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Murder of Jane Britton |
2019-01-07 |
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53,454 |
2,227.3 |
... that the
red ochre sprinkled on the body of Jane Britton (pictured) 50 years ago today ultimately turned out to be a
red herring in solving
her murder?
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Soviet destroyer Sposobny (1970) |
2019-01-14 |
|
38,112 |
1,588.0 |
... that the
Soviet destroyer Sposobny (pictured) was designed to survive a nuclear explosion?
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United States Zouave Cadets |
2019-01-11 |
|
32,238 |
1,343.2 |
... that
The New York Times stated that, with one exception, the
United States Zouave Cadets (pictured) were "all young men of extraordinary muscular power"?
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Duke and Duchess of Windsor's tour of Germany, 1937 |
2019-01-29 |
|
31,618 |
1,317.4 |
... that during the
Duke and Duchess of Windsor's 1937 tour of Germany (pictured), their alcoholic chaperone
Robert Ley crashed them at speed through a factory gate?
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Greta Thunberg |
2019-01-03 |
|
21,972 |
915.5 |
... that 16-year-old
Greta Thunberg (pictured) of Sweden has inspired 20,000 students around the world to
strike for
climate change activism?
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Puertasaurus |
2019-01-31 |
|
20,924 |
871.8 |
... that
Puertasaurus (illustration shown), one of the largest
dinosaurs, is known from only four
vertebrae?
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Death and funeral of Winston Churchill |
2019-01-30 |
|
20,720 |
863.3 |
... that
Operation Hope Not was the codename for planning
Winston Churchill's funeral (procession pictured), the largest state funeral in British history?
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Mars cycler |
2019-01-30 |
|
18,805 |
783.5 |
... that astronaut
Buzz Aldrin discovered the
Aldrin cycler, a means of repeatedly traveling between Earth and Mars?
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Battle of Caen (1346) |
2019-01-22 |
|
18,146 |
756.1 |
... that after
capturing the French town of Caen in 1346, an English army massacred the population and engaged in an orgy of rape?
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James Lawton Collins Jr. |
2019-01-22 |
|
17,886 |
745.3 |
... that Lieutenant Colonel
James Lawton Collins Jr. (pictured) was wounded when his battalion was accidentally hit by American bombers during
Operation Cobra?
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Baker City Tower |
2019-01-16 |
|
17,519 |
730.0 |
... that even though the
Baker Hotel (pictured) was nearly fully booked during the filming of the 1969 musical film
Paint Your Wagon, it closed shortly thereafter?
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Theresienstadt Ghetto |
2019-01-17 |
|
16,768 |
698.7 |
... that the Nazi authorities promoted
Theresienstadt Ghetto (caricature shown) as a "spa town" and "retirement settlement" for Jews?
|
Marc Bloch |
2019-01-18 |
|
16,759 |
698.3 |
... that
Marc Bloch (pictured), one of the most influential historians of the 20th century, was also a
French Resistance fighter and was executed by the
Gestapo in 1944?
|
Hermes 3000 |
2019-01-07 |
|
16,298 |
679.1 |
... that actor
Tom Hanks has claimed that the
Hermes 3000 would be the luxury item he would take to a
desert island?
|
Simeon Monument |
2019-01-04 |
|
16,187 |
674.5 |
... that, upon completion of the
Simeon Monument (pictured), a local resident complained that "among the generality of the inhabitants it is called a p****** post"?
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Joselyn Alejandra Niño |
2019-01-08 |
|
14,184 |
591.0 |
... that suspected hitwoman
Joselyn Alejandra Niño had a nickname which referred to
Our Lady of Holy Death?
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Macrozamia riedlei |
2019-01-08 |
|
14,170 |
590.4 |
... that
Macrozamia riedlei (pictured), a favoured food plant of southwest Australians, was responsible for the accidental poisoning of some early European explorers?
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Michelle Leslie |
2019-01-29 |
|
14,090 |
587.1 |
... that
catwalk model
Michelle Leslie claimed police in
Bali, Indonesia, planted two
ecstasy tablets in her handbag and then asked for a
US$25,000 bribe to avoid conviction?
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Sully (dog) |
2019-01-13 |
|
14,074 |
586.4 |
... that U.S. President George H. W. Bush's
service dog
Sully (pictured) slept next to Bush's coffin before his state funeral?
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Victor Bonney |
2019-01-16 |
|
13,426 |
559.4 |
... that
Victor Bonney stained vaginas blue?
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Russell Crowe's jockstrap |
2019-01-03 |
|
12,079 |
503.3 |
... that the money from the sale of
Russell Crowe's jockstrap allowed the
Australia Zoo to establish a koala
chlamydia ward?
|
Sunset Parade |
2019-01-10 |
|
11,716 |
488.1 |
... that in 2018 the United States Marine Corps'
Sunset Parade (pictured) was moved from the
Marine Corps War Memorial to the
Lincoln Memorial?
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Percy Glading |
2019-01-22 |
|
11,252 |
468.8 |
... that
Percy Glading, British
communist and
Soviet spy, was described by
the head of MI5 as looking "like an overgrown schoolboy" but also "quick-witted and likeable"?
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Carmen Mory |
2019-01-13 |
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11,166 |
465.2 |
... that the Swiss-German spy
Carmen Mory, later a Nazi concentration camp
kapo, was described as a "third-rate
Mata Hari"?
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Alexander Macmillan (engineer) |
2019-01-23 |
|
11,066 |
461.1 |
... that
Alex Macmillan did not know his 1954 mathematical correction had become a widely used formula known as the "Macmillan Correction" until he read about it while
surfing the web in 2004?
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Edward Gyfford |
2019-01-09 |
|
10,212 |
425.5 |
... that
Edward Gyfford's buildings (1807 design pictured) were "calculated for the comfort and convenience of persons of moderate and of ample fortune"?
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Whitespot ghost shark |
2019-01-08 |
|
10,100 |
420.9 |
... that the
whitespot ghost shark is known from only four specimens in the
Galápagos Islands?
|
F. W. Bernstein |
2019-01-25 |
|
9,958 |
414.9 |
... that the poet, cartoonist, and satirist
F. W. Bernstein (pictured) was appointed professor of caricature and comics in Berlin in 1984, the only such chair in the world at the time?
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Convention of Alessandria |
2019-01-28 |
|
9,882 |
411.8 |
... that the historian
Thomas Henry Dyer described the
Convention of Alessandria as "one of the most disgraceful capitulations in history"?
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Lady Shani |
2019-01-31 |
|
9,565 |
398.5 |
... that one wrestler was injured and another stripped of her championship after a
professional wrestling bout involving
Lady Shani went off script?
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Guêpe-class submarine |
2019-01-02 |
|
9,046 |
376.9 |
... that
Guêpe-class submarines were solely intended for use in harbor defense?
|
Rondebosch Fountain |
2019-01-24 |
|
8,684 |
361.8 |
... that
Rondebosch Fountain (pictured), a cast-iron water trough and one of the first electric street lights in South Africa, is being rebuilt in aluminium after a speeding car demolished the original?
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151 North Franklin |
2019-01-23 |
|
8,174 |
340.6 |
... that in 2018,
151 North Franklin (pictured) became the new corporate headquarters for
CNA Insurance, which continues to be based in the
Chicago Loop as it has been since 1900?
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HMS Sportsman |
2019-01-26 |
|
8,068 |
336.2 |
... that
HMS Sportsman sank twelve Axis ships during World War II?
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Emily Lloyd |
2019-01-27 |
|
7,971 |
332.1 |
... that at age 17, the English actress
Emily Lloyd reportedly beat over 5,000 others, including
Jodie Foster, for the lead role in the 1989 film
Cookie?
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Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues |
2019-01-22 |
|
7,933 |
330.5 |
... that
Bob Dylan refused to perform on
The Ed Sullivan Show after the
CBS network tried to censor the lyrics to "
Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues"?
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Herbert Lee (activist) |
2019-01-15 |
|
7,832 |
326.3 |
... that black voting rights activist
Herbert Lee was killed in 1961 by Mississippi state representative
E. H. Hurst?
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Battle of Tororo |
2019-01-16 |
|
7,818 |
325.8 |
... that the Ugandan military indiscriminately bombarded rebel fighters, civilians, and even their own forces during the
Battle of Tororo?
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Esther before Ahasuerus |
2019-01-15 |
|
7,667 |
319.5 |
... that after various changes to
Tintoretto's
Esther before Ahasuerus (shown) from the 1540s onwards, the painting now has two figures of
Haman?
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Minchington Hall |
2019-01-21 |
|
7,566 |
315.2 |
... that
Minchington Hall (pictured) in
Middlesex, England, was said to have one window for every week of the year?
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1999 Matamoros standoff |
2019-01-24 |
|
7,503 |
312.6 |
... that
two U.S. agents were nearly killed by
a drug cartel in Mexico in 1999?
|
Ambassis macleayi |
2019-01-28 |
|
7,499 |
312.5 |
... that
Macleay's glassfish (pictured) is partly transparent?
|
Man Mohan Singh (pilot) |
2019-01-27 |
|
7,406 |
308.6 |
... that in 1930,
Man Mohan Singh (pictured) flew his
Gipsy Moth Miss India solo from
Croydon Airport,
South London, to
PAF Base Faisal,
Karachi?
|
Monrovia Church massacre |
2019-01-11 |
|
7,288 |
303.6 |
... that the
Monrovia Church massacre was the worst single atrocity of the
Liberian civil war?
|
Scharwenzel |
2019-01-02 |
|
7,060 |
294.1 |
... that
Scharwenzel is a
card game, at least three centuries old, that is played today only on the German island of
Fehmarn?
|
Battle of Blanchetaque |
2019-01-20 |
|
7,041 |
293.4 |
... that at the
Battle of Blanchetaque, English longbowmen stood in a tidal river to engage French mercenary crossbowmen?
|
Dermophis donaldtrumpi |
2019-01-17 |
|
6,918 |
288.2 |
... that the man who named a nearly blind amphibian
Dermophis donaldtrumpi did so to raise awareness of Donald Trump's policies on
climate change?
|
French submarine Argonaute (1905) |
2019-01-10 |
|
6,858 |
285.8 |
... that the
French submarine Argonaute was designed with a diesel engine but was built with steam and electric motors instead?
|
Orange-breasted bunting |
2019-01-02 |
|
6,579 |
274.1 |
... that an attempt to introduce the
orange-breasted bunting (pictured) to
Oahu in 1941 was unsuccessful?
|
Sonia Orbuch |
2019-01-07 |
|
6,274 |
261.4 |
... that Second World War
Jewish resistance fighter
Sonia Orbuch was originally named Sarah, but was renamed to sound more Russian?
|
Jozef Tiso's speech in Holič |
2019-01-09 |
|
6,115 |
254.8 |
... that President
Jozef Tiso argued in a
1942 speech that Slovakia's
complicity in the Holocaust was consistent with Christian morality?
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Accident triangle |
2019-01-04 |
|
6,070 |
252.9 |
... that the 1931
accident triangle theory proposed a link between the number of minor accidents and those that led to serious injury?
|
Crooked Billet |
2019-01-31 |
|
5,978 |
249.1 |
... that
Crooked Billet was the site of the first house in London that had a telephone, as well as electricity for illumination, boiling a kettle, and ironing?
|
Cullands Grove |
2019-01-25 |
|
5,940 |
247.5 |
... that an 1832 auction of the contents of
Cullands Grove included three hundred and seventy cases of wine, two Shetland ponies, a fire engine, and two "humane" man traps?
|
HMS Safari |
2019-01-19 |
|
5,932 |
247.2 |
... that when
HMS Safari attacked barges at Ras Ali, Libya, the torpedo passed underneath, damaging a
mole and killing five men?
|
London-class battleship |
2019-01-12 |
|
5,902 |
245.9 |
... that
HMS London, a
London-class battleship, was fitted with a makeshift ramp for experiments with
naval aircraft?
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The Holocaust in Slovakia |
2019-01-24 |
|
5,822 |
242.6 |
... that Slovakia was the only country that paid for the
deportation of its Jewish citizens during the
Holocaust?
|
Epicurus |
2019-01-26 |
|
5,781 |
240.9 |
... that the ancient Greek philosopher
Epicurus (bust pictured) taught that the only reliable way to learn about the world is through
empirical observation?
|
The Hanging Tree (The Hunger Games song) |
2019-01-24 |
|
5,734 |
238.9 |
... that
Jennifer Lawrence was so anxious about performing "
The Hanging Tree" in
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 that she wanted to
lip sync to a professional singer?
|
Shangri-La (house)
|
2019-01-26
|
|
4,087
|
170.3
|
... that
Denver community activist
Arlene Hirschfeld lives in
Shangri-La?
|
Arlene Hirschfeld
|
1,609
|
67.0
|
Total |
5,696 |
237.3
|
Lion Versus |
2019-01-25 |
|
5,584 |
232.7 |
... that the Russian youth movement
Lion Versus opposes public smoking by spraying smokers' hands with water to douse their cigarettes?
|
Selfish genetic element |
2019-01-18 |
|
5,503 |
229.3 |
... that
selfish genetic elements are genes that can invade a population even though they are harmful to the individuals carrying them?
|
Andrew L. Lewis (admiral) |
2019-01-03 |
|
5,320 |
221.7 |
... that
Andrew L. Lewis flew more than 100 combat missions as a
naval aviator before becoming commander of the
United States Second Fleet?
|
Eight precepts |
2019-01-09 |
|
5,188 |
216.2 |
... that the Buddhist
eight precepts allow lay people to lead a life similar to a monk for a day?
|
Philo Power Plant |
2019-01-28 |
|
5,136 |
214.0 |
... that after the
Philo Power Plant was demolished, the rotors from turbine six were utilized in a sculpture created by
George Greenamyer?
|
Valjala Stronghold |
2019-01-18 |
|
5,068 |
211.1 |
... that the surrender of
Valjala Stronghold in 1227 finalized the
Crusader conquest of
Estonia?
|
Monster in the Mirror |
2019-01-28 |
|
5,030 |
209.6 |
... that the 1991 music video for the
Sesame Street song "
Monster in the Mirror" featured 25 celebrities, including
Robin Williams,
Whoopi Goldberg, and
The Simpsons characters?
|
AMES Type 85 |
2019-01-27 |
|
5,005 |
208.5 |
... that the
Royal Air Force's
AMES Type 85 radar was considered obsolete by the time it became operational?
|
Rose v Royal College of Physicians |
2019-01-24 |
|
4,965 |
206.9 |
... that in 1701, the
apothecary William Rose was
charged with illegally practising medicine on a butcher?
|
Peter McAdams |
2019-01-21 |
|
4,942 |
205.9 |
... that
Peter McAdams received a promotion to
sergeant for carrying his wounded comrade 250 yards (230 m) while under fire during the
Battle of Salem Church?
|
Red-bellied black snake |
2019-01-20 |
|
4,896 |
204.0 |
... that the bite of the
red-bellied black snake can result in
necrosis, and has been known to require amputation of an affected finger?
|
Regolith-hosted rare earth element deposits |
2019-01-07 |
|
4,764 |
198.5 |
... that
regolith-hosted rare earth element deposits are mostly low grade, but economic to mine?
|
Jim Derrington |
2019-01-03 |
|
4,694 |
195.6 |
... that
Jim Derrington is the youngest player to record a
base hit in
American League history?
|
Geolycosa pikei |
2019-01-16 |
|
4,674 |
194.8 |
... that wounds on the abdomen of the
wolf spider
Geolycosa pikei begin to heal immediately?
|
Battle of the Hatpins |
2019-01-01 |
|
4,664 |
194.3 |
... that in the
Battle of the Hatpins, women protestors repelled police officers with rolling pins and skillets?
|
Loch Maree Hotel botulism poisoning |
2019-01-04 |
|
4,663 |
194.3 |
... that the
Loch Maree Hotel poisoning of 1922 was the first recorded outbreak of
botulism in the United Kingdom?
|
Annie Nowlin Savery |
2019-01-17 |
|
4,544 |
189.3 |
... that American suffragist
Annie Nowlin Savery came into conflict with some woman suffragists because she supported
free love?
|
Lancaster's chevauchée of 1346 |
2019-01-13 |
|
4,501 |
187.5 |
... that in 1346, an English army
plundered its way across south-west France for 350 miles (560 km) without meeting effective resistance?
|
Raymond Arritt |
2019-01-12 |
|
4,457 |
185.7 |
... that after the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change shared the
Nobel Peace Prize, contributing author
Raymond Arritt (pictured) said, "It's kind of neat: I have, like, .002 percent of a Nobel prize now"?
|
Organic nuclear reactor |
2019-01-06 |
|
4,398 |
183.2 |
... that
organic nuclear reactors, widely researched in the 1950s and 1960s, replaced the water normally used to cool the reactor core with various organic fluids?
|
John R. Seale |
2019-01-02 |
|
4,376 |
182.3 |
... that, in the 1980s, the British physician
John R. Seale advocated the now-discredited theory that
HIV might have been created in a
germ warfare laboratory?
|
There She Goes (TV series) |
2019-01-02 |
|
4,332 |
180.5 |
... that during the filming of
There She Goes, a programme based on series creator
Shaun Pye's learning-disabled daughter, he became so emotional that he had to leave the set?
|
Soultaker (film) |
2019-01-10 |
|
4,262 |
177.6 |
... that screenwriter and actress
Vivian Schilling was inspired to write
Soultaker by a car accident in which she had been involved?
|
Prison Special |
2019-01-20 |
|
4,140 |
172.5 |
... that American suffragists
arrested for protesting at the
White House later toured the country on the
Prison Special while dressed in their prison uniforms (
Lucy Branham pictured)?
|
Why We Have a Body |
2019-01-11 |
|
4,076 |
169.9 |
... that the writer of the play
Why We Have a Body was inspired by
Harriet the Spy, whom she viewed as the first lesbian she had ever encountered?
|
Melissa Clark |
2019-01-05 |
|
4,074 |
169.8 |
... that food writer
Melissa Clark elicited disapproving
tweets from President Barack Obama and former governor
Jeb Bush for her recipe for
guacamole with green peas?
|
Leukoma staminea |
2019-01-23 |
|
4,056 |
169.0 |
... that the
littleneck clam is harvested for food despite being associated with
paralytic shellfish poisoning?
|
Falcon 9 booster B1050 |
2019-01-04 |
|
4,022 |
167.6 |
... that
Falcon 9 booster B1050 malfunctioned during re-entry and missed its landing target at
LZ-1, but still managed a soft landing just offshore?
|
Jiggs II |
2019-01-14 |
|
4,020
[a] |
167.5 |
... that before becoming a
United States Marine Corps mascot,
Jiggs II won a blue ribbon at the 1926
Westminster Dog Show?
|
Vastupala |
2019-01-23 |
|
3,980 |
165.8 |
... that
Vastupala secretly hired pirates to rob the mother of the
Sultan of Delhi?
|
Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne |
2019-01-30 |
|
3,943 |
164.3 |
... that video game magazine
GameStar called
Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne the best
add-on in PC gaming history?
|
Commissioner of Taxation v La Rosa |
2019-01-23 |
|
3,924 |
163.5 |
... that the
Federal Court of Australia
ruled in 2003 that a heroin dealer was entitled to a tax deduction of
$220,000 for money stolen during a drug deal?
|
Shepherd with a Flute |
2019-01-12 |
|
3,868 |
161.2 |
... that the
Shepherd with a Flute has had his shirt changed, and is now attributed to
Titian rather than
Giorgione?
|
Monica Ross |
2019-01-12 |
|
3,790 |
157.9 |
... that the final work of artist
Monica Ross was completed on the day of her death?
|
Sirimavo Bandaranaike |
2019-01-14 |
|
3,778 |
157.4 |
... that in 1960,
Sirimavo Bandaranaike became the first woman elected as a non-hereditary head of government in modern history?
|
Mikhail Borodin |
2019-01-28 |
|
3,758 |
156.6 |
... that Chinese revolutionary leader
Sun Yat-sen referred to
Comintern agent
Mikhail Borodin as his "
Lafayette"?
|
Grand Central Palace |
2019-01-31 |
|
3,742 |
155.9 |
... that
Grand Central Palace, a former exhibition center in New York City, was used at different times as a hospital and a U.S. Army induction center?
|
The Bird Language |
2019-01-21 |
|
3,657 |
152.4 |
... that "
The Bird Language", a short story by
Pu Songling, may have been written to antagonise corrupt officials?
|
Earl Heikka |
2019-01-15 |
|
3,640 |
151.6 |
... that the
Old West figurine sculptor
Earl Heikka's first studio was on
Gary Cooper's ranch?
|
Yukari Anzai |
2019-01-11 |
|
3,628 |
151.2 |
... that
voice actress
Yukari Anzai was appointed as a Japanese ambassador for the hot springs of
Hsinchu County in Taiwan?
|
Ferry Svan |
2019-01-21 |
|
3,626 |
151.1 |
... that Swedish
logging sportsman
Ferry Svan accidentally severed a tendon in his leg with an axe only weeks before the 2018
Timbersports Champions Trophy, but still competed and set a national record?
|
Inbal Dror |
2019-01-22 |
|
3,562 |
148.4 |
... that
Beyoncé wore an
Inbal Dror wedding gown to the
2016 Grammy Awards?
|
Peter Morris (baseball) |
2019-01-06 |
|
3,555 |
148.1 |
... that in 2007,
Peter Morris was "discovered" by
Peter Morris?
|
Ogilvie Graham |
2019-01-19 |
|
3,552 |
148.0 |
... that British Army officer
Ogilvie Graham met his wife during the
Battle of the Somme?
|
Marinette Dupain-Cheng |
2019-01-26 |
|
3,464 |
144.4 |
... that the superhero form of the fictional character
Marinette Dupain-Cheng was based on a woman wearing a ladybug-themed T-shirt who once worked with the creator of
Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir?
|
Little brown bat |
2019-01-15 |
|
3,441 |
143.4 |
... that the pup of a
little brown bat can weigh nearly a third as much as its mother at birth?
|
Jim Siwy |
2019-01-08 |
|
3,373 |
140.5 |
... that
Jim Siwy was a police officer before and after his career in
Major League Baseball?
|
Giovanni Cosimo Bonomo |
2019-01-19 |
|
3,354 |
139.8 |
... that after discovering that the
itch mite was the cause of
scabies,
Giovanni Cosimo Bonomo had a hard time finding a job?
|
Earth Has Many a Noble City |
2019-01-06 |
|
3,304 |
137.6 |
... that the
Epiphany hymn "
Earth Has Many a Noble City" about the
biblical Magi (pictured) was originally written by
a Roman governor?
|
Lacuna vincta |
2019-01-21 |
|
3,262 |
135.9 |
... that the
northern chink shell has two types of teeth, changing slowly from one to the other as its diet varies?
|
Diademed amazon |
2019-01-19 |
|
3,234 |
134.8 |
... that the
diademed amazon (pictured) is considered an
endangered species because the forests in Brazil in which it lives are being felled for
soybean production and cattle ranching?
|
Dave Pickerell |
2019-01-30 |
|
3,230 |
134.6 |
... that
Dave Pickerell was known as the "
Johnny Appleseed" of craft distilling?
|
Gwen Grant Mellon |
2019-01-20 |
|
3,210 |
133.8 |
... that
Gwen Grant Mellon, who co-founded
a hospital for the poor in Haiti, was buried in a cardboard box?
|
Melissa Antunes |
2019-01-14 |
|
3,192 |
133.0 |
... that
Portugal international footballer
Melissa Antunes teaches at a university and started a sports agency?
|
Brigadier General Thomas F. Barr Award |
2019-01-02 |
|
3,190 |
132.9 |
... that the namesake of the
Brigadier General Thomas F. Barr Award served for just one day as
Judge Advocate General of the United States Army?
|
David Hechstetter |
2019-01-28 |
|
3,160 |
131.6 |
... that in 1720, wealthy merchant-adventurer
Sir David Hechstetter directed that his body be buried without any "pompous ostentation"?
|
Leptoconops kerteszi |
2019-01-22 |
|
3,107 |
129.5 |
... that the
Bodega black gnat was first discovered in Egypt but named for
a bay in California?
|
Tonalite-trondhjemite-granodiorite |
2019-01-03 |
|
3,042 |
126.7 |
... that the continental arc
tonalite-trondhjemite-granodiorite rocks can be
plutonic?
|
Rivalry |
2019-01-29 |
|
2,967 |
123.6 |
... that
rivalries encourage people to take more risks and behave less ethically?
|
Darwin Guyot |
2019-01-01 |
|
2,960 |
123.4 |
... that the underwater mountain and former
atoll
Darwin Guyot is named after
Charles Darwin?
|
Coldplay: A Head Full of Dreams |
2019-01-10 |
|
2,938 |
122.4 |
... that
a documentary about the British band Coldplay sold more than 300,000 tickets for a single-night cinematic release, but was not viewed by
the band's lead singer?
|
Tibor Kováč |
2019-01-12 |
|
2,922 |
121.7 |
... that Jewish community leader
Tibor Kováč negotiated with and bribed a former classmate who was organizing the deportation of Jews from Slovakia during the Holocaust?
|
Esther Farbstein |
2019-01-16 |
|
2,904 |
121.0 |
... that Israeli scholar
Esther Farbstein and a colleague discovered more than 100 personal
Holocaust accounts in rabbinical works, a resource previously overlooked by Holocaust researchers?
|
El Caracazo (film) |
2019-01-17 |
|
2,875 |
119.8 |
... that the production of the film
El Caracazo required a military security presence for the filming of scenes of riot and massacre in the centre of the Venezuelan capital of
Caracas?
|
Sakina Aliyeva |
2019-01-20 |
|
2,874 |
119.8 |
... that on 20 January 1990,
Sakina Aliyeva signed the first declaration of independence by a part of the Soviet Union, and announced it on
Nakhichevan television?
|
Fulke Rose |
2019-01-30 |
|
2,861 |
119.2 |
... that physician
Fulke Rose treated the privateer
Henry Morgan with millipede powder and oil of scorpion?
|
Simon Kaloa Kaʻai |
2019-01-25 |
|
2,775 |
115.6 |
... that
Simon Kaloa Kaʻai, a former jailer, became a noble and cabinet minister to a king?
|
White wagtail |
2019-01-18 |
|
2,764 |
115.1 |
... that the
white wagtail is the national bird of
Latvia?
|
Michael McComie |
2019-01-05 |
|
2,752 |
114.7 |
... that Trinidadian
football player and coach
Michael McComie died from a brain tumour 24 hours after being diagnosed?
|
Lola Álvarez Bravo |
2019-01-09 |
|
2,743 |
114.3 |
... that photographer
Lola Álvarez Bravo was described by
Alfonso Michel as Mexico's most important painter?
|
Bernard A. Maguire |
2019-01-04 |
|
2,721 |
113.4 |
... that while
Bernard A. Maguire was a prefect at
Georgetown University, a student uprising resulted in the dismissal of 70 students?
|
Transsion Holdings |
2019-01-28 |
|
2,704 |
112.6 |
... that in the fourth quarter of 2017,
Transsion Holdings had the largest market share for sales of smartphones in Africa, overtaking
Samsung?
|
Slater family (EastEnders) |
2019-01-29 |
|
2,679 |
111.6 |
... that the
BBC head of drama stated that the
Slater family in
EastEnders was created to address a deficit of "solid families" in the soap?
|
El Pez que Fuma |
2019-01-20 |
|
2,676 |
111.5 |
... that
Román Chalbaud's 1977 film
El Pez que Fuma was inspired by stories from prostitutes at a brothel he used to frequent?
|
Arrest of Matthew Hedges |
2019-01-06 |
|
2,672 |
111.3 |
... that in November 2018,
Matthew Hedges received a pardon from his life sentence for spying in the
United Arab Emirates?
|
Franco-Irish Ambulance Brigade |
2019-01-15 |
|
2,648 |
110.4 |
... that
a volunteer medical unit was raised in Ireland for service with the French Army in the
Franco-Prussian War?
|
Melani Leimena Suharli |
2019-01-09 |
|
2,638 |
109.9 |
... that
Melani Leimena Suharli, the daughter of
the founder of the
Indonesian Christian Party, is Muslim?
|
Varsity (fight song) |
2019-01-17 |
|
2,545 |
106.0 |
... that "
Varsity", the University of Michigan
fight song, was written in 1911 by two Michigan students while they were riding a
street car in Detroit?
|
Turkish Military Cemetery
|
2019-01-19
|
|
1,550
|
64.6
|
... that Sir
Harry Luke called the
Turkish Military Cemetery and the adjacent
Jewish Cemetery in
Marsa, Malta, "the only place in the world where Arabs and Jews lie peacefully together"?
|
Jewish Cemetery, Marsa
|
986
|
41.1
|
Total |
2,535 |
105.6
|
Works of Herbert Maryon |
2019-01-23 |
|
2,526 |
105.2 |
... that students of sculptor
Herbert Maryon
tarred and feathered one of
his works?
|
Tomegorō Yoshizumi |
2019-01-28 |
|
2,525 |
105.2 |
... that
a Japanese spy helped compose the
Indonesian declaration of independence?
|
Al-Barakah (ISIL administrative district) |
2019-01-01 |
|
2,510 |
104.6 |
... that
al-Barakah, a self-declared administrative district of the
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, was moved about 200 kilometres (120 mi) south during its existence?
|
Jack Gannon |
2019-01-10 |
|
2,498 |
104.1 |
... that the
first-class cricketer
Jack Gannon was
mentioned in dispatches twice in both the
Anglo-Afghan War of 1919 and the Second World War?
|
Alexis Hartmann |
2019-01-18 |
|
2,490 |
103.8 |
... that
Alexis Hartmann developed a new technique for testing
blood sugar levels while he was still a medical student?
|
Rami Barracks |
2019-01-15 |
|
2,484 |
103.5 |
... that the 18th-century
Rami Barracks was temporarily used by food wholesalers before its current planned redevelopment to create Turkey's biggest library?
|
Social connection |
2019-01-12 |
|
2,474 |
103.1 |
... that
social connectedness may be as important to our well-being as food or water?
|
2001 Harrah's 500 |
2019-01-14 |
|
2,474 |
103.1 |
... that after 250 laps, second place at the
2001 Harrah's 500, a
CART race, was determined by a photo finish in which
Dario Franchitti beat
Michel Jourdain Jr. by 2 inches (51 mm)?
|
Andrew Traynor |
2019-01-20 |
|
2,469 |
102.9 |
... that
Andrew Traynor received a
Medal of Honor after escaping from
Confederate guerrillas?
|
The Common Wind |
2019-01-16 |
|
2,468 |
102.9 |
... that historian Julius S. Scott did not agree with his publisher's suggested revisions to
The Common Wind, so the book remained unpublished for over thirty years?
|
Walter LaFeber |
2019-01-09 |
|
2,428 |
101.2 |
... that
Cornell University professor
Walter LaFeber gave his farewell lecture on
American diplomatic history before nearly 3,000 people at New York's
Beacon Theatre?
|
Denis G. Lillie |
2019-01-14 |
|
2,416 |
100.7 |
... that the biologist
Denis G. Lillie drew cartoons of his colleagues on the 1910–1913
Terra Nova Expedition?
|
Allyl glycidyl ether |
2019-01-22 |
|
2,398 |
99.9 |
... that
allyl glycidyl ether can be converted to three different types of
polymers by changing the polymerization conditions?
|
Richard Ellis (Maltese photographer) |
2019-01-15 |
|
2,364 |
98.5 |
... that before
Richard Ellis became a photographer, he was a
tightrope walker in a travelling circus?
|
Three Lives (short story) |
2019-01-29 |
|
2,343 |
97.6 |
... that the 18th-century Chinese short story "
Three Lives" was adapted into a 2016 play featuring
hip hop and a live band?
|
Death and state funeral of George H. W. Bush |
2019-01-09 |
|
2,300 |
95.8 |
... that the
U.S. Supreme Court delayed hearing oral arguments in
Gamble v. United States due to a
national day of mourning proclaimed following the
death of George H. W. Bush?
|
Thomas F. Mulledy |
2019-01-11 |
|
2,224 |
92.6 |
... that
Thomas F. Mulledy
sold the slaves owned by the Maryland province of the
Jesuits in 1838 in order to pay off its debt?
|
Binnya Kyan of Martaban |
2019-01-24 |
|
2,190 |
91.2 |
... that in his first battle, Prince
Binnya Kyan and his brothers drove back the forces of Crown Prince
Minye Kyawswa of
Ava after being called "useless" by their father, King
Razadarit of
Pegu?
|
1971 Women's World Cup |
2019-01-08 |
|
2,152 |
89.7 |
... that Denmark won the
1971 Women's World Cup, an unofficial
association football tournament, after 15-year-old
Susanne Augustesen scored all three goals in the final?
|
Christian Cabrol |
2019-01-31 |
|
2,150 |
89.6 |
... that French surgeon
Christian Cabrol performed Europe's first
heart transplant in 1968?
|
John Steele (quack) |
2019-01-21 |
|
2,143 |
89.3 |
... that small-town
Utah doctor
John Steele used
herbal medicines to treat patients, and also cast their
horoscopes?
|
Victor Mallet visa controversy |
2019-01-15 |
|
2,140 |
89.1 |
... that after journalist Victor Mallet chaired a talk by
Chan Ho-tin, leader of the now-banned
Hong Kong National Party, he was
denied renewal of his Hong Kong work permit?
|
Ginbuna |
2019-01-14 |
|
2,116 |
88.2 |
... that some forms of
ginbuna carp
asexually reproduce via gynogenesis, in which the male sperm contributes no genetic material but is still required for egg development?
|
Hazel Smith |
2019-01-04 |
|
2,056 |
85.6 |
... that
Hazel Smith helped to popularize the term "
outlaw country" by using it to describe the music of performers such as
Willie Nelson and
Waylon Jennings?
|
Henry Bond (cricketer) |
2019-01-16 |
|
2,042 |
85.1 |
... that the
first-class cricketer and British Army
racquets champion
Henry Bond received honours from the British and Romanian governments for his service during the First World War?
|
Colby Thorne |
2019-01-16 |
|
2,028 |
84.5 |
... that actor Tim Franklin had his first on-screen kiss while portraying
Home and Away character
Colby Thorne?
|
The Raksha Country and the Sea Market |
2019-01-05 |
|
2,010 |
83.7 |
... that Chinese writer
Pu Songling may have written an
anti-Manchu short story?
|
Don't Miss It |
2019-01-27 |
|
1,995 |
83.1 |
... that when a reviewer labelled his song "
Don't Miss It" as "sad boy" music,
James Blake called the term "unhealthy and problematic"?
|
Sanderia malayensis |
2019-01-29 |
|
1,976 |
82.3 |
... that the jellyfish
Sanderia malayensis has a life cycle that includes a number of different types of
asexual reproduction?
|
Butterfly (TV series) |
2019-01-01 |
|
1,962 |
81.7 |
... that when creating the television drama
Butterfly, the playwright
Tony Marchant aimed to dispel the myth that transgender children
transition in order to be "trendy"?
|
Dendrobium falcorostrum |
2019-01-09 |
|
1,912 |
79.7 |
... that the
beech orchid was first
scientifically described in
The Sydney Morning Herald?
|
PSLV-C42 |
2019-01-07 |
|
1,909 |
79.5 |
... that with the launch of
PSLV-C42 the
Indian Space Research Organisation has launched a total of 239 foreign satellites for 28 different countries?
|
David Gwynne-James |
2019-01-25 |
|
1,896 |
79.0 |
... that
David Gwynne-James represented the
King's Shropshire Light Infantry in cricket, rugby, hockey, squash, skiing, and athletics?
|
Ospedale degli Incurabili, Venice |
2019-01-03 |
|
1,893 |
78.9 |
... that the
Ospedale degli Incurabili in Venice, where
Johann Adolph Hasse was
maestro di cappella, was founded as a hospice for sufferers from
syphilis and other incurable diseases of the time?
|
James A. Doonan |
2019-01-26 |
|
1,888 |
78.7 |
... that
James A. Doonan purchased the cannons in front of
Healy Hall, which date to 1634?
|
Joseph Jenckes Jr. |
2019-01-06 |
|
1,852 |
77.2 |
... that
Joseph Jenckes Jr., the founder of
Pawtucket, Rhode Island, was arrested and jailed for making threatening remarks about the
king of England?
|
Cyclonic Niño |
2019-01-25 |
|
1,835 |
76.5 |
... that
tropical cyclones may have induced past climate changes and could still be causing
El Niño type events today?
|
Doryteuthis gahi |
2019-01-05 |
|
1,808 |
75.4 |
... that the
Patagonian squid spawns among the stems of partially defoliated kelp
Lessonia trabeculata?
|
Zhuo-Hua Pan |
2019-01-25 |
|
1,805 |
75.2 |
... that
Zhuo-Hua Pan, credited by some as the inventor of
optogenetics, had his paper describing the technique rejected by multiple journals?
|
Lawrence Cowan |
2019-01-22 |
|
1,786 |
74.4 |
... that American
Lawrence Cowan regained possession of a copper mine in
Sonora, Mexico from local
claim jumpers through the
Supreme Court of Mexico?
|
Lee Joannes |
2019-01-07 |
|
1,776 |
74.0 |
... that in 1933
Green Bay Packers president
Lee Joannes personally loaned the organization $6,000 to keep it in operation?
|
Glantraeth F.C. |
2019-01-29 |
|
1,742 |
72.6 |
... that actress
Naomi Watts is honorary president of the Welsh
football club
Glantraeth F.C.?
|
Zvi Aryeh Rosenfeld |
2019-01-21 |
|
1,742 |
72.6 |
... that Rabbi
Zvi Aryeh Rosenfeld introduced
Breslov
Hasidism to the United States?
|
Clive Garthwaite |
2019-01-31 |
|
1,738 |
72.4 |
... that when
Clive Garthwaite played on the same school cricket team as his identical twin brother
Peter, they caused confusion due to their similar looks?
|
Sincerity Is Scary |
2019-01-31 |
|
1,734 |
72.2 |
... that the lead singer of the English rock band
The 1975 wrote the song "
Sincerity Is Scary" in order to "denounce all of that postmodern fear of ... being real"?
|
Dean Thompson |
2019-01-21 |
|
1,732 |
72.1 |
... that
Home and Away character
Dean Thompson was described in 2018 as the serial's "new favourite bad boy"?
|
Growing Pears |
2019-01-12 |
|
1,726 |
71.9 |
... that a popular account of the
Indian rope trick by
Chicago Tribune journalist
John Wilkie may have been inspired by the Chinese short story "
Growing Pears"?
|
Indian cassava mosaic virus |
2019-01-11 |
|
1,726 |
71.9 |
... that although
Indian cassava mosaic virus does indeed infect
cassava crops in India, the actual origin of the virus is unknown?
|
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Slingshot |
2019-01-13 |
|
1,708 |
71.2 |
... that
Marvel Comics' chief creative officer
Joe Quesada made his directorial debut with the first episode of the digital series
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Slingshot?
|
Voyage of the Sable Venus and Other Poems |
2019-01-17 |
|
1,678 |
69.9 |
... that 79 pages of
Robin Coste Lewis's anthology
Voyage of the Sable Venus and Other Poems are devoted to the titular poem, which consists of "titles, catalog entries, or exhibit descriptions" depicting the black female form in Western art?
|
International Encyclopedia of Women Composers |
2019-01-26 |
|
1,622 |
67.6 |
... that the
International Encyclopedia of Women Composers was written partially in response to a comment by
Thomas Beecham who said, "There are no women composers, never have been and possibly never will be"?
|
Rhythm Inside (Loïc Nottet song) |
2019-01-30 |
|
1,614 |
67.2 |
... that in a music video for Belgian singer
Loïc Nottet's "
Rhythm Inside", several people are portrayed as being taken to a warehouse, for what some viewers believed was
human experimentation?
|
Dimyati Natakusumah |
2019-01-03 |
|
1,590 |
66.2 |
... that
Dimyati Natakusumah is set to compete against two of his children in the
2019 Indonesian general election?
|
Gert Westphal |
2019-01-05 |
|
1,586 |
66.1 |
... that
Thomas Mann's
widow, Katia, (couple pictured) called
Gert Westphal "des Dichters oberster Mund" (the poet's principal voice) after his reading of her husband's works?
|
David Long Jr. |
2019-01-02 |
|
1,561 |
65.0 |
... that
David Long Jr. set the
West Virginia Mountaineers football record for single-game
tackles for a loss?
|
Rose M. Poole |
2019-01-18 |
|
1,547 |
64.5 |
... that in 1947, state representative
Rose M. Poole was part of a
Republican majority in the
Oregon House of Representatives that outnumbered
Democrats 58 to 2?
|
Huadong Hospital |
2019-01-05 |
|
1,542 |
64.2 |
... that the
Country Hospital in
Shanghai provided free treatment to Jewish refugees during World War II?
|
Judicial independence in Australia |
2019-01-17 |
|
1,532 |
63.8 |
... that Chief Justice
Murray Gleeson suggested that public confidence in the
independence of Australian judges largely consists of taking things for granted?
|
Werner Bardenhewer |
2019-01-30 |
|
1,516 |
63.2 |
... that a clinic in
Mopti, Mali, is named after
Werner Bardenhewer, born 90 years ago today, who was for decades priest of
St. Bonifatius, Wiesbaden, and then founded a charity group?
|
Harry E. Huffman |
2019-01-27 |
|
1,492 |
62.2 |
... that 13 was a lucky number for American
movie theater magnate
Harry E. Huffman?
|
Giorgio Mitrovich |
2019-01-27 |
|
1,480 |
61.7 |
... that although
Giorgio Mitrovich respected and admired the British, he criticised the
British colonial administration of Malta for its lack of
freedom of the press?
|
Johann Georg Reißmüller |
2019-01-17 |
|
1,442 |
60.1 |
... that the journalist
Johann Georg Reißmüller, a co-publisher of
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, is credited with playing an important part in Germany's recognition of
Croatia and
Slovenia?
|
Bieling Architekten |
2019-01-14 |
|
1,438 |
59.9 |
... that the founder of
Bieling Architekten mainly designed churches, while his two sons now focus on commercial projects?
|
Nagammai |
2019-01-10 |
|
1,405 |
58.5 |
... that
Nagammai organised women to picket the
toddy shops in
Erode during the
temperance movement in India?
|
Marie-Louise Gagneur |
2019-01-24 |
|
1,378 |
57.4 |
... that in 1901, French feminist writer
Marie-Louise Gagneur was awarded the
Legion of Honour?
|
Die Göttin der Vernunft |
2019-01-24 |
|
1,377 |
57.4 |
... that
Johannes Brahms attended the premiere of the operetta
Die Göttin der Vernunft by
Johann Strauss, but the composer himself did not, and heard about its reception only by telephone?
|
Thomas Wilkinson King |
2019-01-11 |
|
1,348 |
56.2 |
... that a scientific paper by
Thomas Wilkinson King about the
thyroid gland fell into obscurity for nearly a century before being discussed by
Sir Humphry Rolleston in a
lecture in 1933?
|
Roberto Tobar |
2019-01-04 |
|
1,292 |
53.9 |
... that
Roberto Tobar officiated the 2017
Segunda División final, in which only one team took part in the
penalty shootout?
|
Emil Paleček |
2019-01-07 |
|
1,278 |
53.2 |
... that in 1960
Emil Paleček discovered that
nucleic acids could be studied
electrochemically, contradicting previous assumptions that DNA molecules were too large to have electrochemical properties?
|
Rollercoaster (Jim Verraros album) |
2019-01-25 |
|
1,240 |
51.7 |
... that the 2005 pop-rock/dance album
Rollercoaster, by former
American Idol finalist
Jim Verraros, was inspired by the music of
George Michael and
Green Day?
|
How to Be Drawn |
2019-01-08 |
|
1,225 |
51.0 |
... that one of the poems in
How to Be Drawn by
Terrance Hayes was described as having "echoes of the cultural critique of race relations in America" in
Ralph Ellison's novel
Invisible Man?
|
William Gould Young |
2019-01-08 |
|
1,204 |
50.1 |
... that
William Gould Young was the first faculty member at
UCLA to be inducted into the
National Academy of Sciences, and the university's chemistry building was renamed in his honor?
|
Björn Ambrosiani |
2019-01-06 |
|
1,197 |
49.9 |
... that
Björn Ambrosiani spent six years excavating at the
Viking Age settlement
Birka?
|
Will Schofield |
2019-01-18 |
|
1,192 |
49.7 |
... that
Australian rules footballer
Will Schofield played on in a match despite a compound dislocation of his finger?
|
Space climate |
2019-01-27 |
|
1,176 |
49.0 |
... that the
space climate discipline researches how
solar wind and
interplanetary magnetic field fluctuations can affect Earth over timescales ranging from a few weeks to more than 1,000 years?
|
Yum Balam |
2019-01-08 |
|
1,169 |
48.7 |
... that
Yum Balam
Flora and Fauna Protection Area, which provides a habitat for jaguars, is named for a
Maya jaguar god of nature?
|
Hamdan Qarmat |
2019-01-30 |
|
1,154 |
48.1 |
... that the
Qarmatian movement began when
Hamdan Qarmat denounced the claims of
Abdallah, the future founder of the
Fatimid Caliphate, to be the
Islamic Messiah?
|
Balloon pulmonary angioplasty |
2019-01-26 |
|
1,132 |
47.2 |
... that
inflating balloons into lung arteries may be considered for people with
chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension who are not suitable for surgery?
|
Carsten Koch (musician) |
2019-01-01 |
|
1,118 |
46.6 |
... that
Carsten Koch conducted
all Beethoven symphonies at the historic
Unionskirche, and shared Bach's
Christmas Oratorio there in an ecumenical project (performance pictured)?
|
Carbon price (Canada) |
2019-01-31 |
|
1,110 |
46.3 |
... that Canada has enacted a
cap and trade program to
tax carbon emissions?
|
Echoes (Binchy novel) |
2019-01-18 |
|
1,107 |
46.1 |
... that in her second novel,
Echoes,
Maeve Binchy underscores the paucity of educational opportunities in small Irish towns before the introduction of free
secondary education in 1967?
|
James Stratford (publisher) |
2019-01-10 |
|
1,065 |
44.4 |
... that among the books produced by
Georgian publisher
James Stratford was one of 149
parts?
|
Zeik-Bye |
2019-01-02 |
|
1,050 |
43.8 |
... that Chief Minister
Zeik-Bye of
Hanthawaddy persuaded Prince
Binnya Nwe to revolt by saying that his mother Princess
Maha Dewi was planning to put her lover on the throne?
|
Social emotional development |
2019-01-19 |
|
1,010 |
42.1 |
... that as part of
social emotional development, there is a sevenfold increase in most children's emotional vocabularies between ages 4 and 11?
|
John Leamy (merchant) |
2019-01-13 |
|
1,008 |
42.0 |
... that merchant
John Leamy owned the first U.S. ship to enter the
Río de la Plata?
|
Bester Bube |
2019-01-19 |
|
1,002 |
41.7 |
... that
Bester Bube is a card game characterised by the promotion of two jacks to topmost position, a feature paralleled in
Euchre and other historical games such as
Reunion and
Kontraspiel?
|
Wilfrid Butt |
2019-01-13 |
|
996 |
41.5 |
... that the biochemist
Wilfrid Butt was among the first to extract
follicle-stimulating hormone from cadavers rather than from urine?
|
Capnobotes fuliginosus |
2019-01-13 |
|
994 |
41.4 |
... that the
katydid
Capnobotes fuliginosus shows its dark hindwings when startled?
|
James A. Ryder |
2019-01-10 |
|
952 |
39.7 |
... that
Georgetown University School of Medicine was founded during the presidency of
James A. Ryder?
|
2018 FIFA Club World Cup Final |
2019-01-12 |
|
945 |
39.4 |
... that
Al-Ain Football Club was the first
Emirati team
to qualify for the final of the
FIFA Club World Cup?
|
Dui Bigha Jomi |
2019-01-03 |
|
934 |
38.9 |
... that "
Dui Bigha Jomi", a Bengali poem written by
Rabindranath Tagore, inspired a story which was the basis for the 1953 Hindi film
Do Bigha Zamin?
|
Howard J. Green |
2019-01-04 |
|
922 |
38.4 |
... that
Howard J. Green's screenplay for
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang led to the elimination of the
chain gang system in the U.S. state of
Georgia in 1937?
|
Jean-Pierre Bernès |
2019-01-23 |
|
918 |
38.2 |
... that
Jean-Pierre Bernès, former general manager of
Olympique de Marseille, started out selling membership cards for the club?
|
Cuthbert Hilton Golding-Bird |
2019-01-20 |
|
888 |
37.0 |
... that the surgeon
Cuthbert Hilton Golding-Bird invented a
dilator for use in
tracheotomies?
|
Fallt mit Danken, fallt mit Loben, BWV 248 IV |
2019-01-23 |
|
843 |
35.1 |
... that
Fallt mit Danken, fallt mit Loben (Fall with thanks, fall with praise), Part IV of Bach's
Christmas Oratorio for New Year's Day 1735, commemorates the naming of
Jesus?
|
Wilmer Clemont Fields |
2019-01-01 |
|
840 |
35.0 |
... that
Wilmer Clemont Fields of the
Southern Baptist Convention was a defender of
freedom of the press?
|
Shekhar: Ek Jivani |
2019-01-06 |
|
828 |
34.5 |
... that
Shekhar: Ek Jivani by
Agyeya is considered the first
psychoanalytical novel in
Hindi literature?
|
Alphonsus J. Donlon |
2019-01-01 |
|
826 |
34.4 |
... that
Alphonsus J. Donlon became known as the "father of
Georgetown athletics" for overseeing multiple victorious teams?
|
Geeta Parikh |
2019-01-01 |
|
810 |
33.8 |
... that
Gujarati writer
Geeta Parikh has written more than 900 poems?
|
MTrain Tour |
2019-01-29 |
|
774 |
32.2 |
... that
Meghan Trainor canceled several dates on the
MTrain Tour after suffering a vocal cord
hemorrhage?
|
Marianne Schech |
2019-01-26 |
|
774 |
32.2 |
... that
Marianne Schech appeared as the Dyer's Wife in the U.S. premiere of
Die Frau ohne Schatten by Richard Strauss at the
San Francisco Opera?
|
Introduction, Passacaglia and Fugue |
2019-01-11 |
|
710 |
29.6 |
... that
Max Reger composed
Introduction, Passacaglia and Fugue, Op. 127, for
Karl Straube, to be played as the first organ piece at the new
Centennial Hall in Breslau in 1913?
|
Henri Hinrichsen |
2019-01-19 |
|
690 |
28.7 |
... that music publisher
Henri Hinrichsen, owner of
C. F. Peters in Leipzig, promoted composers such as
Gustav Mahler,
Max Reger, and
Arnold Schoenberg?
|
Robert Seyfarth (scientist) |
2019-01-13 |
|
689 |
28.7 |
... that according to
primatologists
Robert Seyfarth and
Dorothy Cheney, successful
baboons use rules like those in
Jane Austen novels: "be nice to your relatives and get in with the high-ranking relatives"?
|
Weihnachtslieder, Op. 8 (Cornelius) |
2019-01-06 |
|
560 |
23.3 |
... that
Peter Cornelius wrote poems and music for his song cycle
Weihnachtslieder, which included
a popular melody in the piano accompaniment for a song about the
Three Kings?
|