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Norma (constellation) |
2015-07-12 |
|
3,267 |
14,001.4 |
... that the
constellation
Norma depicts a
set square and/or
ruler?
|
Eleanor Butler |
2015-07-02 |
|
22,181 |
2,028.8 |
... that in 1681,
a white woman married an African slave in colonial Maryland, even though she knew that doing so would condemn her to a life of slavery?
|
Cooling Castle |
2015-07-24 |
|
15,679 |
1,581.1 |
... that
Cooling Castle was the first castle in England to be designed for the use of gunpowder weapons?
|
Katrina Kaif |
2015-07-03 |
|
17,218
[a] |
1,505.9 |
... that the British magazine
Eastern Eye named
Katrina Kaif the "Sexiest Asian Woman" from 2008 to 2010 and again in 2013?
|
French submarine Mariotte |
2015-07-21 |
[[File:Lychee and Dog Meat Festival,316,408,11278,... that according to the philosopher
Julian Baggini, "
Vegans are the only group who can oppose China's
Yulin Dog Meat Festival (typical dish pictured) without any fear of hypocrisy"?|100x100px]] |
15,679 |
1,404.1 |
... that the
French submarine Mariotte was nicknamed the "toothbrush" on account of her unusual hull configuration?
|
Grain Tower |
2015-07-31 |
|
19,767 |
1,371.1 |
... that the
Grain Tower (pictured), the last
Martello-style gun tower to be built in Britain, was designed to protect the mouth of the
River Medway?
|
USS Colorado (BB-45) |
2015-07-23 |
|
15,372 |
1,308.3 |
... that
USS Colorado (BB-45) survived two
kamikaze hits during the
Battle of Leyte Gulf?
|
Wendiceratops
|
2015-07-31
|
|
6,622
|
597.5
|
... that the dinosaur
Wendiceratops (illustration pictured) was named for fossil hunter
Wendy Sloboda, who then had it tattooed on her arm in celebration?
|
Wendy Sloboda
|
7,297
|
658.4
|
Total |
13,919 |
1,255.8
|
Ali Wallace
|
2015-07-31
|
|
6,816
|
615.0
|
... that
Ali Wallace,
Miss Oregon 2015, is the daughter of
Tamara Fazzolari, Miss Oregon 1987?
|
Tamara Fazzolari
|
4,640
|
418.6
|
Total |
11,456 |
1,033.6
|
Name changes due to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant |
2015-07-28 |
|
10,984 |
962.1 |
... that
until recently, ISIS would give you a manicure in New York?
|
Rarig Center |
2015-07-30 |
|
10,515 |
934.7 |
... that "you half expect to find the leaders of the
Evil Empire ... plotting the demise of
Luke Skywalker" in the
Rarig Center?
|
Maluti temples |
2015-07-25 |
|
9,576 |
919.3 |
... that the
Maluti temples have been declared one of the world's twelve most endangered cultural heritage sites by the
Global Heritage Fund?
|
Little Annie Fanny |
2015-07-15 |
|
10,046 |
867.3 |
... that
Playboy magazine's lavishly designed and illustrated
Little Annie Fanny (1962–1988) began as a male character?
|
Staten Island Tunnel |
2015-07-29 |
|
10,125 |
861.7 |
... that at 10,400 feet (3,200 m), the
Staten Island Tunnel would have been the world's longest tunnel, but it was abandoned after only 150 feet (46 m) of it had been built?
|
Mathilde Wurm |
2015-07-29 |
|
9,502 |
808.7 |
... that although
Mathilde Wurm's death was ruled a suicide, some believed she was killed by the
Gestapo?
|
Keturah |
2015-07-23 |
[[File:Castle of Zafra (Guadalajara),91,381,14255,... that the
Castle of Zafra in Spain (pictured) is a filming location for the next season of
Game of Thrones? |100x100px]] |
9,451 |
787.6 |
... that
Keturah, the woman
Abraham married after the death of
Sarah, has been called "the most ignored significant person" in the
Hebrew Bible?
|
Battle of Kursk |
2015-07-24 |
[[File:NASA space-flown Robbins medallions of the Apollo missions,46,93,9241,... that every
manned
NASA
spaceflight since
Apollo 7 has carried commemorative
Robbins medallions?|100x100px]] |
8,929 |
759.9 |
... that on 5 July 1943,
Nazi Germany launched its final major offensive against the
Soviet Union in the
Battle of Kursk?
|
Port of Bissau
|
2015-07-08
|
[[File:Bissau Cathedral,13,11,3614,... that one of the towers of
Bissau Cathedral (pictured) is used as a
lighthouse to guide ships to the
Port of Bissau?|100x100px]]
|
2,806
|
220.1
|
... that one of the towers of
Bissau Cathedral (pictured) is used as a
lighthouse to guide ships to the
Port of Bissau?
|
Dixi Crosby
|
6,523
|
511.6
|
Total |
9,329 |
731.7
|
Maputeoa
|
2015-07-27
|
|
4,477
|
381.0
|
... that
Maputeoa's tomb lies in a chapel behind
St. Michael's Cathedral in
Rikitea,
Gambier Islands?
|
St. Michael's Cathedral, Rikitea
|
1,470
|
125.1
|
Rikitea
|
2,620
|
223.0
|
Total |
8,567 |
729.1
|
Cyanea nozaki
|
2015-07-28
|
|
5,831
|
496.3
|
... that the
ghost jellyfish may have a
goose barnacle hanging from its bell and little fish swimming among its
tentacles?
|
Alepas pacifica
|
2,519
|
214.4
|
Total |
8,350 |
710.6
|
Lake Rose (Pennsylvania) |
2015-07-14 |
|
8,403 |
700.3 |
... that Pennsylvania's
Lake Rose was built by a
squatter?
|
Wolfenstein: The New Order |
2015-07-21 |
|
7,655 |
685.5 |
... that all
Nazi symbols and references were removed for the German release of
Wolfenstein: The New Order?
|
Anna Plochl |
2015-07-10 |
|
8,330 |
680.0 |
... that
Archduke John of Austria met his wife, the future
Countess von Meran, while she was posing as a boy?
|
Carl Thompson (heavy person) |
2015-07-30 |
|
7,544 |
670.6 |
... that
Carl Thompson, Britain's heaviest man, gained 30 stone (190 kg; 420 lb) over the last three years of his life?
|
Reg Pollard (general) |
2015-07-28 |
|
7,798 |
663.7 |
... that when
Lieutenant (later
Lieutenant General Sir)
Reg Pollard got married, his wife cut the cake with the Sword of Honour he had been awarded at the
Royal Military College, Duntroon?
|
Shaker tilting chair |
2015-07-03 |
[[File:Per Holknekt,24,66,1744,... that Swedish fashion designer
Per Holknekt (pictured) placed second in the first
Swedish Big Brother season before starting the clothing company
Odd Molly?|100x100px]] |
7,712 |
656.3 |
... that the
Shaker tilting chair lets its occupant lean back without the chair slipping and scraping the floor?
|
Frans Goedhart |
2015-07-30 |
|
7,674 |
653.1 |
... that Dutch journalist
Frans Goedhart (pictured) illegally founded a newsletter during World War II, was sentenced to death, escaped, and served in the
House of Representatives for 25 years?
|
Sarah Kyolaba |
2015-07-05 |
|
7,683 |
648.4 |
... that
Suicide Sarah was
Idi Amin's favourite wife?
|
Kevin Wheatcroft |
2015-07-04 |
|
7,618 |
648.3 |
... that
the owner of the world's largest collection of Nazi memorabilia sleeps in
Hitler's bed, but has "changed the mattress"?
|
Zenobia (bird) |
2015-07-17 |
[[File:John D. Voelker,31,25,5392,... that
John D. Voelker (pictured) wanted to be appointed to the
Michigan Supreme Court because he "needed the money", but he resigned two years later to be an author instead?|100x100px]] |
7,701 |
641.8 |
... that the whereabouts of
the last northern bald ibis who knows the birds' migratory route are unknown, and without her, the species may face extinction in the wild in Syria?
|
Schmerber v. California |
2015-07-09 |
|
6,843 |
626.8 |
... that some scholars fear the
United States Supreme Court's ruling in
Schmerber v. California will one day be used to justify the involuntary
mind reading of criminal suspects?
|
Rachel Green |
2015-08-01 |
|
5,492 |
615.9 |
... that the "Rachel", worn by and named after
Jennifer Aniston's character on Friends, became one of the most popular hairstyles?
|
Victoria Price |
2015-07-08 |
|
7,737 |
606.8 |
... that
Victoria Price, the daughter of horror icon
Vincent Price, is not a fan of horror films?
|
Mother's Mercy |
2015-07-01 |
|
6,830 |
581.3 |
... that the
Game of Thrones episode "
Mother's Mercy" contains unpublished material from the novel
The Winds of Winter?
|
Danielle Wineman |
2015-07-28 |
|
6,796 |
578.4 |
... that
Danielle Wineman,
Miss Montana 2015, is the older sister of
Alexis Wineman, Miss Montana 2012?
|
German Sterligov |
2015-07-24 |
|
5,479 |
552.5 |
... that Russian billionaire
German Sterligov sold most of his assets and now lives in the
Nagorno-Karabakh Republic?
|
William Troy (abolitionist) |
2015-07-16 |
|
6,540 |
545.0 |
... that the Reverend
William Troy left
Virginia after he found that the local pastor was selling members of his own congregation?
|
Massey Ferguson 35 |
2015-07-15 |
|
6,425 |
543.0 |
... that the original version of the
Massey Ferguson 35 released in the UK was known as the "Gold Belly" due to its distinctive colour scheme?
|
Micro Bit |
2015-07-22 |
|
6,221 |
533.2 |
... that the
BBC is planning to give away a million new
Micro Bit devices to encourage British schoolchildren to code?
|
Ophiactis savignyi |
2015-07-25 |
|
5,515 |
529.4 |
... that there are many more male than female
little brittle stars, probably because the males
fragment more frequently?
|
Having Fun with Elvis on Stage |
2015-07-25 |
|
5,424 |
520.7 |
... that
Elvis Presley released a
concert album that contains no music at all?
|
Wim van Norden |
2015-07-08 |
[[File:Toilet service,15,12,8463,... that a
toilet service (pictured), containing as many as 48 pieces in silver or
silver-gilt for the dressing-table, was a wedding present for rich women from the 17th century onwards?|100x100px]] |
5,926 |
519.1 |
... that
Dutch World War II resistance member
Wim van Norden never made a conscious decision to join the resistance?
|
Suicide of Chen Gang |
2015-07-16 |
[[File:Dactylotrochus,2,2,1959,... that the deep sea, solitary
Dactylotrochus cervicornis (pictured) is now included in a family of otherwise shallow-water,
colonial corals? |100x100px]] |
6,080 |
506.7 |
... that a 34-year-old university lecturer in China
committed suicide on campus after learning he had lost out to a rival for the position of
Communist Youth League leader?
|
Curtis Culwell Center attack |
2015-07-08 |
|
5,512 |
482.8 |
... that after the
attack at the
Curtis Culwell Center in
Garland, Texas, the mother of one of the gunmen said her son had been brainwashed and she did not blame the police for killing him during the event?
|
William M. Mitchell |
2015-08-01 |
|
4,293 |
481.5 |
... that
William M. Mitchell is believed to be the only writer to document the
Underground Railroad while it was still illegal?
|
Gangsta. |
2015-07-31 |
|
5,286
[b] |
476.9 |
... that a reviewer commented that the name of
Gangsta.'s fictional location "sounds like some sort of stomach disorder"?
|
São José Paquete Africa |
2015-07-03 |
|
5,397 |
472.0 |
... that the wreck of the
São José Paquete Africa is the first shipwreck ever discovered of a working slave ship, lost while in transit with its human cargo?
|
Star Trek Beyond |
2015-07-20 |
|
5,547
[c] |
462.3 |
... that after
Roberto Orci exited the movie
Star Trek Beyond,
Edgar Wright was rumoured to direct it, but
Justin Lin got the job?
|
Goon: Last of the Enforcers |
2015-07-30 |
|
5,167 |
459.3 |
... that
Goon: Last of the Enforcers is the directorial debut by
Jay Baruchel?
|
Declaration of the Four Nations |
2015-08-01 |
|
4,070 |
456.4 |
... that the
Declaration of the Four Nations in 1943 established the
four-power framework that would influence the international order of the world
after World War II?
|
Fortifications on the Caribbean Side of Panama: Portobelo-San Lorenzo |
2015-07-03 |
|
5,170 |
452.2 |
... that the
fortifications of Portobelo-San Lorenzo, at one time the "most heavily fortified Spanish coastal control point in the
Americas", are a
World Heritage in Danger site?
|
Paterson Clarence Hughes |
2015-07-16 |
[[File:Difluorophosphate,2,5,1979,... that compounds of the
difluorophosphate ion (model pictured) resemble
perchlorates? |100x100px]] |
5,422 |
451.8 |
... that Australia's leading
Battle of Britain
ace,
Pat Hughes, is thought to have died after his
Spitfire collided with debris from a German bomber he intercepted?
|
Ramagiri Fort |
2015-07-29 |
|
5,303 |
451.3 |
... that it is believed that
Ramagiri Fort (pictured) inspired the
Sanskrit poet
Kālidāsa to write his lyric poem,
Meghadūta?
|
April Nelson |
2015-07-11 |
|
330 |
450.0 |
... that
Miss Louisiana 2015
April Nelson works part-time as a "princess for hire"?
|
Fort Binġemma |
2015-07-10 |
|
551 |
446.8 |
... that
Fort Binġemma in
Malta has been illegally occupied since 2009?
|
Nkandla compound firepool controversy |
2015-07-26 |
|
5,090 |
433.2 |
... that a
controversial pool, built at South African president Jacob Zuma's
Nkandla compound and deemed as a "fire pool", has faced "public condemnation"?
|
Day for night |
2015-07-23 |
|
5,146 |
428.8 |
... that the night scenes in the film
Mad Max: Fury Road were filmed
during the day?
|
Hexagenia bilineata |
2015-07-24 |
|
4,252 |
428.8 |
... that on this evening a year ago, the swarm of
mayflies near
La Crosse, Wisconsin was so vast that it could be detected on
weather radar?
|
Wingen-sur-Moder
|
2015-07-14
|
|
1,676
|
139.7
|
... that
Wingen-sur-Moder is home to the only
Lalique glass production facility?
|
Lalique
|
3,432
|
286.0
|
Total |
5,108 |
425.7
|
Rocket League |
2015-07-07 |
|
4,991
[d] |
424.8 |
... that the sequel to the
Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars video game is simply called
Rocket League, an easier to remember title?
|
New Synagogue, Žilina |
2015-07-31 |
|
4,687 |
422.9 |
... that the architect of "
the last synagogue in Slovakia" later worked on
Hitler's plans for redesigning
Berlin?
|
Dark Angel (TV series) |
2015-07-24 |
|
4,833 |
411.3 |
... that
Jessica Alba spent a year training in martial arts, gymnastics and motorcycle riding for her lead role in the series
Dark Angel?
|
Ethel Bellamy |
2015-07-27 |
|
4,468 |
409.3 |
... that
an English computer was awarded a silver medal by the Vatican?
|
Bitch I'm Madonna |
2015-07-27 |
|
4,711
[e] |
400.9 |
... that the music video for "
Bitch I'm Madonna" features
Beyoncé making a "
Vogue" pose and
Miley Cyrus giving
the finger?
|
Sexxx Dreams |
2015-07-31 |
|
4,426 |
399.3 |
... that
Lady Gaga was inspired to write "
Sexxx Dreams" from her "mucky" fantasies?
|
Empire of Thessalonica |
2015-07-30 |
|
4,450 |
395.6 |
... that the bid of the
Empire of Thessalonica to recover Constantinople and re-establish the
Byzantine Empire failed when it was defeated by the
Bulgarians at the
Battle of Klokotnitsa?
|
Mhairi Black |
2015-07-02 |
[[File:Coffee production in Guadeloupe,0,25,1625,... that
Guadeloupe's coffee heritage (coffee field pictured) is being promoted through
ecotourism?|100x100px]] |
4,618 |
393.0 |
... that
Mhairi Black is the youngest elected
British Member of Parliament since at least 1832?
|
Hermitage cats |
2015-07-17 |
|
4,529 |
385.4 |
... that
cats have lived at the Hermitage Museum in
Saint Petersburg almost continuously since the 18th century?
|
Lola (song) |
2015-07-31 |
|
5,530 |
383.6 |
... that Ray Davies was forced to make a round-trip flight from New York to London to rerecord two words in "
Lola"?
|
Benjamin Loxley |
2015-07-26 |
|
4,429 |
376.9 |
... that it was
Benjamin Loxley's house key that was used by
Benjamin Franklin for his
kite experiment to attract lightning?
|
Charlie Charlie Challenge |
2015-07-27 |
|
4,414
[f] |
375.7 |
... that the
Charlie Charlie Challenge is a "killer case study in virality"?
|
Self-Portrait with Halo and Snake |
2015-07-28 |
|
4,278 |
374.7 |
... that Paul Gauguin's
Self-Portrait with Halo and Snake is a companion piece to his portrait of Dutch artist
Meijer de Haan?
|
Murder of Ramona Moore |
2015-07-15 |
|
4,416 |
373.2 |
... that a
New York City police detective likened the way evidence was developed in the
Ramona Moore murder case to the
Alfred Hitchcock film
Rear Window?
|
Unity (Star Trek: Voyager) |
2015-07-07 |
|
4,356 |
370.7 |
... that the writer of the
Star Trek: Voyager episode "
Unity" based the episode on the destruction of the
Tower of Babel?
|
FernGully: The Last Rainforest |
2015-07-17 |
|
4,339 |
369.3 |
... that allegations have been made that the 2009 film
Avatar plagiarised the 1992 film
FernGully: The Last Rainforest?
|
Powderly Creek |
2015-07-28 |
|
4,331 |
368.6 |
... that in the early 1970s, a flooded strip pit near
Powderly Creek made national news when a UFO supposedly crashed into it?
|
Peg Plunkett |
2015-07-25 |
|
4,329 |
368.4 |
... that
Peg Plunkett, brothel keeper, had the leader of the Pinking Dindies gang sent to jail after she lost her baby?
|
For Honor |
2015-07-08 |
|
4,149 |
363.4 |
... that
For Honor, a
hack and slash game, was called "a shooter with swords" by its creative director?
|
Duke Xuan of Chen |
2015-07-01 |
|
4,262 |
362.7 |
... that after his favourite concubine gave birth to a son,
Duke Xuan of Chen killed
the crown prince and made
the newborn his heir apparent?
|
Two Together Railcard |
2015-07-30 |
|
4,256 |
362.2 |
... that over 215,000
Two Together Railcards were sold within a year of the card being launched?
|
The Combat: Woman Pleading for the Vanquished |
2015-07-13 |
|
4,328 |
360.7 |
... that the right foot of the female figure in
The Combat: Woman Pleading for the Vanquished "seems actually to glow with the rich juice of life"?
|
Kakatiya Kala Thoranam
|
2015-07-15
|
[[File:Warangal Fort,33,29,3903,... that the
Warangal Fort of the
Kakatiya Dynasty has four ornamental gates known as
Kakatiya Kala Thoranam (pictured), which form the official
Emblem of Telangana?|100x100px]]
|
2,124
|
179.5
|
... that the
Warangal Fort of the
Kakatiya Dynasty has four ornamental gates known as
Kakatiya Kala Thoranam (pictured), which form the official
Emblem of Telangana?
|
Clint Grant
|
2,112
|
178.5
|
Total |
4,236 |
358.0
|
The Last of Us: American Dreams |
2015-07-15 |
|
4,132 |
356.7 |
... that the
Mortal Kombat series inspired a character in
The Last of Us: American Dreams?
|
Tan Khoen Swie |
2015-07-23 |
|
4,186 |
356.3 |
... that the
hippie-like hair of
Chinese Indonesian publisher
Tan Khoen Swie has been described as a form of anti-colonial resistance?
|
Falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus |
2015-07-25 |
|
4,185 |
356.2 |
... that during the
O.J. Simpson murder trial, judge
Lance Ito
applied a legal rule that has been described as a "discredited doctrine"?
|
James Franck |
2015-07-06 |
[[File:Youth on the Prow, and Pleasure at the Helm,141,89,7679,... that the exhibition of
Youth on the Prow, and Pleasure at the Helm (detail pictured) prompted the comment that "no decent family can hang such sights against their wall"?|100x100px]] |
4,262 |
355.2 |
... that during World War II,
James Franck's gold Nobel Prize medal was dissolved in
aqua regia and stored in a bottle on a shelf to prevent it from falling into German hands?
|
Kythira Strait |
2015-07-19 |
|
4,257 |
354.8 |
... that the
Kythira Strait is one of the most dangerous navigational hazards in the Mediterranean?
|
Polygala nana |
2015-07-28 |
|
3,958 |
346.7 |
... that
candyroot tastes like
licorice?
|
Mihai Codreanu |
2015-07-06 |
|
4,068 |
346.2 |
... that the visually impaired
Romanian poet
Mihai Codreanu walked with a cane that concealed a blade of
Toledo steel, which he used to ward off jealous husbands?
|
Long Live the Royals |
2015-07-07 |
|
3,689 |
337.9 |
... that the
9-minute pilot for
Long Live the Royals won its creator a
Primetime Emmy Award and earned the show an order from
Cartoon Network?
|
The Powerpuff Girls (2016 TV series) |
2015-07-04 |
|
3,744 |
337.3 |
... that
Tara Strong described the recasting of her character in the upcoming
Powerpuff Girls reboot as "a stab in the heart"?
|
Yoruba tribal marks |
2015-07-07 |
[[File:Voyager 1,2235,3011,15111,... that
Voyager 1 (artist's impression pictured) is expected to reach the
Oort cloud in around 300 years?|100x100px]] |
3,676 |
336.7 |
... that the main purpose of the
tribal marks on the face or body of the
Yoruba people is for identification of a person's tribe or family?
|
Crested quetzal |
2015-07-29 |
|
3,598 |
334.7 |
... that the normally
frugivorous
crested quetzal (pictured) can catch small vertebrates while raising its young?
|
Rhopilema esculentum |
2015-07-08 |
|
3,803 |
333.1 |
... that the jellyfish
Rhopilema esculentum can be eaten raw as a salad and has a crisp texture?
|
Corbett's electrostatic machine |
2015-07-23 |
|
3,982 |
331.8 |
... that the electrical principles of an
electrostatic machine invented by a Shaker doctor in 1810 for medical treatment were later used by
Thomas Edison?
|
Jane Wigham
|
2015-07-20
|
[[File:Eliza Wigham,5,14,786,... that
Edinburgh's "forgotten heroines",
Eliza Wigham,
Jane Smeal,
Priscilla Bright McLaren, and
Elizabeth Pease, were associated with the
Edinburgh Ladies' Emancipation Society (logo pictured)? |100x100px]]
|
596
|
49.7
|
... that
Edinburgh's "forgotten heroines",
Eliza Wigham,
Jane Smeal,
Priscilla Bright McLaren, and
Elizabeth Pease, were associated with the
Edinburgh Ladies' Emancipation Society (logo pictured)?
|
Priscilla Bright McLaren
|
579
|
48.3
|
Edinburgh Ladies' Emancipation Society
|
1,512
|
126.0
|
Zourafa
|
1,287
|
107.3
|
Total |
3,974 |
331.2
|
Ilorin Sallah stampede |
2015-08-01 |
|
2,950 |
330.8 |
... that the fatal
Ilorin Sallah stampede occurred at the residence of the incumbent
President of the Senate of Nigeria?
|
Microlophus albemarlensis
|
2015-07-06
|
[[File:Robert C. Stebbins,18,39,1828,... that biologist
Robert C. Stebbins once dosed
Galápagos lava lizards (pictured) with
radiation and tracked them with a
Geiger counter?|100x100px]]
|
2,484
|
211.4
|
... that biologist
Robert C. Stebbins once dosed
Galápagos lava lizards (pictured) with
radiation and tracked them with a
Geiger counter?
|
Mount Harriet National Park
|
1,402
|
119.3
|
Total |
3,886 |
330.7
|
Emily C. Gorman |
2015-07-18 |
|
3,859 |
328.4 |
... that
Emily C. Gorman increased enlistment in the
American military in the 1960s by allowing female soldiers to live in private, lockable barracks they could personalize and decorate with items from home?
|
De Stratemakeropzeeshow |
2015-07-07 |
|
3,566 |
326.7 |
... that the 1970s Dutch children's TV show
De Stratemakeropzeeshow was criticized for its "Poop and Pee Minuet"?
|
Charles Cabaniss |
2015-07-06 |
|
3,904 |
325.3 |
... that in 1882,
midshipman
Charles Cabaniss was killed by a bullet that ricocheted twice off the deck and once off a gun on the
USS Swatara?
|
Ark: Survival Evolved |
2015-07-08 |
|
4,121
[g] |
323.2 |
... that players can ride on dinosaurs in
Ark: Survival Evolved?
|
Eliza Meek |
2015-07-14 |
|
3,772 |
321.0 |
... that
Eliza Meek, the part-
Hawaiian daughter of Captain John Meek, was the
mistress of the bachelor King
Lunalilo?
|
Double Six Crash |
2015-07-27 |
|
3,765 |
320.4 |
... that the aircraft disaster
Double Six Crash killed a total of five cabinet ministers in the Malaysian state of
Sabah in 1976?
|
List of Star Trek: Enterprise cast members |
2015-07-29 |
|
3,375 |
314.0 |
... that
Vaughn Armstrong's role as Maxwell Forrest in the
Star Trek: Enterprise cast was one of thirteen characters he played in the
Star Trek franchise?
|
Kelley Johnson |
2015-07-02 |
|
3,688 |
313.9 |
... that
Kelley Johnson won the
Miss Colorado 2015 pageant with a
monologue inspired by her experiences as a nurse?
|
John Doukas Angelos Palaiologos Raoul Laskaris Tornikes Philanthropenos Asen |
2015-07-11 |
|
229 |
312.3 |
... that the unusual name of Byzantine noble child
John Doukas Angelos Palaiologos Raoul Laskaris Tornikes Philanthropenos Asen has been described as "less an instrument of identification than a manifesto of social association"?
|
Igogo festival |
2015-07-29 |
|
3,336 |
310.3 |
... that the
Igogo festival has been active for over 400 years?
|
John S. Middleton |
2015-07-08 |
|
3,535 |
309.6 |
... that
John S. Middleton sold his
family cigar business to
Altria for US$2.9 billion?
|
Nipple tattoo |
2015-07-16 |
|
3,694 |
307.8 |
... that since 2011, the
Royal Derby Hospital has offered
nipple tattoos to breast surgery patients?
|
Mary Katherine Fechtel |
2015-07-13 |
|
3,684 |
307.0 |
... that
Miss Florida 2015,
Mary Katherine Fechtel, won her first
pageant title, Junior Miss Leesburg 2007, at age 12?
|
Billy Geen |
2015-08-01 |
|
2,706 |
303.5 |
... that
Billy Geen, who was
killed in action on 31 July 1915, played
rugby for Wales,
Newport and
Oxford, and dropped the ball over the
try line in three consecutive
Varsity Matches?
|
Kelayres massacre |
2015-07-26 |
|
3,137 |
301.2 |
... that in 1934, participants in a political rally in
Kelayres, Pennsylvania,
were gunned down as they marched past the house of the local opposition party boss?
|
Swedish fruit soup |
2015-07-04 |
|
3,312 |
298.4 |
... that
Swedish fruit soup is typically served as a
dessert dish?
|
The Inbetweeners 2 |
2015-07-10 |
[[File:Stanisława Leszczyńska,43,39,16152,... that Polish Catholic midwife
Stanisława Leszczyńska (pictured) delivered 3,000 babies at the
Auschwitz concentration camp during
the Holocaust in occupied Poland?|100x100px]] |
3,646 |
297.6 |
... that the director of the Australian-set film
The Inbetweeners 2 considered filming it in South Africa in order to save money?
|
Morgan Jackson |
2015-07-25 |
|
3,482 |
296.3 |
... that
Miss Indiana 2015
Morgan Jackson is the daughter of Trina Collins,
Miss New Mexico 1984?
|
Géza II of Hungary |
2015-07-07 |
|
3,217 |
294.7 |
... that
Géza II of Hungary was crowned king at the age of eleven?
|
Demirköy Foundry |
2015-07-28 |
|
3,356 |
294.0 |
... that
cannonballs fired during the
conquest of Constantinople in 1453 were manufactured at
Demirköy Foundry, an archaeological site today?
|
Khan al-Sabil |
2015-07-04 |
|
3,229 |
290.9 |
... that the ancient
basalt doors in
Khan al-Sabil are the largest of their kind in the
Aleppo region of
Syria?
|
Première rêverie |
2015-07-16 |
|
3,454 |
287.8 |
... that
William-Adolphe Bouguereau's painting
Première rêverie has been considered one of the top exhibits of the
New Orleans Museum of Art?
|
Bertie Snowball |
2015-07-02 |
|
3,122 |
285.5 |
... that the golfer
Bertie Snowball was a professional in all four
Home Nations before being killed in action during World War I, aged just 28?
|
Austin Nola |
2015-07-25 |
|
2,943 |
282.5 |
... that
Austin Nola's name appears on the front and back of his
baseball uniform?
|
List of awards and nominations received by Leonardo DiCaprio |
2015-07-23 |
|
3,299 |
280.8 |
... that
Leonardo DiCaprio has been nominated for five
Academy Awards, including three as
Best Actor?
|
Dilek Peninsula-Büyük Menderes Delta National Park |
2015-07-25 |
|
3,221 |
274.1 |
... that six of the species native to
Dilek Peninsula-Büyük Menderes Delta National Park are not found anywhere else in the world?
|
Invasion of the Cape Colony (1795)
|
2015-07-20
|
|
1,577
|
131.4
|
... that a year after the successful British
invasion of the Cape Colony in 1795, a Dutch reinforcement convoy was forced to surrender at the
Capitulation of Saldanha Bay?
|
Capitulation of Saldanha Bay
|
1,649
|
137.4
|
Total |
3,226 |
268.8
|
Yao Yuanhao |
2015-07-24 |
|
2,631 |
265.3 |
... that Taiwanese actor
Yao Yuanhao's humorous haircut in the TV series
Big Red Riding Hood was inspired by that of a character in the
Japanese manga
Musashi no Ken?
|
Ooh Wee (Mark Ronson song) |
2015-07-22 |
|
3,092 |
265.0 |
... that the success of
Mark Ronson's "
Ooh Wee" prompted him to return to the UK?
|
Hyōgo-ku, Kobe |
2015-07-24 |
|
2,628 |
265.0 |
... that the capital of
Japan was once in
Hyōgo?
|
Matthew Santoro |
2015-07-19 |
|
3,169 |
264.1 |
... that Canadian
YouTube personality
Matthew Santoro makes more money from posting videos than he did as a full-time accountant?
|
Doncaster Round Barn |
2015-07-27 |
|
2,882 |
264.0 |
... that the
Doncaster Round Barn, named after
an English horse, was the
Montana birthplace of the racehorse
Spokane?
|
Imperium (Kracht novel) |
2015-07-13 |
[[File:Rubroboletus rubrosanguineus,5,3,1622,... that the fruit bodies (mushrooms) of
Rubroboletus rubrosanguineus (pictured) smell like hay?|100x100px]] |
3,152 |
262.7 |
... that
Christian Kracht's novel
Imperium was debated in German newspapers in 2012 when it was accused of signaling a "
racist worldview"?
|
Shelley Cronau |
2015-07-01 |
|
3,048 |
259.4 |
... that
Shelley Cronau, who suffered serious injuries in a fall, joined the Be the Influence advertising campaign to warn others about the dangers of
binge drinking?
|
Omar Allibhoy |
2015-07-08 |
|
3,298 |
258.7 |
... that
Gordon Ramsay once called Spanish chef
Omar Allibhoy the "
Antonio Banderas of cooking"?
|
Taylor Wiebers |
2015-07-05 |
|
2,957 |
254.9 |
... that
Miss Iowa 2015
Taylor Wiebers once
shaved her head to raise money for
pediatric cancer research?
|
Cadena nacional |
2015-07-07 |
[[File:The Wrestlers (painting),52,28,7366,... that the intense lighting of
The Wrestlers (pictured) highlights the curves, musculature, and sweat of the participants' naked bodies as they embrace and grapple?|100x100px]] |
2,993 |
254.7 |
... that President
Rafael Correa ordered Ecuador's television stations to broadcast 233
cadenas nacionales in 2009?
|
Agaricia agaricites
|
2015-07-07
|
|
1,517
|
139.0
|
... that
lettuce coral and
thin leaf lettuce coral can both be considered "weed" corals?
|
Agaricia tenuifolia
|
1,259
|
115.3
|
Total |
2,776 |
254.3
|
Jim Justice |
2015-07-18 |
|
2,987 |
254.2 |
... that billionaire
Jim Justice built a US$30 million training facility for the
New Orleans Saints in
West Virginia?
|
Occupy the Hood |
2015-08-01 |
|
2,265 |
254.0 |
... that a goal of
Occupy the Hood was to encourage more
people of color to participate in
occupy movement activities?
|
Knights of the Forest |
2015-07-26 |
|
2,977 |
253.4 |
... that there was a
19th-century secret society in Minnesota dedicated to eliminating native Americans from the state?
|
Kue gapit |
2015-07-06 |
|
3,039 |
253.3 |
... that the snack
kue gapit is more popular among tourists than local residents of
Cirebon?
|
Theresa Andrews |
2015-07-25 |
|
2,634 |
252.9 |
... that American swimmer
Theresa Andrews gave her first Olympic gold medal to her brother for his courage after he was paralyzed in a car accident?
|
Journey Through the Impossible |
2015-07-07 |
|
2,962 |
252.1 |
... that
Jules Verne's play
Journey Through the Impossible, featuring
Captain Nemo and other heroes from Verne's novels, was presumed
lost until 1978?
|
Clark Janell Davis |
2015-07-27 |
|
2,954 |
251.4 |
... that
Clark Janell Davis entered the 2015
Miss Kentucky pageant as Miss
Horse Capital of the World?
|
TV Sucks |
2015-07-06 |
|
2,947 |
250.8 |
... that some sketches in the upcoming
TV Sucks last for only a few seconds?
|
Sir William Cunningham Dalyell of the Binns, 7th Baronet |
2015-07-03 |
|
2,849 |
242.5 |
... that
Sir William Cunningham Dalyell of the Binns, 7th Baronet, took part in covert operations during the
Napoleonic Wars?
|
Croats (military unit) |
2015-07-26 |
|
2,844 |
242.0 |
... that not all
Croats were
Croats?
|
The Resurrection of Zachary Wheeler |
2015-07-31 |
|
3,452 |
239.4 |
... that in the 1971
science fiction film
The Resurrection of Zachary Wheeler, the clones were referred to as
soma, which is Greek for body?
|
Richard M. Eakin |
2015-07-11 |
|
2,927 |
238.9 |
... that
U.C. Berkeley professor
Richard M. Eakin gave lectures dressed as
Charles Darwin,
Louis Pasteur, and other famous scientists, one of whom he knew personally?
|
Circuit split |
2015-07-21 |
|
2,633 |
235.8 |
... that scholars suggest the
Supreme Court of the United States is more likely to grant review of a case to resolve a
circuit split than for any other reason?
|
Third Cape Cod Canal road bridge |
2015-07-29 |
|
2,520 |
234.4 |
... that
a third bridge over the
Cape Cod Canal has been proposed for decades as part of various road projects?
|
Adam's ale |
2015-07-26 |
|
2,725 |
231.9 |
... that
Adam's ale is a humorous epithet alluding to the presumption that the biblical
first man had only water to drink?
|
Mahler on the Couch |
2015-07-08 |
|
2,645 |
231.7 |
... that the film
Mahler on the Couch deals with a love triangle between
Alma Mahler,
Walter Gropius, and
Gustav Mahler, and Gustav's consultation with
Sigmund Freud?
|
Ursa Minor |
2015-07-14 |
[[File:Sargun Mehta,880,1284,10265,... that as a child, Indian actress
Sargun Mehta (pictured) and her brother auditioned for the dance reality show
Boogie Woogie, but were rejected?|100x100px]] |
2,779 |
231.6 |
... that the north
celestial pole is located in
Ursa Minor?
|
Miracles from Heaven (film) |
2015-07-29 |
|
2,719 |
231.4 |
... that the film
Miracles from Heaven is based on
a memoir by Christy Beam about her sick daughter, who was miraculously cured after surviving a
near-death experience?
|
Prized Apart |
2015-07-24 |
|
2,290 |
230.9 |
... that the
BBC game show
Prized Apart involves contestants being flown to
Morocco and back every week?
|
Jeff Seidel |
2015-07-11 |
|
2,798 |
228.4 |
... that
Jeff Seidel has sent thousands of Jewish college students to families in
Jerusalem to eat a
Shabbat meal?
|
1000 Fires |
2015-07-30 |
|
2,681 |
228.2 |
... that on a track of the album
1000 Fires,
Traci Lords reveals her experience with
rape when she was 10 years old?
|
Tallulah (film) |
2015-07-09 |
|
2,485 |
227.6 |
... that
Sian Heder had written the screenplay for
Tallulah by 2006, but the film only began shooting this June?
|
Jan-Erik Olsson |
2015-07-11 |
[[File:Le Mulâtre,14,14,131,... that "
Le Mulâtre" (The Mulatto) by
Victor Séjour (pictured) of
New Orleans, published in 1837, is the earliest known
short story by an
African-American writer?|100x100px]] |
166 |
226.4 |
... that early in his criminal career, Swedish bank robber
Jan-Erik Olsson attempted to break
Clark Olofsson out of jail, but failed to do so because of a dynamite malfunction?
|
Sancho of Majorca |
2015-07-12 |
|
52 |
222.9 |
... that the asthmatic prince
Sancho of Majorca became king because his
older brother wanted to be a monk and his
younger brother was at odds with
their father?
|
List of tributaries of the Lackawanna River |
2015-07-16 |
|
2,674 |
222.8 |
... that at least eleven
tributaries of the Lackawanna River experience total flow loss?
|
Lake Jean |
2015-07-16 |
|
2,671 |
222.6 |
... that
Lake Jean has been partly drained to repair a dam control tower?
|
Meredith Brook |
2015-07-04 |
|
2,469 |
222.4 |
... that the watershed of
Meredith Brook contains Lake Erie, which is about 4 feet (1.2 m) deep?
|
Austroboletus occidentalis
|
2015-07-22
|
[[File:Austroboletus,8,6,1121,... that
Austroboletus mushrooms (
Austroboletus occidentalis pictured) can be distinguished from other
boletes by their pitted stems?|100x100px]]
|
620
|
52.0
|
... that
Austroboletus mushrooms (
Austroboletus occidentalis pictured) can be distinguished from other
boletes by their pitted stems?
|
Palazzo Serristori, Rome
|
2,018
|
169.3
|
Total |
2,638 |
221.4
|
Philomena Lynott |
2015-07-04 |
|
2,579 |
219.5 |
... that
Philomena Lynott insisted on washing
Brian Robertson's hair before he performed on TV with
Thin Lizzy?
|
Thomas Asen Palaiologos
|
2015-07-29
|
|
1,675
|
155.8
|
... that
Thomas Asen Palaiologos, a Byzantine exile and possible grandson of the governor of
Corinth,
Matthew Palaiologos Asen, financed the construction of the first Orthodox church in
Naples?
|
Matthew Palaiologos Asen
|
684
|
63.6
|
Total |
2,359 |
219.4
|
Family Quarrels |
2015-07-21 |
|
2,578 |
219.4 |
... that
family quarrels led to a riot at
Covent Garden in 1802?
|
Tom Catena |
2015-07-05 |
[[File:New Tavern Fort,75,33,7116,... that
New Tavern Fort (6 in gun pictured) in
Gravesend,
Kent, was built to protect
London and the
Thames from a possible French invasion during the
American War of Independence?|100x100px]] |
2,541 |
219.1 |
... that
Tom Catena is the only surgeon working in the
Nuba Mountains of Sudan, covering a population of 750,000?
|
Wistarburgh Glass Works |
2015-07-30 |
|
2,573 |
219.0 |
... that the
Wistarburgh Glass Works was America's first successful glass factory?
|
Brachytrupes membranaceus |
2015-07-20 |
[[File:Holy Cross Church, Lehre,4,21,4895,... that a wooden bridge connecting the two towers of the
Holy Cross Church (pictured) in
Lehre, Germany, was jokingly called the highest bridge in
Lower Saxony?|100x100px]] |
2,795 |
217.8 |
... that the vegetation stored by the
tobacco cricket does not ferment, so it is probable that it is cut and allowed to wilt before being carried underground?
|
Google Photos |
2015-07-03 |
|
2,479 |
216.8 |
... that
The Verge wrote that
Google Photos had made obsolete the concept of paying for digital photo storage?
|
First Battle of Tikrit |
2015-07-30 |
|
2,546 |
216.7 |
... that some Iranian groups accused the
U.S.-led coalition of bombarding a pro-government headquarters during the
First Battle of Tikrit?
|
Charles R. Apted |
2015-07-18 |
|
2,593 |
216.1 |
... that the intruder who shot
J. P. Morgan, Jr. and bombed the US Senate in 1915 was identified by "Harvard Cop No. 1"
Charles Apted as a deranged, wife-poisoning,
ex-Harvard German instructor?
|
Anoplius viaticus
|
2015-07-24
|
|
1,955
|
166.4
|
... that the wasp
Anoplius viaticus
caches a paralysed spider for its offspring to feed on?
|
Hoarding (animal behavior)
|
580
|
49.4
|
Total |
2,535 |
215.7
|
Tabu filmography |
2015-07-10 |
|
265 |
214.9 |
... that
Tabu has won the
Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actress a record four times?
|
Hicks Creek (Susquehanna River) |
2015-07-24 |
|
2,077 |
209.4 |
... that
Hicks Creek falls 800 feet (240 m) in its upper reaches, but only 12 feet (3.7 m) in its lower?
|
Porak |
2015-07-22 |
|
2,442 |
209.3 |
... that
petroglyphs dated 5,000 years ago show eruption activity from the
Porak volcano at the border of
Armenia and
Azerbaijan?
|
Nabakalebara 2015 |
2015-07-19 |
|
2,509 |
209.1 |
... that
Nabakalebara 2015 is the first 21st-century occurrence of an ancient ritual in which images of the gods
Jagannath,
Balabhadra,
Subhadra and
Sudarshan are replaced by new ones at
Puri?
|
Fanling Lodge |
2015-07-29 |
|
2,451 |
208.6 |
... that
Fanling Lodge, the summer residence for the then
Governor of Hong Kong, served as a venue for secret discussions between China and the United Kingdom in the years preceding the
1997 handover?
|
Alfred Bog |
2015-07-06 |
|
2,499 |
208.3 |
... that the
Alfred Bog is the largest high-quality
bog in
Southern Ontario, Canada?
|
Experimental beer |
2015-07-04 |
|
2,444 |
208.0 |
... that in 1773, during the voyage of
James Cook's
HMS Resolution, crew members referred to the beer on board the ship that was prepared from
malt as
experimental beer?
|
Elephantomyia baltica |
2015-07-29 |
|
2,415 |
205.5 |
... that the fossil crane fly
Elephantomyia baltica is known from a single male in
amber?
|
Big Little Lies (novel) |
2015-07-17 |
|
2,458 |
204.8 |
... that the book
Big Little Lies was inspired by a radio interview with a woman whose parents had an abusive relationship?
|
Experiments and Observations on Electricity |
2015-07-22 |
[[File:Hachim Mastour,875,1000,6211,... that
Hachim Mastour (pictured) is the youngest person to play international
association football for
Morocco?|100x100px]] |
2,381 |
204.1 |
... that
Experiments and Observations on Electricity is
Benjamin Franklin's only scientific book?
|
Max Nord |
2015-07-17 |
|
2,441 |
203.4 |
... that during World War II,
Max Nord lived with
Simon Carmiggelt and
Wim van Norden, and their families, in the same house where they edited the illegal newspaper
Het Parool?
|
Gay Life (TV series) |
2015-07-18 |
[[File:Darwin's Arch,7,25,8022,... that
Darwin's Arch (pictured) sits like a bridge on an irregularly shaped, rocky, submerged plateau, nicknamed "the theatre"? |100x100px]] |
2,424 |
202.0 |
... that
Gay Life was the United Kingdom's first
LGBT television series?
|
1630 Crete earthquake |
2015-07-18 |
|
2,373 |
202.0 |
... that various dates have been attributed to the
1630 Crete earthquake, which occurred in the
Kythira Strait?
|
Rodriguez v. United States |
2015-07-17 |
|
2,372 |
201.9 |
... that some analysts have suggested that the
United States Supreme Court's decision in
Rodriguez v. United States was influenced by
ongoing protests in Ferguson, Missouri?
|
Al-Bayan (radio station) |
2015-07-16 |
|
2,422 |
201.8 |
... that the
ISIL-owned radio station
al-Bayan has been compared to
National Public Radio for its production style and quality?
|
Statue of George Palmer |
2015-07-17 |
|
2,416 |
201.3 |
... that on the same day
George Palmer presented a
49-acre park to the town of
Reading, grateful townsfolk gave a
bronze statue of the biscuit manufacturer?
|
William G. Farrow |
2015-07-19 |
|
2,412 |
201.0 |
... that during the
Doolittle Raid, the B-25 piloted by
William G. Farrow, named Bat out of Hell, was the last aircraft to depart from the
USS Hornet?
|
Rodger Dudding |
2015-07-29 |
|
2,357 |
200.6 |
... that
Rodger Dudding got his start as the largest owner of
self-storage garages in the United Kingdom by buying ten units from his landlord?
|
Naulakha Palace |
2015-07-29 |
|
2,096 |
195.0 |
... that the
Navalakaha, a palace in
Gondal, India, means "nine lakhs" (
INRs 900,000), which was its cost of building?
|
Eugene Vielle |
2015-07-18 |
|
2,339 |
194.9 |
... that
Eugene Vielle is said to have piloted 150 different types of aircraft by the end of his career with the
Royal Air Force?
|
Alex Sharp |
2015-07-31 |
|
2,800 |
194.2 |
... that
Alex Sharp is the youngest winner of the
Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play?
|
Charlotte Manning |
2015-07-30 |
|
2,275 |
193.6 |
... that
Charlotte Manning was the first Mistress of
Girton College?
|
Locust |
2015-07-14 |
[[File:Godavari Maha Pushkaram,426,1567,14789,... that the
Godavari Maha Pushkaram festival (
Godavari River pictured), being held from 14 July 2015, takes place once every 144 years?|100x100px]] |
2,246 |
191.1 |
... that
locusts are the
swarming phase of certain species of short-horned
grasshoppers?
|
Nature Reserve of Saint Bartholomew
|
2015-07-31
|
|
1,782
|
123.6
|
... that the
Nature Reserve of Saint Bartholomew, which includes
Île Frégate, is battling an invasion of
lionfish?
|
Île Frégate
|
940
|
65.2
|
Total |
2,722 |
188.8
|
Puerto Baquerizo Moreno |
2015-07-11 |
|
2,265 |
184.9 |
... that the national park visitor centre of
Puerto Baquerizo Moreno in the
Galápagos Islands has a unique display of a rebuilt ship's hold filled with upturned giant tortoises?
|
Old White Horse Cellar |
2015-07-06 |
|
2,155 |
183.4 |
... that the former site of the
Old White Horse Cellar, one of the most famous
coaching inns in England during the 18th and 19th centuries, is now the location of
The Ritz?
|
Lycodon chrysoprateros |
2015-07-13 |
|
2,163 |
180.3 |
... that
Lycodon chrysoprateros, a snake species endemic to the
Philippines, is considered
critically endangered because its range is only 52 square kilometres (20 sq mi)?
|
Jellyfish as food |
2015-07-19 |
|
2,162 |
180.2 |
... that jellyfish ice cream is "slightly chewy" because it is made from
real jellyfish?
|
Peanut production in China |
2015-07-25 |
|
2,079 |
176.9 |
... that finds of the
Neolithic period from the archaeological excavations at
Zhejiang and
Jiangxi have led to a claim in China that the
groundnut is an indigenous crop?
|
Suna Besha |
2015-07-30 |
|
1,990 |
176.9 |
... that during the
Suna Besha event, held five times a year,
Jagannath,
Balabhadra, and
Subhadra are adorned with golden jewellery?
|
Soraya Syed |
2015-07-16 |
|
2,116 |
176.3 |
... that
Soraya Syed, a British classically-trained
Islamic calligrapher, incorporates modern technologies such as
holography into her art?
|
Calopteryx dimidiata |
2015-07-08 |
|
2,243 |
175.9 |
... that the female
sparkling jewelwing damselfly spends about fifteen minutes submerged while laying a batch of eggs?
|
Arcticodactylus |
2015-07-20 |
|
2,254 |
175.6 |
... that the diminutive pterosaur
Arcticodactylus from Greenland had a wingspan of only 24 centimetres (9.4 in)?
|
Adrian Martinez (actor) |
2015-07-29 |
|
1,887 |
175.5 |
... that before starring in
Focus,
Adrian Martinez felt like he had "been running in a marathon for 20 years"?
|
VyRT |
2015-07-10 |
|
2,144 |
175.0 |
... that the online platform
VyRT was founded by
Jared Leto as a live video
streaming service?
|
Neonothopanus gardneri |
2015-07-27 |
|
1,907 |
174.7 |
... that the fungus
Neonothopanus gardneri glows more brightly than almost all other
bioluminescent fungi?
|
Aphonopelma hollyi |
2015-07-31 |
|
2,517 |
174.6 |
... that the Texas-dwelling tarantula
Aphonopelma hollyi was named after rock 'n' roll singer
Buddy Holly?
|
No. 106 Squadron IAF |
2015-07-26 |
|
2,034 |
173.1 |
... that the
No. 106 Squadron IAF was awarded a total of nine gallantry medals, including a
Maha Vir Chakra and four
Vir Chakras, during the
Indo-Pakistani War of 1971?
|
Ladies' London Emancipation Society |
2015-07-25 |
|
1,797 |
172.5 |
... that Clementia Taylor formed
Britain's first national anti-slavery society for women because she could not join the existing organisation?
|
Lixia Zhang |
2015-07-02 |
[[File:P (symbol),0,0,6504,... that the
"P"-badge (pictured) for Polish forced laborers was the first official, public badge introduced by
Nazi Germany, preceding the "
Jewish yellow star" by over a year?|100x100px]] |
1,884 |
172.3 |
... that
Lixia Zhang coined the term "
middlebox"?
|
The Greens Are Gone |
2015-07-22 |
|
2,024 |
169.8 |
... that
Glenn Close's daughter Annie Starke is making her acting debut in
The Greens Are Gone?
|
Hilda C. Heine |
2015-07-10 |
|
2,070 |
169.0 |
... that
Hilda C. Heine is the first
Marshallese woman to earn a doctorate degree?
|
Lagetta lagetto |
2015-07-18 |
|
2,014 |
167.8 |
... that the inner bark of the rare Caribbean
lacebark tree has been used for centuries to make clothing, including a dress for
Queen Victoria?
|
Lees Creek (Lackawanna River) |
2015-07-23 |
|
2,009 |
167.4 |
... that part of the
channel of
Lees Creek passes through coal waste, cinders, and railroad ballast?
|
An Invitation to the White House |
2015-07-11 |
|
2,035 |
166.1 |
... that
Hillary Clinton's
coffee table book,
An Invitation to the White House: At Home with History, described the traditional aspects of her time as
First Lady of the United States?
|
Rockstar Games Presents Table Tennis |
2015-07-05 |
|
1,960 |
165.4 |
... that the
game engine used for games such as
Red Dead Redemption and
Grand Theft Auto V was first used for a
table tennis simulation game?
|
St John the Evangelist's Church, Yealand Conyers |
2015-07-13 |
|
1,976 |
164.7 |
... that architectural historians have commented that the battlements of
St John the Evangelist's Church, Yealand Conyers, are clumsy and the
hood moulds lumpy?
|
Urethral diverticulum |
2015-07-31 |
|
1,823 |
164.5 |
... that a
urethral diverticulum is a pouch that forms in the
urethra from trauma or infection?
|
Wansong Xingxiu |
2015-07-09 |
|
1,788 |
163.8 |
... that the
13th-century pagoda built to house the remains of the
Chinese Zen monk
Wansong Xingxiu was covered by an outer pagoda in 1753, the original only being rediscovered in 1986?
|
Philadelphia municipal election, 1955
|
2015-07-21
|
[[File:Cherax pulcher,10,5,5705,... that the
crayfish
Cherax pulcher (pictured) was popular in aquariums worldwide before even being recognized as a new species?|100x100px]]
|
682
|
58.0
|
... that in
the 1955 election,
Philadelphians chose a
veteran of World War I for mayor and a
veteran of both World Wars for district attorney?
|
Victor H. Blanc
|
1,239
|
105.4
|
Total |
1,921 |
163.5
|
Macrolophus caliginosus
|
2015-07-30
|
|
988
|
87.8
|
... that the
mirid bug
Macrolophus caliginosus is used to
control whitefly on greenhouse tomatoes in Europe, while
Dicyphus hesperus is used in North America?
|
Dicyphus hesperus
|
834
|
74.1
|
Total |
1,822 |
162.0
|
Music of L.A. Noire |
2015-07-08 |
|
2,057 |
161.3 |
... that the
music of L.A. Noire consists of original vocal recordings that reflect the "musical identity" of its 1940s setting?
|
Frank Tarr |
2015-07-19 |
[[File:History of Roman and Byzantine domes,57,43,2783,... that the widest of the
Roman and Byzantine domes was that of the
Pantheon, but the
pendentives of
Hagia Sophia (pictured) form part of a theoretical hemisphere seven percent wider?|100x100px]] |
1,934 |
161.2 |
... that the former England international rugby player
Frank Tarr was killed on 18 July 1915 by a splinter from a shell after telling his men to keep cover?
|
Qasim al-Ahmad
|
2015-07-11
|
|
958
|
78.2
|
... that
Qasim al-Ahmad, from the fortified village of
Beit Wazan, led the 1834
Peasants' Revolt in
Palestine against
Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt?
|
Beit Wazan
|
971
|
79.3
|
Total |
1,929 |
157.5
|
Kashtariti |
2015-07-23 |
|
1,885 |
157.1 |
... that
Kashtariti led an unsuccessful campaign against
Assyrian king
Esarhaddon?
|
Banknotes of Demarary and Essequibo |
2015-07-17 |
|
1,845 |
157.0 |
... that the British colonies of
Demerara and
Essequibo issued banknotes denominated in
Joes?
|
Oregon Coast Scenic Railroad |
2015-07-12 |
|
1,922 |
156.9 |
... that the
Oregon Coast Scenic Railroad operates a
steam locomotive that was once operated by the
McCloud Railway?
|
Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2014 |
2015-07-24 |
|
1,503 |
151.6 |
... that the
Maltese cross was the inspiration behind the
Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2014 logo?
|
Ali Marpet |
2015-07-19 |
|
1,817 |
151.4 |
... that
Ali Marpet is the highest-drafted
NFL pick in the history of
NCAA Division III American football?
|
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands |
2015-07-12 |
|
1,851 |
151.1 |
... that
Ubisoft consulted locals during the development of
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands, a game set in
Bolivia?
|
El Gamma Penumbra |
2015-07-10 |
[[File:19th century in ichnology,7,15,245,... that highlights from
19th-century ichnology include the discovery of
protomammal tracks in England,
dinosaur footprints
in Massachusetts, and the mysterious hand-shaped
Chirotherium tracks (pictured)?|100x100px]] |
185 |
150.0 |
... that
Filipino
shadow play group
El Gamma Penumbra won the
first season of Asia's Got Talent in 2015?
|
Untitled Cullen brothers film |
2015-07-21 |
|
1,750 |
148.9 |
... that an upcoming
untitled film is the directorial debut by brothers
Mark &
Robb Cullen?
|
Georgii Kurdyumov
|
2015-07-28
|
|
842
|
73.8
|
... that physical metallurgist
Georgii Kurdyumov was a main organizer of the Russian
Institute of Solid State Physics in 1963?
|
Institute of Solid State Physics (Russia)
|
827
|
72.4
|
Total |
1,669 |
146.2
|
Millennial Praises |
2015-07-24 |
|
1,716 |
146.0 |
... that the first hymn in
the first Shaker hymn book reflects the
Shaker belief that God is both male and female?
|
Shooting of Walter Scott |
2015-07-05 |
[[File:Shaker broom vise,53,20,5052,... that the flat broom (pictured) was originally made in the
Shaker broom vise? |100x100px]] |
1,716 |
144.8 |
... that after the
shooting of Walter Scott—an African-American—in
North Charleston, South Carolina, the state government proposed a bill named after him to equip more police officers with body cameras?
|
Ilana Kratysh |
2015-07-08 |
|
1,846 |
144.8 |
... that Israeli wrestler
Ilana Kratysh won a
Grand Prix event despite allegedly being bitten by an Egyptian opponent?
|
Gonatopus clavipes |
2015-07-18 |
|
1,683 |
143.2 |
... that the
parasitoid wasp
Gonatopus clavipes lays its eggs inside the bodies of 31 different species of
leafhopper?
|
AAA When Worlds Collide |
2015-07-27 |
|
1,545 |
141.5 |
... that
AAA When Worlds Collide was the last time
Art Barr would wrestle as he died 17 days later?
|
Racket Brook |
2015-07-30 |
|
1,591 |
141.4 |
... that anthracite coal was being mined near the mouth of
Racket Brook by 1820?
|
Marc Hinawi |
2015-07-15 |
|
1,663 |
140.5 |
... that swimmer
Marc Hinawi, who won a bronze medal representing
Israel at the 2015 European Games, is a Christian Arab?
|
Solenosmilia variabilis |
2015-07-11 |
[[File:Lummelunda Cave,14,24,7143,... that the
Lummelunda Cave (entrance pictured) is one of the longest caves in Sweden? |100x100px]] |
1,720 |
140.4 |
... that the coral
Solenosmilia variabilis dominates reefs 1,000 metres (3,300 ft) beneath the sea?
|
Elections in Guyana |
2015-08-01 |
|
1,243 |
139.4 |
... that in
elections in Guyana, the nominee of the party that receives the most votes becomes
President, even if the opposition win more seats (as happened
in 2011)?
|
Boston Hymn |
2015-07-26 |
|
1,449 |
139.1 |
... that
Ralph Waldo Emerson commemorated the
Emancipation Proclamation by composing "
Boston Hymn" and surprising a crowd of 3,000 with its debut reading?
|
Hou Yao |
2015-07-04 |
[[File:Preparing for a Fancy Dress Ball,143,110,7230,... that
Preparing for a Fancy Dress Ball (pictured) was commissioned from England's foremost painter of
nudes by a
Conservative Member of Parliament who wanted a picture of his daughters?|100x100px]] |
1,544 |
139.1 |
... that Chinese film pioneer
Hou Yao was murdered by the Japanese during the
Sook Ching massacre in Singapore?
|
Timeline of ankylosaur research |
2015-07-27 |
|
1,512 |
138.5 |
... that highlights from the
history of ankylosaur research include one of the
first dinosaurs ever discovered and a
dinosaur with armored eyelids?
|
Millepora complanata |
2015-07-27 |
|
1,512 |
138.5 |
... that
blade fire coral is one of the first coral species to recolonise damaged reefs?
|
Adeline De Walt Reynolds |
2015-07-06 |
|
1,662 |
138.5 |
... that in 1930,
Adeline De Walt Reynolds graduated from college at the age of 68 and made her film debut eleven years later?
|
Koma Kulshan Project |
2015-07-28 |
|
1,621 |
138.0 |
... that the
Koma Kulshan Project was built on
Mount Baker, a volcano called Koma Kulshan by the
Lummi people?
|
NiUnaMenos |
2015-07-02 |
|
1,508 |
137.9 |
... that the
#NiUnaMenos demonstration against
femicide in Argentina was attended by nearly 200,000 people?
|
Giuseppe Verdi |
2015-07-30 |
|
1,619 |
137.8 |
... that the music of
Giuseppe Verdi appeared on a dress worn by
Katy Perry?
|
Neepaulakating Creek |
2015-07-21 |
|
1,617 |
137.6 |
... that
Neepaulakating Creek,
New Jersey, was apparently unnamed until 2004?
|
John Ojo |
2015-07-30 |
|
1,545 |
137.3 |
... that
Canadian football defensive back
John Ojo returned an interception 57 yards (52 m) for a touchdown in the first home game of his rookie season?
|
Marianos Argyros |
2015-07-21 |
|
1,515 |
135.7 |
... that the Byzantine nobleman
Marianos Argyros supported
Stephen Lekapenos in the overthrow of his father,
Romanos I Lekapenos, and only weeks later supported
Constantine VII in sidelining Stephen?
|
Aphidius nigripes |
2015-07-02 |
|
1,563 |
133.0 |
... that the larva of
Aphidius nigripes, a parasitoid of the
potato aphid, can control the behaviour of its
host?
|
Thikana (film) |
2015-07-23 |
|
1,594 |
132.8 |
... that despite her pregnancy, actress
Smita Patil continued filming for
Thikana (1987), but died from childbirth complications before the film's release?
|
Romney Classical Institute |
2015-08-01 |
|
1,184 |
132.8 |
... that the Romney Literary Society gave its
Romney Classical Institute to the
West Virginia Schools for the Deaf and Blind in 1870, after which it served as the schools' administration building?
|
Valerie Toranian |
2015-07-23 |
|
1,580 |
131.7 |
... that
Valerie Toranian, the chief editor of
Elle in France, has also written a book about the
Armenian Genocide?
|
Boris Volkoff |
2015-07-03 |
[[File:Montsec, Meuse,0,25,2256,... that a monument (pictured) was built to commemorate American soldiers who fought in the 1918
Battle of Saint-Mihiel near
Montsec, Meuse?|100x100px]] |
1,495 |
130.8 |
... that
Boris Volkoff performed and choreographed under his mother's family name?
|
Better (Kim Hyung-jun song) |
2015-07-28 |
|
1,470 |
128.8 |
... that
Kim Hyung-jun used his own car in the music video for his single "
Better"?
|
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (season 2) |
2015-07-25 |
|
1,341
[h] |
128.7 |
... that the
second season of the television series
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. introduced the
Inhumans race to the
Marvel Cinematic Universe ahead of their
own film?
|
Stephen V of Hungary |
2015-07-04 |
[[File:Moulin de Vertain, Templeuve,10,15,2718,... that the
Moulin de Vertain, Templeuve (pictured) was sold on
24 Vendémiaire 6, as its owner had fled France?|100x100px]] |
1,499 |
127.6 |
... that ten
Cuman chieftains took their customary oath upon a dog cut into two at the wedding of
Stephen V of Hungary and
Elizabeth the Cuman?
|
Conrad and Lady Black: Dancing on the Edge |
2015-07-02 |
|
1,499 |
127.6 |
... that
Conrad Black feared that
Tom Bower's biography
Conrad and Lady Black: Dancing on the Edge was going to be "a heartwarming story of two sleazy, spivvy, contemptible people"?
|
Maasella edwardsi |
2015-07-10 |
|
1,556 |
127.0 |
... that in 2015, the soft coral
Maasella edwardsi was reported in the Aegean Sea for the first time?
|
Wilson Creek (Lackawanna River) |
2015-07-02 |
|
1,374 |
125.7 |
... that most of the flow that
Wilson Creek contributes to the Lackawanna River comes from one
acid mine drainage discharge?
|
Fall Brook (Lackawanna River) |
2015-07-01 |
|
1,472 |
125.3 |
... that
Fall Brook falls over Fall Brook Falls?
|
Chien-Shiung Wu |
2015-07-14 |
|
1,476 |
123.0 |
... that
Chien-Shiung Wu conducted the
Wu experiment, which contradicted the hypothetical
law of conservation of parity?
|
Paul Schneider-Esleben |
2015-07-30 |
|
1,439 |
122.5 |
... that German architect
Paul Schneider-Esleben's design of
Cologne Bonn Airport was emulated by numerous other airports around the world?
|
Meredith Creek |
2015-07-18 |
|
1,469 |
122.4 |
... that the US
National Map shows
Meredith Creek as being only 0.4 miles (0.64 km) long?
|
Robert Dirks |
2015-07-24 |
|
1,434 |
122.0 |
... that
Robert Dirks, a research chemist known for his work in
DNA nanotechnology, died in the 2015
Valhalla train crash?
|
Ziv Kalontarov |
2015-07-03 |
|
1,422 |
121.0 |
... that 18-year-old Israeli swimmer
Ziv Kalontarov, who won a gold medal at the
2015 European Games, was trained by his parents?
|
Clayton Vaughn |
2015-07-17 |
|
1,399 |
119.1 |
... that
Clayton Vaughn first broke the
10-second barrier for the
100-meter dash on
Mother's Day and dedicated his success to his late mother?
|
List of Burmese consorts |
2015-07-27 |
|
1,298 |
118.9 |
... that the
Burmese royal title
Queen of the Southern Palace, with rare exceptions, was reserved for the chief
queen consort only?
|
Gerda Müller |
2015-07-31 |
|
1,315 |
118.6 |
... that the actress
Gerda Müller was Mother Courage in
the play by Bertolt Brecht?
|
Price Creek
|
2015-07-10
|
|
1,080
|
88.2
|
... that in the early 1900s, Pennsylvania's
Price Creek—unlike its tributary
Pancoast Creek—was partially filled with
culm?
|
Pancoast Creek
|
368
|
30.0
|
Total |
1,448 |
118.2
|
Craig Taborn |
2015-07-14 |
|
1,375 |
117.0 |
... that musician
Craig Taborn, winner of a
Doris Duke Artist Award worth up to $275,000, does not have, or want, his own website?
|
Mass in C major (Beethoven) |
2015-07-07 |
|
1,369 |
116.5 |
... that
Prince Nikolaus Esterházy, who commissioned
Beethoven's
Mass in C major for his wife's
name day, found it "unbearably ridiculous and detestable"?
|
Thomas Harrison Montgomery, Jr. |
2015-07-22 |
|
1,357 |
116.3 |
... that zoologist
Thomas Harrison Montgomery, Jr. was the first to propose that
chromosomes play a dominant role in
determining an organism's sex?
|
Petre P. Panaitescu |
2015-07-17 |
|
1,393 |
116.1 |
... that in spite of his fascist past,
Romanian literary historian
Petre P. Panaitescu escaped serious punishment by the
communist regime?
|
Jabali Upanishad |
2015-07-27 |
|
1,350 |
114.9 |
... that the
Jabali Upanishad explains the significance of the three sacred streaks of ash drawn across the forehead of a
brahamachari or
sanyasi?
|
Teladoc |
2015-07-21 |
|
1,277 |
114.4 |
... that
Teladoc is considered the first and largest
telehealth platform in the United States?
|
Astral Plane (Adventure Time)
|
2015-07-02
|
|
787
|
72.0
|
... that Canadian artist
Jillian Tamaki, of This One Summer fame, wrote the
Adventure Time episodes "
Astral Plane" and "
The Diary"?
|
The Diary (Adventure Time)
|
437
|
40.0
|
Total |
1,224 |
112.0
|
Konrad Koch |
2015-07-26 |
|
1,162 |
111.6 |
... that in 1874,
Konrad Koch and
August Hermann organized what is believed to be the first football match in Germany?
|
Lake Küçükçekmece |
2015-07-12 |
|
26 |
111.4 |
... that
archaeological excavations at
Lake Küçükçekmece near
Istanbul, Turkey, revealed the existence of an ancient port city?
|
Zena Werb |
2015-07-19 |
|
1,334 |
111.2 |
... that
cell biologist
Zena Werb changed her undergraduate major from
geophysics to
biochemistry after being told there was no accommodation for women at a
field site?
|
Tughtakin ibn Ayyub |
2015-07-22 |
|
1,292 |
110.7 |
... that
Saladin's brother
Tughtakin ibn Ayyub solidified
Ayyubid control over
Yemen in the late 12th century?
|
Hastie Weir |
2015-07-29 |
|
1,182 |
110.0 |
... that
Hastie Weir played for a
Motherwell team described as "probably the finest pure
footballing side that Scotland has ever produced"?
|
Thomas Welsh (basketball) |
2015-07-15 |
|
1,266 |
109.3 |
... that during this past season,
Thomas Welsh became the
UCLA Bruins' first 7-foot (2.1 m) basketball player in almost a decade?
|
Black armband protest |
2015-07-04 |
|
1,274 |
108.4 |
... that during the
2003 Cricket World Cup, Zimbabwean cricketers
Andy Flower and
Henry Olonga wore
black armbands?
|
Joey Alexander |
2015-07-18 |
[[File:Cannon Hall, Hampstead,16,12,2154,... that
Cannon Hall, Hampstead (pictured) was the childhood home of novelist
Daphne du Maurier, the author of
Rebecca? |100x100px]] |
1,265 |
107.7 |
... that Indonesian jazz musician
Joey Alexander taught himself to play piano at age six, and released his first album at age eleven?
|
Joseph Richard Slevin |
2015-07-09 |
[[File:Hane, Marquesas Islands,4,17,3531,... that excavations by
Yosihiko H. Sinoto in
Hane (pictured) in the
Marquesas Islands in 1964–5 uncovered more than 12,000 bird bones?|100x100px]] |
1,165 |
106.7 |
... that
herpetologist
Joseph Richard Slevin is commemorated in the scientific names of twelve reptiles and a mouse?
|
Ray Holley |
2015-07-25 |
|
1,252 |
106.6 |
... that
Ray Holley, who installed air conditioners until April 2015, became a starting
running back in the
Canadian Football League in June?
|
Mark Davis (cricketer, born 1971) |
2015-07-28 |
|
1,206 |
105.6 |
... that in 2002,
Mark Davis scored his maiden
first-class century during a
record partnership with
Robin Martin-Jenkins?
|
Coffee production in Democratic Republic of the Congo |
2015-07-26 |
|
1,093 |
104.9 |
... that
Coffea arabica accounts for one-fifth of the total production of
coffee in the Democratic Republic of the Congo?
|
Indium(III) sulfate |
2015-07-18 |
|
1,254 |
104.5 |
... that
indium sulfate does not remain in solution when diluted, but precipitates as a
basic salt?
|
Fiddle Lake Creek |
2015-07-15 |
|
1,229 |
103.9 |
... that a painting of
Fiddle Lake Creek is on long-term display at the
William J. Nealon Federal Building and United States Courthouse?
|
NewsDiffs |
2015-07-04 |
|
1,144 |
103.1 |
... that Arthur S. Brisbane, the then-
public editor of
The New York Times, said that the 2012 creation of
NewsDiffs imposed a "forced transparency" on The Times?
|
Nekima Levy-Pounds |
2015-07-06 |
|
1,208 |
102.8 |
... that an organization to help young
African American men avoid gangs and prison was co-founded by law professor
Nekima Levy-Pounds?
|
Nainsukh |
2015-07-06 |
|
1,218 |
101.5 |
... that 18th-century Indian artist
Nainsukh is known for his unusually informal paintings of a
raja, whose ashes he eventually consigned to the river
Ganges?
|
Uvais Karnain
|
2015-07-08
|
|
651
|
57.0
|
... that
Uvais Karnain was the first cricketer to take a
five-wicket haul on his One Day International debut?
|
List of cricketers who have taken five-wicket hauls on ODI debut
|
504
|
44.1
|
Total |
1,155 |
101.2
|
Tyrone Garland |
2015-07-29 |
|
1,177 |
100.2 |
... that former
John Bartram High School basketball player
Tyrone Garland scored the third-most points in
Philadelphia Public League history, being surpassed only by Maureece Rice and
Wilt Chamberlain?
|
Tales of Frankenstein |
2015-07-04 |
|
1,106 |
99.6 |
... that in the unsold 1958 TV pilot,
Tales of Frankenstein,
Don Megowan played
the Monster in the style of
Boris Karloff?
|
Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis, BWV 21 |
2015-07-02 |
|
1,088 |
99.5 |
... that Bach's cantata
Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis, BWV 21, probably served for both a memorial service and for job applications, and certainly for the Third Sunday after Trinity in 1714 and 1723?
|
Jug Girard |
2015-07-19 |
[[File:Ephemera vulgata,9,6,1136,... that male
Ephemera vulgata (pictured) congregate in swarms in which each insect moves repeatedly up and down as part of a "nuptial dance"?|100x100px]] |
1,193 |
99.4 |
... that
Wisconsin's
Jug Girard, dubbed "Mr. Versatility", was a quarterback, end, halfback, punter, and kickoff returner in 10 years in the
NFL?
|
Toussaint Coffee Liqueur |
2015-07-05 |
|
1,153 |
99.4 |
... that
Toussaint Coffee Liqueur is named after the revolutionary fighter
Toussaint Louverture?
|
Praise to the Living God |
2015-07-05 |
|
1,151 |
99.2 |
... that "
Praise to the Living God" can be used in both Jewish and Christian worship as a hymn written for interfaith use?
|
Lalaban Ako Para Sa Pilipino |
2015-07-03 |
|
1,127 |
98.6 |
... that
Manny Pacquiao recorded his own
entrance song for
his fight against
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.?
|
Sceliphron laetum
|
2015-07-12
|
|
15
|
64.3
|
... that the wasp
Sceliphron laetum
caches up to nine spiders in a mud cell for consumption by its developing offspring?
|
Hoarding (animal behavior)
|
8
|
34.3
|
Total |
23 |
98.6
|
Mariam Behruzi |
2015-07-31 |
|
1,401 |
97.2 |
... that
Mariam Behruzi was one of four women elected to the first
Iranian Parliament?
|
Seattle Arctic drilling protests |
2015-07-10 |
|
119 |
96.5 |
... that when word got out that the
Shell Polar Pioneer and other Arctic
drilling vessels were coming to Seattle, hundreds of
kayaktivists came out to protest?
|
The Oceanides |
2015-07-14 |
|
1,146 |
95.5 |
... that in his
tone poem
The Oceanides, Finnish composer
Jean Sibelius "applied the
impressionist method of scoring to the bass instruments, thereby achieving effects of sonority hitherto unknown"?
|
The Urban Lawyer |
2015-07-18 |
|
1,109 |
94.4 |
... that
The Urban Lawyer is the largest circulating journal of government law in the world?
|
Grateful Dead Meet-Up at the Movies |
2015-07-14 |
|
1,104 |
94.0 |
... that
Grateful Dead Meet-Up at the Movies presents annual screenings of
Grateful Dead concerts in theaters across the United States?
|
Šime Budinić |
2015-07-13 |
|
1,110 |
92.5 |
... that
Šime Budinić created a version of
Latin script, based on the
Cyrillic and
Glagolitic scripts, to make
Church writings accessible to 16th-century Southern Slavs?
|
Xylolaemus sakhnovi |
2015-07-12 |
|
1,125 |
91.8 |
... that
Xylolaemus sakhnovi was the first of its genus described from the fossil record?
|
Council of governments |
2015-07-03 |
|
1,050 |
91.8 |
... that more than 35,000 local governments in the US are served by 556 regional
councils of governments?
|
Mitotic cell rounding |
2015-07-22 |
|
1,091 |
91.6 |
... that
mitotic cell rounding involves an almost 10-fold increase in intracellular pressure?
|
Hong Kong Free Press |
2015-07-28 |
|
1,073 |
91.3 |
... that
Hong Kong Free Press was established in response to concerns of declining
press freedom?
|
Wood carving in the Marquesas Islands |
2015-07-14 |
|
1,072 |
91.2 |
... that the
tiki is a common figure in
Marquesan wood carving?
|
Anurogryllus muticus |
2015-07-26 |
|
950 |
91.2 |
... that the cricket
Anurogryllus muticus makes its burrow close to its preferred
food plant?
|
Curtis Manning (lacrosse) |
2015-07-07 |
|
991 |
90.8 |
... that professional Canadian
box lacrosse player
Curtis Manning is also a physician?
|
Rhizomnium dentatum |
2015-07-03 |
|
1,066 |
90.7 |
... that the fossil moss
Rhizomnium dentatum is preserved in the same amber block as two other mosses and part of a centipede?
|
Congregation Albert |
2015-07-01 |
|
1,065 |
90.6 |
... that the right to name
Congregation Albert, a
synagogue in
Albuquerque, New Mexico, was auctioned off for $250?
|
Hedy Graf |
2015-07-16 |
|
1,083 |
90.3 |
... that
Hedy Graf performed soprano parts in premieres of
oratorios by Swiss composers?
|
Jamie Porter |
2015-07-17 |
|
1,075 |
89.6 |
... that
Jamie Porter took a wicket with the fifth ball he bowled in
first-class cricket?
|
Terug tot Ina Damman |
2015-07-13 |
|
1,067 |
88.9 |
... that the titular character of
Simon Vestdijk's 1934 novel
Terug tot Ina Damman, the third in the
Anton Wachter cycle, was based on a girl who rejected the writer at age 14?
|
Martha E. Sloan |
2015-07-03 |
|
1,041 |
88.6 |
... that
Martha E. Sloan was the first female president of the
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers?
|
Bryan Burnham |
2015-07-20 |
|
1,136 |
88.5 |
... that
gridiron football player
Bryan Burnham suffered a
torn anterior cruciate ligament to end his college career, and a
lacerated spleen to end his first professional season in the
Canadian Football League?
|
Neoboletus venenatus |
2015-07-05 |
|
1,048 |
88.4 |
... that eating the poisonous mushroom
Neoboletus venenatus can result in vomiting so severe that dehydration results?
|
Coffee production in Peru |
2015-07-16 |
|
1,056 |
88.0 |
... that 90% of the
Arabica
coffee produced in Peru is either
typica or
caturra?
|
I Am Jazz |
2015-07-25 |
|
1,033
[i] |
87.9 |
... that
I Am Jazz, the first reality show about a transgender teen, debuted on TLC at the same time
Caitlyn Jenner was receiving the
Arthur Ashe Courage Award at the
ESPYs?
|
Roving reference |
2015-07-13 |
|
1,053 |
87.8 |
... that
roving reference engages patrons beyond the traditional library?
|
Curtis Comes Home |
2015-07-23 |
|
1,019 |
86.7 |
... that professional wrestling
referee
Mark Curtis made an unannounced appearance at
Curtis Comes Home, his own benefit show?
|
Coffee production in Panama |
2015-07-10 |
|
106 |
85.9 |
... that the best-quality
coffee produced in Panama is grown in
Boquete?
|
Byzantine–Bulgarian war of 913–927 |
2015-07-19 |
|
1,031 |
85.9 |
... that
Simeon I of Bulgaria was crowned the first
Tsar in history during the
Byzantine–Bulgarian war of 913–927?
|
Widerstehe doch der Sünde, BWV 54 |
2015-07-25 |
|
884 |
84.9 |
... that Bach's earliest solo church cantata,
Widerstehe doch der Sünde, BWV 54, for an
alto voice on a text by
Lehms, begins with a
dissonance?
|
Ștefan Petică |
2015-07-11 |
|
1,037 |
84.7 |
... that Romanian
Symbolist poet
Ștefan Petică went from publishing in socialist newspapers to denouncing socialism?
|
H2O (software) |
2015-07-13 |
|
1,013 |
84.4 |
... that, after
H2O.ai's open-source machine-learning software
H2O was ranked best in its class, Fortune profiled H2O programmer Arno Candel as a Big-Data All-Star?
|
Francisca Fernández Hall |
2015-07-15 |
|
964 |
83.2 |
... that
Francisca Fernández Hall, the first woman to earn an engineering degree from the
Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala, became Guatemala's
chargé d'affaires in Israel?
|
Arne Kotte |
2015-07-25 |
|
975 |
83.0 |
... that after signing a professional contract with Italian club
Palermo, Norwegian footballer
Arne Kotte injured his knee five minutes into his first training match, and was out of action for six months?
|
West Branch Lackawanna River |
2015-07-13 |
|
993 |
82.8 |
... that the
West Branch Lackawanna River was referred to as Ball Creek on a 1944
USGS map, but locals later denied knowledge of the name?
|
Callender Gap Creek |
2015-07-14 |
|
969 |
82.5 |
... that
Callender Gap Creek is a coldwater fishery despite being impaired by abandoned mine drainage?
|
Palazzo Cesi Armellini |
2015-07-19 |
|
987 |
82.3 |
... that on 6 May 1527, the
Landsknechts of
Charles V of Habsburg
burst into Rome through the garden of
Palazzo Cesi Armellini?
|
Kongsi federations |
2015-07-06 |
|
983 |
81.9 |
... that
kongsi federations such as the
Lanfang Republic once controlled a large part of western
Borneo?
|
Namwali Serpell |
2015-07-14 |
|
980 |
81.7 |
... that Zambian writer
Namwali Serpell, winner of the
Caine Prize for African fiction in English, said she would share the prize money with the other nominees since "fiction is not a competitive sport"?
|
Avalanche Studios |
2015-07-22 |
|
970 |
81.4 |
... that
Avalanche Studios, the developer of the
Just Cause series, almost developed an
open world
Star Wars game with
LucasArts?
|
Anurogryllus arboreus |
2015-07-22 |
|
949 |
81.3 |
... that the female burrowing cricket
Anurogryllus arboreus lays unfertilised eggs for her offspring to consume?
|
Bharatiya Janata Party |
2015-07-23 |
|
949
[j] |
80.8 |
... that the
Bharatiya Janata Party won a majority in the
2014 Indian parliamentary election, the first time any political party had done so since 1984?
|
Climate Hawks Vote |
2015-07-13 |
[[File:The World Before the Flood,5,20,9986,... that
The World Before the Flood (detail pictured) was described on its initial exhibition as a "deadly sin against good taste"?|100x100px]] |
968 |
80.7 |
... that
Climate Hawks Vote rated
Bernie Sanders as the senator with the highest score for climate leadership in the
113th United States Congress?
|
Marcelo Odebrecht |
2015-07-27 |
|
942 |
80.2 |
... that
Marcelo Odebrecht is the grandson of
the founder of the Latin American conglomerate,
Odebrecht?
|
Platygyra lamellina |
2015-07-21 |
|
894 |
80.1 |
... that the
spawning period of the coral
Platygyra lamellina is regulated by the phases of the moon?
|
Gardner Creek (Susquehanna River) |
2015-07-26 |
|
824 |
79.1 |
... that the first sawmill in
Ransom Township and the first gristmill in
Newton Township were built on
Gardner Creek more than 50 years after the area was settled?
|
Sagi Muki |
2015-07-11 |
|
58 |
79.1 |
... that Israeli
judoka
Sagi Muki was coached by Olympian
Oren Smadja for 19 years before he won the
2015 European Judo Championships?
|
Going Back to My Roots |
2015-07-03 |
|
924 |
78.6 |
... that the song "
Going Back to My Roots" was inspired by a book by
Alex Haley?
|
Johann Lukas Legrand |
2015-07-18 |
|
912 |
77.6 |
... that
Johann Lukas Legrand, a ribbon maker, was the first president of the Directory of the
Helvetic Republic?
|
Guest Directed Shorts |
2015-07-27 |
|
911 |
77.5 |
... that Max Winston, who directed a
short for Uncle Grandpa, is a drummer for a band that includes other crew members of that show?
|
Bisrakh |
2015-07-31 |
|
857 |
77.3 |
... that
Bisrakh village in
Greater Noida is believed to be the birthplace of the mythological king
Ravana of the epic
Ramayana, who in later years was the king of
Sri Lanka?
|
Thomas Corbett (Shaker doctor) |
2015-07-07 |
|
897 |
76.3 |
... that
Thomas Corbett, a
Shaker doctor, developed an electrostatic medical device in 1810 as a "cure" for rheumatism?
|
Babette Haag |
2015-07-15 |
|
902 |
76.2 |
... that percussionist
Babette Haag and her ensemble played Orff's
Carmina Burana with the Bachchor Mainz and
Anthony and Joseph Paratore in the 1,000th concert of the Weilburger Schlosskonzerte?
|
Paramahamsa Upanishad |
2015-07-28 |
|
889 |
75.7 |
... that in the
Paramahamsa Upanishad,
Brahma explains that by discerning the staff of knowledge, one may become a
paramahamsa?
|
Charles W. Wantland |
2015-07-16 |
|
899 |
74.9 |
... that coach
Charles W. Wantland was fired from
Central State Teachers College by Governor
William H. Murray after supporting Murray's rival?
|
Eric Coleman (producer) |
2015-07-01 |
[[File:Musidora: The Bather 'At the Doubtful Breeze Alarmed',0,0,17774,... that
Musidora: The Bather 'At the Doubtful Breeze Alarmed' (detail pictured) has been described as "a titillating moral test for spectators to both enjoy and overcome"?|100x100px]] |
878 |
74.7 |
... that before he became senior vice president of
Disney Television Animation,
Eric Coleman helped develop
SpongeBob SquarePants?
|
Coffee production in Thailand |
2015-07-17 |
|
891 |
74.3 |
... that under the
Thai/
United Nations Crop Replacement and Community Development Project,
coffee has been experimented with as a replacement crop for
opium?
|
Vellama d/o Marie Muthu v. Attorney-General
|
2015-07-06
|
|
582
|
49.5
|
... that in a
2013 case, the
Singapore Court of Appeal held that the Prime Minister was wrong to say he had discretion under the Constitution not to call a
by-election to fill a parliamentary vacancy?
|
By-elections in Singapore
|
282
|
24.0
|
Total |
864 |
73.5
|
Constanze Backes |
2015-07-15 |
[[File:Kiryat Itri,6,13,4794,... that while the
Jerusalem neighborhood of
Kiryat Itri (pictured) was built for American Jewish
immigrants, the apartments were small by American standards?|100x100px]] |
837 |
72.3 |
... that
Constanze Backes performed the leading female part in
Joseph Schuster's rediscovered opera Il Marito Indolente?
|
Ion Clopoțel |
2015-07-22 |
|
854 |
71.7 |
... that
Transylvanian journalist
Ion Clopoțel, imprisoned for his
wartime political writings, was released in time to participate in
the assembly that ratified his province's
union with Romania?
|
Ekakshara Upanishad |
2015-07-20 |
|
913 |
71.1 |
... that according to the
Ekakshara Upanishad, all that pertains to
Vishnu "shines in lovely fashion like gold in some other sky"?
|
Barbu Lăzăreanu |
2015-07-28 |
|
791 |
69.3 |
... that Romanian literary critic
Barbu Lăzăreanu was
cremated in a ceremony capped by the singing of "
The Internationale"?
|
Nrisimha Tapaniya Upanishad |
2015-07-21 |
|
784 |
66.7 |
... that
Nrisimha Tapaniya Upanishad is one of the first sectarian theologies of Hinduism which focuses on
Nrisimha's three forms of
Om,
Atman, and
Brahman?
|
Jason Lewry |
2015-07-21 |
|
744 |
66.6 |
... that in 1998, the English cricketer
Jason Lewry took a
hat-trick with deliveries across two innings?
|
Abzurdah |
2015-07-05 |
|
779 |
65.7 |
... that
María Eugenia Suárez, who plays a victim of
anorexia in the film
Abzurdah, lost 6 kg (13 lb) during production?
|
Alex Bregman |
2015-07-16 |
|
788 |
65.7 |
... that
Alex Bregman, who was selected with the second pick of the
2015 Major League Baseball Draft, is the grandson of a former general counsel of the
Washington Senators?
|
2017 British and Irish Lions tour to New Zealand |
2015-07-24 |
|
768 |
65.4 |
... that
in 2017 the
British and Irish Lions will seek their first series win over
New Zealand in 46 years?
|
You've Got Time |
2015-07-05 |
|
761 |
64.2 |
... that
Regina Spektor wrote
the theme song for
Orange Is the New Black after watching post-production edits of the first few episodes?
|
Surya Upanishad |
2015-07-22 |
|
757 |
63.5 |
... that in the
Surya Upanishad, the sages Atharvangiras extol the virtues of the Sun God
Surya?
|
Joseph Kaiha |
2015-07-23 |
|
744 |
63.3 |
... that
Joseph Kaiha, mayor of the French Polynesian island of
Ua Pu, has lobbied for a helicopter to serve the
Marquesas Islands for medical emergencies?
|
I. I. Mironescu |
2015-07-20 |
|
759 |
63.3 |
... that the flashes of folk humour in
I. I. Mironescu's published stories reflect his reported talent as a raconteur?
|
Hamsopanishad |
2015-07-18 |
|
759 |
63.3 |
... that
Sanatkumara told Gautama that
Hamsopanishad is a compendium of mystic knowledge propounded by
Parvati?
|
United News of India |
2015-07-31 |
|
910 |
63.1 |
... that
United News of India is the first and only news agency in the world to supply news in Urdu on the teleprinter?
|
Anthelia glauca |
2015-07-15 |
|
743 |
62.8 |
... that the
larvae of the soft coral
Anthelia glauca are
brooded in a unique pharyngeal pouch?
|
China Administration of Sports for Persons with Disabilities |
2015-07-23 |
|
734 |
62.5 |
... that the
China Disability Sports Training Centre was the first facility in China entirely devoted to
disability sports training, and is the largest of its kind in the world?
|
Warner B. Snider |
2015-07-20 |
|
798 |
62.2 |
... that in 1933,
Warner B. Snider was a delegate to
Oregon's convention that voted to repeal the
Eighteenth Amendment and end
prohibition in the United States?
|
Orlanda Velez Isidro |
2015-07-12 |
|
756 |
61.7 |
... that
Orlanda Velez Isidro was Madame Mao in a Dutch production of John Adams'
Nixon in China?
|
Oluf Hartmann |
2015-07-01 |
|
720 |
61.3 |
... that
Carl Nielsen composed
At the Bier of a Young Artist for the funeral of the promising painter
Oluf Hartmann?
|
2015–16 RFU Championship |
2015-07-07 |
|
663 |
60.7 |
... that the
2015–16 RFU Championship will be the first time in 13 years that
Plymouth Albion is not in English rugby's second tier?
|
Dudley Snell |
2015-07-09 |
|
658 |
60.3 |
... that under
Dudley Snell, the fifth and last Chairman of the
Melbourne and Metropolitan Tramways Board, the first tram extensions in over two decades opened in Melbourne?
|
Mary Whitcher |
2015-07-12 |
|
14 |
60.0 |
... that
Mary Whitcher wrote the first published
Shaker cookbook?
|
Clarks Creek (Lackawanna River) |
2015-07-05 |
|
696 |
60.0 |
... that
Clarks Creek is one of the few remaining wild trout streams in the
Lackawanna Valley?
|
L. J. Peak |
2015-07-23 |
|
701 |
59.7 |
... that
L. J. Peak set a
Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball record for most points in a freshman debut?
|
Cristofi Cerchez |
2015-07-02 |
|
697 |
59.3 |
... that the first known building designed by Romanian architect
Cristofi Cerchez, "Stătescu Villa", in
Câmpulung, later became a registered
historic monument?
|
Cofix |
2015-07-05 |
|
686 |
59.1 |
... that
Cofix is the first
coffee shop chain to be traded on the
Tel Aviv Stock Exchange?
|
Benjamin Franklin Baker (musician) |
2015-07-12 |
|
724 |
59.1 |
... that
Benjamin Franklin Baker wrote a
cantata about a burning ship?
|
Alex Tillman |
2015-07-21 |
|
694 |
59.1 |
... that
Alex Tillman of the
BC Lions returned both an interception and a punt over 90 yards for
touchdowns in the same season?
|
Savitri Upanishad |
2015-07-11 |
|
43 |
58.6 |
... that
Savitri Upanishad, which has 15 verses, begins with an invocation
hymn seeking blessings for strong functioning of motory and
sensory organs?
|
Meryl Streep |
2015-07-17 |
[[File:Enceliopsis argophylla,9,7,2161,... that the fragile habitat of the
silver-leaf sunray (pictured) is threatened by off-road recreational vehicles?|100x100px]] |
673
[k] |
57.3 |
... that President
Barack Obama awarded
Meryl Streep the 2010
National Medal of Arts and in 2014 the
Presidential Medal of Freedom?
|
Ruth Sandhoff |
2015-07-21 |
|
672 |
57.2 |
... that mezzo-soprano
Ruth Sandhoff performed a soprano part in
the Magnificat by
Johann Sebastian Bach and an alto part in
his son's Magnificat?
|
Andrew Brown (minister) |
2015-07-06 |
|
664 |
56.5 |
... that
Andrew Brown was strongly critical of the role of
Charles Lawrence, acting governor of
Nova Scotia, in the
Acadian Expulsion?
|
Montserratian general election, 1970 |
2015-07-15 |
|
632 |
54.6 |
... that the
1970 general elections in
Montserrat saw
Percival Austin Bramble's
Progressive Democratic Party defeat the ruling
Montserrat Labour Party, led by his father
William Henry Bramble?
|
Craig Novitsky |
2015-07-04 |
|
640 |
54.5 |
... that
Craig Novitsky is the first player in the history of
UCLA Bruins football to
start every game of a four-year career?
|
David Larson |
2015-07-14 |
|
646 |
53.8 |
... that U.S. swimmers
Mike Heath,
David Larson,
Jeff Float and
Bruce Hayes were dubbed the "Gross Busters" after beating German star
Michael Gross and his team in the
4×200 m relay at the
1984 Olympics?
|
Terbaik Bagimu |
2015-07-11 |
|
38 |
51.8 |
... that "
Terbaik Bagimu", a single from
Siti Nurhaliza's
latest album, was chosen as a theme song for a
Malay drama and a
telemovie?
|
We Come from the Same Place |
2015-07-09 |
|
565 |
51.8 |
... that the indie band
Allo Darlin' recorded the album
We Come from the Same Place in London while their vocalist Elizabeth Morris lived in
Florence, Italy?
|
2015 Baltimore protests |
2015-07-26 |
|
607 |
51.7 |
... that the
death of Freddie Gray in police custody sparked the
2015 Baltimore protests?
|
Aaron Novick |
2015-07-12 |
[[File:Lake Tsomgo,0,14,5096,... that
Buddhist monks are said to have forecast the future by studying the changing colours of
Lake Tsomgo (pictured)?|100x100px]] |
624 |
50.9 |
... that
Aaron Novick was one of the inventors of the
chemostat?
|
David Tab Rasmussen |
2015-07-20 |
|
601 |
50.1 |
... that
biological anthropologist
David Tab Rasmussen enjoyed working in the
Neotropics because it allowed him to study both
primates and
birds, his two favorite subjects?
|
Happy Man (Sunnyboys song) |
2015-07-28 |
|
579 |
49.3 |
... that Australian
power pop group
Sunnyboys issued their nation's first cassette single, "
Happy Man", in June 1981?
|
Uyarndha Manithan |
2015-07-16 |
|
573 |
47.8 |
... that the Tamil film
Uyarndha Manithan was adapted from the 1966 Bengali film
Uttar Purush?
|
Radio Programas de México |
2015-07-15 |
|
552 |
47.7 |
... that at one point, more than half of all Mexican
radio stations were affiliates of
Radio Programas de México?
|
Franz Wilhelm Ferling |
2015-07-13 |
|
562 |
46.8 |
... that it is unclear who first used
Franz Wilhelm Ferling's
oboe études for the study of the
saxophone?
|
William C. Clayton |
2015-07-19 |
|
547 |
45.6 |
... that lawyer and
West Virginia state senator
William C. Clayton was an incorporator of two railroad companies and principal of at least three schools, including the
Romney Classical Institute?
|
Philip Lutgendorf |
2015-07-27 |
|
490 |
44.9 |
... that the research interests of American
Indologist
Philip Lutgendorf include
Indian popular cinema and the
culture of tea in India?
|
20th century in ichnology |
2015-07-11 |
|
32 |
43.6 |
... that during the
20th century, the first large-scale excavation of
dinosaur footprints was undertaken
in Texas for an exhibit at the
American Museum of Natural History?
|
Oulophyllia crispa |
2015-07-04 |
|
510 |
43.4 |
... that
sponges,
worms, and
molluscs bore into the stony skeleton of the
intermediate valley coral?
|
Fifty Years of Freedom |
2015-07-05 |
|
500 |
42.2 |
... that
A. S. Neill liked the 1972 intellectual biography about himself,
Fifty Years of Freedom, but thought it "wasn't critical enough"?
|
Winfield Creek |
2015-07-22 |
|
502 |
42.1 |
... that
Winfield Creek is the final named tributary to join the
West Branch Susquehanna River?
|
Reid Anderson (dancer) |
2015-07-10 |
|
516 |
42.1 |
... that while
artistic director of the
National Ballet of Canada,
Reid Anderson also performed as a
character dancer?
|
Spencer Wilson |
2015-07-07 |
|
475 |
40.4 |
... that
Spencer Wilson played
Canadian football for the
Calgary Stampeders as a
left guard and
left tackle before becoming the starting right guard?
|
45th Martín Fierro Awards |
2015-07-13 |
|
482 |
40.2 |
... that
Mariana Fabbiani and
Guido Kaczka, hosts of the
45th Martín Fierro Awards ceremony, received awards of their own during the event?
|
Romy Gundermann |
2015-07-12 |
[[File:Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church,1018,1129,981,... that the original
Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church (replacement pictured) was burned to the ground after
Denmark Vesey, one of the church's founders, was implicated in a
slave revolt plot? |100x100px]] |
9 |
38.6 |
... that the soprano
Romy Gundermann and her husband received a medal from
Aschaffenburg for expanding music awareness and adding to the town's cultural heritage?
|
ETC Bollywood Business Awards |
2015-07-03 |
|
451 |
38.4 |
... that the
ETC Bollywood Business Awards are the only awards in India that judge films based on their box-office performance?
|
Life (Heo Young-saeng EP) |
2015-07-20 |
|
456 |
38.0 |
... that the lyrics of "The Art of Seduction", the lead track on the album
Life by
Heo Young-saeng, tell a story that is the complete opposite of its music video's plot?
|
Austria in the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 |
2015-07-20 |
|
487 |
37.9 |
... that
Conchita Wurst, who represented
Austria in the Eurovision Song Contest 2014, had previously attempted to
represent Austria at the
2012 contest?
|
Hildegard Rütgers |
2015-07-17 |
|
438 |
37.3 |
... that
contralto
Hildegard Rütgers recorded
Bach's Magnificat with Christmas interpolations with
Helmuth Rilling?
|
Coffee production in Jamaica |
2015-07-12 |
|
427 |
34.9 |
... that
Jamaica exports more than 80 per cent of its
production of
Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee to
Japan?
|
Solo (EP) |
2015-07-26 |
|
396 |
33.7 |
... that the lyrics for "Crying", the lead track on
Heo Young-saeng's 2012 EP
Solo, were written by Heo himself?
|
Mark Stockwell |
2015-07-19 |
|
389 |
32.4 |
... that Australian swimmer and Olympic silver medallist
Mark Stockwell successfully led Australia's bid for the
2018 Commonwealth Games?
|
Muhaarar |
2015-07-19 |
|
357 |
29.8 |
... that the racehorse
Muhaarar won the
Greenham Stakes in a course record time?
|
Girl with a Pearl Earring (soundtrack) |
2015-07-20 |
|
365 |
28.4 |
... that
Alexandre Desplat's
musical score to the 2003 film
Girl with a Pearl Earring raised his international profile and led to a career composing major productions like
The King's Speech?
|
List of awards and nominations received by Satyajit Ray |
2015-07-02 |
|
301 |
25.6 |
... that the Indian filmmaker
Satyajit Ray
was awarded both India's
highest civilian award and France's
highest decoration?
|
Ezhavathu Manithan |
2015-07-10 |
|
22 |
17.8 |
... that the soundtrack of 1982 film
Ezhavathu Manithan featured songs from a pre-recorded album of
L. Vaidyanathan, composed using the lyrics of
Subramania Bharati's poetry?
|
Sarah Lancashire |
2015-07-12 |
|
1
[l] |
4.3 |
... that a two-year
golden handcuffs contract in 2000 made
Sarah Lancashire the highest-paid actress in British television at the time?
|
Paki |
2015-07-13 |
|
5 |
0.4 |
... that although it is generally used as a racist slur, some
British Pakistanis are attempting to reclaim the word "
Paki"?
|