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Xin Fengxia
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2016-02-14
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16,961
|
1,413.4
|
... that
Xin Fengxia (pictured) refused to divorce her persecuted husband
Wu Zuguang, and he took care of her after she was persecuted and became paralyzed?
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Wu Zuguang
|
4,348
|
362.4
|
Total |
21,310 |
1,775.8
|
Nimrod (computing) |
2016-02-11 |
|
15,926 |
1,327.2 |
... that in 1951,
Alan Turing played one of the earliest
electronic games on the
Nimrod (diagram pictured)?
|
Sandsfoot Castle |
2016-02-02 |
|
15,096 |
1,258.0 |
... that
Historic England considers
Sandsfoot Castle (pictured) to be "one of the most substantial examples" of the 16th-century blockhouse to survive in England?
|
Ranikot Fort |
2016-02-09 |
|
14,684 |
1,223.7 |
... that the
Ranikot Fort (pictured), also known as the Great Wall of
Sindh, is believed to be one of the world's largest forts, and has been compared to the
Great Wall of China?
|
Staten Island boat graveyard |
2016-02-19 |
|
14,358 |
1,195.7 |
... that the
Staten Island boat graveyard contains so many abandoned boats and ships that it has been called an "accidental marine museum"?
|
Lisa Aschan |
2016-02-17 |
|
13,977 |
1,164.8 |
... that
Lisa Aschan was filmed in the audience at the
2016 Guldbaggen Awards,
giving the finger and saying "Fuck You" to the winner in the Best Cinematography category?
|
Chowder |
2016-02-09 |
|
13,976 |
1,164.7 |
... that
chowder (example pictured) originated as a
shipboard dish, and was thickened with
hardtack?
|
Princess Feodora of Saxe-Meiningen |
2016-02-22 |
|
12,989 |
1,082.4 |
... that
Princess Feodora of Saxe-Meiningen committed suicide in 1945 after suffering most of her life from ill health?
|
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee |
2016-02-08 |
|
12,832
[a] |
1,069.3 |
... that when it debuts on February 8, 2016,
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee (
Samantha Bee pictured) will be the only
late-night TV talk show in the United States hosted by a woman?
|
Maz Kanata |
2016-02-01 |
|
12,480
[b] |
1,040.0 |
... that the
CGI character
Maz Kanata from
Star Wars: The Force Awakens was inspired by writer/director
J. J. Abrams' late high school English teacher?
|
Tibs the Great |
2016-02-24 |
|
12,130 |
1,010.8 |
... that
Tibs the Great vanquished all his foes during his 14-year reign?
|
Panama remote controlled vehicle |
2016-02-21 |
|
12,011 |
1,000.9 |
... that redundant
Snatch Land Rovers awaiting disposal were turned into
Panama remote controlled vehicles (pictured)?
|
Pocket FM |
2016-02-15 |
|
11,833 |
986.1 |
... that a portable radio transmitter called
Pocket FM (pictured) enables people to create
pirate radio networks in areas where authoritarian governments tightly control communications?
|
Borophryne apogon
|
2016-02-08
|
|
5,737
|
478.1
|
... that fossils of the
headlight angler and the
netdevil were found during construction of a subway station in
Los Angeles?
|
Linophryne indica
|
5,678
|
473.1
|
Total |
11,414 |
951.2
|
Mitre Inn, Chipping Barnet |
2016-02-01 |
|
11,010 |
917.5 |
... that a man reputedly died riding a horse backwards up a hill at the
Mitre Inn (pictured) in
Chipping Barnet?
|
Buddy Holly Center |
2016-02-03 |
|
10,630 |
885.9 |
... that the
Buddy Holly Center showcases
Holly's final
Fender Stratocaster and the pair of glasses (pictured) that he was wearing at the time of
his death?
|
White House Big Dig |
2016-02-02 |
|
10,488 |
874.0 |
... that the
White House Big Dig is a
White House construction project that has been described as mysterious as the disappearance of the
dinosaurs?
|
Operation Silver Buckle |
2016-02-22 |
|
10,444 |
870.3 |
... that two
Silver Buckle
companies attacked 50,000 enemy troops?
|
Abyssinian guinea pig |
2016-02-05 |
|
10,394 |
866.1 |
... that the coat of the
Abyssinian guinea pig (pictured) is marked with large swirls of hair known as rosettes?
|
Princess Charlotte of Prussia |
2016-02-02 |
|
10,324 |
860.3 |
... that the ill health and unstable personality of
Princess Charlotte of Prussia are attributable to the genetic disease
porphyria?
|
Norwich War Memorial |
2016-02-24 |
|
9,058 |
754.9 |
... that
Norwich War Memorial (pictured), first unveiled in 1927, was relocated in 1938, and then rotated in 2011?
|
Bella Bond murder case |
2016-02-26 |
|
9,058 |
754.8 |
... that a
forensic facial reconstruction of two-year-old
Bella Bond triggered approximately 56 million Internet views?
|
Rob Roy (dog) |
2016-02-18 |
|
8,977 |
748.1 |
... that
Calvin Coolidge described his beloved dog
Rob Roy (pictured) as a "stately gentleman of great courage and fidelity"?
|
Carbajal Valley |
2016-02-22 |
|
8,873 |
739.4 |
... that the
Carbajal Valley (pictured) was carved by a glacier with ice 600–800 metres (2,000–2,600 ft) thick?
|
X-10 Graphite Reactor |
2016-02-12 |
|
8,712 |
726.0 |
... that the
X-10 Graphite Reactor (pictured) was the first nuclear reactor to produce
radioisotopes for medical use?
|
James Benjamin Parker |
2016-02-10 |
|
8,648 |
720.7 |
... that after he tackled the assassin of
William McKinley, former slave
James Benjamin Parker said, "
Father Abe freed me, and now I saved his successor from death, provided that bullet ... don't kill him"?
|
Harley-Davidson KR |
2016-02-26 |
|
8,464 |
705.4 |
... in post-World War II United States, the
Harley-Davidson KR (pictured) dominated domestic
motorcycle racing with an obsolete but highly refined
flathead engine?
|
Hetty Reckless |
2016-02-29 |
|
8,456 |
704.6 |
... that
Hetty Reckless was born in 1776, escaped from
Salem, and boasted of seeing
George Washington?
|
Sandy Cornish |
2016-02-03 |
|
8,448 |
704.0 |
... that
Sandy Cornish, a former
slave who had purchased his freedom, deliberately maimed himself when threatened with a return to slavery?
|
Norfolk headless body |
2016-02-24 |
|
8,348 |
695.7 |
... that the
Norfolk headless body may have been a "duchess"?
|
John Kent (police officer) |
2016-02-17 |
|
8,153 |
679.4 |
... that
John Kent was the first black police officer in Britain?
|
Battle of Dumpu |
2016-02-25 |
|
8,045 |
670.4 |
... that in the
Battle of Dumpu, Lieutenant Colonel
Ralph Honner, although covered in blood and black ants, refused to be carried from the field for fear it might endanger the stretcher bearers?
|
Murder of Robert Wykel |
2016-02-23 |
|
7,905 |
658.8 |
... that a distinctive diamond helped secure a
bodyless murder conviction in the case of
Robert Wykel, last seen 20 years ago today?
|
Donald Lavoie |
2016-02-16 |
|
7,870 |
655.8 |
... that
Donald Lavoie, a
hit man for Montreal's
Dubois Gang, escaped his intended execution at their hands by sliding down a laundry chute?
|
Brazilian guitarfish
|
2016-02-12
|
|
5,078
|
423.2
|
... that the
Brazilian guitarfish may soon become extinct because of overfishing, while across the Atlantic, the
common guitarfish and the
blackchin guitarfish are also endangered?
|
Common guitarfish
|
1,636
|
136.4
|
Blackchin guitarfish
|
1,012
|
84.3
|
Total |
7,726 |
643.9
|
RPG-1 |
2016-02-18 |
|
7,608 |
634.0 |
... that the
Soviet
RPG-1
anti-tank rocket was intended to combine the best features of the US's
bazooka with those of the German
Panzerfaust?
|
Malouma |
2016-02-07 |
|
7,568 |
630.7 |
... that before she became a
Senator of
Mauritania,
Malouma (pictured) was censored for her songs, which promoted women's rights and challenged apartheid?
|
Cruise (film) |
2016-02-08 |
|
7,366 |
613.8 |
... that
Emily Ratajkowski plays a "nice Jewish girl" looking for action in
Cruise?
|
Melanocetus murrayi |
2016-02-10 |
|
7,354 |
612.8 |
... that
Murray's abyssal anglerfish was dredged from the deep in the
Challenger expedition of 1872 to 1876?
|
Pura Vida Bracelets |
2016-02-16 |
|
7,228 |
602.3 |
... that
Pura Vida Bracelets, which now sells over 125,000 bracelets a month, started when two friends brought 400 bracelets back from a vacation in Costa Rica?
|
Evolve (video game) |
2016-02-10 |
|
7,183
[c] |
598.6 |
... that a financial analyst considered
Evolve, released one year ago today, to be "too niche to reach a wide audience"?
|
6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion |
2016-02-20 |
|
7,105 |
595.8 |
... that the
6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion was the only all-black, all-female battalion to serve overseas during World War II?
|
Thyroid ima artery |
2016-02-18 |
|
7,040 |
586.6 |
... that the
thyroid ima artery can be found in only three to ten percent of the population and varies in origin, size, blood supply, and termination?
|
Strathtyrum |
2016-02-03 |
|
6,972 |
581.0 |
... that
Prince William and
Catherine Middleton lived in
Strathtyrum for two years?
|
Dibatag |
2016-02-04 |
|
6,952 |
579.3 |
... that rock paintings of the
dibatag (pictured) have been discovered on the west bank of the
Nile River, far from its present range?
|
Isaac Stearns |
2016-02-12 |
|
6,938 |
578.2 |
... that
Richard Nixon and
T. S. Eliot are both descended from
Isaac Stearns?
|
Operation Ferdinand |
2016-02-24 |
|
6,924 |
577.0 |
... that
Ferdinand's threat to Genoa during World War II allowed a
Dragoon to achieve tactical surprise?
|
Air France Flight 152 |
2016-02-19 |
|
6,866 |
572.2 |
... that
Air France Flight 152, en route from Rome to Beirut, ended up in the Mediterranean Sea after one of the engines broke away in flight?
|
Emil Källström |
2016-02-15 |
|
6,704 |
558.7 |
... that Swedish politician
Emil Källström came in sixth in
Land magazine's annual list of "Hottest hillbillies"?
|
Introduction to the Enemy |
2016-02-23 |
|
6,690 |
557.5 |
... that during filming of the
Vietnam War documentary
Introduction to the Enemy, a
landmine killed a man near
Jane Fonda, whose reaction to the death was kept in the film?
|
Foxymorons |
2016-02-08 |
|
6,604 |
550.3 |
... that the
Texas band the
Foxymorons began life as a lie?
|
Battle of the Straits |
2016-02-25 |
|
6,567 |
547.2 |
... that in the
Battle of the Straits in 965, the
Fatimids employed divers to tie ropes to the
Byzantine ships, along which
incendiary devices were then hurled against them?
|
Bad Santa 2 |
2016-02-02 |
|
6,322 |
526.8 |
... that after a lengthy development process,
Bad Santa 2 is finally filming in
Montreal?
|
Mahabaleshwar strawberry |
2016-02-08 |
|
6,254 |
521.2 |
... that the
Mahabaleshwar strawberry (pictured) comprises about 85 percent of total strawberry production in India?
|
Emerods |
2016-02-26 |
|
6,240 |
520.0 |
... that some scholars speculate that the "plague of
emerods" described in
1 Samuel of the
King James Bible was actually an outbreak of
bubonic plague?
|
Teresia Sampsonia |
2016-02-17 |
|
6,098 |
508.2 |
... that
Teresia Sampsonia (pictured) was born into a Christian
Circassian family in
Safavid Iran, and married the British adventurer
Sir Robert Shirley?
|
Nishiki, Kumamoto |
2016-02-26 |
|
6,050 |
504.2 |
... that a mysterious World War II airbase of the former
Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service located at
Nishiki, Kumamoto, is currently being surveyed with a view to eventually opening it up to tourists?
|
Psychology of eating meat |
2016-02-19 |
|
6,008 |
500.7 |
... that research into the
psychology of eating meat suggests a correlation between meat-eating and support for
hierarchy and
inequality?
|
Black Cross Nurses |
2016-02-18 |
|
6,008 |
500.7 |
... that in an era when women of
African descent had little access to education or public role models, the
Black Cross Nurses (pictured) trained them in
healthcare, allowing them to be seen in leadership roles?
|
Maine Children's Home for Little Wanderers
|
2016-02-18
|
|
3,230
|
269.2
|
... that for over 40 years, the one constant at the
Maine Children's Home for Little Wanderers has been
Sharon H. Abrams?
|
Sharon H. Abrams
|
2,776
|
231.3
|
Total |
6,006 |
500.5
|
Bahar Pars |
2016-02-10 |
|
5,813 |
484.4 |
... that Swedish actress
Bahar Pars was born in
Shiraz, Iran, and came to Sweden in 1989 after her family fled the war with Iraq?
|
Tourism in South Sudan |
2016-02-04 |
|
5,764 |
480.4 |
... that
South Sudan has the world's second largest animal migration, but there are
no tourists to see it?
|
White-bellied cinclodes |
2016-02-15 |
|
5,663 |
471.9 |
... that the
white-bellied cinclodes may soon "pipe" no more?
|
Kashmir papier-mâché |
2016-02-22 |
|
5,590 |
465.8 |
... that
Kashmir papier-mâché (pictured), a colourful painted handicraft of
Kashmir that was brought by
Shia Muslims from
Persia in the 15th century, is based primarily on paper pulp?
|
42 Lomasney Way |
2016-02-22 |
|
5,543 |
461.9 |
... that
42 Lomasney Way in
Boston's
West End has been called "The Last Tenement", and has survived two fires, decay, and urban renewal?
|
Pagbalha Geleg Namgyai |
2016-02-02 |
|
5,533 |
461.1 |
... that Tibetan "
living Buddha"
Pagbalha Geleg Namgyai (pictured, left, with
Mao Zedong) was appointed vice chairman of the
Qamdo Liberation Committee at the age of 10?
|
Queen Elizabeth cake |
2016-02-28 |
|
5,509 |
459.1 |
... that
Queen Elizabeth cake is named after
Elizabeth II and is a popular cake in Canada?
|
Wildlife of Egypt
|
2016-02-24
|
|
2,963
|
246.9
|
... that the
wildlife of Egypt no longer includes the elephants, rhinoceroses and gerenuk depicted in
rock art at the village of
Silwa Bahari?
|
Silwa Bahari
|
2,478
|
206.5
|
Total |
5,440 |
453.4
|
Planned presidential transition of Mitt Romney |
2016-02-01 |
|
5,428 |
452.4 |
... that the U.S. Government spent $8.9 million preparing for the possible
presidential transition of Mitt Romney in 2012?
|
Chou Tzu-yu |
2016-02-11 |
|
5,367
[d] |
447.2 |
... that the public apology of 16-year-old
K-pop star
Chou Tzu-yu for waving a
Taiwanese flag is believed to have helped
Tsai Ing-wen win the
Taiwanese presidential election?
|
Causeway Bay Books disappearances |
2016-02-08 |
|
5,350 |
445.8 |
... that
five missing people linked to a Hong Kong bookshop are suspected of having been abducted by mainland China's
Public Security Bureau?
|
Shooting of Anthony Hill |
2016-02-21 |
|
5,313 |
442.8 |
... that
Anthony Hill was naked, unarmed and suffering from mental illness when he was shot by police in the
U.S. state of Georgia?
|
Operation Snake Eyes |
2016-02-19 |
|
5,290 |
440.6 |
... that when the White House postponed
Operation Snake Eyes again, Captain Sirisouk quit the
Laotian Civil War?
|
The Chinese Road |
2016-02-10 |
|
5,202 |
433.5 |
... that a
Chinese aid project in Laos was defended by 400 anti-aircraft guns and 25,000 troops?
|
Operation Phoutah |
2016-02-14 |
|
5,192 |
432.7 |
... that during
Operation Phoutah, Groupement Mobile 33 carried their
gut-shot
colonel and 50 other wounded for 13 hours?
|
Georgiana Simpson |
2016-02-28 |
|
5,157 |
429.8 |
... that after receiving her PhD in 1921,
Georgiana Simpson (pictured), like other black women scholars, could only find a university position teaching
home economics?
|
Arnos Park Viaduct |
2016-02-15 |
|
5,068 |
422.4 |
... that the 34 arches of the
Arnos Park Viaduct (pictured) allowed the extension of the
Piccadilly line to
Cockfosters?
|
Armada Memorial |
2016-02-25 |
|
5,050 |
420.9 |
... that the
Armada Memorial is built on
Plymouth Hoe, the site where tradition holds
Francis Drake wanted to finish a game of
bowls (scene pictured) before defeating the
Spanish Armada?
|
Panicum effusum |
2016-02-27 |
|
4,988 |
415.7 |
... that earlier this month, the town of
Wangaratta was overrun by
hairy panic?
|
Carthaginian currency |
2016-02-23 |
|
4,970 |
414.1 |
... that
Carthaginian currency (pictured) commonly featured the
goddess
Tanit and a horse?
|
2015–16 Great Britain and Ireland floods
|
2016-02-11
|
|
3,333
|
277.8
|
... that
Storm Eva exacerbated the
2015–16 Great Britain and Ireland floods (pictured), which also broke the United Kingdom's 24-hour
rainfall record?
|
Storm Eva
|
1,471
|
122.6
|
Total |
4,804 |
400.3
|
Beatrice Helen Worsley |
2016-02-22 |
|
4,792 |
399.3 |
... that
Beatrice Helen Worsley wrote the first program for the
Manchester Mark 1, received the first PhD in
computer science, and holds the record among
WRENs for the longest time at sea?
|
Framingham Railroad Station |
2016-02-17 |
|
4,778 |
398.1 |
... that
Framingham Railroad Station (pictured) was the largest of nine stations that
Henry Hobson Richardson designed for the
Boston and Albany Railroad?
|
Royal Stag |
2016-02-02 |
|
4,684 |
390.4 |
... that the
Indian whisky
Royal Stag is
Pernod Ricard's biggest-selling brand?
|
Roman Tomb (Silistra) |
2016-02-19 |
|
4,594 |
382.6 |
... that the 4th-century frescoes in the
Roman Tomb of
Silistra depict a procession of servants (example pictured) carrying gifts to the tomb's owners?
|
Battle of Brunanburh |
2016-02-13 |
|
4,554 |
379.5 |
... that the
Battle of Brunanburh, fought in 937, has been described as "the greatest single battle in Anglo-Saxon history before
Hastings"?
|
Bad Moms |
2016-02-11 |
|
4,520 |
376.7 |
... that after the departure of the previously attached
distributor, the upcoming film
Bad Moms' U.S. rights are now being handled by
STX Entertainment?
|
Jimmy Greene |
2016-02-16 |
|
4,516 |
376.3 |
... that
the album that
Jimmy Greene (pictured) wrote in tribute to his murdered daughter has been nominated for a
Grammy Award?
|
America can't do a damn thing against us |
2016-02-25 |
|
4,508 |
375.7 |
... that "
America can't do a damn thing against us" was a slogan used by
Ayatollah
Ruhollah Khomeini, the former
Supreme Leader of Iran, during the
hostage crisis?
|
Great Comet of 1819 |
2016-02-04 |
|
4,472 |
372.7 |
... that the
Great Comet of 1819 was the first comet analyzed using
polarimetry, by
François Arago?
|
Maesopsis eminii
|
2016-02-17
|
|
2,900
|
241.7
|
... that the
Amani Nature Reserve in Tanzania is home to the elusive
long-billed forest warbler and the unwanted
umbrella tree?
|
Long-billed forest warbler
|
1,066
|
88.9
|
Amani Nature Reserve
|
486
|
40.5
|
Total |
4,452 |
371.0
|
Hypoplectrus nigricans |
2016-02-11 |
|
4,435 |
369.6 |
... that the
black hamlet is an egg trader?
|
Grade I listed war memorials in England |
2016-02-03 |
|
4,404 |
367.0 |
... that about half of the
Grade I listed war memorials in England were designed by the same architect?
|
Operation Bedrock (Laos) |
2016-02-20 |
|
4,348 |
364.6 |
... that
Operation Bedrock was a successful rice denial mission?
|
Bridgeton incident |
2016-02-20 |
|
4,304 |
363.7 |
... that the then Iranian prime minister,
Mir-Hossein Mousavi, defined the
Bridgeton incident as "an irreparable blow on America's political and military prestige"?
|
Shrek on the Internet |
2016-02-19 |
|
4,362 |
363.5 |
... that a fan-made video called "
Shrek is love, Shrek is life" and its duplications garnered more than three million views by May 2014?
|
List of Arabian Peninsula tropical cyclones |
2016-02-06 |
|
4,344 |
362.0 |
... that
tropical cyclones affecting the Arabian Peninsula (example pictured) have disrupted oil exports, destroyed 2,000-year-old bridges, and produced multiple years' worth of rainfall?
|
BMW G310R |
2016-02-07 |
|
4,298 |
358.1 |
... that
BMW G310R, the first-ever
sub-500cc bike by
BMW Motorrad, is the first of the company's bikes to be developed outside of Europe?
|
Albin K. Longren |
2016-02-06 |
|
4,294 |
357.8 |
... that, with no prior experience in aviation,
Albin K. Longren (pictured) built and flew his own airplane from scratch in 1911?
|
Liang Siyong |
2016-02-25 |
|
4,266 |
355.5 |
... that
Liang Siyong was one of the first Chinese archaeologists?
|
Disabled Iranian Veterans |
2016-02-09 |
|
4,208 |
350.6 |
... that the number of
disabled Iranian war veterans related to
Iraqi chemical weapons is rising, and estimated to rival that of all the
gas casualties in World War I?
|
Songs by George Harrison |
2016-02-10 |
|
4,207 |
350.6 |
... that
Songs by George Harrison contained three songs previously rejected by
Warner Bros. Records?
|
2009 Malmö Davis Cup riots |
2016-02-28 |
|
4,184 |
348.7 |
... that
anti-fascists,
Islamists, and
neo-Nazis
rioted against
a tennis match?
|
Joseph Terry |
2016-02-18 |
|
4,158 |
346.5 |
... that in 1898
Sir Joseph Terry died of heart failure due to over-exertion while attempting to win a by-election in
York?
|
An East View of the Great Cataract of Niagara |
2016-02-21 |
|
4,064 |
338.7 |
... that
An East View of the Great Cataract of Niagara (1762) by British Army officer
Thomas Davies was the first eyewitness painting of
Niagara Falls?
|
Turkey Run (West Branch Susquehanna River)
|
2016-02-25
|
|
2,988
|
249.0
|
... that some reaches of
Turkey Run and
Oak Run were described as "moderately depressed" in the 1970s?
|
Oak Run (Wolf Run)
|
1,074
|
89.5
|
Total |
4,062 |
338.5
|
Alert (sternwheeler 1865) |
2016-02-10 |
|
4,028 |
335.7 |
... that in December 1869 an employee of the
Alert committed suicide by jumping overboard into the
Willamette River after being released from an
insane asylum?
|
Adriatic sturgeon |
2016-02-13 |
|
3,986 |
332.2 |
... that although it is possible that the
Adriatic sturgeon is extinct in the wild, a large specimen was caught in the
River Po in 2015?
|
Rohese Giffard |
2016-02-04 |
|
3,976 |
331.3 |
... that the eleventh-century
Norman noblewoman
Rohese Giffard is listed as a landowner in her own right in the
Domesday Book?
|
DNA walker |
2016-02-04 |
|
3,954 |
329.5 |
... that
DNA walkers have been used as
nanorobots to pick up and drop off molecular cargo?
|
State Shinto |
2016-02-15 |
|
3,929 |
327.4 |
... that during the period of state control known as
State Shinto, Japan lost 80,000 Shinto shrines?
|
Landing at Lae |
2016-02-27 |
|
3,858 |
321.5 |
... that the first waves of the
landing at Lae were carried in four
destroyer transports?
|
Sports Phone |
2016-02-14 |
|
3,848 |
320.7 |
... that
Sports Phone received 50 million calls in 1981?
|
White Privilege II |
2016-02-29 |
|
3,846
[e] |
320.5 |
... that
Macklemore's controversial critiques of
Iggy Azalea in
White Privilege II are actually criticisms of his own
white privilege?
|
Rebirth (sculpture) |
2016-02-16 |
|
3,844 |
320.4 |
... that the
proposed sculpture
Rebirth, projected as a deer with a human child's face, was meant to represent "the interaction between the nearby
riparian forest and the people living in
Oak Grove"?
|
Saving Mes Aynak |
2016-02-29 |
|
3,820 |
318.4 |
... that
the director of
Saving Mes Aynak presented Afghani leaders with a
petition signed by 100,000 people in support of the preservation of the
5,000-year-old archaeological site (excavations pictured)?
|
Hotel Bora Bora |
2016-02-08 |
|
3,810 |
317.5 |
... that the overwater
bungalows at
Hotel Bora Bora were the first on
that island, and set a precedent for future developers?
|
Louise Lincoln Kerr House and Studio |
2016-02-08 |
|
3,810 |
317.5 |
... that the floor tiles of the
Kerr Cultural Center were made with a now-rare mix of cement and white marble dust?
|
Zeng Junchen |
2016-02-27 |
|
3,769 |
314.1 |
... that
Zeng Junchen, one of 20th-century China's most successful
drug lords, started out selling
salt?
|
Green-legged Partridge |
2016-02-24 |
|
3,764 |
313.6 |
... that the
Green-legged Partridge of Poland is actually a chicken?
|
Mortonhall Crematorium |
2016-02-11 |
|
3,759 |
313.2 |
... that
Mortonhall Crematorium which opened in 1967 is a prominent example of
Expressionist architecture in
Edinburgh, designed by a team led by Sir
Basil Spence?
|
Fatima Massaquoi |
2016-02-21 |
|
3,690 |
307.5 |
... that the black
Liberian scholar and educator, Princess
Fatima Massaquoi, wrote of her challenging experiences in
Nazi Germany and the
U.S. South in a recently rediscovered
autobiography?
|
Sonia Humphrey |
2016-02-03 |
|
3,678 |
306.5 |
... that
Sonia Humphrey took the
ABC to the
Anti-Discrimination Board in 1984, after the broadcaster removed her from an on-air role, citing her pregnancy as a "visual overload" to viewers?
|
Mont Blanc massif |
2016-02-23 |
|
3,660 |
305.0 |
... that to hike round the
Mont Blanc massif in the
Alps is a 170-kilometre (110 mi) trip, usually taking 11 days, but top athletes run round the
Tour du Mont Blanc circuit in just 21 hours?
|
Philip Livingston Magnet Academy |
2016-02-29 |
|
3,647 |
303.9 |
... that in 1947, police stood by to ensure that
Paul Robeson did not make a speech while giving a concert at
Philip Livingston Junior High School (pictured) in
Albany, New York?
|
Production of Avengers: Infinity War |
2016-02-15 |
|
3,632
[f] |
302.7 |
... that for the
production of Avengers: Infinity War, the films will be the first to be shot entirely using
IMAX cameras and its exclusive
aspect ratio?
|
Ford Fry |
2016-02-09 |
|
3,611 |
300.9 |
... that
Ford Fry has been described as one of the most prolific chefs and restaurateurs in the United States?
|
Every family |
2016-02-05 |
|
3,536 |
294.6 |
... that the 17th-century English pirate
Henry Every is thought to be a descendant of the
Every family?
|
Annelie Nordström |
2016-02-19 |
|
3,530 |
294.0 |
... that
Annelie Nordström resigned as general secretary after
Swedish Municipal Workers' Union funds paid for a strip show by
Puma Swede?
|
Found and Lost (opera) |
2016-02-14 |
|
3,523 |
293.6 |
... that no more than twelve people at a time can ascertain what is
found and lost at a London hotel?
|
Star Trek/Planet of the Apes: The Primate Directive |
2016-02-21 |
|
3,520 |
293.4 |
... that unlike the
Marvel Comics adaptation of
Planet of the Apes,
IDW Publishing's
Star Trek/Planet of the Apes: The Primate Directive could use the likeness of
Charlton Heston?
|
Persoonia moscalii |
2016-02-02 |
|
3,480 |
290.0 |
... that the
creeping geebung of southwestern Tasmania generally grows to around a metre across but only 4-5 cm high?
|
MV Imperial Transport |
2016-02-05 |
|
3,415 |
284.6 |
... that when the
oil tanker
MV Imperial Transport broke in half after being
torpedoed in 1940, a new front section was built and mated to the surviving
stern?
|
Devon County War Memorial |
2016-02-03 |
|
3,403 |
283.6 |
... that the
Devon County War Memorial is
hewn from a single block of
granite quarried on
Dartmoor, the largest that its architect
Edwin Lutyens was able to acquire?
|
Minecraft mods |
2016-02-29 |
|
3,370 |
280.9 |
... that
mods are credited as one of the main reasons behind
Minecraft's success?
|
Diwata-1 |
2016-02-20 |
|
3,306 |
279.3 |
... that
Diwata-1 (pictured) is the Philippines' first satellite to be developed solely by
Filipinos?
|
Cowbell Hollow |
2016-02-17 |
|
3,350 |
279.2 |
... that
Cowbell Hollow's
drainage basin is only 0.26 square miles (0.67 km2)?
|
Banner Lane |
2016-02-24 |
|
3,329 |
277.4 |
... that
Banner Lane was the site of one of the largest Second World War
British shadow factories with over one million square feet of floorspace?
|
Cliff Lett |
2016-02-03 |
|
3,326 |
277.1 |
... that in 2001,
Cliff Lett broke the official land speed record for
radio-controlled cars, exceeding 100 miles per hour (160 km/h) for the first time?
|
Donnie Darko: The Director's Cut |
2016-02-27 |
|
3,304 |
275.4 |
... that after the release of
Donnie Darko: The Director's Cut, the
original film was described as being the first "
flop" to be given a director's cut?
|
Dalian Jinzhouwan International Airport |
2016-02-10 |
|
3,273 |
272.8 |
... that China's
Dalian Jinzhouwan International Airport, currently being built on 21 square kilometres (8.1 sq mi) of reclaimed land, is set to become the world's largest offshore airport?
|
Mells War Memorial |
2016-02-26 |
|
3,257 |
271.4 |
... that one son of a former prime minister unveiled
Mells War Memorial (pictured) while another is commemorated on it?
|
Federal Reserve Bank Building (Seattle) |
2016-02-16 |
|
3,244 |
270.3 |
... that the
Federal Reserve Bank Building (pictured) in downtown
Seattle,
Washington, is one of the earliest surviving works of architecture firm
NBBJ?
|
Ewa Gryziecka |
2016-02-12 |
|
3,236 |
269.7 |
... that Polish athlete
Ewa Gryziecka's
world record in women's javelin throw lasted for 35 minutes?
|
Maria Benedita Bormann |
2016-02-21 |
|
3,218 |
268.2 |
... that when
Maria Benedita Bormann was called a female
Émile Zola, it was not meant as a compliment?
|
Waterstart |
2016-02-03 |
|
3,214 |
267.8 |
... that in
windsurfing, performing a
waterstart (example pictured) in a light wind is considered to be an expert-level skill?
|
Nic Case |
2016-02-25 |
|
3,208 |
267.3 |
... that
Nic Case became the first driver to top 200 miles per hour (320 km/h) with a radio-controlled car in 2014?
|
Operation Desert Rat |
2016-02-06 |
|
3,186 |
265.5 |
... that
Desert Rat followed
Silver Buckle?
|
Kang Shi'en |
2016-02-16 |
|
3,135 |
261.2 |
... that
Vice Premier
Kang Shi'en, China's "energy czar", received an unprecedented demerit of the first grade after an oil rig accident that killed 72 people?
|
Velma Scantlebury |
2016-02-11 |
|
3,114 |
259.5 |
... that
Velma Scantlebury, the first
African American woman
transplant surgeon in the United States, estimates she has completed over 2,000
organ transplants?
|
Oran fatwa |
2016-02-18 |
|
3,083 |
256.9 |
... that shortly after the
forced conversions of
Muslims in
Castile,
a fatwa was issued which allowed outward practice of Christianity while secretly keeping the Islamic faith?
|
Civil War II |
2016-02-09 |
|
3,066
[g] |
255.5 |
... that a new
Marvel Comics character, with the power to predict future events, will be introduced in
Civil War II, the sequel to
Civil War?
|
André Sordet |
2016-02-16 |
|
3,042 |
253.5 |
... that the French General
André Sordet's cavalry corps covered close to 1,500 km (930 miles) in the first month of World War I?
|
Ruhollah Khomeini's letter to Mikhail Gorbachev |
2016-02-23 |
|
3,036 |
253.0 |
... that
Ruhollah Khomeini, in his
letter to Gorbachev, invited him to
monotheism and Islam and also predicted the dissolution of the
Soviet Bloc?
|
Adhai Din Ka Jhonpra |
2016-02-04 |
|
3,023 |
251.9 |
... that the
Adhai Din Ka Jhonpra (pictured) mosque in India was constructed on the remains of a
Sanskrit college?
|
Marianne Means |
2016-02-24 |
|
3,017 |
251.4 |
... that
Marianne Means was the first woman reporter to be assigned full-time coverage of the
White House?
|
Gloria Wekker |
2016-02-26 |
|
3,012 |
251.0 |
... that
Gloria Wekker has been called "Holland's
Angela Davis" for igniting debate on
cultural racism?
|
Mars, Bars |
2016-02-23 |
|
2,990 |
249.1 |
... that
Michael Muhney did not know about his character's death on
Veronica Mars until receiving the script for his final episode, "
Mars, Bars"?
|
Hancock Bridge, Mumbai |
2016-02-01 |
|
2,982 |
248.5 |
... that
Hancock Bridge in Mumbai, built in 1879 and rebuilt in 1923, was demolished in 2016 to be rebuilt again?
|
Thanjavur Art Plate |
2016-02-19 |
|
2,956 |
246.4 |
... that the
Thanjavur Art Plate (pictured), introduced by
Rajah Serfoji-II during the
Maratha rule, was made as a gift item by the artisans of
Thanjavur?
|
Operation Phiboonpol |
2016-02-07 |
|
2,944 |
245.4 |
... that
Operation Phiboonpol caused
vultures to become an
aviation hazard?
|
Undulatoolithus |
2016-02-23 |
|
2,898 |
241.5 |
... that
Undulatoolithus, a kind of
fossil egg from China, probably received intensive parental care?
|
Bromhead Memorial |
2016-02-01 |
|
2,896 |
241.4 |
... that the
Bromhead Memorial commemorates 307 ex-servicemen who died at the
Royal Star and Garter Home in
Richmond, London?
|
Olive Hoskins |
2016-02-10 |
|
2,844 |
237.0 |
... that
Olive Hoskins was the first woman promoted to
warrant officer in the United States Army?
|
Theatre Europe |
2016-02-12 |
|
2,843 |
236.9 |
... that the 1986 video game
Theatre Europe required the player to call a dedicated telephone number to request a nuclear strike?
|
Racking Horse World Celebration |
2016-02-19 |
|
2,832 |
235.9 |
... that the
Racking Horse World Celebration has been held annually in
Priceville, Alabama, for over 40 years?
|
Scottish Diaspora Tapestry |
2016-02-02 |
|
2,828 |
235.7 |
... that people in 34 countries
embroidered the 305 panels that form the 164 metre (538 ft)-long
Scottish Diaspora Tapestry?
|
Gulf Hamstery |
2016-02-02 |
|
2,800 |
233.4 |
... that
Gulf Hamstery established the commercial
Syrian hamster industry in the United States?
|
Ted Stanley |
2016-02-03 |
|
2,794 |
232.8 |
... that
Ted Stanley donated over $825 million to support work and research at the
Broad Institute?
|
Paul Rosche |
2016-02-15 |
|
2,778 |
231.5 |
... that
BMW engineer
Paul Rosche continued to design Formula One engines for them after the company withdrew from the tournament?
|
Stanley Booth-Clibborn |
2016-02-17 |
|
2,776 |
231.3 |
... that
Stanley Booth-Clibborn, a former
Bishop of Manchester, was shot during a robbery in Uganda?
|
Eden (2014 Spanish film) |
2016-02-22 |
|
2,760 |
230.0 |
... that
Nate Parker produced a
teaser in order to seek financing for
Eden?
|
Muga silk |
2016-02-21 |
|
2,758 |
229.8 |
... that
Assamese
muga silk (pictured) is naturally golden in colour?
|
Halloween cake |
2016-02-27 |
|
2,745 |
228.8 |
... that
Halloween cake themes (example pictured) include cakes that resemble
jack-o'-lanterns and the human brain, and cupcakes with bloody teeth emerging from them?
|
Peter Molydeux |
2016-02-12 |
|
2,739 |
228.2 |
... that
Peter Molydeux, a
Twitter account which parodies the audacious language of
Peter Molyneux's video game ideas, inspired Molyneux to leave
Microsoft and return to his
indie game development roots?
|
Romona Robinson |
2016-02-15 |
|
2,702 |
225.2 |
... that
Romona Robinson won a television news anchor job in
Cleveland, Ohio, with a demo tape that showed her remaining poised and self-confident while "being wiped out by a hurricane-whipped wave"?
|
Dave Howie |
2016-02-03 |
|
2,700 |
225.0 |
... that
Dave Howie played
rugby seven times for
Scotland, but his father refused to watch him play?
|
Mongalla gazelle |
2016-02-01 |
|
2,695 |
224.6 |
... that the
Mongalla gazelle has continued its extensive migration in
South Sudan despite three decades of civil war?
|
Reynelda Muse |
2016-02-20 |
|
2,651 |
224.0 |
... that shortly after becoming the first woman and first African American television news anchor in
Colorado,
Reynelda Muse began wearing an
Afro on the air to assert her identity?
|
Lionel Bussey |
2016-02-21 |
|
2,668 |
222.3 |
... that the mechanical engineer
Lionel Bussey had 600 pairs of women's shoes?
|
Aguas Calientes (volcano) |
2016-02-06 |
|
2,630 |
219.1 |
... that the crater lake of
Aguas Calientes has been researched as a possible terrestrial analogue to
Mars?
|
1905 International Tourist Trophy |
2016-02-18 |
|
2,618 |
218.2 |
... that at the
1905 International Tourist Trophy motor race, cars were towed to the start line by horses to save fuel?
|
Operation Xieng Dong |
2016-02-17 |
|
2,612 |
217.6 |
... that just before
Operation Xieng Dong, the
People's Army of Vietnam captured the
King's farm?
|
Wadamisaki Battery |
2016-02-22 |
|
2,582 |
215.2 |
... that the
Wadamisaki Battery was the first
national historic site registered in
Hyōgo Prefecture?
|
Abandon the Old in Tokyo |
2016-02-22 |
|
2,563 |
213.6 |
... that in
Abandon the Old in Tokyo,
Yoshihiro Tatsumi wanted to depict postwar Japan, where he felt that the focus on economic growth was given precedence over the lifestyles of its people?
|
Rose Piper |
2016-02-22 |
|
2,558 |
213.1 |
... that
Rose Piper's 1946 painting Back Water was inspired by
Bessie Smith's "Backwater Blues"?
|
No. 4 Elementary Flying Training School RAAF |
2016-02-12 |
|
2,556 |
213.0 |
... that when
No. 4 Elementary Flying Training School RAAF opened in 1940, facilities were so limited that cadets had to pay for their own accommodation at a nearby hotel?
|
Cornelia James (glovemaker) |
2016-02-15 |
|
2,545 |
212.1 |
... that
Queen Elizabeth II's glovemaker,
Cornelia James, was accepted by the
art college that rejected Adolf Hitler?
|
Krabi mouth-brooding betta |
2016-02-10 |
|
2,536 |
211.3 |
... that the male
Krabi mouth-brooding betta incubates the fertilized eggs in his mouth until they hatch?
|
Gwendoline Konie |
2016-02-20 |
|
2,520 |
211.3 |
... that 2001
Zambian presidential candidate
Gwendoline Konie (pictured) published a poem against male arrogance?
|
Spring Run (West Branch Susquehanna River) |
2016-02-11 |
|
2,526 |
210.5 |
... that an alternative name of
Spring Run is "The Gut"?
|
Yolanda Marculescu |
2016-02-04 |
|
2,521 |
210.1 |
... that
Yolanda Marculescu, prima donna of the
Romanian National Opera of Bucharest,
defected to the U.S. in 1968 and founded the International Festival of the
Art Song in Milwaukee, Wisconsin?
|
USA House |
2016-02-07 |
|
2,494 |
207.9 |
... that the
USA House was a US government program designed to help alleviate the
homeless problem in the UK?
|
Daniel Robert Alexander |
2016-02-25 |
|
2,482 |
206.8 |
... that African-American
Daniel Robert Alexander was described as a favorite of Ethiopian emperor
Menelik II and blacksmith to
Haile Selassie?
|
C. C. Beall |
2016-02-23 |
|
2,475 |
206.2 |
... that
C. C. Beall's 1945 Treasury poster (pictured) of
Joe Rosenthal's photograph of the raising of the American flag on
Iwo Jima was used for a World War II campaign which brought in $26 billion?
|
Kandia Crazy Horse |
2016-02-09 |
|
2,465 |
205.4 |
... that
Kandia Crazy Horse taught the course "
Roll Over Beethoven: Black Rock and Cultural Revolt" at
Princeton University?
|
Love You Baba |
2016-02-03 |
|
2,450 |
204.2 |
... that
Guinness World Records named Saugat Bista, the seven-year-old director of
Love You Baba, the "youngest director of a professionally made feature length film"?
|
2015 Singapore Grand Prix |
2016-02-24 |
|
2,421 |
201.8 |
... that the
2015 Singapore Grand Prix was won by
Sebastian Vettel even though he lost his bottle?
|
Kızılada Feneri |
2016-02-07 |
|
2,415 |
201.2 |
... that the keeper of the
Kızılada Lighthouse rushed by boat to help the survivors of an
Air France airliner that made an emergency
water landing off the coast of
Fethiye, Turkey in 1953?
|
Monk seal |
2016-02-13 |
|
2,414 |
201.1 |
... that
monk seals (example pictured) are the only
earless seals that live in
tropical climates?
|
Wang Baosen |
2016-02-22 |
|
2,410 |
200.9 |
... that
Wang Baosen, vice mayor of
Beijing, committed suicide while under investigation for corruption?
|
State road D915 (Turkey) |
2016-02-28 |
|
2,400 |
200.0 |
... that the
Of–Bayburt road in northeastern Turkey is considered one of the most dangerous routes, with over 20 steep
hairpin turns?
|
Ewa Bandrowska-Turska |
2016-02-10 |
|
2,395 |
199.6 |
... that in 1939, a trans-Atlantic radio broadcast featured
coloratura soprano
Ewa Bandrowska-Turska (pictured) singing four songs by
Karol Szymanowski from the
Royal Castle in Kraków for the US audience?
|
Ralph fitzStephen |
2016-02-02 |
|
2,385 |
198.8 |
... that
Ralph fitzStephen, an 12th-century English nobleman, was responsible for the maintenance of Queen
Eleanor of Aquitaine while she was imprisoned by her husband King
Henry II of England?
|
Papa's Cabin |
2016-02-09 |
|
2,378 |
198.1 |
... that one scene in the
Veronica Mars episode "
Papa's Cabin" contains a
blue screen that was used as a
tarpaulin due to budgetary concerns?
|
Mysore Sandalwood Oil |
2016-02-20 |
|
2,342 |
197.9 |
... that
sandalwood oil is so important to the economy of
Mysore, India, that it has been registered and trademarked?
|
Kaushiki Chakraborty |
2016-02-12 |
|
2,368 |
197.4 |
... that
Kaushiki Chakraborty (pictured) sings
khayals and
thumris, which in
Hindustani music are considered semi-classical or light classical?
|
Al-Shaykh Al-Mufid |
2016-02-09 |
|
2,364 |
197.0 |
... that
Al-Shaykh Al-Mufid, a 10th-century
Shia jurist and theologian, was said to be so persuasive in debate that he could convince his opponents "that a wooden column was actually gold"?
|
Makrana marble |
2016-02-29 |
|
2,353 |
196.1 |
... that
Makrana marble was used in the construction of the
Taj Mahal and the
Victoria Memorial?
|
Mountain nyala |
2016-02-14 |
File:10 Ethiopian cents (observe).jpg |
2,346 |
195.5 |
... that the
mountain nyala, featured on the obverse of the
Ethiopian ten santim coin (pictured), was the last species of large antelope to be discovered in Africa?
|
Chutixtiox |
2016-02-03 |
|
2,344 |
195.4 |
... that two life-size
stucco
jaguars were excavated at the
pre-Columbian
Maya city of
Chutixtiox in Guatemala?
|
Betty Sain |
2016-02-27 |
|
2,324 |
193.7 |
... that when a reporter told horse breeder
Betty Sain that there were no
coyotes in
Tennessee, she presented him with a dead one?
|
G2A |
2016-02-05 |
|
2,316 |
193.0 |
... that
Riot Games banned
G2A from sponsoring teams during the
2015 League of Legends World Championship?
|
Evelyn Boscawen, 6th Viscount Falmouth |
2016-02-14 |
|
2,308 |
192.3 |
... that
Evelyn Boscawen, 6th Viscount Falmouth, was also known as Mr Valentine?
|
Joaquín Clausell |
2016-02-10 |
|
2,306 |
192.2 |
... that the work of
Joaquín Clausell stands out among Mexican
landscape artists because it is in the
impressionist style (example pictured)?
|
Vera Songwe |
2016-02-29 |
|
2,296 |
191.4 |
... that in 2013,
Forbes listed
Vera Songwe as one of the "20 Young Power Women in Africa"?
|
Spalding War Memorial |
2016-02-20 |
|
2,260 |
190.9 |
... that
Barbara McLaren conceived the
Spalding War Memorial after
her husband was killed in the First World War, but insisted he receive no special commemoration on it?
|
Minuetta Kessler |
2016-02-01 |
|
2,290 |
190.9 |
... that
Minuetta Kessler, a classical composer and concert pianist who wrote and performed her first piece at age five, created a game to teach
musical composition to young children?
|
Ezubao |
2016-02-27 |
|
2,270 |
189.2 |
... that
Ezubao attracted 50 billion yuan ($7.6 billion) from 900,000 Chinese investors before it was closed down as a
Ponzi scheme?
|
Thomas Duarte |
2016-02-08 |
|
2,224 |
185.3 |
... that
American football player
Thomas Duarte was one of the rare high-profile college recruits to be of Asian descent?
|
Moghra Oasis
|
2016-02-25
|
|
1,012
|
84.4
|
... that the salt-tolerant plants
Zygophyllum album,
Nitraria retusa, and
Tamarix nilotica dominate different vegetation zones at the
Moghra Oasis in Egypt?
|
Zygophyllum album
|
458
|
38.2
|
Nitraria retusa
|
377
|
31.4
|
Tamarix nilotica
|
374
|
31.2
|
Total |
2,222 |
185.2
|
Gyaclavator |
2016-02-01 |
|
2,218 |
184.8 |
... that the extinct lace bug
Gyaclavator (pictured) is named for its enlarged antennae?
|
Hasaan Ibn Ali |
2016-02-02 |
|
2,213 |
184.4 |
... that jazz pianist
Hasaan Ibn Ali remained an obscure figure until his only released recording,
The Max Roach Trio Featuring the Legendary Hasaan, after which he again returned to obscurity?
|
Corruption in Haiti |
2016-02-20 |
|
2,165 |
181.6 |
... that nearly $26 million of funds for a $42.5 million Haitian education program
went missing after being raised partly from taxes on international phone calls?
|
Philip of Oldcoates |
2016-02-01 |
|
2,170 |
180.8 |
... that the 12th century English nobleman
Philip of Oldcoates was called one of
King John of England's "evil counsellors" by the chronicler
Roger of Wendover?
|
Six Gentlemen (painting) |
2016-02-27 |
|
2,140 |
178.3 |
... that
Six Gentlemen (pictured) by
Ni Zan is thought to represent the isolation of scholar-recluses in
Yuan dynasty China?
|
St Symphorien Military Cemetery |
2016-02-06 |
|
2,138 |
178.1 |
... that the men believed to be the first and last
Commonwealth soldiers killed in action during the
First World War are buried in
St Symphorien Military Cemetery?
|
Een Bloemhof |
2016-02-12 |
|
2,127 |
177.2 |
... that authorities in 17th-century Amsterdam ordered the confiscation and burning of
Adriaan Koerbagh's
Een Bloemhof because of its heretical opinions?
|
Hugh of Chalcombe |
2016-02-10 |
|
2,123 |
176.9 |
... that the 12th-century nobleman
Hugh of Chalcombe faced arrest for failing to answer a charge of wrongful possession of
cattle?
|
Kaep |
2016-02-07 |
|
2,101 |
175.1 |
... that the
kaep is a traditional type of
proa sailboat native to
Palau that can be sailed forward or backward?
|
Chestnut cake |
2016-02-29 |
|
2,099 |
174.9 |
... that
chestnut cake may be prepared using flour from ground chestnuts?
|
Stone Hall, Nashville |
2016-02-11 |
|
2,096 |
174.6 |
... that the
Stone Hall in Nashville was once a private house of the Cantrell family but is now listed on the
National Register of Historic Places?
|
Ren Jianxin (businessman) |
2016-02-25 |
|
2,090 |
174.2 |
... that entrepreneur
Ren Jianxin, founder of the world's 265th largest company, began with a loan of
RMB 10,000?
|
Josh Gottheimer |
2016-02-02 |
|
2,060 |
171.7 |
... that
Josh Gottheimer became a
speechwriter for U.S. President
Bill Clinton at the age of 23?
|
Lynne Kelly (science writer) |
2016-02-17 |
|
2,050 |
170.8 |
... that according to
Lynne Kelly's theory,
Stonehenge was used as a centre for recording and accessing knowledge?
|
Bangalore Blue |
2016-02-22 |
|
2,044 |
170.4 |
... that the
Bangalore Blue variety of
grape has been grown for the past 150 years exclusively in the districts of
Bangalore Urban,
Chikkaballapura and
Kolar?
|
Siege of Syracuse (877–878) |
2016-02-26 |
|
2,037 |
169.8 |
... that during the
Siege of Syracuse by the
Aghlabids in 877–878, the
Byzantine navy failed to aid the city on time, as it was employed in the construction of the
Nea Ekklesia church?
|
6 Ballygunge Place |
2016-02-11 |
|
2,024 |
168.7 |
... that
6 Ballygunge Place, a restaurant chain in
Kolkata, has a
haath-pakha (hand fans) decor that conveys the elegance of a decorated
Durga Puja hall or a setting for a
period film?
|
Thomas J. Latham |
2016-02-09 |
|
2,013 |
167.8 |
... that
Thomas J. Latham, a
Memphis judge and businessman after the
American Civil War, was a millionaire?
|
Whakamana Cannabis Museum |
2016-02-26 |
|
2,002 |
166.8 |
... that the
Whakamana Cannabis Museum, New Zealand's first museum dedicated to
cannabis culture, opened in
Caversham,
Dunedin, in 2013?
|
Phaethon (patrol boat) |
2016-02-24 |
|
1,983 |
165.2 |
... that the losses sustained by the crew of patrol boat
Phaethon, during the
battle of Tillyria in 1964, were the first battle casualties of the
Hellenic Navy after World War II?
|
Persoonia laxa |
2016-02-03 |
|
1,982 |
165.1 |
... that the shrub
Persoonia laxa was found in Sydney but is now presumed extinct?
|
Tina Allen |
2016-02-15 |
|
1,963 |
163.6 |
... that
Tina Allen's sculpture of
Frederick Douglass is featured in the movie
Akeelah and the Bee?
|
Strikefleet Omega |
2016-02-09 |
|
1,962 |
163.5 |
... that mobile game
Strikefleet Omega is a hybrid of the
tower defense and
real-time strategy genres?
|
Masa Fukuda
|
2016-02-15
|
|
1,473
|
122.8
|
... that
Meridian School alumnus
Masa Fukuda, the founder of
One Voice Children's Choir, writes and arranges music from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. in his basement studio, sleeping only three or four hours a day?
|
Meridian School (Utah)
|
460
|
38.3
|
Total |
1,933 |
161.1
|
Glik v. Cunniffe |
2016-02-12 |
|
1,931 |
160.9 |
... that in
Glik v. Cunniffe, the
First Circuit noted that "we have previously recognized that the videotaping of public officials is an exercise of First Amendment liberties"?
|
Zhou Youde |
2016-02-17 |
|
1,900 |
158.3 |
... that
Zhou Youde became a local deity after helping to end the
Great Evacuation?
|
MUSE School |
2016-02-05 |
|
1,878 |
156.5 |
... that the
MUSE School in
Calabasas, California, has been described as the first
vegan
K-12 school in the U.S.?
|
Randy W. Berry |
2016-02-20 |
|
1,832 |
153.7 |
... that
Randy W. Berry, who grew up on a cattle ranch in
Colorado, is the first-ever Special Envoy for the Human Rights of LGBTI Persons in the
US Department of State?
|
Echinopsis spachiana |
2016-02-24 |
|
1,842 |
153.5 |
... that the flower of the cactus
Echinopsis spachiana (pictured) mainly opens at night?
|
Soup the Chemist |
2016-02-28 |
|
1,837 |
153.1 |
... that
Soup the Chemist has been called the "Godfather of
Christian hip hop"?
|
Cafe Barbera |
2016-02-05 |
|
1,834 |
152.8 |
... that the first
Cafe Barbera
coffeehouse was established in 1870 in Southern Italy?
|
Spiro Crne |
2016-02-11 |
|
1,810 |
150.8 |
... that rebel leader
Spiro Crne was forced to leave Serbia after Ottoman diplomatic intervention?
|
Edwina Hume Fallis |
2016-02-26 |
|
1,808 |
150.7 |
... that in her colorful memoir When Denver and I Were Young,
Edwina Hume Fallis warned against trying on another child's hat, because "you might bring home something you didn't like"?
|
Marie Kraja
|
2016-02-01
|
|
975
|
81.2
|
... that
Marie Kraja and
Lola Gjoka performed more than 300 songs together that recorded Albanian culture?
|
Lola Gjoka
|
831
|
69.2
|
Total |
1,806 |
150.5
|
List of songs recorded by Little Mix |
2016-02-12 |
|
1,784 |
148.7 |
... that one of
the songs recorded by Little Mix, "A.D.I.D.A.S.", is an
acronym for "All Day I Dream About Sex"?
|
Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare |
2016-02-24 |
|
1,781 |
148.4 |
... that the American policy analyst
Gareth Porter, argues in his
Manufactured Crisis that allegations of Iran's attempts to build nuclear weapons have been fabricated by Israel and the United States?
|
Ricky Collins |
2016-02-19 |
|
1,742 |
145.2 |
... that
Ricky Collins temporarily walked away from
American football to care for his ill father?
|
Tartan Laboratories |
2016-02-10 |
|
1,731 |
144.2 |
... that software startup company
Tartan Laboratories was considered an example of
Pittsburgh's attempt in the 1980s to shift from an industrial-based economy to high technology?
|
Makarkinia |
2016-02-07 |
|
1,731 |
144.2 |
... that the 140–160 mm (5.5–6.3 in) long wings of
Makarkinia are the longest of any
lacewing?
|
Dead & Company Summer Tour 2016 |
2016-02-26 |
|
1,730 |
144.2 |
... that the upcoming
Dead & Company 2016 Summer Tour will be the first shows played at
Fenway Park by members of the
Grateful Dead?
|
Makoto Hirayama |
2016-02-20 |
|
1,700 |
143.7 |
... that
Makoto Hirayama was elected to Japan's
House of Councillors despite getting less than 0.02% of the vote?
|
Theeb |
2016-02-01 |
|
1,703 |
141.9 |
... that
Theeb is Jordan's first nomination ever to the
Academy Awards?
|
White Deer Creek |
2016-02-27 |
|
1,702 |
141.8 |
... that a boring mill at the mouth of
White Deer Creek in 1776 made gun barrels for the
Continental Army?
|
Gloria Tanner |
2016-02-05 |
|
1,696 |
141.3 |
... that in 1994
Gloria Tanner became the first
African-American woman state senator in
Colorado history?
|
Bartlett and Robertson |
2016-02-14 |
|
1,680 |
140.0 |
... that the husband-and-wife
piano duo of
Bartlett and Robertson were said to play like "four hands at a double keyboard controlled by a single mind"?
|
Dictyoolithidae |
2016-02-17 |
|
1,627 |
135.6 |
... that
fossil eggs assigned to
Dictyoolithidae may have been laid by
megalosauroid dinosaurs?
|
For What It's Worth (game show) |
2016-02-04 |
|
1,603 |
133.6 |
... that although
For What It's Worth was originally meant to have a different expert each week, the episodes were broadcast such that there was a different expert allocated to each weekday?
|
Sybil Joyce Hylton |
2016-02-19 |
|
1,599 |
133.2 |
... that the "Mother of the Probation" system,
Sybil Joyce Hylton, is a National Hero of the
Cayman Islands?
|
List of accolades received by Selma (film) |
2016-02-13 |
|
1,587 |
132.2 |
... that for her work on the 2014 historical drama
Selma,
Ava DuVernay (pictured) became the first black woman to receive a nomination for the
Golden Globe Award for Best Director?
|
Amritabindu Upanishad |
2016-02-12 |
|
1,577 |
131.4 |
... that the
Hindu text
Amritabindu Upanishad, composed before 300 CE, condemns "bookish learning" and emphasizes the practice of a six-limbed
Yoga?
|
Baudouin de Sebourc |
2016-02-02 |
|
1,576 |
131.3 |
... that the hero of the 14th-century
Old French poem
Baudouin de Sebourc has 31 children who help him fight for the King of Jerusalem?
|
Philip de Thaun |
2016-02-23 |
|
1,556 |
129.7 |
... that the Bestiaire by
Philip de Thaun is one of two medieval English sources for the story behind the phrase "
crocodile tears"?
|
Kundika Upanishad |
2016-02-04 |
|
1,550 |
129.2 |
... that the ancient
Sanskrit text
Kundika Upanishad states a man should visit sacred places in his retirement, and take his wife with him?
|
St. Paul's Church, Rusthall |
2016-02-05 |
|
1,550 |
129.1 |
... that
St. Paul's Church, Rusthall, has been viewed as a symbol of the wealth of
Tunbridge Wells due to the churchyard being "chockablock with expensive tombstones and memorials"?
|
Polyclonoolithus |
2016-02-01 |
|
1,544 |
128.7 |
... that
Polyclonoolithus is one of the only
dinosaur eggs known from the
Hekou Group in
Gansu?
|
God Is Working His Purpose Out |
2016-02-04 |
|
1,544 |
128.6 |
... that "
God Is Working His Purpose Out" was written as a tribute to the
Archbishop of Canterbury?
|
Ahmad al-Wansharisi |
2016-02-19 |
|
1,544 |
128.6 |
... that at the end of the
reconquista, Islamic jurist
Ahmad al-Wansharisi argued that it was compulsory for
Spanish Muslims under Christian rule to emigrate to Muslim lands?
|
Zaila McCalla |
2016-02-25 |
|
1,538 |
128.2 |
... that
Zaila McCalla, first female
Chief Justice of Jamaica, is also the
Chancellor of the
Diocese of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands?
|
Osier Pattern |
2016-02-08 |
|
1,535 |
127.9 |
... that
Meissen porcelain developed three
osier patterns of relief decoration for plates in the 18th century?
|
Glade Run |
2016-02-26 |
|
1,532 |
127.7 |
... that the parents of the first white child born in
Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, settled on
Glade Run?
|
Sinotaia aeruginosa
|
2016-02-29
|
|
870
|
72.5
|
... that the freshwater snails
Sinotaia aeruginosa and
Cipangopaludina cathayensis are used in Chinese cuisine?
|
Cipangopaludina cathayensis
|
648
|
54.0
|
Total |
1,518 |
126.5
|
Billie Maxwell |
2016-02-08 |
|
1,512 |
126.0 |
... that
Billie Maxwell was the first woman recorded in
country music, and the first recorded musician from
Arizona?
|
Kerala |
2016-02-25 |
|
1,508
[h] |
125.7 |
... that the Indian state of
Kerala celebrates over 10,000 festivals annually?
|
St Peter's Church, Aberdeen |
2016-02-10 |
|
1,490 |
124.2 |
... that the first post-Reformation Catholic Church in
Aberdeen,
St Peter's Church, closed in 1860 when
the cathedral was built, but was re-opened 20 years later?
|
Penney de Jager |
2016-02-06 |
|
1,488 |
124.0 |
... that the 1970s dancer/choreographer
Penney de Jager was
knighted for promoting dance among the elderly?
|
Brenda Andrews |
2016-02-04 |
|
1,480 |
123.4 |
... that
Brenda Andrews co-led a team of scientists to create the first fully detailed cell protein map?
|
Monarchies in Africa |
2016-02-05 |
|
1,478 |
123.2 |
... that
Lesotho is a
monarchy in Africa presently ruled by
King Letsie III?
|
Florida Ruffin Ridley |
2016-02-19 |
|
1,478 |
123.1 |
... that
Florida Ruffin Ridley co-founded the Society for the Collection of Negro Folklore?
|
Mahama Cho |
2016-02-13 |
|
1,464 |
122.0 |
... that although he was born in the Ivory Coast,
Mahama Cho has represented both Great Britain and France at
taekwondo competitions?
|
Claire Giannini Hoffman |
2016-02-01 |
|
1,462 |
121.8 |
... that
Claire Giannini Hoffman was the first woman to serve on the boards of
Bank of America and
Sears, Roebuck & Company?
|
Triprismatoolithus |
2016-02-25 |
|
1,454 |
121.1 |
... that
Triprismatoolithus is a kind of
fossil egg that was probably laid by an unknown species of
alvarezsaurian dinosaur?
|
1957 Fethiye earthquakes |
2016-02-17 |
|
1,450 |
120.9 |
... that
two earthquakes, both exceeding 7.0 on the
moment magnitude scale, hit
Fethiye, Turkey, within seven hours in 1957?
|
Rare (company) |
2016-02-23 |
|
1,450 |
120.8 |
... that
Rare celebrated its 30th anniversary by releasing
Rare Replay, a title compiling 30 video games which it created?
|
Carrie A. Tuggle |
2016-02-25 |
|
1,438 |
119.9 |
... that
Carrie A. Tuggle established the Tuggle Institute, in
Birmingham, Alabama, a boarding school to give free education for black children who were destitute orphans or juvenile defendants?
|
Dirk Martens |
2016-02-08 |
|
1,426 |
118.8 |
... that
Dirk Martens published the first edition of
Thomas More's
Utopia in 1516?
|
Psychic Blues: Confessions of a Conflicted Medium |
2016-02-11 |
|
1,412 |
117.6 |
... that
The New York Times described the book
Psychic Blues as "a compelling look at the disputed territory where entertainment meets religion"?
|
Thomas Gilovich |
2016-02-18 |
|
1,404 |
117.0 |
... that
Thomas Gilovich tested his hypothesis of the
spotlight effect by using
Barry Manilow T-shirts?
|
James Murray (physician) |
2016-02-07 |
|
1,402 |
116.9 |
... that the Irish doctor
James Murray, who discovered what would become
milk of magnesia, is an ancestor of the actor
Michael Hordern?
|
1934 Muroto typhoon |
2016-02-17 |
|
1,391 |
115.9 |
... that during the
1934 Muroto typhoon, a then-world record low land-based
pressure of 911.9
hPa (26.93
inHg) was observed in
Muroto, Japan?
|
William Grant, Lord Grant |
2016-02-15 |
|
1,380 |
115.0 |
... that in 1955, two girls fainted at an election rally in
Glasgow for
Unionist candidate
William Grant?
|
Ilse Gramatzki |
2016-02-09 |
|
1,379 |
114.9 |
... that
Ilse Gramatzki appeared as a
Rhinemaiden in the
Jahrhundertring at the
Bayreuth Festival, and in Zimmermann's
Die Soldaten in
Frankfurt and
Brussels?
|
Ana Irma Rivera Lassén |
2016-02-29 |
|
1,374 |
114.5 |
... that
Ana Irma Rivera Lassén, who would later become president of the
Bar Association of Puerto Rico, sued a judge in the 1980s so she could appear in court dressed in
pants?
|
Tyler Austin |
2016-02-05 |
|
1,372 |
114.4 |
... that
Tyler Austin overcame a
testicular cancer diagnosis at age 17 to become a
professional baseball player?
|
Sarah Howe |
2016-02-02 |
|
1,368 |
114.0 |
... that the poet
Sarah Howe won the 2015
T. S. Eliot Prize for Loop of Jade, the first time a debut collection has won the award?
|
Henry Adams Thompson |
2016-02-13 |
|
1,364 |
113.7 |
... that math professor
Henry Adams Thompson ran for office several times, including for
Vice President of the United States in
1880, but never won?
|
Sylvia Hallett |
2016-02-13 |
|
1,364 |
113.7 |
... that the composer and improviser
Sylvia Hallett bows both the violin and a spinning bicycle wheel?
|
Mami Kawada |
2016-02-13 |
|
1,360 |
113.3 |
... that
Mami Kawada's music career began after she was discovered by her music teacher?
|
Sivion |
2016-02-23 |
|
1,358 |
113.2 |
... that
Sivion's stage name is a misspelling of his old one, "Vision"?
|
Yogatattva Upanishad |
2016-02-01 |
|
1,352 |
112.7 |
... that the
Hindu text
Yogatattva Upanishad states in
yoga, that of the ten restraints,
moderate food is most important, and of the ten observances,
non-violence is most important?
|
Zvezdelina Stankova |
2016-02-25 |
|
1,344 |
112.0 |
... that
Zvezdelina Stankova brought ideas from her Bulgarian mathematical education to California by founding the Berkeley
Math Circle?
|
Bud Dunn |
2016-02-24 |
|
1,341 |
111.8 |
... that at 81, horse trainer
Bud Dunn became the oldest rider ever to win the
Tennessee Walking Horse
World Grand Championship?
|
Iarla Ó Lionáird |
2016-02-28 |
|
1,336 |
111.3 |
... that
Iarla Ó Lionáird sang "Casadh an tSúgáin" in
Brooklyn?
|
James Maxie Ponder |
2016-02-28 |
|
1,333 |
111.1 |
... that
James Maxie Ponder,
St. Petersburg, Florida's first African-American physician, began a medical practice out of his home and accepted payment in poultry, vegetables, and ham?
|
Williston School |
2016-02-06 |
|
1,332 |
111.0 |
... that
Martin Luther King, Jr. was originally scheduled to speak at
Williston High School on the day that he was assassinated?
|
Dodo Marmarosa |
2016-02-16 |
|
1,330 |
110.8 |
... that jazz pianist and composer
Dodo Marmarosa once got mad at his old piano and chopped it up with an ax?
|
Johannes Bah Kuhnke |
2016-02-13 |
|
1,328 |
110.6 |
... that actor
Johannes Bah Kuhnke is married to the Swedish Minister of Culture,
Alice Bah Kuhnke?
|
Little Pine (restaurant) |
2016-02-13 |
|
1,324 |
110.3 |
... that
Little Pine is a
vegan restaurant founded by American singer–songwriter
Moby that donates all of its profits to
animal welfare organizations?
|
Rahul Thakkar |
2016-02-26 |
|
1,318 |
109.8 |
... that
Rahul Thakkar, an
Indian-American software developer, jointly won the 2016
Academy Award for scientific and technical achievement?
|
Salem Shore |
2016-02-05 |
|
1,307 |
108.9 |
... that
Martha Graham's solo dance
Salem Shore depicts a sea-wife "mad with grief"?
|
Ruby M. Rouss |
2016-02-23 |
|
1,303 |
108.6 |
... that
Crucian
Ruby M. Rouss served in the
Women's Army Corps before becoming the "first black woman to head a Legislature in the United States"?
|
Dictyoolithus |
2016-02-26 |
|
1,294 |
107.8 |
... that the shell of the
fossil egg
Dictyoolithus is made up of five superimposed layers of eggshell units?
|
Nizar Zakka |
2016-02-28 |
|
1,287 |
107.2 |
... that Lebanese
IT expert and
U.S. permanent resident
Nizar Zakka, detained in Iran since September 18, 2015, has been accused of being an American spy?
|
Timaeus of Locri |
2016-02-01 |
|
1,269 |
105.8 |
... that
Plato was once thought to have plagiarized a book by
Timaeus of Locri?
|
Black Metropolis |
2016-02-29 |
|
1,268 |
105.6 |
... that
Black Metropolis, a foundational American sociology text by
St. Clair Drake and
Horace R. Cayton, Jr., resulted from the work of as many as 200 researchers, typists, and copyists?
|
Ainsi parla Zarathoustra (Boulez) |
2016-02-05 |
|
1,266 |
105.5 |
... that
Pierre Boulez (pictured) composed incidental music to
Barrault's
Ainsi parla Zarathoustra after
Nietzsche in 1974, many years after he was the music director for his theater?
|
Baldwin (abbot) |
2016-02-14 |
|
1,259 |
104.9 |
... that
Baldwin, the 11th-century
abbot of Bury St Edmunds Abbey in England, was royal doctor to three kings?
|
Mary Shotwell Ingraham |
2016-02-07 |
|
1,245 |
103.8 |
... that
Mary Ingraham was the first woman to receive the United States
Medal for Merit award?
|
Sankheda furniture |
2016-02-21 |
|
1,232 |
102.7 |
... that
Gujarat's
Sankheda furniture is named after the
Sankheda village, where it is made with teak wood and lacquer and painted in traditional bright shades of maroon and gold?
|
Carina Jaarnek |
2016-02-13 |
|
1,216 |
101.3 |
... that Swedish singer
Towe Jaarnek is the sister of fellow singer
Carina Jaarnek?
|
Anton Lundqvist |
2016-02-05 |
|
1,192 |
99.4 |
... that actor
Anton Lundqvist played the part of "Oscar" opposite his real-life mother,
Maria Lundqvist in the film
En underbar jävla jul?
|
Nirvana Upanishad |
2016-02-16 |
|
1,183 |
98.6 |
... that the ancient text
Nirvana Upanishad is written in
Sutra-style and states that a solitary place is a monastery of bliss for a
Hindu monk?
|
Thomas Thomas (architect) |
2016-02-26 |
|
1,174 |
97.8 |
... that the
Welsh architect
Thomas Thomas made sure he preached one of the very first sermons in every chapel he built?
|
Silvina Fabars |
2016-02-14 |
|
1,173 |
97.8 |
... that
Silvina Fabars, who won the National Dance Prize of Cuba in 2014, was once a rebel fighter under
Fidel Castro in the
Cuban Revolution?
|
Polycyathus muellerae |
2016-02-09 |
|
1,160 |
96.7 |
... that the coral
Polycyathus muellerae is part of an assemblage of organisms that grow in caves?
|
Basanti Devi |
2016-02-07 |
|
1,156 |
96.3 |
... that the arrest of
Basanti Devi during the
non-cooperation movement in 1921 proved to be a major impetus for widespread agitation?
|
El Protector (2016) |
2016-02-25 |
|
1,155 |
96.2 |
... that professional wrestler Atomic Star became the only rookie to compete in three
El Protector tournaments when he won the
2016 El Protector?
|
Arthrocnemum macrostachyum
|
2016-02-28
|
|
582
|
48.5
|
... that the activity of
crabs helped
glasswort,
Arthrocnemum macrostachyum and
Halocnemum strobilaceum (pictured) to recolonise oil-polluted marshland?
|
Halocnemum strobilaceum
|
541
|
45.1
|
Total |
1,124 |
93.6
|
Ji Chaoding |
2016-02-09 |
|
1,122 |
93.5 |
... that Chinese economist
Ji Chaoding, while in the United States in 1926, secretly joined the
Communist Party of China?
|
William James Cullen, Lord Cullen |
2016-02-06 |
|
1,108 |
92.3 |
... that the early 20th-century Scottish judge
Lord Cullen disliked public speaking?
|
Nyāya Sūtras |
2016-02-11 |
|
1,106 |
92.2 |
... that the ancient
Nyāya Sūtras text of
Hindu philosophy is a discourse on knowledge and logic which was studied by scholars of
Buddhism in the 2nd century CE?
|
Margaret Benyon |
2016-02-27 |
|
1,102 |
91.9 |
... that
Margaret Benyon has been called "the mother of British
holography"?
|
Southern Beekeeper's Nature Reserve |
2016-02-26 |
|
1,084 |
90.4 |
... that
Southern Beekeeper's Nature Reserve had no official name when it was
gazetted in 1979, but had been used for
beekeeping for generations?
|
Social Encounter Party |
2016-02-18 |
|
1,078 |
89.9 |
... that despite being described by its leader as "liberal", the
Social Encounter Party supported a constitutional amendment in
Baja California to ban same-sex marriage?
|
Dick Pudan |
2016-02-22 |
|
1,072 |
89.4 |
... that the
association footballer
Dick Pudan was banned from the sport in 1907 after he walked out on his club, which had refused to let him play professional cricket too?
|
Norma Cox Astwood |
2016-02-24 |
|
1,068 |
89.0 |
... that
Norma Cox Astwood, a
clinical psychologist, became Vice President of the
Senate of Bermuda?
|
David Brand, Lord Brand |
2016-02-05 |
|
1,062 |
88.5 |
... that in 1994 the Scottish retired judge
Lord Brand became an appeals court judge in Botswana?
|
Peterhouse partbooks
|
2016-02-29
|
|
734
|
61.2
|
... that the
Peterhouse partbooks and
Forrest-Heyther partbooks both contain music by the English composer
Robert Fayrfax?
|
Forrest-Heyther partbooks
|
318
|
26.5
|
Total |
1,052 |
87.7
|
Shandilya Upanishad |
2016-02-15 |
|
1,045 |
87.1 |
... that the pre-3rd century CE
Shandilya Upanishad text describes eight postures of
Yoga to cleanse the body and two types of meditation?
|
Kala Alexander |
2016-02-27 |
|
1,044 |
87.0 |
... that professional surfer
Kala Alexander is vice president of an organization that gives children with
cystic fibrosis surfing lessons?
|
Jovan Radomir |
2016-02-18 |
|
1,044 |
87.0 |
... that Swedish television presenter
Jovan Radomir wrote the English translation of the
Marija Šerifović song "
Molitva", which went on to win the
Eurovision Song Contest 2007?
|
Middle Khmer |
2016-02-11 |
|
1,030 |
85.8 |
... that the decline of
Angkor marked the beginning of the
Middle Khmer period, during which the language's number of vowels was doubled in a few centuries?
|
Terreña |
2016-02-06 |
|
1,028 |
85.7 |
... that
oxen of the
Terreña breed of cattle from the
Basque Country in northern Spain were used in the traditional
Basque rural sport of
idi probak, or stone-pulling?
|
Jan Theobald Held |
2016-02-08 |
|
1,028 |
85.6 |
... that physician
Jan Theobald Held published a set of
folk songs under the pseudonym Jan Orebský?
|
Ella Orr Campbell |
2016-02-18 |
|
1,022 |
85.2 |
... that while everyone else thought the
field horsetail growing on
nursery land in
Palmerston North was ornamental, Dame
Ella Orr Campbell correctly identified it as an invasive species?
|
Dansk Datamatik Center |
2016-02-05 |
|
1,020 |
85.0 |
... that the
Ada language
compiler that
Dansk Datamatik Center developed in the early 1980s has been termed an underappreciated success story in the use of
formal methods?
|
DDC-I |
2016-02-14 |
|
1,012 |
84.3 |
... that software product company
DDC-I started three decades ago in Denmark with a focus on the
Ada programming language and now focuses on
real-time operating systems in the United States?
|
Johannes Engel |
2016-02-09 |
|
1,012 |
84.3 |
... that between 1489 and 1491, the doctor and astronomer
Johannes Engel worked as a
proofreader for the printer
Erhard Ratdolt of
Augsburg?
|
Boyd R. Overhulse |
2016-02-22 |
|
1,008 |
84.0 |
... that
Boyd Overhulse was unanimously elected
President of the Oregon Senate just 11 days after taking his senate seat in 1957, the first
Democrat to hold that position in 79 years?
|
National Wrestling Association |
2016-02-04 |
|
1,000 |
83.3 |
... that in 1930 the
National Wrestling Association required
professional wrestlers to post a
$5,000 bond to compete for the
World Heavyweight Championship?
|
2007 Coca-Cola 600 |
2016-02-11 |
|
996 |
83.0 |
... that
Casey Mears' victory in the
2007 Coca-Cola 600 is his first and only win in the
NASCAR Sprint Cup Series?
|
First Congregational Church of Albany |
2016-02-07 |
|
994 |
82.8 |
... that architect
Albert W. Fuller donated a third of his commission for designing the
First Congregational Church of Albany (pictured) to the congregation as a "personal gift"?
|
Girolamo Benivieni |
2016-02-04 |
|
992 |
82.7 |
... that
Girolamo Benivieni twice sought the help of
Pope Leo X to return the body of
Dante Alighieri to
Florence?
|
Davis v. Ayala |
2016-02-08 |
|
980 |
81.7 |
... that in a
recent opinion, United States Supreme Court Justice
Anthony Kennedy questioned the propriety of
solitary confinement?
|
Tubercuoolithus |
2016-02-21 |
|
978 |
81.5 |
... that
Tubercuoolithus is one of the fossil eggs from Sevenmile Hill, the oldest fossil egg site in the
Two Medicine Formation?
|
Cyclone Peter |
2016-02-02 |
|
976 |
81.3 |
... that
Cyclone Peter is the
wettest tropical cyclone on record in Australia?
|
Port Phillip v Van Diemen's Land, 1851 |
2016-02-12 |
|
969 |
80.8 |
... that
Port Phillip played Van Diemen's Land in the first
first-class cricket match in Australia, on 11 and 12 February 1851?
|
Angela Hartley Brodie |
2016-02-19 |
|
954 |
79.5 |
... that
Angela Hartley Brodie's award-winning research led to the development of
steroidal aromatase inhibitors as new treatments for
breast cancer?
|
Korbin Forrister |
2016-02-21 |
|
952 |
79.3 |
... that after graduating from high school,
Korbin Forrister chose full-time
stock car racing over
baseball?
|
Lauw Giok Lan |
2016-02-06 |
|
938 |
78.2 |
... that
Lauw Giok Lan was both a money collector and dramatist, but neither was his main occupation?
|
Paingala Upanishad |
2016-02-19 |
|
928 |
77.3 |
... that the
Hindu text
Paingala Upanishad compares the body to a horse-drawn car in a series of metaphors?
|
Negro Labor Committee |
2016-02-18 |
|
928 |
77.3 |
... that the
Negro Labor Committee was formed in 1935 so that African Americans could be allowed to join labor unions?
|
Theodora J. Kalikow |
2016-02-10 |
|
920 |
76.7 |
... that former
University of Maine at Farmington president
Theodora J. Kalikow won a bronze medal in
triathlon in the
Senior Olympics?
|
Parry Glasspool |
2016-02-19 |
|
910 |
75.8 |
... that in a broadcast episode of
Hollyoaks,
Harry Thompson, portrayed by actor
Parry Glasspool, was erroneously called "Parry" by another character?
|
Ralph Waldo Swetman |
2016-02-12 |
|
908 |
75.7 |
... that
Ralph Waldo Swetman confronted falling enrollment at
Oswego State Teachers College by luring an Air Corps unit to the school?
|
Tejobindu Upanishad |
2016-02-13 |
|
902 |
75.2 |
... that the ancient Indian text
Tejobindu Upanishad describes a 15-limbed
yoga system, including exercises, meditation and
Samadhi?
|
Astrid Schirmer |
2016-02-22 |
|
897 |
74.8 |
... that
Astrid Schirmer appeared in roles by Richard Wagner, both Venus and Elisabeth in his
Tannhäuser, and in the Bayreuth
Jahrhundertring as both Ortlinde and Sieglinde?
|
Georgeta Stoleriu |
2016-02-02 |
|
888 |
74.0 |
... that Romanian
soprano and music educator
Georgeta Stoleriu established a scholarship to recognize outstanding students from the
National University of Music Bucharest, but never her own students?
|
Maria Carbone |
2016-02-21 |
|
883 |
73.6 |
... that
Maria Carbone appeared in 1931 as Desdemona in a complete recording of Verdi's
Otello, one of her only two recordings?
|
Laid Back (album) |
2016-02-16 |
|
882 |
73.5 |
... that
Gregg Allman's album
Laid Back was titled as an inside reference to a studio term that Allman coined for when a song needed to be more relaxed?
|
Carmen Souza |
2016-02-16 |
|
873 |
72.8 |
... that
Carmen Souza sings
Cape Verdean and
jazz fusion compositions in
Creole for its adaptability, and also mimics the sounds of musical instruments?
|
Callulina shengena
|
2016-02-06
|
|
412
|
34.4
|
... that three new species of frog,
Callulina shengena,
C. stanleyi and
C. laphami, first described from the
Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania in 2010, are all "
critically endangered"?
|
Callulina stanleyi
|
233
|
19.4
|
Callulina laphami
|
226
|
18.8
|
Total |
871 |
72.6
|
Rosita Beatrice Missick-Butterfield |
2016-02-08 |
|
866 |
72.2 |
... that nurse and midwife
Rosita Beatrice Missick-Butterfield was the first woman
Speaker of the Legislative Council of the
Turks and Caicos Islands?
|
David Wasawo |
2016-02-07 |
|
855 |
71.2 |
... that Kenyan zoologist
David Wasawo was the first East African to be awarded a degree in science?
|
List of songs recorded by Olly Murs |
2016-02-27 |
|
854 |
71.1 |
... that the
Olly Murs song "
Please Don't Let Me Go" is based on one of his
real-life experiences of a failed relationship?
|
Central Recreation Ground, Hastings |
2016-02-16 |
|
850 |
70.8 |
... that
W. G. Grace,
Jack Hobbs,
Denis Compton and
Don Bradman all scored
first-class centuries at the
Central Recreation Ground, Hastings?
|
Roman Kukleta |
2016-02-29 |
|
845 |
70.4 |
... that
Roman Kukleta was top scorer of the
1990–91 Czechoslovak First League?
|
Navalgund Durries |
2016-02-28 |
|
842 |
70.1 |
... that the
Navalgund Durries are a type of Indian rug with geometric patterns and designs of birds and animals?
|
Columbia-Southern Chemical Corporation |
2016-02-21 |
|
840 |
70.0 |
... that
CR-39, used in the manufacture of plastic eyeglass lenses, was one of 200
polymers invented by
Columbia-Southern Chemical Corporation during World War II?
|
Simone Ballard |
2016-02-18 |
|
839 |
69.9 |
... that
Simone Ballard performed the title role in the premiere of Arthur Honegger's
Antigone at
La Monnaie?
|
Steve Taylor & The Perfect Foil
|
2016-02-26
|
|
474
|
39.5
|
... that in the music video for the title track from
Wow to the Deadness, the members of
Steve Taylor & The Danielson Foil throw water balloons at each other?
|
Wow to the Deadness
|
360
|
30.0
|
Total |
834 |
69.5
|
Yogashikha Upanishad |
2016-02-09 |
|
828 |
69.0 |
... that the
Yogashikha Upanishad states there is no one greater in the universe than one's
guru?
|
Shirin Fozdar |
2016-02-01 |
|
826 |
68.8 |
... that women's rights activist
Shirin Fozdar was instrumental in the establishment of Singapore's
Syariah Court and in the passage of the
Women's Charter?
|
Chris Sailer |
2016-02-14 |
|
825 |
68.8 |
... that
Chris Sailer is the only player in
UCLA football history to have been named first-team
All-American at two positions in the same season?
|
Postgame Mortem |
2016-02-28 |
|
820 |
68.3 |
... that the plot for the
Veronica Mars episode "
Postgame Mortem" was based around a scene in an elevator, and the crew "wrote backwards" from that scene?
|
Todd Gilliland |
2016-02-06 |
|
818 |
68.2 |
... that at the age of fifteen,
Todd Gilliland became the youngest winner in
ARCA Racing Series history when he won in his series debut?
|
Mustafizur Rahman |
2016-02-17 |
|
805 |
67.1 |
... that
Mustafizur Rahman is the only
cricketer to receive
Man of the Match awards on both
Test and
One Day International cricket debuts?
|
Ye Liansong |
2016-02-28 |
|
792 |
66.0 |
... that Governor
Ye Liansong said he never thought of becoming a politician until he was told of his appointment as vice-mayor?
|
Bill Birchfield |
2016-02-27 |
|
789 |
65.8 |
... that
Jacksonville attorney
Bill Birchfield referred to himself as the "Duke of
Mayo"?
|
Friederike Sailer |
2016-02-17 |
|
788 |
65.7 |
... that the soprano
Friederike Sailer appeared in the premiere of
Werner Egk's Der Revisor at the
Schwetzingen Festival, conducted by the composer?
|
George Alexander Gibson |
2016-02-12 |
|
786 |
65.5 |
... that
George Alexander Gibson was a physician, medical author, and amateur geologist after whom the
Gibson Murmur was named?
|
Sarah Tenant-Flowers |
2016-02-18 |
|
755 |
62.9 |
... that
Sarah Tenant-Flowers has worked as an administrator for the Choir of the Year and as General Manager of "
The Sixteen"?
|
William Sterndale Bennett |
2016-02-27 |
|
753 |
62.8 |
... that the composer
Sterndale Bennett introduced
cricket to Germany?
|
Church Clothes 3 |
2016-02-07 |
|
742 |
61.8 |
... that
Lecrae released the mixtape
Church Clothes 3 without any prior announcement?
|
Auxiliary nurse midwife |
2016-02-15 |
|
734 |
61.2 |
... that the
auxiliary nurse midwife is a village-level female health worker in India who acts as the first contact person between the community and the health services?
|
Puri |
2016-02-28 |
|
724 |
60.4 |
... that
Puri hosts the famed
Rath Yatra, attended by at least a million people every year?
|
Jeffrey Swanson |
2016-02-13 |
|
723 |
60.2 |
... that
Jeffrey Swanson led a 2015 study that found that 8.9% of American adults reported both angry behavior and easy access to guns?
|
Paulette Poujol-Oriol |
2016-02-23 |
|
709 |
59.1 |
... that
Paulette Poujol-Oriol's literary works focus principally on the social and economic problems of Haiti, evoking moral options and suggesting solutions?
|
Before I Fall (film) |
2016-02-04 |
|
702 |
58.5 |
... that
Lauren Oliver's debut novel
Before I Fall is being adapted into
a feature film?
|
Detty Kurnia |
2016-02-24 |
|
698 |
58.2 |
... that
Detty Kurnia is an Indonesian vocalist who sang Dari Sunda which was among the five best albums listed by
Q Magazine?
|
Lu Jiaxi |
2016-02-12 |
|
684 |
57.0 |
... that
Lu Jiaxi, president of the
Chinese Academy of Sciences, was a student of the American Nobel laureate
Linus Pauling?
|
W. Lair Thompson |
2016-02-29 |
|
683 |
56.9 |
... that
W. Lair Thompson, the
President of the Oregon Senate, lost his re-election bid in 1916 by one vote?
|
Bravelets |
2016-02-05 |
|
676 |
56.4 |
... that web-based jewelry retailer
Bravelets donates ten dollars of each purchase to the charity of the customer's choice?
|
Rempo Urip |
2016-02-04 |
|
674 |
56.1 |
... that
Rempo Urip played
football for
a theatre company?
|
Avyakta Upanishad |
2016-02-13 |
|
672 |
56.0 |
... that the
cosmology in the ancient
Hindu text
Avyakta Upanishad proposes that there was nothing, until light appeared consisting of knowledge and bliss, followed by the universe?
|
Ilse Hollweg |
2016-02-20 |
|
640 |
54.0 |
... that when
Ilse Hollweg recorded the part of Blonde in Mozart's
Die Entführung aus dem Serail with Sir
Thomas Beecham, she was one of two soloists who also spoke the dialogue?
|
Ruth Guimarães |
2016-02-14 |
|
638 |
53.1 |
... that
Ruth Guimarães, the first
Afro-Brazilian author to gain a nationwide audience, translated classic literature but also wrote original works about
fables, legends, and everyday life?
|
Bound for Glory IV |
2016-02-06 |
|
634 |
52.8 |
... that at
Total Nonstop Action Wrestling's
Bound for Glory IV
pay-per-view event, the wrestler
Abyss was forced through a flaming table?
|
Lesley Lewis (art historian) |
2016-02-20 |
|
622 |
52.2 |
... that
Lesley Lewis was one of four founding students of the
Courtauld Institute of Art?
|
Nadabindu Upanishad |
2016-02-17 |
|
614 |
51.2 |
... that the ancient Sanskrit text
Nadabindu Upanishad rhetorically compares
soul to a bird?
|
Charles V. Shank |
2016-02-03 |
|
612 |
51.0 |
... that
Charles V. Shank co-invented the
distributed feedback laser?
|
Rosita Baltazar |
2016-02-14 |
|
604 |
50.3 |
... that
Rosita Baltazar, co-founder of the Belize National Dance Company, taught language and dance on
St. Vincent in a
Garifuna cultural reclamation project?
|
1995 India cyclone |
2016-02-13 |
|
603 |
50.2 |
... that
a 1995 storm caused 63 deaths in Nepal, 33 of them related to avalanches?
|
Anna Korondi |
2016-02-21 |
|
598 |
49.8 |
... that
Anna Korondi appeared at the
Bavarian State Opera as Zdenka in
Arabella by Richard Strauss and in a leading role in the premiere of
Aribert Reimann's Bernarda Albas Haus?
|
For John |
2016-02-15 |
|
592 |
49.4 |
... that
For John is a tribute album to a disc jockey from
Buffalo, New York, recorded by
indie pop band
Library Voices from
Regina, Saskatchewan?
|
Ahmad ibn Abi Jum'ah |
2016-02-06 |
|
588 |
49.0 |
... that
Islamic law scholar
Ahmad ibn Abi Jum'ah likely did not issue the commonly named
Oran fatwa in the city of
Oran, but rather in
Fez?
|
Naji Abu Nowar |
2016-02-23 |
|
572 |
47.6 |
... that director
Naji Abu Nowar produced
Theeb,
Jordan's first film ever to be nominated for an Academy Award?
|
Dhyanabindu Upanishad |
2016-02-14 |
|
570 |
47.5 |
... that the ancient
Sanskrit text
Dhyanabindu Upanishad states there is a soul in every living being just as there is fragrance in flowers and butter in milk?
|
Katcheri |
2016-02-06 |
|
563 |
46.9 |
... that the modern format for the
Katcheri, conceived by
Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar in the 1930s, incorporated traditional
Carnatic music rendered by the
Trinity of Carnatic music?
|
Mid-Ulster Ladies F.C. |
2016-02-07 |
|
562 |
46.8 |
... that
Mid-Ulster Ladies F.C. were founded by a future
NIWFA chairwoman to stop local football players leaving
Cookstown?
|
Sarvasara Upanishad |
2016-02-18 |
|
557 |
46.4 |
... that the
Sarvasara Upanishad text is one of two dedicated glossaries embedded in the collection of ancient and medieval
Upanishads of Hinduism?
|
Colby Carthel |
2016-02-21 |
|
554 |
46.2 |
... that
Colby Carthel is the son of fellow
American football head coach
Don Carthel?
|
Galerie Barbazanges |
2016-02-16 |
|
546 |
45.5 |
... that during the 1920 debut of his
furniture music at the
Galerie Barbazanges in Paris, composer
Erik Satie begged the audience not to listen to the music?
|
Mahanarayana Upanishad |
2016-02-21 |
|
544 |
45.4 |
... that the pre-1st century text
Mahanarayana Upanishad, literally "Great Vishnu Upanishad", glorifies not only
Vishnu but also
Shiva?
|
Sometime (Gene Thomas song) |
2016-02-16 |
|
532 |
44.4 |
... that after becoming a local hit in Texas,
Gene Thomas' "
Sometime" was reissued on the
United Artists label and entered the national top 100?
|
Robert of Bridlington |
2016-02-07 |
|
522 |
43.5 |
... that the 12th-century canon and prior
Robert of Bridlington was buried in the cloister of
Bridlington Priory?
|
Kathashruti Upanishad |
2016-02-14 |
|
518 |
43.2 |
... that the Hindu text
Kathashruti Upanishad, composed before the 3rd-century CE, states a
sannyasi should neither rejoice when someone praises him, nor curse when someone abuses him?
|
Ciro in Armenia |
2016-02-20 |
|
496 |
41.6 |
... that the 1753 opera
Ciro in Armenia was created by
Maria Teresa Agnesi Pinottini, one of the earliest female Italian opera composers?
|
Virgilio Lazzari |
2016-02-11 |
|
496 |
41.4 |
... that opera singer
Virgilio Lazzari was a leading
bass with the
Chicago Civic Opera from 1918–32 and the
Metropolitan Opera from 1933–50?
|
List of Ranji Trophy triple centuries |
2016-02-23 |
|
476 |
39.7 |
... that
Ravindra Jadeja is the only
batsman to score three
triple centuries in the Ranji Trophy?
|
Yvonne Ciannella |
2016-02-06 |
|
460 |
38.3 |
... that
Yvonne Ciannella, who performed the title roles of Donizetti's
Lucia di Lammermoor and Puccini's
Suor Angelica, recorded Telemann's cantata Ino with "dramatic colouring"?
|
The Revenant (soundtrack) |
2016-02-28 |
|
459 |
38.2 |
... that Japanese musician
Ryuichi Sakamoto composed the
original soundtrack for the 2015 film
The Revenant during his recovery from
throat cancer?
|
2015 United States Grand Prix |
2016-02-15 |
|
455 |
37.9 |
... that
Alexander Rossi became the first American to drive at a Formula One race at the
Circuit of the Americas when he entered the
2015 United States Grand Prix?
|
Eleanor Sophia Smith |
2016-02-16 |
|
441 |
36.8 |
... that
Eleanor Sophia Smith was one of the founders of
Chicago's
Hull House Music School?
|
Matt Hobden |
2016-02-09 |
|
424 |
35.4 |
... that
Matt Hobden scored 65
not out in a
Sussex County Cricket Club record tenth-wicket
partnership of 164 with
Ollie Robinson?
|
List of songs recorded by Madonna |
2016-02-16 |
|
420 |
35.0 |
... that
Madonna's
musical endeavors include reciting and recording poems?
|
Humble and Kind |
2016-02-27 |
|
370 |
30.8 |
... that after seeing a
trailer for
Oprah Winfrey's
Belief series,
Tim McGraw got Winfrey to provide footage for his "
Humble and Kind" music video?
|
Markand Bhatt |
2016-02-27 |
|
344 |
28.7 |
... that
Gujarati theatre actor
Markand Bhatt received a
Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 2008?
|
Subhra Guha |
2016-02-13 |
|
328 |
27.3 |
... that
Subhra Guha, a vocal musician in the Indian
Hindustani classical tradition, trained in
Agra gharana, and has a singing repertoire in
khayals,
thumri and
dadra?
|
Arthur John Matthews |
2016-02-08 |
|
328 |
27.3 |
... that
Arthur John Matthews, president of the
Tempe Normal School, wrote the education section of the
Constitution of Arizona?
|
Original Machines |
2016-02-14 |
|
312 |
26.0 |
... that many of the songs from
Conrad Keely's debut solo album
Original Machines were written while traveling around
Cambodia?
|
Il Primo Libro delle Canzoni |
2016-02-22 |
|
298 |
24.8 |
... that the 1628 Robletti edition of
Il Primo Libro delle Canzoni by
Girolamo Frescobaldi was dedicated to
Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, who engaged him as a court musician?
|
List of songs recorded by Mariah Carey |
2016-02-24 |
|
292 |
24.3 |
... that
Mariah Carey
recorded a cover version of the
Brenda K. Starr song "
I Still Believe" as a thank you for helping her get into the music industry?
|
Pac-12 Conference Men's Basketball Coach of the Year |
2016-02-28 |
|
230 |
19.1 |
... that the
Pac-12 Conference award for
men's basketball coach of the year was renamed in honor of
John Wooden?
|
Ten Years (2015 film) |
2016-02-20 |
|
0
[i] |
0 |
... that at the cineplex where
Ten Years debuted, it outperformed
Star Wars: The Force Awakens?
|