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Franz Halder |
2019-10-20 |
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36,854 |
1,535.6 |
... that
Franz Halder (pictured), a former chief of staff of Nazi Germany's army, was the only German to be decorated by both Adolf Hitler and an American president?
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1959 San Diego F3H crash |
2019-10-19 |
|
21,950 |
914.6 |
... that in 1959, an estimated 700 people on the ground were saved when
Ensign Albert Hickman
stayed with his crippled aircraft (type pictured)?
|
Hannah Simpson Grant |
2019-10-17 |
|
21,088 |
878.6 |
... that
Hannah Simpson Grant (pictured), mother of U.S. president
Ulysses S. Grant, did not attend her son's inauguration?
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Dabusun Lake
|
2019-10-21
|
|
11,232
|
468.0
|
... that
Dabusun Lake (pictured) is the largest remaining lake in China's
Qarhan Playa, which 30,000 years ago held a single lake spreading over at least 25,000 km2 (9,700 sq mi)?
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Qarhan Playa
|
7,302
|
304.3
|
Total |
18,535 |
772.3
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Lisa Gordon-Hagerty |
2019-10-12 |
|
17,718 |
738.2 |
... that
Lisa Gordon-Hagerty (pictured), head of the U.S.
National Nuclear Security Administration, once said, "I have more important things to do than advise
Nicole Kidman"?
|
Barbecue spaghetti |
2019-10-04 |
|
16,062 |
669.2 |
... that
John Shelton Reed wrote that
barbecue spaghetti (pictured) "is to spaghetti Bolognese as
Cincinnati chili is to the
Tex-Mex variety"?
|
Bruce Tree |
2019-10-30 |
|
15,254 |
635.6 |
... that
a tree at least 700 years old, reputedly planted by
Robert the Bruce, was destroyed by an arson attack in 2004?
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Idalia Ramos Rangel |
2019-10-23 |
|
14,452 |
602.1 |
... that a US$25,000 bounty is offered for
Big Momma?
|
Mai Khôi |
2019-10-25 |
|
14,328 |
597.0 |
... that
Mai Khôi (pictured), an outspoken singer and political dissident known as the "
Lady Gaga of Vietnam", received a
Václav Havel Prize for Creative Dissent in 2018?
|
Lilias Adie |
2019-10-31 |
|
13,166 |
548.6 |
... that forensic artists at the
University of Dundee used 100-year-old photographs of a skull to digitally recreate the face of
an accused witch in Scotland?
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The Life and Deeds of the Immortal Leader Karađorđe |
2019-10-23 |
|
12,534 |
522.3 |
... that the first
Serbian feature film,
The Life and Deeds of the Immortal Leader Karađorđe (still frame shown), was considered
lost for much of the 20th century and only rediscovered in 2003?
|
Writing lines |
2019-10-11 |
|
12,426 |
517.8 |
... that
writing lines (example pictured), as cartoon character
Bart Simpson does
on a chalkboard, has survived even as other forms of
school discipline have fallen out of favour?
|
63rd Street Tunnel |
2019-10-09 |
|
11,000 |
458.4 |
... that the upper level of New York's
63rd Street Tunnel took 20 years to open, while the lower level is still under construction after nearly half a century?
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Kate Dover
|
2019-10-06
|
|
4,912
|
204.6
|
... that in 1881,
Kate Dover killed
Thomas Skinner by cooking him a roast dinner with
arsenic in the stuffing, but was
not convicted of murder?
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Crown vs Kate Dover
|
4,139
|
172.5
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Thomas Skinner (etcher)
|
1,930
|
80.4
|
Total |
10,981 |
457.5
|
Earl's Court Square |
2019-10-24 |
|
10,104 |
435.5 |
... that in the 1970s, London's
Earl's Court Square (houses pictured) was the location of two brothels and the site of the "Battle of Earl's Court" between rival poets?
|
Mia Khalifa (song) |
2019-10-16 |
|
10,277 |
428.2 |
... that more than 4 million videos on
TikTok feature the song "
Mia Khalifa" – also known as the "Hit or Miss" song – even though the app had not licensed its use and has never paid the artists?
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Margaret Macpherson Grant |
2019-10-16 |
|
10,256 |
427.3 |
... that 19th-century Scottish heiress and philanthropist
Margaret Macpherson Grant died, aged 42, shortly after her female partner had abandoned her to marry a man?
|
Eagle Woman |
2019-10-27 |
|
8,034 |
391.9 |
... that
Eagle Woman (pictured) is credited as the only woman to become a chief among the
Sioux, and the first woman to sign a treaty with the United States?
|
Miss'd America |
2019-10-22 |
|
9,404 |
391.8 |
... that the grand prize of the
Miss'd America pageant was once a
Burger King crown and a bouquet of dead roses?
|
TASBot |
2019-10-08 |
|
9,390 |
391.2 |
... that
speedrunning robot
TASBot made a
Skype call in
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past?
|
Mike Wallace Is Here |
2019-10-07 |
|
9,378 |
390.8 |
... that director
Avi Belkin said the title of his 2019 documentary
Mike Wallace Is Here once constituted "the four most-dreaded words in the English language"?
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Jim Furyk's round of 58 |
2019-10-07 |
|
9,313 |
388.0 |
... that after 1.5 million rounds played over the history of the
PGA Tour,
the first 58 was shot by
Jim Furyk (pictured)?
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Tweed Courthouse |
2019-10-17 |
|
9,232 |
384.6 |
... that the construction of New York City's
Tweed Courthouse, prolonged over 20 years, has been called "a classic in the annals of American graft"?
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Litsy |
2019-10-17 |
|
8,976 |
374.0 |
... that
Litsy is similar to
Twitter and
Instagram, but is only for books?
|
London medical students at Belsen |
2019-10-10 |
|
8,571 |
357.1 |
... that in 1945, a group of
London medical students (pictured) travelled to
Bergen-Belsen concentration camp to treat the survivors?
|
Betsy Head Park |
2019-10-31 |
|
8,406 |
350.2 |
... that the namesake of
Betsy Head Park left half her estate to the New York City parks system and only $5 to her daughter?
|
The VelociPastor |
2019-10-04 |
|
8,170 |
340.4 |
... that the director of the film
The VelociPastor thought of the idea when his phone
autocorrected "
Velociraptor" to "Veloci Pastor"?
|
Robert N. McClelland |
2019-10-18 |
|
7,928 |
330.3 |
... that surgeon
Robert N. McClelland tried to save the lives of both
John F. Kennedy and
his assassin?
|
New York Public Library Main Branch |
2019-10-28 |
|
7,111 |
316.0 |
... that the
New York Public Library Main Branch (pictured), whose stacks contain an estimated 2.5 million volumes, uses "book trains" to carry books to patrons?
|
Jeannette Guyot |
2019-10-02 |
|
7,573 |
315.5 |
... that
French Resistance agent
Jeannette Guyot was one of only two women to be awarded
America's second highest military honour during World War II?
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Memorial and Education Centre Andreasstrasse |
2019-10-03 |
|
7,473 |
311.4 |
... that the occupation of the
Stasi district headquarters and
Stasi prison (pictured) in
Erfurt was a milestone in the
Peaceful Revolution?
|
Maryul |
2019-10-31 |
|
7,448 |
310.4 |
... that
Ladakh was originally called
Maryul (capital pictured), the "lowland" of West Tibet?
|
Uppalavanna |
2019-10-21 |
|
7,078 |
294.9 |
... that one of the
Buddha's chief female disciples,
Uppalavanna, is said to have become a nun because she was so beautiful that her father feared conflict between her many wealthy suitors?
|
Joseph LaBarge |
2019-10-02 |
|
7,056 |
294.0 |
... that in 1863, Captain
Joseph LaBarge (pictured) made a trip up and down the
Missouri River aboard his steamboat, exceeding existing records for speed and distance?
|
Yu Zhenwu |
2019-10-18 |
|
7,038 |
293.2 |
... that
Yu Zhenwu piloted the first successful flight of China's first indigenously designed jet aircraft and, decades later, became
Commander of the People's Liberation Army Air Force?
|
Benjamin F. Lewis |
2019-10-14 |
|
6,873 |
286.4 |
... that the murder of Chicago alderman
Benjamin F. Lewis was considered unsolvable for having too many suspects?
|
War of the Peters |
2019-10-10 |
|
6,692 |
278.8 |
... that up to 60,000 people were displaced during the
War of the Peters?
|
Lisa Daugaard |
2019-10-28 |
|
6,271 |
278.7 |
... that
Lisa Daugaard attended the
University of Washington at the age of twelve?
|
Samsung Galaxy M30s |
2019-10-24 |
|
6,448 |
277.9 |
... that the 6000
mAh battery on the
Samsung Galaxy M30s is the largest ever for a Samsung smartphone?
|
Girl on the Third Floor |
2019-10-25 |
|
6,516 |
271.5 |
... that director and screenwriter Travis Stevens paused renovations on his production company's house to film
Girl on the Third Floor?
|
Jaakko Gauriloff |
2019-10-15 |
|
6,438 |
268.3 |
... that in his youth, Finnish
Skolt singer
Jaakko Gauriloff (pictured) was called "the
James Dean of
Nellim" and "the world's northernmost
schlager singer"?
|
Apple maggot |
2019-10-14 |
|
6,364 |
265.2 |
... that adult
apple maggot flies (example pictured) use their wing patterns defensively to mimic spiders?
|
Roar (1981 film) |
2019-10-26 |
|
6,335 |
264.0 |
... that at least 70 members of the cast and crew were injured while working alongside 130 or more untrained
big cats, mostly lions and tigers, for the film
Roar?
|
John Mason Loomis |
2019-10-24 |
|
6,098 |
262.8 |
... that industrialist
John Mason Loomis, a
Union Army colonel in the
American Civil War, fought in 57 battles and skirmishes, marching with his men for more than 6,900 mi (11,100 km)?
|
Raúl Alberto Trejo Benavides |
2019-10-18 |
|
6,248 |
260.4 |
... that after drug cartel member
Raúl Alberto Trejo Benavides was killed in a shootout, his comrades tried to fabricate a suicide?
|
Military Intelligence Corps Band |
2019-10-01 |
|
6,062 |
252.6 |
... that the
U.S. Army's
Military Intelligence Corps Band (pictured) had a jazz ensemble known as the Cannonball Combo in tribute to
Cannonball Adderley, a former U.S. Army trumpet player?
|
Hollow Dogū |
2019-10-07 |
|
6,031 |
251.3 |
... that the sexual characteristics of the
Hollow Dogū, a
National Treasure of Japan, are so mixed that the
Jōmon figurine has been said to "transcend gender"?
|
Halloween darter |
2019-10-31 |
|
6,023 |
251.0 |
... that the common name of the
Halloween darter refers to the orange and black coloration that individuals develop during the breeding season?
|
Geostationary orbit |
2019-10-18 |
|
5,936
[a] |
247.3 |
... that satellites in a
geostationary orbit appear stationary in the sky to a ground observer?
|
Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi |
2019-10-17 |
|
5,866 |
244.4 |
... that property developer
Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, fiancé of
Princess Beatrice of York, co-founded a charity in Rwanda that aims to use
cricket to foster social change?
|
Rugg/Feldman benchmarks |
2019-10-02 |
|
5,793 |
241.4 |
... that
Steve Wozniak's
Integer BASIC was so fast in the
Rugg/Feldman benchmarks that
Bill Gates complained?
|
REDress Project |
2019-10-08 |
|
5,768 |
240.3 |
... that the red dresses (example pictured) in Jaime Black's
REDress Project represent the
missing and murdered Indigenous women of Canada and the United States?
|
Fifth Avenue/53rd Street station |
2019-10-10 |
|
5,731 |
238.8 |
... that for a time, subway riders exiting the
Fifth Avenue/53rd Street station in the evening could find themselves trapped behind a locked gate?
|
Coffin Cave mold beetle |
2019-10-31 |
|
5,712 |
238.0 |
... that the
Coffin Cave mold beetle may not actually be found in Coffin Cave?
|
Nitehawk Cinema |
2019-10-16 |
|
5,552 |
231.3 |
... that in 2011,
Nitehawk Cinema (pictured) successfully lobbied to overturn a
Prohibition-era liquor law that prevented movie theaters in New York from serving alcohol?
|
Free School Under the Bridge |
2019-10-09 |
|
5,526 |
230.3 |
... that the
Free School Under the Bridge in Delhi uses a
metro bridge as its roof and blackboards painted on the wall of a depot?
|
Castleford Pottery |
2019-10-29 |
|
5,526 |
230.2 |
... that many
Castleford-type ceramic teapots have either hinged or sliding lids (examples pictured)?
|
Boophis popi |
2019-10-31 |
|
5,518 |
229.9 |
... that the
skeleton frog
Boophis popi can be identified by its bright red irises?
|
Podostemum ceratophyllum |
2019-10-17 |
|
5,456 |
227.3 |
... that the cause of the decline in
hornleaf riverweed, a
foundation species in swift-flowing rivers in North America, is unclear?
|
Great Northumberland Forest |
2019-10-19 |
|
5,429 |
226.2 |
... that to create the
Great Northumberland Forest, up to a million trees are due to be planted between 2020 and 2024?
|
Dona Strauss |
2019-10-21 |
|
5,368 |
223.6 |
... that mathematician
Dona Strauss left South Africa over
apartheid, lost a faculty job at
Dartmouth for joining an anti-war protest, and helped found
European Women in Mathematics?
|
Celia Harvey |
2019-10-14 |
|
5,266 |
219.4 |
... that
Celia Harvey has been a countess, a lecturer, a parliamentary candidate, and a
British Army brigadier?
|
Rockaways' Playland |
2019-10-01 |
|
5,163 |
215.1 |
... that New York City's
Rockaways' Playland amusement park was closed because of an eightfold increase in insurance premiums?
|
The Faggots & Their Friends Between Revolutions |
2019-10-20 |
|
5,156 |
214.8 |
... that the 1977 fantasy novel
The Faggots & Their Friends Between Revolutions was originally planned as a
children's book?
|
Archer Avenue lines |
2019-10-14 |
|
5,143 |
214.3 |
... that the
Archer Avenue subway took 16 years to finish, was completed at a cost of nearly five times its original budget, and was cut back to a fraction of its original length?
|
Bissinger Wool Pullery |
2019-10-15 |
|
5,096 |
212.3 |
... that the
Bissinger Wool Pullery processed dead sheep?
|
Brigid Leventhal |
2019-10-17 |
|
5,082 |
211.8 |
... that pediatric oncologist
Brigid Leventhal was one of only six women in her graduating class from
Harvard Medical School in 1960?
|
John Hancock (venereologist) |
2019-10-07 |
|
5,062 |
210.9 |
... that in 1945,
London medical student
John Hancock's studies were interrupted when he contracted typhus in
Bergen-Belsen concentration camp?
|
Marlion Pickett |
2019-10-22 |
|
4,927 |
205.3 |
... that
Marlion Pickett (pictured) is the first player since 1926 to win a
premiership in his
Australian Football League debut?
|
Piera Aiello |
2019-10-25 |
|
4,742 |
197.6 |
... that
Piera Aiello wore a veil to protect her identity when standing for Italy's
Chamber of Deputies because of threats from the mafia?
|
Female Engagement Team |
2019-10-16 |
|
4,656 |
194.0 |
... that the
U.S. Armed Forces created
Female Engagement Teams to interact with women in Afghanistan?
|
Total |
4,654 |
193.9
|
Weeping Jesus statue in Mumbai |
2019-10-26 |
|
4,618 |
192.4 |
... that water seeping from
a statue of Jesus in Mumbai was initially called a miracle, but turned out to originate from a nearby overflowing drain?
|
Unconstitutional constitutional amendment |
2019-10-11 |
|
4,569 |
190.4 |
... that courts and legal scholars in some countries have expressed support for the idea that
even a properly ratified constitutional amendment can be unconstitutional?
|
The Ten Thousand Things (2014 novel) |
2019-10-01 |
|
4,566 |
190.3 |
... that the novel
The Ten Thousand Things, earlier rejected by 44 publishers, won the
Walter Scott Prize?
|
Church of St. Nicholas in Tolmachi
|
2019-10-30
|
|
2,923
|
121.8
|
... that the
Church of St. Nicholas in Tolmachi (pictured), which houses the icon of
Our Lady of Vladimir, is both a
house church and a museum?
|
House church (Russia)
|
1,620
|
67.5
|
Total |
4,544 |
189.3
|
Rāhula |
2019-10-13 |
|
4,444 |
185.2 |
... that a discourse given by the Buddha to his only son,
Rāhula (depiction shown), became one of the seven Buddhist texts recommended for study in the
inscriptions of Emperor Aśoka?
|
Battle of Craig Cailloch |
2019-10-30 |
|
4,436 |
184.8 |
... that
Alexander of Islay encouraged
Clan Chattan to fight the
Battle of Craig Cailloch against
Clan Cameron as revenge for the Camerons' defection?
|
Thomas Mohr (tenor) |
2019-10-17 |
|
4,430 |
184.6 |
... that tenor
Thomas Mohr, who has sung the roles of Loge, Siegmund, and Siegfried in
Der Ring in Minden, hosts concerts in his cowshed?
|
Corps of Royal Artillery Drivers |
2019-10-25 |
|
4,430 |
184.6 |
... that the
Corps of Royal Artillery Drivers was created in 1793 to replace civilian contractors, who sometimes abandoned their artillery in battle?
|
Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018 |
2019-10-04 |
|
4,414 |
183.9 |
... that the Irish
Occupied Territories Bill would make doing business with
Israeli settlers punishable by fines of up to €250,000 and up to five years in prison?
|
Dienerella filum |
2019-10-30 |
|
4,379 |
182.5 |
... that infestations of the
common plaster beetle have caused hygiene problems in a hospital?
|
Andrew Mukooza |
2019-10-24 |
|
4,198 |
180.9 |
... that Ugandan air force commander
Andrew Mukooza may have been murdered because he helped defeat a coup attempt?
|
Battle of Babylon Hill |
2019-10-06 |
|
4,339 |
180.8 |
... that according to one historian, the
Battle of Babylon Hill was "more muddle than battle"?
|
The Dairy |
2019-10-08 |
|
4,331 |
180.5 |
... that
the Dairy in
Central Park was designed to offer board games and sell milk to park guests?
|
Tom Farquharson |
2019-10-03 |
|
4,306 |
179.4 |
... that
footballer
Tom Farquharson was believed to carry a gun in his kitbag?
|
2019 Paul Hunter Classic |
2019-10-17 |
|
4,292 |
178.8 |
... that
Shaun Murphy pulled out of the
2019 Paul Hunter Classic
snooker tournament after injuring his leg dancing to Disney's Greatest Hits?
|
Amy Brown (dietitian) |
2019-10-18 |
|
4,268 |
177.8 |
... that according to dietician
Amy Brown, a researcher of social barriers to breastfeeding, smacking children is acceptable to more British people than breastfeeding in public?
|
Shiwei, Inner Mongolia |
2019-10-24 |
|
4,058 |
174.9 |
... that the Friendship Bridge on the
Russian–Chinese border at
Shiwei, Inner Mongolia, is used by trucks carrying quarried stone, but passenger vehicles are not permitted?
|
Piano Concerto (Clara Schumann) |
2019-10-18 |
|
4,168 |
173.7 |
... that when pianist
Clara Wieck (pictured with the score) composed her
Piano Concerto in A minor as a teenager, her future husband
Robert Schumann helped with the
orchestration?
|
Springs Mills Building |
2019-10-22 |
|
4,148 |
172.9 |
... that the
Springs Mills Building, a
New York City Landmark built in 1963, has a hexagonal tower that may have taken inspiration from Milan's
Pirelli Tower?
|
Zdeňka Wiedermannová-Motyčková |
2019-10-31 |
|
4,132 |
172.2 |
... that
Zdeňka Wiedermannová-Motyčková established the first girls' secondary school in
Moravia?
|
Margaret Barr (choreographer) |
2019-10-09 |
|
4,131 |
172.1 |
... that choreographer
Margaret Barr created more than 80 works (example pictured), inspired by subjects such as
Mahatma Gandhi,
Margaret Mead, drought, and the
Melbourne Cup?
|
Sturm Cigarette Company |
2019-10-09 |
|
4,102 |
170.9 |
... that despite the party's
anti-smoking faction, the
Sturmabteilung was funded by
a Nazi cigarette company?
|
Signal Corps Band |
2019-10-18 |
|
4,091 |
170.5 |
... that in 1916, three members of
a military band were killed in action during the
Battle of Columbus in
New Mexico?
|
KYDZ |
2019-10-18 |
|
4,043 |
168.5 |
... that the annual charity radiothon at Wyoming
high school radio station
KYDZ was commended by a thank-you letter from President
Ronald Reagan?
|
Green Man, Blackheath |
2019-10-29 |
|
3,981 |
165.9 |
... that
David Bowie's first gig as lead singer was at the
Green Man, Blackheath?
|
Waniguchi |
2019-10-01 |
|
3,976 |
165.7 |
... that the
waniguchi gong is named after its resemblance to the mouth of a crocodile or alligator?
|
Kings Plaza |
2019-10-21 |
|
3,974 |
165.6 |
... that New York City's
Kings Plaza shopping mall was built with a
marina for visitors, as well as its own power system?
|
Mill Basin, Brooklyn |
2019-10-03 |
|
3,962 |
165.1 |
... that the New York City neighborhood of
Mill Basin, once a desolate swampland, now contains multi-million-dollar homes?
|
Naked-rumped tomb bat |
2019-10-16 |
|
3,866 |
161.1 |
... that the
naked-rumped tomb bat is among a number of species of bat that roost in different parts of the
Karnak Temple Complex in Egypt?
|
Celia Rowlson-Hall |
2019-10-24 |
|
3,704 |
159.7 |
... that director
Celia Rowlson-Hall cast herself as a modern version of the
Virgin Mary in her first feature film?
|
Vladimir Lvovich Kasatonov |
2019-10-06 |
|
3,780 |
157.5 |
... that Russian vice-admiral
Vladimir Kasatonov has been involved in crew search-and-rescue operations for three submarines:
K-219 (pictured),
Komsomolets, and
Kursk?
|
Joshua Guerrero |
2019-10-31 |
|
3,706 |
154.4 |
... that American
tenor
Joshua Guerrero stepped in at late notice to sing Almaviva in a
Grammy Award-winning production of
The Ghosts of Versailles?
|
Sorley MacLean |
2019-10-07 |
|
3,704 |
154.3 |
... that Scottish poet
Sorley MacLean once called upon the
Red Army to invade his homeland?
|
Space National Guard |
2019-10-05 |
|
3,674 |
153.1 |
... that the Colorado National Guard's
117th Space Battalion is nicknamed the "Space Cowboys"?
|
Felicity Smoak (Arrowverse) |
2019-10-11 |
|
3,662 |
152.6 |
... that the character of
Felicity Smoak, from
The CW's
Arrowverse franchise, first appeared in the
DC Comics series
The Fury of Firestorm in 1984?
|
Erland Erlandson |
2019-10-07 |
|
3,631 |
151.3 |
... that
Erland Erlandson became the first known European to cross the
Labrador Peninsula from the
Hudson Strait to the Atlantic coast when his guides misled him?
|
Quelccaya Ice Cap |
2019-10-09 |
|
3,624 |
151.0 |
... that birds nest in the
Quelccaya Ice Cap of Peru?
|
Irish Language Act |
2019-10-12 |
|
3,604 |
150.2 |
... that the
Northern Ireland Assembly has not sat for more than two years, partly because of disagreements over an
Irish Language Act?
|
Kang Woo-kyu |
2019-10-19 |
|
3,594 |
149.8 |
... that
Kang Woo-kyu hid a grenade between his legs to pass through the Russian–Japanese border and try to assassinate the Japanese
governor-general of Korea?
|
Patricia Bagot |
2019-10-22 |
|
3,552 |
148.0 |
... that housing expert
Patricia Bagot argued with Colonel
Muammar Gaddafi over the quality of housing in Libya?
|
Scutigerella immaculata |
2019-10-10 |
|
3,534 |
147.3 |
... that the female
garden symphylan stores sperm in its mouth?
|
Church of the Gesú (Philadelphia) |
2019-10-21 |
|
3,518 |
146.6 |
... that the
Church of the Gesú in
Philadelphia once held more than 200
relics?
|
New York City Inferno |
2019-10-05 |
|
3,480 |
145.0 |
... that
New York City Inferno, a 1978
gay pornography film, features a licensed soundtrack by the
Village People?
|
Hadji Kamlon |
2019-10-11 |
|
3,440 |
143.3 |
... that it took more than 5,000 Philippine soldiers with land, air, and sea support, as well as millions of
pesos, to end the uprising of
Hadji Kamlon?
|
Foreign interference in the 2020 United States elections |
2019-10-02 |
|
3,429 |
142.9 |
... that according to
Robert Mueller, who
investigated foreign interference in the
2016 US presidential election,
foreign interference in the 2020 US elections is ongoing?
|
Zhang Lianzhong |
2019-10-28 |
|
3,056 |
135.8 |
... that
Zhang Lianzhong was the first commander of the
Chinese navy who had served at sea?
|
Trogoderma variabile |
2019-10-23 |
|
3,167 |
132.0 |
... that the
warehouse beetle usually develops within about two months, but may enter an active
diapause and take two years?
|
Avinash Sable |
2019-10-01 |
|
3,164 |
131.8 |
... that
Avinash Sable went from running 6 km (3.7 mi) to and from school at age six to running the
3000 metres steeplechase at the
2019 World Athletics Championships?
|
Patrick Lin (cinematographer) |
2019-10-29 |
|
3,146 |
131.1 |
... that
Pixar cinematographer
Patrick Lin pioneered the use of a virtual lens based on an actual camera lens in
Inside Out?
|
Ma Ning |
2019-10-05 |
|
3,119 |
130.0 |
... that handicapped army veteran
Ma Ning became a pilot and later Commander of the
Chinese Air Force after being inspired by a novel about a double amputee
flying ace?
|
Uthman ibn Abi al-Ula
|
2019-10-07
|
|
1,748
|
72.8
|
... that after leading a failed rebellion in his native Morocco,
Uthman ibn Abi al-Ula led the
Volunteers of the Faith in
Granada, where he became a major political figure?
|
Volunteers of the Faith
|
1,311
|
54.6
|
Total |
3,059 |
127.5
|
Dirk Müller (stock trader) |
2019-10-25 |
|
2,998 |
124.9 |
... that German stock trader
Dirk Müller is known as "Mr.
DAX"?
|
Shuping Wang |
2019-10-20 |
|
2,954 |
123.1 |
... that medical researcher
Shuping Wang may have saved tens of thousands of lives by defying authorities and exposing an
HIV/AIDS scandal in China?
|
Song Myung-soon |
2019-10-12 |
|
2,932 |
122.1 |
... that
Song Myung-soon was the first woman South Korean army general from a combat arm?
|
Pere Marquette Lumber Company |
2019-10-21 |
|
2,911 |
121.3 |
... that despite its name, the
Pere Marquette Lumber Company ranked among the largest salt and lumber producers in the state of Michigan?
|
South Beach–Franklin Delano Roosevelt Boardwalk |
2019-10-20 |
|
2,900 |
120.8 |
... that at 2.5 miles (4.0 km), New York City's
South Beach Boardwalk was cited as the fourth longest boardwalk in the world in 2010?
|
Among the Lost
|
2019-10-15
|
|
2,066
|
86.1
|
... that in
Among the Lost, a 2018 novel by Mexican author
Emiliano Monge, the victims of human trafficking are described in language borrowed from Dante's
Inferno and the testimony of real-life people?
|
Emiliano Monge
|
816
|
34.0
|
Total |
2,882 |
120.1
|
Babak (Sasanian officer) |
2019-10-11 |
|
2,872 |
119.7 |
... that after reforming the
army of the Sasanian Empire, the officer
Babak is said to have insisted that King
Khosrow I wear his armor and participate in the military parade like all the other warriors?
|
Susan L. Mann |
2019-10-10 |
|
2,868 |
119.5 |
... that American historian
Susan L. Mann won the
Fairbank Prize for exploring the roles of elite women and same-sex social relationships in Chinese history?
|
Sarah Robinson (activist) |
2019-10-04 |
|
2,854 |
118.9 |
... that
temperance activist
Sarah Robinson visited brothels in an attempt to improve the health of prostitutes and their clients?
|
Ruth Darrow |
2019-10-24 |
|
2,732 |
117.7 |
... that after
Ruth Darrow's son died from
hemolytic disease of the newborn, she was inspired to study the disease, and became the first person to identify its cause?
|
Élisabeth Revol |
2019-10-27 |
|
2,410 |
117.5 |
... that in 2018,
Élisabeth Revol became the first woman to ascend
Nanga Parbat in winter, and her rescue on the descent was widely reported?
|
Ruth Doggett |
2019-10-05 |
|
2,755 |
114.8 |
... that a review of
the London Group's 1936 exhibition noted that many works seemed "perverse and downright silly", but those by
Ruth Doggett (portrait shown) formed "welcome oases of sense and sensibility"?
|
Ye Xuanping |
2019-10-04 |
|
2,745 |
114.4 |
... that under the governorship of
Ye Xuanping,
Guangdong grew economically prosperous and increased its independence from Beijing, earning him the nickname "Emperor of the South"?
|
Hans Riemer (Austrian politician) |
2019-10-14 |
|
2,734 |
113.9 |
... that
Hans Riemer went from being a prisoner of war in 1945 to
President of Austria's
Bundesrat in 1955?
|
Liu Shunyao |
2019-10-23 |
|
2,720 |
113.4 |
... that under the leadership of
Liu Shunyao, the
Chinese air force began emphasizing the need to fight offensive battles?
|
Revel Transit |
2019-10-07 |
|
2,694 |
112.2 |
... that electric
moped sharing company
Revel deposited 1,000 new mopeds on
New York City streets in the space of a week?
|
John D. Whitney |
2019-10-27 |
|
2,279 |
111.2 |
... that a future
president of Georgetown University,
John D. Whitney, decided to convert to Catholicism after reading a book accidentally dropped into the ocean from a U.S. Navy ship?
|
Tritoniella
|
2019-10-04
|
|
1,670
|
69.6
|
... that the
nudibranch
Tritoniella belli is avoided by several predatory starfishes but is inefficiently preyed on by the sea anemone
Isotealia antarctica?
|
Isotealia antarctica
|
996
|
41.5
|
Total |
2,666 |
111.1
|
Blind Injustice (opera) |
2019-10-23 |
|
2,661 |
110.9 |
... that the opera
Blind Injustice tells the true stories of six people in
Ohio who were wrongfully convicted and later exonerated?
|
Euryoryzomys russatus |
2019-10-29 |
|
2,641 |
110.0 |
... that populations of the
russet rice rat have been shown to have a monogamous mating system?
|
Julie Dretzin |
2019-10-15 |
|
2,618 |
109.1 |
... that
Julie Dretzin has narrated
audiobooks using Russian accents for some characters and
Maine accents for others?
|
Bartley Wilson |
2019-10-02 |
|
2,601 |
108.4 |
... that
Cardiff City F.C. founder
Bartley Wilson's headstone was discovered in bushes near his grave, which had lain unmarked for more than 40 years?
|
Ross T. McIntire |
2019-10-23 |
|
2,570 |
107.1 |
... that
Ross T. McIntire was the first
Physician to the President to have had a certified
medical specialty?
|
Ester Peony |
2019-10-10 |
|
2,484 |
103.5 |
... that
Ester Peony,
Romania's representative at the
Eurovision Song Contest 2019, spent part of her early life in Canada?
|
Lotta Ramel |
2019-10-08 |
|
2,469 |
102.9 |
... that Swedish actress
Lotta Ramel portrayed her real-life mother, actress
Susanna Ramel, in the film
Ted: För kärlekens skull?
|
Alcohol-related crime |
2019-10-02 |
|
2,466 |
102.7 |
... that
drunk driving is among the most common
alcohol-related crimes in the United States?
|
Shadrack Frimpong |
2019-10-02 |
|
2,458 |
102.4 |
... that
Shadrack Frimpong started a communal cocoa farm in
Ghana, where villagers could work in exchange for free tuition at an all-girls school?
|
The Homeric Gods |
2019-10-03 |
|
2,453 |
102.2 |
... that
Walter Burkert described the conclusion on
Greek mythology in
The Homeric Gods as a "sublime private religion"?
|
Fort George Amusement Park |
2019-10-13 |
|
2,434 |
101.4 |
... that
Fort George Amusement Park, which featured roller coasters, carousels, and Ferris wheels, was in
Upper Manhattan in a locality once referred to as "Harlem's
Coney Island"?
|
KGCX (AM) |
2019-10-26 |
|
2,412 |
100.5 |
... that
KGCX, located in
a town with a population of 50, claimed to be the world's smallest broadcasting station?
|
Nutfield Priory |
2019-10-23 |
|
2,346 |
97.7 |
... that
John Gibson's design of
Nutfield Priory was inspired by the
Palace of Westminster?
|
Hildegarde's shrew
|
2019-10-15
|
|
904
|
37.7
|
... that
Hildegarde had
a bat,
a mouse and
a shrew named in her honour?
|
Hildegarde's tomb bat
|
844
|
35.2
|
Hildegarde's broad-headed mouse
|
592
|
24.6
|
Total |
2,340 |
97.5
|
Natal Native Pioneer Corps |
2019-10-29 |
|
2,317 |
96.5 |
... that during the
Siege of Eshowe, members of the
Natal Native Pioneer Corps ventured out of the town under
Zulu fire to retrieve maize and pumpkins to sell to the defenders?
|
Deng Hongkui
|
2019-10-09
|
|
1,296
|
54.0
|
... that
Deng Hongkui and
Chen Hu were the first to use
CRISPR gene editing on an
HIV patient?
|
Chen Hu (physician)
|
1,011
|
42.1
|
Total |
2,307 |
96.1
|
Wei Jinshan |
2019-10-13 |
|
2,242 |
93.4 |
... that Chinese admiral
Wei Jinshan was awarded the Medal of Honour by President
Xi Jinping and the
Order of the National Flag by North Korea?
|
B. M. Kutty |
2019-10-01 |
|
2,232 |
93.0 |
... that
B. M. Kutty was called to a meeting with Pakistani prime minister
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto after writing him a letter from prison?
|
Divyansh Singh Panwar |
2019-10-19 |
|
2,222 |
92.6 |
... that
Divyansh Singh Panwar won four medals at the
2019 Shooting World Cup, two years after his father became worried by his "
PUBG addiction" and sent him to New Delhi to train?
|
Samsung Galaxy Fit (smartwatch) |
2019-10-03 |
|
2,188 |
91.2 |
... that the
Samsung Galaxy Fit smartwatch can be charged wirelessly through
near-field communication?
|
Psychoda alternata |
2019-10-05 |
|
2,182 |
90.9 |
... that larvae of the
drain fly can be found in
trickling filter systems used to process sewage?
|
Parkia bicolor |
2019-10-24 |
|
2,093 |
90.2 |
... that the nectar-rich flowers of the
African locust-bean are visited by bats,
dormice, and
pottos?
|
Jane Eskind |
2019-10-09 |
|
2,158 |
89.9 |
... that
Jane Eskind was the first woman to win a statewide election in
Tennessee?
|
Khalili Collections |
2019-10-26 |
|
2,156 |
89.8 |
... that the
Khalili Collections (manuscript folio shown) comprise some 35,000 works of art assembled by
Nasser D. Khalili over five decades?
|
Betty Flint |
2019-10-22 |
|
2,154 |
89.7 |
... that botanist
Betty Flint continued research in a voluntary capacity at
Lincoln University and
Landcare Research until she was 100 years old?
|
Durio graveolens |
2019-10-28 |
|
2,004 |
89.1 |
... that despite a name meaning "strong-smelling
durian",
Durio graveolens has been described as odorless?
|
Drosophila subobscura |
2019-10-22 |
|
2,130 |
88.8 |
... that the gut bacteria of
Drosophila subobscura can influence its mating behavior?
|
Pelin Ünker |
2019-10-28 |
|
1,996 |
88.7 |
... that Turkish correspondent
Pelin Ünker is the only journalist in the world sentenced for writing about the
Paradise Papers investigation?
|
Fleet Review (Japan) |
2019-10-14 |
|
2,126 |
88.6 |
... that today's
Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force
Fleet Review was canceled due to
Typhoon Hagibis?
|
2019 World Open (snooker) |
2019-10-25 |
|
2,100 |
87.5 |
... that
Neil Robertson will not play at the
2019 World Open
snooker tournament because he drove to
Barnsley, Gloucestershire, rather than
Barnsley, South Yorkshire, to compete in the qualifiers?
|
Women's Defence Relief Corps |
2019-10-04 |
|
2,034 |
84.7 |
... that the
Women's Defence Relief Corps trained British women to fight during the First World War?
|
A Voyage Round the World |
2019-10-16 |
|
2,008 |
83.7 |
... that
Georg Forster's 1777 report
A Voyage Round the World, about the
second voyage of James Cook, was not reprinted in English for nearly two centuries?
|
Józefa Joteyko |
2019-10-23 |
|
2,008 |
83.6 |
... that
Józefa Joteyko believed that wages should be based upon scientific research and the amount of effort required to do a job, rather than arbitrary factors like gender?
|
Lee Eun-soo |
2019-10-20 |
|
2,000 |
83.4 |
... that
Lee Eun-soo was South Korea's seventh female
general officer and the first in the legal branch?
|
KNGN |
2019-10-09 |
|
1,948 |
81.2 |
... that a snake chased a mouse into the transmitter of Nebraska radio station
KWRV in 1962, knocking it off the air for two hours?
|
St Rufus Church |
2019-10-15 |
|
1,943 |
81.0 |
... that the
nave entrance doors of
St Rufus Church in
Keith, Moray, Scotland, incorporate a two-sided memorial to the First and Second World Wars?
|
J. Michael Mendel |
2019-10-03 |
|
1,925
[b] |
80.2 |
... that television producer
J. Michael Mendel won three
Primetime Emmy Awards for
The Simpsons and another for
Rick and Morty?
|
Yū Sasahara |
2019-10-11 |
|
1,918 |
79.9 |
... that although
Yū Sasahara dreamed of becoming a singer as a child, her father persuaded her to pursue a career in
voice acting instead?
|
WNWK |
2019-10-25 |
|
1,868 |
77.8 |
... that after the owner of Delaware radio station
WNRK died before he could put it on the air, his widow was interviewed on the station's first day of broadcasting?
|
Raúl Hernández Barrón |
2019-10-12 |
|
1,864 |
77.7 |
... that suspected drug lord
Raúl Hernández Barrón claimed to be a policeman to avoid being arrested?
|
Bibi Torriani |
2019-10-01 |
|
1,838 |
76.6 |
... that Swiss athlete
Bibi Torriani was the first ice hockey player to recite the
Olympic Oath?
|
Bolívar (TV series) |
2019-10-13 |
|
1,826 |
76.1 |
... that the Colombian television series
Bolívar used 6,000 extras?
|
Greg Moore (racing driver) |
2019-10-29 |
|
1,783 |
74.3 |
... that
Greg Moore won a record-breaking ten races, and completed every event, on his way to winning the
1995 Indy Lights season?
|
Rockwood Lodge |
2019-10-27 |
|
1,508 |
73.6 |
... that the
Green Bay Packers' training facility
Rockwood Lodge burned down less than four years after it was purchased by head coach
Curly Lambeau?
|
Japan National Route 279 |
2019-10-28 |
|
1,644 |
73.1 |
... that
Japan National Route 279's course in
Aomori Prefecture follows an ancient pilgrimage path to
Mount Osore, a destination believed to be a gate to the underworld in
Japanese mythology?
|
Brett Toth |
2019-10-16 |
|
1,731 |
72.1 |
... that
Arizona Cardinals offensive tackle
Brett Toth was the first
Army Black Knights football player to play in the
Senior Bowl?
|
Sheila Heaney |
2019-10-13 |
|
1,724 |
71.8 |
... that
Sheila Heaney, director of the
Women's Royal Army Corps, visited the United States in 1972 to study how women were being integrated into the
U.S. Army?
|
Wen Chuanyuan |
2019-10-30 |
|
1,720 |
71.6 |
... that
Wen Chuanyuan was the chief designer of China's first
drone and first
flight simulator?
|
Jack Roxburgh |
2019-10-28 |
|
1,520 |
67.5 |
... that
Jack Roxburgh introduced legislation on this day in 1964 to declare
ice hockey Canada's national game, after disproving the myth that
lacrosse held that distinction?
|
Heather Olmstead |
2019-10-26 |
|
1,606 |
66.9 |
... that in 2019,
Brigham Young University volleyball coach
Heather Olmstead held the highest winning percentage of any women's volleyball coach in
NCAA Division I history?
|
Ask Dr. Ruth |
2019-10-05 |
|
1,586 |
66.1 |
... that the 2019 film
Ask Dr. Ruth features Holocaust survivor
Ruth Westheimer reflecting on her career as a
sex therapist?
|
Ingalill Mosander |
2019-10-22 |
|
1,574 |
65.6 |
... that Swedish journalist
Ingalill Mosander and her husband
Jan Mosander both survived the
Costa Concordia disaster in 2012?
|
Adele Zay |
2019-10-01 |
|
1,565 |
65.2 |
... that
Adele Zay successfully led a campaign in 1894 for
Transylvanian authorities to recognize kindergarten and handicraft teachers so that they were entitled to pensions?
|
Elizabeth, Lady Echlin |
2019-10-03 |
|
1,558 |
64.9 |
... that
Elizabeth, Lady Echlin, a correspondent of the author, wrote a revised ending to
Samuel Richardson's
Clarissa in which the rape that was central to the original version is averted?
|
William S. White |
2019-10-19 |
|
1,556 |
64.8 |
... that
William S. White took a two month break from
The New York Times to write the book that won the 1955
Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography?
|
Enjoy Yourself (Kylie Minogue album) |
2019-10-12 |
|
1,528 |
63.7 |
... that
Kylie Minogue was dropped as an act by
Geffen Records after her 1989 album
Enjoy Yourself failed to find an audience in the United States?
|
Whitney North Seymour Jr. |
2019-10-29 |
|
1,514 |
63.1 |
... that in his eighties, former
U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York
Whitney North Seymour Jr. co-wrote and produced a
one-act play performed
off-Broadway?
|
Erica Ollmann Saphire |
2019-10-30 |
|
1,510 |
62.9 |
... that structural biologist
Erica Ollmann Saphire traveled to Africa to observe rodents in the field in order to study how viruses like
Ebola are spread?
|
Edgardo Labella |
2019-10-03 |
|
1,502 |
62.6 |
... that
Edgardo Labella, the
mayor of Cebu City, survived the 1998 sinking of
a passenger ferry during
Typhoon Vicki, staying afloat for 36 hours in a life vest?
|
Jimmy Sham |
2019-10-10 |
|
1,497 |
62.4 |
... that
Jimmy Sham, convener of
Civil Human Rights Front, helped organize
several protest marches against the Hong Kong government's proposed
extradition amendment bill?
|
Liu Tianfu
|
2019-10-15
|
|
766
|
31.9
|
... that governors
Liu Tianfu and
Liang Lingguang were both considered reform pioneers who propelled the economic development of
Guangdong in the 1980s?
|
Liang Lingguang
|
723
|
30.1
|
Total |
1,489 |
62.0
|
2002 Austrian Grand Prix |
2019-10-06 |
|
1,474 |
61.4 |
... that the use of
team orders by
Ferrari to determine the winner of the
2002 Austrian Grand Prix led to a ban on the practice in
Formula One from 2003 to 2010?
|
2019 Six-red World Championship |
2019-10-02 |
|
1,468 |
61.1 |
... that the winners of the
2019 World Cup doubles snooker event competed as opponents in the final of the
2019 Six-red World Championship?
|
Sergiusz Toll |
2019-10-09 |
|
1,445 |
60.2 |
... that Polish entomologist
Sergiusz Toll amassed a collection of about 8,000 bird eggs and 12,000 butterflies and moths while in
Bydgoszcz?
|
Nadja Malacrida |
2019-10-12 |
|
1,438 |
59.9 |
... that
Nadja Malacrida said in a
Vim advertisement that it was "no use having new ideas of decoration if you have old ideas of dirt"?
|
2010 World Team Championship
|
2019-10-12
|
|
792
|
33.0
|
... that at the
2010 World Team Championship pool event, a first-to-six-
racks playoff match was won by
Daryl Peach after 52 racks?
|
Daryl Peach
|
644
|
26.8
|
Total |
1,436 |
59.8
|
Ali Curung |
2019-10-14 |
|
1,413 |
58.9 |
... that the Australian Aboriginal community of
Ali Curung is named after the nearby ancestral Alekarenge ("
dingo-associated")
Dreaming sites?
|
John Cooper (Tennessee politician) |
2019-10-04 |
|
1,399 |
58.3 |
... that
John Cooper is the first political candidate to defeat an incumbent
mayor of Nashville since the city consolidated with
Davidson County, Tennessee?
|
KLLT (New Mexico) |
2019-10-11 |
|
1,391 |
58.0 |
... that
KLLT in
Grants, New Mexico, went off the air because the
United States Forest Service refused to let the station build a tower on
Mount Taylor to improve its coverage?
|
John Gillies (anaesthetist) |
2019-10-21 |
|
1,384 |
57.7 |
... that
John Gillies devised what is thought to have been the first British
closed-circuit anaesthetic machine?
|
KWCS-TV
|
2019-10-06
|
|
497
|
20.7
|
... that with the sign-ons of
KWCS-TV,
KOET,
KUSU-TV, and
KBYU-TV, Utah had more educational TV stations than commercial ones by 1966?
|
KUSU-TV
|
411
|
17.1
|
KOET (Utah)
|
410
|
17.1
|
Total |
1,318 |
54.9
|
WBRL (AM) |
2019-10-27 |
|
1,102 |
53.8 |
... that New Hampshire radio station
WBRL's first license was cancelled by the
Federal Communications Commission because of double-billing practices?
|
Sunita Sharma |
2019-10-29 |
|
1,279 |
53.3 |
... that
Sunita Sharma is reportedly India's first woman
cricket coach?
|
Alice D. Snyder |
2019-10-08 |
|
1,268 |
52.8 |
... that professor of English
Alice D. Snyder helped lead the campaign that earned women in New York the
right to vote?
|
Ian Scott Smillie |
2019-10-11 |
|
1,267 |
52.8 |
... that the surgeon
Ian Scott Smillie, president of the
International Society of the Knee, wrote a book about
deer stalking in Scotland?
|
Liparis liliifolia |
2019-10-06 |
|
1,220 |
50.8 |
... that the correct spelling of "liliifolia" in the name of the
orchid
Liparis liliifolia has been debated for decades?
|
KTKN |
2019-10-12 |
|
1,212 |
50.5 |
... that
KTKN in
Ketchikan, Alaska, was one of just six new radio stations authorized in the United States in 1942, due to a wartime freeze order?
|
Gloria Ana Chevesich |
2019-10-21 |
|
1,208 |
50.4 |
... that prior to joining the
Supreme Court of Chile,
Gloria Ana Chevesich was best known for convicting a former government minister and 13 others of fraud in the
MOP-Gate case?
|
Enoch Fenwick |
2019-10-26 |
|
1,172 |
48.8 |
... that
Enoch Fenwick reluctantly became
president of Georgetown College in 1820, and abandoned the post in 1825 before a replacement was found?
|
Xu Chi |
2019-10-26 |
|
1,163 |
48.5 |
... that after
Xu Chi published his biography of mathematician
Chen Jingrun, the latter received a sackful of love letters?
|
2019 China Championship |
2019-10-20 |
|
1,126 |
46.9 |
... that at the
2019 China Championship,
Judd Trump's fifteen-match and six-month winning streak was broken when he was defeated by
Joe Perry?
|
Akissi Kouamé |
2019-10-26 |
|
1,118 |
46.6 |
... that before becoming the first woman general in the army of the Ivory Coast,
Akissi Kouamé initiated the appointment of midwives to the army health service?
|
Enea Scala |
2019-10-16 |
|
1,080 |
45.0 |
... that
tenor
Enea Scala has appeared in roles by
Rossini, most recently in the title role of
Otello, an opera which requires at least five tenors?
|
Ben Challacombe |
2019-10-08 |
|
1,058 |
44.1 |
... that in 2016,
Ben Challacombe performed the UK's first live broadcast of the robotic
removal of part of a kidney?
|
EvergreenHealth |
2019-10-22 |
|
1,055 |
44.0 |
... that
Evergreen Hospital Medical Center in
Washington had the first
MRI machine on the U.S. West Coast?
|
Coat of arms of Sevastopol |
2019-10-19 |
|
1,052 |
43.8 |
... that
Sevastopol had no official
coat of arms from 1917 until 1969, but two official coats of arms from 1993 until 2000?
|
KOJC |
2019-10-19 |
|
1,032 |
43.0 |
... that a contributing factor to the demise of black radio station
KOJC in
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, was an internal struggle among its board of directors?
|
Nurul Alam Chowdhury |
2019-10-05 |
|
1,028 |
42.9 |
... that
Nurul Alam Chowdhury was the youngest
MP in the
first parliament of Bangladesh?
|
John B. Creeden |
2019-10-25 |
|
1,026 |
42.7 |
... that
John B. Creeden was a founder of both
Boston College Law School and
Georgetown University's
School of Foreign Service?
|
Willson Group |
2019-10-08 |
|
980 |
40.9 |
... that the Sheepscar
tannery, run by John Joseph Willson of the
Willson Group of artists in
Leeds, England, was at one time the largest in the country?
|
KSKI (AM) |
2019-10-28 |
|
908 |
40.3 |
... that
KSKI AM initially broadcast from a lodge at the
Sun Valley ski resort?
|
Arthur A. O'Leary |
2019-10-30 |
|
957 |
39.9 |
... that as
President of Georgetown University,
Arthur A. O'Leary traveled around the United States to organize inactive regional chapters of
the university's alumni into a national network?
|
Tadjuddin Noor |
2019-10-27 |
|
817 |
39.9 |
... that
Tadjuddin Noor was voted out of his position as chair of the
legislature of East Indonesia after he failed to restrain spectators?
|
Folate |
2019-10-27 |
|
815
[c] |
39.8 |
... that folic acid, a synthetic form of the vitamin
folate, is added to wheat flour in many countries to reduce the risk of infants being born with
spina bifida and other
neural tube defects?
|
WBCE |
2019-10-20 |
|
930 |
38.7 |
... that two years after going on the air,
WBCE radio switched from
country to
gospel music because too many stations in western Kentucky had country formats?
|
Peter Palitzsch |
2019-10-08 |
|
900 |
37.5 |
... that
Peter Palitzsch was called to the
Berliner Ensemble as a graphic designer, and went on to stage many of
Brecht's plays internationally?
|
Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure |
2019-10-13 |
|
896 |
37.3 |
... that
Narendra Modi's experiences in dealing with the after-effects of the
2001 Gujarat earthquake led him to propose the
Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure?
|
WPSA (New York) |
2019-10-15 |
|
880 |
36.7 |
... that radio station
WPSA at
Paul Smith's College began life in the basement of a dormitory that had previously been a meat market?
|
KSIV-FM |
2019-10-10 |
|
855 |
35.6 |
... that in its first decade as an educational radio station,
KSLH produced 2,878 fifteen-minute programs for
St. Louis-area school students?
|
Joseph A. Lopez |
2019-10-06 |
|
854 |
35.6 |
... that prior to becoming acting
President of Georgetown College,
Joseph A. Lopez was chaplain to the
imperial family of Mexico?
|
Special Area Games Scheme |
2019-10-14 |
|
818 |
34.1 |
... that a tournament in which a goat is awarded as the top prize was used by the selectors of India's
Special Area Games Scheme to scout for field hockey players?
|
Heinrich Willi |
2019-10-13 |
|
805 |
33.5 |
... that Swiss pediatrician
Heinrich Willi was among the first to recognise the potential of
bone marrow aspiration as a diagnostic technique?
|
Marie-Thérèse Gauley |
2019-10-06 |
|
802 |
33.4 |
... that when
Marie-Thérèse Gauley premiered the title role of Ravel's opera
L'enfant et les sortilèges, he praised both her acting and her "ravishing voice"?
|
Rambha Gandhi |
2019-10-20 |
|
795 |
33.1 |
... that
Gujarati writer
Rambha Gandhi wrote and participated in more than 400
radio plays?
|
Joseph Kupelwieser |
2019-10-27 |
|
673 |
32.8 |
... that
Joseph Kupelwieser wrote the
libretto for Schubert's
Fierrabras, and was later held responsible by the composer for the opera's failure?
|
WAMV (Illinois) |
2019-10-13 |
|
612 |
25.5 |
... that
Harry Caray called his first
Major League Baseball game on radio station
WTMV in the
St. Louis area?
|
Joseph Dancis |
2019-10-05 |
|
606 |
25.2 |
... that
Joseph Dancis and his colleagues discovered the cause of
maple syrup urine disease?
|
Werner Haseleu |
2019-10-19 |
|
571 |
23.8 |
... that
Werner Haseleu appeared as Moses in Schoenberg's
Moses und Aron at the
Staatsoper Dresden, and as Holofernes in the world premiere of
Judith by
Siegfried Matthus at the
Berlin State Opera?
|