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DYK queue status There are currently 7 filled queues – all good! v t e Earliest time for next DYK update: 00:00, 23 January 2025 (UTC) Current time: 20:13, 22 January 2025 (UTC) Update frequency: once every 24 hours Last updated: 20 hours ago( verify reset purge )

NOTE: Because a preponderance of hooks on the suggestions page are biographies or are U.S. related, it is usually appropriate to have several hooks on biographies or U.S. topics in any given update, but never more than half of either. Further information is available at WP:DYKSG#J. Thanks.

Tips on assembling sets are at Misplaced Pages:Did you know/Preparation areas.

Hooks

• ... that in 1951, Prime Minister of Iran Haj Ali Razmara was shot dead by a religious fanatic while attending a memorial service at Tehran's Shah Mosque (pictured)?
• ... that retired Kingdom of Hawaii Attorney General Antone Rosa and former Interior Minister John F. Colburn were detained for driving a carriage into a fish market?
• ... that the Christian song "Give Thanks With a Grateful Heart" was credited as unknown authorship when first released on Give Thanks in 1986, despite being written by Henry Smith in 1978?
• ... that Michael Lane, who served as Chief Engineer of the Great Western Railway, started out as a bricklayer but became one of Isambard Kingdom Brunel's most trusted assistants?
• ... that when its cheek pouches are full, the lesser spot-nosed monkey's throat resembles a snowball?
• ... that Dave Somers, the current executive of Snohomish County, Washington, was educated as a fisheries biologist?
• ... that there was no marker for the grave of theologian Theodorus Jacobus Frelinghuysen at Elm Ridge Cemetery for more than a century after his burial?
• ... that Steve Cooke and Beth Webster are the newest Eggheads?

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Credits

•   Shah Mosque (Tehran) – AlmaBeta (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
•   Antone Rosa – Maile66 (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
•   Antone Rosa – KAVEBEAR (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
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•   Elm Ridge Cemetery, North Brunswick – MB (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
•   Dave Somers – SounderBruce (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
•   Lesser spot-nosed monkey – Cwmhiraeth (give) (tag) – View nom subpage
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Credit templates

You can also give out credits using the following templates:

• Article talk page: ({{DYK talk}}) {{DYK talk|22 January|2025}} (check if small style templates in use, if so add |small=yes parm)
• Article creator/expander's talk page: ({{UpdatedDYK}}) {{subst:UpdatedDYK|22 January|2025|Article name}}--~~~~
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• Notify contributor about addition to a Portal: (can be modified for more than one portal) – ({{UpdatedDYKportal}}) {{subst:UpdatedDYKportal|Article name|Portal:Portal name}}--~~~~

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Images

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Posting the new update

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4. Reset the DYK time.
5. Increment the next queue count.
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7. Check if the previous picture/file was temporarily uploaded from Commons for display on the Main Page, and delete it from En if so.
8. If you have time, please do the credits for the hooks just promoted (see "Credits" section above).
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