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Filibus |
2016-12-28 |
|
29,526 |
1,230.3 |
... that
Filibus (pictured), a fictional
sky pirate, has been called one of the first
lesbian characters in cinema?
|
Jim Delligatti |
2016-12-30 |
|
29,338 |
1,222.4 |
... that
Jim Delligatti created the
Big Mac (pictured)?
|
Beti people |
2016-12-05 |
|
25,611 |
1,067.1 |
... that the
Beti people were misrepresented in the
Tarzan books and films (poster pictured)?
|
Mary Chase Walker |
2016-12-13 |
|
24,450 |
1,018.8 |
... that schoolteacher
Mary Chase Walker (pictured) was boycotted in 1866 in
San Diego, California, after lunching in public with a black woman?
|
Licancabur Lake |
2016-12-19 |
|
24,272 |
1,011.4 |
... that the environment of
Licancabur Lake (pictured) in
Chile has been compared to early
lakes on Mars?
|
Cielo Latini
|
2016-12-07
|
|
15,010
|
625.4
|
... that the 2006 Argentine book
Abzurdah by
Cielo Latini (pictured) details the author's youthful struggle with
anorexia?
|
Abzurdah (book)
|
3,988
|
166.2
|
Total |
18,998 |
791.6
|
Joan of Navarre (nun)
|
2016-12-14
|
|
12,816
|
534.0
|
... that the princess
Joan of Navarre had to renounce her inheritance and become a nun because
her fiancé wanted to marry her younger sister
Maria instead?
|
Maria of Navarre
|
5,092
|
212.1
|
Total |
17,907 |
746.1
|
Machida Hisanari |
2016-12-16 |
|
16,222 |
675.9 |
... that the first director of the
Tokyo National Museum was the
samurai
Machida Hisanari (pictured)?
|
Bobbi Campbell |
2016-12-01 |
|
15,890 |
662.1 |
... that in 1981
Bobbi Campbell became the first person to publicly identify as a person living with
HIV/AIDS?
|
HMS Tartar's Prize |
2016-12-23 |
|
14,731 |
613.8 |
... that
HMS Tartar's Prize had oversized cannons, a leaky hull, and a smoky
galley, and sank in the Mediterranean when her timbers gave way?
|
The J's with Jamie |
2016-12-28 |
|
14,410 |
600.4 |
... that
Time magazine said
The J's with Jamie "have probably been heard by more people more times than any other group in the history of sound. Yet next to nobody knows who they are"?
|
White House sentries |
2016-12-20 |
|
14,255
[a] |
594.0 |
... that
White House sentries were abolished by
Gerald Ford but reinstated by
Ronald Reagan?
|
FHM's 100 Sexiest Women (UK) |
2016-12-27 |
|
13,645 |
568.5 |
... that publicists promoted the 1999 edition of
FHM's 100 Sexiest Women by projecting a 60-foot (18 m) naked image of the TV presenter
Gail Porter onto the
Palace of Westminster?
|
Thomas of Tolentino |
2016-12-06 |
|
12,678 |
528.3 |
... that
Thomas of Tolentino was martyred for
insulting Muhammad during a medieval domestic violence case in India?
|
Brown-necked parrot |
2016-12-09 |
|
12,610 |
525.4 |
... that almost all the
Cape parrots in captivity are actually
uncape parrots (pictured)?
|
Guan ware |
2016-12-15 |
|
12,350 |
514.6 |
... that
Guan ware (pictured) is the "most frequently copied" of all Chinese pottery, despite the
glaze being covered in cracks?
|
Secret Service Counter-Assault Teams |
2016-12-21 |
|
12,255 |
510.6 |
... that before qualifying for
Secret Service Counter-Assault Teams, agents of the
United States Secret Service are required to do
pull-ups while wearing a 45-pound (20 kg) weighted vest?
|
Atari CX40 joystick |
2016-12-01 |
|
12,232 |
509.7 |
... that
the joystick shipped with the Atari 2600 was described as "the pinnacle of home entertainment controllers in its day"?
|
Montrose Center |
2016-12-16 |
|
11,435 |
476.5 |
... that the
Westboro Baptist Church called Houston's
Montrose Center "an oozing, purulent sore of
sodomite contagion?"
|
Tantalus monkey |
2016-12-07 |
|
11,011 |
458.8 |
... that the male
tantalus monkey has a bright blue scrotum surrounded by orange hairs?
|
Make Me an Egghead |
2016-12-12 |
|
10,959 |
456.6 |
... that Steve Cooke and Beth Webster are
the newest Eggheads?
|
Tank steering systems |
2016-12-22 |
|
10,913 |
454.7 |
... that the
steering system on the
Saint-Chamond tank (pictured) weighed five tons?
|
Stephanie Murphy |
2016-12-06 |
|
10,693 |
445.5 |
... that
U.S. Representative-elect
Stephanie Murphy and her family left Vietnam when she was six months old, and were rescued by the
U.S. Navy?
|
Merian C. Cooper |
2016-12-08 |
|
10,604 |
441.8 |
... that
Merian C. Cooper, director of
King Kong, destroyed nearly all 5,000 copies of his autobiography Things Men Die For?
|
Saint George and the Dragon (Notke)
|
2016-12-26
|
|
8,530
|
355.4
|
... that the spikes of the dragon in the sculpture
Saint George and the Dragon (pictured) by
Bernt Notke are made of
moose antlers?
|
Bernt Notke
|
2,067
|
86.1
|
Total |
10,596 |
441.5
|
John Timoteo Baker
|
2016-12-21
|
|
7,924
|
330.2
|
... that Hawaiian brothers
John Timoteo Baker (pictured) and
Robert Hoapili Baker served as models for the
Kamehameha Statues?
|
Robert Hoapili Baker
|
2,592
|
108.0
|
Total |
10,516 |
438.2
|
Ratification of the United States Constitution by Rhode Island |
2016-12-15 |
|
10,492 |
437.2 |
... that
Rhode Island ratified the United States constitution only after being threatened with a
trade embargo by the rest of the United States?
|
Joseph Harmatz |
2016-12-17 |
|
10,322 |
435.5 |
... that a plot led by
Joseph Harmatz to poison 12,000
SS officers, held as POWs after
World War II, was part of a revenge effort "to kill six million Germans, one for every Jew slaughtered by the Germans"?
|
Tianfei Palace (Songjiang) |
2016-12-13 |
|
10,028 |
417.9 |
... that since it honors a notionally illegal
cult, suburban Shanghai's
Tianfei Palace is officially classified as a museum?
|
XGRS |
2016-12-07 |
|
9,996 |
416.5 |
... that
XGRS was a
Nazi-operated radio station in
Shanghai during
World War II?
|
Judith Hemmendinger |
2016-12-14 |
|
8,988 |
374.5 |
... that at age 22,
Judith Hemmendinger helped rehabilitate nearly 100 child survivors of the
Buchenwald concentration camp, among them
Elie Wiesel?
|
Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath |
2016-12-09 |
|
8,884
[b] |
370.2 |
... that
Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath explores "shocking stories of abuse, heartbreak and harassment" of former members of the
Church of Scientology?
|
Bohemond III of Antioch |
2016-12-09 |
|
8,824 |
367.7 |
... that the third wife of
Bohemond III of Antioch was described as a witch by
William of Tyre, and as a whore by
Michael the Syrian?
|
Semra Ertan |
2016-12-30 |
|
8,805 |
366.9 |
... that in 1982,
Semra Ertan set herself on fire in a
Hamburg marketplace to protest about
xenophobia in Germany?
|
Marylebone Lane |
2016-12-21 |
|
8,764 |
365.2 |
... that
Marylebone Lane is a "rustic diagonal" in an area laid out on a
grid plan?
|
Sadaqah |
2016-12-20 |
|
8,730 |
363.8 |
... that according to a
hadith by the Islamic prophet
Muhammad,
sadaqa removes seventy gates of evil?
|
More Hall Annex |
2016-12-29 |
|
8,704 |
362.7 |
... that the
Nuclear Reactor Building on the
University of Washington campus in Seattle was designed with large glass windows to "proudly showcase" the reactor?
|
Alice Brock |
2016-12-19 |
|
8,620 |
359.2 |
... that
Alice Brock owned the restaurant that inspired both
the song and
the film named "Alice's Restaurant"?
|
Philip III of Navarre |
2016-12-07 |
|
8,574 |
357.3 |
... that despite his subjects' reluctance to accept him as king,
Philip III of Navarre proved to be an effective and successful ruler?
|
State visits to the United States |
2016-12-01 |
|
8,488 |
353.6 |
... that
King Kalākaua of Hawaii was the first foreign leader to head a
state visit to the United States (reception pictured)?
|
Parshvanatha temple, Khajuraho |
2016-12-14 |
|
8,312 |
346.4 |
... that an inscription at the circa 10th-century
Parshvanatha temple features one of the oldest known 4×4
magic squares (pictured)?
|
Bertha Bracey |
2016-12-22 |
|
8,311 |
346.3 |
... that
Bertha Bracey was a
Hero of the Holocaust?
|
Hairy-breasted barbet |
2016-12-06 |
|
8,146 |
339.4 |
... that the
hairy-breasted barbet has been observed to remove wings and legs from insects by bashing them on branches?
|
E-baby |
2016-12-06 |
|
8,084 |
336.8 |
... that Jane Caferella's play
e-baby (
Ensemble Theatre performance pictured) was called "a very rare theatrical beast", as it explores the visceral experience of two women joined by
gestational surrogacy?
|
Weight plate |
2016-12-03 |
|
7,817 |
325.7 |
... that 45-pound (20 kg)
weight plates have been known to weigh as little as 38 pounds (17 kg) or as much as 59 pounds (27 kg)?
|
Map folding |
2016-12-30 |
|
7,803 |
325.1 |
... that
the number of ways to fold a strip of stamps is always
divisible by the number of stamps in the strip?
|
Petites Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry |
2016-12-29 |
|
7,796 |
324.8 |
... that the
Petites Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry (page pictured) show the "rupture in style" that occurred in French
illumination at the end of the fourteenth century?
|
Beatriz de la Cueva |
2016-12-03 |
|
7,790 |
324.6 |
... that
Beatriz de la Cueva, the first female colonial governor in the New World, died in a September 11 disaster two days after taking office?
|
Nutcracker doll |
2016-12-24 |
|
7,727 |
322.0 |
... that most modern
nutcracker dolls (examples pictured) are not functional, but merely decorative?
|
TV Corvi |
2016-12-08 |
|
7,692 |
320.5 |
... that the components of the
TV Corvi system orbit each other every 90 minutes?
|
Kurile Lake |
2016-12-16 |
|
7,634 |
318.1 |
... that
Kurile Lake is the site of the largest
volcanic eruption of
Holocene
Kamchatka and one of the largest in the Holocene, spreading ash to a distance of 1,700 kilometres (1,100 mi)?
|
Swarmjet |
2016-12-17 |
|
7,454 |
314.5 |
... that the
Swarmjet system was a proposed short-range
anti-ballistic missile that fired thousands of unguided rockets like a shotgun against incoming
nuclear warheads?
|
Deer Valley, Phoenix |
2016-12-20 |
|
7,530 |
313.8 |
... that you can fly
model airplanes or ride
model trains behind a flood control dam in Phoenix, Arizona's
Deer Valley urban village?
|
Operation Game Warden |
2016-12-02 |
|
7,417 |
309.0 |
... that
Operation Game Warden sought to interdict
Viet Cong use of the
Mekong Delta during the
Vietnam War and in so doing, patrolled over 3,800 miles (6,100 km) of natural and man-made waterways?
|
Lake Tauca |
2016-12-29 |
|
7,270 |
302.9 |
... that the now non-existent
Lake Tauca formerly covered large parts of the
Altiplano of
South America?
|
Carine Goren |
2016-12-16 |
|
7,124 |
296.8 |
... that pastry chef
Carine Goren was the most
googled person in Israel in 2015?
|
1989 Panamanian coup d'état attempt |
2016-12-02 |
|
7,004 |
291.9 |
... that 10 of the military officers involved in the
1989 Panamanian coup d'état attempt were executed in what became known as the Albrook massacre?
|
Tongtianlong |
2016-12-01 |
|
6,924 |
288.5 |
... that the first known specimen of the
dinosaur
Tongtianlong limosus, which may have died trapped in mud, was nearly blown up by Chinese workmen?
|
The Global Dilemma: Guns or Butter |
2016-12-28 |
|
6,866 |
286.1 |
... that
Chris Crawford considers
The Global Dilemma: Guns or Butter to be among the worst video games he created?
|
Kambalny |
2016-12-10 |
|
6,860 |
285.9 |
... that a landslide on
Kambalny (pictured) during the
Holocene caused debris to travel for 20 kilometres (12 mi)?
|
Matua (priest) |
2016-12-22 |
|
6,854 |
285.6 |
... that after
High Priest Matua of
Mangareva converted to Christianity in 1835, his long hair, sacred in the
old pagan religion, was cut short?
|
Vinicius and Tom |
2016-12-18 |
|
6,832 |
284.7 |
... that during
wrestling at the 2016 Summer Olympics, coaches threw plush dolls of
Vinicius, the Olympic mascot, into the ring (pictured) if they wished to challenge a referee's call?
|
Operation PBFORTUNE |
2016-12-30 |
|
6,738 |
280.7 |
... that
Operation PBFORTUNE, organized by the
CIA to topple Guatemalan President
Jacobo Árbenz, was terminated when the coup attempt became too widely known?
|
Gamaliel Painter |
2016-12-27 |
|
6,588 |
274.5 |
... that graduates of
Middlebury College receive a replica of a cane owned by
Gamaliel Painter (pictured)?
|
Zuhayr ibn Janab |
2016-12-14 |
|
6,393 |
266.4 |
... that the
pre-Islamic Arab chieftain
Zuhayr ibn Janab destroyed a sanctuary that rivalled the
Kaaba of Mecca?
|
English invasion of Scotland (1400) |
2016-12-03 |
|
6,386 |
266.1 |
... that
King Henry IV's
invasion of Scotland in 1400 has been described as "utterly futile"?
|
Free City of Danzig Government in Exile |
2016-12-01 |
|
6,372 |
265.5 |
... that the elected council of the
Free City of Danzig Government in Exile was supposedly recognised in secret as the legal successor to the
Danzig Senate by Danzig expatriates in 1951 and 1961?
|
Hannah Dadds |
2016-12-05 |
|
6,275 |
261.5 |
... that
Hannah Dadds was the first female train driver on the
London Underground?
|
Acanthinodera cumingii |
2016-12-02 |
|
6,053 |
252.2 |
... that the larva of the beetle
Acanthinodera cumingii (adult pictured) can reach 13 centimetres (5 in) in length?
|
Becca Pizzi |
2016-12-17 |
|
5,946 |
250.9 |
... that
Becca Pizzi completed
seven marathons on seven continents in seven days, and accepted a marriage proposal on the
mound before throwing out the
first pitch at Fenway Park?
|
Cizhou ware |
2016-12-23 |
|
6,000 |
250.0 |
... that
Cizhou ware was popular pottery not used by the Chinese Imperial court, and often made as ceramic pillows (example pictured)?
|
Roosevelt station (Sound Transit) |
2016-12-06 |
|
5,657 |
235.7 |
... that the future
Roosevelt station in
Seattle plans to incorporate a preserved
Streamline Moderne facade from a music shop that was demolished for its construction?
|
Shehla Zia |
2016-12-20 |
|
5,604 |
233.5 |
... that lawyer and activist
Shehla Zia was once arrested for protesting a law which reduced the weight given to evidence provided by female witnesses in a trial?
|
Zarma people |
2016-12-09 |
|
5,371 |
223.8 |
... that in the stratified social system of the African
Zarma people, the lowest stratum inherited
slavery?
|
Raphael Demos |
2016-12-08 |
|
5,362 |
223.4 |
... that
Raphael Demos taught
Martin Luther King Jr. the philosophy of
Plato and gave him an A for his work?
|
Hemp in Kentucky |
2016-12-09 |
|
5,320 |
221.6 |
... that after decades of prohibition,
hemp in Kentucky is a legal crop?
|
Lesser spot-nosed monkey |
2016-12-12 |
|
5,292 |
220.5 |
... that when its cheek pouches are full, the
lesser spot-nosed monkey's throat resembles a snowball?
|
Electoral history of George Washington |
2016-12-05 |
|
5,242 |
218.4 |
... that
George Washington's campaign distributed 160 US gallons (610 L) of alcoholic drink to voters on polling day at the 1758 Virginia
House of Burgesses election?
|
Joseph Rotblat |
2016-12-21 |
|
5,162 |
215.1 |
... that Sir
Joseph Rotblat, a Polish physicist who helped design atomic bombs for the
Manhattan Project during World War II, won the
Nobel Prize for Peace?
|
Aluminium sulfacetate |
2016-12-28 |
|
5,012 |
208.8 |
... that an 1899 publication recommended that use of an impure
aluminium sulfacetate preparation as a
mordant "should be abandoned", as it is an "empyreumatic liquid"?
|
Sam Manekshaw |
2016-12-09 |
|
4,962 |
206.7 |
... that
Sam Manekshaw was the first
Indian Army officer to be promoted to the rank of
field marshal?
|
Bexley Hospital |
2016-12-14 |
|
4,956 |
206.5 |
... that at
Bexley Hospital, the patients looked after the farm animals, maintained the grounds, and did the cleaning?
|
Tectonic evolution of the Aravalli Mountains |
2016-12-26 |
|
4,936 |
205.7 |
... that the
Aravalli Mountains contain intensely deformed rocks?
|
Likelike (wife of Kalanimoku) |
2016-12-27 |
|
4,920 |
205.0 |
... that
Kalanimoku caused the death of his wife
Likelike and their son Lanihau with cannon fire outside their house?
|
Eastern salient of Java |
2016-12-21 |
|
4,904 |
204.3 |
... that the ruling
Dutch East India Company drove the Islamization of the
eastern salient of Java in the 18th century?
|
Monroe Karmin |
2016-12-15 |
|
4,862 |
202.6 |
... that when introducing actress
Sharon Stone, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
Monroe Karmin attributed her "wellness, fitness, and positive attitude" to her choice of undergarments?
|
Bishop Petros with Saint Peter the Apostle |
2016-12-03 |
|
4,857 |
202.4 |
... that the 1000-year-old
Bishop Petros with Saint Peter the Apostle ended up in Poland after being saved from a watery grave?
|
Oberländer's ground thrush |
2016-12-01 |
|
4,838 |
201.6 |
... that the eggs of
Oberländer's ground thrush have yet to be described?
|
Sarai Gonzalez |
2016-12-28 |
|
4,709 |
196.2 |
... that 11-year-old
Sarai Gonzalez plays a "nerdy"
tween with a "sassy" and "confident" attitude in
Bomba Estéreo's "Soy Yo" ("That's Me") music video?
|
Moser–de Bruijn sequence |
2016-12-02 |
|
4,611 |
192.1 |
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|
Iazyges |
2016-12-22 |
|
4,572 |
190.5 |
... that the
Iazyges were a tribe of
Sarmatians that migrated from
Central Asia to the
Pannonian Basin?
|
Monumental brass of John Rudying |
2016-12-25 |
|
4,532 |
188.8 |
... that the "very remarkable"
monumental brass of John Rudying in
St Andrew's church in
Biggleswade was rediscovered when the floor was lifted?
|
Tony Ahn |
2016-12-21 |
|
4,527 |
188.6 |
... that in 2015,
Tony Ahn hiked the 63-mile (101 km)
Bataan Death March route, consuming only a cup of rice and a liter of water per day to raise awareness that Filipinos were also forced to march?
|
Lahilahi Webb |
2016-12-11 |
|
4,524 |
188.5 |
... that after Queen
Liliuokalani of Hawaii died in 1917, her pet dog Poni (pictured) was given to her confidante and final
lady-in-waiting
Lahilahi Webb?
|
Perley Bridge |
2016-12-30 |
|
4,348 |
181.2 |
... that both towns connected by the 1931 opening of the
Perley Bridge declared a half-day holiday to start at noon?
|
African cuckoo |
2016-12-19 |
|
4,348 |
181.2 |
... that in South Africa, fewer than 40% of
African cuckoo eggs are successfully hatched and the chicks raised by their foster parents?
|
Schedule C appointment |
2016-12-11 |
|
4,338 |
180.7 |
... that low-level
Schedule C
political appointees in the United States sometimes attempt to "burrow in" by transferring to permanent
merit-based positions?
|
Robert Blemmell Schnebbelie |
2016-12-27 |
|
4,320 |
180.0 |
... that despite being a prolific artist of 19th-century London,
Robert Blemmell Schnebbelie died of starvation in
Camden Town?
|
Doucai |
2016-12-08 |
|
4,318 |
179.9 |
... that the
doucai style (example pictured) in
Chinese porcelain uses colours both
over and
under the
glaze?
|
Glass Buttes |
2016-12-23 |
|
4,240 |
176.6 |
... that
Glass Buttes is a mountain group in central
Oregon named for the large deposits of
obsidian found on their slopes?
|
Josh White (racing driver) |
2016-12-15 |
|
4,220 |
175.9 |
... that
Josh White is a
NASCAR driver and a member of the
United States Marine Corps Reserve?
|
Puaaiki |
2016-12-30 |
|
4,182 |
174.3 |
... that
Puaaiki, a blind preacher from Maui, was a former
hula dancer for King
Kamehameha II?
|
Mataram conquest of Surabaya |
2016-12-05 |
|
4,164 |
173.5 |
... that during
their conquest of Surabaya,
Mataram forces dammed the
Brantas River to limit water supply to the city of
Surabaya?
|
Ambrose K. Hutchison
|
2016-12-09
|
|
2,396
|
99.8
|
... that the British-Hawaiian politician
Ferdinand William Hutchison was influential in the development of the
leper colony of Kalaupapa, to which his son
Ambrose K. Hutchison was exiled in 1879?
|
Ferdinand William Hutchison
|
1,761
|
73.4
|
Total |
4,157 |
173.2
|
O Heiland, reiß die Himmel auf |
2016-12-23 |
|
4,132 |
172.2 |
... that the
Advent hymn "
O Heiland, reiß die Himmel auf" was written against a backdrop of the
Thirty Years' War, the
plague, and
witch trials?
|
Richard L. Alexander |
2016-12-07 |
|
4,120 |
171.7 |
... that an ace member of the
Eagle Squadrons,
Richard L. Alexander, was one of the first pilots of the
P-47 Thunderbolt?
|
Beecroft's flying squirrel |
2016-12-27 |
|
4,015 |
167.3 |
... that when a
Beecroft's flying squirrel brings food to its offspring, its cheeks expand to the size of a
tangerine?
|
Tang dynasty tomb figures |
2016-12-04 |
|
3,947 |
165.6 |
... that 7th- and 8th-century Chinese pottery
Tang dynasty tomb figures include
cross-dressing women playing
polo (example pictured)?
|
Michael Stevens (educator) |
2016-12-04 |
|
3,852 |
161.6 |
... that
Michael Stevens, creator and host of
Vsauce, uploaded his first
YouTube videos under the username "pooplicker888"?
|
South Sudan at the 2016 Summer Olympics |
2016-12-19 |
|
3,878 |
161.6 |
... that one member of
South Sudan's delegation to the 2016 Summer Olympics was informed by email eight days prior to the Games that he would not be competing?
|
Warionia |
2016-12-27 |
|
3,877 |
161.5 |
... that perfumes made from the pungent
Warionia saharae desert plant are reputed to employ its "supernatural powers" to make women more seductive?
|
Raja Krishnamoorthi |
2016-12-10 |
|
3,830 |
159.6 |
... that when he was growing up,
U.S. Representative-elect
Raja Krishnamoorthi lived in public housing and received
food stamps?
|
Sloggett's vlei rat |
2016-12-23 |
|
3,812 |
158.9 |
... that young
Sloggett's vlei rats have several adaptations that help them cope with severe cold in winter?
|
Carl Diggler |
2016-12-04 |
|
3,774 |
158.3 |
... that fictional journalist
Carl Diggler correctly predicted the results of more
2016 presidential
primaries than
Nate Silver's statistics blog
FiveThirtyEight?
|
Silvery mole-rat |
2016-12-21 |
|
3,730 |
155.4 |
... that courtship in the
silvery mole-rat includes locking incisors or gently nibbling the mate?
|
Greater long-nosed armadillo |
2016-12-26 |
|
3,712 |
154.6 |
... that the
greater long-nosed armadillo is sometimes preyed on by
bush dogs which enter its burrow and drag it out?
|
The Miniaturist |
2016-12-01 |
|
3,674 |
153.1 |
... that eleven publishers vied for the rights to
Jessie Burton's debut novel
The Miniaturist?
|
Natalie Sims |
2016-12-27 |
|
3,612 |
150.5 |
... that
Natalie Sims co-wrote the
Iggy Azalea song "
Work", which sold over one million copies in the US?
|
I Am Seven |
2016-12-15 |
|
3,548 |
147.9 |
... that
I Am Seven was released by Eleven9 Entertainment, a new agency in which South Korean singer
Seven had invested six billion
won (US$5.24 million)?
|
Shah Mosque (Tehran) |
2016-12-12 |
|
3,544 |
147.6 |
... that in 1951, Prime Minister of Iran
Haj Ali Razmara was shot dead by
Khalil Tahmasebi, a member of
Fada'iyan-e Islam, while attending a memorial service at Tehran's
Shah Mosque (pictured)?
|
To Build a Home |
2016-12-11 |
|
3,522 |
146.8 |
... that despite
charting at only 96, "
To Build a Home" by
The Cinematic Orchestra has been streamed more than 60 million times and featured in several TV shows?
|
Birdsong (novel) |
2016-12-19 |
|
3,496 |
145.6 |
... that one critic described the novel
Birdsong by
Sebastian Faulks as starting a trend in the 1990s of British literature
rethinking the legacy of the World Wars?
|
Antone Rosa |
2016-12-12 |
|
3,464 |
144.3 |
... that
Kingdom of Hawaii Attorney General
Antone Rosa and Interior Minister
John F. Colburn were detained for driving a carriage into a fish market?
|
Songjiang Square Pagoda |
2016-12-08 |
|
3,428 |
142.9 |
... that the
reliquary of the 11th-century Buddhist monk Miaoyuan was rediscovered in the 1970s during repairs to
Songjiang's
Square Pagoda?
|
Sexify |
2016-12-08 |
|
3,386 |
141.1 |
... that
Pharrell Williams wrote the song "
Sexify" based on headlines from the women's fashion magazine
Cosmopolitan?
|
Woodland dormouse |
2016-12-13 |
|
3,274 |
136.4 |
... that under certain conditions, the
woodland dormouse can enter a state of
torpor?
|
Baxter Langley |
2016-12-11 |
|
3,236 |
134.9 |
... that
Baxter Langley, who stood for the UK Parliament alongside
William Gladstone, was later sentenced to
hard labour?
|
Kendra Coulter |
2016-12-14 |
|
3,224 |
134.4 |
... that the
labour studies scholar
Kendra Coulter calls for interspecies solidarity between human and animal workers?
|
Robert Mnuchin |
2016-12-13 |
|
3,192 |
133.0 |
... that art dealer and gallerist
Robert Mnuchin, and his sons
Steven and Alan, all worked for
Goldman Sachs?
|
Just Cause 2 |
2016-12-07 |
|
3,150 |
131.2 |
... that the
multiplayer
fan project developed for
Just Cause 2 was recognized by
Avalanche Studios as the game's official
downloadable content?
|
Gary Varner |
2016-12-06 |
|
3,074 |
128.1 |
... that the philosopher
Gary Varner has argued that all beings, including plants, have morally considerable interests?
|
Gaius Antonius Hybrida |
2016-12-11 |
|
3,050 |
127.1 |
... that expulsion from the Senate did not prevent
Gaius Antonius Hybrida from attaining the highest elected office in the Roman Republic?
|
Bearded scrub robin |
2016-12-29 |
|
3,050 |
127.1 |
... that the
bearded scrub robin disappeared from the
Hluhluwe–Umfolozi Game Reserve after
tsetse deterrent was sprayed there in the 1940s, but had recolonised the area by 1975?
|
Michael Lane (engineer) |
2016-12-12 |
|
3,008 |
125.3 |
... that
Michael Lane, who served as Chief Engineer of the
Great Western Railway, started out as a bricklayer but became one of
Isambard Kingdom Brunel's most trusted assistants?
|
Malagasy white-eye |
2016-12-17 |
|
2,928 |
123.6 |
... that the
Malagasy white-eye (pictured) sometimes indulges in mutual preening?
|
Dwarf scaly-tailed squirrel |
2016-12-31 |
|
2,958 |
123.2 |
... that the diet of the
dwarf scaly-tailed squirrel includes bark and fruit, including the
fleshy fruits of the
umbrella tree?
|
Clementia Killewald |
2016-12-21 |
|
2,952 |
123.0 |
... that
Clementia Killewald, abbess of
Eibingen Abbey, spoke about its founder
Hildegard of Bingen at the ceremony when she was proclaimed a saint and Doctor of the Church by the pope?
|
James Kekela |
2016-12-26 |
|
2,946 |
122.8 |
... that Hawaii's first Protestant minister
James Kekela saved an American sailor from
cannibals and was presented with a gold watch from President
Abraham Lincoln?
|
Aluminium triacetate |
2016-12-16 |
|
2,900 |
120.8 |
... that
aluminium triacetate is used to treat
aphthous ulcers and
otitis, to relieve the itch from
poison ivy, and as an
astringent with
Mortellaro disease in hoofed animals?
|
Pseudo-Jacquemart |
2016-12-31 |
|
2,846 |
118.6 |
... that the name
Pseudo-Jacquemart was assigned to the
anonymous master illuminator (work pictured) for his collaboration with
Jacquemart de Hesdin?
|
El Progreso Department |
2016-12-13 |
|
2,819 |
117.5 |
... that
El Progreso Department in
Guatemala was dissolved 12 years after its creation, only to be recreated 14 years later?
|
Taschenphilharmonie |
2016-12-25 |
|
2,806 |
116.9 |
... that the
Taschenphilharmonie, called the world's smallest orchestra, earned prizes for classical music embedded in narration for young children?
|
Condonella |
2016-12-14 |
|
2,756 |
114.9 |
... that the Cretaceous snail
Condonella was described in 1927, but not placed into a snail family until 2000?
|
Denny-Renton Clay and Coal Company |
2016-12-30 |
|
2,750 |
114.6 |
... that the president of
Denny-Renton Clay and Coal Company was the first boy born to the settlers of
Seattle?
|
Assyrian sculpture |
2016-12-10 |
|
2,678 |
111.6 |
... that
destruction of ancient
Assyrian sculpture by
ISIL is reported to have increased in late 2016 with the
Mosul offensive?
|
Ted Budd |
2016-12-17 |
|
2,603 |
109.8 |
... that
U.S. Representative-elect
Ted Budd won his first election with 20% of the vote in a 17-candidate field?
|
Suciacarpa |
2016-12-20 |
|
2,622 |
109.2 |
... that seeds of the fossil fruit
Suciacarpa have fossil fungi inside them?
|
Clarence Ditlow |
2016-12-02 |
|
2,580 |
107.5 |
... that
Clarence Ditlow was recommended for a consumer advocacy job because he was a wrestler?
|
Ralph Monroe Eaton |
2016-12-05 |
|
2,486 |
103.6 |
... that Harvard philosopher
Ralph Monroe Eaton wrote an unpublished memoir of his experiences during the First World War?
|
Telepathy (Christina Aguilera song) |
2016-12-14 |
|
2,434 |
101.4 |
... that
Christina Aguilera self-produced a 96-second music video for "
Telepathy" as a gift to her fans as the song rose to number-one on the
Billboard
Dance Club Songs chart?
|
Aubrey Lewis (athlete) |
2016-12-10 |
|
2,432 |
101.3 |
... that after becoming the first African-American to captain an athletic team at
Notre Dame,
Aubrey Lewis joined the first class to include blacks at the
FBI Academy?
|
Ben Woodburn |
2016-12-29 |
|
2,404 |
100.1 |
... that on 29 November 2016,
Ben Woodburn became
Liverpool's youngest ever goalscorer when he scored against
Leeds United in the
EFL Cup?
|
Shafiqa Habibi |
2016-12-08 |
|
2,375 |
99.0 |
... that journalist
Shafiqa Habibi was one of only three women candidates in the
2004 Afghan presidential election?
|
Heaven (Inna song) |
2016-12-28 |
|
2,368 |
98.6 |
... that the refrain of "
Heaven" by
Inna is written in a language invented by the singer and her label?
|
John Dominis Holt II |
2016-12-13 |
|
2,300 |
95.9 |
... that Hawaiian Colonel
John Dominis Holt served as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention with
a prince?
|
Don Martina |
2016-12-01 |
|
2,288 |
95.3 |
... that
Don Martina, former Prime Minister of the Netherlands Antilles, successfully campaigned for
a slave leader to become a national hero?
|
Duchy of Surabaya |
2016-12-18 |
|
2,267 |
94.5 |
... that after the
Mataram conquest of the
Duchy of Surabaya, the son of its last duke married the sister of the conqueror,
Sultan Agung?
|
Brachychiton megaphyllus |
2016-12-02 |
|
2,245 |
93.5 |
... that to the speakers of the
Ngan’gityemerri language, the flowering of the
red-flowering kurrajong marks the time that
freshwater crocodiles are laying eggs?
|
96th Street (Second Avenue Subway)
|
2016-12-10
|
|
980
|
40.9
|
... that the
72nd,
86th, and
96th Street stations along the
Second Avenue Subway are part of the
New York City Subway's first major expansion in over half a century?
|
72nd Street (Second Avenue Subway)
|
740
|
30.9
|
86th Street (Second Avenue Subway)
|
494
|
20.6
|
Total |
2,216 |
92.3
|
Mary Barkas |
2016-12-16 |
|
2,198 |
91.6 |
... that
Mary Barkas was the first female
house physician at the
Bethlem Royal Hospital in London?
|
Othello station |
2016-12-18 |
|
2,187 |
91.1 |
... that artwork at
Othello station in Seattle, Washington, includes African dancers, an Asian-American "
totem pole", and
stormwater channels?
|
MSI World Scrabble Championship 2016 |
2016-12-10 |
|
2,154 |
89.7 |
... that
Brett Smitheram won the
2016 World Scrabble Championship?
|
Ami Radunskaya |
2016-12-24 |
|
2,152 |
89.6 |
... that
Ami Radunskaya, a mathematician who heads the
Association for Women in Mathematics, spent ten years as a
cellist and
music composer between high school and college?
|
Apus |
2016-12-24 |
|
2,146 |
89.4 |
... that, unusually for a constellation, the five brightest stars of
Apus are red-tinged?
|
Asian Paints Ltd |
2016-12-04 |
|
2,118 |
88.9 |
... that
Asian Paints Ltd's former mascot Gattu, a mischievous boy with a paint bucket, was created by Indian cartoonist
R. K. Laxman?
|
Mike McCray |
2016-12-22 |
|
2,084 |
86.8 |
... that
Michigan linebacker
Mike McCray was named
Big Ten Conference Defensive Player of the Week for his first career start?
|
Debatable (TV show) |
2016-12-15 |
|
2,081 |
86.7 |
... that
Debatable panellists have included a former MP and a rapper?
|
The Foo Show |
2016-12-26 |
|
2,078 |
86.6 |
... that
The Foo Show is an interactive virtual-reality talk show?
|
Agnes E. Meyer |
2016-12-03 |
|
2,073 |
86.4 |
... that President
Lyndon B. Johnson credited
Agnes E. Meyer with having the most influence over his education policy?
|
Sound Transit 3 |
2016-12-04 |
|
2,057 |
86.3 |
... that
Sound Transit 3 will nearly double the amount of
light rail in the
Seattle region to 112 miles (180 km) of track?
|
Helen Boyle |
2016-12-07 |
|
2,036 |
84.9 |
... that
Helen Boyle was the first female president of the
Royal Medico-Psychological Association?
|
Alice Bota |
2016-12-18 |
|
2,000 |
83.3 |
... that
Alice Bota, who writes for
Die Zeit and studied in Germany and Poland, won an
award for young journalists?
|
Sadhan Gupta
|
2016-12-23
|
|
1,101
|
45.9
|
... that
Sadhan Gupta, elected from
Calcutta South East in a
1953 by-poll, was the first blind parliamentarian in independent India?
|
Calcutta South East (Lok Sabha constituency)
|
444
|
18.5
|
Calcutta South East by-election, 1953
|
430
|
17.9
|
Total |
1,976 |
82.3
|
Wes McCauley |
2016-12-02 |
|
1,958 |
81.6 |
... that
Wes McCauley has refereed the
Stanley Cup Finals for the last four years?
|
Fashion History Museum |
2016-12-24 |
|
1,940 |
80.8 |
... that the
Fashion History Museum in
Cambridge, Ontario houses what may be the oldest existing European shoe worn in North America?
|
Agastomyrma |
2016-12-05 |
|
1,936 |
80.7 |
... that the fossil ant genus
Agastomyrma was described from a single queen?
|
Okinawa Shrine |
2016-12-16 |
|
1,904 |
79.4 |
... that the main hall of
Shuri Castle was reused as the
haiden of
Okinawa Shrine before its destruction in the
Battle of Okinawa?
|
Washington gubernatorial election, 1960 |
2016-12-02 |
|
1,890 |
78.8 |
... that the
Washington state
1960 gubernatorial election was the first in state history to include
televised debates?
|
Ernest William Moir |
2016-12-23 |
|
1,856 |
77.3 |
... that
civil engineer
Ernest William Moir invented the first medical
airlock?
|
Laundromat (Nivea song) |
2016-12-12 |
|
1,854 |
77.2 |
... that
Solange Knowles performed a live cover of
Nivea's song "
Laundromat" in an actual laundromat?
|
Lucas Ocampos |
2016-12-20 |
|
1,840 |
76.6 |
... that the €11 million reported to have been spent by
AS Monaco FC in 2012 to sign
Lucas Ocampos, was the most ever for a
Ligue 2 player?
|
Mantou kiln |
2016-12-25 |
|
1,822 |
75.9 |
... that the
mantou kiln, used for pottery in north China for some 2,000 years, is named after a type of
steamed bread bun?
|
Soakimi Gatafahefa |
2016-12-24 |
|
1,798 |
74.9 |
... that the Tongan
Soakimi Gatafahefa, the first Polynesian to be ordained as a Catholic priest, studied in Rome and met
Pope Pius IX?
|
Wilhelm von Debschitz |
2016-12-08 |
|
1,792 |
74.6 |
... that
Wilhelm von Debschitz founded an art school in Munich which provided a model for the
Bauhaus?
|
Idris Kanu |
2016-12-31 |
|
1,777 |
74.0 |
... that at the age of 16 years and 308 days,
Idris Kanu became the youngest ever player for
Aldershot Town F.C. in a league match?
|
Luther Aholo |
2016-12-18 |
|
1,752 |
73.0 |
... that Hawaiian legislator
Luther Aholo was compared to the Athenian statesman
Solon?
|
Gaye LeBaron |
2016-12-26 |
|
1,751 |
73.0 |
... that
Gaye LeBaron wrote more than 8,000 columns for
The Press Democrat of Santa Rosa, California, and hers were considered "the most popular feature in the paper"?
|
Jan Rippe |
2016-12-15 |
|
1,732 |
72.2 |
... that
Jan Rippe became well known to the Swedish public in his role as Roger in the television comedy series
Macken?
|
Cascadia Art Museum |
2016-12-27 |
|
1,699 |
70.8 |
... that the
Cascadia Art Museum in
Edmonds, Washington, is located inside a former
Safeway grocery store?
|
Joseph Lyons (caterer) |
2016-12-03 |
|
1,696 |
70.7 |
... that caterer
Sir Joseph Lyons staged
Venice in London (programme pictured) in 1891 using 100 gondolas imported from Venice – along with their gondoliers?
|
Stealing Peaches |
2016-12-11 |
|
1,690 |
70.4 |
... that the
Pu Songling short story "
Stealing Peaches" describes the
Indian rope trick?
|
Thomas Wright Everett |
2016-12-19 |
|
1,689 |
70.4 |
... that New England expatriate
Thomas Wright Everett became the last
Royal Governor of Maui?
|
Egypt at the 1906 Intercalated Games |
2016-12-26 |
|
1,684 |
70.2 |
... that
cyclist Eugenio Colombani also represented
Egypt at the 1906 Intercalated Games in
Greco-Roman wrestling?
|
Neil Alexander |
2016-12-23 |
|
1,664 |
69.4 |
... that in 2010, the association footballer
Neil Alexander came on as a substitute for
Queen of the South in a
friendly against his own team,
Rangers?
|
A.M.O. Ghani |
2016-12-30 |
|
1,660 |
69.1 |
... that
A.M.O. Ghani's popularity as a politician was credited to his provision of medical care to the poor?
|
Sudha Roy |
2016-12-28 |
|
1,648 |
68.7 |
... that when
Sisir Roy died in 1960, his sister
Sudha Roy took over his post as general secretary of the United Trade Union Congress?
|
Martin Schmeding |
2016-12-20 |
|
1,629 |
67.9 |
... that
Martin Schmeding recorded the complete organ works by
Max Reger on thirteen different organs from the composer's period, including the Sauer organ at
Berlin Cathedral (pictured)?
|
Kiliwehi |
2016-12-31 |
|
1,626 |
67.8 |
... that
Queen Emma of Hawaii and her lady-in-waiting
Kiliwehi were received by Queen Victoria and spent a night at
Windsor Castle?
|
Sheku Kanneh-Mason |
2016-12-17 |
|
1,602 |
67.6 |
... that the British
cellist
Sheku Kanneh-Mason signed his first record deal on a bus named in his honour?
|
Center for the Study of Women in Society |
2016-12-31 |
|
1,606 |
66.9 |
... that
Joan Acker and
Miriam Johnson of the
Center for the Study of Women in Society found that "Do you shave your legs?" was the question most strongly correlated to identifying with feminism?
|
Kanai Pal |
2016-12-26 |
|
1,603 |
66.8 |
... that Indian
Trotskyist state legislator
Kanai Pal was jailed soon after being elected in 1962?
|
Ismaël Coulibaly |
2016-12-05 |
|
1,596 |
66.5 |
... that Malian taekwondo practitioner
Ismaël Coulibaly won a gold medal at the
2015 African Games?
|
George H. Barbour |
2016-12-19 |
|
1,588 |
66.2 |
... that after part of the dome of the
New Jersey State House was painted blue,
George H. Barbour introduced legislation to ensure it would be restored to its traditional gold and white?
|
Jiban Ratan Dhar |
2016-12-10 |
|
1,580 |
65.8 |
... that
West Bengal Jails Minister
Jiban Ratan Dhar had been jailed three times himself?
|
Zhang Hongjian |
2016-12-05 |
|
1,578 |
65.7 |
... that "
Zhang Hongjian", a short story by Chinese writer Pu Songling, was adapted into two plays?
|
Gonzalo Castellot Madrazo |
2016-12-11 |
|
1,541 |
64.2 |
... that
Gonzalo Castellot Madrazo was the first announcer to appear on
Mexican television?
|
Adoration of the Kings (David, London) |
2016-12-25 |
|
1,495 |
62.3 |
... that
Adoration of the Kings (pictured) by
Gerard David was variously attributed to
Gossaert,
Memling, "School of
van Eyck", "
van der Weyden the younger", and the "Flemish School"?
|
Z.A. Ahmed (Indian politician) |
2016-12-31 |
|
1,494 |
62.3 |
... that facing an arrest warrant in India and pressure from within his party, Indian communist politician
Z.A. Ahmed sought refuge in Pakistan?
|
Harvard Environmental Law Review |
2016-12-13 |
|
1,484 |
61.9 |
... that the focus of
Harvard Environmental Law Review was changed because the original format was "too ambitious"?
|
Order of the Lion (Malawi) |
2016-12-22 |
|
1,482 |
61.8 |
... that in 1967, President
Hastings Banda established the
Order of the Lion,
Malawi's second-highest honor?
|
Mormon missionary diarists |
2016-12-11 |
|
1,441 |
60.0 |
... that
Brigham Young University has a digitized collection of
Mormon missionary diaries that includes the work of 115 diarists and 376 written volumes?
|
Mary Dominis |
2016-12-24 |
|
1,415 |
59.0 |
... that in 1858
Santa Claus made his
first Hawaiian appearance at Washington Place, the home of
Mary Dominis?
|
The Golden History |
2016-12-31 |
|
1,414 |
58.9 |
... that
Momoiro Clover Z did not know they were making their music video for "
The Golden History" until filming started?
|
State aid (European Union) |
2016-12-07 |
|
1,343 |
56.0 |
... that the
European Commission ruled the
Republic of Ireland's tax benefits to
Apple were an illegal form of
state aid, and the company would have to pay €13 billion in back tax as a result?
|
Proceratium eocenicum |
2016-12-04 |
|
1,308 |
54.9 |
... that males of the fossil ant
Proceratium eocenicum have a hair fringe?
|
Natural selection |
2016-12-31 |
|
1,314
[c] |
54.7 |
... that
Darwin introduced the theory of evolution by
natural selection, but was not the first to use the term "survival of the fittest"?
|
Give Thanks With a Grateful Heart |
2016-12-24 |
|
1,278 |
53.2 |
... that the Christian song "
Give Thanks With a Grateful Heart" was credited as unknown authorship when first released in 1986, despite being written by Henry Smith in 1978?
|
Essex Street, London |
2016-12-18 |
|
1,276 |
53.1 |
... that
Cheshire Cheese may be found in
Essex?
|
PSLV-C5 |
2016-12-03 |
|
1,218 |
50.8 |
... that in 2003,
PSLV-C5 deployed the
IRS-P6 satellite, then the heaviest and most sophisticated remote sensing satellite built by the
Indian Space Research Organisation?
|
Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme (J. C. F. Bach) |
2016-12-22 |
|
1,200 |
50.0 |
... that the third movement of the chorale motet
Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme contains a quotation from a
Bach cantata which composer
J. C. F. Bach included as a tribute to
his father?
|
Rudraveena (film) |
2016-12-15 |
|
1,194 |
49.8 |
... that
Rudraveena (1988) was the second
Telugu-language film to win the
Nargis Dutt Award for Best Feature Film on National Integration?
|
Elm Ridge Cemetery, North Brunswick |
2016-12-12 |
|
1,154 |
48.1 |
... that there was no marker for the grave of theologian
Theodorus Jacobus Frelinghuysen at
Elm Ridge Cemetery for more than a century after his burial?
|
Through the Wilderness |
2016-12-17 |
|
1,118 |
47.2 |
... that the idea for
Through the Wilderness, a
Madonna
tribute album, came in a dream to
Paul Beahan?
|
Sartre: Romantic Rationalist |
2016-12-29 |
|
1,128 |
47.0 |
... that
Iris Murdoch's first book,
Sartre: Romantic Rationalist, was the first book about
Jean-Paul Sartre's work to be published in English?
|
Dave Somers |
2016-12-12 |
|
1,128 |
47.0 |
... that
Dave Somers, the current
executive of
Snohomish County, Washington, was educated as a
fisheries biologist?
|
Guinea-Bissau at the 2012 Summer Paralympics |
2016-12-06 |
|
1,126 |
46.9 |
... that
Guinea-Bissau's participation at the 2012 Summer Paralympics was the country's first at a
Paralympic Games?
|
Neues Geistliches Lied |
2016-12-09 |
|
1,102 |
45.9 |
... that
Neues Geistliches Lied, a genre of contemporary songs for use at church, was performed by around 1,895 choirs and bands in German dioceses according to a 2001 report?
|
Anadi Das |
2016-12-20 |
|
1,080 |
45.0 |
... that independent candidate
Anadi Das defeated the incumbent assembly speaker in the
1962 West Bengal election?
|
Carazamba |
2016-12-06 |
|
1,069 |
44.5 |
... that the
criollista novel
Carazamba may be seen as an allegory of the incorporation of the remote
Petén Department into the
Guatemalan nation?
|
Tamar Halperin |
2016-12-04 |
|
1,060 |
44.5 |
... that
Tamar Halperin recorded music by
Erik Satie, playing piano,
harpsichord,
Hammond organ, and
Wurlitzer piano?
|
William Austin Whiting |
2016-12-16 |
|
991 |
41.3 |
... that during her 1895 trial,
Queen Liliuokalani was defended by her
former attorney general and tried by a military tribunal led by another
former attorney general?
|
Vom Himmel hoch, o Engel, kommt |
2016-12-25 |
|
976 |
40.6 |
... that in the carol "
Vom Himmel hoch, o Engel, kommt", printed in 1622, the angels are requested to come from Heaven with musical instruments, to sing of Jesus and Mary, and for peace?
|
New York State Insurance Fund |
2016-12-03 |
|
946 |
39.4 |
... that the
New York State Insurance Fund once mistakenly categorized puppet making under rubber manufacturing instead of theatrical production?
|
Mirjam Wiesemann |
2016-12-29 |
|
886 |
36.9 |
... that
Mirjam Wiesemann made award-winning audiobooks for
Cybele Records, introducing in music and conversation the composers
Hartmann,
Apostel,
Henze,
Boulez,
Jacqueline Fontyn and
Juan Allende-Blin?
|
Sudhindranath Kumar |
2016-12-18 |
|
866 |
36.1 |
... that the
Revolutionary Communist Party of India general secretary
Sudhindranath Kumar served two terms as Food Minister of
West Bengal?
|
1970 Commonwealth Paraplegic Games |
2016-12-04 |
|
842 |
35.3 |
... that the
1970 Commonwealth Paraplegic Games, held in
Edinburgh, lacked day-to-day television coverage by British broadcasters?
|
Richard Aslatt Pearce |
2016-12-25 |
|
817 |
34.0 |
... that Reverend
Richard Aslatt Pearce was the first
deaf person to be ordained as an
Anglican clergyman?
|
Willis Tucker |
2016-12-18 |
|
814 |
33.9 |
... that in 1980,
newspaper editor
Willis Tucker was elected the first
county executive of
Snohomish County, Washington?
|
Bhakti Bhushan Mandal |
2016-12-19 |
|
812 |
33.9 |
... that in the 1980s, the
West Bengal Fisheries Minister
Bhakti Bhushan Mandal declared himself to be an intermediary between the Government of India and exiled Naga leader
Phizo?
|
Women's health |
2016-12-13 |
|
782 |
32.6 |
... that the
World Health Organization says that a focus on
reproductive health alone prevents progress in ensuring quality
women's healthcare?
|
The Babe in Bethlem's Manger |
2016-12-25 |
|
778 |
32.4 |
... that "
The Babe in Bethlem's Manger" is thought to be a traditional
Kentish folk carol but its tune is described as being "very much of the 18th century"?
|
Someday at Christmas (Jackie Evancho album) |
2016-12-25 |
|
768 |
32.0 |
... that
Jackie Evancho's 2016 album
Someday at Christmas peaked at No. 1 on the
Billboard Classical Albums chart?
|
List of New Zealand cricketers who have taken five-wicket hauls on Test debut |
2016-12-28 |
|
739 |
30.8 |
... that
Colin de Grandhomme's performance of six wickets for 41 runs is the best by any
New Zealander on Test debut?
|
Kantorei Barmen-Gemarke |
2016-12-10 |
|
719 |
30.0 |
... that the mixed choir
Kantorei Barmen-Gemarke, founded 70 years ago for
sacred music, was a partner of the
WDR from 1957, and performed in Israel and with
Ian Anderson?
|
Democratic National Committee chairmanship election, 2005 |
2016-12-22 |
|
640 |
26.7 |
... that in 2005,
Howard Dean was
elected as Chair of the
Democratic National Committee, despite both Democratic
Congressional
leaders endorsing
Tim Roemer instead?
|
Bhaktha Sri Thyagaraja |
2016-12-17 |
|
612 |
25.8 |
... that the 1937
Tamil-language film
Bhaktha Sri Thyagaraja is based on the life of the
Carnatic musician
Tyagaraja?
|
Helmut Kahlhöfer |
2016-12-24 |
|
609 |
25.4 |
... that
Helmut Kahlhöfer conducted his choir
Kantorei Barmen-Gemarke in recordings of Reger's
Geistliche Gesänge, Op. 110, and Bach's
Mass in B minor for the tricentenary of the composer's birth?
|