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Beef Bones Regulations 1997 |
2020-10-30 |
|
26,966 |
2,247.2 |
... that
it was illegal to sell a T-bone steak (example pictured) in Great Britain between 1997 and 1999?
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Coney Island |
2020-10-26 |
|
36,504 |
1,521.0 |
... that New York City's
Coney Island (pictured) has not been an island since the 1930s?
|
Lisa Nowak |
2020-10-23 |
|
35,286
[a] |
1,470.2 |
... that the 2019 film
Lucy in the Sky is loosely based on the life of astronaut
Lisa Nowak (pictured)?
|
Charles R. Ellet |
2020-10-16 |
|
32,981 |
1,374.2 |
... that 19-year-old
Union Army colonel
Charles R. Ellet (pictured) ran two separate steam-powered
ram ships past the batteries at
Vicksburg, Mississippi, during the American Civil War?
|
Makaiko Kheti
|
2020-10-31
|
|
9,627
|
802.2
|
... that Nepali author
Krishna Lal Adhikari (pictured) was sentenced to nine years in prison for publishing
a book about the cultivation of corn?
|
Krishna Lal Adhikari
|
6,198
|
516.5
|
Total |
15,824 |
1,318.7
|
Nottingham cheese riot |
2020-10-18 |
|
28,824 |
1,201.0 |
... that on this date in 1766, the mayor of Nottingham was knocked over by a cheese wheel (example pictured) whilst trying to stop the
Nottingham cheese riot?
|
United Airlines Flight 976 |
2020-10-20 |
|
28,364 |
1,181.8 |
... that an investment banker was arrested after
getting drunk and defecating on a food cart in the first-class section of an international flight 25 years ago today?
|
Aeroflot Flight 6709 |
2020-10-29 |
|
22,233 |
926.4 |
... that all three engines on
Aeroflot Flight 6709 stopped at the same time, resulting in a deadly crash?
|
Russian Bank |
2020-10-13 |
|
21,544 |
897.7 |
... that
Russian Bank, also known as Crapette or Tunj, has been called "probably the best game for two players ever invented"?
|
Gloria Swanson |
2020-10-20 |
|
20,885
[b] |
870.2 |
... that actress
Gloria Swanson created an inventions and patents company to employ refugee scientists whom she and her former husband Marquis
Henry de La Falaise (both pictured) helped escape
Nazi Germany?
|
Mount Melbourne |
2020-10-14 |
|
20,764 |
865.2 |
... that
mosses grow on
Mount Melbourne (pictured) in the cold Antarctic, thanks to volcanic heat?
|
Airborne Cigar |
2020-10-28 |
|
20,522 |
855.1 |
... that
Airborne Cigar confused German
night fighters by broadcasting sound over the voices of their ground controllers?
|
City of Ragusa |
2020-10-28 |
|
18,960 |
790.0 |
... that the 20-foot (6 m) 19th-century
yawl
City of Ragusa (pictured) crossed the Atlantic twice, and
President Grant came to see her?
|
2020 London Marathon |
2020-10-04 |
|
18,824
[c] |
784.3 |
... that
today's London Marathon is not being run on its usual course, but instead as 19.6 laps around
St James's Park, to prevent spectators from attending?
|
My Lonesome Cowboy
|
2020-10-12
|
|
12,735
|
530.6
|
... that
My Lonesome Cowboy, a sculpture created by artist
Takashi Murakami as a companion to his earlier
Hiropon, sold at auction for US$15.1 million – nearly four times the amount at which it had been valued?
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Hiropon (sculpture)
|
5,518
|
229.9
|
Total |
18,253 |
760.5
|
ChilledCow |
2020-10-31 |
|
9,098 |
758.1 |
... that
ChilledCow has one of the longest videos on
YouTube, totaling over 13,000 hours?
|
Spendius |
2020-10-26 |
|
17,328 |
722.0 |
... that when the army of
Spendius was surrounded, his men ate their horses, their prisoners, and then their slaves before forcing him to negotiate?
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Hooks Island |
2020-10-02 |
|
17,235 |
718.1 |
... that unauthorized persons are not allowed to go to
Hooks Island?
|
TWA Flight Center |
2020-10-04 |
|
17,094 |
712.3 |
... that contractors spent 5,500 man-hours on drawings for the design of the
TWA Flight Center (pictured)?
|
Nan Wood Graham |
2020-10-13 |
|
17,022 |
709.3 |
... that
Nan Wood Graham, the sister of painter
Grant Wood, posed for her brother's 1930 painting
American Gothic (pictured)?
|
Killing of Alton Manning |
2020-10-06 |
|
16,990 |
707.9 |
... that a 1998 inquest found that the
killing of Alton Manning was
unlawful, and a judicial review found that the decision to not bring charges was flawed, but no charges have yet been filed?
|
New York Tribune Building |
2020-10-12 |
|
16,982 |
707.6 |
... that the
New York Tribune Building, once New York City's second tallest building, "vanished almost without a trace, and barely a whimper"?
|
Huey Long |
2020-10-02 |
|
16,972
[d] |
707.2 |
... that President
Franklin D. Roosevelt regarded Senator
Huey Long of Louisiana as "one of the two most dangerous men in America"?
|
Gion A. Caminada |
2020-10-17 |
|
16,474 |
686.4 |
... that Swiss architect
Gion A. Caminada designed a "death room" (pictured) for
Vrin, his native village?
|
Red, White and Blue (ship) |
2020-10-09 |
|
16,108 |
671.2 |
... that
Red, White and Blue (pictured), a 26-foot (7.9 m)
lifeboat, was believed in 1866 to be the smallest ship yet to cross the Atlantic?
|
Morrison Heady |
2020-10-06 |
|
16,018 |
667.4 |
... that deafblind author
Morrison Heady (pictured) invented assistive devices throughout his life, including a self-opening gate, a steam-powered embossing press, and a "talking glove"?
|
Saracen's Head, London |
2020-10-19 |
|
14,534 |
605.6 |
... that
Charles Dickens used the
Saracen's Head (plaque pictured) as the place for
Nicholas Nickleby's first encounter with the one-eyed schoolmaster Wackford Squeers?
|
Honey Badger (men's rights) |
2020-10-04 |
|
14,284 |
595.2 |
... that women called
Honey Badgers are among the most prominent
men's rights activists?
|
"Welcome to the LBJ Ranch!" |
2020-10-30 |
|
6,859 |
571.6 |
... that on the 1965 comedy album
"Welcome to the LBJ Ranch!",
Nelson Rockefeller (pictured) is heard saying that he gave his wife the states of
New York,
New Jersey, and
Connecticut as an anniversary gift?
|
New York World Building |
2020-10-09 |
|
13,328 |
555.3 |
... that the
New York World Building, once New York City's tallest building, was demolished to make room for a ramp to the
Brooklyn Bridge?
|
Watching paint dry |
2020-10-05 |
|
13,280 |
553.4 |
... that the
British Board of Film Classification was forced to
watch paint dry?
|
Cleveland School fire |
2020-10-30 |
|
6,586 |
548.9 |
... that the
Cleveland School fire, the deadliest in
South Carolina history, took place on the day the school was to close for good?
|
Sacco-Vanzetti Story |
2020-10-01 |
|
13,142 |
547.6 |
... that the 1960 television play
Sacco-Vanzetti Story was called "one of the most controversial ever seen on television"?
|
The Dalek Invasion of Earth |
2020-10-26 |
|
13,002 |
541.7 |
... that one critic wrote that he had banned his children from watching
Doctor Who due to the ending of the first episode of
The Dalek Invasion of Earth?
|
The Plot to Kill Stalin |
2020-10-05 |
|
12,938 |
539.1 |
... that the Soviet Union called
The Plot to Kill Stalin "filthy slander" and retaliated by closing the
CBS news bureau in Moscow?
|
Chesapeake Bay Bridge |
2020-10-27 |
|
12,594 |
524.8 |
... that
nervous drivers can purchase a shuttle ride to get across the
Chesapeake Bay Bridge?
|
All Gas No Brakes |
2020-10-12 |
|
12,500 |
520.8 |
... that the YouTube channel
All Gas No Brakes contains interviews with
flat earthers,
QAnon adherents, and other groups that its host says represent "true Americana"?
|
Cross of Camargue
|
2020-10-02
|
|
11,525
|
480.2
|
... that both the
Cross of Camargue (example pictured) and the
anchored cross use a
cross and
anchor to represent a relationship to the sea?
|
Anchored cross
|
878
|
36.6
|
Total |
12,403 |
516.8
|
German Girl Shrine |
2020-10-17 |
|
12,076 |
503.2 |
... that visitors leave offerings of makeup and Barbie dolls at
a shrine to a German girl who died in Singapore in 1914?
|
Sipiniq |
2020-10-19 |
|
11,790 |
491.2 |
... that the
Inuit identity of
sipiniq referred to individuals who were believed to have changed their physical sex at the moment of birth, but were socialized as members of their original gender?
|
Heji Shin |
2020-10-14 |
|
11,467 |
477.8 |
... that photographer
Heji Shin created Big Cocks, a series of portraits of roosters that she admired for their "angry cock energy"?
|
The Ford 50th Anniversary Show |
2020-10-17 |
|
11,232 |
468.0 |
... that
a 1953 television special broadcast simultaneously on
NBC and
CBS attracted 60 million viewers and was called "a milestone in the cultural life of the '50s"?
|
Thomas Payne (soldier) |
2020-10-22 |
|
10,724 |
446.8 |
... that
Thomas Patrick Payne received the US
Medal of Honor for the heroism he displayed five years ago today while liberating hostages during the offensive against
ISIL in northern Iraq?
|
Error has no rights |
2020-10-02 |
|
10,479 |
436.6 |
... that according to the superseded Catholic doctrine that "
error has no rights", non-Catholics did not deserve civil or political rights?
|
Castillo de Santa Catalina (La Palma) |
2020-10-27 |
|
10,456 |
435.6 |
... that the
Castillo de Santa Catalina (pictured) in
Santa Cruz de La Palma is the only preserved
Habsburg-period castle in the Canary Islands?
|
Fish for finance |
2020-10-15 |
|
10,173 |
423.9 |
... that the
fish-for-finance trade-off in
EU–UK trade negotiations pits an industry that accounts for nearly seven per cent of the UK's
GDP against one with revenues less than those of
Harrods?
|
A Town Has Turned to Dust (Playhouse 90) |
2020-10-09 |
|
9,908 |
412.8 |
... that sponsors refused to back the lynching story
A Town Has Turned to Dust until writer
Rod Serling moved the setting out of the
South and changed the victim from black to Mexican?
|
Titanic International Society |
2020-10-11 |
|
9,831 |
409.6 |
... that the
Titanic International Society helped identify some of the unknown victims of the
Titanic disaster buried in
Halifax, Canada (wreath-laying pictured)?
|
Armoured warfare of ISIL |
2020-10-31 |
|
4,872 |
406.0 |
... that the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
fielded more than a hundred tanks in Syria and Iraq?
|
Gnomes (book) |
2020-10-17 |
|
9,434 |
393.1 |
... that
a book about the life of gnomes remained on U.S. non-fiction best-seller lists for more than a year?
|
A Night to Remember (Kraft Television Theatre) |
2020-10-15 |
|
9,384 |
391.0 |
... that
A Night to Remember, a live broadcast about
Titanic's final night, featured 107 actors and 31 sets, and proved that "TV occasionally can rise to great heights"?
|
Khalili Collection of Spanish Metalwork |
2020-10-15 |
|
9,355 |
389.8 |
... that the
Khalili Collection of Spanish Metalwork includes a Moroccan-style dagger (pictured) previously owned by King
Alfonso XII of Spain?
|
Greek Volunteer Legion |
2020-10-03 |
|
9,168 |
382.0 |
... that the
Greek Volunteer Legion (pictured) fought on the side of
Russia during the
Crimean War?
|
Oaths to Hitler |
2020-10-23 |
|
9,118 |
379.9 |
... that the
oath to Hitler sworn by members of the SS may have inspired the
Hitler oath sworn by members of the Wehrmacht after 1934?
|
Ontopoetics |
2020-10-20 |
|
8,876 |
369.8 |
... that
ontopoetics holds that the world is psychoactive and can respond to us if engaged?
|
Bang the Drum Slowly (United States Steel Hour) |
2020-10-23 |
|
8,863 |
369.3 |
... that
Bang the Drum Slowly, in which
Paul Newman stepped in and out of character to double as a
Greek chorus, was called "daring television of rare quality"?
|
Seething Lane |
2020-10-01 |
|
8,606 |
358.6 |
... that after an erotic encounter with a young wife in London's
Seething Lane, diarist
Samuel Pepys bought the lady eight pairs of gloves?
|
Giovanni Bianchi (physician) |
2020-10-30 |
|
4,270 |
355.8 |
... that a monumental plaque to Italian physician
Giovanni Bianchi states: Nascitur infelix, vixit infelicior, obiit infelicissime (He was born unhappy, he lived more unhappy, he died maximally unhappy)?
|
The Interior of the Palm House on the Pfaueninsel Near Potsdam |
2020-10-22 |
|
8,492 |
353.8 |
... that the lounging
odalisques in
The Interior of the Palm House (detail pictured) were added as exotic objects, a common
Orientalist trope?
|
Death of Jeffrey Epstein |
2020-10-10 |
|
8,378
[e] |
349.1 |
... that in public opinion polls, a majority of Americans believe that
Jeffrey Epstein's death was a homicide?
|
Drinking fountains in Philadelphia
|
2020-10-14
|
|
5,300
|
220.9
|
... that
Wilson Cary Swann organized the construction of several
drinking fountains in Philadelphia, in part to stop people from drinking alcohol?
|
Wilson Cary Swann
|
2,932
|
122.2
|
Total |
8,233 |
343.0
|
Pie in American cuisine |
2020-10-30 |
|
4,106 |
342.1 |
... that banana cream pie was ranked the
favorite pie of the United States Armed Forces in the 1950s?
|
Tusha Hiti |
2020-10-28 |
|
8,118 |
338.2 |
... that the queen and others apparently used to watch
Malla kings taking baths in the
Tusha Hiti?
|
Xenoracism |
2020-10-08 |
|
8,114 |
338.1 |
... that
xenoracism is a term that describes prejudice within one racial group, such as discrimination against Eastern European migrant workers in Western Europe?
|
Bill Nation |
2020-10-01 |
|
8,074 |
336.4 |
... that
Bill Nation rejected an attempt by the
American Nazi Party to establish a headquarters in
Cheyenne, Wyoming?
|
List of U.S. Public Health Service Hospitals
|
2020-10-17
|
|
4,541
|
189.2
|
... that when the
Bureau of Medical Services was ordered to shut down all
U.S. Public Health Service Hospitals, the director of
the Seattle hospital simply refused to stop admitting patients?
|
Bureau of Medical Services
|
3,230
|
134.6
|
Total |
7,772 |
323.8
|
Punic Wars |
2020-10-16 |
|
7,702
[f] |
320.9 |
... that the first of the
Punic Wars began in 264 BC, and the third and last ended 118 years later?
|
(523764) 2014 WC510 |
2020-10-14 |
|
7,701 |
320.9 |
... that
(523764) 2014 WC510 is a
binary,
trans-Neptunian object that orbits the Sun only once every 245.8 years?
|
Kathleen Byerly |
2020-10-07 |
|
7,682 |
320.1 |
... that
Kathleen Byerly was one of six sailors who sued the U.S. Navy for the right to serve on ships?
|
California Border Protection Stations |
2020-10-23 |
|
7,600 |
316.7 |
... that
California maintains
16 checkpoints along its borders with
Oregon,
Nevada, and
Arizona to help protect against an invasion by exotic
lifeforms?
|
Robert Evans (journalist) |
2020-10-24 |
|
7,557 |
314.9 |
... that journalist
Robert Evans had his hand broken by a member of the
Proud Boys while covering the
George Floyd protests in Portland, Oregon?
|
Emma Teeling |
2020-10-03 |
|
7,556 |
314.9 |
... that scientist
Emma Teeling of the BatLab in Dublin studies a genus of bats which do not appear to die of old age?
|
P.O.W. (United States Steel Hour) |
2020-10-25 |
|
7,503 |
312.6 |
... that
P.O.W. was based on interviews with repatriated prisoners about communist "brainwashing treatment" during the
Korean War?
|
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Playhouse 90) |
2020-10-29 |
|
7,328 |
305.4 |
... that
Ernest Hemingway watched the
television adaptation of For Whom the Bell Tolls from a flea-bitten motel as the screenwriter held the "
rabbit ears" for him?
|
Pell's equation |
2020-10-19 |
|
7,258 |
302.4 |
... that the solution to
Pell's equation was mistakenly attributed to mathematician
John Pell?
|
Excelsior Power Company Building |
2020-10-03 |
|
6,970 |
290.4 |
... that the
Excelsior Power Company Building, the oldest known surviving power plant in
Manhattan, now contains apartments?
|
BloodSisters (1995 film) |
2020-10-31 |
|
3,468 |
289.0 |
... that footage from the 1995 documentary film
BloodSisters: Leather, Dykes and Sadomasochism was played for a U.S. congressional committee during its
hearings on the National Endowment for the Arts?
|
White House COVID-19 outbreak |
2020-10-08 |
|
6,837
[g] |
284.9 |
... that a
COVID-19 outbreak at the White House involved at least 35 people, including
the President,
First Lady, three senators, and
a governor?
|
Issy Wong |
2020-10-15 |
|
6,834 |
284.8 |
... that cricketer
Issy Wong can solve a
Rubik's Cube in seconds?
|
Hearts in Bondage |
2020-10-05 |
|
6,700 |
279.2 |
... that the 1936 film
Hearts in Bondage is a rare example of a Hollywood film depicting naval battles of the
Civil War?
|
Jürg Conzett |
2020-10-14 |
|
6,682 |
278.4 |
... that Swiss civil engineer
Jürg Conzett designed a
footbridge that collapsed in a
rockslide after three years of use?
|
Cups (song) |
2020-10-31 |
|
3,237 |
269.8 |
... that the song "
Cups (When I'm Gone)" features
Anna Kendrick playing percussion with a
cup, a skill she learned by watching viral videos?
|
Marygate |
2020-10-24 |
|
6,387 |
266.1 |
... that the first large
bathhouse in
York was built at the bottom of
Marygate (pictured) in 1836?
|
John H. Hill |
2020-10-08 |
|
6,026 |
251.1 |
... that
John H. Hill, born into slavery, was the first African-American lawyer in
West Virginia and the second president of
West Virginia State University?
|
In Praise of Polytheism |
2020-10-24 |
|
5,984 |
249.3 |
... that the essay "
In Praise of Polytheism" dismisses all similarities between
Enlightenment philosophy and
striptease?
|
Nabela Qoser |
2020-10-21 |
|
5,956 |
248.2 |
... that
Nabela Qoser, a Hong Kong news reporter of Pakistani descent, learnt
Cantonese as a child by watching television?
|
Charles Butters |
2020-10-21 |
|
5,946 |
247.8 |
... that American mine owner
Charles Butters risked execution by firing squad to protect his mines during the 1926–27
Nicaraguan Civil War?
|
Cefnllys Castle |
2020-10-13 |
|
5,932 |
247.2 |
... that a dispute between
Llywelyn ap Gruffudd and
Roger Mortimer over the rebuilding of
Cefnllys Castle was one of the factors that led to
Edward I's conquest of Wales?
|
The Ghost and the Guest |
2020-10-03 |
|
5,865 |
244.4 |
... that
The Ghost and the Guest is one in a long line of Hollywood films that validate skepticism about
paranormal activity by depicting "a haunted house that is not truly haunted"?
|
Japan National Route 37 |
2020-10-21 |
|
5,860 |
244.2 |
... that
Japan National Route 37 (pictured) was the only evacuation route for the town of
Abuta during the March 2000 eruption of
Mount Usu?
|
Constance Weldon |
2020-10-12 |
|
5,860 |
244.2 |
... that the American tubist
Constance Weldon "fell in love with the tuba" after her father brought one home from a pawn shop?
|
Ideal polyhedron |
2020-10-05 |
|
5,850 |
243.8 |
... that unlike their Euclidean equivalents, the
ideal regular tetrahedron, octahedron, and dodecahedron can all tile
hyperbolic space (pictured)?
|
Okama Report |
2020-10-11 |
|
5,834 |
243.1 |
... that reprinted editions of the 1989 manga series
Okama Report contain a postscript from an LGBT-rights group noting that the series contains exaggerated and inaccurate depictions of LGBT people?
|
Jacki Sorensen |
2020-10-05 |
|
5,808 |
242.0 |
... that
aerobics pioneer
Jacki Sorensen was voted the best dancer in the 1962
Miss California pageant?
|
Profaning a monument |
2020-10-31 |
|
2,891 |
240.9 |
... that in Poland, hanging a
rainbow flag on a statue
may be a crime?
|
Andy Spahn |
2020-10-06 |
|
5,750 |
239.6 |
... that political consultant
Andy Spahn said that Cuba is "nothing like" how it has been portrayed by U.S. politicians?
|
Judgment at Nuremberg (Playhouse 90) |
2020-10-19 |
|
5,586 |
232.7 |
... that
Claude Rains's reference to the Nazis' "gas ovens" was cut from the audio during the broadcast of
Judgment at Nuremberg due to an objection by a gas-company sponsor?
|
Albert Johnson (New Mexico politician) |
2020-10-15 |
|
5,570 |
232.1 |
... that
Albert Johnson was the first black mayor in
New Mexico?
|
Ernestine Gymnasium, Gotha |
2020-10-07 |
|
5,558 |
231.6 |
... that
Schopenhauer was expelled from the
Ernestinum (pictured) at
Gotha?
|
Robert De Niro |
2020-10-07 |
|
5,531
[h] |
230.5 |
... that actor
Robert De Niro gained 60 pounds (27 kg) and trained as a boxer for a year to portray
Jake LaMotta in
Raging Bull?
|
Christian views on lying |
2020-10-27 |
|
5,476 |
228.2 |
... that
Saint Augustine believed that
lying is un-Christian even when done to save a life?
|
Warner Bros. Movie World |
2020-10-30 |
|
2,718 |
226.5 |
... that
Batman and the
Joker parade down the street daily at
Warner Bros. Movie World?
|
Doppler radio direction finding |
2020-10-25 |
|
5,432 |
226.3 |
... that
Doppler radio direction finding is capable of measuring the direction of a stationary radio transmitter despite the
Doppler effect being a phenomenon of movement?
|
The Caribbean Mystery |
2020-10-21 |
|
5,402 |
225.1 |
... that the swamp scenes in
The Caribbean Mystery feature a 350 lb (160 kg)
alligator named Ben, who was appearing in his 435th film?
|
Extinction: The Facts |
2020-10-30 |
|
2,695 |
224.6 |
... that a conservation professor who appeared in
Extinction: The Facts described it as "surprisingly radical" for a
David Attenborough documentary?
|
Anton Ausserer |
2020-10-20 |
|
5,316 |
221.5 |
... that before he died aged 46,
Anton Ausserer had described 38 new species of
tarantula?
|
Berivan İçen |
2020-10-14 |
|
5,299 |
220.8 |
... that
Turkey women's national footballer
Berivan İçen scored 11 goals in a girls' under-13 league match that ended 15–0 for her team?
|
B. Altman and Company Building |
2020-10-02 |
|
5,197 |
216.5 |
... that a
former department store building in New York City was converted into a graduate school, publisher's offices, and research library?
|
Kolkata Suburban Railway |
2020-10-12 |
|
5,164 |
215.2 |
... that
Kolkata, the smallest by area of India's six
A-1 cities, has the country's largest
suburban rail system by track length and number of stations (one pictured)?
|
Fratelli tutti |
2020-10-30 |
|
2,570 |
214.1 |
... that
Pope Francis's
encyclical
Fratelli tutti is the first to be signed outside
Rome?
|
Büşra Kuru |
2020-10-11 |
|
5,078 |
211.6 |
... that
Büşra Kuru, who began playing football every day at age six encouraged by her footballer brother, is a member of a German club and of the
Turkey national team?
|
India–Tibet relations |
2020-10-08 |
|
4,930 |
205.4 |
... that the number of
Tibetan refugees in India decreased by 44 per cent between 2011 and 2018?
|
Dan Bellomy |
2020-10-08 |
|
4,917 |
204.9 |
... that an impromptu sound-check by
Dan Bellomy turned into the first track on an album?
|
Jenny Bui |
2020-10-29 |
|
4,908 |
204.5 |
... that designs by nail artist
Jenny Bui have become part of
Cardi B's signature look?
|
Myra Kathleen Hughes |
2020-10-15 |
|
4,865 |
202.7 |
... that
Myra Kathleen Hughes's Vanishing London series captured several landmarks before they were demolished?
|
Slavic creation myth |
2020-10-24 |
|
4,864 |
202.7 |
... that according to
Slavic mythology,
the creation of the world required the cooperation of a "good god" and an "evil god"?
|
Food at the 1964 New York World's Fair |
2020-10-13 |
|
4,858 |
202.4 |
... that
Belgian waffles
were introduced to the United States at the
1964 New York World's Fair?
|
Treaty of Ripon |
2020-10-28 |
|
4,852 |
202.2 |
... that following the
Treaty of Ripon, signed on this day in 1640, a Scottish army had their expenses paid by England, while occupying northern England?
|
Anoplolepis custodiens |
2020-10-04 |
|
4,805 |
200.2 |
... that despite being very aggressive towards other ants, the
common pugnacious ant is tolerant towards ants of its own species from other colonies?
|
Santa Fe Freight Building |
2020-10-06 |
|
4,796 |
199.8 |
... that the
Santa Fe Freight Building in
Fort Worth, Texas, was redeveloped as a market space with restaurants in 2002 and then as
a university satellite campus in 2007?
|
Ivy Hooks |
2020-10-31 |
|
2,386 |
198.9 |
... that
Ivy Hooks was one of only two women assigned to the original design team for the
Space Shuttle orbiter?
|
Bernard Fils-Aimé |
2020-10-08 |
|
4,676 |
194.8 |
... that
Bernard Fils-Aimé, CEO of the cell carrier
Comcel Haiti, was mistaken for
Reggie Fils-Aimé by the
Miami Herald?
|
Thyone roscovita |
2020-10-05 |
|
4,665 |
194.4 |
... that all that can be seen of
Thyone roscovita is often a plume of branching tentacles?
|
David Gardner-Medwin |
2020-10-31 |
|
2,329 |
194.1 |
... that when pediatric neurologist
David Gardner-Medwin retired, it took four doctors to replace him?
|
Julián Is a Mermaid |
2020-10-26 |
|
4,654 |
193.9 |
... that the children's picture book
Julián Is a Mermaid was initially going to be about
drag balls, until
the author learned about the meaning of mermaids to
transgender people?
|
Guy Gibson Campbell |
2020-10-30 |
|
2,306 |
192.2 |
... that American doctor
Guy Gibson Campbell served as personal physician to Ethiopian emperor
Haile Selassie?
|
KCIT-TV (Kansas City) |
2020-10-07 |
|
4,514 |
188.1 |
... that two weeks after the owner of a Kansas City television station declared that "
KCIT-TV is here to stay", it ceased broadcasting?
|
Native American tribes in Maryland |
2020-10-21 |
|
4,466 |
186.1 |
... that
Paleo-Indians began
inhabiting Maryland around 10,000 BC?
|
Samuel Corson |
2020-10-24 |
|
4,464 |
186.0 |
... that being introduced to Whiskey enabled one of
Samuel Corson's patients to regain his speech after 26 years?
|
National Covenant |
2020-10-12 |
|
4,464 |
186.0 |
... that the
National Covenant was signed after protests possibly started by
Jenny Geddes throwing a stool at the dean of
St Giles'?
|
Adam Puławski |
2020-10-17 |
|
4,441 |
185.0 |
... that 130 historians protested the
Institute of National Remembrance's removal of
Adam Puławski from his position researching Polish–Jewish relations during World War II?
|
Verfassungsblog |
2020-10-25 |
|
4,432 |
184.6 |
... that
a law blog has been cited by the
supreme courts of Poland and
of Germany?
|
Anna Langfus |
2020-10-01 |
|
4,407 |
183.6 |
... that Polish-French author
Anna Langfus, a
Holocaust survivor, wrote novels that had her own life experiences interwoven into the fiction?
|
Tahtakale Hamam |
2020-10-27 |
|
4,397 |
183.2 |
... that the
Tahtakale Hamam, one of the oldest public bathhouses in
Istanbul, now serves as a shopping center?
|
William Cuming (Royal Navy officer) |
2020-10-23 |
|
4,369 |
182.0 |
... that
William Cuming missed the
Battle of Trafalgar because he had to take
Robert Calder back to England for a court-martial?
|
Victoria Regina (Hallmark Hall of Fame) |
2020-10-16 |
|
4,356 |
181.5 |
... that a makeup artist used a rubber mask and fake nose to age
Julie Harris by 60 years in the Emmy-winning "program of the year"
Victoria Regina?
|
Metropolitan (bar) |
2020-10-31 |
|
2,132 |
177.6 |
... that the New York City gay bar
Metropolitan is situated at a site formerly occupied by a colonial-era cemetery?
|
Pop Maynard |
2020-10-02 |
|
4,246 |
176.9 |
... that traditional English singer
Pop Maynard was also captain of a world-champion marbles team?
|
Wahan Ke Log |
2020-10-09 |
|
4,241 |
176.7 |
... that
Wahan Ke Log is one of the earliest science-fiction films made in India?
|
Nene Hieda |
2020-10-23 |
|
4,159 |
173.3 |
... that Japanese voice actress
Nene Hieda was a member of a
3x3 basketball team?
|
Yaen |
2020-10-22 |
|
4,138 |
172.4 |
... that the
Japanese pop group
Yaen, originally formed to perform a parody song on a television variety series, went on to produce three top-ten albums?
|
Alice Kahn |
2020-10-18 |
|
4,102 |
170.9 |
... that Berkeley humorist
Alice Kahn described the
Grateful Dead's
Jerry Garcia as a "hippie abominable snowman"—and he liked it?
|
L'eggs |
2020-10-31 |
|
2,050 |
170.9 |
... that actress
Jamie Lee Curtis insured her legs for $1 million after signing an endorsement with
L'eggs pantyhose?
|
Aran Bell |
2020-10-04 |
|
4,096 |
170.6 |
... that
Aran Bell, who was profiled at age 11 in the dance documentary
First Position, became a
principal dancer for the American Ballet Theatre at age 21?
|
Hurricane Dolores (2015) |
2020-10-19 |
|
4,090 |
170.4 |
... that thunderstorms from
Hurricane Dolores flooded the
Moreno Valley, destroyed a bridge on
Interstate 10, and killed a man by lightning strike?
|
Hounslow West tube station |
2020-10-25 |
|
4,034 |
168.1 |
... that
Hounslow West is the only station on the
London Underground to be step-free for
manual-wheelchair users only?
|
Continental Iron Works
|
2020-10-03
|
|
3,144
|
131.0
|
... that New York's
Continental Iron Works, founded in 1861 by
Thomas F. Rowland, built the
Union Navy warship that engaged in the
first battle between ironclads?
|
Thomas F. Rowland
|
862
|
35.9
|
Total |
4,006 |
166.9
|
English Law (Application) Act 1962 |
2020-10-22 |
|
3,998 |
166.6 |
... that the
English Law (Application) Act 1962 ended legal recognition of seduction as a civil offence in Gibraltar?
|
Traditions of Pomona College |
2020-10-01 |
|
3,973 |
165.5 |
... that as one of
its campus traditions,
Pomona College reveres the number
47, having the bell in its clock tower chime on the 47th minute of the hour?
|
Hermine Finck |
2020-10-25 |
|
3,938 |
164.1 |
... that soprano
Hermine Finck became the third wife of
Eugen d'Albert (couple pictured), who composed songs and a cantata based on
The Little Mermaid for her?
|
Division of Global Migration and Quarantine |
2020-10-29 |
|
3,928 |
163.7 |
... that the
Division of Global Migration and Quarantine can legally detain a person entering the U.S. who may have one of nine quarantinable contagious diseases?
|
Nogiwa Park |
2020-10-20 |
|
3,926 |
163.6 |
... that
Nogiwa Park was built around a 17th-century reservoir?
|
Anna Tifu |
2020-10-11 |
|
3,867 |
161.1 |
... that
Anna Tifu, a violinist from
Cagliari, Sardinia, who won the 2007
George Enescu International Competition, plays a 1716
Stradivarius?
|
Loretta Preska |
2020-10-28 |
|
3,834 |
159.8 |
... that U.S. district judge
Loretta Preska has presided over criminal cases against a basketball coach, a computer hacker, a Somali pirate, and a
Rikers Island guard?
|
Siege of Trichinopoly (1743) |
2020-10-01 |
|
3,830 |
159.6 |
... that the
Maratha Empire's direct rule came to an end in the
Carnatic region when
Murari Rao surrendered to
Nizam I after the
1743 siege of Trichinopoly?
|
Dina Pomeranz |
2020-10-26 |
|
3,789 |
157.9 |
... that
Dina Pomeranz was ranked highest in social-media influence by the
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in its 2019 ranking of economists?
|
Brown Meggs |
2020-10-10 |
|
3,752 |
156.3 |
... that
Paul McCartney named a puppy after
Brown Meggs, who signed
the Beatles to
Capitol Records?
|
Socorro Sánchez del Rosario |
2020-10-10 |
|
3,721 |
155.0 |
... that a prominent obituary of
Socorro Sánchez, the first feminist journalist in the Dominican Republic, criticized her as "manly" and too political?
|
No Time for Sergeants (United States Steel Hour) |
2020-10-20 |
|
3,700 |
154.2 |
... that The New York Times review of the 1955 television play
No Time for Sergeants questioned whether
Andy Griffith was "versatile enough to qualify for other important roles"?
|
Dilan Yeşim Taşkın |
2020-10-07 |
|
3,680 |
153.4 |
... that Austrian-born Turkish footballer
Dilan Yeşim Taşkın became a member of the
Turkey women's national team although she initially wanted to play for the
Austrian national team?
|
Anthony J. Costello |
2020-10-28 |
|
3,679 |
153.3 |
... that
Anthony J. Costello and associates proposed in 2005 that the nerves within the "veil of Aphrodite" mainly supplied the
prostate rather than the
corpora cavernosa?
|
Timothy S. Matthews |
2020-10-30 |
|
1,828 |
152.3 |
... that Rear Admiral
Timothy S. Matthews received an award from the
Association of Old Crows?
|
L. Roy Houck |
2020-10-11 |
|
3,644 |
151.8 |
... that
Dances with Wolves was filmed on a 60,000-acre (24,000 ha) ranch owned by
L. Roy Houck, a former
lieutenant governor of South Dakota?
|
List of Arjuna Award recipients (2000–2009) |
2020-10-21 |
|
3,612 |
150.5 |
... that sprinter
Milkha Singh
refused to accept the
Arjuna Award, one of India's top sporting honours, citing undeserving awardees?
|
Majestic, Leeds |
2020-10-08 |
|
3,560 |
148.3 |
... that the former site of the
Majestic Cinema,
Leeds, which was gutted by fire in 2014, will become the national headquarters of
Channel 4?
|
The Lodger (novel) |
2020-10-02 |
|
3,538 |
147.4 |
... that
The Lodger, released in 1913, was the first fictional work based on the story of the serial killer known as
Jack the Ripper?
|
Singt dem Herrn ein neues Lied (Kempf) |
2020-10-26 |
|
3,516 |
146.5 |
... that the hymn "
Singt dem Herrn ein neues Lied" (Sing to the Lord a new song) was written in both French and German in Nazi-controlled
Alsace in 1941?
|
Terpios hoshinota |
2020-10-30 |
|
1,736 |
144.6 |
... that
Terpios hoshinota, a sponge that overgrows and kills corals, has spread extensively since being detected in Guam in 1973?
|
Limpa bread |
2020-10-10 |
|
3,428 |
142.8 |
... that
limpa, a sweet Scandinavian rye bread, was historically leavened with fermented brewer's
wort?
|
Angela Haseltine Pozzi |
2020-10-09 |
|
3,356 |
139.8 |
... that
Angela Haseltine Pozzi creates large sculptures of marine life out of plastic waste?
|
August 2020 LGBT protests in Poland |
2020-10-30 |
|
1,664 |
138.7 |
... that 47 people, including bystanders and an amateur reporter,
were arrested in Warsaw at a protest against the detention of
LGBT activist
Margot in August 2020?
|
Bridges Auditorium |
2020-10-06 |
|
3,322 |
138.4 |
... that when the 2,500-seat
Bridges Auditorium was completed in
Claremont, California, in 1931, its capacity was equal to the population of the entire city?
|
Etazhi |
2020-10-07 |
|
3,319 |
138.3 |
... that the title and cover art for
Molchat Doma's 2018 album
Etazhi reference the
Stalinist and
socialist-realist architecture that inspired its lyrical themes?
|
Hans Ustrud |
2020-10-05 |
|
3,294 |
137.2 |
... that
Hans Ustrud was the first native-born
South Dakotan to be elected to statewide office?
|
Aplysina aerophoba |
2020-10-07 |
|
3,280 |
136.7 |
... that the yellow sponge
Aplysina aerophoba turns blue when exposed to air?
|
Taneko Suzuki |
2020-10-31 |
|
1,617 |
134.8 |
... that
Taneko Suzuki, an expert in protein chemistry, led the development of a fish-based product that had the texture of hamburger and could be seasoned to taste like beef?
|
2020 European Masters (2) |
2020-10-16 |
|
3,217 |
134.0 |
... that
Mark Davis withdrew from the
second 2020 European Masters after his
snooker cue was stolen?
|
Niu Yingzhen |
2020-10-19 |
|
3,126 |
130.2 |
... that the 8th-century Chinese poet
Niu Yingzhen was reportedly able to learn texts by dreaming that she ate the actual copies, then discussed them with deceased male scholars?
|
Step aerobics |
2020-10-03 |
|
3,080 |
128.3 |
... that
step aerobics attracted 11.4 million people in 1995?
|
Scatterlings of Africa |
2020-10-06 |
|
3,056 |
127.4 |
... that the commercial success of
Juluka's "
Scatterlings of Africa" enabled band co-founder
Johnny Clegg to leave his academic position as an anthropologist and become a full-time musician?
|
Angela Russell (politician) |
2020-10-13 |
|
3,056 |
127.3 |
... that state representative
Angela Russell introduced legislation to recognize
Martin Luther King Jr. Day in
Montana?
|
Hargovinddas Kantawala |
2020-10-25 |
|
2,960 |
123.3 |
... that
Hargovinddas Kantawala defeated
Mahatma Gandhi to become the president of the
Gujarati Sahitya Parishad in 1919?
|
Helen Kotas Hirsch |
2020-10-28 |
|
2,912 |
121.4 |
... that
horn player
Helen Kotas Hirsch began performing with the
Woman's Symphony Orchestra of Chicago at the age of 14?
|
King of Beasts |
2020-10-27 |
|
2,902 |
120.9 |
... that
King of Beasts, a documentary about lion
trophy hunting, was filmed during the same month as the
killing of Cecil the lion?
|
List of stupas in Nepal |
2020-10-10 |
|
2,891 |
120.5 |
... that according to legend,
Swayambhunath (pictured), one of the oldest
stupas in Nepal, came out of a
sacred lotus at the centre of Kathmandu when the city was
a lake?
|
1870 Londonderry City by-election |
2020-10-29 |
|
2,858 |
119.1 |
... that the results of the
1870 Londonderry City by-election were cited as evidence of co-operation between
Episcopalian and
Presbyterian voters in Ulster?
|
Bradford Island |
2020-10-04 |
|
2,848 |
118.6 |
... that the decommissioned minesweeper
USS Lucid was used as a floating warehouse by a scrap-metal dealer on
Bradford Island for 18 years?
|
Katrin Lea Tag |
2020-10-29 |
|
2,833 |
118.0 |
... that
Katrin Lea Tag, named the 2020
Scenic Designer of the Year, created sets and costumes for
Die Schutzbefohlenen (production pictured) at the
Burgtheater, and for
Barrie Kosky's
Salome at
Oper Frankfurt?
|
Dawa Dem |
2020-10-09 |
|
2,806 |
116.9 |
... that
Dawa Dem was the first woman to join the
Bhutanese civil service and to become a member of the
Royal Advisory Council?
|
The Northern Messenger |
2020-10-18 |
|
2,800 |
116.6 |
... that the weekly radio show
The Northern Messenger read out personal messages from around the world to friends and family in the Arctic who could not be reached in any other way during the winter?
|
St. Gallus, Flörsheim |
2020-10-14 |
|
2,744 |
114.4 |
... that the organ of
St. Gallus in Flörsheim was built before the church?
|
One Piece Bounty Rush |
2020-10-18 |
|
2,734 |
113.9 |
... that the pre-launch test of the mobile game
One Piece Bounty Rush had one million players?
|
Louis-Thomas Chabert de Joncaire |
2020-10-29 |
|
2,676 |
111.5 |
... that
Louis-Thomas Chabert de Joncaire convinced several Iroquois tribes to ally with the French against the English in 1711 through song?
|
2001 Malta Grand Prix |
2020-10-23 |
|
2,666 |
111.1 |
... that a group-stage match at the
2001 Malta Grand Prix snooker tournament was disrupted when
electrical cables attached to the television lighting rig snapped and swung across the
table?
|
Vaccine Confidence Project |
2020-10-22 |
|
2,664 |
111.0 |
... that the
Vaccine Confidence Project was developed in response to a boycott of
polio eradication efforts in Nigeria?
|
Clavigralla gibbosa |
2020-10-17 |
|
2,659 |
110.8 |
... that the
tur pod bug is the most damaging sap-sucking pest of the
pigeon pea in India?
|
Bureau of State Services |
2020-10-11 |
|
2,593 |
108.0 |
... that the
Bureau of State Services was broken up to become the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency,
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and parts of two other agencies?
|
New Romantics (song) |
2020-10-31 |
|
1,296 |
108.0 |
... that despite being excluded from the standard edition of
1989, "
New Romantics" by
Taylor Swift was named one of the best songs of the 2010s decade by
Rolling Stone?
|
Ganni |
2020-10-28 |
|
2,578 |
107.4 |
... that
Ganni was founded in 2000 as a
cashmere brand, but resurfaced and gained popularity as a contemporary designer label almost 20 years later?
|
BanG Dream! |
2020-10-29 |
|
2,524 |
105.2 |
... that the concept of the multimedia franchise
BanG Dream! involves bands composed of
voice actresses who can play their own instruments?
|
Keiji Nishioka |
2020-10-17 |
|
2,472 |
103.0 |
... that
Keiji Nishioka, a Japanese botanist, was the first foreigner to receive the
Bhutanese honorific
Dasho?
|
Dominic Gates |
2020-10-18 |
|
2,396 |
99.8 |
... that former math teacher
Dominic Gates won a
Pulitzer Prize for his aerospace reporting?
|
Josette Elayi |
2020-10-12 |
|
2,364 |
98.5 |
... that French historian
Josette Elayi was made a knight of the
Legion of Honour by the French government for her works on Phoenician history?
|
St. Jacobi, Werther |
2020-10-12 |
|
2,325 |
96.9 |
... that it took until 2009 to determine which of two apostles was the patron of the 14th-century church of
St. Jacobi in
Werther?
|
What the Future Holds |
2020-10-13 |
|
2,300 |
95.8 |
... that the name, sound and concept of the album
What the Future Holds by
Steps derives purely from the lyrics of the title track?
|
The Sociology of Housework |
2020-10-22 |
|
2,297 |
95.7 |
... that
Ann Oakley published
the first sociological research that shows
housework as being actual work?
|
Crash Twinsanity |
2020-10-21 |
|
2,257 |
94.0 |
... that the character
Nina Cortex was intended by
Traveller's Tales to debut in the video game
Crash Twinsanity, but appeared in an earlier game without the development team's knowledge?
|
Joseph Clark (painter) |
2020-10-30 |
|
1,124 |
93.6 |
... that
Joseph Clark gave some of his paintings titles in the
Dorset dialect, in which his schoolmaster
William Barnes wrote poetry?
|
Clathria aceratoobtusa |
2020-10-11 |
|
2,191 |
91.3 |
... that the encrusting sponge
Clathria aceratoobtusa kills corals?
|
Denys Page |
2020-10-30 |
|
1,050 |
87.5 |
... that the English classicist
Denys Page was both master of
Jesus College, Cambridge, and president of
the university's cricket club?
|
Carnival of the Animals (ballet) |
2020-10-18 |
|
2,092 |
87.2 |
... that in the 2003 ballet
Carnival of the Animals, actor
John Lithgow appeared as a school nurse and a female elephant?
|
Myint Myint Khin (writer) |
2020-10-04 |
|
2,090 |
87.1 |
... that
Myint Myint Khin, a professor at the
Institute of Medicine, Mandalay, and a
WHO consultant, published her first English-language poetry collection at age 89?
|
2020 British Athletics Championships |
2020-10-01 |
|
2,049 |
85.4 |
... that pole vaulter
Holly Bradshaw (pictured) won her eighth national title at the
2020 British Athletics Championships?
|
Wiebke Lehmkuhl |
2020-10-19 |
|
2,041 |
85.0 |
... that
Wiebke Lehmkuhl was the alto soloist in Beethoven's
Ninth Symphony at the 2017 opening of the
Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg?
|
Pink Loerie Mardi Gras and Arts Festival |
2020-10-18 |
|
2,030 |
84.6 |
... that the
Pink Loerie Mardi Gras and Arts Festival celebrates LGBTQ culture with
Wigstock events for
drag queens, a
bear fest, athletic events, and an art festival?
|
Tarantella (ballet) |
2020-10-11 |
|
2,018 |
84.1 |
... that former ballet dancer
Edward Villella said that when he performed
Tarantella, he "would be flying", and then "in the wings, on the ground, gasping for air"?
|
If You Could Be Mine |
2020-10-24 |
|
1,944 |
81.0 |
... that
If You Could Be Mine was the first novel to win first prize in two different categories in the same year from the
Publishing Triangle?
|
Kathy Karpan |
2020-10-20 |
|
1,916 |
79.9 |
... that
Kathy Karpan was the first female director of the
Office of Surface Mining?
|
Halisarca caerulea |
2020-10-22 |
|
1,907 |
79.5 |
... that the sponge
Halisarca caerulea forms part of a "sponge loop", absorbing large quantities of
dissolved organic carbon, and returning the carbon to the sea as
detritus?
|
Annette Jahns |
2020-10-02 |
|
1,899 |
79.1 |
... that when
Annette Jahns portrayed
Bettina von Arnim in an opera by
Friedrich Schenker, the role required her to scream as well as sing?
|
Gerhard Weber (designer) |
2020-10-05 |
|
1,874 |
78.1 |
... that
Gerhard Weber signed tennis player
Steffi Graf, at age 17 and before her international success, as an ambassador for the fashion brand
Gerry Weber that he co-founded?
|
1860 Londonderry City by-election |
2020-10-09 |
|
1,835 |
76.5 |
... that
Irish Conservative candidate
William McCormick won the
1860 Londonderry City by-election partly because of the support of his Catholic workers, who had previously voted for the Liberal Party?
|
Al Khadra Mabrook |
2020-10-27 |
|
1,818 |
75.8 |
... that the
Sahrawi refugee poet
Al Khadra has written poems intended to inspire military revolution, including criticism of the
Moroccan Western Sahara Wall?
|
Albert Heschong |
2020-10-16 |
|
1,800 |
75.0 |
... that
Albert Heschong parlayed his childhood interest in model boats and
Erector Sets into building huge stage sets, including a $15,000 Victorian house for ABC's
Pulitzer Prize Playhouse?
|
Organ Symphony No. 3 (Vierne) |
2020-10-08 |
|
1,792 |
74.7 |
... that
Louis Vierne (pictured) completed his
Third Organ Symphony during a summer vacation with the family of
Marcel Dupré, who played the world premiere in Paris in 1912?
|
Norma Wendelburg |
2020-10-30 |
|
877 |
73.1 |
... that American composer
Norma Wendelburg studied at the
Mozarteum in Salzburg and the
Vienna Academy of Music on two
Fulbright scholarships?
|
Gustav Mayr |
2020-10-19 |
|
1,712 |
71.4 |
... that the Austrian entomologist
Gustav Mayr named more than 500 new species of
ant?
|
Porites lutea |
2020-10-15 |
|
1,653 |
68.9 |
... that "microatolls" of the coral
Porites lutea have been used to study past changes in sea level?
|
Eugen Szenkar |
2020-10-16 |
|
1,625 |
67.7 |
... that conductor
Eugen Szenkar, who promoted works by
Béla Bartók and
Gustav Mahler in Germany, Russia, and Brazil, caused a "near riot" with the world premiere of
The Miraculous Mandarin?
|
Wesley O. Smith |
2020-10-25 |
|
1,588 |
66.2 |
... that lumberman-turned-newspaper-publisher
Wesley O. Smith served two terms in the state legislature, representing what are now six large counties in central
Oregon?
|
Margueritte Harmon Bro |
2020-10-31 |
|
792 |
66.0 |
... that
Coronet magazine was deluged with letters and phone calls when
Margueritte Harmon Bro wrote about the "
Miracle Man of Virginia Beach"?
|
Bruder Martin |
2020-10-31 |
|
780 |
65.0 |
... that
Bruder Martin is an oratorio of seven scenes from the life of
Martin Luther, written for the 500th anniversary of the
Reformation by
a Protestant librettist and
a Catholic composer?
|
Einer ist unser Leben |
2020-10-06 |
|
1,508 |
62.9 |
... that "
Einer ist unser Leben" ("One is our Life"), a hymn with text written by
Lothar Zenetti in 1973, was recommended for a regional ecumenical service in 2020?
|
Gabriel Scally (physician) |
2020-10-27 |
|
1,500 |
62.5 |
... that
Gabriel Scally of the
Independent SAGE committee has described the British government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic as "too little, too late, too flawed"?
|
Ilse Helling-Rosenthal |
2020-10-13 |
|
1,480 |
61.7 |
... that soprano
Ilse Helling-Rosenthal,
her husband, and two others formed a vocal ensemble that appeared as the soloists in Bruckner's
Te Deum at the Leipzig
Gewandhaus in 1920?
|
Rhus garwellii |
2020-10-10 |
|
1,476 |
61.5 |
... that the fossil
Rhus garwellii likely
hybridized with other
sumac species in the
Klondike Mountain Formation?
|
Peter T. Gallagher |
2020-10-26 |
|
1,474 |
61.4 |
... that astrophysicist and
space-weather specialist Professor
Peter T. Gallagher led the building of Ireland's first serious radio telescope, the 3,000-antenna I-
LOFAR, at
Birr Castle?
|
Jesus Is Lord |
2020-10-04 |
|
1,471 |
61.3 |
... that
Kanye West used an extended version of his track "
Jesus Is Lord" under the title of "Every Knee Shall Bow" for his film
Jesus Is King?
|
Giuseppe Saverio Poli |
2020-10-18 |
|
1,426 |
59.4 |
... that the private collections of
Giuseppe Saverio Poli formed the foundation of the
Zoological Museum of Naples?
|
Global Certification Commission |
2020-10-06 |
|
1,408 |
58.6 |
... that the
Global Certification Commission has certified the eradication of wild
poliovirus in five of the six
WHO regions, with the exception of the Eastern Mediterranean Region?
|
Marina de Gabaráin |
2020-10-03 |
|
1,346 |
56.1 |
... that
mezzo-soprano
Marina de Gabaráin appeared as Bizet's
Carmen in Scotland, and as Rossini's
La Cenerentola
in Glyndebourne in 1952, recorded the following year?
|
Glass Pieces |
2020-10-07 |
|
1,340 |
55.8 |
... that in preparation for the ballet
Glass Pieces, choreographer
Jerome Robbins marked down the structure of
Philip Glass's music on graph paper?
|
Robert Burg |
2020-10-01 |
|
1,331 |
55.5 |
... that
Robert Burg, a leading
baritone at the
Semperoper in Dresden between the First and Second World Wars, performed the title roles of Busoni's
Doktor Faust and Hindemith's
Cardillac there?
|
Fauré Quartet |
2020-10-30 |
|
656 |
54.7 |
... that the
Fauré Quartet, a piano quartet founded in 1995, participated in the world premiere and recording of
Sven Helbig's twelve Pocket Symphonies?
|
List of Arjuna Award recipients (1961–1969) |
2020-10-31 |
|
640 |
53.3 |
... that the twenty members of the successful
1965 Indian Everest expedition (stamp pictured) are to date
the only team recipients of the
Arjuna Award?
|
Walther Killy |
2020-10-09 |
|
1,226 |
51.1 |
... that
Walther Killy, who wrote his dissertation about
Hölderlin's poems, published
a literary lexicon which came to be known as "Der Killy"?
|
Find the Sun |
2020-10-15 |
|
1,190 |
49.6 |
... that a ten-day silent retreat led
Deradoorian to invite
Dave Harrington to collaborate on her 2020 album
Find the Sun?
|
A Suite of Dances |
2020-10-20 |
|
1,138 |
47.4 |
... that it took
Jerome Robbins two years to choreograph the 16-minute-long ballet
A Suite of Dances for dancer
Mikhail Baryshnikov?
|
Brit Asia TV Music Awards |
2020-10-10 |
|
1,130 |
47.1 |
... that most editions of the annual
Brit Asia TV Music Awards were held in
Birmingham, which has been called the "
Bhangra capital of the world"?
|
Bettina (opera) |
2020-10-31 |
|
563 |
46.9 |
... that in
Bettina, the
chamber opera's only solo singer portrays both
Bettina von Arnim and
Karoline von Günderrode, reflecting their friendship and Günderrode's suicide?
|
Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Award |
2020-10-16 |
|
1,110 |
46.2 |
... that the six members of
Navika Sagar Parikrama, an all-female crew who circumnavigated the globe, received
India's highest adventure award in 2017?
|
Joseph Benwell Clark |
2020-10-27 |
|
1,106 |
46.1 |
... that
J. B. Clark, together with
Aubrey Beardsley and
William Strang, illustrated an edition of
Lucian's
True History?
|
Philharmonia Quartet Berlin |
2020-10-23 |
|
1,088 |
45.3 |
... that the
Philharmonia Quartet Berlin, formed by principal players of the
Berlin Philharmonic, celebrated its 30th anniversary with a recording of all of
Beethoven's
string quartets?
|
Sinfonietta (Poulenc) |
2020-10-21 |
|
1,087 |
45.3 |
... that
Francis Poulenc composed his
Sinfonietta on a commission from the
BBC?
|
Worth Waiting For |
2020-10-25 |
|
1,084 |
45.2 |
... that the
smooth jazz–
jazz fusion album
Worth Waiting For was keyboardist
Jeff Lorber's only solo album to reach number one on the Billboard Contemporary Jazz Chart?
|
Eli (opera) |
2020-10-24 |
|
1,034 |
43.1 |
... that
Eli is an opera by
Walter Steffens, who based the
libretto on a
mystery play by
Nelly Sachs which dealt with the suffering of Israel?
|
Pellegrino Strobel |
2020-10-24 |
|
1,028 |
42.8 |
... that
Pellegrino Strobel worked with
Luigi Pigorini to study the Bronze Age
Terramare culture in northern Italy?
|
New York State Agricultural Society |
2020-10-16 |
|
1,014 |
42.2 |
... that the
New York State Agricultural Society annually recognizes
farms that have been owned and operated by one family for a hundred years?
|
Dances at a Gathering |
2020-10-14 |
|
990 |
41.2 |
... that choreographer
Jerome Robbins planned
Dances at a Gathering as a
pas de deux for two
New York City Ballet dancers, but expanded it to five couples?
|
Baptist Hoffmann |
2020-10-22 |
|
964 |
40.2 |
... that
Baptist Hoffmann, a leading
baritone at the
Berlin Court Opera, appeared as Jochanaan in the first production of
Salome there in 1906?
|
Rodeo: Four Dance Episodes |
2020-10-26 |
|
963 |
40.1 |
... that choreographer
Justin Peck cast himself in his ballet
Rodeo: Four Dance Episodes when a dancer was injured the night before the premiere?
|
Parish Church of the Assumption, Mġarr |
2020-10-03 |
|
950 |
39.6 |
... that in the early 20th century, residents of
Mġarr, Malta, were encouraged to contribute eggs to raise funds for the construction of their
parish church?
|
E. A. Gilroy |
2020-10-10 |
|
787 |
32.8 |
... that Canadian Amateur Hockey Association president
E. A. Gilroy allowed Canadians to play
for Great Britain in ice hockey at the
1936 Winter Olympics as a gesture of sportsmanship?
|
List of Arjuna Award recipients (1980–1989) |
2020-10-13 |
|
342 |
14.2 |
... that five-time world chess champion
Viswanathan Anand and India's first woman Everest climber
Bachendri Pal
received the Arjuna Award in the 1980s, then India's highest sporting honour?
|