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A fact from Lyceum Theatre (Boston) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 3 June 2024 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Boston's World's Museum was a theatre, an aquarium, a menagerie, and a freak show?

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The result was: promoted by Bruxton talk 02:02, 24 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

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The Martin sisters

... that Boston's World's Museum featured a "hall of curiosities" which displayed humans with biological rarities, among them albino sisters Florence and Mary Martin (pictured)?

Source: "At the World's Museum". The Boston Globe. January 26, 1886. p. 8.

ALT1: ... that Boston's World's Museum was a theatre, an aquarium, a menagerie, and a freak show? Source: "At the World's Museum". The Boston Globe. October 6, 1885. p. 2.
Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Daniela Kerck

Created by 4meter4 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 78 past nominations.

4meter4 (talk) 02:43, 9 May 2024 (UTC).Reply

I'll review this. BeanieFan11 (talk) 23:39, 10 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: - Offline/paywalled citation accepted in good faith Interesting:

Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
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QPQ: Done.

Overall: Looks good. AGF on the offline sources. Either hook works. BeanieFan11 (talk) 02:07, 11 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

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