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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
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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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Michigan[edit]

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Other[edit]

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Entertainment[edit]

Film/TV[edit]

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Music[edit]

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Historic sites[edit]

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Churches[edit]

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World War II pin-ups[edit]

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Rank Title Photo Date Size Views Description
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[edit]

Rank Title Year Size Views Description
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[edit]

Rank Title Photo Year Size Views Description
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[edit]

Rank Title Year Size Views Description
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[edit]

Rank Title Creation Size Views Description
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)[edit]

Rank Title Creation Size Views Description
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[edit]

Rank Title Creation Size Views Description
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[edit]

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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