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Hooks

From Wikipedia's newest articles: John L. Stevens سانچہ:*mp... that John L. Stevens (pictured), a former Universalist pastor, helped stage a coup in the Kingdom of Hawai'i to overthrow Queen Lili'uokalani in 1893? سانچہ:*mp... that in Scotland, anybody who tries to prevent a mother from breastfeeding in a legally permitted public place can be fined up to £2,500? سانچہ:*mp... that in 1965, East German politician Albert Norden accused 1,900 politicians and other prominent personalities in West Germany of having worked for the Nazi regime? سانچہ:*mp... that the 1774 Schiehallion experiment to calculate the density of the Earth also made the first use of contour lines to represent height? سانچہ:*mp... that Time magazine predicted "Big Bill" Watson, the first African-American to win the U.S. decathlon championship, would be America's No. 1 hero at the 1940 Olympics which were cancelled due to World War II? سانچہ:*mp... that the specific epithet of the mushroom species Crepidotus versutus is derived from the Latin word meaning "clever"? سانچہ:*mp... that the song "The Red Poppies on Monte Cassino", one of the best-known Polish war songs, was written during the Battle of Monte Cassino in May 1944? سانچہ:*mp... that in 1926, Albert Einstein solved the tea leaf paradox, which states that if the tea in a teacup is stirred, the tea leaves will collect in the middle rather than at the edges?

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Images

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5. If you have time, please do the credits for the hooks just promoted (see "Credits" section above).