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Hillcrest Country Club (4/3/08) | ...that Groucho Marx joined Hillcrest Country Club even though it was willing to have him as a member? | ||
John T. Elson (9/27/09) | ... that John T. Elson, who famously asked, "Is God Dead?" in 1966, is dead at age 78? | ||
Death by coconut (7/28/13) | ... that according to an urban legend, coconuts kill more people than sharks each year? | ||
William Shakespeare (4/1/10) | ... that William Shakespeare was nicknamed "The Merchant of Menace"? | ||
William H. Lewis (5/4/09) | ... that William H. Lewis (pictured) became the first African-American college football player in 1888 and the first African-American to serve as U.S. Assistant Attorney General in 1911? |
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1. Pin-ups of Yank, the Army Weekly (10/10/23) | 47,461 | ... that Yank pin-ups (example pictured) were distributed to American military personnel during World War II to promote morale? | ||
2. Double entendre songs (1/1/21) | 13,757 + 6,108 + 6,308 + 6,080 + 5,306 = 37,559 | ... that a ranking of the greatest double-entendre songs of all time included "Big Long Slidin' Thing" by Dinah Washington (pictured), "Need a Little Sugar in My Bowl" by Bessie Smith, "It Ain't the Meat (It's the Motion)" by the Swallows, "Keep On Churnin' (Till the Butter Comes)" by Wynonie Harris, and "Big Ten Inch Record" by Aerosmith? | ||
3. Selene Mahri (10/1/23) | 35,567 | ... that Finnish-American model Selene Mahri (pictured) married three millionaires and is credited with inventing the saying "Marriage is a question of give and take. You give. I take"? | ||
4. Frances Vorne (9/12/23) | 28,618 | ... that a photograph of Frances "The Shape" Vorne wearing a swimsuit made from remnants of a captured Nazi parachute (pictured) was one of the most sought-after pin-ups of World War II? | ||
5. Max Stephan (2/21/24) | 27,435 | ... ... that Max Stephan was sentenced to death for aiding a Nazi pilot who had escaped from a prisoner of war camp? | ||
6. Emil Gross (7/23-7/24/14) | 25,861 | ... that Emil Gross set a Major League Baseball record by appearing in 87 games as catcher? | ||
7. USA Field Hockey Hall of Fame inductees (2/7/21) | 25,857 (3,826 + 2,504 + 3,421 + 979 + 924 + 707 + 806 + 743 + 807 + 11,140) | ... that the first women inducted into the USA Field Hockey Hall of Fame included a WASP pilot, a World War II Marine, a "Chickie", a Hall of Fame lacrosse player, a world-champion softball player, an All-College basketball player, the founder of the first collegiate squash program in the United States, a professor and a valedictorian of Ursinus College, and a resident of Atlantis (pictured)? | ||
8. Hazelwood massacre (8/14/22) | 25,760 | ... that the 1971 Hazelwood massacre was the largest mass murder in the history of "Murder City"? | ||
9. Clarence Chesterfield Howerton (8/28/13) | 23,019 | ... that Clarence Chesterfield Howerton, aka Major Mite (pictured), was billed as the world's smallest man? | ||
10. Vincent Mroz (12/3/12) | 23,000 | ... that United States Secret Service agent Vincent Mroz shot an attempted presidential assassin in the "biggest gunfight in Secret Service history"? | ||
11. Millard House (8/28/08) | 21,783 | ... that Frank Lloyd Wright said of the Millard House (pictured) that he "would rather have built this little house than St. Peter's in Rome"? | ||
12. Henri Salmide (3/19/10) | 21,112 | ... that Heinz Stahlschmidt was credited with saving 3,500 French lives when he refused to blow up the port of Bordeaux and instead blew up the munitions bunker, killing approximately 50 Germans? | ||
13. In the Presence of Mine Enemies (9/30/20) | 20,907 | ... that Leon Uris called Rod Serling's In the Presence of Mine Enemies "the most disgusting presentation in the history of American television" and demanded that the negative be burned? (29,426 for all linked terms) | ||
14. Charlie Bennett (7/15-7/16/14) | 20,537 | ... that the baseball career of Charlie Bennett (pictured), who reportedly invented the chest protector, ended when both legs were run over by a train? | ||
15. The Italian (1915 film), George Beban (10/5/09) | 14,100 + 6,002 = 20,102 | ... that the 1915 film The Italian tells the story of an immigrant played by George Beban (pictured) who goes to America in search of fortune but finds a "Darwininan jungle" on New York's Lower East Side? | ||
16. Martha Holliday (8/27/23) | 19,858 | ... that a 1940s pin-up photograph (shown) of dancer and actress Martha Holliday reportedly "created a near-panic in the United States Senate"? | ||
17. Rock Road massacre (8/21/22) | 18,932 | ... that a livestock auctioneer and former Army sharpshooter shot and killed seven family members in the Rock Road massacre? | ||
18. Forbidden Area (11/5/20) | 18,272 | ... that Rod Serling's Forbidden Area (actor pictured), a nuclear-war thriller, launched the four-year run of a series voted in 1970 as "the greatest television series of all time"? | ||
19. Deacon McGuire (7/24/14) | 17,330 | ... that an x-ray of catcher Deacon McGuire's gnarled left hand (pictured) showed "36 breaks, twists or bumps all due to baseball accidents"? | ||
20. Court-martial of William T. Colman (9/25/22) | 17,025 | ... that the court-martial of William T. Colman, the commander of a U.S. air base, created a storm of protest when he was merely reduced in rank after shooting a black soldier? | ||
21. LAHCM in SFV (9/30/08) | 13,664 + 770 = 14,567 | ... that a tower of 2,000 wooden Schlitz beer pallets described as "a rotting vestige of one man's egotism" that festers "like a sore on the community's body" is a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument? | ||
22. Ernest Allmendinger (2/10/09) | 14,326 | ... that American football player "Aqua" Allmendinger (pictured), once described as "a young giant in perfect physical condition," acquired his nickname after working as a waterboy for railroad building crews? | ||
23. Marshall Newell (6/1/09) | 14,200 | ... that "Ma" Newell (pictured), one of the few four-year All-Americans in college football history, was run over by a railroad engine on Christmas Eve 1897? | ||
24. Garden Gnome Liberationists (12/17/08) | 14,200 | ... that the leader of the French Garden Gnome Liberation Front was given a suspended sentence after the group "liberated" over 150 garden gnomes in 1997? | ||
25. Troy axe murders (9/14/22) | 14,138 | ... that in the Troy axe murders a former fireman killed his wife, five-year-old daughter, and five stepchildren and left love notes on their bodies? | ||
26. Michigan QBs (12/5/10) | 14,000 total | ... that the quarterbacks for the Michigan Wolverines football teams of the 19th century included a Brigadier General decorated for valor in World War I, the brother of a famous novelist, one of the founders of General Motors, the physician at a Kimberly-Clark mill, the son of the Governor of Wyoming, a steamboat builder, a Grand Chancellor of the Knights of Pythias (pictured) and a sheep rancher from Walla Walla? McNeil led with 4,400 and Morrow followed at 2,300 | ||
27. Joanne Siegel (3/4/11) | 13,600 | ... that Joanne Siegel was the original model for Lois Lane and later married Superman's co-creator? | ||
28. The Strike (8/7/22) | 13,512 | ... that "The Strike" (1954), about an American officer's turmoil in ordering an air strike on his own men, was rated as Rod Serling's best script he had written to date? | ||
29. Dummy Taylor (9/2/11) | 13,403 | ... that Dummy Taylor, once the highest salaried deaf person in the United States, was ejected from a baseball game for cursing out the umpire in sign language? | ||
30. William Wilson Talcott (12/4/10) | 13,247 | ... that ice cream manufacturer William Wilson Talcott (pictured) killed himself by jumping from an excursion steamer into Lake Michigan with rocks in his pockets after he was unable to extricate his wife from a "love cult" in 1922? | ||
31. Sacco-Vanzetti Story (10/1/20) | 13,149 | ... that the 1960 television play Sacco-Vanzetti Story was called "one of the most controversial ever seen on television"? | ||
32. The Plot to Kill Stalin (10/5/20) | 12,951 | ... that the Soviet Union called The Plot to Kill Stalin "filthy slander" and retaliated by closing the CBS news bureau in Moscow? | ||
33. SS Catalina (7/14/08) | 12,887 | ... that SS Catalina, after reportedly carrying more passengers than any other ship anywhere, has been stuck half-submerged in Ensenada, Mexico for more than ten years? | ||
34. Thomas S. Hammond (3/30/10) | 12,500 | ... that American football player Tom Hammond (pictured) always played without protective padding, saying "I want them to feel my bones"? | ||
35. 1902 Michigan Wolverines football team (11/5/10) | 12,200 | ... that 10 players from the 1902 "Point-a-Minute" Michigan football team (pictured), which outscored opponents 644–12, became head coaches? | ||
36. Walter D. Graham (12/17/10) | 11,800 | ... that Michigan football player "Octy" Graham (pictured) at age 16 was called a "young Hercules" after "gripping machines did not register high enough to show his strength"? | ||
37. Murder of the DeLisle children (10/20/22) | 11,625 | ... that a 28-year-old tire store manager drowned his four children in the same station wagon in which his father fatally shot himself in the head? | ||
38. Breakers Hotel (Long Beach) (9/29/09) | 11,500 | ... that the Sky Room atop the Breakers Hotel (pictured) was the local Airwatch headquarters in World War II? | ||
39. Encino Oak Tree (10/6/08) | 11,416 | ... that Los Angeles police were sent to guard the remains of the 1000-year-old Encino Oak Tree, a victim of "slime flux", after it was felled by an El Niño storm in 1998? | ||
40. The Ford 50th Anniversary Show (10/17/20) | 11,238 | ... 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"? | ||
41. Clara Williams (10/6/09) | 11,200 | ... that silent film star Clara Williams (pictured), known for her "forty famous frocks", appeared in more than 100 films between 1910 and 1918? | ||
42. Charles F. Watkins (3/25/11) | 10,800 | ... that Michigan Wolverines baseball player and coach Charles F. Watkins sustained severe burns from an X-ray machine, which ultimately resulted in his death? | ||
43. Luke Matheny (3/4/11) | 10,590 | ... that Luke Matheny, whose hair was described as "a vast black bouffant that makes him look like an untidy microphone", began his Academy Award acceptance speech by joking, "I should've gotten a haircut"? | ||
44. Weldy Walker (6/7/12) | 10,348 | ... that an 1888 letter written by Weldy Walker, the second African American in Major League Baseball, was called "perhaps the most passionate cry for justice ever voiced by a Negro athlete"? | ||
45. Len Ford (10/3/14) | 10,233 | ... that in his NFL debut season, Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee Len Ford (pictured) was injured so severely in a game he required plastic surgery to "virtually rebuild" his face? | ||
46. Lil Stoner (3/3/21) | 10,047 | :... that "smokeball artist" Lil Stoner (pictured) was also known for his skill in baking and growing flowers? | ||
47. 1955 Hillsdale Dales football team, Nate Clark (12/2/21) | 10,041 (7,189 + 2,858) | ... that the undefeated 1955 Hillsdale Dales football team declined a Tangerine Bowl bid because the bowl insisted that four black players—including national scoring leader Nate Clark—stay home? | ||
48. Eugene Goodman (1/27/21) | 10,003 | .. that Capitol Police officer Eugene Goodman has been credited with having "saved American Democracy" on January 6, 2021? (also received 105,788 views, 1/20-1/23) | ||
49. A Town Has Turned to Dust (10/9/20) | 9,915 | ... 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? | ||
50. Dale Haney (11/1/22) | 9,802 | ... that Dale Haney has walked presidential pooches from Richard Nixon's King Timahoe to Joe Biden's Commander and safeguarded George W. Bush's pets during the September 11 attacks? | ||
51. San Dimas Hotel (9/4/08) | 9,667 | ... that the 33-room San Dimas Hotel (pictured) built in 1887 never had a paying guest due to a land boom that never occurred? | ||
52. 2023 Colorado Mines Orediggers football team (12/28/23) | 9,659 | ... that the No. 1–ranked 2023 Colorado Mines Orediggers, "college football's nerdiest contender", featured players with pigtails and a drawn-on blue mustache, a friar's haircut, and Harry Potter cosplay? | ||
53. Battle of San Buenaventura (5/24/22) | 9,525 | ... that the Battle of San Buenaventura was described by the Los Angeles Times as a "quirky skirmish ... that emptied the mission of wine and left its adobe walls pockmarked by cannon fire"? | ||
54. The Green Pastures (Hallmark Hall of Fame) (12/14/20) | 9,491 | ... that The Green Pastures (1957) (advertisement pictured) was critiqued in the white Southern press for having "bowed to the inverted prejudice which insists that Negroes shall never be portrayed as Negroes"? | ||
55. Laurens Shull (6/22/09) | 9,460 | ... that University of Chicago football star Laurens "Spike" Shull died of wounds suffered rushing a machine gun nest at the Battle of Château-Thierry (pictured)? | ||
56. Charlie Gray (9/4/23) | 9,447 | ... that Major League Baseball pitcher Charlie Gray was billed as his team's pitcher "of six fingers and six toed fame" and called "a freak" by the Sporting Life?' | ||
57. A Night to Remember (10/15/20) | 9,391 | ... 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"? (20,765 for all linked terms) | ||
58. Sex (film) (9/28/09) | 9,300 | ... that the 1920 film Sex, opening with its star performing a seductive "spider dance" clad in "a translucent cloak of webs", had its title censored in Pennsylvania? | ||
59. William Ward (5/20/11) | 9,300 | ... that Michigan football coach William Ward later became a physician who experimented with the surgical creation of artificial vaginas? | ||
60. Royal Oak post office shootings (10/1/22) | 9,284 | ... that an investigation into the Royal Oak post office shootings led one congressman to accuse the Postal Service of having been "asleep at the switch"? | ||
61. The Miracle of the Bells (book) (9/16/23) | 9,025 | ... that the best-selling novel of 1947 was described by Time magazine as "one of the worst ever published"? | ||
62. Ralphs Grocery Store (Westwood) (8/8/08) | 9,000 | ... that Ralphs Grocery Store (location pictured), part of a plan to build the "model college town" in 1929, was photographed by Ansel Adams? | ||
63. Bang the Drum Slowly (10/23/20) | 8,867 | ... 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"? (22,828 for all linked terms) | ||
64. Leonard Skinner (9/29/10) | 8,800 | ... that The New York Times called Leonard Skinner, the namesake of Lynyrd Skynyrd, "arguably the most influential high school gym teacher in American popular culture"? | ||
65. Rommy Hunt Revson (10/24/22) | 8,787 | ... that nightclub singer Rommy Revson earned millions of dollars from her 1986 invention of the scrunchie (examples pictured), which she originally named after her pet poodle? | ||
66. 1901 Michigan Wolverines football team (3/22/10) | 8,730 | ... that Michigan's 1901 "Point-a-Minute" team (pictured), rated one of the greatest college football teams of all time, outscored its opponents 550–0 and beat Stanford 49–0 in the first Rose Bowl game? | ||
67. Horace Greely Prettyman (2/27/09) | 8,713 | ... that Horace Prettyman (pictured) played eight years of "college" football for the University of Michigan from 1882 to 1890, some when he was in his 30s and no longer a student? | ||
68. Richard Frederick Dixon (10/30/22) | 8,663 | ... that after his release from a hospital for the criminally insane, Richard Dixon burgled $16 from a credit union and hijacked a jet to Cuba? | ||
69. Hollywood Studio Club (5/31-6/1/08) | 8,630 | ... that Marilyn Monroe posed naked in 1948 to raise US$50 to pay the rent for her room at the Hollywood Studio Club (pictured)? | ||
70. The Mystery of Thirteen (3/29/21) | 8,499 | ... that Jack Lemmon starred in The Mystery of Thirteen as a real-life physician who Charles Dickens called "the greatest villain that ever stood in the Old Bailey"? | ||
71. Around the World in 90 Minutes | 8,256 | ... that Around the World in 90 Minutes featured Elizabeth Taylor cutting a 30-foot-long (9.1 m) cake, Walter Cronkite reporting, and Hubert Humphrey delivering a speech? | ||
72. Gauthier Mvumbi (2/17/21) | 8,195 | ... that Gauthier Mvumbi has been called the "Shaq of handball", the "Congo Colossus", and "the most popular handball player on the Earth"? | ||
73. Wang Dang Sweet Poontang (11/11/20, 3 hrs), (12/3/20, 12 hrs) | 2,035 + 6,071 = 8,106 | ... that a satirical website reported that Joe Biden was energizing donors with "Wang Dang Sweet Poontang"? .. that music critic Greg Kot described "Wang Dang Sweet Poontang" as "despicable misogyny", but listed it among his guilty pleasures because the "rawwwk doesn't get much rawer"? | ||
74. Biff, the Michigan Wolverine (4/2/08) | 7,908 | ...that the Michigan Wolverines' practice of parading their live mascot Biff before matches was stopped as the animal grew larger and more ferocious? | ||
75. Ramsay-Durfee Estate (8/12/08) | 7,905 | ... that the widow-owner of the Durfee Mansion died in 1976 at age 99, leaving an untouched wine cellar stocked with vintage wines and whisky dating to the 1890s? | ||
76. Serra Cross (7/18/18) | 7,823 | ... that the Serra Cross (pictured) in Ventura, California, was sold in response to a threatened lawsuit challenging the use of public funds to maintain a religious symbol on public land? | ||
77. Phillips Mansion, Louis Phillips (9/5/08) | 6,256 + 1,408 = 7,740 | ... that the Phillips Mansion, described as having been built in the "Classic Haunted Mansion" style, was the home of the richest man in Los Angeles County from 1875 to 1900? | ||
78. Macorina (song) (1/12/21) | 7,728 | ... that "Macorina", the first erotic song dedicated to one woman by another, became a "lesbian hymn"? | ||
79. James Bond (4/1/13) | 7,600 | ... that James Bond played briefly in the National Football League after completing his military service? | ||
80. Carl Lundgren (4/6/11) | 7,514 | ... that Cubs pitcher Carl Lundgren (pictured) had "speed to burn green hickory and an assortment of curves that would keep a cryptograph specialist figuring all night but he was wild as a March hare in a cyclone"? | ||
81. P.O.W. (10/25/20) | 7,505 | ... that P.O.W. was based on interviews with repatriated prisoners about communist "brainwashing treatment" during the Korean War? | ||
82. Curtis Redden (8/8/09) | ... that Michigan end Curtis Redden (pictured) died in World War I after he had described the night sky over the battlefield as "weird, hideous, fascinating, sublime"? | |||
83. 1906 All-America team (2/28/10) | 7,400 total | ... that the 1906 College Football All-America Team included Princeton quarterback Eddie Dillon, Harvard guard Francis Burr, Yale end Bob Forbes, Cornell center Bill Newman, a midshipman who was the strongest man in the U.S. Naval Academy, and a guard who was described as "one of the largest men who ever played on a college gridiron"? (2,700 for Elmer Thompson, 2,400 for Percy Northcroft) | ||
84. Storer House (6/12/08) | 7,353 | ... that Frank Lloyd Wright's textile block work, Storer House, was restored in the 1980s by Joel Silver, producer of the films Die Hard and The Matrix? | ||
85. For Whom the Bell Tolls (Playhouse 90) (10/29/20) | 7,333 | ... 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? (23,639 for all linked terms) | ||
86. Frank Ringo (7/9-7/10/14) | 7,125 | ... that baseball player Frank Ringo, who was "inordinately fond" of whiskey, married in January 1889 and killed himself in April of that same year? | ||
87. McCabe's Guitar Shop (4/2/08) | 7,100 | 1,183 | ...that more than a dozen artists have recorded live albums in the back room of McCabe's Guitar Shop, including Townes Van Zandt, Ralph Stanley, and R.E.M.? | |
88. Civilization (film) (10/5/09) | 7,000 | ... that the epic anti-war film Civilization (poster pictured), depicting Jesus walking through the carnage of war, was credited with helping re-elect U.S. President Woodrow Wilson in 1916? | ||
89. 1912 Army Cadets football team (1/11/22) | 6,944 | ... that a future president of the United States played halfback for the 1912 Army Cadets football team? | ||
90. M Club banner (10/11/22) | 6,893 | ... that the Michigan banner survived an attack by uniformed men from Ohio during the Ten Year War? | ||
91. Charles Dvorak (2/28-3/1/11) | 6,883 | ... that Charles Dvorak (pictured) missed the pole vault finals at the 1900 Olympics after being told the event was postponed, but returned to win the gold medal at the 1904 Olympics? | ||
92. Lester Shubin (12/3/09) | 6,807 | ... that chemist Lester Shubin has been credited with saving the lives of thousands of police officers? | ||
93. El Greco Apartments (6/18/08) | 6,785 | ... that the El Greco Apartments (pictured), once home to Casablanca director Michael Curtiz, were saved from demolition with fund-raising help from Star Trek's Leonard Nimoy? | ||
94. The Defender (11/3/20) | 6,763 | ... that Steve McQueen and William Shatner starred in The Defender, the first live television drama divided for broadcast on separate nights, "leaving audiences dangling on the cliff"? | ||
95. Carson Steele (11/17/22) | 6,764 | ... that Carson Steele, known as the "Man of Steele", has a pet alligator named Crocky-J and has been called "the most interesting man" in college football? | ||
96. Neil Snow (2/10/09) | 6,688 | ... that Neil Snow (pictured), ranked by Grantland Rice as one of the three greatest all-around athletes ever turned out in college sports, died of heart failure at age 34 after a game of squash? | ||
97. Thomas Trueblood (1/29-1/30/08) | 6,678 | ...that University of Michigan elocution professor Thomas Trueblood received nationwide attention when the Chicago Tribune reported in 1903 that he was offering a new "course in love making"? | ||
98. Ned Hanlon (7/28/14) | 6,628 | ... that "Foxy Ned" Hanlon (pictured), inventor of the "Baltimore chop", was "The Father of Modern Baseball"? | ||
99. Walter L. Dodge House (1/8/09) | 6,607 | ... that the 1916 Early Modern Dodge House in West Hollywood, California, called one of the fifteen most significant houses in the United States, was demolished in 1970 to make way for apartments? | ||
100. Junior Coghlan (9/22/09) | 6,547 | ... that Frank Coghlan said "damn" in Gone with the Wind, but is best known known for saying "Shazam" in Captain Marvel, the first big screen depiction of a comic book superhero? | ||
101. San Buenaventura Mission Aqueduct (9/16/08) | 6,512 | ... that the seven-mile-long Ventura Mission Aqueduct, built between 1780 and 1815, has been called "an engineering marvel"? | ||
102. William Dennison Clark (11/17-11/18/10) | 6,192 | ... that William Dennison Clark, whose "wretched blunder" in 1905 ended Michigan's 56-game unbeaten streak in football, killed himself 27 years later, reportedly expressing the hope to atone for his error? | ||
103. Franklin Morse (7/10-7/11/09 | 6,188 | ... that American football halfback Franklin Morse (pictured) was the model for a drawing, prints of which reportedly "hung in most college rooms throughout the country" during the 1890s? | ||
104. The Jet Propelled Couch | 6,167 | ... that the producers of The Jet Propelled Couch hired "Miss Color TV", Vampira (pictured in black and white), and several Miss Americas to portray attractive creatures inhabiting an imaginary planet? | ||
105. Ernie Lopez (10/8-10/9/09) | 6,141 | ... that the selection of Ernie "Indian Red" Lopez for the California Boxing Hall of Fame led to his discovery in a Texas homeless shelter after being missing for 12 years? | ||
106. Hacienda Arms Apartments (11/24/08) | 6,104 | ... that Hacienda Arms on the Sunset Strip was the "most famous brothel in California" in the 1930s and now houses a celebrity-owned restaurant described by Newsweek as "so hip it hurts"? | ||
107. Willie Hernández (9/4/22) | 6,069 | ... that Puerto Rico's Willie Hernández (pictured) became the highest paid player in Detroit Tigers history after winning Cy Young and Most Valuable Player awards and a World Series? | ||
108. Irving Kane Pond (3/16/10) | 6,054 | ... that Irving Pond (pictured) designed three National Historic Landmarks, performed a backflip on his 80th birthday, and scored the first ever touchdown for the Michigan Wolverines? |
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World War II pin-ups
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Rank | Title | Photo | Date | Size | Views | Description |
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1 | Pin-ups of Yank, the Army Weekly | 2023-08-17 | 10,881 | 66,722 | ||
2 | Selene Mahri | 2013-09-17 | 12,505 | 38,012 | Finnish-American model | |
3 | Frances Vorne | 2023-08-16 | 5,441 | 37,284 | Model known as "The Shape", posed in bathing suit made of remnants of German parachute | |
4 | Martha Holliday | 2023-08-15 | 7,053 | 22,034 | Actress whose pin-up caused near panic in U.S. Senate |
Colombia
Rank | Title | Year | Size | Views | Description |
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1 | La Rebelión | 2021 | 3,765 | 23,859 | Joe Arroyo salsa song about African couple sold into slavery in Cartagena in 17th century |
2 | El Año Viejo | 2021 | 7,811 | 20,300 | Cumbia song first recorded 1953, now a traditional New Year song |
3 | La Pollera Colorá | 2021 | 7,507 | 16,446 | Cumbia song composed in 1960, rated the most iconic Colombian song of all time |
4 | El Camino de la Vida | 2021 | 2,854 | 15,994 | Chosen by the Academia Colombiana de Musica as the Colombian song of the 20th century |
5 | El Preso | 2021 | 4,589 | 9,286 | Fruko y sus Tesos song from 1975 |
6 | Los Corraleros de Majagual | 2021 | 4,260 | 9,169 | Colombian music group from the Caribbean coast formed in 1961 with over 30 gold records |
7 | La Noche | 2021 | 6,316 | 6,331 | Salsa song by Joe Arroyo |
8 | Se Va el Caimán | 2021 | 2,566 | 6,114 | Cumbia song dating to 1945, ranked No. 6 on list of best Colombian songs of all time |
9 | Colombia Tierra Querida | 2021 | 6,713 | 5,940 | Cumbia song by Lucho Bermúdez, considered second national anthem |
10 | Cali Pachanguero | 2021 | 3,998 | 4,889 | Grupo Niche song from 1984, anthem of Colombian salsa |
11 | El Santo Cachón | 2021 | 3,297 | 4,889 | Vallenato song about infidelities in a Barranquilla park |
12 | Poppy Garden | 2023 | 7,414 | 4,462 | 2012 Colombian film about father and son surviving violence in Nariño |
13 | Pueblito Viejo | 2021 | 3,153 | 3,586 | Colombian waltz inspired by the steep, cobbled streets of Socorro, Santander |
14 | La Piragua | 2021 | 2,343 | 3,282 | Cumbia song by José Barros |
15 | La Casa en el Aire | 2021 | 2,900 | 3,123 | Vallenato song by Rafael Escalona |
16 | Roa | 2023 | 7,170 | 1,807 | 2013 film about man who assassinated Gaitán, triggering the Bogotazo |
17 | The Vampires of Poverty | 2023 | 4,244 | 1,732 | 1977 Colombian mockumentary about misery porn |
18 | The Brickmakers | 2023 | 3,389 | 395 | 1972 documentary about grueling life of family of brickmakers living on outskirts of Bogotá |
Ventura County
Rank | Title | Photo | Year | Size | Views | Description |
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1 | Burro Flats site | 2008 | 13,304 | 83,760 | Chumash pictographs near Simi Valley in Ventura County | |
2 | Emma Wood State Beach | 2018 | 7,994 | 51,887 | State beach located on the west side of the Ventura River estuary, formerly part of the Taylor Ranch | |
3 | Camarillo Ranch House | 2008 | 21,956 | 38,666 | Adolfo Camarillo's house in Camarillo, built 1892 | |
4 | Serra Cross | 2018 | 20,090 | 29,025 | Historic cross located on hillside over downtown Ventura, subject of litigation in 2003 | |
5 | Ventura Pier | 2018 | 23,591 | 26,044 | Wooden pier first built in 1872 | |
6 | Statues of Junípero Serra (Ventura, California) | 2018 | 35,358 | 23,200 | Statues of Serra, sculpted by Kangas; main statue removed in 2020 from site in front of City Hall after protests | |
7 | Ventura County Courthouse | 2018 | 26,728 | 22,470 | Neoclassical building in downtown Ventura, formerly a courthouse, now city hall | |
8 | Carnegie Art Museum | 2008 | 13,283 | 16,742 | Former Carnegie library in Oxnard, built 1907, now as an art museum | |
9 | Ventura County Historic Landmarks & Points of Interest | 2018 | 45,108 | 12,798 | List of county-designated historic sites | |
10 | City of Ventura Historic Landmarks and Districts | 2018 | 46,632 | 12,937 | List of city-designated historic sites | |
11 | Ojai Valley Inn | 2020 | 9,236 | 12,459 | Historic inn dating to 1920s | |
12 | Elizabeth Bard Memorial Hospital | 2018 | 10,628 | 12,221 | Mission Revival building, built by Cephas L. Bard in 1901, operated as a hospital for its first 30 years | |
13 | Battle of San Buenaventura | 2022 | 13,509 | 11,442 | 1838 battle between forces from Northern and Southern California representing competing claims to governorship | |
14 | San Buenaventura Mission Aqueduct | 2008 | 6,429 | 9,633 | Remains of aqueduct that provided water to Mission San Buenaventura | |
15 | Cephas L. Bard | 2022 | 7,862 | 5,820 | Doctor and pioneer in Ventura | |
16 | E. P. Foster | 2018 | 15,829 | 5,395 | Ventura philanthropist | |
Ortega Adobe | 2018 | 12,291 | 4,022 | Adobe built 1857, home of Ortega family and Ortega Chile Packing Co. | ||
Santa Gertrudis Asistencia | 2018 | 12,839 | 3,315 | Sub-mission built c. 1800, site buried in 1968 for construction of Route 33 | ||
Peirano Market | 2018 | 20,295 | 2,535 | Historic building in downtown Ventura built in 1877 operated by Peirano family for over 100 years |
Crime
Rank | Title | Year | Size | Views | Description |
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1 | Procopio | 2008 | 24,199 | 97,713 | California bandit of late 19th century |
2 | John Barbato | 2008 | 9,750 | 96,367 | Former captain of Genovese crime family |
3 | List of homicides in California | 2022 | 101,199 | 64,162 | California homicides |
4 | Hazelwood massacre | 2022 | 18,355 | 47,185 | 1971 murder of eight people at Detroit drug house; largest mass murder in Detroit history |
5 | List of homicides in Michigan | 2022 | 24,596 | 42,811 | Michigan homicides |
6 | Rock Road massacre | 2022 | 22,536 | 30,862 | 1982 mass murder of seven family members at Michigan farmhouse; husband of daughter killed them on eve of divorced hearing |
7 | List of homicides in Wisconsin | 2022 | 14,796 | 31,764 | Wisconsin homicides |
8 | Troy axe murders | 2022 | 15,468 | 27,784 | 1964 familicide of seven by former Royal Oak fireman after release from Pontiac State Hospital; killer left handwritten apology notes on each body |
9 | Murder of the DeLisle children | 2022 | 18,124 | 25,076 | 1989 murder of four children when father drove station wagon into Detroit River |
10 | Royal Oak post office shootings | 2022 | 9,703 | 19,856 | 1991 shooting at post office; four employees killed before perpetrator committed suicide |
11 | Court-martial of William T. Colman | 2022 | 11,258 | 18,210 | Selfridge commander shot black driver; protests followed light punishment |
12 | Richard Frederick Dixon | 2022 | 19,522 | 10,056 | Hijacked plane to Cuba, later killed police officer |
List of homicides in Illinois | 2023 | 46,062 | 9,067 | Homicides in Illinois | |
List of homicides in Oregon | 2023 | 13,657 | 2,063 | Homicides in Oregon |
Southern California
Rank | Title | Creation | Size | Views | Description |
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1 | Santa Monica State Beach | 2008 | 10,228 | 166,823 | |
2 | Hillcrest Country Club | 2008 | 20,152 | 154,277 | Historically Jewish country club in west LA; Groucho Marx a member despite proclaiming he would not want to be a member of any club willing to have him as a member |
3 | Tea Fire | 2008 | 17,027 | 116,457 | |
4 | Pico Boulevard | 2008 | 19,783 | 104,485 | |
5 | Spring Street (Los Angeles) | 2008 | 66,157 | ||
6 | Van Nuys Boulevard | 2008 | 16,705 | 61,165 | |
7 | Mentryville, California | 2008 | 15,903 | 61,070 | |
8 | Sportsmen's Lodge | 2008 | 13,556 | 54,169 | |
9 | Burbank Town Center | 2008 | 11,634 | 44,533 | |
10 | Valley Presbyterian Hospital | 2008 | 4,668 | 35,800 | |
11 | Sunburst | 2008 | 8,500 | 33,641 | |
12 | Sayre Fire | 2008 | 19,856 | 33,387 | |
13 | Reseda Boulevard | 2008 | 13,304 | 32,151 | |
14 | Fallbrook Center | 2008 | 5,010 | 28,196 | |
15 | Encino-Tarzana Regional Medical Center | 2008 | 2,627 | 22,863 | |
16 | Bill Paparian | 2008 | 13,978 | 22,175 | |
17 | Marvin Braude Mulholland Gateway Park | 2008 | 3,415 | 9,611 |
Michigan (not sports)
Rank | Title | Creation | Size | Views | Description |
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1 | Orville L. Hubbard | 2007 | 23,556 | 80,209 | Segregationist mayor of Dearborn 1942-1978 |
2 | Gogebic Range | 2008 | 14,961 | 43,239 | Area of iron ore deposits along Lake Superior |
3 | 1980 in Michigan | 2017 | 120,175 | 10,718 | Record losses by Big Three and layoffs of 190,000 workers; defeat of the Tisch Amendment; and 1980 Republican Convention in Detroit |
4 | 1950 in Michigan | 2017 | 117,824 | 10,613 | G. Mennen Williams declared governor after recount; Reuther's Treaty of Detroit; crash of Crash of Flight 2501; and "cow shed" murder |
5 | James Hartzell | 2010 | 2,825 | 9,507 | Ad copywriter developed "Baseball, Hot dogs, Apple Pie and Chevrolet" campaign |
6 | 1962 in Michigan | 2017 | 90,198 | 9,438 | George Romney's campaign for governor; Wallenda family tragedy; record profits in automobile business |
7 | 1974 in Michigan | 70,258 | 8,939 | Gerald Ford's elevation to President; decline in automobile industry; Supreme Court reversal of lower cour order requiring cross-district busing in metro Detroit | |
8 | 1955 in Michigan | 2017 | 124,447 | 9,352 | Guaranteed annual wage (GAW) agreements with UAW; Ann Arbor press conference announcing Salk polio vaccine; record production in automobile industry |
9 | John F. Antisdel | 2010 | 4,595 | 7,327 | Detroit hotelier (1829-1900) |
10 | 1960 in Michigan | 2017 | 33,925 | 5,587 | Election of John Swainson as Governor; Tigers trade batting champion Harvey Kuenn for Rocky Colavito |
11 | 1956 in Michigan | 2017 | 59,113 | 5,204 | Tornado outbreaks; election of Eisenhower/Williams; slowdown in automobile production |
12 | 2020 in Michigan | 2020 | 69,086 | 4,983 | COVID-19 pandemic; Gretchen Whitmer kindapping plot; Edenville Dam collapse |
1963 in Michigan | 2017 | 31,298 | 4,756 | Detroit Walk to Freedom; Detroit loses bid to host 1968 Olympics; boom year in automobile industry; suspension of Alex Karras | |
1975 in Michigan | 2017 | 17,675 | 4,597 | Disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa; sinking of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald; Ann Arbor Hospital Murders; Tigers trade Mickey Lolich for Rusty Staub; opening of Pontiac Silverdome | |
1965 in Michigan | 37,529 | 4,272 | Events in Michigan | ||
Verna Grahek Mize | 2021 | 7,278 | 3,780 | Environmental activist, "First Lady of Lake Superior" | |
47 | Royce Howes | 2008 | 10,393 | 3,469 | Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist for Detroit Free Press 1927-1966 |
Anita Cantaline | 2019 | 2,687 | 528 | Detroit-based bowler |
Women
Rank | Title | Creation | Size | Views | Description |
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1 | Joanne Siegel | 2011 | 9,380 | 175,702 | Wife of Superman co-creator Jerry Siegel and model for Lois Lane |
2 | Lillian Brown | 2020 | 9,151 | 42,068 | Makeup artist |
3 | List of college women's volleyball coaches with 750 wins | 2011 | 8,613 | 36,353 | |
4 | Rommy Hunt Revson | 2022 | 5,108 | 31,496 | Inventor of scrunchie |
5 | Michigan Wolverines women's volleyball | 2013 | 17,039 | 28,742 | |
6 | Donna Mae Mims | 2009 | 8,823 | 28,119 | First woman to win an SCAA car racing championship, known as "Pink Lady" |
7 | Rachel Hirschfeld | 2008 | 4,810 | 26,052 | Animal welfare attorney an activist (1945-2018) |
8 | ʻIolani Luahine | 2008 | 13,349 | 22,680 | Native Hawaiian dancer, chanter, and teacher (1915-1978), considered high priestess of hula |
9 | Alice McGrath | 2009 | 11,182 | 20,679 | Activist who participate in defense of Sleepy Lagoon murder |
10 | List of college women's soccer coaches with 300 wins | 2011 | 12,884 | 20,404 | List of coaches |
11 | Clara Williams | 2009 | 9,193 | 17,497 | Silent film actress (1888-1928) known for her "forty famous frocks" |
12 | Zoia Horn | 2008 | 18,046 | 16,231 | Librarian (1918-2014) jailed for refusing to share information in prosecution of anti-war activists |
13 | Phyllis Stadler Lyon | 2021 | 4,157 | 12,281 | Field hockey player |
14 | Beryl Benacerraf | 2022 | 13,322 | 9,856 | Pioneer in use of prental ultrasound to diagnose fetal abnormalities |
15 | List of college women's ice hockey coaches with 250 wins | 2011 | 7,326 | 7,991 | Bill Mandigo all-time leader |
16 | Gloria Nord | 2010 | 6,421 | 7,543 | Roller and ice skater and pinup girl |
17 | Dotty Fothergill | 2021 | 12,265 | 5,684 | Hall of Fame bowler |
18 | Florence Casler | 2008 | 5,352 | 5,118 | Real estate developer and contractor in 1920s and 1930s |
19 | List of college women's lacrosse coaches with 250 wins | 2011 | 5,144 | 4,429 | Sharon Pfluger all-time leader |
Madelon Mason | 2013 | 7,260 | 3,768 | World War II pinup girl | |
Verna Grahek Mize | 2021 | 7,278 | 3,780 | Environmental activist, "First Lady of Lake Superior" | |
Rana Gorgani | 2021 | 2,728 | 3,018 | French-Iranian dancer in Sufi/whirling dervish style | |
Marie Hartwig | 2008 | 10,275 | 2,555 | UM professor of physical education and early advocate women's sports |
Miscellaneous
Rank | Title | Creation | Size | Views | Description |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Death by coconut | 2013 | 34,965 | 4,591,893 | Deaths by falling coconuts |
2 | Eugene Goodman (police officer) | 2021 | 24,203 | 433,045 | Hero cop of January 6 insurrection |
3 | Dick Liddil | 2008 | 7,677 | 320,157 | Member of James-Younger gang |
4 | Michael van der Veen | 2021 | 12,104 | 308,649 | Trump impeachment lawyer |
5 | David Schoen | 2021 | 11,932 | 194,993 | Trump impeachment attorney |
6 | Willie Louis | 2013 | 10,861 | 148,821 | Witness to murder of Emmett Till |
7 | Pico Boulevard | 2008 | 19,580 | 104,485 | Los Angeles thoroughfare |
10 | Amazon Pharmacy | 2020 | 5,560 | 57,221 | Online pharmacy formed 2020 |
11 | Robert P. Shuler | 2009 | 19,548 | 55,438 | Los Angeles radio evanglist and 1932 candidate for Senate |
13 | George E. Cryer | 2009 | 19,980 | 40,682 | Mayor of Los Angles during rapid growth, 1921-1929 |
14 | Ernie Lopez | 2009 | 25,594 | 36,398 | World welterweight boxing champion, found at a homeless shelter in Texas in 2004 |
15 | Bruno Fonseca | 2009 | 6,525 | 29,115 | New York artist (1958-1994) |
16 | Herbert Spiegel | 2010 | 10,520 | 28,210 | Psychiatrist (1914-2009) who popularized therapeutic hypnosis |
17 | Henri Salmide | 2010 | 6,211 | 27,433 | German officer ordered to blow up port of Bordeaux, instead blew up German ordnance bunker |
18 | Donald Goerke | 2010 | 4,786 | 26,174 | Invented SpaghettiOs |
19 | Jan Leighton | 2009 | 10,528 | 22,825 | Actor, voice actor, hand model; Guineess record for playing more roles than any other actor |
20 | Neil Papiano | 2007 | 30,949 | 23,564 | California attorney |
21 | Charles H. Crawford | 2009 | 13,066 | 22,224 | Head of the "City Hall Gang" in Los Angeles in the 1920s, reportedly a model for Raymond Chandler villains |
22 | Charles Bond (pilot) | 2009 | 11,917 | 20,687 | WWII pilot with Flying Tigers in Burma and China |
23 | Gauthier Mvumbi | 2021 | 7,736 | 19,251 | French handballer, "Shaq of handball" |
24 | Murray Sayle | 2010 | 23,060 | 18,718 | Australian journalist and adventurer (1926-2010) |
25 | Dale Haney | 2022 | 7,020 | 17,833 | White House groundskeeper and dog walker 1972-present |
26 | Bill Littlejohn | 2010 | 23,528 | 17,364 | Animator (1914-2010), works included Tom and Jerry shorts |
27 | Victor Martinez (author) | 2011 | 7,081 | 17,229 | Poet and author (1954-2011), National Book Award for Parrot in the oven: Mi Vida |
28 | Dodge Morgan | 2010 | 15,008 | 16,397 | Manufacturer of radar detectors and first American to sail solo around world without stops |
29 | W. I. B. Crealock | 2009 | 8,883 | 15,790 | Yacht designer and author |
30 | David Avadon | 2009 | 5,804 | 14,474 | Illusionist billed as "premier exhibition pickpocket" |
31 | World Charter for Prostitutes' Rights | 2008 | 14,295 | 14,244 | Declaration of rights adopted 1985 to protect sex workers' rights |
32 | Nicolae Pleșiță | 2009 | 28,505 | 12,319 | Romanian intelligence and secret police officer connected to Carlos the Jackal |
33 | Arnall Patz | 2010 | 13,741 | 11,378 | Research led to reduction of childhood blindness, Presidential Medal of Freedom |
35 | Maria Gulovich Liu | 2009 | 10,497 | 9,366 | Slovak schoolteacher and WWII resistance fighter who helped American and British agents escape Nazi-occupied territory |
36 | Kent Kane Parrot | 2009 | 10,403 | 9,065 | Boss of municipal politics 1920s |
37 | Norman Sas | 2012 | 9,212 | 7,810 | Inventor of electric football |
38 | Central Press Association | 2011 | 12,778 | 8,449 | Newspaper syndicate based in Cleveland, operated 1910-1971 |
40 | John T. Elson | 2009 | 5,900 | 7,273 | Religion writer and editor of Time magazin, wrote in 1966 cover story "Is God Dead?" |
41 | Felix Wurman | 2010 | 13,233 | 7,098 | Cellist and composer (1958-2009) created Church of Beethoven |
42 | Robert Searcy | 2009 | 8,132 | 5,503 | Tuskegee Airman |
43 | Dick Larkins | 2008 | 7,922 | 5,378 | Ohio State athletic director (1946-1970), hired Woody Hayes |
44 | Lester Shubin | 2009 | 7,167 | 4,871 | Researcher who developed Kevlar for use in ballistic vests |
45 | George H. Torney | 2010 | 5,485 | 4,501 | 21st Surgeon General, served in Army (1875-1913) |
46 | Anton Zamloch | 2008 | 27,968 | 4,467 | Magician who toured as "Zamloch the Great" 1869-1912 |
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