User:Timbouctou/DYK
This page contains information about my contributions to Wikipedia's "Did you know" (DYK) section.
DYKs created or expanded
[edit]| Article (DYK date) | DYK views | DYK hook | Image |
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| Tošo Dabac (March 1, 2010) |
631 | ... that Tošo Dabac worked for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in Zagreb as their press officer for Southeast Europe before becoming internationally renowned for his street photography? | |
| Old City Hall (Zagreb) (March 9, 2010) |
1,200 | ... that the Old City Hall in Zagreb has a plaque which commemorates Nikola Tesla's proposal put forward to the city council in 1892 to build an alternating current power station? | |
| Kallina House Hönigsberg & Deutsch (March 13, 2010) |
1,500 909 |
... that Kallina House, designed by Vjekoslav Bastl for the Hönigsberg & Deutsch studio, is one of the finest examples of Secessionist-style street architecture in Zagreb? | |
| 1 Ilica Street (March 16, 2010) |
2,800 | ... that the 1 Ilica Street skyscraper in Zagreb was the first building in Yugoslavia to feature an aluminum facade? | |
| Art Pavilion in Zagreb (March 22, 2010) |
1,600 | ... that the Art Pavilion gallery was originally built for an exhibition in Budapest and then transported to Zagreb, where it was re-built in 1898? | |
| Bogdan Žižić (May 28, 2010) |
931 | ... that Bogdan Žižić is the only film director whose first two feature films both won the Big Golden Arena for Best Film? | |
| Vladimir Pogačić (May 30, 2010) |
903 | ... that director Vladimir Pogačić's 1951 film The Last Day is considered the first Yugoslav spy film? | |
| Prvić (Krk) (June 16, 2010) |
1,200 | ... that Prvić near Krk is the windiest Croatian island in the Adriatic Sea? | |
| Veliki Brijun (June 25, 2010) |
2,000 | ... that Europe's largest golf course was built on the island of Veliki Brijun in the early 1910s? | |
| Pula Cathedral (July 19, 2010) |
1,300 | ... that in 1675 bones of five Christian saints and one Hungarian monarch were discovered at the Pula Cathedral in Croatia? | |
| Stade Grimonprez-Jooris (August 9, 2010) |
1,300 | ... that the last goal at the Stade Grimonprez-Jooris in Lille was scored in May 2004 by Matt Moussilou, before the stadium closed after serving as Lille OSC's home for almost 30 years? | |
| Yugoslavia national under-20 football team (August 12, 2010) |
1,500 | ... that the defunct Yugoslavia national under-20 football team still hold the FIFA U-20 World Cup scoring record they set in 1987 with an average of 2.44 goals per game? | |
| Stojan Osojnak (August 17, 2010) |
814 | ... that Croatian footballer Stojan Osojnak played for Dinamo Zagreb in the club's first-ever match, a friendly against the Yugoslav Air Force team in June 1945? | |
| Stadion Koturaška (August 28, 2010) |
841 | ... that the very first athletics track in Zagreb was built around the football pitch at Stadion Koturaška in 1907? | |
| Croatian Tales of Long Ago (October 21, 2010) |
2,900 | ... that the original publishers of The Lord of the Rings also released the Slavic mythology-based short story collection Croatian Tales of Long Ago by Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić 30 years earlier? | |
| Libertas (film) (November 8, 2010) |
717 | ... that Libertas, a biographical film about the Croatian Renaissance playwright Marin Držić, was approved for funding in 1992, but was not finished until 2006? | |
| Stradun (street) (November 10, 2010) |
4,200 | ... that Dubrovnik's historic main street Stradun (pictured) was the site of a tennis match played in July 2010 by Goran Ivanišević and John McEnroe? | 
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| Branko Gavella (November 10, 2010) |
653 | ... that theatre director and critic Branko Gavella refereed the opening match of the first Croatian association football championship in 1912? | |
| Adriatic Croatia International Club (November 17, 2010) |
852 | ... that ACI Club is the single largest marina chain in the Mediterranean? | |
| Academy of Dramatic Art, University of Zagreb (November 25, 2010) |
789 | ... that the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb celebrates its holiday on 3 May, in memory of the 1995 rocket attack in which its building was hit, killing a student? | |
| Mateo Kovačić (November 27, 2010) |
1,100 | ... that Dinamo Zagreb footballer Mateo Kovačić became the youngest ever goalscorer in the Prva HNL in November 2010 at the age of 16 years and 198 days? | |
| Croatian National Theatre in Split (May 24, 2011) |
936 | ... that the Croatian National Theatre in Split was the biggest theatre in Southeast Europe at the time of its completion in 1893, even though there were no professional actors in the city of Split yet? | |
| List of Slovenia international footballers (12 June 2011) |
140 | ... that the retired association football player Zlatko Zahovič is the all-time top scorer for the Slovenia team? | |
| Iztok Puc (9 November 2011) |
1,700 | ... that Iztok Puc is the only handball player to have represented three different countries at the Summer Olympics: Yugoslavia, Croatia and Slovenia? | |
| Giovanni Cernogoraz (18 August 2012) |
866 | ... that Croatian sports shooter Giovanni Cernogoraz, gold medalist in men's trap at the 2012 Olympics, works full time as a waiter at his father's restaurant in Novigrad? | |
| Paškal Jukić (2 November 2014) |
347 | ... that in 1806 Franciscan friar Paškal Jukić was an editor of Il Regio Dalmata – Kraglski Dalmatin, the first Croatian-language newspaper? |