you know. An image helps, but use only images that are GDFL copyright or public domain. A simple image that looks good at 100px is best. Or if you find a short stub and expand it to 5x its original size you can also earn DYK recognition for the page.

After User:Ghirlandajo and User:Alex Bakharev helped me with Nadezhda Durova I wrote some more and started helping other people earn their own DYKs.

Did you know...

...that the film I'm No Angel (1933) starred Mae West as a circus lion tamer? and that West did her own stunts including riding an elephant into the ring and putting her face between the lion's jaws?
...that a historic Water Village built on stilts above a river is home to ten percent of the population of the country of Brunei?
...that a nineteenth century utopian socialist community known as Kaweah Colony identified the world's largest tree now called the General Sherman tree, and named it after Karl Marx?
...that Dawn Steel was the first woman to head a major Hollywood film studio?
...that William Shakespeare was an avid gardener and that modern Shakespeare gardens cultivate dozens of plant species mentioned in his plays?
...that Isabelle Romée was the mother of Joan of Arc and petitioned the Pope before her daughter's conviction for heresy was overturned?
...the Siege of Compiègne was Joan of Arc's final military action?
... that the spangenhelm was the most popular war helmet in Europe and the Middle East during the early Middle Ages?
...that most knights of the Middle Ages wore chausses as leg protection?
...that the aunt of poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning posed for a famous portrait by Thomas Lawrence?
...that bead crochet (pictured) was a popular method of creating women's fashion accessories during the 1920s?
...that apparel incorporating homemade granny squares was a 1970s fashion fad?
...that unmatched dye lots can frustrate weeks of labor for a knitter or crocheter?
...that handmade lace often begins as crochet thread?
...that stitch markers are mnemonic devices that demonstrate the underlying mathematical basis of crochet?
...that a hook gauge detects irregularities in manufacturer sizing of crochet hooks and knitting needles?
...that Navajo rugs sold for $50 in gold as early as 1850?
...that smocking is an embroidery technique that mimics the effects of elastic?
...that a shell stitch is a crochet motif often used for decorative borders?
...that the Felbrigge Psalter is the oldest embroidered bookbinding in England?
...that The Miroir or Glasse of the Synneful Soul was a manuscript translated, scribed, and embroidered for queen Katherine Parr by future queen Elizabeth I when the latter was eleven years old?
...that butterfly motifs in the textiles of Oaxaca reflect pre-Christian spiritual beliefs among the Mazatec people?
...that 39% of Israeli schoolchildren watch the educational television program Bli Sodot in their classroom?
...that Kloster Wienhausen, a medieval convent in Germany, has the world's oldest surviving example of rivet eyeglasses?
... that Shnaim Ohazin was an Israeli Educational Television show that taught basic concepts from the Talmud with fictionalized time travel segments?
... that the New York Times wrote that W. S. Gilbert's play Creatures of Impulse was a "burletta of the stamp that was in vogue a hundred years ago, resembling Midas"?

Articles I nominated for DYK but didn't write:

Casu marzu - the infamous maggot cheese from Sardinia, ran April Fool's Day 2006.[1]
Short draw (spinning) - thanks to the hard work of Loggie, ran 29 February 2008.[2]

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