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Date
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Image
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views
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vph
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DYK hook
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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?
|
| 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?
|
| 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?
|
| 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?
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| Rhus garwellii |
2020-10-10 |
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1,476 |
61.5 |
... that the fossil Rhus garwellii likely hybridized with other sumac species in the Klondike Mountain Formation?
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| Peter T. Gallagher |
2020-10-26 |
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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?
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| Jesus Is Lord |
2020-10-04 |
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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?
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| 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?
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| Global Certification Commission |
2020-10-06 |
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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 |
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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?
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| 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?
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| 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?
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| 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?
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