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Olive Temple |
2022-12-12 |
|
34,038 |
1,418.3 |
... that
Olive MacLeod (pictured) journeyed 6,000 km (3,700 mi) through Africa in 1910–1911 to visit her murdered fiancé's grave, and wrote a book based on her observations?
|
Wyndham New Yorker Hotel |
2022-12-19 |
|
27,312 |
1,138.0 |
... that the
New Yorker Hotel (pictured) once had the largest private power plant in the United States?
|
Cocaine Bear (bear) |
2022-12-30 |
|
26,152
[a] |
1,089.7 |
... that a bear ate 75 pounds (34 kg) of cocaine in 1985, and was nicknamed
Pablo Eskobear?
|
Wilhelm Werner
|
2022-12-15
|
|
16,118
|
671.6
|
... that
Wilhelm Werner fled to Brazil to avoid prosecution for the 1917 murders of the crew of the
SS Torrington but returned to Germany and became an
SS officer on
Heinrich Himmler's staff?
|
SS Torrington
|
9,952
|
414.7
|
Total |
26,070 |
1,086.2
|
Kim de l'Horizon |
2022-12-22 |
|
24,896 |
1,037.3 |
... that
Kim de l'Horizon (pictured), winner of the 2022
German Book Prize, shaved their head during the award ceremony in solidarity with
those protesting in Iran?
|
Ida Hunt Udall |
2022-12-02 |
|
24,003 |
1,000.1 |
... that
Latter-day Saint diarist
Ida Hunt Udall (pictured) turned down a marriage offer from her longtime boyfriend because he was a monogamist, and she wanted
a polygamous marriage?
|
Bernard Pitt |
2022-12-05 |
|
21,004 |
875.2 |
... that a study of Anglo-Saxon literature begun by
Bernard Pitt (pictured) in 1914 was completed by a colleague after Pitt was killed in the First World War?
|
Streichmelodion |
2022-12-04 |
|
20,398 |
849.9 |
... that the
Streichmelodion (pictured) was once described as being "more like a frying pan than a
musical instrument"?
|
Pigs in blankets |
2022-12-05 |
|
19,205 |
800.2 |
... that
pigs in blankets are not
pigs in a blanket?
|
Bob ("Weird Al" Yankovic song) |
2022-12-21 |
|
18,730 |
780.4 |
... that
"Weird Al" Yankovic wrote the song "
Bob" entirely in
palindromes, and sang it in the style of
Bob Dylan?
|
Sabrina Thompson |
2022-12-13 |
|
18,191 |
758.0 |
... that aerospace engineer
Sabrina Thompson (pictured) founded a
streetwear brand after she felt the "artist inside of me was internally starving", despite being satisfied with her career?
|
Dangers of the Mail |
2022-12-16 |
|
17,931 |
747.1 |
... that critics objected to
Dangers of the Mail in the 1930s for government support of lewdness and in the 2000s for creating a hostile work environment?
|
Franklin Street Terminal |
2022-12-27 |
|
17,312 |
721.4 |
... that the
Franklin Street Terminal (tracks pictured) was constructed by gutting two floors of two buildings and running elevated tracks into the resulting void?
|
Zenith SupersPort |
2022-12-06 |
|
17,192 |
716.4 |
... that
Zenith Data Systems unveiled their
SupersPort laptop (example pictured) at a Chicago show that featured helmeted performers and motorcyclists?
|
Twin Falls saucer hoax |
2022-12-16 |
|
17,048 |
710.3 |
... that the
Twin Falls "saucer" was later proven to be a hoax created by four teenagers?
|
Illusion of Kate Moss
|
2022-12-28
|
|
11,871
|
494.6
|
... that the
runway show for the
Alexander McQueen collection
The Widows of Culloden ended with an
illusion of Kate Moss that brought the audience to a rowdy
standing ovation?
|
The Widows of Culloden
|
5,138
|
214.1
|
Total |
17,009 |
708.7
|
Maria Advocata (Madonna del Rosario) |
2022-12-20 |
|
16,841 |
701.7 |
... that the
Maria Advocata (pictured) is one of the oldest icons of Mary, mother of Jesus, and that according to legend it was painted by
Luke the Evangelist?
|
María Elva Pinckert |
2022-12-14 |
|
16,384 |
682.6 |
... that
María Elva Pinckert (pictured), motivated by the murder of her brother, started her political career in local politics in 1999?
|
Revenge buying |
2022-12-20 |
|
15,970 |
665.4 |
... that
revenge buying after the lifting of a 2020 COVID-19 lockdown helped a
Hermès store set a record for the most shopping at a luxury outlet in China in a single day?
|
Black Speech |
2022-12-11 |
|
15,942 |
664.2 |
... that it was
J. R. R. Tolkien's intention for
Black Speech to be "full of harsh and hideous sounds and vile words"?
|
Fort Pearson |
2022-12-17 |
|
15,871 |
661.3 |
... that during the 1879
Anglo-Zulu War a British soldier committed suicide by throwing himself off the 300-foot-high (90 m) cliffs at
Fort Pearson (depicted)?
|
Robert Palmer (British writer) |
2022-12-16 |
|
15,374 |
640.6 |
... that a football injury saved
Robert Palmer (pictured) from being
besieged at Kut, but he died serving with the relief expedition?
|
Richard Gerald Jordan |
2022-12-28 |
|
15,356 |
639.9 |
... that
Richard Gerald Jordan has been sentenced to death four times?
|
2022 Ticketmaster controversy |
2022-12-19 |
|
14,969 |
623.7 |
... that the
2022 Ticketmaster controversy over
Taylor Swift's
the Eras Tour has triggered investigations by several U.S. state attorneys general and the
federal Department of Justice?
|
Paint Drying |
2022-12-03 |
|
14,759 |
615.0 |
... that a British filmmaker forced the
British Board of Film Classification to
watch paint drying for ten hours?
|
T. E. Lawrence |
2022-12-15 |
|
14,548
[b] |
606.1 |
... that
T. E. Lawrence travelled 1,000 miles (1,600 km) on foot alone during a three-month tour of
crusader castles while writing his thesis about the
Crusades and European military architecture?
|
Neotrombicula fujigmo |
2022-12-20 |
|
14,357 |
598.2 |
... that the mite
Neotrombicula fujigmo gets its name from the American military acronym for "Fuck you, Jack, I got my orders"?
|
Justly Watson |
2022-12-27 |
|
14,338 |
597.4 |
... that
Justly Watson died suddenly in 1757 from the effects of poison administered in his coffee, it was believed, by a servant?
|
Enoch Marvin Banks |
2022-12-07 |
|
14,072 |
586.4 |
... that
Enoch Marvin Banks resigned from the
University of Florida because of public outrage over his belief that the
American Civil War was caused by slavery?
|
Vivian Smith (suffragist) |
2022-12-30 |
|
14,039 |
585.0 |
... that
Vivian Smith (pictured) was the first black student to earn a bachelor's degree in English from the
University of Northern Iowa?
|
Frances Campbell-Preston |
2022-12-14 |
|
13,742 |
572.6 |
... that
Frances Campbell-Preston, who served as
lady-in-waiting to
Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother for nearly 40 years, was reportedly not hesitant to ask her difficult questions when others were reluctant?
|
Ye Dehui |
2022-12-08 |
|
13,740 |
572.5 |
... that Chinese writer
Ye Dehui was executed after he called members of the
Chinese Communist Party "beasts" and "half-breeds"?
|
Strawberry pie |
2022-12-15 |
|
13,624 |
567.6 |
... that
strawberry pie (example pictured) is one of the "red foods" traditionally served at
Juneteenth celebrations?
|
Axial parallelism |
2022-12-21 |
|
13,414 |
558.9 |
... that the
axial parallelism (diagram pictured) of the Earth's
tilted axis is the reason we have winter, spring, summer and fall?
|
Wolfe-class ship of the line |
2022-12-26 |
|
13,409 |
558.7 |
... that one of the
Wolfe-class ships of the line was destroyed by a storm before she had even been launched?
|
Talia Or |
2022-12-26 |
|
13,096 |
545.7 |
... that
Talia Or (pictured), who sang as the
Voice of a Falcon at
La Scala, was born in Israel and is based in Germany?
|
Taingda Mingyi U Pho |
2022-12-12 |
|
12,682 |
528.4 |
... that
Taingda Mingyi U Pho engineered the massacre of around 40 members of the
Burmese royal family in order to eliminate nearly all possible heirs to the throne?
|
Getting Older |
2022-12-16 |
|
12,528 |
522.0 |
... that
Billie Eilish had to take a break from writing
a song alluding to her childhood trauma and sexual abuse?
|
Down Will Come Baby |
2022-12-06 |
|
12,380 |
515.8 |
... that the 1999 television film
Down Will Come Baby aired two weeks after the
Columbine High School massacre and was criticized for exploiting parental fears with its depiction of child violence?
|
Mardi Gras Hangover |
2022-12-01 |
|
12,204 |
508.5 |
... that
Mardi Gras Hangover was marketed as a "loop coaster", but was criticized for lacking the characteristics of a
roller coaster?
|
Boudica |
2022-12-21 |
|
11,854
[c] |
493.9 |
... that the name of
Boudica may have been an honorific title?
|
Nihon Shōgakkō fire |
2022-12-15 |
|
11,504 |
479.3 |
... that the serial arsonist who started the fatal
Nihon Shōgakkō fire confessed to starting at least 25 other California fires in the early 1920s?
|
Battle of Malacca (1641) |
2022-12-23 |
|
11,422 |
475.9 |
... that despite losing almost one thousand men
capturing Malacca in 1641, the
Dutch East India Company did not invest much time or energy into it afterward?
|
Death in Small Doses (1995 film) |
2022-12-20 |
|
11,258 |
469.1 |
... that the film
Death in Small Doses is a dramatization of the real-life death of Nancy Lyon by arsenic poisoning?
|
D. M. Thomas |
2022-12-02 |
|
11,206 |
466.9 |
... that the
Cornish poet
D. M. Thomas blamed himself for the death of
William Golding, the author of
Lord of the Flies?
|
Santa Claus (clipper) |
2022-12-25 |
|
11,060 |
460.8 |
... that
Santa Claus really did on one occasion deliver coal?
|
Lynching of Orion Anderson |
2022-12-10 |
|
11,040 |
460.0 |
... that
Orion Anderson, who was murdered by a lynch mob in Virginia in 1889, was recently found to have been only 14 years old at the time of his death?
|
Esra Kiraz |
2022-12-30 |
|
10,620 |
442.5 |
... that Turkish world- and European-champion
armwrestler
Esra Kiraz used to carry cement bags at construction sites where her father worked?
|
Durham police mast |
2022-12-07 |
|
10,584 |
441.0 |
... that the
Durham police mast was designed to be slender to minimise the impact on views of
Durham Cathedral?
|
KOCT |
2022-12-08 |
|
10,582 |
440.9 |
... that a
Royal Air Force officer built
a KAVE in New Mexico?
|
Instant Replay Game |
2022-12-04 |
|
10,408 |
433.7 |
... that the
Chicago Bears media guide had an asterisk next to the result of the
Instant Replay Game for 10 years, noting the team's belief that the game was decided incorrectly?
|
Dear John (Taylor Swift song) |
2022-12-13 |
|
10,338 |
430.8 |
... that musician
John Mayer dismissed
Taylor Swift's "
Dear John" as "cheap songwriting"?
|
Raorchestes chalazodes |
2022-12-07 |
|
10,318 |
429.9 |
... that
Raorchestes chalazodes (example pictured) lays its eggs inside bamboo, and is the only species in its genus to exhibit parental care?
|
OneLove |
2022-12-18 |
|
10,248 |
427.0 |
... that the Dutch campaign
OneLove (logo pictured) inspired
football captains to wear rainbow armbands at the
2020 and
2022 European Championships?
|
Through the Darkest of Times |
2022-12-03 |
|
10,244 |
426.8 |
... that
Through the Darkest of Times was the first video game published in Germany to use
swastikas?
|
Jack Smith (lawyer) |
2022-12-31 |
|
10,241 |
426.7 |
... that
Jack Smith, the
special counsel appointed to investigate Donald Trump, played
football for
Liverpool?
|
Robert Bolgar |
2022-12-19 |
|
10,180 |
424.1 |
... that
Cambridge don
R. R. Bolgar was heard to say that if it had not been for a misfortune, he might well have supported the Nazis as a landowner in
Moravia and been murdered by the Russians?
|
Adoration of the Magi (Signorelli) |
2022-12-25 |
|
10,168 |
423.6 |
... that the horses in
Signorelli's
Adoration of the Magi (pictured) have been said to be "badly-drawn ... with curious mannerisms of too closely-placed nostrils, and human eyebrows"?
|
Yuzuan yizong jinjian |
2022-12-01 |
|
9,635 |
401.5 |
... that the
Golden Mirror, a
Qing-dynasty medical text, contains a "one-page array of 24 anuses"?
|
Nanjing Massacre Memorial Day |
2022-12-13 |
|
9,481 |
395.0 |
... that
Nanjing Massacre Memorial Day has a memorial
tripod?
|
Tiandi yinyang jiaohuan dalefu |
2022-12-17 |
|
9,446 |
393.6 |
... that the "
Poetic Essay of the Great Bliss of the Sexual Union of Heaven and Earth and Yin and Yang" argues that
heterosexual sex is the "ultimate human pleasure", but affirms
homosexuality as well?
|
My Neighbour Totoro (play) |
2022-12-10 |
|
9,374 |
390.6 |
... that a reviewer warned that
Totoro would lead to "sore cheeks"?
|
Japanese fire-bellied newt |
2022-12-02 |
|
9,286 |
386.9 |
... that the
Japanese fire-bellied newt tends to show its belly to birds but wag its tail at snakes?
|
Vecihi K-VI |
2022-12-14 |
|
9,268 |
386.2 |
... that after building
Turkey's first airplane,
its builder was sentenced to jail for flying it without a permit?
|
Jarn Mound |
2022-12-09 |
|
8,994 |
374.8 |
... that
Jarn Mound was erected to view the "dreaming spires"?
|
Customary (liturgy) |
2022-12-05 |
|
8,934 |
372.2 |
... that the precise details in medieval
customaries have allowed historians to reconstruct since-lost buildings?
|
Rosa Diaz |
2022-12-26 |
|
8,910 |
371.2 |
... that the
Brooklyn Nine-Nine storyline about
Rosa Diaz's
bisexuality was heavily influenced by the bisexuality of
her portrayer?
|
Marriage License |
2022-12-18 |
|
8,869 |
369.5 |
... that betrothed couple
Moe and Joan were paid $50 for helping
a painter with his
Marriage License?
|
Gürdal Duyar |
2022-12-06 |
|
8,799 |
366.6 |
... that according to one Turkish artist, a nude sculpture by
Gürdal Duyar almost dissolved the
37th government of Turkey?
|
Teardown (video game) |
2022-12-10 |
|
8,728 |
363.7 |
... that
Teardown was not traditionally marketed because of the popularity it gained through
Twitter?
|
Cow Hell Swamp |
2022-12-31 |
|
8,710 |
362.9 |
... that
Cow Hell Swamp got its name because cows would frequently wander in and get stuck?
|
Maurice Suckling |
2022-12-12 |
|
8,611 |
358.8 |
... that when
Arthur Forrest suggested that the squadron of French ships were looking for a battle, Captain
Maurice Suckling replied "I think it would be a pity to disappoint them"?
|
Bohemian harp |
2022-12-22 |
|
8,567 |
357.0 |
... that the
Bohemian harp spread to Western Europe after a fire hit the town of
Přísečnice?
|
Compaq Deskpro 386 |
2022-12-30 |
|
8,466 |
352.7 |
... that the release of the
Compaq Deskpro 386 marked the first time a company other than IBM revised a major component of
their PC standard?
|
French law of 29 December 1915 |
2022-12-29 |
|
8,406 |
350.2 |
... that the
French law of 29 December 1915 established the right for French soldiers to be buried in individual graves (examples pictured)?
|
Maha Thamun |
2022-12-07 |
|
8,284 |
345.2 |
... that when
Maha Thamun, the head of the
Hanthawaddy delegation, presented his king's demands, King
Thado of
Ava reflexively ordered his execution?
|
Prince Bernhard's titi monkey |
2022-12-27 |
|
8,248 |
343.7 |
... that
Prince Bernhard's titi monkey is known locally as zog-zog?
|
Howard Mayers |
2022-12-13 |
|
8,177 |
340.7 |
... that
Howard Mayers is credited with the destruction of at least eleven enemy aircraft during World War II?
|
Consulate General of the Philippines, Chicago |
2022-12-29 |
|
8,138 |
339.1 |
... that the
Chicago Police Department regularly cited vehicles of the
Philippine consulate general in Chicago for parking in a no-parking zone, causing a diplomatic incident?
|
Panasonic Executive Partner
|
2022-12-19
|
|
4,166
|
173.6
|
... that
Panasonic's
Senior Partner and
Executive Partner portable computers weighed between 28 and 31 lb and featured built-in printers?
|
Panasonic Senior Partner
|
3,933
|
163.9
|
Total |
8,098 |
337.4
|
John Custis |
2022-12-23 |
|
8,097 |
337.4 |
... that slave owner
John Custis petitioned the
Governor of Virginia to
manumit a slave child whom he had fathered?
|
Yu Yan (physician) |
2022-12-13 |
|
8,052 |
335.5 |
... that Chinese physician
Yu Yan described theories like
yinyang and the
five phases as "simply all lies, absolutely not factual, and completely groundless"?
|
Boom Town (book)
[d] |
2022-12-23 |
|
4,013 |
333.8 |
... that
Sonia Levitin was inspired to write
Boom Town after reading about a California girl who baked $11,000 worth of pies during the
Gold Rush?
|
The Roosevelt Hotel (Manhattan) |
2022-12-02 |
|
7,986 |
332.8 |
... that
the Roosevelt Hotel had a Teddy Bear Cave?
|
KPRP (AM) |
2022-12-19 |
|
7,945 |
331.0 |
... that
a Hawaii radio station couldn't buy a KISS?
|
Jack Emanuel |
2022-12-06 |
|
7,940 |
330.8 |
... that Australian official
Jack Emanuel was awarded the
George Cross in 1971 after being stabbed to death whilst trying to resolve a land dispute with the
Tolai people of New Guinea?
|
Yusuf al-Hani |
2022-12-29 |
|
7,904 |
329.3 |
... that
Yusuf al-Hani was executed by the Ottoman Empire after signing a letter to
François Georges-Picot that was found in the French consulate in Beirut during the First World War?
|
G. F. Vernon's XI cricket team in Ceylon and India in 1889–90 |
2022-12-07 |
|
7,902 |
329.2 |
... that
George Vernon's
loss against the Parsis cricket team was seen as "a blow to the prestige of
the Empire"?
|
Brain Damage (film) |
2022-12-29 |
|
7,809 |
325.4 |
... that real calf brains were used during the production of the 1988
comedy horror film
Brain Damage?
|
Central America under Mexican rule |
2022-12-03 |
|
7,794 |
324.8 |
... that the
Central American government voted for
annexation to the First Mexican Empire after a request from Regent
Agustín de Iturbide?
|
Zhang Congzheng |
2022-12-28 |
|
7,782 |
324.2 |
... that Chinese physician
Zhang Congzheng reportedly cured a man of his insanity by tying him to a rotating wheel until he vomited?
|
Ben Bell |
2022-12-29 |
|
7,757 |
323.2 |
... that
Ben Bell was elected at the age of 23 as New Zealand's youngest-ever mayor during the
2022 local elections?
|
True (Spandau Ballet song) |
2022-12-10 |
|
7,592 |
316.3 |
... that
Gary Kemp put subtle references to
Vladimir Nabokov's
Lolita in his lyrics for
Spandau Ballet's "
True" so
Clare Grogan would know the song was about her?
|
M1 (Durban) |
2022-12-24 |
|
7,580 |
315.8 |
... that some residents near
Higginson Highway believe that a ghost named "Sheila" is the cause of the highway's fatal accidents?
|
Axe and Grind |
2022-12-24 |
|
7,566 |
315.3 |
... that a scene in "
Axe and Grind", an episode of
Better Call Saul, was supposed to be filmed with a crane but was changed because the cameraman declined to execute it?
|
Paseo (restaurant) |
2022-12-13 |
|
7,483 |
311.8 |
... that when Seattle sandwich restaurant
Paseo abruptly closed, fans left flowers and lit candles?
|
Morgan's Christmas Raid |
2022-12-25 |
|
7,452 |
310.5 |
... that the
Christmas Raid carried out by Confederate brigadier general
John Hunt Morgan captured 1,800 Union soldiers?
|
Moor frog |
2022-12-04 |
|
7,360 |
306.6 |
... that in one experiment in which
moor frogs were frozen solid to −16 °C (3 °F) and then thawed, a small percentage survived?
|
Hyatt Grand Central New York |
2022-12-14 |
|
7,342 |
305.9 |
... that the operator of the
Commodore Hotel once hosted a circus, featuring an elephant in the ballroom, to impress visiting hoteliers?
|
Leave the Door Open |
2022-12-16 |
|
7,327 |
305.3 |
... that the bridge in the song "
Leave the Door Open" almost split the band
Silk Sonic apart?
|
Ammonihah |
2022-12-21 |
|
7,305 |
304.4 |
... that in the
Book of Mormon, the city of
Ammonihah kills Christians by fire as a deliberately twisted reference to a warning that
spiritual death is like a "lake of
fire and brimstone"?
|
Hanford Engineer Works |
2022-12-06 |
|
7,298 |
304.1 |
... that plutonium produced in the nuclear reactors at the
Hanford Engineer Works was used in the Fat Man bomb used in the
atomic bombing of Nagasaki in August 1945?
|
Book of Common Prayer (1604) |
2022-12-30 |
|
7,258 |
302.4 |
... that use of the 1604
Book of Common Prayer was authorized by the king of England, but later outlawed by Parliament?
|
Farha (film) |
2022-12-28 |
|
7,228
[e] |
301.2 |
... that the film
Farha, which depicts the killing of a Palestinian family by Israeli soldiers during the
Nakba, became the subject of a downvoting campaign?
|
Ethan Allen Express |
2022-12-26 |
|
7,196 |
299.8 |
... that
Amtrak called the
Vermont Rail System the worst host railroad in the country in 2010 due to delays on the
Ethan Allen Express?
|
John J. Ray III |
2022-12-24 |
|
7,168
[f] |
298.6 |
... that
John J. Ray III, the chairman of
Enron during its bankruptcy, said he had never before seen "such a complete failure of corporate controls" upon becoming CEO of cryptocurrency exchange
FTX?
|
Carolyn Grace |
2022-12-22 |
|
7,139 |
297.5 |
... that
Carolyn Grace was the only qualified female pilot of the
Supermarine Spitfire ever to take part in display flying?
|
DreamBooth |
2022-12-08 |
|
7,132 |
297.2 |
... that while
DreamBooth can be used by anyone to fine-tune
image generation AI models, the cost barrier to entry is quite high for hobbyist users?
|
Drummer Boy (Justin Bieber song) |
2022-12-25 |
|
7,080 |
295.0 |
... that critics were confused by
Justin Bieber's version of "Drummer Boy", in which he raps about himself and consumer products, which was seen to bastardize the original sentiment?
|
Craig Greenberg |
2022-12-03 |
|
7,065 |
294.4 |
... that
Craig Greenberg was shot at while running in the
2022 Louisville mayoral election?
|
Tom Harkin 1992 presidential campaign |
2022-12-14 |
|
7,038 |
293.3 |
... that
Tom Harkin ended
his 1992 presidential campaign just one month after he won a landslide victory in the
Iowa caucuses, where he received over three-quarters of the total vote?
|
Dick, Kerr Ladies 4–0 St Helens Ladies |
2022-12-27 |
|
6,976 |
290.7 |
... that the attendance record for a women's club
football game that was
set on Boxing Day 1920 would not be exceeded for 99 years?
|
Japanese tree frog |
2022-12-08 |
|
6,965 |
290.2 |
... that the calling patterns of the
Japanese tree frog have been used in wireless network design, furthering an area of science known as
swarm intelligence?
|
Alfred Fell (merchant)
|
2022-12-13
|
|
4,248
|
177.0
|
... that after
Alfred Fell moved his family to England for better education opportunities, his son
Walter Fell and two of his brothers returned permanently to New Zealand?
|
Walter Fell
|
2,696
|
112.4
|
Total |
6,945 |
289.4
|
Apion family |
2022-12-26 |
|
6,905 |
287.7 |
... that while the
Apion family held extensive power over Byzantine Egypt, they largely remained in
Constantinople as
absentee landlords?
|
Pentapus |
2022-12-31 |
|
6,842 |
285.1 |
... that the
Apple II game
Pentapus was developed by Jeremy Sagan, son of astronomer
Carl Sagan?
|
Edward Glemham |
2022-12-02 |
|
6,514 |
271.4 |
... that
Edward Glemham destroyed two Spanish vessels, repulsed four galleys, and captured a rich Venetian merchant ship in his first voyage as a privateer in 1590?
|
Surf Curse |
2022-12-22 |
|
6,492 |
270.5 |
... that despite their song "
Freaks" going platinum after becoming popular on
TikTok, members of
Surf Curse said they neither understood nor used the app?
|
Xu Dachun |
2022-12-06 |
|
6,487 |
270.3 |
... that according to
Qing-dynasty physician
Xu Dachun, "stupid people believe that expensive drugs must be good drugs"?
|
Morane-Borel military monoplane |
2022-12-10 |
|
6,439 |
268.3 |
... that the
Morane-Borel military monoplane participated in the
Reims Military Aviation Competition, where it lost?
|
Coccinellidae |
2022-12-28 |
|
6,426
[g] |
267.8 |
... that certain
Coccinellidae species (example pictured) lay extra infertile
trophic eggs along with their fertile eggs so that their larvae can have a backup food source?
|
Waterlooplein metro station |
2022-12-03 |
|
6,323 |
263.5 |
... that a 1975 "
open tube" event (pictured) at
Waterlooplein station gave the citizens of
Amsterdam their first look at
the city's metro system?
|
Computer tower |
2022-12-14 |
|
6,307 |
262.8 |
... that in the 1980s, floor stands were offered to computer users to turn their horizontal desktops into
towers?
|
Ella Stewart Udall |
2022-12-11 |
|
6,212 |
258.9 |
... that
Ella Stewart Udall relayed
her husband's letters to his semi-secret
second wife?
|
Zhang Jiebin |
2022-12-09 |
|
6,111 |
254.6 |
... that Chinese physician
Zhang Jiebin believed that
tobacco smoking was good for health?
|
Lin Changyi |
2022-12-22 |
|
6,060 |
252.5 |
... that Chinese scholar
Lin Changyi likened the
miracles of Jesus to
Daoist magic?
|
Shahid Afridi |
2022-12-24 |
|
6,060
[h] |
252.5 |
... that
Shahid Afridi (pictured) broke the record for the quickest
century in
ODI cricket during his first international innings?
|
Armwell Long |
2022-12-20 |
|
6,058 |
252.4 |
... that Delaware politician
Armwell Long was said to have once outranked his close friend,
George Washington? (See discussions regarding this hook at
Talk:Armwell Long.)
|
Rick Rehm |
2022-12-21 |
|
6,012 |
250.5 |
... that
Rick Rehm attributed his surprise victory in an Alabama election to
grassroots campaigning, while his opponent attributed it to
straight-ticket voting?
|
Stanley J. Korsmeyer |
2022-12-04 |
|
5,990 |
249.6 |
... that
Stanley J. Korsmeyer published over 250 scientific papers, 23 of which were cited over 500 times?
|
Lucile Abreu |
2022-12-26 |
|
5,988 |
249.5 |
... that after winning a discrimination lawsuit against the
Honolulu Police Department,
Lucile Abreu became its first female detective?
|
Church of St Giles, Stoke Poges |
2022-12-17 |
|
5,964 |
248.5 |
... that the
Church of St Giles, Stoke Poges, which may have inspired the "
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard", is featured in a James Bond film?
|
Hotel McAlpin |
2022-12-04 |
|
5,926 |
246.9 |
... that several murals from New York City's
Hotel McAlpin were reinstalled in the subway after being found in a dumpster?
|
National Wrestling Conference |
2022-12-11 |
|
5,918 |
246.6 |
... that the
National Wrestling Conference's controversial KKK storyline was the inspiration for an episode of the Netflix series
GLOW?
|
PEI Architects |
2022-12-23 |
|
5,797 |
241.5 |
... that
I. M. Pei said that
his sons' architecture firm "came of age" while designing the
Bank of China head office (pictured) in Beijing?
|
South Asian river dolphin |
2022-12-31 |
|
5,761 |
240.0 |
... that the
South Asian river dolphin is nearly blind and relies on
echolocation for navigation?
|
Caroline Harrison |
2022-12-05 |
|
5,739 |
239.1 |
... that
Caroline Harrison would mail
ceramic milk sets to parents who named their children after U.S. president
Benjamin Harrison?
|
Dujanah |
2022-12-09 |
|
5,692 |
237.1 |
... that background research for
Dujanah included interviews with
Muslim apostates and a Scottish
veteran of Afghanistan?
|
Katharina Cibulka |
2022-12-08 |
|
5,660 |
235.9 |
... that
Katharina Cibulka has created monumental feminist messages in cross-stitch that cover scaffolding at construction sites?
|
Kopka River |
2022-12-15 |
|
5,610 |
233.8 |
... that although the provincial park surrounding the
Kopka River had not been thoroughly investigated, the potential for archaeological sites was considered to be high?
|
Xinxiu bencao |
2022-12-02 |
|
5,557 |
231.5 |
... that the
Xinxiu bencao was the first state-sponsored
pharmacopoeia in China?
|
Josephine Gates Kelly |
2022-12-07 |
|
5,412 |
225.5 |
... that
Josephine Gates Kelly of the
Standing Rock Reservation once hitchhiked to
Washington, D.C., to protest portions of the
Indian Reorganization Act?
|
Arthur O. Austin |
2022-12-07 |
|
5,375 |
224.0 |
... that
Arthur O. Austin built the most powerful outdoor high-voltage laboratory in the world?
|
Frederica Planta |
2022-12-21 |
|
5,368 |
223.7 |
... that
Frederica Planta designed cards to teach the children of
George III and
Queen Charlotte the history of England?
|
The Sims 4 |
2022-12-09 |
|
5,334
[i] |
222.3 |
... that
The Sims 4 by
Maxis started as an online multiplayer game, but was transitioned to a single-player experience following the negative launch reception of
SimCity in 2013?
|
Julian Moynahan |
2022-12-08 |
|
5,201 |
216.7 |
... that a reviewer wrote of
Julian Moynahan that, although "disguised as an English professor at Rutgers", he was in fact "a nonstop Irish-American storyteller"?
|
Calais Conference (December 1915) |
2022-12-08 |
|
5,115 |
213.1 |
... that
a 4 December 1915 agreement by French prime minister
Aristide Briand (pictured) with a British proposal to evacuate the
Salonika front almost led to the collapse of his government?
|
Robert de Ogle |
2022-12-11 |
|
5,090 |
212.1 |
... that
Robert de Ogle captured five Scottish knights near Newcastle in 1341 and received royal
licence to crenellate his property?
|
Benton Bangs |
2022-12-22 |
|
5,076 |
211.5 |
... that pigeon racer
"Biff" Bangs previously played for two different teams in
Rose Bowl football games?
|
Glacialisaurus |
2022-12-26 |
|
5,036 |
209.8 |
... that
Glacialisaurus, meaning 'icy lizard', got its name from its discovery site in the
Beardmore Glacier?
|
Edgar J. Kaufmann Conference Center |
2022-12-14 |
|
4,993 |
208.0 |
... that New York City would not allow a forest in the
Edgar J. Kaufmann Conference Center?
|
Popcom |
2022-12-09 |
|
4,921 |
205.0 |
... that the external models of the
Popcom modem have no status lights, instead providing feedback to the user through
touch tones?
|
Alfred Kroeber: A Personal Configuration |
2022-12-02 |
|
4,866 |
202.8 |
... that anthropologist
Theodora Kroeber wrote
a biography of her husband that was described as a "welcome and refreshing exception" to the "often embarrassing" biographies of men written by their wives?
|
Squatting in Kenya |
2022-12-05 |
|
4,850 |
202.1 |
... that
squatters were one of the groups that started the
Mau Mau rebellion?
|
Dendropsophus branneri |
2022-12-01 |
|
4,836 |
201.5 |
... that male
Dendropsophus branneri frogs (example pictured) have a special "fighting call" reserved for combat with other males?
|
Baeoentedon bouceki |
2022-12-03 |
|
4,767 |
198.6 |
... that although
Baeoentedon bouceki was collected from China in 1983, it was not formally described as a new species until 2014?
|
Nettie Metcalf |
2022-12-10 |
|
4,742 |
197.6 |
... that
Nettie Metcalf was the first woman recognized by the American Poultry Association for creating a breed of chicken, the
Buckeye chicken (example pictured), in the 1890s?
|
The Pagan School |
2022-12-17 |
|
4,672 |
194.6 |
... that
Charles Baudelaire wrote "
The Pagan School" in opposition to the veneration of
Pan in 19th-century France?
|
New Jersey's 1927 biannual elections proposal |
2022-12-11 |
|
4,665 |
194.4 |
... that because of a mistake in
a proposed state constitutional amendment, the
New Jersey Legislature defined
biannually to mean
biennially?
|
Yuri Shcherbinin |
2022-12-15 |
|
4,618 |
192.4 |
... that despite his distinguished family history, musicologist
Yuri Shcherbinin told friends that "what matters most is what you are, not who your ancestors were"?
|
John Harrison Stonehouse |
2022-12-07 |
|
4,604 |
191.8 |
... that bookseller
John Harrison Stonehouse commissioned the "cursed" edition of the
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam that was lost when the
Titanic sank in 1912?
|
Jeff Jordan (defensive back) |
2022-12-02 |
|
4,593 |
191.4 |
... that before playing in the NFL,
Jeff Jordan was a
Rhodes Scholarship finalist?
|
Dukes Meadows |
2022-12-04 |
|
4,572 |
190.5 |
... that a 1902 plan called for a town to be built in
Dukes Meadows that would have been known as Burlingwick?
|
2022 University of California academic workers' strike |
2022-12-12 |
|
4,557 |
189.9 |
... that construction workers at
UC Berkeley paused their work in solidarity with the
2022 University of California academic workers' strike?
|
Village-owned enterprise |
2022-12-21 |
|
4,548 |
189.5 |
... that 90 percent of Indonesia's
village-owned enterprises are not legal entities, hampering their ability to attract investors or open bank accounts?
|
Starbucks Red Cup |
2022-12-25 |
|
4,544 |
189.3 |
... that Starbucks raised money for
HIV/AIDS research using
their red holiday cups?
|
Lustrum (journal) |
2022-12-26 |
|
4,510 |
187.9 |
... that a 700-page article published in
Lustrum was issued over the course of twelve years?
|
John Hart Ely |
2022-12-23 |
|
4,484 |
186.9 |
... that American legal scholar
John Hart Ely penned a law review article castigating the Supreme Court's decision in
Roe v. Wade, despite being
pro-choice?
|
Cheng Dan'an |
2022-12-04 |
|
4,482 |
186.8 |
... that
Cheng Dan'an is "widely considered the father of modern
acupuncture"?
|
Paleoserenomyces |
2022-12-31 |
|
4,432 |
184.6 |
... that the parasitic fossil fungus
Paleoserenomyces allenbyensis was named after a Canadian ghost town?
|
St. Bernward, Hanover |
2022-12-11 |
|
4,398 |
183.2 |
... that
St. Bernward (pictured) in Döhren was consecrated in 1893, when part of
Christoph Hehl's design of a
basilica in the
Romanesque Revival style was built, but the building was only completed after World War II?
|
Hajj: Journey to the Heart of Islam |
2022-12-31 |
|
4,396 |
183.1 |
... that the
British Museum's 2012 exhibition
Hajj: Journey to the Heart of Islam included textiles from the
Kaaba (example pictured) that were described as bringing "a visceral artistic buzz to the display"?
|
Robert Home (officer) |
2022-12-16 |
|
4,362 |
181.8 |
... that
Robert Home was sent by the British Army to Canada in 1864 to report on the defence of the frontier against the eventuality of an American invasion?
|
Marilyn Gayle Hoff |
2022-12-23 |
|
4,328 |
180.4 |
... that American author
Marilyn Gayle Hoff was honored by a
Fourth of July parade float as an unsung hero?
|
Ryukyu Arc |
2022-12-18 |
|
4,282 |
178.4 |
... that at the
Ryukyu Arc, the
Philippine Sea Plate is subducting under the
Eurasian Plate at 5 to 7 cm (2.0 to 2.8 in) per year?
|
WVTQ |
2022-12-12 |
|
4,209 |
175.4 |
... that an apparently jobless man wearing a cardboard box who taped himself to a lamppost was actually a new DJ for
a Vermont radio station?
|
CMS Enhancements |
2022-12-27 |
|
4,075 |
169.8 |
... that hard drive reseller
CMS Enhancements nearly went bankrupt while attempting to enter the
personal computer systems market amid a price war?
|
1937 Fleischer Studios strike |
2022-12-19 |
|
4,054 |
168.9 |
... that the
1937 Fleischer Studios strike in New York City was the first major
labor strike in the animation industry?
|
Quentin Oliver Lee |
2022-12-30 |
|
4,042 |
168.4 |
... that
Quentin Oliver Lee landed a title role in Gershwin's
Porgy and Bess on Broadway after a casting agent spotted him singing in a subway station?
|
Elisabeth Griffith |
2022-12-03 |
|
4,032 |
168.0 |
... that
Elisabeth Griffith's sweeping 100-year history of the American equal-rights movement has been compared to listening to
Billy Joel's "
We Didn't Start the Fire"?
|
Church Clothes 4 |
2022-12-12 |
|
4,022 |
167.6 |
... that
Church Clothes 4 deals with Christian hip hop artist
Lecrae's
faith deconstruction and reconstruction?
|
Shipyard Railway |
2022-12-29 |
|
4,008 |
167.0 |
... that management of the
Richmond Shipyards "went out of its way to propagandize against" the
Shipyard Railway that was built to serve it?
|
Symphyotrichum kentuckiense |
2022-12-09 |
|
3,976 |
165.6 |
... that
Symphyotrichum kentuckiense (flower head pictured), the Kentucky aster, is
only found on limestone
cedar glades and limestone roadsides in
Alabama,
Georgia,
Kentucky, and
Tennessee?
|
Carlton Martial |
2022-12-01 |
|
3,962 |
165.1 |
... that
linebacker
Carlton Martial, who recently broke a college football record for the most
tackles, began his career as a
walk-on?
|
1945–1946 Charleston Cigar Factory strike |
2022-12-18 |
|
3,932 |
163.8 |
... that according to
The Atlantic, "the first widely acknowledged performance" of the song "
We Shall Overcome" occurred during the
1945–1946 Charleston Cigar Factory strike?
|
Warren Richard Colvin Wynne |
2022-12-14 |
|
3,929 |
163.7 |
... that while hemmed in at
Ekowe during the
Anglo-Zulu War,
W. R. C. Wynne attempted to respond to
heliograph signals by means of a signalling screen and a balloon?
|
Hernán Galíndez |
2022-12-19 |
|
3,847 |
160.3 |
... that Ecuadorian
footballer
Hernán Galíndez won a bicycle for beating a team featuring
Lionel Messi when they were children?
|
Milton Loch |
2022-12-23 |
|
3,842 |
160.1 |
... that the
crannogs of
Milton Loch, although similar in design, span a time period of around 1,000 years?
|
Chase Brown |
2022-12-17 |
|
3,838 |
159.9 |
... that Canadian
running back
Chase Brown ranked second in American
college football with 1,643
rushing yards in 2022?
|
Harvey Shapiro (cellist) |
2022-12-20 |
|
3,790 |
157.9 |
... that cellist
Harvey Shapiro played at the 50th anniversary of his professional debut despite broken ribs and a torn muscle incurred from a fall a few days prior?
|
Stern Electronics, Inc. v. Kaufman |
2022-12-22 |
|
3,710 |
154.6 |
... that
a 1982 court case established that video games may qualify for multiple types of U.S. copyright protection?
|
Danny Setiawan |
2022-12-24 |
|
3,664 |
152.7 |
... that despite running against a former general,
Danny Setiawan received implicit backing from military officers in his 2003 gubernatorial bid?
|
Walter Hines Page School of International Relations |
2022-12-13 |
|
3,612 |
150.5 |
... that scholars disagree about whether the closure of the
Walter Hines Page School of International Relations in 1953 had anything to do with
McCarthyism?
|
Gyalectidium yahriae
|
2022-12-06
|
|
1,878
|
78.2
|
... that the uncommon Florida lichen species
Gyalectidium yahriae was named after
Rebecca Yahr of the
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh in Scotland?
|
Rebecca Yahr
|
1,716
|
71.5
|
Total |
3,594 |
149.8
|
The Inland Whale |
2022-12-01 |
|
3,554 |
148.1 |
... that
The Inland Whale, by
Theodora Kroeber, sought to demonstrate the literary merit of Indigenous American oral traditions?
|
Tennessee State Route 396 |
2022-12-12 |
|
3,524 |
146.9 |
... that
Tennessee State Route 396 was constructed to provide access to the
Spring Hill Manufacturing plant of
Saturn Corporation?
|
1994 Mascara earthquake |
2022-12-16 |
|
3,497 |
145.7 |
... that the
1994 Mascara earthquake destroyed every house in the Algerian villages of Shadlia,
Hacine and Sidi Ali Cherif?
|
Verrado High School |
2022-12-22 |
|
3,448 |
143.7 |
... that in 2016
Verrado High School in Arizona began offering all-female engineering classes?
|
Gegrüßet seist du, Königin |
2022-12-08 |
|
3,434 |
143.1 |
... that "
Gegrüßet seist du, Königin", a German version of the Latin hymn "
Salve Regina", was taken to the U.S. by emigrants and became popular in the U.S. in the film
Sister Act?
|
Mary Milligan |
2022-12-03 |
|
3,426 |
142.8 |
... that the Vatican selected
Mary Milligan in 1987 to be one of only three U.S. experts to assist the International Synod of Bishops on the Laity in Rome?
|
Tang Zonghai |
2022-12-29 |
|
3,364 |
140.2 |
... that
Tang Zonghai was one of the first advocates for the integration of Chinese and Western medicine?
|
Shaw Loo |
2022-12-09 |
|
3,361 |
140.0 |
... that Burmese scholar
Shaw Loo was
Bucknell University's first international student?
|
June (2021 film) |
2022-12-05 |
|
3,342 |
139.2 |
... that
Neha Pendse, the lead actress of the Marathi film
June, contributed some of her own money towards its production?
|
Bern Disputation |
2022-12-23 |
|
3,324 |
138.5 |
... that the
Bern Disputation of 1528 led to
the Swiss canton becoming the second
Protestant canton in the
Swiss Confederacy?
|
2022 UK Championship |
2022-12-11 |
|
3,260 |
135.9 |
... that
Gary Wilson threw his
snooker cue to the floor in anger at the
2022 UK Championship?
|
Richard Newland (cricketer) |
2022-12-12 |
|
3,228 |
134.5 |
... that
Richard Newland is cricket's earliest-known left-handed batter?
|
John Barber White |
2022-12-05 |
|
3,159 |
131.6 |
... that American lumber businessman and politician
John Barber White funded a scholarship at
Williams College in memory of his son?
|
TriGem |
2022-12-15 |
|
3,154 |
131.4 |
... that in 1981,
TriGem introduced the first microcomputer built in South Korea?
|
Guapi, Cauca |
2022-12-24 |
|
3,145 |
131.0 |
... that in local
Afro-Colombian and Catholic tradition, residents of
Guapi sing and dance while sailing the
Virgin Mary down their coconut-candlelit river to church every Christmas Eve?
|
List of municipalities in Cantabria |
2022-12-28 |
|
3,125 |
130.2 |
... that some people who are not Spanish citizens have the right to vote in elections for local public officials in the
municipalities of Cantabria?
|
An Appeal for Human Rights |
2022-12-06 |
|
3,110 |
129.6 |
... that
An Appeal for Human Rights was published by college students in 1960 in response to racial inequality in
Atlanta?
|
Ann Howard (author) |
2022-12-27 |
|
3,062 |
127.6 |
... that author
Ann Howard interviewed more than 100 Australians about their experiences as child evacuees sent inland during World War II when a Japanese invasion seemed imminent?
|
Benjamin F. Gue |
2022-12-27 |
|
3,060 |
127.5 |
... that
Benjamin F. Gue, who co-founded
Iowa State University, allowed women to become students there despite much opposition?
|
James Oleske |
2022-12-30 |
|
3,054 |
127.2 |
... that pediatrician
James Oleske was a pioneer in identifying that HIV/AIDS could be a disease in children?
|
John Cooper (New Jersey politician) |
2022-12-10 |
|
3,038 |
126.6 |
... that the home of American revolutionary leader
John Cooper was used by General
Lord Cornwallis as his headquarters during the British occupation of
Woodbury, New Jersey, in 1777?
|
Junior Colson |
2022-12-28 |
|
3,018 |
125.7 |
... that
Junior Colson, the leading tackler on the
2022 Michigan Wolverines football team, lived in a Haitian orphanage prior to his adoption at age nine?
|
Samuel Plata |
2022-12-24 |
|
3,008 |
125.3 |
... that before being named
jach'a mallku cantonal,
Samuel Plata worked as an auto mechanic in
El Alto?
|
Ganggang |
2022-12-29 |
|
3,002 |
125.1 |
... that
Ganggang, an
Indianapolis-based cultural development firm for Black artists, created a fine art fair called "Butter" that also included a dance party called "Melt"?
|
Canadian Coalition for Firearm Rights |
2022-12-31 |
|
2,998 |
124.9 |
... that the
Canadian Coalition for Firearm Rights has been described as "Canada's most prominent pro-gun group"?
|
Rosalind Creasy |
2022-12-05 |
|
2,983 |
124.3 |
... that
Rosalind Creasy wrote a landmark book on
edible landscaping?
|
Edward Thonen |
2022-12-17 |
|
2,895 |
120.6 |
... that
Edward Thonen, one of the miners killed in the
Eureka Rebellion, had gained notoriety in England as a jewellery thief prior to his emigration to Australia?
|
Overwatch |
2022-12-17 |
|
2,844 |
118.5 |
... that although
Blizzard's franchise
Overwatch is centered around video games, its lore is mainly told through animated shorts, comics, and novels?
|
AFL Women's season seven Grand Final |
2022-12-20 |
|
2,610 |
108.7 |
... that at the conclusion of the
AFL Women's season seven Grand Final, winning captain
Daisy Pearce placed her premiership medal on a young girl?
|
Aspar Aswin |
2022-12-20 |
|
2,600 |
108.4 |
... that the impeachment proceedings against
West Kalimantan Governor
Aspar Aswin were shelved after an ethnic riot broke out?
|
2022 Bahamas Bowl |
2022-12-21 |
|
2,561 |
106.7 |
... that prior to kickoff, the
Bahamas Bowl announced that the winner of a regular season game between
Miami and
Ball State would earn a bid to the
2022 edition of the game?
|
Shana Yardan |
2022-12-28 |
|
2,560 |
106.7 |
... that the poetry collection of Guyanese radio presenter
Shana Yardan was described as "accomplished, tough-minded and well-crafted"?
|
Richard Draper |
2022-12-18 |
|
2,480 |
103.4 |
... that
Richard Draper, printer of the
The Massachusetts Gazette, used this newspaper as a
Loyalist voice as the
American Revolution drew near?
|
Franz Choque |
2022-12-01 |
|
2,364 |
98.5 |
... that while serving as his party's regional leader in
Oruro,
Franz Choque simultaneously worked as an importer to make ends meet?
|
Navidades |
2022-12-25 |
|
2,351 |
98.0 |
... that
Navidades by
Luis Miguel was the first Spanish-language album to enter the
Billboard Top Holiday Albums since 1966?
|
Citizen Erased |
2022-12-30 |
|
2,288 |
95.3 |
... that "
Citizen Erased" was
Muse's first song to include a
seven-string guitar?
|
Saleh Djasit |
2022-12-18 |
|
2,284 |
95.2 |
... that
Saleh Djasit was the first member of the Indonesian
People's Representative Council to be arrested by the
Corruption Eradication Commission?
|
Tuệ Tĩnh |
2022-12-19 |
|
2,210 |
92.1 |
... that fourteenth-century Buddhist monk
Tuệ Tĩnh is referred to as a founding father of
traditional Vietnamese medicine?
|
Mochamad Hasbi |
2022-12-31 |
|
2,172 |
90.5 |
... that retired Indonesian general and politician
Mochamad Hasbi fled from arrest for seven years after he was sentenced to a year in prison in relation to a corruption case?
|
Tommy Steele Stage Show |
2022-12-01 |
|
2,116 |
88.2 |
... that the
Liverpool Echo described British
rock and roll star
Tommy Steele as "quite unable to sing and play the guitar at the same time" when reviewing
his first album?
|
Concerto for Piano and String Orchestra |
2022-12-09 |
|
1,916 |
79.8 |
... that the
Concerto for Piano and String Orchestra was described by its composer,
Alfred Schnittke, as sounding like a "blues nightmare" at one point?
|
Smin Awa Naing |
2022-12-16 |
|
1,862 |
77.6 |
... that
Smin Awa Naing's regiment mortally wounded Crown Prince
Minye Kyawswa of
Ava, effectively ending Ava's most serious invasion of the
Hanthawaddy Kingdom?
|
Nawrahta of Salin |
2022-12-01 |
|
1,804 |
75.2 |
... that
Hanthawaddy royal
Bya Kun fought for
Ava against his enemy King
Razadarit in the
Forty Years' War?
|
Canticle II: Abraham and Isaac |
2022-12-15 |
|
1,600 |
66.7 |
... that in
Canticle II: Abraham and Isaac,
Benjamin Britten assigned the tenor of
Peter Pears to Abraham and the alto of
Kathleen Ferrier to Isaac, with both singing in
homophony as the voice of God?
|
Missa Sine Nomine (Schidlowsky) |
2022-12-27 |
|
1,572 |
65.5 |
... that
Leon Schidlowsky wrote the
Misa sine nomine in memory of
Víctor Jara for speaker, choirs, organ and percussion, juxtaposing
mass texts with contemporary poetry and
Torah verses?
|
Nathaniel H. Gates |
2022-12-10 |
|
1,494 |
62.3 |
... that in 1858, when Congress delayed its decision on
Oregon statehood,
Nathaniel H. Gates became the last Speaker of Oregon’s
Territorial House of Representatives?
|
Evgeny Sviridov (violinist) |
2022-12-18 |
|
1,460 |
60.8 |
... that the Russian violinist
Evgeny Sviridov, who has been
concertmaster of the Baroque ensemble
Concerto Köln since 2015, has made an award-winning recording of sonatas by
Giuseppe Tartini?
|
Margaret F. Butler |
2022-12-11 |
|
1,439 |
60.0 |
... that in 1908, American
otorhinolaryngologist
Margaret F. Butler became the first woman to preside over an international congress of physicians?
|
The Littlest Angel |
2022-12-25 |
|
1,390 |
57.9 |
... that the classic children's Christmas story
The Littlest Angel was written in just three days?
|
Bernardo Adam Ferrero |
2022-12-04 |
|
1,384 |
57.7 |
... that
Bernardo Adam Ferrero wrote compositions such as Danzas alicantinas for Spanish civil and military
bands that he conducted?
|
Messe de minuit pour Noël |
2022-12-24 |
|
1,274 |
53.1 |
... that
Marc-Antoine Charpentier composed the
midnight mass
Messe de minuit pour Noël based on the melodies of ten
French Christmas carols?
|
Vom Himmel hoch (Mendelssohn) |
2022-12-25 |
|
1,172 |
48.8 |
... that
Mendelssohn's 1831 Christmas cantata
Vom Himmel hoch, influenced by
Bach's chorale cantatas, was based on
a 1539 carol composed by
Martin Luther?
|
Azio Corghi |
2022-12-17 |
|
929 |
38.7 |
... that
Azio Corghi composed his second and third operas with author
José Saramago – the second for
La Scala in Milan, and
the third for a 1993 premiere at the
Theater Münster?
|