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Disappearance of Joan Risch |
2016-10-24 |
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36,982 |
1,578.7 |
... that after
Joan Risch's apparent abduction from her home 55 years ago today, it was discovered she had borrowed books on
missing-person cases from the local library?
|
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Lena Sundström |
2016-10-03 |
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32,276 |
1,574.4 |
... that Swedish journalist
Lena Sundström (pictured) was a
foundling?
|
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Ciampate del Diavolo |
2016-10-04 |
 |
33,514 |
1,396.4 |
... that the
oldest known human footprints in continental Europe (pictured) are called "
devil's trails" by locals?
|
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David Suhor |
2016-10-11 |
 |
23,678 |
986.6 |
... that
David Suhor (pictured) opened proceedings for a meeting of the
Pensacola City Council by delivering a Satanic prayer?
|
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Marshall Heights, Washington, D.C. |
2016-10-31 |
|
20,118 |
838.3 |
... that the "
Gates of Hell" could be found in
Washington, D.C.?
|
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Dan III of Wallachia |
2016-10-31 |
|
20,038 |
834.9 |
... that
Vlad Dracula forced
Dan III of Wallachia to dig his own grave?
|
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Mammon (painting) |
2016-10-17 |
 |
19,542 |
814.2 |
... that
George Frederic Watts's
Mammon (pictured) depicts the
Biblical embodiment of greed, which crushes "whatever is weak and gentle and timid and lovely"?
|
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Get Out and Push Railroad |
2016-10-03 |
|
15,831 |
772.2 |
... that the
Get Out and Push Railroad required passengers to help its trains over the steeper sections of the route?
|
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Rico Harris |
2016-10-10 |
|
18,406 |
766.9 |
... that after the 6-foot-9-inch (206 cm), 300-pound (140 kg) former
Harlem Globetrotter
Rico Harris disappeared two years ago today, searchers wondered why they could find no trace of such a large man?
|
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Flag of Trenton, Georgia |
2016-10-28 |
 |
17,470 |
731.2 |
... that
Trenton, Georgia, adopted
a version of the previous state flag (pictured) to protest against the state changing its flag?
|
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Cheese slaw |
2016-10-06 |
|
16,652 |
693.8 |
... that
cheese slaw is sometimes used as a topping for hot dogs?
|
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Edmund Kalau |
2016-10-13 |
 |
16,141 |
672.5 |
... that after
Edmund Kalau (pictured) spent his childhood in the
Hitler Youth, he converted to Christianity and served in
Palau and
Yap in the
Liebenzell Mission?
|
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Indium |
2016-10-13 |
|
13,508
[a] |
562.9 |
... that if you bend
indium it might
cry?
|
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Ascanius Shooting the Stag of Sylvia |
2016-10-19 |
 |
13,504 |
562.7 |
... that in
Ascanius Shooting the Stag of Sylvia (pictured) by
Claude Lorrain, the figures are "impossibly elongated—Ascanius, in particular, is absurdly top-heavy"?
|
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Timeline of pterosaur research |
2016-10-31 |
 |
13,394 |
558.1 |
... that early in the
history of pterosaur research, these flying
Mesozoic
reptiles were variously mistaken for
aquatic animals,
bats,
birds, and even the spawn of
Satan (pictured)?
|
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Wash's Restaurant |
2016-10-05 |
 |
13,212 |
550.5 |
... that
Wash's Restaurant (pictured) served up
soul food dishes to
Atlantic City beach-goers by day and its nightclub-hoppers by night?
|
|
Flag of Taunton, Massachusetts |
2016-10-21 |
 |
12,802 |
533.4 |
... that the
Taunton Flag (pictured) was one of the first flags used in
British North America prior to the American Revolution to express dissent against the British authorities?
|
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The Wrecking Crew (music) |
2016-10-04 |
|
12,389 |
516.2 |
... that the
Wrecking Crew supplied the instrumental tracks on dozens of hits recorded in Los Angeles during the 1960s, including "
California Dreamin'", "
Mr. Tambourine Man", "
He's a Rebel", and "
Good Vibrations"?
|
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New London Union Station |
2016-10-26 |
 |
12,240 |
511.6 |
... that
New London Union Station (pictured) was the largest, last, and—according to biographer
Henry-Russell Hitchcock—"best" railroad station designed by
Henry Hobson Richardson?
|
|
Craigievar Express |
2016-10-27 |
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11,557 |
506.0 |
... that the
Craigievar Express (pictured) is driven by a steam engine previously used in a
sawmill?
|
|
Ex Unitate Vires |
2016-10-27 |
|
11,506 |
503.8 |
... that while visiting segregated
South Africa in 1947,
George VI noticed the national motto
Ex Unitate Vires on a tablecloth and said, "Not much bloody Unitate about this place!"?
|
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Alan Hale (astronomer) |
2016-10-18 |
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12,018 |
500.7 |
... that
Alan Hale, who discovered
Comet Hale–Bopp (pictured), said that he "predicted" its appearance would trigger suicides—and it turned out
he was right?
|
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Clematis glycinoides |
2016-10-23 |
 |
11,470 |
494.9 |
... that the intense fumes emitted by the crushed leaves of the so-called
headache vine (pictured) cause one to feel like one's head is "exploding" ... making the inhaler forget all about the headache?
|
|
Royal Stables (Sweden) |
2016-10-12 |
 |
11,604 |
483.5 |
... that the
Royal Stables of Sweden (pictured) were established in 1535 and still serve the
Swedish Royal Family?
|
|
Mark Tatulli |
2016-10-04 |
|
11,528 |
480.4 |
... that syndicated cartoonist
Mark Tatulli received a note from a former teacher saying "I can't believe you're still doing the same crap you were doing in junior high, and now getting paid for it"?
|
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Uruguayan dyke swarms |
2016-10-08 |
|
11,414 |
475.6 |
... that
swarms of dykes have intruded into Uruguay?
|
|
Sara Skyttedal |
2016-10-17 |
|
11,266 |
469.4 |
... that politician
Sara Skyttedal participated in
Miss Sweden in 2006?
|
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Binao |
2016-10-31 |
|
11,146 |
464.4 |
... that the French punished
a queen by sending her to
Hellville?
|
|
Foyles Building |
2016-10-19 |
|
10,053 |
418.9 |
... that during
the Blitz, staff of the
Foyles Building stacked copies of Hitler's
Mein Kampf on the roof in lieu of sandbags?
|
|
SMS Erzherzog Albrecht |
2016-10-12 |
|
10,006 |
416.9 |
... that
SMS Erzherzog Albrecht was one of the first two iron-hulled ships built for the Austro-Hungarian navy?
|
|
Rosa Namises |
2016-10-28 |
|
9,914 |
415.0 |
... that in 1985,
Rosa Namises lost her job in a
Namibian hospital after she was seen holding hands in public with a white doctor?
|
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BR-319 |
2016-10-22 |
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9,894 |
412.3 |
... that
Brazilian Minister of the Environment
Carlos Minc supported the creation of what he called a "green sheath" around
BR-319 (pictured)?
|
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Seattle Times Building |
2016-10-16 |
|
9,557 |
398.2 |
... that the
Seattle Times Building was called a "death trap"?
|
|
Reads Landing School |
2016-10-24 |
 |
9,270 |
395.7 |
... that
Reads Landing School (pictured) features a brick
water table?
|
|
Cortana (software) |
2016-10-26 |
|
9,418
[b] |
393.6 |
... that
Cortana correctly predicted the winners of the first 14 matches of the
2014 FIFA World Cup knockout stage?
|
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James M. Turner
|
2016-10-24
|
|
7,250
|
309.5
|
... that
James M. Turner was removed from the
New Jersey Senate after being convicted of trying to frame his political rival
Kenneth A. Gewertz by having 6,500
amphetamine-like tablets planted in his home?
|
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Kenneth A. Gewertz
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1,962
|
83.8
|
| Total |
9,212 |
393.3
|
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Helen Richardson-Walsh |
2016-10-17 |
|
9,148 |
381.2 |
... that
Helen Richardson-Walsh and her wife
Kate were both members of the team that won Great Britain's first Olympic gold in women's hockey?
|
|
Ru ware |
2016-10-27 |
|
8,653 |
378.8 |
... that in 2012, a small
Ru ware bowl from the
Song dynasty was sold for
HK$207.86 million (US$26.7 million)?
|
|
Chantry House, Bunbury |
2016-10-11 |
|
9,072 |
378.0 |
... that in 1595, the
Chantry House in
Bunbury,
Cheshire, was leased for 2,000 years for the rent of a red rose?
|
|
Lazarus (comics) |
2016-10-12 |
|
9,000 |
375.0 |
... that artist
Michael Lark spends ten or more hours a day working on the comic
Lazarus?
|
|
Talking Gravestones of Amrum
|
2016-10-30
|
|
6,688
|
278.6
|
... that the
Talking Gravestones of Amrum and their
counterparts on Föhr (example pictured) display detailed biographies of the deceased?
|
|
Talking Gravestones of Föhr
|
2,290
|
95.4
|
| Total |
8,977 |
374.0
|
|
Flag of Guernsey |
2016-10-14 |
 |
8,767 |
365.3 |
... that the
Flag of Guernsey (pictured) is based on a banner used by
Duke William the Bastard of Normandy during the Battle of Hastings?
|
|
William Mostyn-Owen |
2016-10-19 |
|
8,523 |
355.1 |
... that as
William Mostyn-Owen's three older brothers all died in the Second World War, he inherited
Aberuchill Castle, where he and
his wife lived in a wing of "23 rooms or so"?
|
|
Humphrey Stafford (died 1442) |
2016-10-11 |
|
8,042 |
335.1 |
... that
a 15th-century English gentleman was called "Humphrey Stafford with the Silver Hand" because of a
prosthesis he wore, perhaps having lost his limb in a "bellicose engagement"?
|
|
Cliff Clinkscales |
2016-10-20 |
 |
7,882 |
328.4 |
... that basketball player
Cliff Clinkscales (pictured) demonstrated his dribbling skills on national TV before he was a teenager?
|
|
Larry Donovan (bridge jumper) |
2016-10-22 |
|
7,863 |
327.6 |
... that after he died, daredevil
Larry Donovan's mother said, "I told him that jumping off bridges was a poor way of earning a living"?
|
|
Racket-tailed roller |
2016-10-31 |
|
7,738 |
322.4 |
... that the
racket-tailed roller makes a racket as it rockets?
|
|
Carpet court |
2016-10-03 |
|
6,592 |
321.6 |
... that to reduce injuries, professional tennis tournaments are no longer played on
carpet courts?
|
|
Henry Trigg (testator) |
2016-10-31 |
|
7,692 |
320.5 |
... that the ghost of
Henry Trigg is said to roam his house searching for his remains, which were stolen from his coffin?
|
|
Liam Norberg |
2016-10-28 |
|
7,652 |
320.3 |
... that Swedish actor
Liam Norberg became a devout Christian while serving time in prison for a bank robbery?
|
|
Tharsis (video game) |
2016-10-13 |
|
7,543 |
314.3 |
... that the science fiction video game
Tharsis, inspired by the sinking of the whaling ship
Essex, allows the crew of the player's spacecraft to use
cannibalism to survive?
|
|
HMS Aigle (1801) |
2016-10-07 |
|
7,422 |
309.2 |
... that members of a press gang from
HMS Aigle stood trial for murder when four people were killed during a raid on the
Isle of Portland in 1803?
|
|
Jersey Red Ensign |
2016-10-10 |
|
7,416 |
309.0 |
... that the
States of Jersey were obliged to ask permission from
Queen Elizabeth II in order to adopt the
Jersey Red Ensign, because it contained the Jersey Arms with the
Plantagenet crown?
|
|
Ellen Zitek |
2016-10-07 |
|
7,290 |
303.8 |
... that actress
Georgina Bouzova feared that people would spit at her because of the behaviour of her character
Ellen Zitek?
|
|
Tetragnatha montana |
2016-10-27 |
|
6,918 |
302.8 |
... that in a Polish study, the
silver stretch spider ate an average of 3.7 mosquitoes per day in early June?
|
|
Pringles Unsung |
2016-10-21 |
|
7,244 |
301.9 |
... that the music competition
Pringles Unsung was described as being "liable to kill the most credible career"?
|
|
Euthyrhynchus floridanus |
2016-10-10 |
 |
7,108 |
296.2 |
... that the
Florida predatory stink bug (nymph pictured) is considered beneficial because it feeds on various
pest insects?
|
|
Proton radius puzzle |
2016-10-06 |
|
7,046 |
293.6 |
... that different measurements of the size of the hydrogen atom nucleus when a
muon replaces an electron is an
unsolved problem in physics known as the
proton radius puzzle?
|
|
Big Sur Folk Festival |
2016-10-25 |
|
6,930 |
292.7 |
... that groups including
the Beach Boys and
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young playing at the
Big Sur Folk Festival were never paid more than US$50 per performer?
|
|
Teucrium canadense |
2016-10-07 |
 |
6,856 |
285.7 |
... that
American germander (pictured) is visited by bees, butterflies and hummingbirds, but avoided by grazing animals?
|
|
After the Deluge (painting) |
2016-10-09 |
 |
6,848 |
285.3 |
... that
After the Deluge (pictured) was described by
Walter Bayes as "a kind of sublimation of all the most poetic elements in nature"?
|
|
Newell Boathouse |
2016-10-16 |
|
6,756 |
281.5 |
... that
Newell Boathouse stands on land for which
Harvard pays
$1 per year under a lease running one thousand years—after which the university can renew for another thousand years?
|
|
Osiris: New Dawn |
2016-10-19 |
|
6,657 |
277.4 |
... that the developers of the video game
Osiris: New Dawn wanted players to have to "
Matt Damon yourself out" of situations?
|
|
Wonut |
2016-10-30 |
|
6,490 |
270.4 |
... that the
wonut is a combination of a
waffle and
doughnut that went viral in April 2014 following media exposure?
|
|
Eric Taylor (artist) |
2016-10-26 |
|
6,446 |
269.4 |
... that in April 1945, the artist
Eric Taylor was among the first British troops to enter the
Bergen-Belsen concentration camp when it was liberated?
|
|
Space Battle Lunchtime |
2016-10-14 |
|
6,399 |
266.6 |
... that
Space Battle Lunchtime is a comic about food preparation, a subject largely ignored in American comics?
|
|
Quantum Break |
2016-10-25 |
|
6,273
[c] |
265.0 |
... that
Quantum Break was described as a "transmedia
action-
shooter video game and television hybrid"?
|
|
Passport to Pimlico |
2016-10-25 |
|
6,192 |
261.5 |
... that the 1949 film
Passport to Pimlico is dedicated to the memory of Second World War
British food and clothing ration coupons?
|
|
Robert Rutman |
2016-10-12 |
|
6,198 |
258.2 |
... that
Robert Rutman invented the steel cello, a giant sheet metal instrument?
|
|
Anyuyskiy Volcano |
2016-10-05 |
|
6,158 |
256.6 |
... that eruptions of
Anyuyskiy Volcano in Siberia may have inspired legends of places where hunting is banned and smoke and fire rise from the ground?
|
|
Akigin Stadium |
2016-10-20 |
|
6,088 |
253.7 |
... that
Akigin Stadium sits next to a field of dreams?
|
|
Queen Creek Tunnel |
2016-10-27 |
|
5,768 |
252.5 |
... that Arizona's
Queen Creek Tunnel is the first in the state to be equipped with LED lighting?
|
|
Sambor Ghetto |
2016-10-15 |
 |
5,997 |
249.9 |
... that two-year-old Ruth Schwarz was rescued from the
Sambor Ghetto by
Polish Righteous Alojzy Plewa (both pictured)?
|
|
Sundveda Hoard |
2016-10-09 |
|
5,927 |
247.0 |
... that of the 482 coins found in the
Viking Age
Sundveda Hoard outside
Stockholm, only one came from Western Europe?
|
|
St Leonard's Court |
2016-10-01 |
 |
4,614 |
240.0 |
... that
St Leonard's Court in the
London Borough of Richmond upon Thames has a Grade II listed underground
air-raid shelter (entrance pictured) built in the 1930s?
|
|
The Word for World Is Forest |
2016-10-20 |
|
5,624 |
234.4 |
... that the 1976 novel
The Word for World Is Forest shares narrative themes with the 2009 film
Avatar?
|
|
Ding ware |
2016-10-04 |
|
5,622 |
234.3 |
... that Chinese
Ding ware of the 11th century has been described both as
porcelain and as
stoneware?
|
|
Dysphania pusilla |
2016-10-02 |
 |
3,891 |
233.9 |
... that the
pygmy goosefoot (pictured), a plant
endemic to New Zealand that was thought to be
extinct, was rediscovered in 2015?
|
|
Numayrid dynasty |
2016-10-14 |
|
5,482 |
228.4 |
... that most
Numayrid princes, apprehensive of urban life, ruled their cities from their
Bedouin camps in the pastures?
|
|
Citywide Ferry Service |
2016-10-05 |
|
5,247 |
218.6 |
... that New York City's
Citywide Ferry Service is expected to carry 4.6 million passengers each year, roughly as many as the
New York City Subway carries each weekday?
|
|
Traffic Electronic Control System (Turkey) |
2016-10-11 |
|
5,206 |
216.9 |
... that the number of
traffic collisions at the
TEDES-monitored intersections and fast lanes in
Gaziantep, Turkey, declined by about 40% within two months of its installation?
|
|
Kalanemi (Ramayana) |
2016-10-05 |
|
5,143 |
214.3 |
... that
Ravana had promised
Kalanemi half his kingdom if he killed
Hanuman?
|
|
South Africa Red Ensign |
2016-10-08 |
 |
5,132 |
213.8 |
... that the
South Africa Red Ensign (pictured) was raised over
Windhoek following the British conquest of German South West Africa in 1915?
|
|
Lily Chitty |
2016-10-21 |
|
5,124 |
213.5 |
... that the archaeologist
Lily Chitty was a
Land Girl during the First World War?
|
|
Severn Railway Bridge |
2016-10-08 |
|
5,114 |
213.1 |
... that in 1960, two barges collided with the 4,162-foot (1,270 m)
Severn Railway Bridge, causing two bridge spans to fall into the river?
|
|
Capital Combat |
2016-10-28 |
|
5,005 |
209.5 |
... that during World Championship Wrestling's
Capital Combat show,
RoboCop saved
Sting from
the Four Horsemen?
|
|
Gesomyrmex magnus |
2016-10-06 |
|
4,996 |
208.2 |
... that the fossil ant
Gesomyrmex magnus is notably larger than any other living or extinct Gesomyrmex species?
|
|
Richard D. Trentlage |
2016-10-18 |
|
4,955 |
206.5 |
... that
Richard D. Trentlage was known for his
wiener jingle?
|
|
Breakaway (2010 video game) |
2016-10-18 |
|
4,890 |
203.7 |
... that soccer video game
Breakaway has encouraged children in the
West Bank not to discriminate by gender, thereby challenging
social norms?
|
|
Warmingham |
2016-10-29 |
 |
4,848 |
202.0 |
... that the dairy-farming area of
Warmingham,
Cheshire, is the source of around half the pure salt (brine pump pictured) manufactured in the UK?
|
|
370 Jay Street
|
2016-10-30
|
|
3,548
|
147.8
|
... that the
New York City Board of Transportation built
a new headquarters that it used for only two years?
|
|
New York City Board of Transportation
|
1,196
|
49.8
|
| Total |
4,744 |
197.6
|
|
Consairway |
2016-10-26 |
|
4,704 |
196.6 |
... that in 1992, civilian employees of
Consairway were granted veteran status by the
Veterans Benefits Administration for their World War II service transporting munitions and military personnel?
|
|
XHLUV-FM |
2016-10-17 |
|
4,628 |
192.8 |
... that a 2014 attack on the radio station
Calentana Mexiquense resulted in the death of the owner's 12-year-old son?
|
|
Bratton Downs |
2016-10-26 |
|
4,537 |
189.6 |
... that a
Duke of Burgundy has been spotted on
Bratton Downs?
|
|
Sara Ahmed (weightlifter) |
2016-10-16 |
|
4,490 |
187.1 |
... that after winning a bronze medal at the
2016 Olympics,
Sara Ahmed became the first Egyptian woman to stand on an Olympic podium?
|
|
Lupe Fiasco versus Daigo Umehara |
2016-10-11 |
|
4,484 |
186.8 |
... that professional
Street Fighter player
Daigo Umehara lost
an exhibition match of Street Fighter V to rapper
Lupe Fiasco?
|
|
Sir Hildebrand Harmsworth, 1st Baronet |
2016-10-27 |
|
4,240 |
185.6 |
... that the newspaper publisher
Sir Hildebrand Harmsworth gave money to a charity fund after his
chauffeur killed a boy while driving Harmsworth's car?
|
|
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Iceland |
2016-10-14 |
|
4,449 |
185.4 |
... that
missionary Thorarinn Thorason's wife threatened to drown herself due to his
missionary efforts in Iceland, but instead he drowned later that year?
|
|
Effects of the 1928 Okeechobee hurricane in Florida |
2016-10-06 |
|
4,386 |
182.8 |
... that the
1928 Okeechobee hurricane caused at least 2,500 deaths in Florida, making it the second deadliest tropical cyclone in the US, behind the
1900 Galveston hurricane?
|
|
Brownsville, Brooklyn |
2016-10-23 |
|
4,228 |
182.5 |
... that the
New York City neighborhood of
Brownsville has the highest concentration of
public housing in the United States?
|
|
Argonium |
2016-10-28 |
|
4,356 |
182.3 |
... that
argonium, an ion composed of an argon atom and a proton, was the first
noble gas molecular ion to be found in interstellar space?
|
|
Peter Coade |
2016-10-11 |
|
4,370 |
182.1 |
... that retired Canadian meteorologist
Peter Coade was certified by
The Guinness Book of World Records as having had the longest career of any weather forecaster?
|
|
Guapi-Guapiaçú Environmental Protection Area |
2016-10-26 |
|
4,296 |
179.5 |
... that 71% of permanently protected land in the
Guapi-Guapiaçú Environmental Protection Area in Brazil has no natural vegetation?
|
|
Handel's Naturalisation Act 1727 |
2016-10-06 |
 |
4,278 |
178.2 |
... that the naturalisation of
Handel (pictured) as a British citizen came via
an Act of Parliament which required him to enter into communion with the Church of England?
|
|
Joseph A. Maressa |
2016-10-08 |
|
4,274 |
178.1 |
... that after admitting he took $10,000 to help a
fictitious Arab sheikh,
Joseph A. Maressa argued that "it would be patriotic to take some of this OPEC oil money and get it back to the United States"?
|
|
Thomas Aldersey |
2016-10-25 |
 |
4,148 |
175.2 |
... that
Thomas Aldersey (pictured) gave the
Worshipful Company of Haberdashers, now an educational charity, their first school?
|
|
Thinkhaya III of Toungoo |
2016-10-27 |
|
3,968 |
173.7 |
... that after declaring independence from the
Ava Kingdom,
Thinkhaya III of Toungoo built his own palace, but left out the royal
white umbrella?
|
|
Aluchin (volcano) |
2016-10-10 |
|
4,120 |
171.7 |
... that Russia's
Aluchin volcano is thought to have formed around 1000 CE?
|
|
Pachycondyla aberrans |
2016-10-31 |
|
4,116 |
171.5 |
... that the ant
Pachycondyla aberrans was described from a headless adult of unknown sex?
|
|
Gösta Peterson |
2016-10-11 |
|
4,027 |
167.8 |
... that Swedish photographer
Gösta Peterson met his wife at a cocktail party, where he was watering the flowers?
|
|
Disney's Animated Storybook: The Lion King
|
2016-10-02
|
|
497
|
29.9
|
... that in the 1990s
Disney created
animated storybook video games for
The Lion King,
Pocahontas,
Toy Story,
The Hunchback of Notre Dame,
101 Dalmatians,
Hercules,
The Little Mermaid, and
Mulan, as well as
1966 and
1974 shorts based on
Winnie the Pooh?
|
|
Disney's Animated Storybook: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
|
316
|
19.0
|
|
Disney's Animated Storybook: Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree
|
280
|
16.8
|
|
Disney's Animated Storybook: Mulan
|
262
|
15.8
|
|
Disney's Animated Storybook: Toy Story
|
262
|
15.7
|
|
Disney's Animated Storybook: 101 Dalmatians
|
248
|
14.9
|
|
Disney's Animated Storybook: Pocahontas
|
244
|
14.7
|
|
Disney's Animated Storybook: Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too
|
230
|
13.8
|
|
Disney's Animated Storybook: Hercules
|
220
|
13.3
|
|
Disney's Animated Storybook: The Little Mermaid
|
216
|
13.0
|
| Total |
2,776 |
166.9
|
|
Ağın Bridge |
2016-10-18 |
|
3,960 |
165.0 |
... that the
Ağın Bridge reestablished a direct road connection between
Ağın and
Elazığ 40 years after the creation of the
Keban reservoir?
|
|
The Life and Death of John Gotti |
2016-10-22 |
|
3,944 |
164.4 |
... that
John Travolta will play New York mob boss
John Gotti in
an upcoming film?
|
|
Frederick Sherwood Dunn |
2016-10-24 |
|
3,822 |
163.2 |
... that scholar
Frederick Sherwood Dunn led a move that was described by a university president as "Yale fumbled and Princeton recovered the ball"?
|
|
Cash Trapped |
2016-10-08 |
|
3,868 |
161.2 |
... that the opening episode of
Cash Trapped contained a continuity error which revealed the outcome at the start of the game show?
|
|
Captain Atom (Atlas Publications) |
2016-10-15 |
|
3,732 |
155.5 |
... that the first appearance of superhero
Captain Atom was in an Australian comic?
|
|
Clio (Hendrik Goltzius) |
2016-10-05 |
|
3,714 |
154.7 |
... that
John Harvard may have been inspired by
Clio?
|
|
Akıncı Air Base |
2016-10-17 |
|
3,710 |
154.6 |
... that plans are underway to convert the
Akıncı Air Base, bombed during the
2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt, into a "democracy park"?
|
|
Athletic Bilbao signing policy |
2016-10-14 |
|
3,692 |
153.9 |
... that since 1912, Spanish association football club
Athletic Bilbao
only fields players with ancestry from the Basque Country?
|
|
Mary Isabella Hales Horne |
2016-10-30 |
|
3,664 |
152.7 |
... that
Mary Isabella Hales Horne was the mother of 15 children, including three sets of twins?
|
|
List of literary descriptions of cities (before 1550) |
2016-10-22 |
|
3,638 |
151.6 |
... that
medieval
works praising cities often follow rules laid down in
Ancient Greece?
|
|
Mahane Yehuda (neighborhood) |
2016-10-02 |
|
2,521 |
151.6 |
... that planners of the
Jerusalem neighborhood of
Mahane Yehuda offered free land to the first 50 families, but there were no takers?
|
|
Hale v. Henkel |
2016-10-26 |
|
3,568 |
149.1 |
... that in
Hale v. Henkel, the
United States Supreme Court ruled that the
self-incrimination clause of the
Fifth Amendment did not apply to corporations?
|
|
Akiyama Tokuzō |
2016-10-02 |
|
2,460 |
147.9 |
... that
Akiyama Tokuzō, once referred to as the "Japanese
Escoffier", became Master Chef of the Imperial Court of Japan at only 25 years of age?
|
|
Jeff Givens |
2016-10-10 |
|
3,504 |
146.0 |
... that horse trainer
Jeff Givens was killed when his
horse trailer overturned?
|
|
The American Girls Premiere |
2016-10-05 |
|
3,439 |
143.3 |
... that in 1998,
The Boston Globe said the
girls' video game market was "exploding" with titles such as
The American Girls Premiere?
|
|
Laticauda colubrina |
2016-10-29 |
|
3,348 |
139.5 |
... that the tail of
Laticauda colubrina resembles and moves like its head in order to deter predators?
|
|
Bound (video game) |
2016-10-23 |
|
3,223 |
139.1 |
... that in the
video game
Bound, the protagonist moves mainly by dancing?
|
|
John Hazelwood |
2016-10-16 |
|
3,338 |
139.1 |
... that in 1777, after
George Washington's war council recommended that
John Hazelwood lead the American fleet up the
Delaware River to safety, he did so without the British firing a single shot?
|
|
The Mutants (musical collaboration) |
2016-10-13 |
|
3,320 |
138.3 |
... that the band
The Mutants developed from the idea of an album set out to retrace the roots of
punk,
new wave, and
ska, featuring an all-star cast of punk musicians?
|
|
Otto Bock |
2016-10-25 |
|
3,242 |
136.9 |
... that
Otto Bock technicians at the
2016 Paralympic Games carried out 3,361 repairs for 1,162 athletes, including 2,745 repairs to wheelchairs?
|
|
David Carritt |
2016-10-15 |
|
3,200 |
133.3 |
... that
David Carritt discovered a
Fragonard misattributed at auction, a
van der Weyden in a cottage, a
Tiepolo on an Egyptian embassy ceiling, and five
Guardis rolled up in a Dublin shed?
|
|
Bayit Lepletot |
2016-10-03 |
|
2,726 |
133.0 |
... that the
Bayit Lepletot orphanage in
Jerusalem houses and educates girls from as young as three years of age until they are ready to
marry and start homes of their own?
|
|
Hiroshima Lightning |
2016-10-10 |
|
3,165 |
131.9 |
... that the
Hiroshima Lightning was the only active team refused entry into Japanese basketball's
B.League?
|
|
James Kaliokalani |
2016-10-15 |
|
3,122 |
130.1 |
... that
James Kaliokalani and his brother, the future King
Kalākaua, reportedly witnessed the execution of their grandfather
Kamanawa II when they were children?
|
|
Finlay Wild |
2016-10-18 |
|
3,098 |
129.1 |
... that
Finlay Wild has won the
Ben Nevis Race seven times in a row?
|
|
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Ireland |
2016-10-09 |
|
3,088 |
128.7 |
... that on one occasion, protesters used a foghorn to discourage
Mormons in Ireland from meeting?
|
|
Argon compounds |
2016-10-24 |
|
3,006 |
128.3 |
... that argon oxide, an
argon compound, interferes with the detection of
iron-56 in
inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry?
|
|
The Top Notes |
2016-10-06 |
|
3,024 |
126.0 |
... that although
the Beatles had a more successful version, the first recording of "
Twist and Shout" was by
The Top Notes, and was produced by
Phil Spector—who later went on to produce the Beatles?
|
|
Dafo Temple, Zhangye |
2016-10-21 |
|
2,999 |
125.0 |
... that the
reclining Buddha at the
Dafo Temple, Zhangye, is 35 metres (115 ft) long?
|
|
Ypresiosirex |
2016-10-14 |
|
2,984 |
124.3 |
... that the extinct sawfly
Ypresiosirex orthosemos was named for the unique corrugation of its wings?
|
|
Ferdinand Lee Barnett (Chicago) |
2016-10-21 |
|
2,944 |
122.6 |
... that at an 1892 rally attended by anti-lynching activist
Ferdinand Lee Barnett, participants refused to sing "
My Country, 'Tis of Thee" until the United States was more truly a "sweet land of liberty"?
|
|
Jizhou ware |
2016-10-15 |
|
2,892 |
120.5 |
... that decoration of
Jizhou ware included using leaves that were burnt away, leaving their shapes in the glaze?
|
|
Pop Warner |
2016-10-15 |
|
2,878 |
119.9 |
... that American football coach
Pop Warner's only experience with the game in his youth was using an inflated cow's
bladder?
|
|
Max Esposito |
2016-10-06 |
|
2,794 |
116.4 |
... that
Max Esposito and his sister
Chloe were the first Australian athletes to qualify for the
2016 Summer Olympics?
|
|
Worms Armageddon |
2016-10-22 |
|
2,790 |
116.2 |
... that GamesRadar ranked
Worms Armageddon number 13 in their list of the top 50
PlayStation games of all time?
|
|
Rhopalosiphum rufiabdominale |
2016-10-12 |
|
2,784 |
116.0 |
... that the
rice root aphid can complete its whole life cycle on plum trees?
|
|
Don Brothwell |
2016-10-16 |
|
2,782 |
115.9 |
... that the archaeologist
Don Brothwell served two months in prison as a
conscientious objector?
|
|
Gesomyrmex macrops |
2016-10-18 |
|
2,779 |
115.8 |
... that
Gesomyrmex macrops was named in reference to the ant species' large eyes?
|
|
St Silin's Church |
2016-10-24 |
|
2,694 |
115.0 |
... that the parish of
St Silin's contains a part of England under the jurisdiction of the Church in Wales?
|
|
Acyrthosiphon kondoi |
2016-10-16 |
|
2,730 |
113.8 |
... that the
blue alfalfa aphid, native to Asia, had reached California by 1974 and Maryland by 1992?
|
|
Grand Theatre, Perth |
2016-10-17 |
|
2,719 |
113.3 |
... that the
Grand Theatre was reportedly the first in Australia to be lit entirely by
neon lights?
|
|
Fehmi Agani |
2016-10-18 |
|
2,696 |
112.4 |
... that although
Fehmi Agani worked for reconciliation between Serbs and Albanians, his murder during the
Kosovo War has been attributed to Serbian security forces?
|
|
Anastasie Fătu |
2016-10-01 |
|
2,143 |
111.5 |
... that
Moldavian pediatrician
Anastasie Fătu proposed a ban on open-casket church funerals?
|
|
Dorothy Gill |
2016-10-17 |
|
2,608 |
108.6 |
... that the contralto
Dorothy Gill was so popular during the
D'Oyly Carte Opera Company's visit to New York in 1934 that American fans petitioned for her return?
|
|
Chad at the 2012 Summer Olympics |
2016-10-30 |
|
2,592 |
108.0 |
... that no men competed for
Chad at the 2012 Summer Olympics?
|
|
Talbieh Camp |
2016-10-04 |
|
2,567 |
107.0 |
... that when
Talbieh Refugee Camp first opened, most of its inhabitants were
displaced persons, as opposed to
refugees?
|
|
Mansur ibn Lu'lu' |
2016-10-23 |
|
2,466 |
106.4 |
... that after being ousted from his emirate in
Aleppo,
Mansur ibn Lu'lu' commanded a
Byzantine army unit?
|
|
Jeff Chandler (footballer) |
2016-10-25 |
|
2,516 |
106.3 |
... that the Irish footballer
Jeff Chandler was "never the same player" after suffering a knee injury in
Bolton Wanderers' fourth game of their
1987–88 season?
|
|
Restaurant Andrew Fairlie |
2016-10-01 |
|
2,042 |
106.2 |
... that
Restaurant Andrew Fairlie is known for a signature dish of lobster
cold smoked over
whisky casks?
|
|
The Best Intentions |
2016-10-04 |
|
2,544 |
106.0 |
... that
Ingmar Bergman based his script for the
Palme d'Or-winning film
The Best Intentions on the life of his father
Erik Bergman, salvaged from scattered notes, stories, and conversations?
|
|
Florida gubernatorial election, 1970 |
2016-10-03 |
|
2,147 |
104.7 |
... that in the
1970 Florida gubernatorial election,
Claude Kirk called
Reubin Askew a "momma’s boy who wouldn't have the courage to stand up under the fire of the legislators"?
|
|
My Kind of Girl |
2016-10-20 |
|
2,504 |
104.3 |
... that prior to
Matt Monro's "
My Kind of Girl", it had been three years since a British artist had cracked the US Top 20?
|
|
Malayan whistling thrush |
2016-10-19 |
|
2,474 |
103.1 |
... that recorded sightings of the
Malayan whistling thrush in the
Cameron Highlands after the 1960s may have actually been a subspecies of the
blue whistling thrush?
|
|
Danny Jones (politician) |
2016-10-31 |
|
2,452 |
102.1 |
... that before he became mayor of
Charleston, West Virginia,
Danny Jones worked as a gravedigger?
|
|
Johanna Umurungi |
2016-10-23 |
|
2,354 |
101.6 |
... that
Johanna Umurungi was the only female
Rwandan swimmer at the
2016 Summer Olympics?
|
|
Joseph S. Clark's and Robert F. Kennedy's tour of the Mississippi Delta |
2016-10-30 |
|
2,410 |
100.4 |
... that U.S. senators
Joseph S. Clark Jr. and
Robert F. Kennedy
toured the Mississippi Delta in 1967 and made hunger a public issue in the United States as a result?
|
|
Imagen Televisión |
2016-10-18 |
|
2,397 |
99.9 |
... that
Imagen Televisión, which launches today, is the first new commercial television network in Mexico since 1993?
|
|
Edward A. Geary |
2016-10-25 |
|
2,357 |
99.6 |
... that
Edward A. Geary was unanimously elected
Speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives by his Republican and Democrat peers?
|
|
Yokneam Moshava |
2016-10-07 |
|
2,386 |
99.4 |
... that in 2013 the mayor of
Yokneam Illit called for the rural village of
Yokneam Moshava to be annexed to his city because it was blocking the city's ability to expand?
|
|
Lee B. Laskin |
2016-10-17 |
|
2,345 |
97.7 |
... that in a case in which an ex-husband wanted to keep seven frozen embryos created while he was married, Judge
Lee B. Laskin decided in favor of the ex-wife and ordered them destroyed?
|
|
Kai-Tai Fang |
2016-10-02 |
|
1,615 |
97.1 |
... that the statistician
Kai-Tai Fang's dissertation was written in two weeks but not published for 19 years because of the
Cultural Revolution?
|
|
Rubino Romeo Salmonì |
2016-10-01 |
|
1,817 |
94.5 |
... that the stories of Italian author and Holocaust survivor
Rubino Romeo Salmonì were an inspiration for
Roberto Benigni's 1997 film
Life Is Beautiful?
|
|
Daud Junbish |
2016-10-07 |
|
2,256 |
94.0 |
... that the
BBC's
Daud Junbish is one of the few journalists in the world to have met former
Taliban chief
Mullah Omar?
|
|
Josh Hall (One Life to Live) |
2016-10-04 |
|
2,241 |
93.4 |
... that
Laurence Fishburne played
Josh Hall, a member of "daytime television's first African American family," on the
ABC soap opera
One Life to Live?
|
|
Anna L. Peterson |
2016-10-20 |
|
2,227 |
92.8 |
... that
Anna L. Peterson argues that the usual separation of
animal and
environmental ethics is based on mistaken conceptions of nature, humans, animals, and the relationships among them?
|
|
Élizabeth Teissier |
2016-10-22 |
|
2,156 |
89.9 |
... that the
French Association for Scientific Information criticised
Paris Descartes University's decision to award
Élizabeth Teissier a doctorate for a sociology thesis of "
pro-astrological advocacy"?
|
|
Poole Methodist Church |
2016-10-22 |
|
2,122 |
88.4 |
... that the extension to
Poole Methodist Church was nominated for the 2016
Carbuncle Cup?
|
|
Anne Ramberg |
2016-10-13 |
|
2,116 |
88.2 |
... that
Anne Ramberg was awarded the
H. M. The King's Medal of 12th size to wear on a blue ribbon for her work in the Swedish justice system?
|
|
Formica paleosibirica |
2016-10-03 |
|
1,806 |
88.1 |
... that the fossil ant species
Formica paleosibirica has been described from only three partial males and two lone wings?
|
|
Sālote Lupepauʻu |
2016-10-12 |
|
2,068 |
86.2 |
... that
Queen Salote College was named after the Tongan Queen
Sālote Lupepauʻu, who was named after the British Queen
Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz?
|
|
IWRG Máscara vs. Máscara (September 2016) |
2016-10-21 |
|
2,060 |
85.8 |
... that the main event of last month's
Máscara vs. Máscara professional wrestling show has been called
IWRG's biggest
Lucha de Apuestas ("bet match") in years?
|
|
2-satisfiability |
2016-10-29 |
|
2,055 |
85.6 |
... that
2-satisfiability can be used to schedule
round-robin tournaments so that teams alternate between home and away games as much or as little as possible?
|
|
Gustaf Nyström |
2016-10-07 |
|
2,042 |
85.1 |
... that Finnish architect
Gustaf Nyström has been described as a "legendary teacher of architecture"?
|
|
Carnethy 5 |
2016-10-06 |
|
2,006 |
83.6 |
... that
Carnethy 5, an annual hill race held in the
Pentland Hills, commemorates the
Battle of Roslin?
|
|
Aldana Sandoval |
2016-10-21 |
|
1,928 |
80.3 |
... that
Aldana Sandoval helped plot the
1944 Guatemalan coup, but did not actually participate in it?
|
|
De laude Cestrie |
2016-10-16 |
|
1,928 |
80.3 |
... that the 12th-century manuscript
De laude Cestrie is one of the earliest prose works about an English town?
|
|
Claudine Picardet |
2016-10-27 |
|
1,824 |
79.9 |
... that 18th-century chemist
Claudine Picardet translated scientific articles from Swedish, English, German, and Italian into French?
|
|
Love Among the Walnuts |
2016-10-11 |
|
1,914 |
79.8 |
... that
Kirkus Reviews wrote that the plot and tone of the 1998 young adult novel
Love Among the Walnuts were akin to those of a
Preston Sturges or
Frank Capra film?
|
|
Gesomyrmex incertus |
2016-10-30 |
|
1,914 |
79.8 |
... that the fossil ant
Gesomyrmex incertus was described from a single queen's head?
|
|
Shriya Saran filmography |
2016-10-29 |
|
1,913 |
79.7 |
... that
Shriya Saran played the female lead in the 2007 film
Sivaji, India's most expensive film to that point?
|
|
Charles Matthews (basketball) |
2016-10-03 |
|
1,620 |
79.0 |
... that
Michigan Wolverines shooting guard
Charles Matthews preferred the
trombone and
skateboard to basketball in his youth?
|
|
Ouki |
2016-10-29 |
|
1,896 |
79.0 |
... that parts of the
Altiplano may have been covered by the lake
Ouki in the past?
|
|
Bhalchandra Dattatray Mondhe |
2016-10-03 |
|
1,600 |
78.1 |
... that at age 78,
Bhalchandra Dattatray Mondhe was awarded the
Padma Shri for his lifetime work in photography?
|
|
Howard Hawks |
2016-10-01 |
|
1,487 |
77.3 |
... that
RKO Pictures fired director
Howard Hawks after
Bringing Up Baby flopped, but the 1938
screwball comedy is now regarded as one of Hawks' masterpieces?
|
|
5-8 Club |
2016-10-13 |
|
1,788 |
74.5 |
... that both the
5-8 Club and
Matt's Bar, two
Minneapolis eateries on
the same street, claim to have invented the
Juicy Lucy cheeseburger?
|
|
Moise Poida |
2016-10-05 |
|
1,765 |
73.5 |
... that
Moise Poida, the
Vanuatuan national football team manager, has played against World Cup winner
Zinedine Zidane?
|
|
Billy White (basketball) |
2016-10-26 |
|
1,676 |
70.1 |
... that basketball player
Billy White started in the most games in
San Diego State history?
|
|
Divisional Railway Hospital, Golden Rock |
2016-10-25 |
|
1,638 |
69.2 |
... that the
Divisional Railway Hospital in
Golden Rock, Tiruchirappalli, India, is the oldest in
its zone?
|
|
List of songs recorded by Alyssa Milano |
2016-10-09 |
|
1,600 |
66.7 |
... that
Alyssa Milano released
four studio albums in Japan after appearing in ads there for pasta and chocolate milk?
|
|
Henri Laborit |
2016-10-14 |
|
1,577 |
65.7 |
... that
Henri Laborit recognized the psychiatric uses of
chlorpromazine, which helped reduce asylum populations and "change the face of serious mental illness"?
|
|
Charles Fernandez (pentathlete) |
2016-10-20 |
|
1,552 |
64.7 |
... that in 2015, nineteen-year-old
Charles Fernandez became the youngest
modern pentathlon champion in
Pan American Games history?
|
|
University of Dundee School of Medicine |
2016-10-07 |
|
1,543 |
64.3 |
... that the
University of Dundee School of Medicine has one of the biggest research complexes in the UK?
|
|
Between the Species |
2016-10-13 |
|
1,526 |
63.6 |
... that the philosophy journal
Between the Species took its name from a fictional periodical mentioned in a
George Abbe novel?
|
|
David Kustoff |
2016-10-19 |
|
1,525 |
63.5 |
... that as a United States Attorney,
David Kustoff prosecuted
John Ford following his arrest in
Operation Tennessee Waltz?
|
|
History of East Texas State University |
2016-10-19 |
|
1,516 |
63.1 |
... that
East Texas State University was, in part,
saved from closure in 1986 by 450 supporters making a bus trip to the
Texas State Capitol in Austin?
|
|
Zufar ibn al-Harith al-Kilabi |
2016-10-01 |
|
1,160 |
60.4 |
... that
Zufar al-Kilabi was given a high position in the
Umayyad court and army in return for abandoning his support for the rebellion of
Ibn al-Zubayr?
|
|
Winmark |
2016-10-28 |
|
1,440 |
60.3 |
... that a report around 2013 on American
used goods outlets put
Goodwill first with a 21% market share,
Winmark second with nearly 6%, and
The Salvation Army third with nearly 4%?
|
|
Revival (comics) |
2016-10-29 |
|
1,446 |
60.2 |
... that
Revival stars a character that writer
Tim Seeley had spent nearly 20 years developing?
|
|
Mary Kitson Clark |
2016-10-30 |
|
1,437 |
59.9 |
... that
Mary Kitson Clark's 1935 book A Gazetteer of Roman Remains in East Yorkshire is still a basic guide to the study of the Roman presence in northern England?
|
|
Zack Loveday |
2016-10-05 |
|
1,386 |
57.8 |
... that Duayne Boachie was nominated for a "Best Newcomer" award at the
2016 British Soap Awards for his portrayal of
Zack Loveday?
|
|
Cutervo National Park |
2016-10-20 |
|
1,385 |
57.7 |
... that 88
morphospecies of orchid have been identified in the
Cutervo National Park in Peru?
|
|
Clay Blaker |
2016-10-10 |
|
1,376 |
57.3 |
... that
George Strait recorded several songs written by
Clay Blaker?
|
|
Jhabua-Ratlam Lok Sabha constituency by-election, 2015 |
2016-10-10 |
|
1,370 |
57.1 |
... that in the
2015 Jhabua-Ratlam Lok Sabha constituency by-election,
Janata Dal (United)'s candidate was supported by five other parties?
|
|
Johannes Bilberg |
2016-10-21 |
|
1,369 |
57.0 |
... that Swedish theologian
Johannes Bilberg published a work on the
midnight sun?
|
|
Edward Iacobucci |
2016-10-04 |
|
1,356 |
56.5 |
... that
Edward Iacobucci has followed in his father
Frank Iacobucci's footsteps as
dean of the
University of Toronto Faculty of Law?
|
|
Order of Playa Girón |
2016-10-09 |
|
1,330 |
55.4 |
... that the Cuban national
Order of Playa Girón, named after the location of the
Bay of Pigs Invasion, was first presented to the cosmonaut
Yuri Gagarin?
|
|
BioRxiv |
2016-10-07 |
|
1,330 |
55.4 |
... that in the second year after its launch, biological
preprints hosted on
bioRxiv
repository were
tweeted about on over 20,000 occasions?
|
|
Sadie Gray |
2016-10-13 |
|
1,326 |
55.3 |
... that
Tony Award-winning Broadway actress and singer
Lillian Hayman played
Sadie Gray on the American soap opera
One Life to Live for 17 years?
|
|
Katharine Fuge |
2016-10-12 |
|
1,290 |
53.7 |
... that the soprano
Katharine Fuge took part in
John Eliot Gardiner's
Bach Cantata Pilgrimage, both as a member of the
Monteverdi Choir and as a soloist?
|
|
Ernest F. Schuck |
2016-10-20 |
|
1,273 |
53.0 |
... that
Ernest F. Schuck ran for re-election in 1977 on a platform supporting
New Jersey's new state income tax, as many residents of his district would see a net gain from the plan?
|
|
Doctor Savithri |
2016-10-24 |
|
1,242 |
53.0 |
... that the 1955
Tamil language film
Doctor Savithri is a contemporary adaptation of the story of
Savitri and Satyavan?
|
|
Erwin Wickert |
2016-10-29 |
|
1,272 |
53.0 |
... that former German ambassador to China
Erwin Wickert was an alumnus of
Dickinson College of
Carlisle, Pennsylvania?
|
|
Jordan |
2016-10-01 |
|
1,008
[d] |
52.5 |
... that
Jordan has remained one of the safest countries in the
Middle East, despite regional turmoil?
|
|
Lisbeth Hockey |
2016-10-23 |
|
1,206 |
52.0 |
... that
Lisbeth Hockey was the first nurse to be awarded an honorary fellowship by the
Royal College of General Practitioners?
|
|
Il Postino (opera) |
2016-10-28 |
|
1,226 |
51.3 |
... that
Daniel Catán's opera
Il Postino is set in Italy but sung in Spanish?
|
|
Martine van Hamel |
2016-10-22 |
|
1,220 |
50.8 |
... that
Martine van Hamel won a gold medal at the 1966
Varna International Ballet Competition, one of the most prestigious dance competitions in the world?
|
|
Emma Wiggs |
2016-10-02 |
|
804 |
48.3 |
... that
Emma Wiggs, a gold medallist in
paracanoe at the 2016 Paralympics, competed at the 2012 Paralympics as a
sitting volleyball player?
|
|
We're the Superhumans |
2016-10-01 |
|
910 |
47.3 |
... that
Channel 4's 2016 Paralympics trailer "
We're the Superhumans" featured a
big band comprised of musicians with disabilities?
|
|
Anthony Stover |
2016-10-29 |
|
1,118 |
46.6 |
... that basketball player
Anthony Stover sacrificed a higher salary in hopes of winning an
NBL Canada championship?
|
|
Cape Wickham Links |
2016-10-15 |
|
1,094 |
45.6 |
... that golfers share the 18-hole
Cape Wickham Links on King Island with
short-tailed shearwaters?
|
|
L. Tom Perry Special Collections Library |
2016-10-12 |
|
1,040 |
43.4 |
... that the
L. Tom Perry Special Collections Library at
Brigham Young University houses
Max Steiner's scores for
King Kong and
Gone with the Wind?
|
|
Jeffrey Fagan |
2016-10-08 |
|
1,035 |
43.1 |
... that research by Columbia Law School professor
Jeffrey Fagan into
stop-and-frisk in New York City was a major factor in Judge
Shira Scheindlin's decision to rule the practice unconstitutional in 2013?
|
|
Barbara Thoman Curtis |
2016-10-14 |
|
998 |
41.6 |
... that in 1974,
Barbara Thoman Curtis led the establishment of the
American Nurses Association's first political action committee?
|
|
Yale Institute of International Studies |
2016-10-15 |
|
970 |
40.4 |
... that the
Yale Institute of International Studies was a bastion of
international relations realism?
|
|
Gadis Arivia |
2016-10-09 |
|
926 |
38.6 |
... that
Gadis Arivia established Indonesia’s first journal of feminist theory?
|
|
Nursing Studies, University of Edinburgh |
2016-10-24 |
|
886 |
37.8 |
... that the
Nursing Studies Unit at the
University of Edinburgh was the first such department in a British university?
|
|
List of songs recorded by Siti Nurhaliza |
2016-10-16 |
 |
840 |
35.0 |
... that
Siti Nurhaliza (pictured)
has recorded songs in
Bahasa Malaysia,
Bahasa Indonesia, English,
Mandarin Chinese, and
Arabic?
|
|
Ein' feste Burg ist unser Gott, Op. 27 |
2016-10-23 |
|
811 |
35.0 |
... that
Max Reger composed the chorale fantasia
Ein' feste Burg ist unser Gott, Op. 27, for
Karl Straube, who premiered it before it was published?
|
|
Ralph Jean-Louis |
2016-10-19 |
|
810 |
33.8 |
... that
Ralph Jean-Louis managed the
Seychelles national football team to a gold medal at the
2011 Indian Ocean Island Games?
|
|
Zwölf Stücke, Op. 65 |
2016-10-08 |
|
763 |
31.8 |
... that a reviewer of
Zwölf Stücke, Op. 65, twelve organ pieces by
Max Reger, wrote that the composer was "still in his storm and stress period"?
|
|
2016 Baku GP2 Series round |
2016-10-23 |
|
562 |
24.2 |
... that
Antonio Giovinazzi achieved his first
GP2 series pole position at the
2016 Baku round and went on to win both the weekend's races?
|
|
Charles Brantley |
2016-10-09 |
|
528 |
22.0 |
... that
Charles Brantley was the first person in the
Tennessee Walking Horse industry to be inducted into the
Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame?
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