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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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| Star war |
2017-04-27 |
|
26,504 |
1,104.4 |
... that star wars took place in Mexico 1,500 years ago?
|
| Andrew Báthory |
2017-04-04 |
|
21,930 |
913.8 |
... that the severed head of Andrew Báthory, Prince of Transylvania, was sewn back on?
|
| 1953 Alcoa Aluminum advertisement |
2017-04-01 |
|
10,529 |
877.4 |
... that a woman can open a bottle?
|
| Mount Davis (Oakland) |
2017-04-03 |
 |
20,588 |
857.8 |
... that the Oakland Athletics' management refuses to remove the tarpaulin from Mount Davis (pictured) unless the team reaches the World Series?
|
| Guy Fort |
2017-04-17 |
|
19,523 |
813.5 |
... that Brigadier General Guy Fort is the only American-born general officer to be executed by enemy forces?
|
| Jadwiga Szubartowicz |
2017-04-18 |
|
19,256 |
802.3 |
... that Jadwiga Szubartowicz (pictured aged 110), the oldest living Pole, witnessed the October Revolution?
|
| Robin Hood v. United States |
2017-04-01 |
|
9,373 |
781.1 |
... that Robin Hood sued the United States?
|
| Schloss Bruchsal |
2017-04-05 |
 |
18,476 |
769.9 |
... that the 18th-century Schloss Bruchsal (pictured) in southwest Germany contains an elaborate Baroque staircase that has been described as "ingenious and ravishing"?
|
| Harry R. Lewis |
2017-04-19 |
 |
18,407 |
767.0 |
... that the website "Six Degrees to Harry Lewis" (Lewis pictured) was a precursor to Facebook?
|
| Rainbow Canyon (California) |
2017-04-25 |
|
17,630 |
734.6 |
... that the US military refers to Death Valley's Rainbow Canyon as Star Wars Canyon?
|
| SS Tyndareus |
2017-04-26 |
|
17,390 |
724.6 |
... that soldiers lined up on the sinking British troopship SS Tyndareus began to sing "It's a Long Way to Tipperary" while waiting for orders?
|
| Vaginal steaming |
2017-04-01 |
|
8,388 |
699.0 |
... that "sorcery for your vagina" can result in second-degree burns?
|
| 1950 Fairfield-Suisun Boeing B-29 crash
|
2017-04-02
|
|
12,468
|
519.5
|
... that 19 people, including Brigadier General Robert F. Travis, were killed when a Boeing B-29 crashed with a Mark 4 nuclear bomb on board?
|
| Robert F. Travis
|
3,815
|
159.0
|
| Total |
16,282 |
678.4
|
| Ilse Hess |
2017-04-20 |
|
15,862 |
660.9 |
... that Ilse Hess, who was one of the first women to study at the University of Munich, remained a committed Nazi after World War II?
|
| Rearing Horse and Mounted Warrior |
2017-04-13 |
 |
15,840 |
660.0 |
... that the Nazi plunder of European treasures prevented Leonardo da Vinci's Rearing Horse and Mounted Warrior (pictured) from falling into the hands of the Red Army?
|
| White-throated honeyeater |
2017-04-01 |
 |
7,775 |
647.9 |
... that the white-throated honeyeater (pictured) used to be gay, but isn't any more?
|
| Wrigley Field ivy |
2017-04-11 |
 |
15,002 |
625.1 |
... that any baseballs that get hit and lodged in the Wrigley Field ivy (pictured) score the batter a double?
|
| Dishabituation |
2017-04-07 |
|
14,304 |
596.0 |
... that one could enhance their learning while their mind wanders by using dishabituation technique?
|
| Big Chief Restaurant |
2017-04-24 |
 |
13,888 |
578.7 |
... that Big Chief Restaurant (pictured) in Wildwood, Missouri, is all that remains of a tourist complex that opened on U.S. Route 66 in 1928?
|
| Lake Ptolemy |
2017-04-05 |
|
12,995 |
541.5 |
... that a lake larger than Lake Erie existed in the eastern Sahara less than 12,000 years ago?
|
| The Winker's Song (Misprint) |
2017-04-01 |
|
6,458 |
538.2 |
... that a song about masturbation was written by Ivor Biggun and recommended by Johnny Rotten?
|
| Black River (Saucon Creek) |
2017-04-06 |
|
12,784 |
532.7 |
... that the Black River is a "miserable ditch"?
|
| Sagunto Castle |
2017-04-20 |
 |
12,480 |
520.0 |
... that Hannibal sacked the Iberian settlement within the site of Sagunto Castle (pictured), an action that led to the Second Punic War?
|
| Ann Manley |
2017-04-03 |
|
12,236 |
509.9 |
... that in 1861, brothel proprietor Ann Manley rescued part of the 6th Massachusetts Regiment after it was attacked by a mob in Baltimore?
|
| Londonderry Borough Police |
2017-04-01 |
|
5,940 |
495.0 |
... that thrust into a difficult situation, horney dicks failed to satisfy?
|
| Electric fire engine |
2017-04-27 |
 |
11,620 |
484.2 |
... that the electric fire engine had numerous advantages over the 19th-century steam fire engine (both pictured), but was not put into service because a storm could knock out the power?
|
| The Last Judgment (Michelangelo) |
2017-04-12 |
 |
11,597[a] |
483.2 |
... that Michelangelo destroyed parts of his own Sistine Chapel ceiling to make room for his Last Judgement (detail pictured)?
|
| Prawn soup |
2017-04-17 |
 |
11,563 |
481.8 |
... that a week in honor of the prawn soup chupe de camarones (pictured) took place in areas of Peru in 2016?
|
| Mohammed Mohiedin Anis |
2017-04-20 |
|
11,504 |
479.3 |
... that Abu Omar returned home after the Battle of Aleppo to find that only 13 of his 30 vintage cars remained?
|
| EMD F40PH |
2017-04-09 |
|
11,490 |
478.7 |
... that in Canada, ten dollars will get you an EMD F40PH diesel locomotive?
|
| Landolphia owariensis |
2017-04-18 |
|
11,482 |
478.4 |
... that for failing to collect their quotas of Congo rubber, many people lost their hands?
|
| René Beeh |
2017-04-06 |
 |
11,470 |
477.9 |
... that the artist René Beeh (self-portrait shown) was a surveyor on the World War I Western Front?
|
| Winter time (Namibia) |
2017-04-25 |
|
10,959 |
456.6 |
... that Namibia is considering abolishing winter time?
|
| Fatebenefratelli Hospital |
2017-04-24 |
|
10,768 |
448.7 |
... that during the Holocaust in Italy, doctors at Fatebenefratelli Hospital protected Jews from the Nazis by diagnosing them with a fictitious disease called "Syndrome K"?
|
| Lorna Hodgkinson |
2017-04-21 |
File:Lorna Hodgkinson Harvard (cropped).jpg |
10,476 |
436.5 |
... that the Australian teacher Lorna Hodgkinson (pictured) was the first woman to receive a Doctorate of Education at Harvard University?
|
| Caterpillar inflation |
2017-04-01 |
|
5,232 |
436.0 |
... that caterpillar inflation is a gut-wrenching process?
|
| Monument of States |
2017-04-10 |
 |
10,103 |
421.0 |
... that the Monument of States (pictured) in Kissimmee, Florida, was erected in response to the attack on Pearl Harbor and built with stones donated from around the world?
|
| Brockmire |
2017-04-13 |
|
10,042[b] |
418.4 |
... that Hank Azaria won a lawsuit for the rights to the title character of Brockmire?
|
| Barbara Hammond |
2017-04-07 |
|
9,978 |
415.8 |
... that Barbara Bradby was the first woman to ride a bicycle at Oxford University, where her academic prowess inspired a limerick?
|
| Home Run Apple |
2017-04-04 |
|
9,910 |
412.9 |
... that New York Mets fans once booed the Home Run Apple for over two minutes because it was not raised for a Mets home run?
|
| Rishabhanatha |
2017-04-25 |
 |
9,768 |
407.0 |
... that Rishabhanatha (statue pictured), the traditional founder of Jainism, was said to be born in the age when there was happiness all around with no work for men to do?
|
| NWA World Tag Team Championship
|
2017-04-18
|
|
4,612
|
192.2
|
... that in 1957 no fewer than 13 variations of the NWA World Tag Team Championship were in use across the U.S.: in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Kansas/Missouri, Chicago, Ohio/New York, Georgia, Iowa/Nebraska, Indianapolis, Idaho/Utah, West Texas, East Texas, Minneapolis, and Alabama/Tennessee?
|
| NWA World Tag Team Championship (Mid-America version)
|
484
|
20.1
|
| NWA World Tag Team Championship (Los Angeles version)
|
452
|
18.8
|
| NWA World Tag Team Championship (Minneapolis version)
|
444
|
18.5
|
| NWA World Tag Team Championship (Texas version)
|
418
|
17.4
|
| NWA World Tag Team Championship (Amarillo version)
|
406
|
16.9
|
| NWA World Tag Team Championship (San Francisco version)
|
404
|
16.8
|
| NWA World Tag Team Championship (Iowa/Nebraska version)
|
403
|
16.8
|
| NWA World Tag Team Championship (Buffalo Athletic Club version)
|
401
|
16.7
|
| NWA World Tag Team Championship (Central States version)
|
391
|
16.3
|
| NWA World Tag Team Championship (Salt Lake Wrestling Club version)
|
346
|
14.4
|
| NWA World Tag Team Championship (Chicago version)
|
334
|
13.9
|
| NWA World Tag Team Championship (Indianapolis version)
|
316
|
13.1
|
| NWA World Tag Team Championship (Georgia version)
|
314
|
13.1
|
| Total |
9,724 |
405.2
|
| When in Rome, do as the Romans do |
2017-04-20 |
|
9,586 |
399.4 |
... that "When in Rome, do as the Romans do" means that it is advisable to follow the conventions of the area in which you are residing or visiting?
|
| John Gellibrand |
2017-04-26 |
|
9,476 |
394.8 |
... that despite topping his class at Sandhurst, John Gellibrand found the prospects for promotion in the British Army so bleak that he resigned his commission and moved to Tasmania to grow apples?
|
| Agnata Butler |
2017-04-09 |
 |
9,469 |
394.5 |
... that Punch honoured Agnata Ramsay's exam success with a cartoon (pictured)?
|
| Aphaenogaster dlusskyana |
2017-04-30 |
 |
8,726 |
390.6 |
... that the Aphaenogaster dlusskyana ant fossil (pictured) was collected in 1972 and described in 2016?
|
| McGuire Apartments |
2017-04-06 |
|
9,309 |
387.9 |
... that the nine-year-old McGuire Apartments building in Seattle was demolished due to the discovery of major corrosion issues?
|
| The Vinh wiretap |
2017-04-06 |
|
9,301 |
387.5 |
... that the CIA's black helicopter from Area 51 was used to eavesdrop on Paris Peace Talks discussions during the Vietnam War?
|
| Giyorgis of Segla |
2017-04-02 |
 |
9,144 |
381.0 |
... that Giyorgis of Segla (pictured) was imprisoned by Ethiopian Emperor Dawit I because of his controversial views on the Sabbath?
|
| Niels Larsen Bruun |
2017-04-11 |
|
8,958 |
373.2 |
... that during the Second World War, the Norwegian naval officer Niels Larsen Bruun sank a German supply ship before he was certain which country was invading Norway?
|
| R. v. Gowan |
2017-04-10 |
|
8,876 |
369.8 |
... that in March 1998, the Ontario Court of Justice ruled that being topless while one engages in a commercial purpose such as prostitution is illegal?
|
| Diocesan Museum in Pelplin |
2017-04-04 |
 |
8,812 |
367.2 |
... that the Gutenberg Bible held by the Diocesan Museum in Pelplin (pictured) survived World War II in Canada, kept in a vault at the Bank of Montreal until 1959?
|
| Big A Sign |
2017-04-07 |
 |
8,761 |
365.0 |
... that the halo on the Big A Sign (pictured) lights up to tell passing motorists of a Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim baseball win?
|
| Mark Barr |
2017-04-01 |
|
4,300 |
358.3 |
... that erection engineer Mark Barr had a business making rubbers, said bicycles stimulated ball development, and was elected to the screw committee?
|
| Trans-Universal Zombie Church of the Blissful Ringing |
2017-04-01 |
|
4,248 |
354.0 |
... that the Trans-Universal Zombie Church of the Blissful Ringing is the fifth largest religious community in Slovenia?
|
| Richard Springer |
2017-04-13 |
|
8,416 |
350.7 |
... that 25 years ago today, anti-nuclear activist Richard Springer was arrested by the U.S. Secret Service after he approached Ronald Reagan and smashed a crystal statue?
|
| Ultra (comics) |
2017-04-26 |
|
8,312 |
346.4 |
... that many reviewers compared the superhero comic Ultra to the television series Sex and the City?
|
| Napoléon on the Battlefield of Eylau |
2017-04-05 |
|
8,180 |
340.8 |
... that Antoine-Jean Gros's painting Napoléon on the Battlefield of Eylau influenced the works of Théodore Géricault and Eugène Delacroix?
|
| Mississippi River and Bonne Terre Railway |
2017-04-28 |
|
7,338 |
336.0 |
... that the engine frames of the Mississippi River and Bonne Terre Railway "had to be extra heavy ... to withstand rough usage"?
|
| Caleb Swanigan |
2017-04-24 |
|
8,048 |
335.3 |
... that Caleb Swanigan went from being a 360-pound (160 kg) eighth grader to an NCAA basketball consensus first-team All-American?
|
| Tal's Hill |
2017-04-01 |
|
4,008 |
334.0 |
... that baseball players fall down on the Grassy Knoll?
|
| Album primo-avrilesque |
2017-04-01 |
 |
3,978 |
331.5 |
... that an 1897 monograph by French artist Alphonse Allais included the print Dance of drunks in the fog (pictured)?
|
| Waterloo Pioneer Memorial Tower |
2017-04-01 |
|
3,944 |
328.7 |
... that in 1926 a Mennonite tower was built in the German capital of Canada?
|
| Angata |
2017-04-19 |
|
7,706 |
321.1 |
... that Angata, a Christian Rapa Nui prophetess, led a 1914 rebellion on Easter Island, claiming God wanted her people to kill and eat the island's livestock?
|
| Orobanche uniflora |
2017-04-19 |
|
7,620 |
317.5 |
... that the naked broomrape is a parasite of other plants?
|
| Nundinae |
2017-04-22 |
|
7,576 |
315.7 |
... that weekends in ancient Rome came only every eight days?
|
| The Brainwashing of My Dad |
2017-04-26 |
|
7,560 |
315.0 |
... that the film The Brainwashing of My Dad received funding from Kickstarter?
|
| Measure S |
2017-04-25 |
|
7,476 |
311.5 |
... that a campaign mailer for Los Angeles' Measure S designed to look like an eviction notice drew the ire of the sheriff's department after many recipients thought it was real?
|
| Sabinoso Wilderness |
2017-04-05 |
|
7,466 |
311.1 |
... that the 16,030 acres (6,490 ha) of Federal land in New Mexico's Sabinoso Wilderness are inaccessible without trespassing, because they are entirely enclosed in privately-owned property?
|
| Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered |
2017-04-20 |
|
7,286 |
303.6 |
... that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered was the first Call of Duty game to have accurate bullet casings ejected from every gun?
|
| Unita Blackwell |
2017-04-26 |
 |
7,023 |
292.6 |
... that civil rights activist Unita Blackwell (pictured) was the first African-American woman to be elected mayor in the state of Mississippi?
|
| Altenberger Dom |
2017-04-29 |
 |
6,364 |
288.1 |
... that the Altenberger Dom (pictured) was restored with support from a Prussian king who decreed that Catholics and Protestants had to use it simultaneously?
|
| Rendra Karno |
2017-04-01 |
|
3,353 |
279.4 |
... that Soekarno demanded much of Soekarno, but Soekarno did not listen?
|
| Polk Valley Run |
2017-04-01 |
|
3,335 |
277.9 |
... that Poke Valley Run was reputedly named for its shite pokes?
|
| Caius Largennius |
2017-04-10 |
|
6,608 |
275.4 |
... that Caius Largennius is considered the first Lucchese in the world?
|
| Macrotermitinae |
2017-04-04 |
|
6,505 |
271.0 |
... that termites developed agriculture some 31 million years ago?
|
| Miriam Katin |
2017-04-12 |
|
6,288 |
262.0 |
... that award-winning graphic novelist Miriam Katin only started creating comics at the age of 63?
|
| Loser.com |
2017-04-30 |
|
5,824 |
260.7 |
... that Loser.com used to redirect at different times to Kanye West's and Donald Trump's Wikipedia entries?
|
| The President Show |
2017-04-21 |
|
6,160 |
256.7 |
... that Comedy Central advertised The President Show by faking a Russian hack?
|
| Robert Rinder |
2017-04-01 |
|
3,062[c] |
255.1 |
... that Judge Rinder is not a judge?
|
| The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (song) |
2017-04-04 |
|
6,109 |
254.5 |
... that the theme song for the television series The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air is actually called "Yo Home to Bel-Air"?
|
| Barbados Railway |
2017-04-15 |
|
6,076 |
253.2 |
... that the dignitaries at the opening of the Barbados Railway wondered why the railway ended so abruptly among barren sand hills?
|
| Tamaeva V |
2017-04-16 |
 |
6,046 |
251.9 |
... that Queen Tamaeva V saved the Rimatara lorikeet (pictured) from extinction through a royal taboo that forbade her people from harming or exporting the birds?
|
| Bonville–Courtenay feud |
2017-04-13 |
|
6,032 |
251.3 |
... that during the Bonville–Courtenay feud, the Earl of Devon's men stole all Nicholas Radford's horses and the sheets off his invalid wife's bed?
|
| Karşıyaka Tram |
2017-04-27 |
|
5,932 |
247.2 |
... that the newly-opened Karşıyaka Tram will be free of charge for its first 50 days?
|
| Bjarne Keyser Barth |
2017-04-23 |
|
5,886 |
245.3 |
... that on his 48th birthday, artillery officer Bjarne Keyser Barth was tasked by his commander with surrendering a fortress to invading German troops?
|
| El Temblor |
2017-04-28 |
|
5,356 |
245.2 |
... that El Temblor in Guatemala is the site of a ruined ancient Maya city that has not yet been excavated by archaeologists, but has been badly damaged by looters?
|
| Atamu Tekena |
2017-04-10 |
|
5,722 |
238.4 |
... that when he ceded Easter Island to Chile, King Atamu Tekena gave up a handful of grass and retained a handful of dirt?
|
| Rose Cannabich |
2017-04-08 |
|
5,686 |
236.9 |
... that Rose Cannabich was "a very beautiful and well-behaved girl", according to her piano teacher Mozart, who composed a piano sonata for her?
|
| The Devil of Christmas |
2017-04-27 |
|
5,646 |
235.2 |
... that "The Devil of Christmas", a 2016 episode of Inside No. 9, was filmed using authentic 1970s cameras?
|
| Maon Kurosaki |
2017-04-10 |
|
5,614 |
233.9 |
... that prior to her major debut, singer Maon Kurosaki posed as a gravure model for the cover of a novel?
|
| Alf Ramsey |
2017-04-28 |
 |
5,088 |
233.0 |
... that Alf Ramsey (pictured) led Ipswich Town to become English football champions four years before leading England to win the 1966 FIFA World Cup?
|
| Battle of Gegodog |
2017-04-27 |
|
5,558 |
231.6 |
... that during the Trunajaya rebellion, Pangeran Adipati Anom expected a fake engagement at the Battle of Gegodog, but instead his army suffered a decisive defeat?
|
| Lillie Mae Bradford |
2017-04-14 |
|
5,295 |
220.6 |
... that Lillie Mae Bradford was arrested for refusing to leave the whites-only section of a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, four years before Rosa Parks' 1955 prosecution for the same "crime"?
|
| Tears on the Dancefloor |
2017-04-21 |
|
5,275[d] |
219.8 |
... that Steps' fifth studio album, Tears on the Dancefloor, is their first album in 17 years to consist mostly of original material?
|
| Moses Fleetwood Walker |
2017-04-02 |
|
5,260 |
219.2 |
... that Moses Fleetwood Walker was the first openly black athlete to play in Major League Baseball?
|
| Caltrain Express |
2017-04-22 |
 |
5,254 |
218.9 |
... that within a year of implementing express service (train pictured), San Francisco Bay Area commuter rail system Caltrain experienced a 12 percent increase in ridership?
|
| Sweat (play) |
2017-04-10 |
|
5,181 |
215.9 |
... that the play Sweat by Lynn Nottage has been described as "the first theatrical landmark of the Trump era"?
|
| Preston By-pass |
2017-04-29 |
|
4,658 |
210.8 |
... that Britain's first motorway, the Preston By-pass, had to close within weeks of opening due to frost damage?
|
| Marshall L. Shepard |
2017-04-25 |
|
5,059 |
210.8 |
... that when Marshall L. Shepard said the opening prayer at the 1936 Democratic National Convention, segregationist Senator Ellison D. Smith left in protest?
|
| John Outhouse |
2017-04-01 |
|
2,484 |
207.0 |
... that in Portland, Oregon, an outhouse, or john, played a seminal role in public education?
|
| Dunes Forest Village |
2017-04-23 |
|
4,936 |
205.7 |
... that Dunes Forest Village was an exclusive "island" retreat, surrounded by sand rather than water, and owned by a newspaper publisher?
|
| Civil Resettlement Units |
2017-04-15 |
|
4,826 |
201.1 |
... that at the end of the Second World War, more than 23,000 repatriated British prisoners of war volunteered to attend Civil Resettlement Units to help them readjust to being home?
|
| Pendleton Dudley |
2017-04-17 |
|
4,808 |
200.4 |
... that Pendleton Dudley refused to talk about the work he did to launch Woodrow Wilson's political career?
|
| Fire-bellied woodpecker |
2017-04-11 |
|
4,797 |
199.9 |
... that the fire-bellied woodpecker can drum at the rate of 14 to 38 taps per second?
|
| Washington at Verplanck's Point |
2017-04-23 |
 |
4,761 |
198.4 |
... that Washington at Verplanck's Point (pictured), a gift from John Trumbull to the president's wife, Martha Washington, was praised as “the most perfect extant” by her grandson?
|
| Georgia Redmayne |
2017-04-04 |
|
4,672 |
194.6 |
... that cricketer Georgia Redmayne's 87-year-old grandfather vaulted the boundary fence and embraced her after she had become the first player to hit a WNCL century for Tasmanian Roar?
|
| Fort Custer Maze |
2017-04-30 |
|
4,330 |
193.8 |
... that the Fort Custer Maze featured a new design each week?
|
| Paris-Mondial |
2017-04-12 |
|
4,596 |
191.5 |
... that as the German army invaded France in 1940, radio station Paris-Mondial began broadcasting "recordings of military marches and panicked appeals for guns, tanks, and planes"?
|
| A Strange Matter Concerning Pigeons |
2017-04-12 |
|
4,593 |
191.4 |
... that Pu Songling based his pigeon collector character on a real-life stone fanatic?
|
| Import-Export Clause
|
2017-04-11
|
|
2,475
|
103.1
|
... that Brown v. Maryland was the first decision of the U.S. Supreme Court to construe the Import-Export Clause of the Constitution?
|
| Brown v. Maryland
|
2,096
|
87.3
|
| Total |
4,570 |
190.4
|
| Electrification of Caltrain |
2017-04-19 |
|
4,470 |
186.2 |
... that federal funding for the project to electrify Bay Area commuter railroad Caltrain was pulled days before construction was scheduled to begin?
|
| Coat of arms of Andorra |
2017-04-08 |
 |
4,360 |
181.6 |
... that the upper quarters of the coat of arms of Andorra (pictured) feature the arms of the Bishop of Urgell and the Count of Foix, the "two traditional protectors" of the principality?
|
| George Wilson (quarterback)
|
2017-04-11
|
|
2,853
|
118.9
|
... that George Wilson, Jr. was a starting quarterback for the Miami Dolphins while his father, George Wilson, Sr., was the head coach?
|
| Total |
4,342 |
180.9
|
| I believe that we will win! |
2017-04-12 |
|
4,308 |
179.5 |
... that the "I believe that we will win!" chant, used as a rallying cry by United States fans during the 2014 FIFA World Cup, was first used for the college football Army–Navy Game?
|
| Lavender (BadBadNotGood song) |
2017-04-11 |
|
4,134 |
172.2 |
... that President Donald Trump criticized Snoop Dogg's remix music video of "Lavender" for having a scene in which Snoop fires a flag gun at a clown parody version of Trump?
|
| Schuyler Wheeler |
2017-04-03 |
|
4,108 |
171.2 |
... that Schuyler Skaats Wheeler invented the first electric fan?
|
| Abolition Riot of 1836 |
2017-04-05 |
|
4,090 |
170.4 |
... that two women captured in Boston under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 were rescued during the Abolition Riot of 1836?
|
| Wyke Farms |
2017-04-17 |
|
4,010 |
167.1 |
... that the cheese producer Wyke Farms still uses an 1861 recipe?
|
| Glossary of bird terms |
2017-04-18 |
|
3,936 |
164.0 |
... that the feathers of birds are considered the most complex integumentary structures found in vertebrates, and a premier example of a complex evolutionary novelty?
|
| New Palace Yard |
2017-04-03 |
|
3,918 |
163.2 |
... that New Palace Yard, where part of the March 2017 terror attack in Westminster took place, was formerly used for tournaments, pilloryings, and executions?
|
| Rock Island Arsenal Museum |
2017-04-08 |
|
3,897 |
162.4 |
... that the Rock Island Arsenal Museum is the second oldest museum of the United States Army?
|
| Juan Tepano |
2017-04-16 |
|
3,796 |
158.2 |
... that Juan Tepano was proclaimed "king" of Easter Island by officers of the Chilean Navy, but no one – including Tepano – took the ceremony seriously?
|
| Machico (singer) |
2017-04-18 |
|
3,786 |
157.7 |
... that voice actress and singer Machico made a cameo as herself in the anime television series Seiyu's Life!?
|
| Mexican Federal Highway 15D |
2017-04-10 |
|
3,736 |
155.6 |
... that Mexican Federal Highway 15D includes two of the country's five most expensive toll roads?
|
| Lurgrotte |
2017-04-18 |
|
3,717 |
154.9 |
... that in 1894, a flash flood trapped seven cave explorers in the Lurgrotte karst cave of Austria for ten days?
|
| Lilian Brøgger |
2017-04-13 |
|
3,656 |
152.3 |
... that the Danish illustrator Lilian Brøgger has illustrated over a hundred books in a variety of unconventional styles?
|
| 2017 electronics ban |
2017-04-30 |
|
3,388 |
151.7 |
... that Air India saw its bookings to America double after the US banned electronic equipment larger than a mobile phone from the passenger cabin for flights departing certain Middle Eastern airports?
|
| Michael I of Wallachia |
2017-04-18 |
|
3,594 |
149.8 |
... that Michael I of Wallachia was still the co-ruler with his father Mircea I when in 1417 he refused to send the tribute that Mircea had promised to pay to the Ottoman Empire?
|
| Jaye Muller |
2017-04-06 |
|
3,542 |
147.6 |
... that German rapper Jaye Muller started the weekly newsletter Germany Alert in 1991 to document neo-Nazi activity?
|
| Maha Dewi of Hanthawaddy |
2017-04-09 |
|
3,540 |
147.5 |
... that some factions of the Hanthawaddy court undermined the authority of Princess Regent Maha Dewi by publicizing her alleged affair with her much younger nephew-in-law?
|
| MT GDF Suez Neptune |
2017-04-21 |
|
3,512 |
146.4 |
... that the MT GDF Suez Neptune, a floating production storage and offloading vessel, serves as Turkey's first floating liquified natural gas storage facility?
|
| Louise Nixon Sutton |
2017-04-24 |
|
3,487 |
145.3 |
... that Louise Nixon Sutton was the first African-American woman to be awarded a PhD in mathematics by New York University in 1962?
|
| Coney Island–Stillwell Avenue (New York City Subway) |
2017-04-06 |
|
3,484 |
145.2 |
... that Coney Island–Stillwell Avenue is the New York City Subway's first solar-powered subway station?
|
| 1954 Paraguayan coup d'etat |
2017-04-21 |
|
3,474 |
144.7 |
... that during the 1954 Paraguayan coup d'etat, President Federico Chávez tried to seek refuge in Paraguay's Military College, but was arrested by its director?
|
| Sigismund Báthory |
2017-04-19 |
|
3,458 |
144.1 |
... that Sigismund Báthory, Prince of Transylvania, promised to restore the freedom of the Székely commoners if they joined his campaign against the Ottomans?
|
| Holborn Viaduct power station |
2017-04-14 |
|
3,438 |
143.2 |
... that the world's first coal-fired power station was at Holborn Viaduct, London?
|
| Rubén Oseguera González |
2017-04-05 |
|
3,226 |
134.4 |
... that suspected Mexican drug lord Rubén Oseguera González was released from prison three times in less than a year?
|
| Min Bala of Myaungmya |
2017-04-28 |
|
2,924 |
133.9 |
... that Min Bala staged a coup against King Hkun Law of Martaban, only to give up the throne at his wife's insistence?
|
| Mercado Mansion |
2017-04-02 |
|
3,160 |
131.6 |
... that President of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos took a siesta in the master bedroom of the Mercado Mansion during a campaign sortie in the 1960s?
|
| Riro Kāinga |
2017-04-15 |
|
3,101 |
129.2 |
... that Simeon Riro Kāinga, the last king of Easter Island, was suspected of having been poisoned when he died during a diplomatic trip to Chile?
|
| Grey-and-buff woodpecker |
2017-04-21 |
|
3,071 |
128.0 |
... that grey-and-buff woodpeckers roost communally in shallow holes?
|
| Chris Marron |
2017-04-12 |
|
3,058 |
127.4 |
... that Chris Marron jointly holds the record for the most goals scored in an FA Cup match, having scored 10 in one game?
|
| Sam Bat |
2017-04-02 |
|
3,014 |
125.6 |
... that Barry Bonds used a maple baseball bat manufactured by Sam Bat to set an MLB single-season home run record in 2001?
|
| Salvador Estrella |
2017-04-23 |
|
2,977 |
124.0 |
... that Brigadier General Salvador Estrella earned the moniker red blooded for his courage in battle?
|
| Christ ist erstanden |
2017-04-26 |
|
2,935 |
122.3 |
... that "Christ ist erstanden", an old German hymn mentioned as early as the 12th century, was set for choir in the 21st century?
|
| Sceriman family |
2017-04-23 |
|
2,902 |
120.9 |
... that the Sceriman family, a wealthy Safavid merchant family of Armenian ethnicity, gained Roman citizenship in 1696?
|
| Helen King (police officer) |
2017-04-15 |
|
2,856 |
119.0 |
... that Helen King will be the first police officer to head an Oxbridge college?
|
| George Ronald Richards |
2017-04-03 |
|
2,854 |
118.9 |
... that in one of Ron Richards' plans for the defection of spy Vladimir Petrov to Australia, Petrov was going to buy a chicken farm outside Sydney?
|
| 2016 League of Legends World Championship |
2017-04-09 |
|
2,834 |
118.1 |
... that 43 million unique viewers watched SK Telecom T1 defeat Samsung Galaxy in the finals of the 2016 League of Legends World Championship?
|
| Odontomachus assiniensis |
2017-04-29 |
|
2,604 |
117.8 |
... that the trap-jaw ant Odontomachus assiniensis stings larger prey but kills smaller prey with a snap of its jaws?
|
| Palau ground dove |
2017-04-25 |
|
2,802 |
116.8 |
... that the Palau ground dove prefers limestone islands to volcanic islands?
|
| Bombus balteatus |
2017-04-16 |
|
2,780 |
115.8 |
... that the tongue of the golden-belted bumble bee is about two-thirds as long as its body?
|
| Foreign policy of the Donald Trump administration |
2017-04-19 |
|
2,756 |
114.8 |
... that Donald Trump says he hopes to achieve a foreign policy whereby "old enemies become friends"?
|
| Charles A. Cheever |
2017-04-14 |
|
2,750 |
114.6 |
... that Charles A. Cheever constructed the first telephone line in New York City and was its owner?
|
| Stierling's woodpecker |
2017-04-03 |
|
2,734 |
113.9 |
... that Stierling's woodpecker is threatened by habitat loss, especially in areas where tobacco is cultivated and dried over open fires?
|
| The King of Ping Pong |
2017-04-30 |
|
2,544 |
113.9 |
... that the Swedish film The King of Ping Pong won the Grand Jury Prize for world cinema at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival?
|
| Government of Macedonia (ancient kingdom) |
2017-04-14 |
|
2,709 |
112.9 |
... that the government of ancient Macedonia was a monarchy, yet the Macedonian commonwealth contained some local democracies with popular assemblies and annual elections?
|
| Kenny and the Kasuals |
2017-04-23 |
|
2,672 |
111.4 |
... that Kenny and the Kasuals' "Journey to Tyme" is considered one of the earliest songs to incorporate elements of psychedelic music?
|
| Ed Krupp |
2017-04-27 |
|
2,650 |
110.4 |
... that Ed Krupp has been director of Griffith Observatory for more than half of its existence?
|
| Anthony Harkness |
2017-04-21 |
|
2,603 |
108.5 |
... that Anthony Harkness is considered the founder of the Cincinnati locomotive industry?
|
| Yuri on Ice |
2017-04-25 |
|
2,600[e] |
108.4 |
... that professional figure skaters Stéphane Lambiel and Nobunari Oda had cameos in the anime series Yuri on Ice?
|
| Anna In-Between
|
2017-04-11
|
|
1,318
|
54.9
|
... that the title for Elizabeth Nunez's novel Anna In-Between (2009) was inspired by M. G. Vassanji's novel The In-Between World of Vikram Lall (2003)?
|
| The In-Between World of Vikram Lall
|
1,228
|
51.2
|
| Total |
2,546 |
106.1
|
| Holman Rule |
2017-04-22 |
|
2,544 |
106.0 |
... that the January 2017 reinstatement of the Holman Rule allows members of the United States House of Representatives to amend routine spending bills to mandate the firing of individual Federal employees?
|
| Elastance |
2017-04-26 |
|
2,535 |
105.6 |
... that the term elastance, the inverse of capacitance, was coined by Oliver Heaviside to promote an analogy of a capacitor as a spring rather than a container of charge?
|
| Myrtle Florence Broome |
2017-04-30 |
|
2,244 |
100.5 |
... that Myrtle Florence Broome and the Canadian epigrapher Amice Calverley traveled together throughout Egypt taking trains and often driving across the desert in a Jowett car they named Joey?
|
| Neptune Theatre (Seattle) |
2017-04-11 |
|
2,358 |
98.2 |
... that Neptune Theatre in Seattle had weekly showings of The Rocky Horror Picture Show from 1977 to 1993, and reopened with the same film after renovation in 2011?
|
| Paul Bashutsky |
2017-04-07 |
|
2,356 |
98.1 |
... that Paul Bashutsky took part in the suppression of the Decembrist revolt in 1825, and was promoted to General of the Infantry three years later?
|
| Licence laundering |
2017-04-22 |
|
2,342 |
97.6 |
... that source code laundering occurs when code released under one licence is redistributed by another party under a different licence?
|
| 2017 Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach |
2017-04-28 |
|
2,108 |
96.5 |
... that all four Andretti Autosport entries at the 2017 Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach retired from the race due to mechanical or electrical issues?
|
| Navy Meritorious Public Service Award |
2017-04-12 |
|
2,272 |
94.6 |
... that J. Lamar Worzel was a recipient of the Navy Meritorious Public Service Award for his part in helping discover the first nuclear submarine lost at sea?
|
| Das Nusch-Nuschi |
2017-04-15 |
|
2,269 |
94.5 |
... that Paul Hindemith said of the third dance of his opera Das Nusch-Nuschi: "It is essential that this piece be danced (or rather wobbled to) by two eunuchs with incredibly fat and naked bellies"?
|
| Veronica Pyke |
2017-04-25 |
|
2,224 |
92.6 |
... that the Australian cricketer Veronica Pyke was the second highest wicket-taker in the inaugural Women's Big Bash League season in 2015–16?
|
| Andean flicker |
2017-04-13 |
|
2,222 |
92.6 |
... that the Andean flicker is unusual among woodpeckers in foraging on the ground and in often nesting colonially?
|
| Elder Charles D. Beck |
2017-04-20 |
|
2,190 |
91.2 |
... that Elder Charles D. Beck's boogie-woogie-based piano playing on "Memphis Flu" anticipated the style of rock and roll pianists?
|
| Year of Sorrow |
2017-04-24 |
|
2,166 |
90.3 |
... that Muhammad's first wife Khadija and uncle Abu Talib died in the same year, traditionally known as the Year of Sorrow?
|
| Suchoolithus |
2017-04-26 |
|
2,166 |
90.2 |
... that the recently named fossil egg Suchoolithus dates to the Late Jurassic, making it tied for the oldest-known crocodylomorph egg?
|
| Antirrhinum filipes |
2017-04-23 |
|
2,148 |
89.5 |
... that the plant species Antirrhinum filipes has been discovered on slopes in the Grand Canyon, within the Mojave Desert, and within the Sonoran Desert?
|
| Wetar ground dove |
2017-04-17 |
|
2,146 |
89.4 |
... that records of the Wetar ground dove in West Timor are from just three localities?
|
| Shahid Jameel |
2017-04-06 |
|
2,129 |
88.7 |
... that Shahid Jameel and his group were the first to identify subtype C strain as the most common HIV-1 infection among Indians?
|
| North Shore Branch |
2017-04-16 |
|
2,118 |
88.2 |
... that passenger service on the Staten Island Railway's North Shore Branch was discontinued 16 years after it was rebuilt?
|
| Claudia Mahnke |
2017-04-04 |
|
2,116 |
88.2 |
... that mezzo-soprano Claudia Mahnke appeared as Dido in Les Troyens by Berlioz, and according to a reviewer, in the final 25 minutes convincingly ranged from hurt vulnerability to furious despair?
|
| Tacca integrifolia |
2017-04-10 |
|
2,090 |
87.1 |
... that the seeds of the white batflower may be distributed by small mammals that feed on the fleshy fruits?
|
| Northern Marmara and Değirmenköy (Silivri) Depleted Gas Reservoir |
2017-04-09 |
|
1,976 |
82.3 |
... that the Northern Marmara and Değirmenköy (Silivri) Depleted Gas Reservoir is currently the only operational underground natural gas storage facility in Turkey?
|
| Neoseiulus cucumeris |
2017-04-24 |
|
1,964 |
81.8 |
... that the predatory mite Neoseiulus cucumeris can survive and breed while feeding solely on pollen?
|
| Ellen Thayer Fisher |
2017-04-15 |
 |
1,929 |
80.4 |
... that Ellen Thayer Fisher's paintings of flowers (example pictured) were widely distributed as chromolithographs by Boston publisher Louis Prang?
|
| Kirchenlied |
2017-04-09 |
|
1,925 |
80.2 |
... that the Catholic hymnal Kirchenlied, first published in 1938, was not immediately banned by the Nazis because it also contained Protestant songs?
|
| Marcial Samaniego |
2017-04-22 |
|
1,902 |
79.2 |
... that General Marcial Samaniego, Paraguayan defense minister under Alfredo Stroessner, had a fascination with the religions of indigenous peoples in Paraguay?
|
| A+ (television channel) |
2017-04-03 |
|
1,894 |
78.9 |
... that a+ will provide local television programming mixed with national content to 21 Mexican cities by the end of June 2017?
|
| LaVar Ball |
2017-04-08 |
|
1,891[f] |
78.8 |
... that LaVar Ball claimed that he would have beaten Michael Jordan in one-on-one basketball?
|
| María Parrado |
2017-04-07 |
|
1,882 |
78.4 |
... that María Parrado won the first season of The Voice Kids Spain?
|
| Anna Bamford |
2017-04-09 |
|
1,866 |
77.7 |
... that Australian actress Anna Bamford made her Broadway debut in Andrew Upton's production of The Present?
|
| Chocorua Island Chapel |
2017-04-16 |
|
1,794 |
74.7 |
... that Chocorua Island Chapel at Squam Lake, New Hampshire, part of the first summer youth camp in America, was built by the camp's boys with an erratic boulder, trees, and beach sand?
|
| The Tribal World of Verrier Elwin |
2017-04-27 |
|
1,785 |
74.4 |
... that anthropologist Verrier Elwin's autobiography The Tribal World of Verrier Elwin was published posthumously and won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1965?
|
| Papal conclave, 1724 |
2017-04-22 |
|
1,762 |
73.4 |
... that in 1724, Pope Benedict XIII had to be convinced to accept his election to the papacy by the head of the Dominican Order?
|
| Rhizophora racemosa |
2017-04-07 |
|
1,754 |
73.1 |
... that Rhizophora racemosa is normally the first mangrove to colonise newly exposed mudflats in West Africa?
|
| Gottfried von Hagenau |
2017-04-03 |
|
1,730 |
72.1 |
... that Gottfried von Hagenau, a physician and poet, introduced the Feast of the Immaculate Conception in Strasbourg in 1307?
|
| O Lamm Gottes, unschuldig |
2017-04-14 |
 |
1,672 |
69.7 |
... that Bach wrote the chorale "O Lamm Gottes, unschuldig" (O Lamb of God, innocent) in red between the music for the two choirs in the beginning of his St Matthew Passion (pictured)?
|
| Trachelyopterus insignis |
2017-04-15 |
|
1,662 |
69.3 |
... that the catfish Trachelyopterus insignis has several local names, being referred to as both a "maiden" and a "goat"?
|
| Ronald E. Asher
|
2017-04-05
|
|
708
|
29.5
|
... that the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, conferred its fellowship on Kanhu Charan Mohanty (1994) and Arjan Hasid (2013), and elected Ronald E. Asher (2007) as an honorary fellow?
|
| Kanhu Charan Mohanty
|
488
|
20.3
|
| Arjan Hasid
|
462
|
19.3
|
| Total |
1,658 |
69.1
|
| Home and Away: An Eye for an Eye |
2017-04-08 |
|
1,626 |
67.7 |
... that the Australian television film Home and Away: An Eye for an Eye broke all first-day streaming records on Presto?
|
| La Loma Foods |
2017-04-29 |
|
1,489 |
67.4 |
... that Loma Linda Foods and Worthington Foods were the largest manufacturers of soy-based foods in the U.S. in the 1960s?
|
| Cascade Valley Hospital |
2017-04-04 |
|
1,588 |
66.2 |
... that Cascade Valley Hospital was the last independent hospital in Snohomish County, Washington, until it was acquired in 2016?
|
| Alan Abel (musician) |
2017-04-22 |
|
1,582 |
65.9 |
... that Alan Abel served as a percussionist for the Philadelphia Orchestra for 38 years?
|
| Karaeng Galesong |
2017-04-30 |
|
1,450 |
64.9 |
... that Makassarese warrior Karaeng Galesong helped Trunajaya conquer Surabaya and Gresik as a condition for marrying his niece?
|
| George Escol Sellers |
2017-04-08 |
|
1,506 |
62.8 |
... that George Escol Sellers was the basis for the fictional character Colonel Eschol Sellers in Mark Twain's novel The Gilded Age?
|
| Elena Georgieva |
2017-04-28 |
|
1,368 |
62.6 |
... that the linguistic research of Elena Georgieva showed that Bulgarian word order may change based on the emphasis a speaker wants to convey?
|
| Nellie Griswold Francis |
2017-04-29 |
|
1,374 |
62.2 |
... that after the Duluth lynchings, the African-American suffragist Nellie Griswold Francis initiated, drafted, and lobbied for a state anti-lynching bill that was signed into law in 1921?
|
| Hopkins County Museum and Heritage Park |
2017-04-20 |
|
1,478 |
61.6 |
... that the Hopkins County Museum and Heritage Park includes the Atkins House, the oldest brick building in Hopkins County, Texas?
|
| Traian National College |
2017-04-24 |
|
1,430 |
59.6 |
... that two students at Traian National College in Turnu Severin, Romania, were executed in 1949 for being part of the anti-communist resistance movement?
|
| Bleib bei uns, denn es will Abend werden, BWV 6 |
2017-04-17 |
|
1,428 |
59.5 |
... that Bach's cantata for Easter Monday, Bleib bei uns, denn es will Abend werden, BWV 6, is based on the Road to Emmaus narration?
|
| Anil Kumar Mandal |
2017-04-12 |
|
1,427 |
59.5 |
... that Anil Kumar Mandal developed an alternative surgical protocol for treating pediatric glaucoma?
|
| Jane Gibson |
2017-04-20 |
|
1,424 |
59.3 |
... that microbiologist Jane Gibson established through her 1954 discovery that selenium, a trace element, is essential for coliform bacterial growth?
|
| Lewis Ludington |
2017-04-29 |
|
1,281 |
58.0 |
... that Lewis Ludington founded the city of Columbus, Wisconsin, but never resided in the state?
|
| Every Valley |
2017-04-22 |
|
1,376 |
57.3 |
... that Public Service Broadcasting's new album depicts the history of the mining industry in Wales?
|
| Virendra Singh (physicist) |
2017-04-21 |
|
1,338 |
55.7 |
... that Virendra Singh delivered the inaugural Homi Bhabha exchange lecture of the Institute of Physics and Indian Physics Association in 2000?
|
| Santosh G. Honavar |
2017-04-30 |
|
1,226 |
54.9 |
... that Santosh G. Honavar treated more than 2,000 children affected with retinoblastoma, with a reported success rate of over 85 percent?
|
| NDR Chor |
2017-04-28 |
|
1,170 |
53.6 |
... that the NDR Chor performed in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony for the opening of the Elbphilharmonie?
|
| Javed Agrewala |
2017-04-23 |
|
1,260 |
52.5 |
... that Javed Agrewala and his team developed a vaccination program against Mycobacterium tuberculosis for which he holds a United States patent?
|
| Somnath Sharma |
2017-04-14 |
|
1,258 |
52.4 |
... that Major Somnath Sharma, a Param Vir Chakra recipient, and General Vishwa Nath Sharma, former chief of the Indian Army, were brothers?
|
| Ravinder Goswami |
2017-04-19 |
|
1,257 |
52.4 |
... that Ravinder Goswami carried out the first studies on vitamin D deficiency in India?
|
| Puzzled |
2017-04-29 |
|
1,121 |
50.7 |
... that Puzzled was one of twenty games that came with the 2012 Neo Geo X console?
|
| Odontomachus paleomyagra |
2017-04-08 |
|
1,173 |
48.9 |
... that the Czech fossil ant Odontomachus paleomyagra has mandibles notably similar to those of a related South African species?
|
| Tommy Blake (musician) |
2017-04-15 |
|
1,142 |
47.6 |
... that Tommy Blake was the first musician to record at RCA Studio B?
|
| Rey de Reyes (2017) |
2017-04-17 |
|
1,124 |
46.9 |
... that at the 2017 Rey de Reyes, professional wrestler Johnny Mundo became a triple champion, holding the AAA Mega, Cruiserweight, and Latin American Championships?
|
| George Mills (novel)
|
2017-04-02
|
|
559
|
23.3
|
... that Stanley Elkin won the National Book Critics Circle Award in fiction for his novels George Mills (1982) and Mrs. Ted Bliss (1995)?
|
| Mrs. Ted Bliss
|
556
|
23.2
|
| Total |
1,115 |
46.5
|
| Birendra Nath Mallick |
2017-04-13 |
|
1,096 |
45.7 |
... that Birendra Nath Mallick and his team demonstrated that increased production of noradrenaline triggered REM sleep-loss, resulting in brain excitability?
|
| Lasst uns erfreuen |
2017-04-16 |
|
1,072 |
44.7 |
... that the 20th-century Easter hymn "Ye Watchers and Ye Holy Ones" takes its melody from "Lasst uns erfreuen" (Let us rejoice), a tune published in 1623 by a German activist against witch-hunts?
|
| Erin Burns |
2017-04-16 |
|
1,041 |
43.4 |
... that a career-threatening knee injury to Tasmanian Roar cricketer Erin Burns was successfully treated with stem cell injections by the Sydney Swans' club doctor, Nathan Gibbs?
|
| Warren Newton Dusenberry |
2017-04-02 |
|
998 |
41.6 |
... that Warren Newton Dusenberry acted as principal of Brigham Young Academy for only a few months before resigning to go to law school?
|
| Take Up Thy Cross, The Saviour Said |
2017-04-14 |
|
909 |
37.9 |
... that the Good Friday hymn "Take Up Thy Cross, The Saviour Said" was one of two American works included in the Church of England's Hymns Ancient and Modern?
|
| Ursula Zollenkopf |
2017-04-16 |
|
897 |
37.4 |
... that Ursula Zollenkopf, a contralto of the NWDR Chor, performed solo and choral parts in a posthumous Schoenberg opera premiere and in an Easter cantata by Bach?
|
| Constance Davey |
2017-04-17 |
|
856 |
35.7 |
... that Constance Davey established the first "opportunity classes" for children with special educational needs in South Australia?
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| Louis-René Villermé |
2017-04-02 |
|
838 |
34.9 |
... that Louis-René Villermé is considered a founder of social epidemiology for his work proving the association between poverty and mortality in early industrial France?
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| Werde munter, mein Gemüte |
2017-04-13 |
|
826 |
34.4 |
... that Bach set a stanza from the evening hymn "Werde munter, mein Gemüte" (Become cheerful, my mind), which Johann Rist and Johann Schop created in collaboration, in his St Matthew Passion?
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| Mukhram Sharma |
2017-04-28 |
|
746 |
34.2 |
... that the Bollywood writer Mukhram Sharma won the inaugural Filmfare Award for Best Story in 1955 for Aulad (1954)?
|
| Jerrold Tarog |
2017-04-24 |
|
770 |
32.1 |
... that Filipino director Jerrold Tarog has planned a film adaptation of the graphic novel The Mythology Class by Arnold Arre?
|
| Satish K. Gupta |
2017-04-08 |
|
748 |
31.1 |
... that Satish K. Gupta explored the possibilities of using zona pellucida proteins for the development of immunocontraceptive protocols?
|
| 2016–17 PBA Philippine Cup Finals |
2017-04-07 |
|
744 |
31.0 |
... that by winning the 2016–17 PBA Philippine Cup Finals, the San Miguel Beermen became the second team in Philippine Basketball Association history to keep permanent possession of the Jun Bernardino Trophy?
|
| Vijay Kumar (molecular biologist) |
2017-04-09 |
|
740 |
30.8 |
... that Vijay Kumar, along with Debi Prasad Sarkar, demonstrated for the first time that HBx protein stimulated mitogen-activated signaling cascades in living animals?
|
| Violin Sonata (Poulenc) |
2017-04-05 |
|
645 |
26.9 |
... that Francis Poulenc composed his Violin Sonata at the insistence of violinist Ginette Neveu, and played the piano part when she premiered it?
|
| Max Ciolek |
2017-04-14 |
|
630 |
26.2 |
... that tenor Max Ciolek performed the Evangelist in Bach's Passions, and the Mass in B minor with La Petite Bande in Australia?
|
| An die Hoffnung |
2017-04-19 |
|
578 |
24.1 |
... that Max Reger conducted the premiere of "An die Hoffnung" (To Hope), a setting of Hölderlin's poem and his only orchestral song, with contralto Anna Erler-Schnaudt?
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| Myles Murphy (painter) |
2017-04-29 |
|
0[g] |
0 |
... that the artist Myles Murphy was seriously injured while painting himself in a wedding dress?
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