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Did you know nomination
[edit]- The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was: promoted by AirshipJungleman29 talk 14:06, 25 December 2023 (UTC)
- ... that the Brazilian cruiser Almirante Barroso (pictured) was on a circumnavigation voyage with prince August Leopold on board when the republic was proclaimed in Brazil? Source: "Dom Augusto Leopoldo [...] estava no exercício da mais importante comissão, quiçá de sua carreira, fazendo viagem de circumnavegação a bordo do cruzador auxiliar Almirante Barroso, quando o golpe de estado do marechal Deodoro, a que se seguiu a retirada e logo após o banimento da família imperial, veio abrupta e dolorosamente arrancá-lo à pátria, aos amigos e à gloriosa corporação a que servia". (Dom August Leopold [...] was carrying out the most important commission, perhaps of his career, making a circumnavigation trip aboard the auxiliary cruiser Almirante Barroso, when marshal Deodoro's coup d'état, followed by the withdrawal and soon after the banishment of the imperial family, came abruptly and painfully to tear him away from his homeland, his friends and the glorious institution he served; Lessa, Clado Ribeiro de (1951). "O Segundo Ramo da Casa Imperial e a nossa Marinha de Guerra". Revista do Instituto Historico e Geografico Brasileiro. 211: 129–130. ISSN 0101-4366, p. 125
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- Comment: My first ever nomination.
Created by Torimem (talk). Self-nominated at 23:38, 11 November 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Brazilian cruiser Almirante Barroso (1882); consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.
Length, history and existence of reference verified. Good to go. Daniel Case (talk) 21:51, 13 December 2023 (UTC)
Miles
[edit]There are five distances in the article in miles. It is not clear if these are nautical miles or imperial miles. The context makes them likely to be nautical. We have taken the Portuguese 'velocidade de 12 milhas horárias' from the reference as being 12 knots. The mention of a location being 'approximately 120 miles from Suez' and 'about 30 miles south of the Ras Gharib lighthouse' means there about 90 of these miles between Suez and Ras Gharib. Google maps has that distance as 190 km in a straight line. That would be 100 nmi; 120 mi which also supports them being nautical. If no one objects, I'll clarify the miles as being nautical and include a conversion to km. Cavrdg (talk) 11:25, 4 January 2024 (UTC)
Done. --Cavrdg (talk) 07:38, 9 January 2024 (UTC)