Home Alone, Image Source: 20th Century Fox
10. Elf
9. Miracle on 34th Street
8. How the Grinch Stole Christmas
7. Frosty the Snowman
6. Home Alone
5. The Search for Santa Paws
4. The Santa Clause
3. It’s a Wonderful Life
2. Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer
1. A Charlie Brown Christmas
Ayn Rand, Photo Credit: Talbot from www.aynrand.org
10. Eleanor Roosevelt
9. Ayn Rand
8. Dorothy Hodgkin
7. Simone de Beauvoir
6. Emmeline Pankhurst
5. Rachel Carson
4. Rosa Parks
3. Indira Gandhi
2. Margaret Sanger
1. Marie Curie
Image Source: Francis Cugat/Charles Scribner’s Sons
10. Middlemarch by George Eliot
9. The Stories of Anton Chekhov by Anton Chekhov
8. In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
7. The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald
6. Hamlet by William Shakespeare
5. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
4. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
3. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
2. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
1. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Photo Credit: siewlian
10. The United States lost the Vietnam War
9. Charles Lindbergh was the first man to cross the Atlantic Ocean by air
8. Columbus was the first European to discover North America
7. The Wright Brothers were the first to fly an airplane
6. Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone
5. Charles Darwin was the first to conceive of the theory of evolution
4. JFK’s assassination was part of a larger conspiracy
3. We only use 10% of our brain
2. Roosevelt’s new deal ended the Depression
1. Thomas Edison invented the light bulb
See why these facts are wrong, according to TopTenz.net HERE
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According to Reuters.
10- The Waco Tornado- May 11, 1953 Deaths: 114 Injuries: 597 F-Scale: F5
9- The Flint Tornado- June 8, 1953 Deaths: 115 Injuries: 844 F-Scale: F5
8- The New Richmond Tornado- June 12, 1899 Deaths: 117 Injuries: 200 F-Scale: F5
7- The Amite/Pine/Purvis Tornado- April 24, 1908 Deaths: 143 Injuries: 770 F-Scale: F4
6- The Woodward Tornado- April 9, 1947 Deaths: 181 Injuries: 970 F-Scale: F5
5- The Gainesville Tornado- April 6, 1936 Deaths: 203 Injuries: 1600 F-Scale: F4
4- The Tupelo Tornado- April 5, 1936 Deaths: 216 Injuries: 700 F-Scale: F5
3- The St.Louis Tornado- May 27, 1896 Deaths: 255 Injuries: 1,000 F-Scale: F4
2- The Natchez Tornado- May 7, 1840 Deaths: 317 Injuries: 109 F-Scale: Unknown
1- The Tri-State Tornado- March 18, 1925 Deaths: 695 Injuries: 2027 F-Scale: F5
According to www.livescience.com
1940 - Abraham Lincoln: The War Years by Carl Sandburg
1941 - The Atlantic Migration, 1607-1860 by Marcus Lee Hansen
1942 - Reveille in Washington, 1860-1865 by Margaret Leech
1943 - Paul Revere and the World He Lived In by Esther Forbes
1944 - The Growth of American Thought by Merle Curti
1945 - Unfinished Business by Stephen Bonsal
1946 - The Age of Jackson by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
1947 - Scientists Against Time by James Phinney Baxter III
1948 - Across the Wide Missouri by Bernard DeVoto
1949 - The Disruption of American Democracy by Roy Franklin Nichols
According to The Pulitzer Prize.
1940 - George Cafego, hb
Tennessee
Chicago Cardinals
4 years played
0 pro bowls
1941 - Tom Harmon, hb
Michigan
Chicago Bears
2 years played
0 pro bowls
1942 - Bill Dudley, hb
Virginia
Pittsburgh
9 years played
3 pro bowls
Inducted into the Hall of Fame
1943 - Frank Sinkwich, hb
Georgia
Detroit
4 years played
0 pro bowls
1944 - Angelo Bertelli, qb
Notre Dame
Boston Yanks
3 years played
0 pro bowls
1945 - Charley Trippi, hb
Georgia
Chicago Cardinals
9 years played
2 pro bowls
Inducted into the Hall of Fame
1946 - Frank Dancewicz, qb
Notre Dame
Boston
3 years played
0 pro bowls
1947 - Bob Fenimore, hb
Oklahoma State
Chicago
1 years played
0 pro bowls
1948 - Harry Gilmer, qb
Alabama
Washington
2 years played
0 pro bowls
1949 - Chuck Bednarik, c/lb
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
12 years played
8 pro bowls
Inducted into the Hall of Fame
According to the National Football League (NFL)
1940 - Ginger Rogers, Kitty Foyle
1941 - Joan Fontaine, Suspicion
1942 - Greer Garson, Mrs. Miniver
1943 - Jennifer Jones, The Song of Bernadette
1944 - Ingrid Bergman, Gaslight
1945 - Joan Crawford, Mildred Pierce
1946 - Olivia de Havilland, To Each His Own
1947 - Loretta Young, The Farmer’s Daughter
1948 - Jane Wyman, Johnny Belinda
1949 - Olivia de Havilland, The Heiress
According to the Academy Awards
1940 - James Stewart, The Philadelphia Story
1941 - Gary Cooper, Sergeant York
1942 - James Cagney, Yankee Doodle Dandy
1943 - Paul Lukas, Watch on the Rhine
1944 - Bing Crosby, Going My Way
1945 - Ray Milland, The Lost Weekend
1946 - Fredrich March, The Best Years of Our Lives
1947 - Ronald Colman, A Double Life
1948 - Laurence Olivier, Hamlet
1949 - Broderick Crawford, All the King’s Men
According to the Academy Awards
