Template:Did you know nominations/Isaac Stearns

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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 07:16, 8 February 2016 (UTC)

Isaac Stearns

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• ... that Isaac Stearns was selected to plan the first bridge over the Charles River?

• ALT1:... that every attempt to trace the Stearns lineage in the United States has led back to Isaac Stearns or his brothers or nephews?
• ALT2:... that Isaac Stearns was among the original settlers of the Massachusetts Bay Colony?
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Created by Kirk Leonard (talk). Nominated by ONUnicorn (talk) at 21:16, 22 January 2016 (UTC).

• New enough, long enough, meets core content policies. Hooks cited to RS (I made ALT1 conform with source and made ALT2 more instinct). Strongly prefer original hook or
  

ALT3: ... that Richard Nixon and T.S. Elliot are both descended from Isaac Stearns? --Jakob (talk) aka Jakec 16:35, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

• New reviewer needed for ALT3. Yoninah (talk) 23:35, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

• Review I prefer ALT 3. ALT3 appears in the article and is cited in line to two books. I do not have access to the books, but I AGF 7&6=thirteen (☎) 18:40, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

• Good To Go - ALT3 has been verified in Google Books for BOTH Nixon and Eliot. ALT3 is an outstanding hook, that grabbed my attention. --Doug Coldwell (talk) 22:08, 1 February 2016 (UTC)