Wikipedia:Recent additions/2004/February

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• ...that Cranial Electrotherapy Stimulation can be used to treat anxiety, depression, and insomnia?
• ...that the friction coefficient is very important in determining the friction between two objects?
• ...that the Cochin Jews have had a settlement in India since the 16th century?
• ...that Clare Boothe Luce's play The Women has been made into a movie twice, and revived on Broadway several times?
• ...that in electrical engineering, a Smith chart is a common way of graphing the amount of a signal reflected by a telephone line?
• ...that the Thue-Morse sequence has applications in number theory, combinatorics, differential geometry and chess?
• ...Belgian artist Henry Van de Velde was one of the leading representatives of the Art Nouveau movement?

• ...that the Wisconsin State Capitol burned nearly to the ground on February 26, 1904?
• ...that there appears to be no localized consciousness in the human brain?
• ...that the Plymouth Council for New England was the joint stock company which organized the Plymouth Colony?

• ...that U.S. President LBJ once battered Canadian Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson over Canada's Vietnam War policy?
• ...that Kao Neaw, a Thai sticky rice dish, is often served with ripe mangos and coconut milk as Kao Neaw Mamuan?

• ...that Raisa Gorbacheva is buried in Novodevichy Cemetery, Moscow's third-most popular tourist destination?
• ...that Len Wein created the Swamp Thing character for DC Comics?
• ...about Swedish neutrality during World War II?
• ...that the endangered golden lion tamarin has a long, but not prehensile, tail?

• ...that the catchphrase "Kowabunga !" was popularized by the NBC program Howdy Doody?
• ...that in 1916, Berlin, Ontario changed its name to Kitchener due to World War I-era anti-German sentiment?
• ...that the U.S. Postal Service's POSTNET uses a checksum to verify zip codes?

• ...that 16 tunnels, many for tube lines, run beneath London's River Thames?
• ...that the Balkan comic opera Ero the Joker was first performed on November 2, 1935?
• ...that the Tokyo Monorail, which travels at speeds of up to 80 kph, was constructed to coincide with the 1964 Summer Olympics?
• ...that jumping plant lice and aphids are considered to be the "primitive" group within the Hemiptera order of true bugs?
• ...that in 1971, Pakistani writer Eqbal Ahmad was indicted on charges of conspiracy to kidnap Henry Kissinger?

• ... that a pencil sharpener "is a device for sharpening a pencil's point by shaving the end of the pencil"? Well, all right, you probably did.