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Edward Windsor, Lord Downpatrick |
2019-04-30 |
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44,361 |
1,848.4 |
... that the fashion designer
Edward Windsor, Lord Downpatrick (pictured) is the closest relative of
Queen Elizabeth II who cannot
succeed to the British throne because of
conversion to Catholicism?
|
Electrical disruptions caused by squirrels |
2019-04-01 |
|
14,574 |
1,214.5 |
... that
squirrels may be a major cybersecurity threat (suspect pictured)?
|
Fabiana Rosales |
2019-04-22 |
|
26,622 |
1,109.2 |
... that Venezuelan journalist
Fabiana Rosales (pictured) has assumed the role of international ambassador, soliciting support for
her husband's opposition party, towards resolving the
crisis in Venezuela?
|
Holden's Lightning flight |
2019-04-23 |
|
24,686 |
1,028.6 |
... that
an engineer inadvertently took off in an
English Electric Lightning fighter jet after engaging the
afterburner by mistake?
|
Ebbo Bastard |
2019-04-01 |
|
8,802 |
733.5 |
... that Australians refused to call
this bastard a bastard?
|
Flag of Blackbeard |
2019-04-01 |
|
8,636 |
719.7 |
... that the bloody
flag of Blackbeard probably wasn't?
|
United States v. 422 Casks of Wine |
2019-04-01 |
|
8,418 |
701.5 |
... that
the United States once sued 422 casks of wine, and the wine won?
|
Wolfgang Baldus |
2019-04-11 |
|
13,740 |
700.5 |
... that the German
philatelic writer
Wolfgang Baldus is a specialist in the forged and
propaganda stamps of the Second World War, such as the American Adolf Hitler skull stamp (pictured)?
|
Fiona Peever |
2019-04-01 |
|
8,336 |
694.7 |
... that a bronze statue co-created by
Fiona Peever apparently stepped off its pedestal (pictured) and sat down on some nearby steps?
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Shepard elephant |
2019-04-19 |
File:Elephant legs illusion, variant of Roger Shepard's L'egsistential paradox.png |
16,248 |
677.0 |
... that
Roger Shepard created
an elephant named "L'egs-istential Quandary" (variant pictured)?
|
Ronald Read (philanthropist) |
2019-04-25 |
|
16,022 |
667.6 |
... that
Ronald Read, whose last job was working 17 years as a
J. C. Penney janitor, left US$1.2 million to
his local library and $4.8 million to
the hospital where he died?
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Young People Fucking
|
2019-04-01
|
|
6,636
|
553.0
|
... that a
Genie and three
Beavers recognized
Young People Fucking?
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10th Canadian Comedy Awards
|
690
|
57.5
|
29th Genie Awards
|
652
|
54.3
|
Total |
7,978 |
664.8
|
Chinese alligator |
2019-04-10 |
|
15,643 |
651.6 |
... that the
critically endangered
Chinese alligator (pictured) may have helped inspire the mythology of the
Chinese dragon?
|
Superbloom |
2019-04-18 |
|
14,751 |
614.6 |
... that
California deserts are experiencing the second wildflower
superbloom (pictured) in three years?
|
Dortan massacre
|
2019-04-03
|
|
8,317
|
346.5
|
... that the
Wehrmacht
killed at least 35 French civilians in the village of
Dortan (memorial pictured), and then burned the entire village to the ground?
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Dortan
|
6,422
|
267.6
|
Total |
14,738 |
614.1
|
Patsy Dan Rodgers |
2019-04-01 |
|
7,296 |
608.0 |
... that
Patsy, the recently deceased
Irish king, personally welcomed visitors who landed in his realm?
|
South Lake Union Streetcar |
2019-04-01 |
|
7,062 |
588.5 |
... that 1,900 people in
Seattle rode the city's
slut on a daily basis?
|
Chafin v. Chafin |
2019-04-01 |
|
7,006 |
583.8 |
... that
the United States Supreme Court had a divorce and the daughter was sent to Scotland?
|
Stomp the Bus |
2019-04-01 |
|
6,422 |
535.2 |
... that
a giant has been seen stomping buses underfoot in Arizona?
|
Echiura |
2019-04-20 |
|
12,349 |
514.5 |
... that in the 1970s,
spoon worms (example pictured) helped promote
biodiversity around the effluent outlets from the Los Angeles
sewage system?
|
Judah Samet |
2019-04-05 |
|
11,733 |
506.5 |
... that attendees at U.S. President
Donald Trump's 2019 State of the Union Address sang "
Happy Birthday" to
Judah Samet (pictured), a Holocaust survivor who narrowly escaped the 2018
Pittsburgh synagogue shooting?
|
Sex and Candy |
2019-04-11 |
|
9,672 |
493.1 |
... that
John Wozniak took less than an hour to write
Marcy Playground's
only hit, "
Sex and Candy", in his bedroom at 4 a.m.?
|
Worthing Tramocars |
2019-04-01 |
|
5,525 |
460.4 |
... that
Bill Gates' converted dustbin lorry helped old people get around
Worthing?
|
Eiseman-Renyard and others v. the United Kingdom |
2019-04-01 |
|
5,325 |
443.8 |
... that
zombies can be arrested before they've even committed a crime?
|
Pacu jawi |
2019-04-08 |
|
10,400 |
433.3 |
... that in
pacu jawi (pictured), the traditional cattle race of
Tanah Datar, Indonesia, the jockey holds the tails of two cattle while they sprint across a muddy
rice field?
|
Crinkley Bottom |
2019-04-01 |
|
5,032 |
419.4 |
... that not enough people entered
Crinkley Bottom to keep it open?
|
Gloeocantharellus purpurascens |
2019-04-11 |
|
8,099 |
412.9 |
... that the
Indian Creek mushroom can be distinguished from
chanterelles by its staining dark purple when cut or bruised?
|
Jesse James (treasurer)
|
2019-04-01
|
|
2,608
|
217.4
|
... that
Jesse James eliminated
Warren G. Harding?
|
Warren G. Harding (Texas politician)
|
2,268
|
189.0
|
Total |
4,876 |
406.3
|
Disappearance of Brittanee Drexel |
2019-04-25 |
|
9,638 |
401.6 |
... that while investigating the
case of Brittanee Drexel, who disappeared 10 years ago today, the FBI
brought federal charges against someone who had already served state
probation for the same crime?
|
International Banana Museum |
2019-04-01 |
|
4,784 |
398.6 |
... that people sometimes send lewd objects to
IBM?
|
Walter Stanley Haines |
2019-04-23 |
|
9,534 |
397.3 |
... that
Walter Stanley Haines (pictured) testified about the
Haymarket bombing of 1886, the disappearance of
Louisa Luetgert in 1897, and the suspicious deaths in multimillionaire
Thomas H. Swope's family in 1909?
|
Florida shuffle |
2019-04-09 |
|
9,501 |
395.9 |
... that the
Florida shuffle refers to recovering drug addicts caught between multiple
rehab centers and "patient brokers" for their insurance money?
|
Ansel Adams |
2019-04-07 |
|
9,395
[a] |
391.5 |
... that
Ansel Adams (pictured), known for his black-and-white landscape photographs, documented a
Japanese-American internment camp during World War II?
|
Athelstan Rendall (pilot) |
2019-04-29 |
|
9,356 |
389.8 |
... that
Flaps Rendall flew
ball bearings across
occupied Denmark at night in
Mosquitos?
|
Air China Flight 112 |
2019-04-25 |
|
8,926 |
371.9 |
... that the largest in-flight transmission of
SARS (virus pictured) took place on
an Air China flight in March 2003?
|
Mawjoudin Queer Film Festival |
2019-04-11 |
|
7,030 |
358.4 |
... that
Mawjoudin Queer Film Festival, the first
queer film festival in North Africa, does not disclose its location due to security concerns?
|
Polanie (video game) |
2019-04-22 |
|
8,262 |
344.2 |
... that the 1996 video game
Polanie is considered a
cult classic in Poland?
|
Hart Island (Bronx) |
2019-04-16 |
|
8,094 |
337.3 |
... that more than one million people are buried on
Hart Island, the
potter's field for New York City?
|
Nelson Barclift |
2019-04-05 |
|
7,645 |
330.0 |
... that
Cole Porter's nickname for his romantic partner
Nelson Barclift was "cute little nose"?
|
Mykola Melnyk |
2019-04-26 |
|
7,886 |
328.6 |
... that Ukrainian helicopter pilot
Mykola Melnyk made 46
sorties over the highly radioactive
Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, and then continued
firefighting flights into his 50s?
|
HMS Splendid (P228) |
2019-04-21 |
|
7,790 |
324.6 |
... that
HMS Splendid attacked a heavy German merchant ship, but instead sank an Italian destroyer?
|
Mud pie |
2019-04-01 |
|
3,838 |
319.8 |
... that a
mud pie is not meant to be eaten and may contain
pebbles as an ingredient?
|
Alan Stewart Orr |
2019-04-11 |
|
6,246 |
318.4 |
... that
Mr Justice Orr granted the wife of British spy
George Blake a
decree nisi for divorce on the grounds that a conviction for
treason can amount to cruelty?
|
John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act |
2019-04-11 |
|
6,172 |
314.7 |
... that the
John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act protected more than 1.3 million acres (5,300 km2) of
wilderness and created four
U.S. national monuments?
|
Viernes Negro |
2019-04-26 |
|
7,330 |
305.4 |
... that Venezuela's economy still has not recovered from
Black Friday in 1983?
|
Pearl Doles Bell |
2019-04-09 |
|
7,304 |
304.3 |
... that American novelist
Pearl Doles Bell (pictured) traveled with the
Ringling Brothers Circus for six weeks to research her 1919 novel Her Elephant Man: A Story of the Sawdust Ring?
|
Oscar van Hemel |
2019-04-11 |
|
5,909 |
301.2 |
... that the Dutch-Belgian composer
Oscar van Hemel created two operas, one of them about a prostitute?
|
Roman Sushchenko |
2019-04-11 |
|
5,909 |
301.2 |
... that journalist
Roman Sushchenko was named by the European Parliament as one of 30 Ukrainian citizens illegally detained or imprisoned in Russia?
|
Hans Bredow |
2019-04-07 |
|
6,790 |
282.9 |
... that in a telegram to
Hitler,
Hans Bredow, the former head of the
Reich Broadcasting Corporation, requested to be treated like his colleagues who were interned in the
Oranienburg concentration camp?
|
Marianne Williamson 2020 presidential campaign |
2019-04-10 |
|
6,688 |
278.6 |
... that
Marianne Williamson, a candidate in the
2020 Democratic presidential primaries,
has called for $100 billion in reparations for slavery?
|
Alai Darwaza |
2019-04-24 |
|
6,684 |
278.5 |
... that the 14th-century
Alai Darwaza (pictured) was the first Indian monument built using Islamic methods of construction and ornamentation?
|
Librotraficante |
2019-04-08 |
|
6,625 |
276.0 |
... that
Librotraficante smuggled books into Arizona?
|
Chen Zhaodi |
2019-04-15 |
|
6,533 |
274.2 |
... that volleyball player
Chen Zhaodi, who was nicknamed "One-armed General" despite having two arms, became an actual general after retiring from her volleyball career?
|
Tugnet Ice House |
2019-04-10 |
|
6,504 |
270.9 |
... that the
Tugnet Ice House, the largest surviving
ice house in the UK, is now a dolphin watching centre?
|
Barry Sage |
2019-04-21 |
|
6,340 |
264.2 |
... that
Barry Sage has earned US$22,000 for clapping his hands in 1981?
|
Mayan Train |
2019-04-18 |
|
6,264 |
261.0 |
... that the
Mayan Train was approved in a public referendum that garnered only a one percent
voter turnout?
|
Troy Museum |
2019-04-17 |
|
5,964 |
248.5 |
... that the
Troy Museum, located close to the ancient city of
Troy, is clad in rust-colored
weathering steel to resemble an excavated artifact?
|
Aina Mahal
|
2019-04-16
|
|
4,496
|
187.3
|
... that
Ram Singh Malam designed and decorated the
Palace of Mirrors and its pleasure hall?
|
Ram Singh Malam
|
1,309
|
54.5
|
Total |
5,804 |
241.9
|
Aporometra wilsoni |
2019-04-29 |
|
5,736 |
239.0 |
... that the
crinoid
Aporometra wilsoni broods its young in cavities in the feathery pinnules on its arms?
|
Lirabuccinum dirum |
2019-04-18 |
|
5,722 |
238.4 |
... that the
dire whelk sometimes shares the prey of the
ochre sea star while it is being eaten?
|
Butler matrix |
2019-04-22 |
|
5,666 |
236.1 |
... that the
Butler matrix squints?
|
Charles Stewart Mott Foundation Building |
2019-04-04 |
|
5,643 |
235.1 |
... that the
Charles Stewart Mott Foundation Building (pictured) in
Flint, Michigan, made its film debut in the 2008 sports comedy
Semi-Pro?
|
Nazir Ahmad Wani |
2019-04-06 |
|
5,628 |
234.5 |
... that
Nazir Ahmad Wani, the first
Ashoka Chakra recipient from
Kashmir (posthumous award ceremony pictured), was a militant before he surrendered and joined the
Indian Army?
|
Provisional Cavalry |
2019-04-04 |
|
5,606 |
233.6 |
... that the means of raising the late 18th-century British
Provisional Cavalry was likened to the medieval-era
feudal system?
|
Chatham shag |
2019-04-16 |
|
5,488 |
228.6 |
... that the
scientific name of the
Chatham shag (pictured) commemorates
a former Governor of New Zealand?
|
French ship Courageux (1753) |
2019-04-14 |
|
5,334 |
224.0 |
... that when
HMS Courageux was wrecked, more than 100 men escaped to the shore by clambering along a fallen mast?
|
Veronica perfoliata |
2019-04-23 |
|
5,372 |
223.9 |
... that
digger's speedwell is so named because it was thought to indicate the presence of gold?
|
Harry B. Neilson |
2019-04-26 |
|
5,136 |
214.0 |
... that
Harry B. Neilson's illustrations for The Fox's Frolic (example shown) depict
fox hunting in which the foxes do the hunting?
|
Bunny Ahearne |
2019-04-29 |
|
5,094 |
212.2 |
... that
Bunny Ahearne was inducted into three different
ice hockey halls of fame, but never played the game?
|
Queen Charlotte's Ball |
2019-04-17 |
|
5,070 |
211.2 |
... that at the
Queen Charlotte's Ball, debutantes curtsey to a giant birthday cake?
|
Defense of the Cutter Eagle |
2019-04-13 |
|
5,020 |
210.8 |
... that a calf grazing near the scene of
an 1814 battle between the
Royal Navy and
United States Revenue Marine became the fight's only fatality?
|
Antonia Franceschi |
2019-04-23 |
|
5,012 |
208.8 |
... that
Antonia Franceschi starred in the 1980 film
Fame, set at the same
High School of Performing Arts that she attended in real life?
|
Nikolai Kulakov |
2019-04-20 |
|
4,886 |
203.6 |
... that despite being demoted three times,
Nikolai Kulakov rose to the rank of
vice admiral and became a
Hero of the Soviet Union?
|
Ida O'Keeffe |
2019-04-10 |
|
4,842 |
201.7 |
... that American landscape and
still life painter
Ida O'Keeffe omitted her last name in her first exhibition to avoid comparison with
her sister?
|
Dennis Lennon |
2019-04-02 |
|
4,835 |
201.5 |
... that
Dennis Lennon hoped his design for the interior of the
Queen Elizabeth 2 (pictured) would be the "setting for the world's best party"?
|
Gennaro Bizzarro |
2019-04-01 |
|
2,407 |
200.6 |
... that
Bizzarro serves in the Connecticut Senate?
|
British Air Transport (painting) |
2019-04-05 |
|
4,615 |
199.2 |
... that
William Kempster's 8.44-metre-long (27.7 ft) mural
British Air Transport – The Pioneering Days depicts people and aircraft from British aviation between 1919 and 1934?
|
Moston Brook |
2019-04-04 |
|
4,776 |
199.0 |
... that
Moston Brook was one of the most polluted waterways in
Greater Manchester but, following improvements, it is now a recreational resource for local residents?
|
Euretaster insignis |
2019-04-26 |
|
4,774 |
198.9 |
... that the young of the
striking sea star are nourished in a manner described as "cannibalistic ectoparasitism"?
|
Hillary and Clinton |
2019-04-18 |
|
4,685 |
195.2 |
... that
Hillary and Clinton is the first Broadway play to feature
Hillary Clinton as a lead character?
|
Me Too (Meghan Trainor song) |
2019-04-12 |
|
4,613 |
194.2 |
... that
Meghan Trainor requested the removal of her song "
Me Too" from
Vevo, due to unapproved digital manipulation of her body in the video?
|
Spider-Man (Insomniac Games) |
2019-04-15 |
|
4,584 |
192.4 |
... that
the Spider-Man created for the
2018 video game by Insomniac Games has been used by Marvel Comics as an
alternate version of Spider-Man?
|
Presidential portraits of George W. and Laura Bush |
2019-04-14 |
|
4,560 |
191.5 |
... that
Michelle Obama promised
George W. Bush that she would rescue
his presidential portrait from a fire?
|
Titania McGrath |
2019-04-19 |
|
4,580 |
190.8 |
... that a columnist for the British Internet magazine
Spiked created the fictional Twitter user
Titania McGrath in order to mock contemporary "
woke culture"?
|
Tom Ballard (climber) |
2019-04-05 |
|
4,386 |
189.3 |
... that both
Tom Ballard and his mother
Alison Hargreaves died climbing in the
Himalayas, more than 23 years apart?
|
James Henry Marriott |
2019-04-14 |
|
4,360 |
183.0 |
... that
James Henry Marriott (pictured) was the first
optics professional in New Zealand to make a
telescope?
|
Time Traveler (roller coaster) |
2019-04-29 |
|
4,379 |
182.5 |
... that upon its completion at
Silver Dollar City in 2018,
Time Traveler became the world's first
spinning roller coaster to feature three
inversions?
|
Zorotypus hubbardi |
2019-04-05 |
|
4,219 |
182.1 |
... that
Hubbard's angel insects groom themselves and each other, perhaps in order to avoid the fungal diseases that kill many
zorapterans?
|
Electrical telegraphy in the United Kingdom |
2019-04-03 |
|
4,195 |
174.8 |
... that
telegraphy in the United Kingdom included a system that strung wires from rooftop to rooftop of domestic premises?
|
Bara (genre) |
2019-04-28 |
|
4,157 |
173.2 |
... that the style of contemporary art known colloquially as
bara belongs to a history of
homosexuality in Japanese visual art dating back to
shunga of the
Edo period?
|
Pokémon Go live events |
2019-04-30 |
|
4,142 |
172.6 |
... that so many people attended a 2017
Pokémon Go live event in
Yokohama, Japan, that the city declined to host it the following year?
|
Zinc oxide nanoparticle |
2019-04-04 |
|
4,136 |
172.3 |
... that
zinc oxide nanoparticles, thought to be one of the most-produced
nanomaterials, are commonly used in sunscreens?
|
Dai Fudong |
2019-04-05 |
|
3,936 |
169.9 |
... that
Dai Fudong designed
Mao Zedong's villa and asked
Ronald Reagan to have
his father's
Legion of Merit medal reissued?
|
Natal Border Guard |
2019-04-17 |
|
4,006 |
166.9 |
... that the
Natal Border Guard, established in 1878, was expected to defend the
Colony of Natal armed only with spears and shields?
|
Inner core super-rotation |
2019-04-07 |
|
3,974 |
165.6 |
... that the
inner core may rotate slightly faster than the rest of the Earth due to torque caused by Earth's
geodynamo and the solidification of the core?
|
Princeton Shopping Center |
2019-04-06 |
|
3,958 |
164.9 |
... that
a New Jersey shopping mall has a California-style design?
|
Pacific baza |
2019-04-30 |
|
3,902 |
162.6 |
... that the
Pacific baza has been rumoured to imitate the calls of tree frogs when hunting, inducing them to return the call?
|
Raphaëlle Boitel |
2019-04-08 |
|
3,845 |
160.2 |
... that
Raphaëlle Boitel worked as a
contortionist street performer at age eight to earn tuition for
circus school?
|
Gilberto García Mena |
2019-04-29 |
|
3,828 |
159.5 |
... that the arrest of
Gilberto García Mena marked when the Mexican government stopped treating
drug cartels passively and instead hunted them down?
|
Lydia Purdy Hess |
2019-04-17 |
|
3,764 |
156.9 |
... that American artist
Lydia Purdy Hess, best known for her Portrait of Miss E. H., sketched and painted while floating on the Ohio River during her two-month honeymoon?
|
Royal vole |
2019-04-15 |
|
3,731 |
156.6 |
... that the
royal vole has
larder chambers in its burrow but not latrines?
|
Decline in insect populations |
2019-04-21 |
|
3,640 |
151.6 |
... that some
insect populations have declined dramatically?
|
La Région Centrale |
2019-04-05 |
|
3,486 |
150.5 |
... that
La Région Centrale was filmed by a robot?
|
Fallen angel |
2019-04-21 |
|
3,610
[b] |
150.4 |
... that
Church Fathers such as Irenaeus, Justin Martyr, Clement of Alexandria, and Lactantius accepted the association of the
angelic descent myth with the "sons of God" passage in Genesis 6?
|
Nydia Blas |
2019-04-09 |
|
3,600 |
150.0 |
... that photographer
Nydia Blas has said she is intrigued by the use of photography to influence public opinion, for example the use of photographs by
anti-lynching activists?
|
Jeff Berry (mixologist) |
2019-04-19 |
|
3,556 |
148.1 |
... that
Jeff "Beachbum" Berry has been described as "the Indiana Jones of tiki drinks"?
|
ABC Rail Guide |
2019-04-13 |
|
3,434 |
144.2 |
... that the
ABC Rail Guide features in
Agatha Christie's novel
The A.B.C. Murders and on the cover of two editions of the book (first edition cover pictured)?
|
Alex Romero (choreographer) |
2019-04-12 |
|
3,338 |
140.5 |
... that choreographer
Alex Romero hired a
shoeshiner, Leroy Daniels (pictured), to dance with
Fred Astaire in the 1953 film
The Band Wagon?
|
Ānanda |
2019-04-28 |
|
3,357 |
139.9 |
... that
Ānanda (sculpture pictured) became the Buddha's attendant, on condition that he would never receive any material benefit from the position?
|
Rachel Koopmans |
2019-04-22 |
|
3,276 |
136.5 |
... that
Rachel Koopmans was part of a research team which discovered that two
stained glass windows of
Canterbury Cathedral dated to the 1180s?
|
David Bowles (chief executive) |
2019-04-30 |
|
3,238 |
134.9 |
... that evidence given by
Lincolnshire County Council chief executive
David Bowles led to
one council leader being jailed and
his successor banned from being a county councillor, for seeking revenge against Bowles?
|
History of Tobago |
2019-04-12 |
|
3,170 |
133.5 |
... that indigenous resistance by
mainland Caribs and
Island Caribs played a major role in the failure of Dutch, British, French, and
Courlander attempts to colonise
Tobago in the 17th century?
|
Podocarpus coriaceus
|
2019-04-27
|
|
946
|
39.4
|
... that the
yucca plum pine, the
bastard briziletto, and the
West Indian sumac grow in the
cloud forest on the summits of the
Sierra de Luquillo?
|
Sierra de Luquillo
|
942
|
39.2
|
Weinmannia pinnata
|
660
|
27.5
|
Brunellia comocladifolia
|
638
|
26.6
|
Total |
3,186 |
132.7
|
Kingdom of Banggai |
2019-04-02 |
|
3,148 |
131.1 |
... that in local folklore, the ancestor of the
kings of Banggai hatched from a serpent egg?
|
Lloyd Chalker |
2019-04-08 |
|
3,072 |
128.0 |
... that
U.S. Coast Guard Vice Admiral
Lloyd Toulmin Chalker has been credited as the "father of Coast Guard aviation"?
|
Christ Is Risen! Christ Is Risen! |
2019-04-21 |
|
3,042 |
126.7 |
... that the 1862 Easter hymn "
Christ Is Risen! Christ Is Risen!" (visual depiction shown) by
Gurney was virtually unknown until two revised versions were sent to the United States?
|
Swadeshi Steam Navigation Company |
2019-04-26 |
|
2,996 |
124.8 |
... that the collapse of
Swadeshi Steam Navigation Company led to the murder of a district collector of the
British Raj?
|
Euastacus dalagarbe |
2019-04-22 |
|
2,984 |
124.4 |
... that among the threats facing the "
critically endangered" freshwater crayfish
Euastacus dalagarbe are domestic livestock and
cane toads?
|
Nay Salvatori |
2019-04-13 |
|
2,927 |
122.9 |
... that Mexican federal deputy
Nay Salvatori invited the public to "smoke marijuana at my house and listen to
The Doors" if the drug was legalized in Mexico, despite never having smoked it herself?
|
Jaggln |
2019-04-01 |
|
1,466 |
122.2 |
... that you are onto a winner if you can catch four
sows with the
Jaggl, Zanggl and Buggl?
|
Promachocrinus |
2019-04-08 |
|
2,906 |
121.1 |
... that
Promachocrinus is unusual among
crinoids in having ten pairs of arms?
|
Attilio Maseri |
2019-04-23 |
|
2,890 |
120.4 |
... that the Italian cardiologist
Attilio Maseri has been the physician to both
Queen Elizabeth II and
Pope John Paul II?
|
Candida blankii |
2019-04-24 |
|
2,846 |
118.6 |
... that the yeast
Candida blankii, first described from
mink organs, is now known to infect humans?
|
Cedar Hills Regional Landfill |
2019-04-28 |
|
2,846 |
118.6 |
... that
bald eagles are removing pieces of garbage from the
Cedar Hills Regional Landfill and dropping them in surrounding neighborhoods?
|
Katharine Cook |
2019-04-23 |
|
2,800 |
116.7 |
... that
Katharine Timpson Cook established training programmes for midwives in
Namirembe, Uganda, but distrusted her students and censored their mail?
|
Coccothrinax jimenezii |
2019-04-04 |
|
2,764 |
115.2 |
... that
Coccothrinax jimenezii, a palm tree native to the island of
Hispaniola, was listed as a
critically endangered species within two years of its
formal description?
|
Tang Aoqing |
2019-04-03 |
|
2,742 |
114.3 |
... that
Tang Aoqing is known as the "Father of
Quantum Chemistry" in China?
|
Sabine Hyland |
2019-04-02 |
|
2,716 |
113.2 |
... that
Sabine Hyland discovered that the
Incas may have written phonetic information in knotted cords called
khipus?
|
Mariä Heimsuchung, Wiesbaden |
2019-04-02 |
|
2,695 |
112.3 |
... that the interior of the church
Mariä Heimsuchung, a tall concrete landmark of
Wiesbaden, features two large, abstract
triptychs?
|
Sicoderus bautistai |
2019-04-17 |
|
2,608 |
108.7 |
... that the weevil species
Sicoderus bautistai, described as resembling "black, shiny ants", is named after professional baseball player
José Bautista?
|
Moscow State Jewish Theatre |
2019-04-03 |
|
2,591 |
108.0 |
... that the
Moscow State Jewish Theatre's internationally acclaimed production of
King Lear in 1935 contained veiled critiques of
Stalin's regime?
|
Spectral G-index |
2019-04-08 |
|
2,575 |
107.3 |
... that the European Commission's
Joint Research Centre recommends using the
spectral G-index rather than
correlated color temperature to select
streetlights that have low blue light content?
|
Sternaspis scutata |
2019-04-10 |
|
2,536 |
105.6 |
... that
Sternaspis scutata swallows mud?
|
Venetian Renaissance architecture |
2019-04-27 |
|
2,492 |
103.9 |
... that most major
Venetian Renaissance architects (villa by
Palladio pictured) were not natives of the city, or even of the
Republic of Venice?
|
French National-Collectivist Party |
2019-04-20 |
|
2,488 |
103.7 |
... that in 1941, the far-right
French National-Collectivist Party proposed sending its women paramilitaries to fight for
Vichy France in
Syria?
|
Ye Qingyao |
2019-04-08 |
|
2,438 |
101.6 |
... that instead of attending
Columbia University, Taiwanese engineer
Ye Qingyao joined the
February 28 rebellion, was jailed, and then escaped to China on a
sampan?
|
Shadow the Hedgehog |
2019-04-14 |
|
2,418 |
101.5 |
... that
Shadow the Hedgehog was originally going to appear only in
Sonic Adventure 2, but proved so popular that he became a recurring
Sonic the Hedgehog character?
|
Boston Manor tube station |
2019-04-06 |
|
2,410 |
100.4 |
... that
Boston Manor tube station once featured a
Tiffany lampshade?
|
1979 UK Championship |
2019-04-26 |
|
2,400 |
100.0 |
... that
John Virgo won the
1979 UK Snooker Championship despite being docked two
frames for arriving late?
|
Andrew Tallon |
2019-04-27 |
|
2,382 |
99.2 |
... that art historian
Andrew Tallon used lasers to collect one billion data points of the interior and exterior of
Notre-Dame de Paris, which could be used for
its reconstruction?
|
Carrie Langston Hughes |
2019-04-04 |
|
2,381 |
99.2 |
... that, at age 60,
Carrie Langston Hughes made her
Broadway debut as Sister Susie May Hunt in
Hall Johnson's Run Little Chillun?
|
Tom Cade |
2019-04-03 |
|
2,364 |
98.5 |
... that conservationist
Tom Cade was so successful in his efforts to save the
peregrine falcon that it was removed from the US Endangered Species List in 1999?
|
Mottled piculet |
2019-04-12 |
|
2,290 |
96.4 |
... that the
mottled piculet likes to
drum on bamboo?
|
Muntaser Ibrahim |
2019-04-18 |
|
2,310 |
96.2 |
... that geneticist
Muntaser Ibrahim, described by
Science as "one of
Sudan's most distinguished living scholars", was imprisoned in February 2019 after participating in
peaceful protests?
|
Eklakhi Mausoleum |
2019-04-25 |
|
2,305 |
96.0 |
... that the
Eklakhi Mausoleum was the first square-shaped building with a single dome built in India?
|
Satish Namdeo Ghormade |
2019-04-16 |
|
2,302 |
95.9 |
... that
Satish Namdeo Ghormade has served as commanding officer of a
guided missile frigate, a
submarine rescue vessel, and a
minesweeper?
|
Height function |
2019-04-22 |
|
2,290 |
95.4 |
... that
height functions allow mathematicians to count and distinguish objects such as
rational points of
algebraic varieties?
|
Army Printing and Stationery Service |
2019-04-01 |
|
1,118 |
93.1 |
... that mobile mechanics were needed for the
stationery service?
|
Noelle Sandwith |
2019-04-24 |
|
2,217 |
92.4 |
... that
Noelle Sandwith produced the first portrait of a
Queen of Tonga?
|
Alfons Zgrzebniok |
2019-04-10 |
|
2,113 |
88.0 |
... that
Alfons Zgrzebniok commanded the first two of the three
Silesian Uprisings?
|
Bruce Dowbiggin |
2019-04-25 |
|
2,102 |
87.6 |
... that Canadian investigative journalist
Bruce Dowbiggin won a
Gemini Award for his reporting on
National Hockey League pension fraud?
|
St Wilfrid's Church, Hailsham |
2019-04-24 |
|
2,099 |
87.5 |
... that before
St Wilfrid's Church opened, Catholics in
Hailsham, East Sussex, had to worship in the hayloft of a brewery's stables?
|
Criminal-justice financial obligations in the United States |
2019-04-07 |
|
2,078 |
86.6 |
... that fees and penalties charged as part of
criminal-justice financial obligations in the United States may lead to the justice system becoming both a result and a cause of
poverty?
|
Neil Ross McKinnon |
2019-04-07 |
|
2,078 |
86.6 |
... that
a British Guiana one-cent postage stamp that
Neil Ross McKinnon bought from a schoolboy later sold for US$9.5 million?
|
Dilan Ağgül |
2019-04-16 |
|
2,072 |
86.4 |
... that, inspired at the age of five by her
football-playing brother,
Dilan Ağgül became a footballer in Germany and later played for the
Turkey women's national team?
|
Cape Fugui |
2019-04-05 |
|
1,988 |
85.8 |
... that
Cape Fugui, the northernmost point on Taiwan, includes a beach with
ventifacts?
|
Submarine Memorial Chapel |
2019-04-15 |
|
1,986 |
83.4 |
... that during World War II, the crew of the
USS Argonaut donated their ship's bell to the
Submarine Memorial Chapel before the submarine was lost in combat?
|
Karel Wiesner |
2019-04-17 |
|
1,995 |
83.1 |
... that Czech chemist
Karel Wiesner, unable to study at university under the German occupation, set up a laboratory in the basement of his parents' house to teach himself
polarography?
|
Thomas Fulljames |
2019-04-15 |
|
1,974 |
82.8 |
... that
Thomas Fulljames designed the
Gloucester Court of Probate (pictured) in a "
picturesque Gothic" style?
|
John Beaton (miner) |
2019-04-21 |
|
1,985 |
82.7 |
... that prospector
John Beaton triggered an Alaskan
gold rush by a discovery his team made on Christmas Day 1908?
|
Apportionment in the Hellenic Parliament |
2019-04-29 |
|
1,977 |
82.4 |
... that, on average, Greece has changed its electoral law regarding
apportionment in the Hellenic Parliament once every 1.5 elections?
|
Tore Johannessen |
2019-04-02 |
|
1,968 |
82.0 |
... that
Tore Johannessen was the youngest person to become president of any Norwegian sports association?
|
Stella Abidh |
2019-04-30 |
|
1,958 |
81.6 |
... that
Stella Abidh is believed to be the first
Indo-Trinidadian woman to become a medical doctor?
|
All India Azad Muslim Conference |
2019-04-09 |
|
1,954 |
81.4 |
... that the
All India Azad Muslim Conference represented several Islamic organisations that
opposed the partition of India?
|
Jens Harzer |
2019-04-24 |
|
1,948 |
81.1 |
... that
Jens Harzer, a German actor with Hamburg's
Thalia Theatre as well as in film and television, was chosen by
Bruno Ganz to be the latest bearer of the
Iffland-Ring?
|
Yoga for women |
2019-04-24 |
|
1,939 |
80.8 |
... that
Indra Devi helped publicise
yoga for women by enrolling film stars and other celebrities as her pupils?
|
Kathleen Hite |
2019-04-28 |
|
1,918 |
79.9 |
... that
Kathleen Hite, scriptwriter for
Gunsmoke, accepted a job as a secretary at
CBS so she could badger company officials into letting her write?
|
Sophie Alexander (footballer) |
2019-04-19 |
|
1,887 |
78.6 |
... that
Sophie Alexander was
concussed in her first
AFL Women's match?
|
Georgina Pazcoguin |
2019-04-26 |
|
1,862 |
77.6 |
... that
Georgina Pazcoguin of the
New York City Ballet co-founded an initiative to combat Asian stereotypes in ballet productions such as
The Nutcracker?
|
Maria Teresa Ferrer i Mallol |
2019-04-07 |
|
1,838 |
76.6 |
... that medieval historian
Maria Teresa Ferrer i Mallol believed that the 14th-century
Mudéjar Muslim, Jewish, and Christian communities in
Catalonia and
Valencia co-existed due to
religious segregation?
|
Ann Wroe |
2019-04-27 |
|
1,820 |
75.8 |
... that
Ann Wroe has written
The Economist's obituaries since 2003, with subjects including
Prince,
Arthur Miller, and
Osama bin Laden?
|
Rozmowy ze Stanisławem Lemem |
2019-04-29 |
|
1,747 |
72.8 |
... that
a book-length interview with
Stanisław Lem was subject to cuts due to
censorship in Communist Poland?
|
Wildlife of Spain |
2019-04-02 |
|
1,732 |
72.1 |
... that the
wildlife of Spain includes 8000–9000 species of
vascular plants, more than any other country in Europe?
|
Christus, der uns selig macht |
2019-04-18 |
|
1,720 |
71.6 |
... that "
Christus, der uns selig macht", a translation by
Michael Weiße of a Latin
Passion hymn, begins with Jesus arrested like a thief?
|
St George's Church, Polegate |
2019-04-23 |
|
1,704 |
71.0 |
... that since
St George's Church opened in
Polegate in 1938, the composition of its parish has changed five times?
|
Alex Lely |
2019-04-04 |
|
1,662 |
69.2 |
... that Dutch pool player
Alex Lely won the 1999
World Pool Masters Tournament and collected autographs from his opponents?
|
Luquillo Experimental Forest |
2019-04-25 |
|
1,656 |
69.0 |
... that an "alarming" decline in
arthropod populations in
Luquillo Experimental Forest in Puerto Rico has been linked to the warming climate?
|
Bulgarian cosmonaut program |
2019-04-12 |
|
1,625 |
68.4 |
... that
Bulgaria's first cosmonaut,
Georgi Ivanov, safely returned to Earth despite a failing main engine and a damaged backup engine on his
Soyuz 33 spacecraft?
|
International Air Navigation Conference |
2019-04-06 |
|
1,630 |
67.9 |
... that the Paris
International Air Navigation Conference of 1910 was held after France became concerned about the number of foreign balloons carrying German officers that were entering their airspace?
|
Coccothrinax jamaicensis |
2019-04-09 |
|
1,626 |
67.8 |
... that while the
fan palm
Coccothrinax jamaicensis is the only
Coccothrinax species native to Jamaica, the neighbouring island of Cuba has 39 native species?
|
Der kleine Tag |
2019-04-23 |
|
1,616 |
67.3 |
... that "
der kleine Tag" ("the Little Day") is 23 April in the musical of the same name?
|
Kiritsugu Emiya |
2019-04-16 |
|
1,606 |
66.9 |
... that the tragic early life of the
visual-novel character
Kiritsugu Emiya was written by
Gen Urobuchi as a prequel to
Fate/stay night, which has a happy ending?
|
Hansgünther Heyme |
2019-04-15 |
|
1,578 |
66.2 |
... that when
Hansgünther Heyme staged classic plays,
Antigone was set in Calcutta,
William Tell in Nazi Germany, and
Hamlet ended with the prince on a metal trolley?
|
Marwan I |
2019-04-14 |
|
1,530 |
64.3 |
... that in 684–85, Caliph
Marwan I reestablished
Umayyad authority in Syria and Egypt after its collapse across the caliphate?
|
Virginia Overton |
2019-04-26 |
|
1,529 |
63.7 |
... that an original work by artist
Virginia Overton was used as a prize at the 2016
Tribeca Film Festival?
|
Marjorie Paxson |
2019-04-05 |
|
1,473 |
63.6 |
... that
Marjorie Paxson was twice demoted and replaced by a male editor when two different newspapers replaced their
women’s sections with features sections?
|
1909 Florida Keys hurricane |
2019-04-07 |
|
1,525 |
63.5 |
... that some newspapers reported as many as 3,000 deaths in
Key West, Florida, during
an October 1909 hurricane, but just two fatalities occurred in the city in actuality?
|
Bonin white-eye |
2019-04-27 |
|
1,522 |
63.4 |
... that the
Bonin white-eye can evidently learn about new food sources by watching
warbling white-eyes feed?
|
Alejandra Melfo |
2019-04-28 |
|
1,516 |
63.2 |
... that former astrophysicist
Alejandra Melfo now works on preserving microbial life from Venezuela's rapidly receding last glacier?
|
Virgilio Caballero Pedraza |
2019-04-24 |
|
1,509 |
62.9 |
... that while a
federal deputy,
Virgilio Caballero Pedraza lost his apartment in the
2017 Mexico City earthquake?
|
Sumedhanand Saraswati |
2019-04-10 |
|
1,493 |
62.2 |
... that Indian
MP
Sumedhanand Saraswati is also a
Hindu monk?
|
Miguel Pizarro |
2019-04-25 |
|
1,486 |
61.9 |
... that Venezuelan politician
Miguel Pizarro was expelled from high school for starting protests against military education?
|
Marysville Cotton Mill |
2019-04-12 |
|
1,444 |
60.8 |
... that the former
Marysville Cotton Mill now houses a
data centre for departments and agencies of the
Government of New Brunswick?
|
Episode 8052 |
2019-04-27 |
|
1,457 |
60.7 |
... that
Episode 8052 of the Australian soap opera
Neighbours concerns the death of series regular
Sonya Rebecchi, whose
portrayer's contract was not renewed to reduce production costs?
|
Rosl Schwaiger |
2019-04-30 |
|
1,446 |
60.2 |
... that
Rosl Schwaiger appeared as Mozart's
Blonde at the
Salzburg Festival in 1945 and the
Glyndebourne Festival in 1957?
|
Armed Forces March Competition |
2019-04-30 |
|
1,434 |
59.8 |
... that among the judges of the 1954
Armed Forces March Competition were the last two living
cornet soloists to have performed under
John Philip Sousa?
|
Gene Ritchie Monahan |
2019-04-14 |
|
1,422 |
59.7 |
... that
Minnesotan portrait and landscape artist
Gene Ritchie Monahan is known for work that
Sigurd Olson said "caught the details of the changing seasons"?
|
My Song Is Love Unknown |
2019-04-19 |
|
1,424 |
59.3 |
... that the Good Friday hymn "
My Song Is Love Unknown" asks what Jesus had done to deserve crucifixion?
|
Tsutomu Kawabuchi |
2019-04-12 |
|
1,394 |
58.7 |
... that
Tsutomu Kawabuchi was referred to as the "father of
Japanese women's ice hockey"?
|
Mark M. Ravitch |
2019-04-25 |
|
1,375 |
57.3 |
... that
Mark M. Ravitch and
Félicien M. Steichen introduced
surgical staples, a time-saving replacement for
suturing by hand, to American operating rooms?
|
John W. Beschter |
2019-04-02 |
|
1,368 |
57.0 |
... that
John W. Beschter, a Luxembourgish
Jesuit who ministered throughout rural
Pennsylvania, became the
President of Georgetown University in 1829?
|
Kishen Pershad |
2019-04-27 |
|
1,332 |
55.5 |
... that as
Prime Minister of Hyderabad,
Kishen Pershad passed the Mulki regulations giving preference to local citizens over British citizens for state administrative appointments?
|
Ario Pardee |
2019-04-19 |
|
1,318 |
54.9 |
... that
Ario Pardee's gift of $20,000 to
Lafayette College in 1864 was the largest sum ever given to an educational institution in Pennsylvania at the time?
|
Ruth H. Alexander |
2019-04-15 |
|
1,273 |
53.4 |
... that
Ruth H. Alexander was the first woman selected to serve on the
President's Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition?
|
Ethiopian Unity Patriots Front |
2019-04-28 |
|
1,256 |
52.3 |
... that the
Ethiopian Unity Patriots Front is officially opposed to
ethnic federalism and
sectarianism, although almost all of its popular support stems from just one tribal group?
|
Lamellaria perspicua |
2019-04-14 |
|
1,215 |
51.0 |
... that the colour and texture of the
transparent lamellaria may vary according to the species of
sea squirt on which it is living?
|
2016 AFL Youth Girls National Championships |
2019-04-30 |
|
1,192 |
49.6 |
... that
Western Australia was held scoreless in the pool A final at the
2016 AFL Youth Girls National Championships?
|
Typhoon Ofelia |
2019-04-29 |
|
1,182 |
49.2 |
... that
Typhoon Ofelia was the worst typhoon to hit eastern Taiwan in 30 years?
|
A Simple Lie |
2019-04-08 |
|
1,162 |
48.4 |
... that the storyline of
Holby City's two-part episode "
A Simple Lie" was compared to the
Charlie Gard case?
|
Sharda Mehta |
2019-04-12 |
|
1,132 |
47.7 |
... that Indian social worker
Sharda Mehta organised a protest against
indentured servitude in 1917?
|
Euphrasie Kouassi Yao |
2019-04-18 |
|
1,138 |
47.4 |
... that Ivorian special advisor
Euphrasie Kouassi Yao has worked as a
UNESCO chair for Water, Women and Decision-making, and has been honoured by the Global Platform for Enterprising Women?
|
2019 Tour Championship |
2019-04-16 |
|
1,136 |
47.4 |
... that at the
2019 Tour Championship
snooker tournament the first-round match between
Neil Robertson and
Mark Selby, played over 17
frames, was decided by the final
black?
|
Trois Chansons (Ravel) |
2019-04-03 |
|
1,131 |
47.1 |
... that
Maurice Ravel wrote texts and music for
Trois Chansons, his only composition for choir
a cappella, in response to the outbreak of World War I?
|
Eleanor Barrow Chase |
2019-04-03 |
|
1,126 |
46.9 |
... that
Eleanor Barrow Chase was instrumental in getting
Eastern Washington University admitted to the
Big Sky Conference in 1987?
|
Dana Lepofsky |
2019-04-09 |
|
1,116 |
46.5 |
... that according to research led by
Dana Lepofsky, some
clam gardens on the Pacific Northwest Coast are up to 3,500 years old?
|
Bambang Dwi Hartono |
2019-04-18 |
|
1,092 |
45.5 |
... that
Bambang Dwi Hartono championed
bus rapid transit in
Surabaya as mayor, but his plans were overridden by
the next mayor?
|
Rob Morrison (scientist) |
2019-04-13 |
|
1,066 |
44.8 |
... that
Rob Morrison from Australia's
The Curiosity Show was an expert witness at a Royal Commission of Inquiry into
the death of a girl by a dingo?
|
Patrick Lange (conductor) |
2019-04-12 |
|
1,048 |
44.1 |
... that
Patrick Lange, who conducted
a Stephen Sondheim musical in a youth club production at age 16, became
chief music director of the
Wiesbaden State Opera at age 36?
|
Zeige uns, Herr, deine Allmacht und Güte |
2019-04-13 |
|
1,037 |
43.5 |
... that Raymund Weber wrote "
Zeige uns, Herr, deine Allmacht und Güte" to be sung with a modern melody, but it appears in
the German Catholic hymnal with a Baroque melody?
|
Shah Faesal |
2019-04-20 |
|
1,042 |
43.4 |
... that
Shah Faesal, the first Kashmiri to top the
Indian civil services exam, has become a politician?
|
Siegfried Vogel |
2019-04-10 |
|
1,042 |
43.4 |
... that
Siegfried Vogel, a bass at the
Berlin State Opera from 1965, appeared at the
Metropolitan Opera in New York and at the
Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow?
|
Emma Ghent Curtis |
2019-04-27 |
|
1,018 |
42.4 |
... that
Emma Ghent Curtis's 1889 novel The Administratrix features a cowboy in favor of
women's suffrage?
|
D. S. Kapoor |
2019-04-13 |
|
996 |
41.8 |
... that
D. S. Kapoor designed a replica of the
Eiffel Tower to serve as an entrance to the annual
Chandigarh Carnival?
|
Margit Schramm |
2019-04-21 |
|
994 |
41.4 |
... that
Margit Schramm appeared as Hanna Glawari, the "merry widow" in
Lehár's operetta, more than 500 times?
|
Necdet Turhan |
2019-04-20 |
|
994 |
41.4 |
... that
Necdet Turhan, a visually impaired mountaineer and long-distance runner, ran five marathons and climbed five summits on five continents?
|
Watts Park, Southampton |
2019-04-15 |
|
960 |
40.3 |
... that three times a day, the clock tower across from
Southampton's
Watts Park tolls out
Isaac Watts's hymn "
Our God, Our Help in Ages Past"?
|
Friedrich Achleitner |
2019-04-26 |
|
958 |
39.9 |
... that
Friedrich Achleitner, a
concrete poet and architecture critic, wrote over decades about Austrian architecture in the 20th century, visiting each building he described?
|
Competitive service |
2019-04-13 |
|
948 |
39.8 |
... that the U.S.
Homeland Security Act of 2002 has been used to expedite government-wide hiring for medical, scientific, and cybersecurity positions into the
competitive federal civil service?
|
Uma Saren |
2019-04-17 |
|
944 |
39.3 |
... that
All India Trinamool Congress MP
Uma Saren was the first person to speak in the tribal
Santali language at the
Inter-Parliamentary Union?
|
Heinz Hoppe |
2019-04-16 |
|
917 |
38.2 |
... that
Heinz Hoppe performed as a lyric tenor at the
Hamburg State Opera, including world premieres, but became popular for operetta recordings and television shows?
|
Alex Adams (Holby City) |
2019-04-12 |
|
902 |
38.0 |
... that the
Holby City production team worked with
Parkinson's UK to create a
Parkinson's disease storyline for the character
Alex Adams?
|
Avi Nissenkorn |
2019-04-24 |
|
910 |
37.9 |
... that
Avi Nissenkorn, former chairman of
Histadrut, Israel's largest trade union, competed in his youth in the
1986 World Junior Championships in Athletics?
|
XHCDMX-FM |
2019-04-28 |
|
900 |
37.5 |
... that
XHCDMX-FM, operated by a consortium of women's organizations and activists, is the first
community radio station in
Mexico City?
|
Sicut cervus (Palestrina) |
2019-04-20 |
|
898 |
37.4 |
... that the motet
Sicut cervus by
Palestrina, suitable for
Holy Saturday, has been described as the expression of "serene but fervent spiritual yearning"?
|
Liaisons: Re-Imagining Sondheim from the Piano |
2019-04-02 |
|
896 |
37.3 |
... that the album
Liaisons features works by dozens of composers "re-imagining"
Stephen Sondheim's music?
|
Hans Dobida |
2019-04-03 |
|
877 |
36.5 |
... that Austrian ice hockey administrator
Hans Dobida was inducted into the
German and
Slovenian hockey halls of fame?
|
Joravarsinh Jadav |
2019-04-21 |
|
856 |
35.7 |
... that Indian folklorist
Joravarsinh Jadav has written and edited more than 90 works?
|
Ferry Gruber |
2019-04-22 |
|
848 |
35.3 |
... that the tenor
Ferry Gruber performed at the
Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich for 50 years, including in Prokofiev's
Die Liebe zu den drei Orangen alongside
Ingeborg Hallstein in 1960?
|
Horst Laubenthal |
2019-04-04 |
|
830 |
34.6 |
... that
Horst Laubenthal appeared in Mozart operas at the
Glyndebourne Festival as
Belmonte, in Paris as
Tamino, and in Turin as
Ottavio?
|
Bent Norup |
2019-04-29 |
|
820 |
34.2 |
... that
Bent Norup, a Danish
heldenbaritone, recorded the role of
Orest live in France, alongside
Ute Vinzing as Elektra and
Leonie Rysanek as Chrysothemis?
|
Ach wie flüchtig, ach wie nichtig |
2019-04-14 |
|
806 |
33.8 |
... that "
Ach wie flüchtig, ach wie nichtig", a hymn about vanity by
Michael Franck, is the basis of
a chorale cantata by Bach, and quoted in
Mauricio Kagel's Passion?
|
Cynthia García Coll |
2019-04-06 |
|
807 |
33.6 |
... that
Cynthia García Coll from Puerto Rico has researched the
psychological resilience of children born to
teen mothers and of immigrant children?
|
Die sieben Worte Jesu Christi am Kreuz |
2019-04-19 |
|
802 |
33.4 |
... that
Heinrich Schütz composed
Die sieben Worte Jesu Christi am Kreuz, setting the seven
Sayings of Jesus on the cross for the
Evangelist, who sings in up to four voices, and
Jesus, who is accompanied by
obbligato instruments?
|
Poecilochaetus serpens |
2019-04-07 |
|
794 |
33.1 |
... that the
polychaete worm
Poecilochaetus serpens digs a burrow with its head and lines it with particles of clay or mud cemented with mucus?
|
Yang Naisi |
2019-04-28 |
|
793 |
33.0 |
... that Chinese linguist
Yang Naisi was noted for his research on the
ʼPhags-pa script?
|
Harry Lindblad |
2019-04-09 |
|
773 |
32.2 |
... that Finnish Ice Hockey Association president
Harry Lindblad was a founding member of the
Finnish Hockey Hall of Fame, and served as its first chairman?
|
James F. Short |
2019-04-06 |
|
772 |
32.2 |
... that
James F. Short served as director of the
Oregon Department of Agriculture under four governors?
|
Helen Brownlee |
2019-04-06 |
|
768 |
32.0 |
... that
Order of Australia recipient
Helen Brownlee was the first woman to be elected as one of the vice presidents of the
Australian Olympic Committee?
|
Romulea tortuosa |
2019-04-14 |
|
699 |
29.3 |
... that some leaves of the South African plant
Romulea tortuosa are shaped like corkscrews?
|
Tom Oppé |
2019-04-13 |
|
690 |
29.0 |
... that
Tom Oppé chaired the working party which produced a report for the British government in 1974 recommending that babies be fed with breast milk rather than
formula?
|
1920–21 Cardiff City F.C. season |
2019-04-09 |
|
691 |
28.8 |
... that by winning promotion during the
1920–21 season,
Cardiff City F.C. became the first Welsh club to reach the top tier of English football?
|
Denn er hat seinen Engeln befohlen |
2019-04-06 |
|
622 |
25.9 |
... that
Felix Mendelssohn first composed the
motet
Denn er hat seinen Engeln befohlen (For He shall give His angels charge) for an eight-part choir, then included it with orchestra in
Elijah?
|
Mike Gioulakis |
2019-04-20 |
|
598 |
24.9 |
... that cinematographer
Mike Gioulakis was inspired by the photography of
Gregory Crewdson when shooting the 2014 horror film
It Follows?
|
Popule meus (Victoria) |
2019-04-19 |
|
575 |
24.0 |
... that in the motet
Popule meus by
Tomás Luis de Victoria, which sets the
Good Friday Reproaches, two choirs alternate Greek and Latin versions of the
Trisagion?
|
List of black NFL quarterbacks |
2019-04-17 |
|
541 |
22.5 |
... that
Fritz Pollard (pictured) became the
NFL's
first black quarterback in 1923, but it was not until 2017 that all 32 modern NFL teams had started at least one black quarterback?
|
Bandaru Dattatreya |
2019-04-14 |
|
502 |
21.1 |
... that
Bandaru Dattatreya is the only minister from the
Telangana state in the current
Union Cabinet of India?
|
1921–22 Cardiff City F.C. season |
2019-04-20 |
|
352 |
14.7 |
... that during
Cardiff City F.C.'s
1921–22 season, trainer
George Latham became the oldest player in club history when called into action after members of the first team fell ill?
|