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A fact from Silas D. Alben appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 3 July 2008, and was viewed approximately 1,677 times (disclaimer) (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
In the last revision I edited, I found duplicate named references, i.e. references sharing the same name, but not having the same content. Please check them, as I am not able to fix them automatically :)
"Alben2004" :
{{cite journal
| author = Alben, S.
| coauthors = Shelley, M.; Zhang, J.
| year = 2004
| title = How flexibility induces streamlining in a two-dimensional flow
| journal = Physics of Fluids
| volume = 16
| pages = 1694
| url = http://link.aip.org/link/?PHFLE6/16/1694/1
| accessdate = 2008-06-29
}}
{{cite book
| author = Alben, S.
| year = 2004
| title = Drag reduction by self-similar bending and a transition to forward flight by a symmetry breaking instability
| publisher =
| isbn =
}}