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Soo Yeon Lee
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2017-06-30
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43,882
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1,889.5
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... that table tennis player and model
Soo Yeon Lee (pictured) has coached numerous celebrities and is a brand ambassador for
a chain of table tennis bars?
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SPiN
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5,596
|
241.0
|
Total |
49,479 |
2,130.4
|
Luigi Gatti (businessman) |
2017-06-28 |
|
27,066 |
1,127.8 |
... that
Luigi Gatti ran a restaurant (pictured) on the
Titanic for passengers for whom first class was not exclusive enough?
|
Battle of Bamber Bridge |
2017-06-24 |
|
22,604
[a] |
998.7 |
... that the
Battle of Bamber Bridge began when white American
military police arrested a black
USAAF soldier in an English village
pub (pictured), and ended with a
mutiny that left one dead and seven injured?
|
Oscar Wilde Memorial Sculpture |
2017-06-15 |
|
22,904 |
970.8 |
... that the
Oscar Wilde Memorial Sculpture (pictured) is nicknamed "The Queer with the Leer" and "The Fag on the Crag"?
|
Beer can chicken |
2017-06-25 |
|
22,609 |
948.6 |
... that proponents of
beer can chicken (pictured) claim that the grilling method enhances the chicken's texture and flavor, while others are skeptical of its efficacy?
|
Murder of Dee Dee Blancharde |
2017-06-14 |
|
21,064
[b] |
902.4 |
... that a
Munchausen by proxy expert says the
murder of Dee Dee Blancharde, discovered two years ago today, is the first instance he knows of where the abused child killed the abusive parent?
|
Ham sausage |
2017-06-07 |
|
20,808 |
867.0 |
... that
ham sausage (example pictured) is a part of Polish, German, British, and American cuisine?
|
Thunderbolt (Savin Rock) |
2017-06-27 |
|
20,595 |
858.1 |
... that the
Thunderbolt was damaged by lightning and then destroyed by a hurricane?
|
Toilet plume |
2017-06-09 |
|
18,262 |
760.9 |
... that there is indirect, but unconfirmed, evidence of certain diseases being spread by
toilet plume?
|
Ramen shop |
2017-06-02 |
|
16,530 |
695.8 |
... that in Japan, television shows devoted to
ramen shops (example pictured) are popular?
|
Vessel (structure) |
2017-06-12 |
|
16,121 |
671.7 |
... that
154 flights of stairs in New York City will cost $150 million to $200 million?
|
Roy Wiggins |
2017-06-21 |
|
16,004 |
666.8 |
... that
Roy Wiggins claimed to have ruined 80 million
records?
|
D. J. Wilson
|
2017-06-23
|
|
13,202
|
589.6
|
... that
D. J. Wilson entered the
2017 NBA draft rather than staying in college and playing for the
2017–18 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team?
|
2017–18 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team
|
1,194
|
53.3
|
Total |
14,396 |
642.9
|
Gregorio Pietro Agagianian |
2017-06-22 |
|
14,048 |
634.5 |
... that
Cardinal Agagianian (pictured), leader of a small Eastern church, was twice a serious papal candidate?
|
Washington State Route 522 |
2017-06-22 |
|
13,895 |
627.5 |
... that
Washington State Route 522 has been named as one of the most dangerous highways in the United States?
|
999 phone charging myth |
2017-06-14 |
|
14,058 |
602.3 |
... that contrary to the urban myth,
dialing 999 does not charge mobile phone batteries?
|
Batman and Harley Quinn |
2017-06-26 |
|
13,552
[c] |
564.7 |
... that in
Batman and Harley Quinn,
Kevin Conroy reprises his role as Batman?
|
Red-billed quelea |
2017-06-11 |
|
13,360 |
556.7 |
... that the
red-billed quelea (flock pictured) is the most numerous undomesticated bird species on earth, with an estimated population sometimes peaking at 1.5 billion?
|
Josie Sadler |
2017-06-09 |
|
12,778 |
532.4 |
... that "Dutch" comic
Josie Sadler (pictured) recorded her biggest
Broadway hit for
Victor, but it was never released?
|
Malcolm Kirk |
2017-06-01 |
|
12,508 |
532.1 |
... that it was initially claimed by newspapers that
"King Kong" Kirk died after being
splashed by
Big Daddy Shirley Crabtree in a wrestling match?
|
British hydrogen bomb programme |
2017-06-20 |
|
9,944 |
530.8 |
... that the first tests of the
British hydrogen bomb programme were hailed as a triumph but in fact were failures?
|
Elvis González Valencia |
2017-06-13 |
|
12,579 |
524.1 |
... that U.S. citizens are
prohibited from conducting business transactions with
Elvis González Valencia?
|
Cortinarius orellanus |
2017-06-23 |
|
11,649 |
520.2 |
... that the toxic nature of the
fools webcap (pictured) was discovered only after 102 people in
Bydgoszcz were poisoned in 1952?
|
Alma Levant Hayden |
2017-06-01 |
|
11,706 |
498.0 |
... that
Krebiozen, an expensive cancer treatment scam, was unmasked in 1963 by chemist
Alma Levant Hayden (pictured)?
|
Tonkotsu ramen |
2017-06-14 |
|
11,544 |
494.6 |
... that
tonkotsu ramen is renowned for the significant time it can take to prepare a proper version of the dish?
|
Abigail Franks |
2017-06-16 |
|
11,607 |
487.0 |
... that letters written by
Abigail Franks (pictured) to her son in England are peppered with family gossip, local politics, and observations on the state of
Judaism in 18th-century
colonial New York?
|
Alaska P. Davidson |
2017-06-08 |
|
11,218 |
467.4 |
... that
Alaska P. Davidson was the first female
FBI
special agent?
|
The Raising of Lazarus (Sebastiano del Piombo) |
2017-06-13 |
|
10,969 |
457.0 |
... that Michelangelo had
Sebastiano del Piombo paint his
Raising of Lazarus (detail pictured) to outdo his rival Raphael, but Raphael's painting was judged superior?
|
Hoplocampa testudinea
|
2017-06-13
|
|
6,641
|
276.7
|
... that the
apple sawfly is invasive in North America, and a
parasitic wasp has been introduced in an attempt to
control it?
|
Lathrolestes ensator
|
4,226
|
176.1
|
Total |
10,867 |
452.8
|
Lady Hambro |
2017-06-06 |
|
10,519 |
438.3 |
... that
Lady Hambro was nicknamed "the bulldozer" when she worked at
Queen magazine in 1960s
Swinging London?
|
Bae (word) |
2017-06-12 |
|
10,511 |
438.0 |
... that
bae is a term of endearment popular on social media and in contemporary song lyrics?
|
May Bonfils Stanton |
2017-06-19 |
|
8,049 |
435.3 |
... that
May Bonfils Stanton built an exact replica of
Marie Antoinette's
Petit Trianon château (pictured) on her estate in
Lakewood, Colorado?
|
Dream Mine |
2017-06-28 |
|
10,386 |
432.8 |
... that John Hyrum Koyle built the
Dream Mine after the
Angel Moroni reportedly showed him a
Nephite mine in Salem, Utah, which would help fund the
gathering of Israel?
|
Coconut soup |
2017-06-12 |
|
9,987 |
416.1 |
... that several varieties of
coconut soup exist, such as binignit, laksa, and tom kha kai (pictured)?
|
Frieda Fraser |
2017-06-20 |
|
7,624 |
406.9 |
... that
Frieda Fraser and
Edith Williams corresponded for 24 years before they were able to acquire a home to live together in 1941?
|
Korean units |
2017-06-27 |
|
9,480 |
395.0 |
... that the South Korean government tried to
metricate the country unsuccessfully four times before finally criminalizing
traditional Korean units in 2007?
|
The Avenue at Middelharnis |
2017-06-05 |
|
9,068 |
377.8 |
... that
The Avenue at Middelharnis (pictured) by
Meindert Hobbema is his most famous painting, but it does not typify his work?
|
2016 Irkutsk mass methanol poisoning |
2017-06-11 |
|
8,566 |
356.9 |
... that the death toll in a
2016 mass methanol poisoning in
Irkutsk, Russia, led the Associated Press to call it "unprecedented in its scale"?
|
Cephalotes alveolatus |
2017-06-20 |
|
6,666 |
355.9 |
... that the ant
Cephalotes alveolatus (pictured) is distinguished by its clubbed hairs?
|
Viking raid on Seville (844) |
2017-06-05 |
|
8,480 |
353.3 |
... that when the Vikings
occupied Seville in 844, they tried unsuccessfully to burn the city's great mosque?
|
Stew peas |
2017-06-23 |
|
7,811 |
348.8 |
... that
stew peas with rice was declared to be "the best dish made in Jamaica" by
The Gleaner in 1992?
|
Muthusamy Lakshmanan |
2017-06-14 |
|
8,126 |
348.1 |
... that
Muthusamy Lakshmanan, K. Murali, and
Leon O. Chua developed a non-autonomous circuit based on
chaotic behavior (pictured)?
|
Mkrtich Khrimian |
2017-06-26 |
|
8,344 |
347.7 |
... that
Mkrtich Khrimian (pictured), head of the
Armenian Church, endorsed an armed struggle against the Ottoman Turks?
|
Liu Guandao |
2017-06-22 |
|
7,671 |
346.5 |
... that a famous painting by
Liu Guandao portrays
Kublai Khan as an "aging and obese man"?
|
Pichu Pichu |
2017-06-30 |
|
8,004 |
344.6 |
... that
human sacrifices were performed on
Pichu Pichu, an extinct volcano near
Arequipa?
|
Diprion similis |
2017-06-07 |
|
8,156 |
339.9 |
... that unmated female
Diprion similis produce only male offspring while mated females produce young of both sexes?
|
Marguerite Alibert |
2017-06-10 |
|
8,055 |
335.6 |
... that
Marguerite Alibert killed her husband after watching
The Merry Widow with him?
|
The Old Axolotl |
2017-06-05 |
|
8,009 |
333.7 |
... that
The Old Axolotl, an experimental
electronic novel by
Jacek Dukaj presenting a
post-apocalyptic,
cyberpunk vision of Earth, incorporates hypertext and 3D-printable models of its characters?
|
Jean Trogneux |
2017-06-06 |
|
7,671 |
319.6 |
... that
Jean Trogneux (shop pictured) is a chain of
macaron shops named after the father of
Brigitte Macron, wife of the President of France?
|
Puddletown |
2017-06-01 |
|
7,293 |
310.2 |
... that after a long official debate,
Puddletown stopped being Piddletown?
|
Ed Forchion |
2017-06-07 |
|
7,428 |
309.5 |
... that activist
Ed Forchion tried to legally
change his name to NJWeedman.com, but was denied by courts in New Jersey and California?
|
The Blair Witch Project |
2017-06-17 |
|
7,386
[d] |
307.8 |
... that to portray events of
The Blair Witch Project as real, its actors were listed on the
IMDb website as "missing, presumed dead"?
|
Miriam Makeba |
2017-06-27 |
|
7,374 |
307.2 |
... that South African singer and anti-apartheid activist
Miriam Makeba (pictured) was followed by the CIA and the FBI after she married
Black Panther
Stokely Carmichael?
|
Viking raid on Seville (844) |
2017-06-12 |
|
7,014 |
292.2 |
... that when the Vikings
occupied Seville in 844, they tried unsuccessfully to burn the city's great mosque?
|
Smiley Smile |
2017-06-16 |
|
6,864 |
288.0 |
... that
the Beach Boys'
experimental album
Smiley Smile (1967) was used by some
rehab centers to help ease patients off drugs?
|
Turkey ham |
2017-06-22 |
|
6,283 |
283.8 |
... that in 1980, the American Meat Institute tried to ban
turkey ham products from being labeled as such?
|
Hooded pitohui |
2017-06-27 |
|
6,805 |
283.5 |
... that the toxin found in the skin of the
hooded pitohui, a bird from New Guinea, is the same as that found in
poison arrow frogs?
|
Spring Grove Experiment |
2017-06-02 |
|
6,734 |
283.5 |
... that LSD and psychotherapy were used to treat alcoholics during the
Spring Grove Experiment?
|
Seoullo 7017 Skypark |
2017-06-18 |
|
6,746 |
281.0 |
... that Seoul has a new elevated park,
Seoullo 7017 Skypark (pictured), converted from a disused overpass?
|
Brut Chronicle |
2017-06-21 |
|
6,514 |
271.4 |
... that the
Brut Chronicle was one of the most-copied chronicles in medieval England?
|
Dimitri Navachine |
2017-06-20 |
|
4,979 |
265.8 |
... that Soviet economist
Dimitri Navachine, assassinated in Paris in 1937, may have been killed for possessing documents showing that certain Soviet political prisoners were innocent?
|
Newcastle Interchange railway station |
2017-06-14 |
|
6,191 |
265.2 |
... that
Newcastle Interchange railway station was completely redesigned in response to criticism of the original proposal?
|
Neodiprion lecontei |
2017-06-29 |
|
6,232 |
259.6 |
... that larvae of the
red-headed pine sawfly (pictured) are gregarious, and when they have defoliated a tree, move as a group to a neighbouring one?
|
Blackchin shiner |
2017-06-17 |
|
6,194 |
258.1 |
... that the
blackchin shiner was thought to have vanished from
Ohio before 1940, until it was rediscovered there in the 1980s?
|
Ruschi's rat |
2017-06-19 |
|
4,690 |
253.7 |
... that the pelage of
Ruschi's rat is a mixture of ordinary hairs and flattened, black-tipped spines?
|
George Morison Robertson |
2017-06-08 |
|
5,992 |
249.6 |
... that
George Morison Robertson, a Scottish expatriate in Hawaii, married a shipwrecked Englishwoman from Australia?
|
Joseph Ray Watkins |
2017-06-04 |
|
5,966 |
248.6 |
... that
J. R. Watkins (pictured with sales wagon) offered America's first
money back guarantee for his products?
|
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in New Zealand |
2017-06-26 |
|
5,804 |
241.9 |
... that
Mormon missionaries were temporarily banned from New Zealand, supposedly for trying to convince Maoris to move to America?
|
Walnut soup |
2017-06-16 |
|
5,760 |
241.7 |
... that
walnut soup is a part of the cuisines of China, Italy, and Mexico?
|
John Salmon (advertising executive) |
2017-06-11 |
|
5,772 |
240.5 |
... that real-life advertising "
Mad Man"
"Smokey" Salmon fired the Ford Motor Company?
|
Pioneer Square station |
2017-06-19 |
|
4,422 |
239.2 |
... that a
cable car
flywheel found during construction of
Pioneer Square station in Seattle now sits on display at the station's mezzanine?
|
Fighters Uncaged |
2017-06-21 |
|
5,712 |
238.0 |
... that some of the text on the back of the
Fighters Uncaged box resulted in a lawsuit from
Zuffa?
|
Gudjonsson suggestibility scale |
2017-06-26 |
|
5,669 |
236.2 |
... that the
Gudjonsson suggestibility scale has been used in court cases to determine how suggestible a person will be during interrogation?
|
Bone Bill |
2017-06-05 |
|
5,654 |
235.6 |
... that the
Bone Bill aimed to increase the number of
cadavers available for
dissection?
|
Commissioner of Weihaiwei |
2017-06-06 |
|
5,653 |
235.5 |
... that the first civil
Commissioner of Weihaiwei oversaw the transformation of the territory from a planned British naval base to a holiday resort?
|
Pirgel |
2017-06-05 |
|
5,578 |
232.4 |
... that
Pirgel is the highest
mud volcano in Iran?
|
Sea Bright-Monmouth Beach Seawall |
2017-06-10 |
|
5,541 |
230.9 |
... that the
Sea Bright-Monmouth Beach Seawall runs along a stretch of Atlantic Coast that is one of the most heavily
engineered sections of ocean shorefront in the world?
|
Sopa de fideo |
2017-06-29 |
|
5,490 |
228.7 |
... that
sopa de fideo, a soup in Mexican and Tex-Mex cuisine, may have originated in Spain?
|
Warkworth's Chronicle |
2017-06-26 |
|
5,442 |
226.7 |
... that
Warkworth's Chronicle, covering the years 1461 to 1474, reports on the double bleeding of
Henry VI and a headless man who cries, "Bowes, bowes, bowes"?
|
Minar (Firuzabad) |
2017-06-08 |
|
5,304 |
221.0 |
... that the
Minar in the centre of the
Sassanid circular city of
Gōr may have been an observation tower, a water tower, part of a temple, a symbol of the new government, or a combination of these?
|
Operation Temperer |
2017-06-29 |
|
5,212 |
217.1 |
... that under
Operation Temperer, thousands of
British Army troops can be deployed to support police in guarding key sites in the UK against terrorist threats?
|
The Dethe of the Kynge of Scotis |
2017-06-02 |
|
5,132 |
216.0 |
... that
The Dethe of the Kynge of Scotis is the only 15th-century chronicle that says that
James I of Scotland was killed in the
privy?
|
Henry Ludington |
2017-06-05 |
|
5,183 |
216.0 |
... that
Henry Ludington helped General
George Washington create a
spy ring to gather information on British troops during the American Revolutionary War?
|
Walter Sydney Lazarus-Barlow |
2017-06-17 |
|
5,168 |
215.3 |
... that pathologist
Walter Lazarus-Barlow pricked his thumb during a postmortem examination and lost an arm as a result?
|
Albert P. Halfhill |
2017-06-07 |
|
5,166 |
215.3 |
... that
Albert P. Halfhill is considered the father of the
tuna packing industry and was the first to use the slogan "chicken of the sea" as a sales gimmick?
|
Austin Church
|
2017-06-21
|
|
3,256
|
135.7
|
... that
Austin Church and
John Dwight were the first to commercially manufacture
baking soda in the United States, and the former was first to use the
Arm & Hammer trademark logo (pictured) for selling it?
|
John Dwight (manufacturer)
|
1,902
|
79.2
|
Total |
5,158 |
214.9
|
University Street station |
2017-06-15 |
|
5,058 |
214.4 |
... that
Seattle's
University Street station was designed in a "
high-tech" style to match nearby high-rise office buildings?
|
Douglas Putnam |
2017-06-30 |
|
4,952 |
213.2 |
... that
Douglas Putnam served in the
Battle of Shiloh during the
American Civil War, and later published an eyewitness account of the battle?
|
Ore Dock Brewing Company |
2017-06-28 |
|
5,052 |
210.5 |
... that the
Ore Dock Brewing Company's flagship beer is named for the recycled material used in constructing the brewery?
|
Sumitra Bhave–Sunil Sukthankar
|
2017-06-20
|
|
447
|
23.9
|
... that the
National Film Awards in various categories have been presented to the films
Doghi (
Other Social Issues),
Vastupurush (
Best Feature Film in Marathi),
Devrai (
Environment Conservation/Preservation),
Samhita (
Best Music Direction),
Astu (
Best Dialogue) and
Kaasav (
Best Feature Film), all by filmmaker duo
Sumitra Bhave–Sunil Sukthankar?
|
Doghi
|
444
|
23.7
|
Kaasav
|
441
|
23.5
|
Vastupurush
|
392
|
20.9
|
Devrai
|
362
|
19.4
|
Astu
|
315
|
16.8
|
National Film Award for Best Film on Other Social Issues
|
315
|
16.8
|
Samhita (film)
|
314
|
16.8
|
National Film Award for Best Feature Film
|
295
|
15.7
|
National Film Award for Best Film on Environment Conservation/Preservation
|
282
|
15.0
|
National Film Award for Best Screenplay
|
250
|
13.3
|
Total |
3,857 |
205.9
|
Tenjukoku Shūchō Mandala |
2017-06-10 |
|
4,936 |
205.7 |
... that the original 7th-century elements (detail pictured) of the Japanese
Tenjukoku Shūchō Mandala remain better preserved than the replica created approximately 600 years later?
|
Apollo Gauntlet
|
2017-06-09
|
|
2,779
|
115.8
|
... that the
pilots for
Apollo Gauntlet and
Hot Streets were released online by
Adult Swim, who gave viewers the opportunity to rate each using five buttons marked with reactions?
|
Hot Streets (TV series)
|
2,085
|
86.9
|
Total |
4,864 |
202.7
|
Too Old for This Shift |
2017-06-22 |
|
4,481 |
202.4 |
... that
Casualty producers worked with the Association of Air Ambulances for over half a year on the special episode "
Too Old for This Shift"?
|
Shinnyo |
2017-06-12 |
|
4,822 |
200.9 |
... that
Shinnyo was the first fully ordained
bhikkhuni for several hundred years?
|
Lynnwood Convention Center |
2017-06-08 |
|
4,812 |
200.5 |
... that the
Lynnwood Convention Center was rejected by voters on three occasions in the 1980s and 1990s, before it was finally built in 2005?
|
Shasanka Mohan Roy |
2017-06-12 |
|
4,782 |
199.2 |
... that Indian quantum physicist
Shasanka Mohan Roy developed an exact
integral equation, now known as "Roy's equations"?
|
Nematus oligospilus |
2017-06-16 |
|
4,665 |
195.7 |
... that in the Southern Hemisphere, all
willow sawflies are female, while in the Northern Hemisphere both males and females occur?
|
Oscar Lerman |
2017-06-20 |
|
3,634 |
194.0 |
... that
Oscar Lerman produced
The Stud,
The Bitch, and two children with
Jackie Collins?
|
Informatics General |
2017-06-30 |
|
4,390 |
189.0 |
... that
Informatics General developed and marketed the first software product to have cumulative sales of $1 million, $10 million, and $100 million?
|
Ajnad al-Kavkaz |
2017-06-13 |
|
4,532 |
188.9 |
... that the leader of the
Chechen-led
Jihadist group
Ajnad al-Kavkaz believes there will eventually be a world war against Russia?
|
Yellow-crested woodpecker |
2017-06-22 |
|
4,182 |
188.9 |
... that only male
Chloropicus xantholophus have golden crowns?
|
Kollegienkirche, Salzburg |
2017-06-08 |
|
4,466 |
186.1 |
... that the
Kollegienkirche (pictured in 1712), the church of the
University of Salzburg built by
Fischer von Erlach, was the venue for a
Hofmannsthal premiere and a
Sciarrone opera?
|
Resident Evil 7: Biohazard |
2017-06-15 |
|
4,284
[e] |
181.6 |
... that the video game
Resident Evil 7: Biohazard resolved to focus on
survival horror as opposed to its predecessors'
action-oriented gameplay?
|
PRR MP70 |
2017-06-03 |
|
4,267 |
177.8 |
... that for decades, Long Island commuters knocked knees on the
Long Island Rail Road's
PRR MP70 cars?
|
Aeterni Patris Filius |
2017-06-15 |
|
4,046 |
171.5 |
... that in 1621, it was suggested that the
election of future popes should take place in the presence of the previous pope's corpse?
|
Tweneboa Enyenra Ntomme Oil Field |
2017-06-21 |
|
4,060 |
169.2 |
... that the
TEN Oil Field in
Ghana was not so named because of the number of oil wells?
|
Tomahawk chop |
2017-06-04 |
|
4,044 |
168.5 |
... that fans of the
Atlanta Braves were asked to stop doing the
tomahawk chop with foam tomahawks, as it was viewed as a mockery of Native Americans?
|
Narada sting operation |
2017-06-11 |
|
4,026 |
167.8 |
... that the journalist behind the
Narada sting operation was inspired by Israeli
Mossad officer
Mike Harari?
|
Tian Qilang |
2017-06-30 |
|
3,842 |
165.4 |
... that
Pu Songling wrote "
Tian Qilang" with a Chinese killer in mind?
|
Lewis Holtby |
2017-06-27 |
|
3,902 |
162.6 |
... that German
footballer
Lewis Holtby was eligible to represent
England through his paternal lineage?
|
Junius Kaʻae
|
2017-06-02
|
|
2,178
|
91.7
|
... that
Junius Kaʻae was implicated in an
opium bribery scandal involving the Hawaiian king
Kalākaua and a
Chinese rice planter?
|
Tong Kee
|
1,660
|
69.9
|
Total |
3,838 |
161.5
|
Dendroctonus valens |
2017-06-24 |
|
3,636 |
160.6 |
... that since being introduced in the mid-1990s, the
red turpentine beetle has destroyed six million trees in China?
|
Estadio Tecnológico |
2017-06-03 |
|
3,838 |
159.9 |
... that
Estadio Tecnológico (pictured) hosted all three group stage matches of the
England national football team in the
1986 FIFA World Cup?
|
Ranganathan Shashidhar |
2017-06-02 |
|
3,704 |
155.9 |
... that
Ranganathan Shashidhar developed a family of 256-
greyscale electroclinic
liquid crystals with a response time of less than 100 microseconds?
|
Lofsöngur |
2017-06-17 |
|
3,733 |
155.5 |
... that "
Lofsöngur", the national anthem of
Iceland, was composed in an
Edinburgh town house (pictured)?
|
Papal conclave, 1691 |
2017-06-24 |
|
3,480 |
153.8 |
... that during the
1691 papal conclave, cardinals burned down their sleeping quarters in the Vatican while playing cards?
|
Helen Sandoz |
2017-06-23 |
|
3,442 |
153.7 |
... that
Helen Sandoz sometimes wrote editorials for the lesbian magazine
The Ladder from the perspective of her cat?
|
Nematus oligospilus |
2017-06-22 |
|
3,322 |
150.1 |
... that in the Southern Hemisphere, all
willow sawflies are female, while in the Northern Hemisphere both males and females occur?
|
Minami Momochi |
2017-06-10 |
|
3,558 |
148.2 |
... that DJ
Minami Momochi wears an
anime character face mask while performing?
|
Persoonia pauciflora |
2017-06-30 |
|
3,438 |
148.0 |
... that the total known population of the critically endangered shrub
Persoonia pauciflora is within 2.5 kilometres (1.6 mi) of the
type specimen?
|
Edward Dalton |
2017-06-07 |
|
3,506 |
146.1 |
... that
Edward Dalton created New York City's first ambulance service?
|
Tiantishan Caves |
2017-06-02 |
|
3,440 |
144.8 |
... that the early Buddhist wall paintings at the
Tiantishan Caves were
detached due to construction of a reservoir?
|
Albert H. Densmore |
2017-06-29 |
|
3,457 |
144.0 |
... that
Al Densmore was 24 years old when he took his seat in the
Oregon House of Representatives, and just four years later his House peers elected him
speaker pro tempore?
|
R v Jordan (2016) |
2017-06-21 |
|
3,454 |
143.9 |
... that the
Supreme Court of Canada held that it was unreasonable for there to be a 44-month delay between the filing of charges and the trial?
|
L. Emmett Holt Jr. |
2017-06-27 |
|
3,402 |
141.8 |
... that American pediatrician
L. Emmett Holt Jr. received the Czechoslovak
Order of the White Lion, the Finnish
Mannerheim Cross, and the
Order of the Star of Jordan?
|
William R. Rowley |
2017-06-15 |
|
3,340 |
141.6 |
... that
William R. Rowley was one of nine American Civil War generals who came from
Galena, Illinois?
|
Jennie Anderson Froiseth |
2017-06-18 |
|
3,358 |
139.9 |
... that
Jennie Anderson Froiseth, an anti-
polygamy crusader during the 1800s, published a book about the experiences of women in polygamous marriages?
|
Spanish conquest of El Salvador |
2017-06-14 |
|
3,233 |
138.5 |
... that during the
Spanish conquest of El Salvador, the Spanish town of
San Salvador was destroyed by natives within a year of being founded by
Gonzalo de Alvarado?
|
List of Kolpak cricketers |
2017-06-08 |
|
3,293 |
137.2 |
... that
Claude Henderson was the first
cricketer to sign a Kolpak contract?
|
Fred Gildersleeve |
2017-06-24 |
|
3,086 |
136.3 |
... that the photographer
Fred Gildersleeve captured depictions of
a lynching in progress?
|
1827 North Carolina hurricane |
2017-06-06 |
|
3,230 |
134.6 |
... that
Andrew Jackson's objection to a renewed embargo between the United States and West Indies in the wake of the
1827 North Carolina hurricane helped him win the presidency a year later?
|
Spotted shag |
2017-06-13 |
|
3,214 |
133.9 |
... that
shags may be
spotted in New Zealand?
|
Öget Öktem Tanör |
2017-06-22 |
|
2,960 |
133.7 |
... that
Öget Öktem Tanör, Turkey's first neuropsychologist, was charged with "terrorism propaganda" in 2017 for signing a petition?
|
West London Air Terminal |
2017-06-25 |
|
3,184 |
133.6 |
... that the new
West London Air Terminal building was opened by
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh in 1963?
|
Peter Bonsall-Boone |
2017-06-21 |
|
3,136 |
130.6 |
... that
Peter Bonsall-Boone and his partner personally appealed to the Australian prime minister to legalise same-sex marriage?
|
Insiang |
2017-06-09 |
|
3,046 |
126.9 |
... that during the
Martial Law,
Imelda Marcos prevented local screenings of the film
Insiang as it did not depict a "beautiful view" of the Philippines?
|
Bang Bang (Green Day song) |
2017-06-04 |
|
3,030 |
126.3 |
... that
Green Day's 2016 song "
Bang Bang" was inspired by the events of
mass shootings in the United States and is written from the viewpoint of a mass shooter?
|
Jacob C. White Jr. |
2017-06-10 |
|
2,976 |
124.0 |
... that
White was the first black school principal of Philadelphia?
|
Henry Wade (surgeon) |
2017-06-23 |
|
2,750 |
122.8 |
... that
Sir Henry Wade saved the leg of
Norman Dott, who then became a surgeon too?
|
How I Met Your Music |
2017-06-23 |
|
2,742 |
122.5 |
... that the first soundtrack album from
How I Met Your Mother, titled
How I Met Your Music, was originally released only through iTunes because the creators considered CDs to be "too 1992"?
|
Jimmy Florian |
2017-06-16 |
|
2,899 |
121.6 |
... that
Jimmy Florian won the Ford Motor Company's first
NASCAR Grand National Series race while driving a car that was formerly owned by the
Detroit chief of police?
|
Jerry London (wrestler) |
2017-06-13 |
|
2,904 |
121.0 |
... that professional wrestler
Jerry London worked in the main event of both the
first and
second EMLL 33rd anniversary show, three weeks apart?
|
Nights: Journey of Dreams |
2017-06-12 |
|
2,898 |
120.8 |
... that the video game
Nights: Journey of Dreams inspired an unofficial two-CD tribute album?
|
Dimitri Navachine |
2017-06-22 |
|
2,670 |
120.6 |
... that Soviet economist
Dimitri Navachine, assassinated in Paris in 1937, may have been killed for possessing documents showing that certain Soviet political prisoners were innocent?
|
Anissa Rawda Najjar |
2017-06-30 |
|
2,791 |
120.2 |
... that a Lebanese postage stamp featuring
Anissa Rawda Najjar was issued in 2014, soon after her
100th birthday?
|
Alban Lafont |
2017-06-28 |
|
2,882 |
120.1 |
... that French
footballer
Alban Lafont is the youngest goalkeeper ever to play in
Ligue 1, having made his debut at the age of 16 years and 310 days?
|
Mike Enoch |
2017-06-10 |
|
2,865 |
119.4 |
... that
white nationalist
Mike Enoch helped
Richard Spencer successfully sue
Auburn University after it attempted to cancel their speaking engagement?
|
Paul M. Nakasone |
2017-06-04 |
|
2,849 |
118.7 |
... that
Paul M. Nakasone commanded the
Second United States Army until it was inactivated for the fourth time in its history in 2017?
|
Sociopolitical issues of anatomy in America in the 19th century |
2017-06-01 |
|
2,758 |
117.3 |
... that America's current laws on cadaver acquisitions followed
19th-century riots over
medical grave-robbing?
|
Wolf W. Zuelzer |
2017-06-15 |
|
2,761 |
117.0 |
... that
Wolf W. Zuelzer, who demonstrated that children could be cured of
leukemia, died from the disease in old age?
|
Jefferson Elementary School District |
2017-06-12 |
|
2,760 |
115.0 |
... that the
Jefferson Elementary School District started with a one-room building constructed in 1856?
|
Babe Smith |
2017-06-06 |
|
2,749 |
114.5 |
... that the billed personality of
EastEnders character
Babe Smith was swapped with that of
Stan Carter?
|
Violet Lake |
2017-06-17 |
|
2,666 |
111.1 |
... that
Violet Lake, a high-elevation lake on the slope of the
West Maui Mountains, was believed to be the home of the Hawaiian lizard goddess Kihawahine?
|
Lofty Chiltern |
2017-06-01 |
|
2,598 |
110.5 |
... that the role of
Lofty Chiltern in Casualty was specifically written for actor Lee Mead?
|
Hevea
|
2017-06-04
|
|
573
|
23.9
|
... that in the rubber tree genus
Hevea,
H. benthamiana,
H. microphylla, and
H. brasiliensis are deciduous, while
H. guianensis,
H. nitida,
H. rigidifolia, and
H. spruceana are evergreen?
|
Hevea benthamiana
|
472
|
19.7
|
Hevea spruceana
|
398
|
16.6
|
Hevea microphylla
|
348
|
14.5
|
Hevea guianensis
|
296
|
12.4
|
Hevea nitida
|
276
|
11.5
|
Hevea rigidifolia
|
268
|
11.2
|
Total |
2,633 |
109.7
|
Gauthier Destenay |
2017-06-19 |
|
2,007 |
108.5 |
... that
Xavier Bettel became the first
European Union leader to marry someone of the same sex when he married
Gauthier Destenay in 2015?
|
Church of Reinhardtsgrimma |
2017-06-28 |
|
2,511 |
104.6 |
... that the Baroque pipe organ of the
Church of Reinhardtsgrimma was built by
Gottfried Silbermann?
|
Pinoy Capital |
2017-06-01 |
|
2,460 |
104.6 |
... that according to the 2009 book
Pinoy Capital, a significant number of Filipino Americans in Daly City, California, preferred to be identified as
Filipinos?
|
Dennis Coralluzzo |
2017-06-06 |
|
2,460 |
102.5 |
... that comments made by
National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) president
Dennis Coralluzzo led to
Extreme Championship Wrestling breaking away from the NWA?
|
Desideria Quintanar de Yáñez |
2017-06-29 |
|
2,460 |
102.5 |
... that
Desideria Quintanar de Yáñez was reportedly inspired by a dream to join
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1880 in Mexico?
|
Alfred Starbird |
2017-06-27 |
|
2,431 |
101.3 |
... that
Alfred Starbird directed the
Operation Dominic nuclear tests which "significantly enhanced the security of the nation and the free world"?
|
Fugitive peasants |
2017-06-18 |
|
2,422 |
100.9 |
... that one of the reasons for the
partitioning of Poland was the thousands of Russian peasants
escaping from serfdom to the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth?
|
Hughes Dynamics |
2017-06-24 |
|
2,282 |
100.8 |
... that one question about
Hughes Dynamics, an early 1960s subsidiary of
Hughes Tool Company, is whether
Howard Hughes ever approved its creation?
|
Susan Baker |
2017-06-21 |
|
2,352 |
98.0 |
... that in 2003,
Susan Baker became the first woman to hold a
King Carl XVI Gustaf Professorship in Environmental Science?
|
Mandatory eight count |
2017-06-24 |
|
2,204 |
97.4 |
... that the
mandatory eight count was introduced to boxing in 1953 by the
New York State Athletic Commission in order to protect fighters from unnecessary damage?
|
United States federal government shutdown of 1990 |
2017-06-03 |
|
2,324 |
96.9 |
... that when President
George H. W. Bush violated his "
Read my lips: no new taxes" pledge, opposition by House Minority Whip
Newt Gingrich led to the
U.S. federal government shutdown of 1990?
|
Edward L. Hedden |
2017-06-13 |
|
2,292 |
95.5 |
... that a good word from his son-in-law's employer gained
Edward L. Hedden the position of
Collector of the Port of New York?
|
Devin Smeltzer |
2017-06-09 |
|
2,283 |
95.1 |
... that professional baseball player
Devin Smeltzer was diagnosed with cancer when he was nine years old?
|
Abe Lincoln in Illinois (play) |
2017-06-08 |
|
2,283 |
95.1 |
... that
Robert E. Sherwood's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1938 play
Abe Lincoln in Illinois was written as a riposte to
isolationists in the United States?
|
Flood of Fire |
2017-06-19 |
|
1,679 |
90.8 |
... that
Flood of Fire, the final volume of the
Ibis trilogy by
Amitav Ghosh, won the
Crossword Book Jury Award in Fiction in 2015?
|
Typhoon Cary (1987) |
2017-06-13 |
|
2,127 |
88.6 |
... that the final mission from the
54th Weather Reconnaissance Squadron was flown into
Typhoon Cary?
|
Ivy Josiah |
2017-06-01 |
|
2,082 |
88.6 |
... that
Ivy Josiah led opposition to
domestic violence against women and children in Malaysia?
|
Phil Lyne |
2017-06-05 |
|
2,117 |
88.2 |
... that
Phil Lyne entered more than 100 rodeos in 1971 and 1972, winning the
All-Around Cowboy championship in both years?
|
The Polished Hoe |
2017-06-23 |
|
1,956 |
87.3 |
... that Barbadian-Canadian author
Austin Clarke listened to
Miles Davis while writing his
Scotiabank Giller Prize-winning novel
The Polished Hoe?
|
Beasts of Balance |
2017-06-03 |
|
2,050 |
85.4 |
... that tabletop game
Beasts of Balance won the Technology Award at the 2015
Indiecade festival?
|
Empty Orchestra |
2017-06-19 |
|
1,563 |
84.5 |
... that "
Empty Orchestra", an episode of
Inside No. 9, features a
karaoke version of
Yazoo's "
Only You" sung by Janet, who is played by the Deaf actor Emily Howlett?
|
Estadio Tecnológico de Oaxaca |
2017-06-17 |
|
1,990 |
82.9 |
... that the
Estadio Tecnológico de Oaxaca was designed to mimic the ball court at
Monte Albán?
|
Missa Princeps Pacis |
2017-06-19 |
|
1,520 |
82.2 |
... that William Lloyd Webber's
Missa Princeps Pacis was performed at
St Martin-in-the-Fields to celebrate his centenary?
|
Dies sind die heilgen Zehn Gebot |
2017-06-27 |
|
1,944 |
81.0 |
... that "
Dies sind die heilgen Zehn Gebot" is a hymnal version of the
Ten Commandments by Martin Luther?
|
Lazy Afternoon (Barbra Streisand album) |
2017-06-09 |
|
1,942 |
80.9 |
... that the title track of
Barbra Streisand's
Lazy Afternoon was suggested to her over dinner by
Francis Ford Coppola?
|
Jon Anabo |
2017-06-11 |
|
1,939 |
80.8 |
... that
Jon Anabo was half of the "best 1-2 quarterback punch on the West Coast"?
|
Poerbatjaraka |
2017-06-25 |
|
1,891 |
79.3 |
... that the Javanese
philologist
Poerbatjaraka obtained a doctorate cum laude at
Leiden University, even though previously he had only attended primary school?
|
Cephalotes caribicus |
2017-06-18 |
|
1,891 |
78.8 |
... that
Cephalotes caribicus worker ants had semitransparent expansions on their bodies, possibly for protection?
|
Typhoon Dinah (1987) |
2017-06-05 |
|
1,862 |
77.6 |
... that
Typhoon Dinah was considered the worst tropical cyclone to affect
Okinawa in 20 years?
|
Andreas Schager |
2017-06-14 |
|
1,786 |
76.5 |
... that
Andreas Schager was called a "sensation" when he first performed Wagner's
Tristan in
Minden, and went on to
Siegfried at the
Staatsoper Berlin,
La Scala, and
The Proms?
|
Ahmed bin Abdullah Balala |
2017-06-26 |
|
1,826 |
76.1 |
... that Indian legislator
Ahmed bin Abdullah Balala urged the government to relax the helmet rules for motorcyclists due to the high temperatures of the summer months?
|
Rustin McIntosh |
2017-06-25 |
|
1,775 |
74.5 |
... that
Rustin McIntosh received the
Croix de guerre for his service in World War I, and the
John Howland Award for his contributions to pediatrics?
|
ArsenalFanTV |
2017-06-29 |
|
1,764 |
73.5 |
... that
ArsenalFanTV was designed to give football supporters a chance to have their opinions heard?
|
Typhoon June (1984) |
2017-06-28 |
|
1,762 |
73.4 |
... that in 1984,
Typhoon June killed 121 people in the Philippines?
|
A Year of Lesser
|
2017-06-18
|
|
638
|
26.6
|
... that Canadian author
David Bergen won the
McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award for
A Year of Lesser (1996),
The Time in Between (2005), and
The Retreat (2009)?
|
The Time in Between
|
594
|
24.7
|
The Retreat (David Bergen novel)
|
522
|
21.7
|
Total |
1,753 |
73.0
|
Marriage (Wales) Act 2010 |
2017-06-03 |
|
1,718 |
71.6 |
... that the
Marriage (Wales) Act 2010 was passed by Parliament to bring the marriage law of the disestablished Church in Wales into line with the established Church of England?
|
Der Geist des Herrn erfüllt das All |
2017-06-04 |
|
1,695 |
70.6 |
... that "
Der Geist des Herrn erfüllt das All", a hymn for
Pentecost, was written by
Maria Luise Thurmair in 1941, the year of her marriage to the hymn writer
Georg Thurmair?
|
Mike Grzanich |
2017-06-25 |
|
1,654 |
69.4 |
... that former
Houston Astros pitcher
Mike Grzanich bought his own uniform in an internet sale?
|
Das geheime Königreich |
2017-06-07 |
|
1,664 |
69.3 |
... that the short satirical opera
Das geheime Königreich (The Secret Kingdom) by
Ernst Krenek premiered in
Wiesbaden in May 1928?
|
Roy Ananny |
2017-06-17 |
|
1,654 |
68.9 |
... that
Roy Ananny was a
Canadian football player, a fireman, a police officer, a
curling player, and a realtor?
|
Kingsley, Iowa |
2017-06-15 |
|
1,624 |
68.9 |
... that
Kingsley, Iowa, was once named Quorn after the
Quorn Hunt in England?
|
DanTDM: Trayaurus and the Enchanted Crystal |
2017-06-10 |
|
1,646 |
68.6 |
... that after releasing
DanTDM: Trayaurus and the Enchanted Crystal, author
Dan Middleton was the first writer in 2016 to sell out tickets to his event at the
Cheltenham Literature Festival?
|
Deepak Kumar (physicist) |
2017-06-16 |
|
1,613 |
67.7 |
... that
Deepak Kumar was one of the first Indian
condensed matter physicists to predict the experimental consequences of spin clusters near the
percolation threshold?
|
Barry Shaw (barrister) |
2017-06-19 |
|
1,220 |
66.0 |
... that
Sir Barry Shaw was the first Director of Public Prosecutions for Northern Ireland?
|
Biswa Ranjan Nag |
2017-06-09 |
|
1,542 |
64.3 |
... that
Biswa Ranjan Nag has contributed to the development of a
Monte Carlo method for the computation of the coefficient of velocity?
|
Liu Qingyun |
2017-06-25 |
|
1,530 |
64.2 |
... that
Liu Qingyun has been described as "the most prolific woman playwright of the nineteenth century"?
|
Typhoon Vera (1986) |
2017-06-02 |
|
1,510 |
63.6 |
... that the
Joint Typhoon Warning Center accurately predicted that
Typhoon Vera would strike
Okinawa 66 hours in advance?
|
Fionn McLoughlin |
2017-06-15 |
|
1,490 |
63.1 |
... that rugby union player
Fionn McLoughlin represented both Ireland and Wales in youth internationals?
|
Al-Insan |
2017-06-25 |
|
1,504 |
63.1 |
... that according to
Abu Hurairah, the Islamic prophet
Muhammad often recited the Quranic chapter
Al-Insan on Friday during the
early morning prayer?
|
Tyler Speer |
2017-06-02 |
|
1,474 |
62.0 |
... that
drag boat racing driver
Tyler Speer's boat uses parts from his
ARCA Racing Series stock car?
|
Russian–Syrian hospital bombing campaign |
2017-06-04 |
|
1,486 |
61.9 |
... that Russia has denied claims that it has
attacked hospitals in Syria?
|
Redthroat |
2017-06-24 |
|
1,396 |
61.7 |
... that the ground-dwelling
redthroat bird can imitate the sound of a
crested pigeon in flight?
|
Typhoon Abby (1986) |
2017-06-26 |
|
1,457 |
60.7 |
... that
Typhoon Abby originated from the Western Pacific
monsoon trough?
|
George Baldanzi |
2017-06-29 |
|
1,426 |
59.4 |
... that American trade unionist
George Baldanzi worked out of
Greensboro, North Carolina, as part of
Operation Dixie because it was close to many textile plants?
|
George H. Brimhall |
2017-06-12 |
|
1,412 |
58.8 |
... that in 1907,
George H. Brimhall permitted
Brigham Young University students to paint the letters "B", "Y", and "U" on the mountain nearest to campus, but the work was only partially completed and it became
Y Mountain?
|
Us Conductors |
2017-06-29 |
|
1,410 |
58.8 |
... that
Us Conductors, the debut novel by
Sean Michaels depicting a fictionalized account of the relationship between
Léon Theremin and
Clara Rockmore, won the 2014
Scotiabank Giller Prize?
|
Vijay Kumar Kapahi |
2017-06-03 |
|
1,381 |
57.5 |
... that
Vijay Kumar Kapahi elucidated the relativistic beaming in nuclear jets of
quasars?
|
Taufa Vakatale |
2017-06-03 |
|
1,362 |
56.8 |
... that
Taufa Vakatale was the first indigenous
Fijian woman to serve as a secondary school principal, to be elected as a cabinet minister, and to be president of
her political party?
|
Witness (Katy Perry album) |
2017-06-28 |
|
1,348
[f] |
56.2 |
... that ticket purchases for
Witness: The Tour will include copies of
Katy Perry's album
Witness?
|
Babette Hughes |
2017-06-11 |
|
1,348 |
56.2 |
... that a play by
Babette Hughes was performed in 1938 by six blind actresses?
|
N. V. Madhusudana |
2017-06-30 |
|
1,302 |
56.1 |
... that
N. V. Madhusudana demonstrated the electromechanical
coupling effects of
cholesteric liquid crystals for the first time?
|
Emma Nāwahī |
2017-06-14 |
|
1,298 |
55.6 |
... that
Joseph and
Emma Nāwahī co-founded the Hawaiian-language newspaper Ke Aloha Aina to
oppose the annexation of the Hawaiian Islands to the United States?
|
Giovanni Gribodo |
2017-06-23 |
|
1,228 |
54.8 |
... that
Giovanni Gribodo, an architect in the Italian
Art Nouveau Liberty Style, also published 42 scientific papers describing 377 new taxa of
Hymenoptera?
|
Margit Neubauer |
2017-06-26 |
|
1,290 |
53.8 |
... that
Margit Neubauer appeared as Sesto in Handel's
Giulio Cesare, conducted by
Nikolaus Harnoncourt, at the start of her 39-year career at the
Frankfurt Opera?
|
Narmada Seva Yatra |
2017-06-06 |
|
1,262 |
52.6 |
... that
a campaign to conserve the
Narmada River centering around a 2,930-kilometre (1,820 mi)
yatra has reached more than 30 million people?
|
Erwünschtes Freudenlicht, BWV 184 |
2017-06-06 |
|
1,238 |
51.6 |
... that
Erwünschtes Freudenlicht, BWV 184,
Bach's cantata for the
third day of Pentecost, contains dances, because it is based on a secular model?
|
Tropical Storm Warren (1984) |
2017-06-07 |
|
1,236 |
51.5 |
... that in 1984,
Tropical Storm Warren destroyed 740 homes across the Philippines?
|
SimetriSiti |
2017-06-08 |
|
1,192 |
49.7 |
... that all 300 special edition copies of
SimetriSiti, an album by Malaysian singer
Siti Nurhaliza, sold out in 20 minutes?
|
H. J. de Graaf |
2017-06-04 |
|
1,186 |
49.4 |
... that
H. J. de Graaf was called the "father of the study of Javanese history" by historian
M. C. Ricklefs?
|
Typhoon Kelly (1987) |
2017-06-11 |
|
1,141 |
47.5 |
... that
Typhoon Kelly caused 452 landslides in Japan?
|
Estadio Gaspar Mass |
2017-06-10 |
|
1,098 |
45.8 |
... that the
Estadio Gaspar Mass is named for one of the pioneers of American football in the Mexican state of
Nuevo León?
|
2017–18 RFU Championship |
2017-06-24 |
|
996 |
44.0 |
... that the
2017–18 RFU Championship will feature a college team that climbed from the bottom tier of English rugby to the second tier within 13 years of its formation?
|
Cornelia Kallisch |
2017-06-22 |
|
944 |
42.6 |
... that a recording of Bartók's
Bluebeard's Castle with
Cornelia Kallisch as Judith was nominated for a Grammy Award?
|
Die Weihe der Nacht |
2017-06-18 |
|
998 |
41.6 |
... that
Die Weihe der Nacht, composed by
Max Reger for a female soloist, men's choir, and orchestra and set to a poem by
Friedrich Hebbel, evokes daybreak?
|
Missa aulica |
2017-06-01 |
|
912 |
38.8 |
... that
Missa aulica is a
Missa brevis in
C with trumpets and violins by
František Xaver Brixi, who was director of the choir at
St. Vitus Cathedral from age 27?
|
Where in the U.S.A. is Carmen Sandiego? (1986 video game) |
2017-06-09 |
|
850 |
35.4 |
... that the
Carmen Sandiego edutainment franchise, which began with video games
World (1985) and
U.S.A. (1986), will see its
fourth television series air on Netflix in 2019?
|
Sergio Córdova |
2017-06-07 |
|
837 |
34.9 |
... that Venezuelan
footballer
Sergio Córdova scored on his professional debut for
Caracas FC?
|
Viola Sonata (Waterhouse) |
2017-06-20 |
|
611 |
32.6 |
... that in his
Viola Sonata entitled Sonata ebraica ("Hebrew Sonata"),
Graham Waterhouse quotes the Yiddish song "
Oyfn Pripetshik"?
|
St. Stephan, Baden |
2017-06-17 |
|
737 |
30.7 |
... that Mozart composed his motet
Ave verum corpus for the church choir of
St. Stephan in Baden on 17 June 1791?
|
Red-billed quelea |
2017-06-12 |
|
700
[g] |
29.2 |
... that the
red-billed quelea is the most numerous undomesticated bird species on earth, with an estimated population peaking at 1.5 billion?
|
Andre Anderson (gridiron football) |
2017-06-18 |
|
684 |
28.5 |
... that
Andre Anderson was the first
New Mexico State Aggies player to be selected for the
East–West Shrine Game?
|
Helmut Franz |
2017-06-11 |
|
668 |
27.9 |
... that
Helmut Franz conducted the
NDR Chor in Ligeti's
Lux aeterna, which was later used as music for
2001: A Space Odyssey?
|
Sommerliche Musiktage Hitzacker |
2017-06-25 |
|
614 |
25.7 |
... that
Sommerliche Musiktage Hitzacker, a summer festival of
chamber music founded in 1946, was directed by violinists such as
Carolin Widmann?
|
Pascal Rophé |
2017-06-16 |
|
608 |
25.5 |
... that in 2016
Pascal Rophé conducted works by
Henri Dutilleux to celebrate the composer's centenary, including
Tout un monde lointain... and
Le temps l'horloge?
|
Hochschule für Musik Mainz |
2017-06-03 |
|
547 |
22.8 |
... that the
Hochschule für Musik Mainz collaborated with the
Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden to stage a production of Scarlatti's
La Giuditta earlier this year?
|
List of awards and nominations received by Sarah Lancashire |
2017-06-18 |
|
509 |
21.2 |
... that
Sarah Lancashire was nominated for four
British Academy Television Awards between 2013 and 2017,
and won two of them?
|
Arson in royal dockyards |
2017-06-30 |
|
0
[h] |
0 |
... that
arson in royal dockyards was one of the last four crimes in the United Kingdom to carry the death penalty?
|
Robert J. Cenker |
2017-06-28 |
|
0
[h] |
0 |
... that
RCA's only astronaut, civilian
Bob Cenker, narrowly avoided catastrophe during his mission on Space Shuttle Columbia, which experienced several launch-pad aborts and almost exploded?
|
Arson in royal dockyards |
2017-06-16 |
|
0
[h] |
0 |
... that
arson in royal dockyards was one of the last four crimes in the United Kingdom to carry the death penalty?
|
Taufa Vakatale |
2017-06-04 |
|
-60
[i] |
-2.5 |
... that
Taufa Vakatale was the first indigenous
Fijian woman to serve as a secondary school principal, to be elected as a cabinet minister, and to be president of
her political party?
|