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Type Non-image Image Overall
vph Article vph Article vph Article
Low 0 Hometown Village 243.8 Robert Beall, John Wilson Walton-Wilson 0 Hometown Village
Median 293.1 Ioniță Tunsu
Dora Goldstein
692.3 Claire Rousay
Pilgrims' Cross, Holcombe Moor
328.8 John Boswell (clergyman)
AtariWriter
High 1,188.6 Babe Ruth Bows Out 2,165.0 Hanging Stone 2,165.0 Hanging Stone

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Article Date Image views vph DYK hook
Hanging Stone 2024-02-02 25,980 2,165.0 ... that groups of tourists have unsuccessfully tried to push the Hanging Stone (pictured) into the lake below?
Qalaherriaq 2024-02-06 13,677 1,626.6 ... that teenage Inuk interpreter Qalaherriaq (pictured) drew an accurate map of northwest Greenland while using a pencil for the first time?
Donald H. Bochkay 2024-02-01 16,866 1,405.5 ... that fighter pilot Donald H. Bochkay (pictured) shot down two jet-powered Messerschmitt Me 262s while flying a propeller-driven P-51 Mustang?
Babe Ruth Bows Out 2024-02-01 14,264 1,188.6 ... that Babe Ruth Bows Out marked the first time a sports-related image won the Pulitzer Prize for Photography?
Johnny & Clyde 2024-02-02 13,236 1,103.0 ... that heist-horror film Johnny & Clyde has been called "unwatchable"?
Pohang Space Walk 2024-02-08 12,600 1,050.0 ... that the steps of Pohang Space Walk (pictured) represent an ascent to an unreachable utopia?
Tove Jansson 2024-02-08 12,514 1,042.8 ... that artist Tove Jansson (pictured) based the children's book character Snufkin on a political philosopher whom she had dated?
Well he would, wouldn't he? 2024-02-02 12,408 1,034.0 ... that "he would, wouldn't he"?
Jenny Suo 2024-02-07 9,538 953.9 ... that at the age of 14, Jenny Suo conducted a science experiment that ultimately led to GlaxoSmithKline pleading guilty to breaching consumer protection laws?
Cisco (wine) 2024-02-01 11,426 952.2 ... that Cisco wine was nicknamed "liquid crack"?
Yi–Ta incident 2024-02-06 7,845 933.0 ... that from March to May 1962, 60,000 Chinese citizens migrated to the Soviet Union through two ports of entry?
George Roper (ship) 2024-02-06 14,370 921.2 ... that on its maiden voyage from Liverpool to Australia, the George Roper ran aground (pictured) and was wrecked?
Phomen Singh 2024-02-05 9,855 821.2 ... that Phomen Singh (pictured), an early Indian migrant to New Zealand, sold sweets and chutneys out of a suitcase?
Sun in an Empty Room 2024-02-01 9,806 817.2 ... that Edward Hopper wondered what an empty room would look like with no one to see it?
Pilgrims' Cross, Holcombe Moor 2024-02-07 7,764 776.4 ... that the 6-ton (6.1-tonne) Pilgrims' Cross (pictured), high on Holcombe Moor, England, was dragged up there with difficulty by 14 horses?
Jews in Madagascar 2024-02-03 9,251 770.9 ... that millions of people from Madagascar claim ancestral ties to ancient Jews, according to a centuries-old origin myth called the "Malagasy secret"?
Tilted Towers 2024-02-05 8,778 731.5 ... that Fortnite's Tilted Towers was described by critics as the equivalent of "psychological torture" and being "dropped into a meat grinder"?
Mariia Vetrova 2024-02-05 8,591 715.9 ... that Mariia Vetrova's self-immolation provoked student protests in Saint Petersburg, Moscow and Kyiv?
Clipperton Island case 2024-02-05 8,378 698.2 ... that it took the King of Italy 22 years to decide whether France or Mexico owned Clipperton Island?
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings 2024-02-04 7,660[a] 638.4 ... that a bus-chase sequence in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings took more than a year to plan and was revised more than twenty times?
Claire Rousay 2024-02-04 7,298 608.1 ... that Claire Rousay (pictured) creates music using everyday sounds she records?
Beeper (company) 2024-02-02 7,096 591.3 ... that a 16-year-old high-school student reverse-engineered iMessage to let Android users text iPhone users with blue chat bubbles using the Beeper Mini app?
Let's All Go to the Lobby 2024-02-01 7,070 589.2 ... that Let's All Go to the Lobby, a one-minute filmed advertisement, has been preserved by the US National Film Registry?
40 Bank Street 2024-02-03 6,581 548.4 ... that 40 Bank Street (pictured), a skyscraper in London, has been described as looking like two different buildings fused into one?
Kirk Raymond Jones 2024-02-03 6,480 540.0 ... that Kirk Raymond Jones became the first person to survive going over Niagara Falls without safety equipment, then died after going over it again in an inflatable ball?
Lancelot of Navarre 2024-02-02 6,432 536.0 ... that King Charles III of Navarre wanted his illegitimate son Lancelot to become a bishop but the pope forbade it?
Kalmia Club 2024-02-04 6,246 520.5 ... that the Kalmia Club (clubhouse pictured) is named after the mountain laurel?
Dione arcuata 2024-02-04 6,208 517.3 ... that eyelash seaweed may have been made extinct by a single 2016 earthquake?
Paul Pavelka 2024-02-06 4,320 513.8 ... that aviator Paul Pavelka was killed after being thrown and trampled by a horse?
Hackaball 2024-02-01 6,078 506.5 ... that children have programmed Hackaball as a Magic 8 Ball, a whoopee cushion, and an alarm clock?
Megan Barton-Hanson 2024-02-04 4,886 407.2 ... that Megan Barton-Hanson dated her costars from Love Island 4, Celebs Go Dating, and Ex on the Beach, but not Hey Tracey!?
Hey Tracey! 1,059 88.2
Total 5,945 495.4
William Thomas Pike 2024-02-02 5,824 485.3 ... that William Thomas Pike, a convicted felon, published a biographical series (volume pictured), which includes traders, bishops, and a lord mayor of London, but almost no women?
Black-billed magpie 2024-02-01 5,674 472.9 ... that black-billed magpies are known to eat ticks off deer and other large mammals (example pictured)?
Joseph S. Bartley 2024-02-06 7,212 462.3 ... that after Joseph S. Bartley was sentenced to twenty years in prison for embezzlement, he tried to have himself declared legally dead?
Agora Hills 2024-02-07 5,468[b] 458.5 ... that "Agora Hills" is named after the location of the ashram where Doja Cat lived growing up?
Nadezhda Bantle 2024-02-05 5,432 452.7 ... that after Nadezhda Bantle was exiled to the Russian North, she oversaw the development of the hospital in Nikolskoye to become the most advanced in its region?
SkyDoesMinecraft 2024-02-03 5,397 449.8 ... that Minecraft YouTuber SkyDoesMinecraft, once the eleventh-most subscribed creator on the platform, attempted to sell their YouTube channel for nearly a million dollars?
Mako Morino 2024-02-01 5,328 444.0 ... that voice actress Mako Morino played volleyball for 14 years, but gave up the goal of playing professionally after being assigned to the non-serving libero position?
Zanana 2024-02-06 3,716 441.9 ... that zanana can refer to a nagging wife in Egypt, or to Israeli drones flying overhead in Gaza?
Nevoid melanoma 2024-02-01 5,092 424.3 ... that unlike most skin cancers, a nevoid melanoma may have an almost perfectly symmetrical shape?
Yobidashi 2024-02-02 4,995 416.2 ... that yobidashi often receive their trousers from sumo wrestlers who have been promoted to the rank of yokozuna or ōzeki?
Laguna Honda Hospital 2024-02-06 3,496 415.8 ... that Laguna Honda Hospital is a non-profit long-term care facility that has been described as America's "last big almshouse"?
Ibedul succession dispute 2024-02-07 4,890 410.0 ... that during the ibedul succession dispute, Gloria Salii held a ceremony for her son in which he washed his hands in turtle blood?
Fionna Campbell (character) 2024-02-02 4,892 407.7 ... that Fionna Campbell was created as gender-swapped Adventure Time fan art, but ended up getting her own show?
I'm God 2024-02-06 6,240 400.0 ... that it took eleven years for the instrumental track "I'm God" to receive an official release?
Newquay Lifeboat Station 2024-02-02 4,797 399.8 ... that with an inclination of 1 in 2.5, the slipway at Newquay Lifeboat Station was one of the steepest in England?
Max Glatt 2024-02-07 3,902 390.2 ... that addicts imprisoned in Wormwood Scrubs named the prison football team "Glatt Dynamos", after their psychotherapist Max Glatt, a former Nazi concentration-camp inmate?
Ephelcomenus 2024-02-05 4,680 390.0 ... that the artiodactyl Ephelcomenus is thought to have been capable of burrowing?
Ludwig Grass 2024-02-07 4,646 389.6 ... that in 1857 Ludwig Grass (pictured) donated 20,000 guilders to build the first state secondary school in Liechtenstein?
Chompi 2024-02-03 4,649 387.4 ... that the Chompi Kickstarter campaign was one of the most successful of 2023?
Site isolation 2024-02-03 4,637 386.4 ... that adding the site isolation security feature made Google Chrome use 10 percent more RAM?
Takabb Anti-Cough Pill 2024-02-04 4,614 384.5 ... that the packaging of one Thai throat lozenge features five centipedes?
Salmon Report 2024-02-07 4,556 382.0 ... that the Salmon Report (1966) led to the loss of the job title "matron" from UK hospitals?
Elijah Hewson 2024-02-05 4,500 375.0 ... that Elijah Hewson's band Inhaler's UK No. 1 debut album charted 51 places higher than the debut album of his father's band U2?
Ray E. Dillon Jr. 2024-02-04 4,424 368.6 ... that Ray E. Dillon Jr. flew in 92 combat missions during World War II before becoming the president and CEO of Dillons?
Yunè Pinku 2024-02-06 3,098 368.4 ... that Yunè Pinku derived the first half of her stage name from a childhood nickname and the second half from the children's program Pingu?
Advisory Neighborhood Commission district 7F08 2024-02-02 4,419 368.2 ... that in one neighborhood commission district, the voters and officeholders are all inmates at the D.C. Jail?
Native American Educational Services College 2024-02-06 3,088 367.2 ... that a college designed for and led by Native Americans was active in Chicago from 1974 to 2005?
Richard Twine (sociologist) 2024-02-01 4,397 366.4 ... that sociologist Richard Twine has developed the concept of the "vegan killjoy" who challenges anthropocentrism by their mere presence?
Poecilia vivipara 2024-02-02 4,334 361.1 ... that for the southern molly, sexual selection favors smaller males because they copulate by sneaking up to females?
Princess Zelda 2024-02-04 4,276 356.3 ... that Princess Zelda's name was inspired by American novelist and socialite Zelda Fitzgerald?
George Daniel 2024-02-05 4,207 350.6 ... that George Daniel submitted his band's demos as coursework while in college?
Twink Twining 2024-02-04 4,200 350.0 ... that Dr. Twink Twining was a Major League Baseball player?
AtariWriter 2024-02-07 3,368 336.8 ... that the AtariWriter word processor for the Atari 8-bit family sold over 800,000 copies, about one copy for every five machines sold?
John Boswell (clergyman) 2024-02-06 2,698 320.8 ... that John Boswell believed that the executed King Charles I of England was a martyr?
Joan Phillip 2024-02-07 3,777 316.7 ... that Joan Phillip offered to give any MLAs who were rude to her a whack with her Saskatoon berry stick?
Misfat al Abriyeen 2024-02-02 3,784 315.4 ... that Misfat al Abriyeen in Oman was named one of the best tourism villages by the World Tourism Organization in 2021?
Holly Ringland 2024-02-03 3,704 308.7 ... that Holly Ringland wrote her second book while stuck in Australia for three years during the COVID-19 pandemic?
Emais Roberts 2024-02-03 3,684 307.0 ... that Emais Roberts (pictured) administered the COVID-19 vaccination program in Palau and was one of the first to receive the vaccine in the country?
Effective accelerationism 2024-02-03 3,666 305.5 ... that adherents of effective accelerationism believe that unrestricted technological progress would be a solution for poverty and war?
Dora Goldstein 2024-02-06 4,595 294.6 ... that Dora Goldstein exposed mice to alcoholic vapor to investigate the biochemistry of alcohol addiction and alcohol withdrawal syndrome?
Ioniță Tunsu 2024-02-04 3,499 291.6 ... that a street in Bucharest was once named after Ioniță Tunsu, an outlaw who used to visit his girlfriend there?
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage elements in Palestine 2024-02-06 4,534 290.6 ... that intangible heritage unique to Palestine includes women's story-telling, embroidery, dance, and soap-making?
Baldwin–Reynolds House 2024-02-05 3,464 288.6 ... that the design of the Baldwin–Reynolds House, a mansion built for U.S. Supreme Court justice Henry Baldwin, may have been inspired by Andrew Jackson's home?
Conservation in Indonesia 2024-02-05 3,436 286.3 ... that conservation in Indonesia had little local support after independence because it was associated with the Dutch colonial period?
Martina Fernández (footballer) 2024-02-04 3,290 274.1 ... that Martina Fernández plays football for Barcelona and studies part-time at a biomedical laboratory?
Gurdev Singh Gill (physician) 2024-02-03 3,270 272.5 ... that Gurdev Singh Gill was the first Canadian physician of Indian descent?
Harley Poe 2024-02-03 3,214 267.9 ... that Harley Poe's folk punk lyrics have been described as "some of the most deranged in the genre"?
No Rome 2024-02-03 3,202 266.9 ... that the Filipino musician No Rome took his stage name from people doubting his career choice?
Storm Poly 2024-02-01 3,183 265.2 ... that Storm Poly caused hundreds to be stranded at Amsterdam's central station as it passed the Netherlands?
Tish (2023 documentary) 2024-02-01 3,168 264.0 ... that the documentary Tish uses sets from Ricky Gervais's sitcom After Life?
Nia Archives 2024-02-06 4,044 259.3 ... that before becoming a jungle musician, Nia Archives wanted to be an archaeologist?
Black Souls (play) 2024-02-04 3,073 256.1 ... that Annie Nathan Meyer's Black Souls was one of the first "lynching dramas" created by a white woman?
Robert Alexander Neil 2024-02-03 3,042 253.5 ... that Sunday lunch with Robert Alexander Neil was called "the best intellectual thing in Cambridge"?
Stephen Gould (tenor) 2024-02-07 2,515 251.5 ... that Stephen Gould performed three roles at the 2022 Bayreuth Festival: Tannhäuser, Siegfried and Tristan, earning him nicknames such as "Iron Man"?
Dane Hansen 2024-02-08 2,972 247.6 ... that Dane Hansen started a road-construction business with about 100 mules that he was unable to sell to the US Army after World War I ended?
Robert Beall 2024-02-05 1,653 137.8 ... that St Mary's Church in Nun Monkton, England, restored by John Wilson Walton-Wilson, contains a pulpit (detail pictured) carved by Robert Beall?
John Wilson Walton-Wilson 1,272 106.0
Total 2,926 243.8
Shiv Palekar 2024-02-07 2,430 242.9 ... that Shiv Palekar is trained in both the Suzuki method and Butoh form of acting?
Shovel Knight Showdown 2024-02-07 2,878 241.3 ... that Shovel Knight Showdown started as a fundraising goal for the Kickstarter of the original game?
Al Sweet 2024-02-04 2,856 238.0 ... that cornetist Al Sweet dressed his band, the White Hussars, in flashy white-and-gold military uniforms based on hussars?
Harrison School (Roanoke, Virginia) 2024-02-05 2,758 229.8 ... that enrollment at a school for African-American students in Virginia grew from 14 pupils to 1,300 in its first ten years?
Threepence (New Zealand coin) 2024-02-08 2,712 226.0 ... that the patu clubs on the New Zealand threepence were compared to bottles of ginger beer?
N. D. Popescu-Popnedea 2024-02-02 2,702 225.2 ... that Romanian adventure novelist N. D. Popescu-Popnedea "generate[d] laughter" with his deposition at a political assassin's trial?
Wooden Warrior 2024-02-08 2,690 224.2 ... that elementary school students named the Wooden Warrior roller coaster?
2024 Masters (snooker) 2024-02-07 2,608 218.7 ... that after winning the 2024 Masters, snooker player Ronnie O'Sullivan is both the youngest and oldest winner of the tournament?
Carmen Valero 2024-02-02 2,576 214.7 ... that in 1976, Carmen Valero became the first female track and field athlete to represent Spain at the Olympics?
The Wind's Twelve Quarters 2024-02-08 2,476 206.3 ... that after Ursula K. Le Guin published her collection The Wind's Twelve Quarters, a reviewer called her the "ideal science fiction writer for readers who ordinarily dislike science fiction"?
Sewage discharge in the United Kingdom 2024-02-04 2,402 200.2 ... that Southern Water was fined £90 million for deliberately dumping sewage into the sea?
Patrick O'Connell (American football) 2024-02-02 2,382 198.5 ... that Patrick O'Connell made his NFL debut on his birthday, in the only game he played that year?
Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789–1815 2024-02-07 1,800 180.0 ... that Empire of Liberty was published twenty-seven years after its preceding volume in the Oxford History of the United States series?
St James the Less, Pockthorpe 2024-02-08 2,156 179.7 ... that the church of St James the Less, Pockthorpe, now the home of the Norwich Puppet Theatre, once contained a rood screen with portraits of saints painted in 1479?
Ad fructus uberes 2024-02-08 2,084 173.7 ... that the papal bull Ad fructus uberes gave friars the right to hear confessions and preach without the authorisation of secular clergy?
Julia Dorsey (athlete) 2024-02-05 2,084 173.7 ... that in 2022, Julia Dorsey helped North Carolina win a national lacrosse championship and reach the national soccer final?
Adelaida K. Semesi 2024-02-01 2,056 171.3 ... that scientist Adelaida K. Semesi was known as "mama mangroves" due to her specialist knowledge of their ecology?
William Aditya Sarana 2024-02-03 2,005 167.1 ... that William Aditya Sarana was sworn in as a regional legislator four days before he graduated from university?
Nagagamisis Provincial Park 2024-02-03 1,946 162.1 ... that the Nagagamisis Provincial Park has been enlarged four times and once reduced in size?
Vincent Marks 2024-02-05 1,915 159.6 ... that pathologist Vincent Marks helped reverse the conviction of socialite Claus von Bülow in a case that was adapted for the film Reversal of Fortune?
Free and Candid Disquisitions 2024-02-05 1,914 159.5 ... that the only proposal from the 1749 book Free and Candid Disquisitions to be implemented by the Church of England was a prayer "for the ceasing of the distemper" of cattle?
American Anthropometric Society 2024-02-01 1,898 158.2 ... that Walt Whitman's brain was donated to the American Anthropometric Society but was accidentally destroyed?
Sun Haiyan 2024-02-06 2,367 151.7 ... that Sun Haiyan is the first Chinese ambassador to Singapore who was not a member of the Foreign Ministry of China?
Sagyo Thu-Myat 2024-02-08 1,734 144.5 ... that the Burmese Buddhist monk Sagyo Thu-Myat successfully lobbied for the recalibration of the Burmese calendar?
Nick Whiteside 2024-02-07 1,708 143.3 ... that Nick Whiteside overcame a torn Achilles tendon in 2021 and a broken foot in 2022 to play in the National Football League in 2023?
2023 AFL Women's Grand Final 2024-02-06 2,228 142.8 ... that a Brisbane Lions player said the sight of a jerrycan motivated her team during the 2023 AFL Women's Grand Final?
Lee Sung Jin 2024-02-08 1,668 139.0 ... that a COVID-19 bout forced Beef creator Lee Sung Jin to direct the show's season finale remotely?
Dean Crawford 2024-02-08 1,626 135.5 ... that Olympic gold medalist Dean Crawford was introduced to rowing when he found a rowing shell outside the students' union building at the University of Victoria?
Episode 400 (Neighbours) 2024-02-04 1,583 131.9 ... that the 400th episode of Neighbours features the serial's first ever Christmas story?
Platt Report 1964 2024-02-05 1,444 120.3 ... that the Platt Report was commissioned to improve British nursing education, as at the time up to 50 per cent of trainee nurses failed to qualify?
Suprathermal Ion Detector Experiment 2024-02-03 1,396 116.4 ... that the Apollo 14 Suprathermal Ion Detector Experiment is credited with the first direct observation of water on the Moon?
Bryan Brinyark 2024-02-08 1,323 110.2 ... that Bryan Brinyark finished second in an election to the Alabama House of Representatives just 15 votes behind his opponent, but later won a runoff election?
Avengers (Marvel Cinematic Universe) 2024-02-01 1,280[c] 106.6 ... that Kevin Feige first envisioned a shared universe featuring the Avengers in the mid-2000s?
Siam Niramit 2024-02-07 1,064 106.4 ... that during Siam Niramit, a Bangkok cultural show, the forestage was transformed into a 50-metre-long (160 ft) river?
Pagtatag! 2024-02-02 1,200 100.0 ... that SB19's second extended play (EP), Pagtatag!, is part of a trilogy about their artistry?
Nurture (album) 2024-02-01 891 74.2 ... that Porter Robinson chose the title Nurture for his second album due to its evocation of the word nature and as a reference to the nature versus nurture debate?
Innocence (opera) 2024-02-04 826 68.8 ... that Kaija Saariaho's 2021 opera Innocence includes traditional Finnish cow-herding calls?
Hicklin Lake 2024-02-08 0[d] 0 ... that artificial islands were deployed in Hicklin Lake in an unsuccessful attempt to stop eutrophication?
Justin Yu 2024-02-08 0[d] 0 ... that Justin Yu, the current Classic Tetris World Champion, is also a cellist in MIT's video game orchestra?
Open Source Tripwire 2024-02-08 0[d] 0 ... that a computer system can contain tripwire files that alert administrators upon being accessed by intruders?
Hometown Village 2024-02-08 0[d] 0 ... that Hometown Village is a community of Sakhalin Koreans who were finally allowed to return to South Korea after the dissolution of the Soviet Union?

Notes

  1. ^ Excludes 3,323.5 background views
  2. ^ Excludes 1,030.0 background views
  3. ^ Excludes 1,903.5 background views
  4. ^ a b c d error retrieving pageviews – funky that!