The world’s most famous smokers
As followup to my post yesterday, here is a list of the most famous smokers ever (other than sporstmen). Qualification: - for those still alive, they must be currently active (not occasional) smokers....
View ArticleThe world’s most famous Christmas tree
It is the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree in New York. Since 1931, it’s an annual tradition and lighted late November at the earliest, with the lighting broadcast on TV in the US. It’s even more...
View ArticleMost famous naked man of Barcelona
Apparently public nudity is perfectly legal in Barcelona, and there are a few naked men wandering about, but this so-called Elephant Man, as he’s called, is the most famous (or infamous) of them all....
View ArticleMost famous X-rays
The most famous / most interesting X-rays that have ever been taken could very well be Marilyn Monroe’s 3 chest x-rays, one frontal, and one from the side, taken in 1954 when she was 28 years old. At...
View ArticleMost famous wedding dress
The wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer, which took place on 29th July 1981 was generally regarded in superlatives: “fairytale wedding” and “wedding of the century”. Watched by a global...
View ArticleMost famous Chinese New Year songs
These Gong Xi Fa Cai (in Cantonese: Kong Hei Fatt Choy) songs have been around for as long as I can remember, definitely way before I had use for acne treatment creams, so much so that the first few...
View ArticleMost famous mistresses in history
A definition of a “mistress” is: a man’s long-term female lover and companion who is not married to him. This term is especially pertinent when the man is already married to another woman. They do not...
View ArticleMost famous April Fools’ Day hoax
Probably the most famous April Fools’ Day hoax of all time is the Spaghetti Tree Hoax. On 1st April 1957, BBC’s current affairs television programme Panorama showed what was apparently a family in...
View ArticleMost famous photograph
Guerrillero Heroico (Heroic Guerrilla Fighter) is a photograph of the the charismatic and controversial Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara, then 31 years old, wearing his black beret. It was snapped by...
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