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40,182,622 | Liberty Head double eagle | 1,133,969,868 | American twenty-dollar gold piece | [
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"1849 introductions",
"Eagles on coins",
"Goddess of Liberty on coins",
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] | The Liberty Head double eagle or Coronet double eagle is an American twenty-dollar gold piece struck as a pattern coin in 1849, and for commerce from 1850 to 1907. It was designed by Mint of the United States Chief Engraver James B. Longacre.
The largest denomination of United States coin authorized by the Mint Act of... |
39,519,569 | Hu Zhengyan | 1,161,920,841 | Chinese painter, seal carver, and publisher (c. 1584 – 1674) | [
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"1674 deaths",
"17th-century Chinese businesspeople",
"17th-century Chinese calligraphers",
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"Chinese seal artists",
"History of printing",
"Ming dynasty calligraphers",
"Ming dynasty government officials",
"Ming dynasty painters",
"Painters from Anhui",
"Pol... | Hu Zhengyan (Chinese: 胡正言; c. 1584 – 1674) was a Chinese artist, printmaker and publisher. He worked in calligraphy, traditional Chinese painting, and seal-carving, but was primarily a publisher, producing academic texts as well as records of his own work.
Hu lived in Nanjing during the transition from the Ming dynast... |
32,429 | Vidkun Quisling | 1,173,012,444 | Norwegian politician, Nazi collaborator (1887–1945) | [
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"20th-century Norwegian criminals",
"Antisemitism in Norway",
"Defence ministers of Norway",
"Executed Nazi propagandists",
"Executed Norwegian collaborators with Nazi Germany",
"Executed politicians",
"Fascist politicians",
"Fatherland League (Norway)",
"Heads of g... | Vidkun Abraham Lauritz Jonssøn Quisling (/ˈkwɪzlɪŋ/, ; 18 July 1887 – 24 October 1945) was a Norwegian military officer, politician and Nazi collaborator who nominally headed the government of Norway during the country's occupation by Nazi Germany during World War II.
He first came to international prominence as a clo... |
238,428 | Doolittle (album) | 1,173,437,046 | 1989 studio album by Pixies | [
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"4AD albums",
"Albums produced by Gil Norton",
"Elektra Records albums",
"Grunge albums",
"Noise pop albums",
"Pixies (band) albums",
"PolyGram albums",
"Punk rock albums by American artists"
] | Doolittle is the second studio album by the American alternative rock band Pixies, released in April 1989 on 4AD. Doolittle was the Pixies' first international release, with Elektra Records as the album's distributor in the United States and PolyGram in Canada. The album's lyrics invoke surrealist imagery, refer to ins... |
6,712,404 | Hurricane Ioke | 1,171,513,868 | Category 5 Pacific hurricane and typhoon in 2006 | [
"2006 Pacific hurricane season",
"2006 Pacific typhoon season",
"2006 in Alaska",
"Category 5 Pacific hurricanes",
"Johnston Atoll",
"Pacific Northwest storms",
"Retired Pacific hurricanes",
"Tropical cyclones in 2006",
"Tropical cyclones in Alaska",
"Typhoons",
"Wake Island"
] | Hurricane Ioke, also referred to as Typhoon Ioke, was a record breaking, long-lived and extremely powerful storm that traversed the Pacific for 17 days, reaching the equivalent of Category 5 status on the Saffir–Simpson hurricane scale on three different occasions. It was the most intense hurricane ever recorded in the... |
1,347,682 | Flight Unlimited II | 1,161,497,607 | 1997 video game | [
"1997 video games",
"Flight simulation video games",
"General flight simulators",
"Looking Glass Studios games",
"Single-player video games",
"Video game sequels",
"Video games developed in the United States",
"Video games set in San Francisco",
"Windows games",
"Windows-only games"
] | Flight Unlimited II is a 1997 flight simulator video game developed by Looking Glass Studios and published by Eidos Interactive. The player controls one of five planes in the airspace of the San Francisco Bay Area, which is shared with up to 600 artificially intelligent aircraft directed by real-time air traffic contro... |
1,102,349 | Ninian Park | 1,126,144,935 | Stadium in Cardiff, Wales | [
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"Cardiff City F.C.",
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"Demolished sports venues in the United Kingdom",
"English Football League venues",
"Rugby League World Cup stadiums",
"Rugby league stadiums in Wales",
"Rugby union stadiums in Wales",
"Sports ve... | Ninian Park was a football stadium in the Leckwith area of Cardiff, Wales, that was the home of Cardiff City F.C. for 99 years. Opened in 1910 with a single wooden stand, it underwent numerous renovations during its lifespan and hosted fixtures with over 60,000 spectators in attendance. At the time of its closure in 20... |
941,270 | Giganotosaurus | 1,171,092,799 | Carcharodontosaurid dinosaur genus from the late Cretaceous period | [
"Apex predators",
"Candeleros Formation",
"Carcharodontosaurids",
"Cenomanian life",
"Cretaceous Argentina",
"Fossil taxa described in 1995",
"Fossils of Argentina",
"Late Cretaceous dinosaurs of South America",
"Taxa named by Rodolfo Coria"
] | Giganotosaurus (/ˌɡɪɡəˌnoʊtəˈsɔːrəs/ GIG-ə-NOH-tə-SOR-əs) is a genus of theropod dinosaur that lived in what is now Argentina, during the early Cenomanian age of the Late Cretaceous period, approximately 99.6 to 95 million years ago. The holotype specimen was discovered in the Candeleros Formation of Patagonia in 1993 ... |
266,325 | Sovereign (British coin) | 1,168,119,080 | British gold coin | [
"British gold coins",
"Bullion coins",
"Coins of Australia",
"One-base-unit coins",
"Saint George and the Dragon"
] | The sovereign is a British gold coin with a nominal value of one pound sterling (£1) and contains 0.2354 troy oz of pure gold. Struck since 1817, it was originally a circulating coin that was accepted in Britain and elsewhere in the world; it is now a bullion coin and is sometimes mounted in jewellery. In addition, cir... |
81,455 | William H. Seward | 1,173,873,580 | American politician | [
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"1872 deaths",
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"19th-century American politicians",
"American militia generals",
"Andrew Johnson administration cabinet members",
"Anti-Masonic Party politicians from New York (state)",
"Burials in New York (state)",
"Candidates in the 1856 Unite... | William Henry Seward (/ˈsuːərd/; May 16, 1801 – October 10, 1872) was an American politician who served as United States Secretary of State from 1861 to 1869, and earlier served as governor of New York and as a United States Senator. A determined opponent of the spread of slavery in the years leading up to the American... |
52,780 | U2 | 1,173,792,747 | Irish rock band | [
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"Brit Award winners",
"CBS Records artists",
"Grammy Award winners",
"Interscope Records artists",
"Irish alternative rock groups",
"Irish pop rock music groups",
"Irish post-punk music groups",
"Island Records artists",
"Ivor Novello Award winners",
"Juno Award... | U2 are an Irish rock band from Dublin, formed in 1976. The group consists of Bono (lead vocals and rhythm guitar), the Edge (lead guitar, keyboards, and backing vocals), Adam Clayton (bass guitar), and Larry Mullen Jr. (drums and percussion). Initially rooted in post-punk, U2's musical style has evolved throughout thei... |
14,249,670 | Lost: Missing Pieces | 1,170,612,320 | Series of streamed video clips | [
"2007 American television episodes",
"2008 American television episodes",
"American drama web series",
"Lost (2004 TV series)",
"Mobile telephone video series"
] | Lost: Missing Pieces is a series of thirteen video clips ranging in length from one to four minutes that aired during the hiatus between the 3rd and 4th seasons of the television show Lost, from which this series is a spin off. They generally became available to Verizon Wireless users on Mondays from November 2007 to J... |
21,777,295 | Museum of Bad Art | 1,172,188,936 | Art museum in Massachusetts | [
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"American satire",
"Art museums and galleries in Massachusetts",
"Art museums established in 1994",
"Buildings and structures in Brookline, Massachusetts",
"Buildings and structures in Dedham, Massachusetts",
"Buildings and structures in Somerville, Massachusetts"... | The Museum of Bad Art (MOBA) is a privately owned museum whose stated aim is "to celebrate the labor of artists whose work would be displayed and appreciated in no other forum". It was originally in Dedham, Massachusetts and is currently in Boston, Massachusetts. Its permanent collection includes over 700 pieces of "ar... |
7,549,486 | Bennerley Viaduct | 1,173,510,459 | Railway viaduct spanning the Erewash Valley | [
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"Former railway bridges in the United Kingdom",
"Grade II* listed buildings in Derbyshire",
"Grade II* listed buildings in Nottinghamshire",
"Grade II* listed railway bridges and viaducts",
"Great Northern Railway (Great Britain)",
"Railwa... | Bennerley Viaduct (originally Ilkeston Viaduct and known informally as the Iron Giant) is a former railway bridge, now a foot and cycle bridge, between Ilkeston, Derbyshire, and Awsworth, Nottinghamshire, in central England. It was completed in 1877 and carried the Great Northern Railway's (GNR) Derbyshire Extension ov... |
9,524,824 | All Money Is Legal | 1,159,902,689 | 2000 studio album by Amil | [
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"Albums produced by Jay-Z",
"Albums produced by Just Blaze",
"Albums produced by Rockwilder",
"Albums produced by Trackmasters",
"Albums produced by Ty Fyffe",
"Amil albums",
"Columbia Records albums",
"Roc-A-Fella Records albums"
] | All Money Is Legal, also known as A.M.I.L.: (All Money Is Legal), is the only studio album by American rapper Amil. It was released on August 29, 2000, through Roc-A-Fella, Columbia, and Sony Music. Jay-Z, Damon Dash, and Amil served as executive producer with a team of producers that included Just Blaze. Before the al... |
1,967 | Apollo 12 | 1,172,511,903 | Second crewed Moon landing | [
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"1969 on the Moon",
"Alan Bean",
"Apollo 12",
"Apollo program missions",
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"Pete Conrad",
"Richard F. Gordon Jr.",
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"Soft l... | Apollo 12 (November 14–24, 1969) was the sixth crewed flight in the United States Apollo program and the second to land on the Moon. It was launched on November 14, 1969, by NASA from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida. Commander Charles "Pete" Conrad and Lunar Module Pilot Alan L. Bean performed just over one day and s... |
22,915 | Planet | 1,172,333,070 | Large, round non-stellar astronomical object | [
"Concepts in astronomy",
"Observational astronomy",
"Planetary science",
"Planets"
] | A planet is a large, rounded astronomical body that is neither a star nor its remnant. The best available theory of planet formation is the nebular hypothesis, which posits that an interstellar cloud collapses out of a nebula to create a young protostar orbited by a protoplanetary disk. Planets grow in this disk by the... |
770,655 | 1927 World Snooker Championship | 1,170,150,967 | Professional snooker tournament | [
"1926 in snooker",
"1927 in English sport",
"1927 in snooker",
"World Snooker Championships"
] | The 1927 World Snooker Championship was a snooker tournament held at several venues from 29 November 1926 to 12 May 1927. At the time, it was titled the Professional Championship of Snooker but it is now recognised as the inaugural edition of the World Snooker Championship. The impetus for the championship came from pr... |
70,754,636 | Herman the Archdeacon | 1,168,579,451 | 11th-century hagiographer in England | [
"11th-century Latin writers",
"Archdeacons of Norfolk",
"Christian hagiographers",
"Clergy from Bury St Edmunds"
] | Herman the Archdeacon (also Hermann the Archdeacon and Hermann of Bury, born before 1040, died late 1090s) was a member of the household of Herfast, Bishop of East Anglia, in the 1070s and 1080s. Thereafter, he was a monk of Bury St Edmunds Abbey in Suffolk for the rest of his life.
Herman was probably born in Germany... |
614,165 | Masked shrike | 1,172,908,898 | Migratory bird in the family Laniidae | [
"Articles containing video clips",
"Birds described in 1823",
"Birds of Southern Europe",
"Birds of West Asia",
"Lanius"
] | The masked shrike (Lanius nubicus) is a species of bird in the shrike family, Laniidae. It breeds in southeastern Europe and at the eastern end of the Mediterranean, with a separate population in eastern Iraq and western Iran. It is migratory, wintering mainly in northeast Africa. Although it is a short-range migrant, ... |
1,180,073 | Yamato-class battleship | 1,158,930,189 | Class of Japanese battleship | [
"Battleship classes",
"Yamato-class battleships"
] | The Yamato-class battleships (大和型戦艦, Yamato-gata senkan) were two battleships of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN), Yamato and Musashi, laid down leading up to World War II and completed as designed. A third hull laid down in 1940 was converted to an aircraft carrier, Shinano, during construction.
Displacing nearly 72,... |
72,722,551 | Smoking on My Ex Pack | 1,173,257,404 | null | [
"2022 songs",
"American hip hop songs",
"SZA songs",
"Songs written by SZA",
"Songs written by Skip Scarborough"
] | "Smoking on My Ex Pack" is a song by American singer-songwriter SZA from her second studio album, SOS (2022). The second of the album's three rap tracks, it is a boom bap song with a chipmunk soul production style, fusing hard-hitting drum beats with a sped-up sample of Webster Lewis's "Open Up Your Eyes" (1981). Befor... |
2,681,585 | Luc Bourdon | 1,170,191,600 | Canadian ice hockey player (1987–2008) | [
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"2008 deaths",
"Acadian people",
"Accidental deaths in New Brunswick",
"Canadian ice hockey defencemen",
"Cape Breton Screaming Eagles players",
"Ice hockey people from New Brunswick",
"Manitoba Moose players",
"Moncton Wildcats players",
"Motorcycle road incident deaths",
"Nation... | Luc Bourdon (February 16, 1987 – May 29, 2008) was a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman who played for the Vancouver Canucks of the National Hockey League from 2006 until 2008. After overcoming childhood arthritis, he was selected third overall in the 2003 Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (QMJHL) draft and pl... |
25,659,767 | Murder of Leigh Leigh | 1,156,338,614 | 1989 murder in New South Wales, Australia | [
"1980s in New South Wales",
"1989 murders in Australia",
"Deaths by person in Australia",
"Female murder victims",
"History of Newcastle, New South Wales",
"Murdered Australian children",
"People murdered in New South Wales",
"Rape in Australia",
"Violence against women in Australia"
] | The murder of Leigh Leigh, born Leigh Rennea Mears, occurred on 3 November 1989 while she was attending a 16-year-old boy's birthday party at Stockton Beach, New South Wales, on the east coast of Australia. The 14-year-old girl from Fern Bay was assaulted by a group of boys after she returned distressed from a sexual e... |
151,898 | Manchester Bolton & Bury Canal | 1,170,292,276 | Canal in Greater Manchester, England | [
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"Canal restoration",
"Canals in Greater Manchester",
"Canals in Manchester",
"Canals in Salford",
"Canals in the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton",
"Canals in the Metropolitan Borough of Bury",
"Canals opened in 1797",
"History of the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton",... | The Manchester Bolton & Bury Canal is a disused canal in Greater Manchester, England, built to link Bolton and Bury with Manchester. The canal, when fully opened, was 15 miles 1 furlong (24 km) long. It was accessed via a junction with the River Irwell in Salford. Seventeen locks were required to climb to the summit as... |
200,155 | Louis Rwagasore | 1,161,268,178 | Burundian prince and politician (1932–1961) | [
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"1960s assassinated politicians",
"1961 deaths",
"Assassinated Burundian politicians",
"Assassinated heads of government",
"Burundian nationalists",
"Burundian royalty",
"Catholic University of Leuven (1834–1968) alumni",
"Deaths by firearm in Burundi",
"Ganwa people",
"People fro... | Louis Rwagasore (Kirundi: Ludoviko Rwagasore; 10 January 1932 – 13 October 1961) was a Burundian prince and politician, who served as the second prime minister of Burundi for two weeks, from 28 September 1961 until his assassination on 13 October 1961. Born to the Ganwa family of Burundian Mwami (king) Mwambutsa IV in ... |
17,747 | Lead | 1,173,196,912 | Chemical element with atomic number 82 | [
"Chemical elements",
"Chemical elements with face-centered cubic structure",
"Endocrine disruptors",
"IARC Group 2B carcinogens",
"Lead",
"Native element minerals",
"Nuclear reactor coolants",
"Post-transition metals",
"Superconductors"
] | Lead is a chemical element with the symbol Pb (from the Latin plumbum) and atomic number 82. It is a heavy metal that is denser than most common materials. Lead is soft and malleable, and also has a relatively low melting point. When freshly cut, lead is a shiny gray with a hint of blue. It tarnishes to a dull gray col... |
20,205,614 | U-1-class submarine (Austria-Hungary) | 1,171,374,143 | Class of submarines | [
"Submarine classes",
"U-1-class submarines"
] | The U-1 class (also called the Lake-type) was a class of two submarines or U-boats built for and operated by the Austro-Hungarian Navy (German: kaiserliche und königliche Kriegsmarine). The class comprised U-1 and U-2. The boats were built to an American design at the Pola Navy Yard after domestic design proposals fail... |
72,073,463 | Marriage License | 1,156,489,217 | 1955 painting by Norman Rockwell | [
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"Books in art",
"Cats in art",
"Flags in art",
"Paintings by Norman Rockwell",
"Paintings of couples",
"Works about marriage",
"Works originally published in The Saturday Evening Post"
] | Marriage License is an oil painting by American illustrator Norman Rockwell created for the cover of the June 11, 1955, edition of The Saturday Evening Post. It depicts a young man and woman filling out a marriage license application at a government building in front of a bored-looking clerk. The man is dressed in a ta... |
24,135,184 | Alice Ayres | 1,151,872,596 | English nursemaid | [
"1859 births",
"1885 deaths",
"Deaths by smoke inhalation",
"English domestic workers",
"History of the London Borough of Southwark",
"Nannies",
"People from Isleworth"
] | Alice Ayres (12 September 1859 – 26 April 1885) was an English nursemaid honoured for her bravery in rescuing the children in her care from a house fire. Ayres was a household assistant and nursemaid to the family of her brother-in-law and sister, Henry and Mary Ann Chandler. The Chandlers owned an oil and paint shop i... |
21,442,933 | Ten Commandments in Catholic theology | 1,170,843,844 | Influence of Hebrew Bible law of Moses in doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church | [
"Catholic moral theology",
"Catholic theology and doctrine",
"Mosaic law in Christian theology",
"Ten Commandments"
] | The Ten Commandments are series of religious and moral imperatives that are recognized as a moral foundation in several of the Abrahamic religions, including the Catholic Church. As described in the Old Testament books Exodus and Deuteronomy, the Commandments form part of a covenant offered by God to the Israelites to ... |
1,141,995 | St Donat's Castle | 1,172,529,886 | Castle in St Donats, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales | [
"Castles in the Vale of Glamorgan",
"Grade I listed buildings in the Vale of Glamorgan",
"Grade I listed castles in Wales",
"Hearst family residences",
"Performing arts centres in Wales",
"Registered historic parks and gardens in the Vale of Glamorgan",
"United World Colleges",
"William Randolph Hears... | St Donat's Castle (Welsh: Castell Sain Dunwyd), St Donats, Wales, is a medieval castle in the Vale of Glamorgan, about 16 miles (26 km) to the west of Cardiff, and about 1+1⁄2 miles (2.4 km) to the west of Llantwit Major. Positioned on cliffs overlooking the Bristol Channel, the site has been occupied since the Iron Ag... |
233,760 | Alexander Cameron Rutherford | 1,119,500,326 | Canadian lawyer and politician (1857–1941) | [
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"1941 deaths",
"Alberta Liberal Party MLAs",
"Canadian Baptists",
"Canadian King's Counsel",
"Canadian people of Scottish descent",
"Chancellors of the University of Alberta",
"Lawyers in Alberta",
"Lawyers in Ontario",
"Leaders of the Alberta Liberal Party",
"McGill University al... | Alexander Cameron Rutherford KC (February 2, 1857 – June 11, 1941) was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the first premier of Alberta from 1905 to 1910. Born in Ormond, Canada West, he studied and practiced law in Ottawa before he moved with his family to the North-West Territories in 1895. There, he began... |
12,684,530 | Jennifer Lawrence | 1,173,914,075 | American actress (born 1990) | [
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"21st-century American actresses",
"Actresses from Louisville, Kentucky",
"American feminists",
"American film actresses",
"American philanthropists",
"American television actresses",
"Best Actress AACTA International Award winners",
"Best Actress Academy Award winners",
"Best Music... | Jennifer Shrader Lawrence (born August 15, 1990) is an American actress. Lawrence is known for starring in both action film franchises and independent dramas, and her films have grossed over \$6 billion worldwide. The world's highest-paid actress in 2015 and 2016, she appeared in Time's 100 most influential people in t... |
52,761,228 | Loev | 1,130,842,323 | 2015 Indian romantic drama film by Sudhanshu Saria | [
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"2010s drama road movies",
"2015 LGBT-related films",
"2015 films",
"2015 independent films",
"2015 romantic drama films",
"English-language Indian films",
"Films set in Maharashtra",
"Gay-related films",
"Indian LGBT-related films",
"Indian drama road movies",
"I... | Loev (pronounced love) is a 2015 Indian romantic drama film written and directed by Sudhanshu Saria. It stars Dhruv Ganesh and Shiv Panditt as two friends who set off to the Western Ghats for a weekend trip and focuses on their complex emotional and sexual relationship. It was Ganesh's final film, as he died from tuber... |
48,803 | Gamma-ray burst | 1,172,679,698 | Flashes of gamma rays from distant galaxies | [
"Astronomical events",
"Cosmic doomsday",
"Gamma-ray bursts",
"Gamma-ray telescopes",
"Stellar phenomena"
] | In gamma-ray astronomy, gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are immensely energetic explosions that have been observed in distant galaxies. They are the most energetic and luminous electromagnetic events since the Big Bang. Bursts can last from ten milliseconds to several hours. After an initial flash of gamma rays, a longer-lived... |
25,523 | Richard Feynman | 1,172,808,978 | American theoretical physicist (1918–1988) | [
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"1988 deaths",
"20th-century American physicists",
"20th-century atheists",
"American Nobel laureates",
"American atheists",
"American nanotechnologists",
"American people of Belarusian-Jewish descent",
"American people of Polish-Jewish descent",
"American relativity theorists",
"... | Richard Phillips Feynman (/ˈfaɪnmən/; May 11, 1918 – February 15, 1988) was an American theoretical physicist, known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics, the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, as well as his work in particle p... |
1,004,138 | Arena (countermeasure) | 1,170,025,010 | null | [
"Armoured fighting vehicle equipment",
"Land active protection systems",
"Weapons countermeasures"
] | Arena (Russian: Арена) or Kazt, is an active protection system (APS) developed at Russia's Kolomna-based Engineering Design Bureau for the purpose of protecting armoured fighting vehicles from destruction by light anti-tank weapons, anti-tank guided missiles (ATGM), and flyover top attack missiles. It uses a Doppler ra... |
13,256 | Helium | 1,173,846,279 | null | [
"Airship technology",
"Chemical elements",
"Coolants",
"Diving equipment",
"E-number additives",
"Helios",
"Helium",
"Noble gases",
"Nuclear reactor coolants",
"Quantum phases"
] | Helium (from Greek: ἥλιος, romanized: helios, lit. 'sun') is a chemical element with the symbol He and atomic number 2. It is a colorless, odorless, tasteless, non-toxic, inert, monatomic gas and the first in the noble gas group in the periodic table. Its boiling point is the lowest among all the elements, and it does ... |
19,193,101 | Baker Street and Waterloo Railway | 1,148,929,602 | Underground railway company in London | [
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"British companies established in 1893",
"Predecessor companies of the London Underground",
"Railway companies disestablished in 1933",
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57,541,360 | Jessie Murray | 1,173,209,496 | British psychoanalyst and suffragette | [
"1867 births",
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"20th-century English medical doctors",
"Alumni of Durham University College of Medicine",
"British people in colonial India",
"British psychoanalysts",
"British suffragists",
"British women psychiatrists",
"British women'... | Jessie Margaret Murray (9 February 1867 – 25 September 1920) was a British psychoanalyst and suffragette. Born in India, she moved to the UK when she was 13. She undertook studies in medicine with the College of Preceptors and Worshipful Society of Apothecaries and at the University of Durham and University College Lon... |
6,440,529 | Postman's Park | 1,173,579,621 | Park in central London | [
"1880 establishments in England",
"Cemeteries in London",
"Parks and open spaces in the City of London"
] | Postman's Park is a public garden in central London, a short distance north of St Paul's Cathedral. Bordered by Little Britain, Aldersgate Street, St. Martin's Le Grand, King Edward Street, and the site of the former headquarters of the General Post Office (GPO), it is one of the largest open spaces in the City of Lond... |
676,669 | Alleyway (video game) | 1,153,300,587 | 1989 video game | [
"1989 video games",
"Breakout clones",
"Game Boy games",
"Intelligent Systems games",
"Mario puzzle games",
"Nintendo Research & Development 1 games",
"Single-player video games",
"Video games developed in Japan",
"Virtual Console games",
"Virtual Console games for Nintendo 3DS"
] | Alleyway (アレイウェイ, Areiuĕi) is a 1989 video game developed by Nintendo and Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo as a global launch title for the Game Boy. It is a Breakout clone and one of the first four games developed and released for the system. The game was released first in Japan in 1989, in North America ... |
2,253,207 | I've Just Seen a Face | 1,148,133,604 | 1965 song by the Beatles | [
"1965 songs",
"British country music songs",
"British folk rock songs",
"British pop rock songs",
"Song recordings produced by George Martin",
"Songs published by Northern Songs",
"Songs written by Lennon–McCartney",
"The Beatles songs"
] | "I've Just Seen a Face" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles. It was released in August 1965 on their album Help!, except in North America, where it appeared as the opening track on the December 1965 release Rubber Soul. Written and sung by Paul McCartney, the song is credited to the Lennon–McCartney partners... |
362,332 | Ficus rubiginosa | 1,170,301,703 | Species of flowering plant in the family Moraceaea native to eastern Australia | [
"Ficus",
"Ficus sect. Malvanthera",
"Flora of New South Wales",
"Flora of Queensland",
"Garden plants of Australia",
"Ornamental trees",
"Plants used in bonsai",
"Rosales of Australia",
"Trees of Australia"
] | Ficus rubiginosa, the rusty fig or Port Jackson fig (damun in the Dharug language), is a species of flowering plant native to eastern Australia in the genus Ficus. Beginning as a seedling that grows on other plants (hemiepiphyte) or rocks (lithophyte), F. rubiginosa matures into a tree 30 m (100 ft) high and nearly as ... |
630,637 | North Ronaldsay sheep | 1,171,978,291 | Breed of sheep from Scotland | [
"Animal breeds on the RBST Watchlist",
"Biota of Orkney",
"British products with protected designation of origin",
"North Ronaldsay",
"Sheep breeds",
"Sheep breeds originating in Scotland"
] | The North Ronaldsay or Orkney is a breed of sheep from North Ronaldsay, the northernmost island of Orkney, off the north coast of Scotland. It belongs to the Northern European short-tailed sheep group of breeds, and has evolved without much cross-breeding with modern breeds. It is a smaller sheep than most, with the ra... |
17,973,753 | William Wurtenburg | 1,162,326,158 | American football player and physician (1863–1957) | [
"1863 births",
"1957 deaths",
"19th-century players of American football",
"American football fullbacks",
"American football halfbacks",
"American football quarterbacks",
"American people of German descent",
"College football officials",
"Dartmouth Big Green football coaches",
"Navy Midshipmen foo... | William Charles Wurtenburg (December 24, 1863 – March 26, 1957) was an American college football player and coach. Born and raised in Western New York to German parents, Wurtenburg attended the prestigious Phillips Exeter Academy, where he played football. He enrolled in classes at Yale University in 1886 and soon earn... |
40,400 | James A. Garfield | 1,172,914,291 | 20th President of the United States | [
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"1880s assassinated politicians",
"1881 deaths",
"1881 in the United States",
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"19th-century Disciples of Christ",
"19th-century assassinated national presidents",
"19th-century presidents of the United States",
"Activists for African-American civil... | James Abram Garfield (November 19, 1831 – September 19, 1881) was the 20th president of the United States, serving from March 1881 until his assassination in September 1881. A lawyer and Civil War general, Garfield served nine terms in the United States House of Representatives and is the only sitting member of the Hou... |
80,521 | Nick Drake | 1,172,504,036 | English singer-songwriter (1948–1974) | [
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"1974 deaths",
"1974 suicides",
"20th-century British guitarists",
"20th-century English male singers",
"20th-century English singers",
"Acoustic guitarists",
"Aix-Marseille University alumni",
"Alumni of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge",
"Burials in Warwickshire",
"Drug-related su... | Nicholas Rodney Drake (19 June 1948 – 25 November 1974) was an English singer-songwriter known for his acoustic guitar-based songs. He did not find a wide audience during his lifetime, but his work gradually achieved wider notice and recognition, mostly posthumously.
Drake signed to Island Records when he was 20 years... |
3,637,965 | Hygeberht | 1,161,976,711 | 8th-century Archbishop of Lichfield | [
"8th-century archbishops",
"9th-century deaths",
"Anglo-Saxon bishops of Lichfield",
"Year of birth unknown"
] | Hygeberht (died after 803) was the bishop of Lichfield from 779 and archbishop of Lichfield after the elevation of Lichfield to an archdiocese some time after 787, during the reign of the powerful Mercian king Offa. Little is known of Hygeberht's background, although he was probably a native of Mercia.
Offa succeeded ... |
497,639 | Control (Janet Jackson album) | 1,173,528,173 | null | [
"1986 albums",
"A&M Records albums",
"Albums produced by Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis",
"Janet Jackson albums"
] | Control is the third studio album by American singer Janet Jackson, released on February 4, 1986, by A&M Records. Her collaborations with the songwriters and record producers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis resulted in an unconventional sound: a fusion of rhythm and blues, rap vocals, funk, disco, and synthesized percussion ... |
4,573,680 | Alexander of Lincoln | 1,142,273,900 | 12th century Bishop of Lincoln | [
"1148 deaths",
"12th-century English Roman Catholic bishops",
"12th-century English people",
"Bishops of Lincoln",
"History of Lincolnshire",
"People from Blois",
"Year of birth unknown"
] | Alexander of Lincoln (died February 1148) was a medieval English Bishop of Lincoln, a member of an important administrative and ecclesiastical family. He was the nephew of Roger of Salisbury, a Bishop of Salisbury and Chancellor of England under King Henry I, and he was also related to Nigel, Bishop of Ely. Educated at... |
1,988,236 | L'incoronazione di Poppea | 1,172,911,916 | Opera by Claudio Monteverdi | [
"1642 operas",
"Cultural depictions of Claudia Octavia",
"Cultural depictions of Poppaea Sabina",
"Cultural depictions of Seneca the Younger",
"Depictions of Nero in opera",
"Italian-language operas",
"Operas",
"Operas by Claudio Monteverdi",
"Works based on the Annals (Tacitus)"
] | L'incoronazione di Poppea (SV 308, The Coronation of Poppaea) is an Italian opera by Claudio Monteverdi. It was Monteverdi's last opera, with a libretto by Giovanni Francesco Busenello, and was first performed at the Teatro Santi Giovanni e Paolo in Venice during the 1643 carnival season. One of the first operas to use... |
307,179 | McDonnell XF-85 Goblin | 1,163,046,777 | Experimental parasite fighter | [
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"Aircraft first flown in 1948",
"Cancelled military aircraft projects of the United States",
"Convair B-36 Peacemaker",
"McDonnell aircraft",
"Parasite aircraft",
"Single-engined jet aircraft"
] | The McDonnell XF-85 Goblin is an American prototype fighter aircraft conceived during World War II by McDonnell Aircraft. It was intended to deploy from the bomb bay of the giant Convair B-36 bomber as a parasite fighter. The XF-85's intended role was to defend bombers from hostile interceptor aircraft, a need demonstr... |
173,650 | The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari | 1,161,975,365 | 1920 German silent horror film | [
"1920 films",
"1920 horror films",
"1920s German films",
"1920s serial killer films",
"Babelsberg Studio films",
"Circus films",
"Fiction with unreliable narrators",
"Films about hypnosis",
"Films about kidnapping",
"Films adapted into operas",
"Films directed by Robert Wiene",
"Films of the W... | The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (German: Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari) is a 1920 German silent horror film, directed by Robert Wiene and written by Hans Janowitz and Carl Mayer. Considered the quintessential work of German Expressionist cinema, it tells the story of an insane hypnotist (Werner Krauss) who uses a somnambuli... |
69,416,089 | 1991–92 Gillingham F.C. season | 1,154,366,654 | null | [
"1991–92 Football League Fourth Division by team",
"Gillingham F.C. seasons"
] | During the 1991–92 English football season, Gillingham F.C. competed in the Football League Fourth Division, the fourth tier of the English football league system. It was the 60th season in which Gillingham competed in the Football League, and the 42nd since the club was voted back into the league in 1950. The team beg... |
4,804,772 | Muhammad I of Granada | 1,171,604,991 | First ruler of the Emirate from c. 1238 to 1273 | [
"1195 births",
"1273 deaths",
"13th-century Arab people",
"13th-century monarchs in Europe",
"Deaths by horse-riding accident in Spain",
"Sultans of Granada"
] | Abu Abdullah Muhammad ibn Yusuf ibn Nasr (Arabic: أبو عبد الله محمد بن يوسف بن نصر; 1195 – 22 January 1273), also known as Ibn al-Ahmar (Arabic: ابن الأحمر, "Son of the Red") and by his honorific al-Ghalib billah (Arabic: الغالب بالله, "The Victor by the Grace of God"), was the first ruler of the Emirate of Granada, t... |
44,474 | Saturn | 1,173,373,612 | Sixth planet from the Sun | [
"Astronomical objects known since antiquity",
"Gas giants",
"Outer planets",
"Saturn"
] | Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second-largest in the Solar System, after Jupiter. It is a gas giant with an average radius of about nine and a half times that of Earth. It has only one-eighth the average density of Earth, but is over 95 times more massive.
Saturn's interior is thought to be composed o... |
2,218,672 | Never Forget You (Mariah Carey song) | 1,173,894,865 | 1994 single by Mariah Carey | [
"1990s ballads",
"1993 songs",
"1994 singles",
"Columbia Records singles",
"Contemporary R&B ballads",
"Mariah Carey songs",
"Pop ballads",
"Song recordings produced by Babyface (musician)",
"Song recordings produced by Daryl Simmons",
"Songs about loneliness",
"Songs written by Babyface (musici... | "Never Forget You" is a song recorded by American singer Mariah Carey for her third studio album Music Box (1993). Carey co-wrote the slow jam with Babyface and the pair produced it with Daryl Simmons. Columbia Records released the song on January 21, 1994, as the B-side to "Without You" and promoted it to American urb... |
163,382 | John Le Mesurier | 1,153,506,825 | English actor (1912–1983) | [
"1912 births",
"1983 deaths",
"20th-century English male actors",
"20th-century English male writers",
"Actors from Bury St Edmunds",
"Alcohol-related deaths in England",
"Best Actor BAFTA Award (television) winners",
"British Army personnel of World War II",
"British male comedy actors",
"British... | John Le Mesurier (/lə ˈmɛʒərə/, born John Elton Le Mesurier Halliley; 5 April 1912 – 15 November 1983) was an English actor. He is probably best remembered for his comedic role as Sergeant Arthur Wilson in the BBC television situation comedy Dad's Army (1968–1977). A self-confessed "jobbing actor", Le Mesurier appeared... |
5,792,809 | Angelina Jolie | 1,172,646,860 | American actress (born 1975) | [
"1975 births",
"20th-century American LGBT people",
"20th-century American actresses",
"21st-century American LGBT people",
"21st-century American actresses",
"21st-century Cambodian actresses",
"Activists from California",
"Actresses awarded damehoods",
"Actresses from Los Angeles",
"American LGB... | Angelina Jolie (/dʒoʊˈliː/; born Angelina Jolie Voight; June 4, 1975) is an American actress, filmmaker, author and humanitarian. The recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award and three Golden Globe Awards, she has been named Hollywood's highest-paid actress multiple times.
Jolie made her screen debu... |
16,652,126 | No Panties | 1,154,383,052 | null | [
"2002 singles",
"Atlantic Records singles",
"Music videos directed by Dave Meyers (director)",
"Songs written by Missy Elliott",
"Trina songs",
"Tweet (singer) songs"
] | "No Panties" is a song by American rapper Trina, featuring American singer Tweet, from Trina's second studio album Diamond Princess (2002). Slip-n-Slide and Atlantic released it as the album's lead single on July 16, 2002. A hip hop song, it was written by Missy Elliott who co-produced it with Nisan Stewart. Trina raps... |
32,565,813 | Portrait Diptych of Dürer's Parents | 1,160,882,929 | Two late-15th century portrait panels by Albrecht Dürer | [
"1490s paintings",
"Collections of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum",
"Diptychs",
"Paintings in the Uffizi",
"Portraits by Albrecht Dürer"
] | Portrait Diptych of Dürer's Parents (or Dürer's Parents with Rosaries) is the collective name for two late-15th century portrait panels by the German painter and printmaker Albrecht Dürer. They show the artist's parents, Barbara Holper (c. 1451–1514) and Albrecht Dürer the Elder (c. 1427–1502), when she was around 39 a... |
30,157,827 | SMS König Albert | 1,173,767,613 | Battleship of the German Imperial Navy | [
"1912 ships",
"Kaiser-class battleships",
"Maritime incidents in 1919",
"Ships built by Schichau",
"Ships built in Danzig",
"World War I battleships of Germany",
"World War I warships scuttled at Scapa Flow"
] | SMS König Albert was the fourth vessel of the Kaiser class of dreadnought battleships of the Imperial German Navy. König Albert's keel was laid on 17 July 1910 at the Schichau-Werke dockyard in Danzig. She was launched on 27 April 1912 and was commissioned into the fleet on 31 July 1913. The ship was equipped with ten ... |
40,599,786 | Milorad Petrović | 1,080,712,014 | Yugoslav general | [
"1882 births",
"1981 deaths",
"Army general (Kingdom of Yugoslavia)",
"People from Zaječar District",
"People from the Kingdom of Serbia",
"Recipients of the Medal for Bravery (Serbia)",
"Recipients of the Order of St. Sava",
"Recipients of the Order of the Yugoslav Crown",
"Royal Yugoslav Army pers... | Milorad Petrović (Serbian Cyrillic: Милорад Петровић; 18 April 1882 – 12 June 1981) was an Armijski đeneral (lieutenant general) in the Royal Yugoslav Army who commanded the 1st Army Group during the April 1941 German-led Axis invasion of Yugoslavia of World War II. Petrović was commissioned into the Royal Serbian Army... |
21,051,699 | Sam Loxton with the Australian cricket team in England in 1948 | 1,124,662,687 | 1948 season of Australian cricketer | [
"The Invincibles (cricket)"
] | Sam Loxton was a member of Donald Bradman's famous Australian cricket team, which toured England in 1948. Bradman's men went undefeated in their 34 matches; this unprecedented feat by a Test side touring England earned them the sobriquet The Invincibles.
A batting all rounder, Loxton played as a right-handed middle-or... |
3,556,218 | Leek Town F.C. | 1,173,439,194 | Association football club in England | [
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"Association football clubs established in 1946",
"Cheshire County League clubs",
"Football clubs in England",
"Football clubs in Staffordshire",
"Leek, Staffordshire",
"National League (English football) clubs",
"North West Counties Football League clubs",
"Norther... | Leek Town Football Club is an English football club based in Leek, Staffordshire, playing in the . The team, nicknamed "The Blues", play their home games at Harrison Park.
The club was founded in 1946 and played in a variety of local leagues including the Staffordshire County League, Manchester League, Mid-Cheshire Le... |
51,375,561 | Delaware Tercentenary half dollar | 1,147,570,016 | 1937 commemorative American coin | [
"Churches in art",
"Early United States commemorative coins",
"Economy of Delaware",
"Fifty-cent coins",
"Ships on coins",
"Tricentennial anniversaries"
] | The Delaware Tercentenary half dollar (also known as the Swedish Delaware half dollar) is a commemorative fifty-cent piece struck by the United States Bureau of the Mint to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the first successful European settlement in Delaware. The reverse features the Swedish ship Kalmar Nyckel, whi... |
17,009,274 | Mother and Child Reunion (Degrassi: The Next Generation) | 1,151,555,340 | null | [
"2001 television episodes",
"Canadian television series premieres",
"Class reunions in popular culture",
"Degrassi: The Next Generation episodes",
"Television episodes about driving under the influence"
] | "Mother and Child Reunion" is the two-part pilot episode of the Canadian teen drama television series Degrassi: The Next Generation, which premiered on October 14, 2001 on the CTV Television Network. The episode was written by story editor Aaron Martin and series co-creator/creative consultant Yan Moore, and directed b... |
1,589,348 | Shadow the Hedgehog (video game) | 1,173,918,978 | 2005 video game | [
"2005 video games",
"3D platform games",
"Alien invasions in video games",
"Cyberpunk video games",
"GameCube games",
"Games about extraterrestrial life",
"Military science fiction video games",
"Multiplayer and single-player video games",
"PlayStation 2 games",
"PlayStation Network games",
"Pos... | is a 2005 platform game developed by Sega Studios USA (the former United States division of Sonic Team) and published by Sega as part of the Sonic the Hedgehog series. The game follows Shadow the Hedgehog, a creation of Doctor Eggman's grandfather, as he attempts to learn about his past while suffering from amnesia. Sh... |
266,477 | Niandra LaDes and Usually Just a T-Shirt | 1,124,012,486 | null | [
"1994 debut albums",
"American Recordings (record label) albums",
"John Frusciante albums"
] | Niandra LaDes and Usually Just a T-Shirt is the debut album by the American musician John Frusciante, released on November 22, 1994, by American Recordings.
Frusciante was previously a member of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, but left in 1992 after he became overwhelmed by their newfound popularity. He became severely dep... |
33,713,408 | Piano music of Gabriel Fauré | 1,164,905,543 | Piano music written by Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924) | [
"Compositions by Gabriel Fauré",
"Compositions for solo piano",
"French music",
"Lists of compositions by composer",
"Lists of piano compositions by composer",
"Music with dedications"
] | The French composer Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924) wrote in many genres, including songs, chamber music, orchestral pieces, and choral works. His compositions for piano, written between the 1860s and the 1920s, include some of his best known works.
Fauré's major sets of piano works are thirteen nocturnes, thirteen barcarol... |
600,052 | Sahure | 1,170,071,794 | Egyptian pharaoh, second ruler of the Fifth Dynasty, 25th century BC | [
"25th-century BC Pharaohs",
"Pharaohs",
"Pharaohs of the Fifth Dynasty of Egypt"
] | Sahure (also Sahura, meaning "He who is close to Re") was a pharaoh of ancient Egypt and the second ruler of the Fifth Dynasty (c. 2465 – c. 2325 BC). He reigned for about 13 years in the early 25th century BC during the Old Kingdom Period. Sahure's reign marks the political and cultural high point of the Fifth Dynasty... |
45,851 | Opeth | 1,172,442,989 | Swedish progressive metal band | [
"Candlelight Records artists",
"MNRK Music Group artists",
"Musical groups established in 1990",
"Musical groups from Stockholm",
"Musical quartets",
"Musical quintets",
"Nuclear Blast artists",
"Opeth",
"Roadrunner Records artists",
"Swedish death metal musical groups",
"Swedish progressive met... | Opeth are a Swedish progressive metal band from Stockholm, formed in 1990. In addition to progressive metal, the band incorporates folk, blues, classical, and jazz elements into its usually lengthy compositions, as well as strong influences from death metal, especially in their early works. Songs may include acoustic g... |
17,696,183 | Ficus aurea | 1,166,272,907 | Species of strangler fig | [
"Epiphytes",
"Ficus",
"Flora of Florida",
"Flora without expected TNC conservation status",
"Garden plants of North America",
"Ornamental trees",
"Plants described in 1846",
"Plants used in bonsai",
"Taxa named by Thomas Nuttall",
"Trees of Central America",
"Trees of Mexico",
"Trees of the Ca... | Ficus aurea, commonly known as the Florida strangler fig (or simply strangler fig), golden fig, or higuerón, is a tree in the family Moraceae that is native to the U.S. state of Florida, the northern and western Caribbean, southern Mexico and Central America south to Panama. The specific epithet aurea was applied by En... |
2,223,484 | Battle of Bicocca | 1,173,446,198 | Battle during the Italian War of 1521–26 | [
"1522 in Italy",
"Battles in Lombardy",
"Battles involving France",
"Battles involving Spain",
"Battles involving the Duchy of Milan",
"Battles involving the Holy Roman Empire",
"Battles involving the Papal States",
"Battles involving the Republic of Venice",
"Battles of the Italian Wars",
"Confli... | The Battle of Bicocca or La Bicocca (Italian: Battaglia della Bicocca) was fought on 27 April 1522, during the Italian War of 1521–26. A combined French and Venetian force under Odet de Foix, Vicomte de Lautrec, was decisively defeated by an Imperial–Spanish and Papal army under the overall command of Prospero Colonna.... |
1,210,990 | Calutron | 1,172,777,728 | Mass spectrometer | [
"History of the Manhattan Project",
"Isotope separation",
"Mass spectrometry",
"Particle physics facilities",
"University of California, Berkeley",
"Uranium"
] | A calutron is a mass spectrometer originally designed and used for separating the isotopes of uranium. It was developed by Ernest Lawrence during the Manhattan Project and was based on his earlier invention, the cyclotron. Its name was derived from California University Cyclotron, in tribute to Lawrence's institution, ... |
1,738,033 | Weight Gain 4000 | 1,168,892,216 | null | [
"1997 American television episodes",
"Consumerism",
"South Park (season 1) episodes",
"Television episodes about obesity"
] | "Weight Gain 4000" is the third episode of the first season of the American animated television series South Park. It first aired on Comedy Central in the United States on August 27, 1997. In the episode, the residents of South Park excitedly prepare for a visit by celebrity Kathie Lee Gifford, whom the boys' third-gra... |
141,738 | Comet Hyakutake | 1,170,089,078 | Comet that passed close to Earth in March 1996 | [
"Astronomical objects discovered in 1996",
"Discoveries by Yuji Hyakutake",
"Discoveries by amateur astronomers",
"Great comets",
"Non-periodic comets",
"Science and technology in Japan"
] | Comet Hyakutake (formally designated C/1996 B2 (Hyakutake)) is a comet discovered on 31 January 1996. It was dubbed the Great Comet of 1996; its passage to within 0.1 AU (15 Gm) of the Earth on 25 March was one of the closest cometary approaches of the previous 200 years. Reaching an apparent visual magnitude of zero a... |
29,602,373 | Pioneer Helmet | 1,173,621,992 | Anglo-Saxon helmet from the late seventh century found in Wollaston, Northamptonshire | [
"1997 archaeological discoveries",
"7th-century artifacts",
"Anglo-Saxon archaeology",
"Beowulf",
"Boars in heraldry",
"Individual helmets",
"Military history of Northamptonshire",
"Pigs in art"
] | The Pioneer Helmet (also known as the Wollaston Helmet or Northamptonshire Helmet) is an Anglo-Saxon boar-crested helmet from the late seventh century found in Wollaston, Northamptonshire, United Kingdom. It was discovered during a March 1997 excavation before the land was to be mined for gravel and was part of the gra... |
44,371 | Triton (moon) | 1,173,622,792 | Largest moon of Neptune | [
"Astronomical objects discovered in 1846",
"Former dwarf planets",
"Irregular satellites",
"Moons with a retrograde orbit",
"Objects observed by stellar occultation",
"Triton (moon)"
] | Triton is the largest natural satellite of the planet Neptune, and was the first Neptunian moon to be discovered, on October 11, 1846, by English astronomer William Lassell. It is the only large moon in the Solar System with a retrograde orbit, an orbit in the direction opposite to its planet's rotation. Because of its... |
23,309,899 | Cologne War | 1,167,123,891 | 1583–88 religious war in Germany | [
"1580s conflicts",
"1580s in the Holy Roman Empire",
"1583 in Europe",
"1583 in the Holy Roman Empire",
"1584 in the Holy Roman Empire",
"1585 in the Holy Roman Empire",
"1586 in the Holy Roman Empire",
"1587 in the Holy Roman Empire",
"1588 in the Holy Roman Empire",
"Counter-Reformation",
"Ele... | The Cologne War (German: Kölner Krieg, Kölnischer Krieg, Truchsessischer Krieg; 1583–88) was a conflict between Protestant and Catholic factions that devastated the Electorate of Cologne, a historical ecclesiastical principality of the Holy Roman Empire, within present-day North Rhine-Westphalia, in Germany. The war oc... |
43,545,369 | McKinley Birthplace Memorial gold dollar | 1,167,905,729 | Commemorative gold coin featuring President McKinley | [
"1916 establishments in Pennsylvania",
"Cultural depictions of William McKinley",
"Currencies introduced in 1916",
"Early United States commemorative coins",
"United States gold coins",
"Works by George T. Morgan"
] | The McKinley Birthplace Memorial gold dollar was a commemorative coin struck by the United States Bureau of the Mint in 1916 and 1917, depicting the 25th President of the United States, William McKinley. The coin's obverse was designed by Charles E. Barber, Chief Engraver of the Mint, and the reverse by his assistant, ... |
4,143,109 | Elfin woods warbler | 1,130,660,605 | Small bird of the New World warbler family endemic to Puerto Rico | [
"Birds described in 1972",
"ESA threatened species",
"Endemic birds of Puerto Rico",
"Setophaga",
"Taxa named by Cameron B. Kepler",
"Taxa named by Kenneth Carroll Parkes"
] | The elfin woods warbler (Setophaga angelae) is a species of bird endemic to Puerto Rico, where it is local and uncommon. Discovered in 1968 and described in 1972, it is the most recently described New World warbler (family Parulidae).
The species name, angelae, is a tribute to Angela Kepler, one of its discoverers. Th... |
1,247,566 | Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss | 1,167,118,582 | 1992 first-person role-playing video game | [
"1992 video games",
"Action role-playing video games",
"DOS games",
"Dungeon crawler video games",
"Electronic Arts games",
"FM Towns games",
"First-person video games",
"Games commercially released with DOSBox",
"Immersive sims",
"Looking Glass Studios games",
"MacOS games",
"NEC PC-9801 game... | Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss is a first-person role-playing video game developed by Blue Sky Productions (later Looking Glass Studios) and published by Origin Systems. Released in March 1992, the game is set in the fantasy world of the Ultima series. It takes place inside the Great Stygian Abyss: a large cave s... |
12,743,574 | Oswald Watt | 1,147,860,177 | Australian aviation pioneer | [
"1878 births",
"1921 deaths",
"Accidental deaths in New South Wales",
"Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge",
"Australian aviators",
"Australian military personnel of World War I",
"British emigrants to Australia",
"Deaths by drowning in Australia",
"French military personnel of World War I",
"Mem... | Walter Oswald Watt, OBE (11 February 1878 – 21 May 1921) was an Australian aviator and businessman. He served as a pilot during World War I with, firstly, the French Foreign Legion and, secondly, the Australian Flying Corps (AFC).
The son of a Scottish-Australian merchant and politician, Watt was born in England and m... |
21,140 | Noble gas | 1,173,641,017 | Group of low-reactive, gaseous chemical elements | [
"Groups (periodic table)",
"Noble gases"
] | The noble gases (historically also the inert gases; sometimes referred to as aerogens) make up a class of chemical elements with similar properties; under standard conditions, they are all odorless, colorless, monatomic gases with very low chemical reactivity. The six naturally occurring noble gases are helium (He), ne... |
1,335,214 | Homer's Enemy | 1,172,124,423 | null | [
"1997 American television episodes",
"Black comedy",
"Fictional rivalries",
"Television episodes about social class",
"Television shows written by John Swartzwelder",
"The Simpsons (season 8) episodes"
] | "Homer's Enemy" is the twenty-third episode of the eighth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It was first broadcast on the Fox network in the United States on May 4, 1997. "Homer's Enemy" was directed by Jim Reardon and written by John Swartzwelder, based on an idea pitched by executive pro... |
5,445,473 | Premiere (The O.C.) | 1,161,182,194 | null | [
"2003 American television episodes",
"American television series premieres",
"Television episodes set in California",
"The O.C. episodes"
] | "Premiere" (also known as "Pilot") is the series premiere of the television series The O.C., which premiered on the Fox network on August 5, 2003. Written by series creator Josh Schwartz and directed by executive producer Doug Liman, the episode depicts the introduction of troubled teenager Ryan Atwood (Benjamin McKenz... |
184,774 | Amanita phalloides | 1,171,070,036 | Poisonous mushroom (death cap) | [
"Amanita",
"Deadly fungi",
"Fungi described in 1821",
"Fungi of Africa",
"Fungi of Europe",
"Hepatotoxins"
] | Amanita phalloides (/æməˈnaɪtə fəˈlɔɪdiːz/), commonly known as the death cap, is a deadly poisonous basidiomycete fungus, one of many in the genus Amanita. Widely distributed across Europe, but introduced to other parts of the world since the late twentieth century, A. phalloides forms ectomycorrhizas with various broa... |
1,828,843 | The Legend of Bhagat Singh | 1,170,235,541 | 2002 Indian film directed by Rajkumar Santoshi | [
"2000s Hindi-language films",
"2000s biographical films",
"2002 films",
"Best Hindi Feature Film National Film Award winners",
"Cultural depictions of Jawaharlal Nehru",
"Cultural depictions of Mahatma Gandhi",
"Films about Bhagat Singh",
"Films directed by Rajkumar Santoshi",
"Films featuring a Bes... | The Legend of Bhagat Singh is a 2002 Indian Hindi-language biographical period film directed by Rajkumar Santoshi. The film is about Bhagat Singh, a revolutionary who fought for Indian independence along with fellow members of the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association. It features Ajay Devgan as the titular charac... |
23,751,558 | Operation Hardboiled | 1,166,107,688 | 1942 military deception operation | [
"1943 in international relations",
"Military history of Norway during World War II",
"United Kingdom intelligence operations",
"World War II deception operations"
] | Operation Hardboiled was a Second World War military deception. Undertaken by the Allies in 1942, it was the first attempt at deception by the London Controlling Section (LCS) and was designed to convince the Axis powers that the Allies would soon invade German-occupied Norway. The LCS had recently been established to ... |
52,851 | 1975 Australian constitutional crisis | 1,171,289,898 | Governor-General dismissal of PM Whitlam | [
"1975 Australian constitutional crisis",
"1975 in Australian law",
"1975 in politics",
"Gough Whitlam",
"History of the Australian Labor Party",
"Malcolm Fraser",
"November 1975 events in Australia",
"October 1975 events in Australia"
] | The 1975 Australian constitutional crisis, also known simply as the Dismissal, culminated on 11 November 1975 with the dismissal from office of the prime minister, Gough Whitlam of the Australian Labor Party (ALP), by Governor-General Sir John Kerr, who then commissioned the leader of the Opposition, Malcolm Fraser of ... |
43,127 | Europa (moon) | 1,172,882,923 | Smallest Galilean moon of Jupiter | [
"Astronomical objects discovered in 1610",
"Discoveries by Galileo Galilei",
"Discoveries by Simon Marius",
"Europa (moon)",
"Moons of Jupiter",
"Moons with a prograde orbit"
] | Europa /jʊˈroʊpə/ , or Jupiter II, is the smallest of the four Galilean moons orbiting Jupiter, and the sixth-closest to the planet of all the 95 known moons of Jupiter. It is also the sixth-largest moon in the Solar System. Europa was discovered independently by Simon Marius and Galileo Galilei and was named (by Mariu... |
798 | Aries (constellation) | 1,173,289,529 | Zodiac constellation in the northern hemisphere | [
"Aries (constellation)",
"Constellations",
"Constellations listed by Ptolemy",
"Northern constellations"
] | Aries is one of the constellations of the zodiac. It is located in the Northern celestial hemisphere between Pisces to the west and Taurus to the east. The name Aries is Latin for ram. Its old astronomical symbol is (♈︎). It is one of the 48 constellations described by the 2nd century astronomer Ptolemy, and remains on... |
69,704,870 | Battle Birds | 1,170,527,364 | American air-war pulp magazine (1932–1935) | [
"Magazines disestablished in 1944",
"Magazines established in 1932",
"Magazines published in New York City",
"Pulp magazines"
] | Battle Birds was an American air-war pulp magazine, published by Popular Publications. It was launched at the end of 1932, but did not sell well, and in 1934 the publisher turned it into an air-war hero pulp titled Dusty Ayres and His Battle Birds. Robert Sidney Bowen, an established pulp writer, provided the lead nove... |
12,621,591 | Government of the Han dynasty | 1,126,261,412 | Governance during the Chinese Han dynasty (202 BC–220 AD) | [
"Government of Imperial China",
"Han dynasty"
] | The Han dynasty (202 BC – 220 AD) was the second imperial dynasty of China, following the Qin dynasty (221–207 BC). It was divided into the periods of Western (Former) Han (202 BC – 9 AD) and Eastern (Later) Han (25–220 AD), briefly interrupted by the Xin dynasty (9–23 AD) of Wang Mang. The capital of Western Han was C... |
13,768 | Hydrus | 1,173,352,971 | Constellation in the southern celestial hemisphere | [
"1590s in the Dutch Republic",
"Astronomy in the Dutch Republic",
"Constellations listed by Petrus Plancius",
"Dutch celestial cartography in the Age of Discovery",
"Hydrus",
"Southern constellations"
] | Hydrus /ˈhaɪdrəs/ is a small constellation in the deep southern sky. It was one of twelve constellations created by Petrus Plancius from the observations of Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman and it first appeared on a 35-cm (14 in) diameter celestial globe published in late 1597 (or early 1598) in Amster... |
1,187,955 | John Whittle | 1,169,294,420 | Australian recipient of the VC (1882–1946) | [
"1882 births",
"1946 deaths",
"Australian Army soldiers",
"Australian World War I recipients of the Victoria Cross",
"Australian military personnel of the Second Boer War",
"Australian recipients of the Distinguished Conduct Medal",
"Burials at Rookwood Cemetery",
"Military personnel from Hobart",
"... | John Woods Whittle, VC, DCM (3 August 1882 – 2 March 1946) was an Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest decoration for gallantry "in the face of the enemy" that can be awarded to members of the British and British Commonwealth armed forces. Whittle was serving as a sergeant in the First World War when... |
889,116 | Katamari Damacy | 1,171,787,501 | 2004 video game | [
"2004 video games",
"D.I.C.E. Award for Outstanding Achievement in Game Design winners",
"Game Developers Choice Award winners",
"Katamari",
"Multiplayer and single-player video games",
"Namco games",
"Nintendo Switch games",
"Now Production games",
"PlayStation 2 games",
"PlayStation 4 games",
... | (lit. 'Clump Spirit') is a third-person puzzle-action video game developed and published by Namco for the PlayStation 2. It was released in Japan in March 2004 and in North America in September 2004. Designer Keita Takahashi struggled to pitch the game to Namco's superiors, eventually seeking student aid from the Namco... |
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