The Book of Lists

Index

Abbandando, Frank ‘The Dasher’, 1

Abbey, Edward, 1

Abbott & Costello, 1

Abbott, Jack Henry, 1

Abdullah, Crown Prince, 1

Accardo, Tony ’Joe Batters’, 1

Acker, Jean, 1

Acree Jr, Alfred, 1

actors, 1

becoming politicians, 1

and great roles, 1

Olympic medalists as, 1

see also movies

Adams, Douglas, 1

Adams, John, 1

Adams, Richard, 1

Adamson, Stuart, 1

Addington, Henry, 1

Adelman, Kenneth, 1

Adler, David, 1

Adler, William M., 1

Adoula, Cyril, 1

Adren, Sharon, 1

Afghan Mujahedin, 1

Agee, James, 1

Agrippina the Younger, 1

Aguilera, Christina, 1

Aguirre, Lope de, 1

aircraft, 1, 2

Aiuppa, Joseph ’Ha Ha’, 1, 2

Akkad, Moustapha, 1

Al-Bashir, Omar, 1

al-Fayed, Dodi, 1

Al-Mussallat, Subha Tulfah, 1

Alba, Felipe de, 1

Alba, Thea, 1

Albritton, Cynthia, 1

alcohol, 1

Alcott, Louisa May, 1

Alderman, Israel ’Icepick Willie’, 1

Aldiss, Brian, 1

Alexander the Great, 1, 2, 3

Alexander VI, Pope, 1

Alexander, Jason, 1

Alexander, Texas, 1

Ali, Hadji, 1

Ali, Monica, 1

Allen, Paul, 1

Allen, Woody, 1, 2, 3

Allende, Salvador, 1

alligators, 1, 2

Allison, Audrey, 1

Allison, Joe, 1

Alvarez, Santiago, 1

Aman, Zeenat, 1

Amberg, Louis ’Pretty’, 1

American Academy of Otolaryngology

Museum, 1

Amin, Idi, 1

Amirah, Che, 1

Amorth, Father Gabriel, 1

Amory, Cleveland, 1

Amos, Tori, 1

Anderson, Lindsay, 1, 2

Anderson, Pamela, 1

Andress, Ursula, 1

Andrews, Julie, 1

Angelou, Maya, 1, 2

Angola Mercenary Force, 1

animals, 1

before the law, 1

children and wild, 1

crime, 1

discovery of large, 1

eating humans, 1

extinction, 1, 2

lake and sea monsters, 1

lifespan of, 1

penis lengths of, 1

preservation of, 1

rights, 1, 2

strange behaviour of, 1

unusual mating habits, 1

Anker, Julian, 1

Anne, Queen, 1

anthems, 1

Antique Vibrator Museum, 1

ants, 1, 2

aphrodisiac foods, 1

Appel, George, 1

Arago, Jacques, 1

Arbenz, Jacobo, 1

Arbuckle, Fatty, 1

Archimedes, 1

Aretino, Pietro, 1

Aristide, Jean-Bertrand, 1

Arkin, Alan, 1

Arlen, Richard, 1

Armen, Jean Claude, 1

arms import/export, 1

Arnaz, Desi, 1

Arnold, Benedict, 1

Arnold, Hannah Waterman, 1

Arnold, Roseanne, 1

Art Ensemble of Chicago, 1

Art and Science of Love, 1

Arthur, Jean, 1

arts, 1

art attack, 1, 2

barmy quiz questions, 1

blues songs, 1

Bob Dylan lines, 1

country songs, 1

drummers of note, 1

early names of bands, 1

found unexpectedly, 1

gigs, 1

jazz musicians, 1

national anthems, 1

theatre productions, 1

variety acts, 1

works painted over, 1

worst song titles, 1

wretched performers, 1

Ashe, Arthur, 1

assassination, 1

Atkins, Chet, 1

Atkins, Dr Robert, 1

atomic bombs, 1, 2

attic events, 1

Attila the Hun, 1

Atwood, Margaret, 1

Atzerodt, George, 1

Auad, Carlos Henrique, 1

Aubrey, John, 1

Austen, Jane, 1, 2

authors see literature

Axelrod, Robert, 1

Baartman, Saartje, 1

Babb-Sprague, Kristen, 1

Babington, R., 1

Bacall, Lauren, 1, 2

Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1, 2, 3

Bach, Richard, 1

Bacon, Francis, 1

Baer, Jo, 1

Bailly, Jean, 1

Baird, John Logie, 1

Baker, Josephine, 1

Baldwin, Evelyn, 1

Ball, Lucille, 1

Balliett, Whitey, 1

balloons, 1, 2

Balzac, Honoré de, 1

Band, Albert, 1

bands, early names of, 1

Bangles (band), 1

Bankhead, Tallulah, 1

Barclay James Harvest, 1

Bardot, Brigitte, 1, 2

Barents, Willem, 1

Barnes, Lee, 1

Barnett, Doris, 1

Barnum, P.T., 1, 2

Barrett, Andy, 1

Barrymore, Drew, 1

Barrymore, Earl of, 1

Barrymore, John, 1

Barton, Roy, 1

basketball, 1

Basra Mass Poisoning, 1

bathtub events, 1, 2, 3

Battle of the Little Big Horn, 1

Baudelaire, Charles, 1

Bauer, Steve, 1

Bauhaus (band), 1

Bay of Pigs Invasion Force, 1

Beach Boys, 1

Beadle, Jeremy, 1

bears, 1, 2, 3, 4

Beat movement, 1

Beatles, 1

Beckett, Samuel, 1, 2

Beckham, David, 1, 2

bed, working in, 1

Beeck, Robin, 1

Beer, Stafford, 1

Beery, Wallace, 1

Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1, 2, 3

Bell, Margaret, 1

Bellin, Howard, 1

Bellini, Giovanni, 1

Belokas, Spiridon, 1

Belov, Sasha, 1

Belushi, John, 1, 2

Benchley, Peter, 1

Bennett, John G., 1

Bentham, Jeremy, 1, 2

Bentzen, Ole, 1

Berezhnaya, Elena, 1

Berg, Alban, 1

Berger, Stuart M., 1

Bergerac, Cyrano de, 1

Bergkamp, Dennis, 1

Bergman, Ingrid, 1, 2

Bering, Vitus, 1

Berlin, Irving, 1

Berlin Wall, 1

Bernhardt, Sarah, 1

Bernstein, Leonard, 1

Best, George, 1

bestiality, 1

Bethune, Thomas ’Blind Tom’, 1

Biaka-Boda, Victor, 1

Bible, 1, 2, 3, 4

Bierce, Ambrose, 1

Biggins, Joe, 1

Bill Hayley and His Comets, 1

Bill W., 1

billionaires, 1

bin Laden, Osama, 1, 2, 3

Bircher-Brenner, Max, 1

birds, 1, 2

Bishop, Jesse Walter, 1

Bissell, Richard, 1

Black Sabbath, 1

Blackfoot, J.D., 1

Blades, James, 1

Blake, Amanda, 1

Blake, William, 1

Bland, Sir Christopher, 1

Blatty, William Peter, 1

Bloch, Mark, 1

Block, Mandy, 1

Blondie, 1

Bloody Mary, 1

blues songs, 1

Boardman, Peter, 1

body parts, 1, 2

Bogart, Humphrey, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Bok, Christian, 1

Bokassa, Jean-Bedel, 1

Bolan, Marc, 1

Bonaparte, Joseph, 1

Bonaparte, Lucien, 1

Bonaparte, Napoleon, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Bond, Edward, 1

Bond, James (bird expert), 1

Bonham, Jon, 1

Bonington, Sir Chris, 1

books see literature

booksellers, 1

Boone, Daniel, 1

Boone, Richard, 1

Booth, John Wilkes, 1, 2, 3

Booth, Mary Ann Holmes, 1

Borah, William, 1

Borges, Jorge Luis, 1, 2

Borgia, Cardinal Rodrigo, 1

Borgia, Cesare, 1

Boston Molasses Flood, Great, 1

Boston Tea Party, 1

Botticelli, Sandro, 1

Boulle, Pierre, 1

Bourdain, Anthony, 1

Bowden, Pvt Daniel, 1

Bowles, Jane, 1

Bowles, Paul, 1

Bowman, Ruth, 1

boxes, 1

boxing, 1, 2

Boyer, Charles, 1, 2

Boyle, Michael ’Umbrella Mike’, 1

Bradbury, Ray, 1, 2

Bradford City FC, 1

Bradford, Keith, 1

Brahe, Tycho, 1

Brahms, Johannes, 1

Braine, John, 1

Branagh, Kenneth, 1

Brand, Stewart, 1

Brando, Marlon, 1, 2

Brandreth, Gyles, 1

Brauge, Trygve, 1

Brazana, Ramon, 1

Brecht, Bertolt, 1, 2

Breland, Mark, 1

Brennan, Walter, 1

Brett, Brig Gen George H., 1

Brigati, Eddie, 1

Briseno, Theodore J., 1

British Lawnmower Museum, 1

Brix, Herman, 1

Broca, Paul, 1

Broccoli, Albert, 1

Bronx Calendar Twins, 1

Brook, Peter, 1

Broshears, Minister Raymond, 1

Brown, Cathy, 1

Brown, Charles Wayne, 1

Brown, Drew ’Bundini’, 1

Brown, James, 1

Brown, Richard ‘Rabbit’, 1

Brown, Tina, 1, 2

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1, 2

Bucar, King of Morocco, 1

Buchalter, Louis ’Lepke’, 1

Buchanan, President James, 1

Buchinger, Matthew, 1

Buckingham, Duke of, 1

Buffalo Bill, 1

Buffett, Warren, 1

Bukowski, Charles, 1

bulls, 1, 2

Bunyan, Clive, 1

Burdon, Eric, 1

Burgess, Anthony, 1

Burke, Martha, 1

Burke, Pat, 1

Burmann, Gottlob, 1

Burnham, Alice, 1

Burns, Robert, 1

Burr, Aaron, 1

Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1

Burroughs, William S., 1, 2, 3, 4

Burstyn, Ellen, 1

Burton, Dee, 1

Burton, Isabel, 1

Burton, Mark, 1

Burton, Richard, 1

Bush, Barbara, 1

Bush, President George, 1, 2

Bush, President George W., 1, 2

Bush, Guy, 1

Bushman (gorilla), 1

Bussey, Woodrow W., 1

Butchell, Martin van, 1

Butler, Samuel, 1

Buxton, Laura, 1

Buzzcocks (band), 1

Byrds (band), 1

Byrne, Charles, 1

Byron, Lord, 1

Caan, James, 1

Cabot family, 1

Cage, John, 1

Cage, Nicolas, 1

Cagney, James, 1, 2

Caillaux, Henriette, 1

Cain, James M., 1

Calchas (soothsayer), 1

Calmette, Gaston, 1

calories, 1

Cambodian Coup, 1

camels, 1

Cameron, James, 1

Camus, Albert, 1

Canada, Miss, 1

Canning, George, 1

Cannon, Dr Walter, 1

Capone, Al, 1, 2

Capone, Teresa, 1

Capote, Truman, 1, 2

Capranica, Robert R., 1

Caravaggio, 1

careers see work and money

Carlos the Jackal, 1

Carlos, John, 1

Carman, Marie Élénore Maillé de, 1

Caroline of Brunswick, Princess, 1

Carpio, Lope de Vega, 1

Carrey, Jim, 1

Carroll, Earl, 1

Carroll, Lewis, 1, 2

cars, 1

Carson, Johnny, 1

Carter, Benny, 1

Carter family, 1

Carter, Helena Bonham, 1

Carter, Howard, 1

Carter, President Jimmy, 1

Caruso, Enrico, 1, 2

Carver, Raymond, 1

Casanova, 1

Cash, Johnny, 1, 2

Caspian Sea, 1

Cassady, Neal, 1

Casson, Benny, 1

Castillo, Luis Angel, 1

Castlereagh, Lord, 1

Castro, Fidel, 1, 2, 3

Castro, Inés De, 1

Cather, Willa, 1

Catherine of Valois, 1

cats, 1, 2, 3

Cattanei, Vannozza dei, 1

Ceausescu, Nicolae, 1

celebrities, 1

marriage and, 1

reading own obituary, 1

see also famous people; people

Céline, Louis Ferdinand, 1

censorship, 1

Cervantes, Miguel de, 1

Cézanne, Paul, 1

Chain, Ernest, 1

Champagne, Jeanne, 1

Chandka Forest Elephant Stampede, 1

Chandler, Christopher, 1

Chandler, Jeff, 1

Chandler, Raymond, 1, 2, 3, 4

Chapin, Dr James P., 1

Chaplin, Charlie, 1, 2, 3, 4

Charlemagne, 1

Charles I, 1

Charles II, 1, 2

Charlotte, Princess, 1

Chatterton, Thomas, 1

cheeses, mammoth, 1

Cheney, Dick, 1

Cherry Sisters, 1

Chesselet, Alyn, 1

Chevalier Jackson collection, 1

Chevalier, Maurice, 1

Chicago (band), 1

Chicago Seven, 1

children, 1

Chinese Brigade in Burma, 1

Chopin, Frédéric, 1

Christian VI, King (Denmark), 1

Christo, 1

Christopherson, Tina, 1

Churchill, Winston, 1, 2, 3

CIA, 1, 2, 3

Cinnamon, Gerri, 1

Cinnamon, Leroy, 1

circuses, 1, 2

Clapton, Eric, 1

Clark, Guy, 1

Clark, Stanley, 1

Clarke, Charlie, 1

Clarke, Kenny, 1

Claudius I, Emperor, 1

Clement, Jack, 1

Clemons, Alonzo, 1

Cleveland, President Grover, 1

Clift, Montgomery, 1, 2

Clinton, President Bill, 1, 2

Close, Del, 1

Coates, Ronald, 1

Cobain, Kurt, 1

Cohen, Herb, 1

Colbert, Claudette, 1

Cole, Lloyd, 1

Coll, Vincent ’Mad Dog’, 1

Collins, Jackie, 1

Collins, Tom, 1

Colombo, Joseph, 1

Colossus of Rhodes, 1

Columbus, Christopher, 1

Columbus Industrial Association, 1

Comanche (horse), 1

comedies, 1

commanders, 1

Confucius, 1

Congo Mercenary Force, 1

Connery, Sean, 1, 2

Connolly, Mrs Lynn, 1

conquerors, 1

Conrad, Joseph, 1, 2

Constant, Emmanuel ‘Toto’, 1

Constantine the Great, 1

Cooke, George Frederick, 1

Cooper, Gary, 1, 2

Cooper, Jackie, 1

Cooper, James Fenimore, 1

Cooper, Merian C., 1

Coppola, Francis Ford, 1

Corbett, Jim, 1

Corbin, Myrtle, 1

Corday, Charlotte, 1

Corelli, Marie, 1

Coren, Stanley, 1

Cornishman V (horse), 1

Cortes, Hernando, 1

Corti, Alfonso, 1

Costa, Mario, 1

Cottin, Angelique, 1

Coué, Émile, 1

countries, 1, 2, 3

country songs, 1

Courtenay-Latimer, Ms M., 1

Cousins, Gregory, 1

Coviello, Nicolas, 1

Crabbe, Buster, 1

Cranagh, Lucas, 1

Credence Clearwater Revival, 1

Crichton, Michael, 1

crime, 1

animals and insects, 1

films, 1

lawsuits, 1

stolen objects, 1

stupid thieves, 1

underworld nicknames, 1

verdicts and riots, 1

witticisms of condemned, 1

Criquielion, Claude, 1

crises, personal, 1

crocodiles, 1, 2

Crofts, Charles, 1

Cronin, David, 1

Crosby, John, 1

Crowe, Cameron, 1

Crowhurst, Donald, 1

Cruise, Tom, 1

Cruyff, Johann, 1

crying in public, 1

Cukor, George, 1

Cummings Jr, Marshall George, 1

Cutler, R.B., 1

Cuvier, Baron Georges, 1

Cyrus the Great, 1

Da Vinci, Leonardo, 1

Dahl, Roald, 1, 2

Daigle, Beatrice, 1

Dalai Lama, 1

Dali, Salvador, 1

Daltrey, Roger, 1

Dan White Case, 1

Danga II (mountain), 1

Dangerfield, Rodney, 1

Daniels, Josephus, 1

Dante, 1

Darby, Rev John, 1

Darwin, Charles, 1, 2

Dassin, Jules, 1

David, Christian, 1

David, Warrior King, 1

Davies, Charles, 1

Davies, Martin, 1

Davis, Adelle, 1

Davis, Bette, 1, 2

Davis, Gov Gray, 1

Davis, Miles, 1

Dawkins, Richard, 1

De Coubertin, Baron Pierre, 1

De Mille, Nelson, 1

De Palma, Brian, 1

Dean, Carl, 1

Dean, James, 1, 2

death, 1, 2

by laughing, 1

by playing cards, 1

cases killed by God, 1

of health experts, 1

obituaries, 1

and preservation, 1

body parts, 1

of Princess Diana, 1

strange, 1

timely, 1

del Valle, Eladio, 1

Dell Computers, 1

Dell, Michael, 1

Dellwo, Lt Thomas, 1

Demento, Dr, 1

Demetrios I, Patriarch, 1

Demme, Jonathan, 1

Dempsey, Jack, 1

Denghai, Xu, 1

Depeche Mode (band), 1

Desai, Prime Minister Morarji, 1

Deschevaux-Dumesnil, Suzanne, 1

Devitt, John, 1

Dexter, Pete, 1

Di Stefano, Alfredo, 1, 2

Diamond, Jared, 1

Diana, Princess, 1, 2

Diana, temple of, 1

Dias, Bartholomeu, 1

Diaz, Dayami, 1

Dick, Philip K., 1

Dickens, Charles, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Dickinson, Emily, 1

dictators, 1

Dietrich, Marlene, 1, 2

Digby, Jane, 1

Diller, Phyllis, 1

Dillinger, John, 1, 2

disasters, unusual, 1

Disraeli, Benjamin, 1, 2

documentaries, 1

Dodd, Phineas, 1

dogs, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Dog Collar Museum, 1

Doherty, Peter, 1

Doisneau, Robert, 1

Dolly (sheep), 1

Dom Pérignon, 1

Dombey, Samuel, 1

Domitian, Emperor, 1

Donahue, Hessie, 1

Donahue, Howard, 1

Donellan, Declan, 1

Donen, Stanley, 1

Doody, Rachelle, 1

Dos Santos, Jean Baptista, 1

Dostoevsky, Fyodor, 1

Doto, Joseph ’Joe Adonis’, 1

Douglas, Helen Gahagan, 1

Douglas, Kirk, 1, 2

Douglas, Melvyn, 1

Downes, Jon, 1

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan, 1, 2

Dreiser, Theodore, 1

Dreyfus Affair, 1

Dreyfus, Alfred, 1

drinks, 1

drummers of note, 1

Du Maurier, Daphne, 1

Duchamp, Marcel, 1

duels, 1

Duff, James, 1

Dumas, Alexander, 1

Dumas, Blanche, 1

Dunaway, Faye, 1

Dunlop, John, 1

Dunn, Mark, 1

Dunsdon, Nicole, 1

Dupont, Captain, 1

Durutti Column (band), 1

Durzo, Johnny, 1

Duvalier, François ‘Papa Doc’, 1

Duvalier, Jean-Claude ‘Baby Doc’, 1

Duvalier, Michelle, 1

Dwan, Allan, 1

Dyche, Prof Lewis, 1

Dyer, Geoff, 1

Dylan, Bob, 1, 2

Dzhugashvili, Ekaterina Gheladze, 1

earth surface names, 1

Eastern Sea (moon), 1

Eastwood, Clint, 1, 2, 3, 4

eBay sales, 1

Eckler, A. Ross, 1

Eddy, Mary Baker, 1

Edeshko, Ivan, 1

Edison, Thomas, 1

Edward IV, King, 1

Edward VII, King, 1

Edwards, Blake, 1

Edwards, Frank, 1

Edwards, Geoff, 1

Egan, Richard, 1

Eggers, Dave, 1

Eiffel Tower, 1

Eiger, 1

Einstein, Albert, 1, 2

Eisenhower, Mamie, 1

Eisenstadt, Alfred, 1

Eisenstein, Sergei, 1

El Cid, 1

‘El Negro’, 1

Elder, Kate, 1

Eldridge, Roy, 1

Eldridge, Walter, 1

elephants, 1, 2, 3, 4

Elford, F.C., 1

Eliot, George Fielding, 1

Elizabeth I, Queen, 1, 2

Elizabeth II, Queen, 1

Ellenborough, Lady Jane, 1

Ellenborough, Lord, 1

Ellis, Albert, 1

Ellis, Brett Easton, 1

Emerald, Connie, 1

Eminem (band), 1

Empire State Building Crash, 1, 2

Eno, Brian, 1

entertainment, wretched, 1

Erben, Dr Herman F., 1

Eric the Red, 1

esoteric studies, 1

Estrada, Joseph, 1

Eusébio (footballer), 1

Eustachio, Bartolommeo, 1

Evans, Harold, 1

Evans, Hilary, 1

Everage, Dame Edna, 1

Everest, 1

explosions, 1

expulsion from school, 1

extinction, 1, 2

Exxon Valdez Oil Spill, 1

Eyre, Richard, 1

Eyton, Audrey, 1

Fabris, Jean, 1

fact stranger than fiction, 1

Fadiman, Clifton, 1

Failed Soviet Coup, 1

Faisal, King (Saudi Arabia), 1

Fallopius, Gabriel, 1

famous people

bands, 1

expelled from school, 1

insomniacs, 1

inventing games, 1

as librarians, 1

meetings of, 1

mothers of infamous men, 1

and mothers’ maiden name, 1

working in bed, 1

writers, 1

see also celebrities; movies; people

Fantin, Mario, 1

Fantin-Latour, Ignace, 1

Faraday, Michael, 1

fashion, 1

Faulkner, William, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Faure, Elie, 1

FBI, 1, 2

Felton, Bruce, 1

Ferguson, Rob, 1

Ferrell, Mary, 1

Ferrie, David ‘Carlos’, 1

Ferron, Jacques, 1

Feu, Paul de, 1

fiction, fact stranger than, 1

Field, Henry, 1

Fields, W.C., 1, 2, 3, 4

Files, James, 1

films see movies

Finch, Peter, 1

Fink, Jon-Stephen, 1

Finn, George and Charles, 1

Finn, Mickey, 1

Finney, Tom, 1

Finnis, Col John, 1

fires, 1, 2, 3

Firpo, Luis, 1

fish, 1, 2, 3

Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Fitzherbert, Mrs, 1, 2

Flaubert, Gustave, 1, 2

Fleming, Dr Alexander, 1

Fleming, Ian, 1

Fleming, Victor, 1

Florey, Howard, 1

Floyd, Charles ’Pretty Boy’, 1

Flynn, Errol, 1, 2

Foldi family, 1

Foley, Kevin, 1

Fonda, Jane, 1

Fondriest, Maurizio, 1

Fong-fond, Josephine Siao, 1

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), 1

food and health, 1

alcohol and events, 1

aphrodisiacs, 1

body parts, 1

calorie consumption, 1

cheeses, mammoth, 1

death of experts, 1

drink names, 1

insomnia, 1

Italian soups, 1

Italian wines, 1

medical conditions, 1

personal crises, 1

recipes, 1

sausage events, 1

football, 1

Ford, Dorothy, 1

Ford, Harrison, 1

Forest, Lee De, 1

Forsyth, Frederick, 1

Fort, Charles, 1

Foster, Jodie, 1

Fournier, Captain, 1

Fowles, John, 1, 2, 3

Fox, Margaret, 1

Fox, Robin, 1

Frambini, Rev Bob, 1

Francis, Dick, 1

Franciscan friars, 1

Frank, Anne, 1, 2

Frank, Otto, 1

Franklin, Benjamin, 1

Fréchette, Sylvie, 1

Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, 1

French, James Donald, 1

French Revolution, 1

Fresquez, Richard, 1

Freud, Sigmund, 1

Friedkin, William, 1

Friel, Anna, 1

Frisch, Karl von, 1

Frost, Robert, 1

Fuentes, Carlos, 1

Fuller, Mary C., 1

Fuller, Thomas, 1

funguses, 1

Gable, Clark, 1, 2, 3

Gabor, Zsa Zsa, 1

Gadd, Steve, 1

Gaddis, William, 1

Galileo, 1

Gallico, Paul, 1

Galluccio, Frank, 1

Garbo, Greta, 1

Garden of Eden, 1

Gardner, Ava, 1

Garland, Judy, 1, 2

Garrincha (footballer), 1

Gascoigne, Paul, 1

Gaskill, Bill, 1

Gates, Bill, 1

Gaughan, Dick, 1

Gay Book of Lists, 1

gay rights, 1, 2

Genet, Jean, 1, 2

Genghis Khan, 1

Genker, Charles ’Monkey Face’, 1

Genovese, Eugene, 1

George III, King, 1, 2

George IV, King, 1, 2

George V, King, 1

George VI, King, 1

Gernreich, Rudi, 1

Getty, J. Paul, 1

Ghanem, Alia, 1

Gibson, Don, 1

Gibson, Harry, 1

Gibson, Mel, 1

Gielgud, Sir John, 1

gigs, 1

Gillespie, Dizzy, 1

Gillingham Fire ‘Demonstration’, 1

Gingrich, Newt, 1

Ginsberg, Allen, 1, 2

Girardelli, Signora, 1

Gish, Lillian, 1

glasnost, 1

Glass, David, 1

Glenn, John, 1

Gluck, James Fraser, 1

Goddard, Professor Robert, 1

Godwin, Michael Anderson, 1

Goebbels, Joseph, 1

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1

Goetzinger, Bryan, 1

Golikov, Capt Yevgeny, 1

Goncourt, Edmond de, 1

Gonzales, Johnny, 1

Gonzales, José, 1

Goodhall, David, 1

Gooding Jr, Cuba, 1

Gorbachev, Mikhail, 1, 2

Gordon, Gen Charles, 1

Göring, Reichsmarschall Hermann, 1

Gorki, Arshile, 1

Gorki, Maxim, 1

Graham, Benjamin, 1

Graham, Sylvester, 1

Grandes Jorasses, 1

Grandpré, Monsieur de, 1

Grandy, Fred, 1

Grant, Cary, 1, 2

Grant, Ulysses S., 1

Gray, Rose, 1

Great Pyramid of Cheops, 1

Greeley, Horace, 1

Green, Dr Joseph, 1

Greene, Graham, 1, 2, 3

Greenwood, John, 1

Greer, Germaine, 1

Grienebner, Hans, 1

Griffith, D. W., 1, 2, 3

Grizzard, Lewis, 1

Grosz, George, 1

ground, 1

Grundman, David N., 1

Guarini, Justin, 1

Guatemalan Rebel Army, 1

Guevara, Ernesto ’Che’, 1, 2

Guidarelli, Guidarello, 1

Guillou, Joseph, 1

gunmen, 1

Gurney, Gene, 1

Gustavus II, King (Sweden), 1

Guyart, Guillaume, 1

Guzik, Jake ’Greasy Thumb’, 1

Gypsy Rose Lee, 1

Gysin, Brion, 1

Haakon VII, King (Norway), 1

Hackman, Gene, 1, 2

Hagenbeck, Karl, 1

Hahnemann, Samuel, 1

Haile Selassie, 1

Haitian Coups, 1

Hakim, Abdel, 1

Hale, Sarah J., 1

Haley, Alex, 1, 2

Haley, Bill, 1

Hall, Loran, 1

Hall, Peter, 1

Hall, Ron, 1

Halpern, Charen, 1

Hamer, Rep Thomas L., 1

Hamilton, Alexander, 1

Hammerstein, Oscar, 1

Hammett, Dashiell, 1

Hammond, Joyce, 1

Hanfstängl, Ernst ’Putzi’, 1

Hanging Gardens of Babylon, 1

Hanks, Tom, 1, 2

Hansen, Tom, 1

Hardin, Garrett, 1

Hardwood, H.C., 1

Hardy, Oliver, 1

Hargis, David, 1

Harlan, Lt Richard, 1

Harness, Charles, 1

Harrelson, Charles V., 1

Harrelson, Woody, 1

Harris, Robert Alton, 1

Harrison, Harry, 1

Harrison, Jim, 1

Hartley, L.P., 1

Hartmann, Sadakichi, 1

Harvey, Tom, 1

Harveywallbangers, 1

Hassan, King (Morocco), 1

Haston, Dougal, 1

Hawking, Stephen, 1

Hawkins, Coleman, 1

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1

Hayden, Sterling, 1

Haydn, Joseph, 1

Haywood, Ritchie, 1

Hazelwood, Captain Joseph, 1

Head, Murray, 1

health see food and health

Hearst, William Randolph, 1, 2, 3

Heart, Busty, 1

Heath, Ted (musician), 1

Heck, Heinz, 1

Heck, Lutz, 1

Hefner, Hugh, 1

Heine, Heinrich, 1

Heiss, Carol, 1

Heller, Joseph, 1, 2, 3

Hemingway, Ernest, 1, 2, 3, 4

literature, 1, 2, 3, 4

Hemingway, Mariel, 1

Hendricks, Scott, 1

Hendrix, Jimi, 1, 2

Henie, Sonja, 1

Henrietta Maria, Queen, 1

Henry IV, King, 1

Henry V, King, 1

Henry VII, King, 1, 2

Hepburn, Audrey, 1

Hepburn, Katharine, 1, 2, 3

Herpen, Ruth van, 1

Herrera, Carlos, 1

Hertogh, Adeline, 1

Hertogh, Maria, 1

Heston, Charlton, 1

Hickey Jr, George, 1

Hickok, James Butler ’Wild Bill’, 1, 2

Hicks, Kirsten, 1

Hicks, Thomas, 1

Higgins, George V., 1

Hill, Bob, 1

Hilton, James, 1

Hines, Earl ‘Fatha’, 1

hippopotamuses, 1, 2, 3

Hirot, B.C., 1

history

and esoteric studies, 1

funguses and, 1

movies and, 1

worst ideas in recent, 1

Hitchcock, Alfred, 1

Hitler, Adolf, 1, 2, 3, 4

world affairs and, 1, 2, 3

Hitler, Klara Pölzl, 1

Hobbes, Thomas, 1

Hodges, Mike, 1

Hodgson, Bob, 1

Hoffman, Abbie, 1

Hoffman, Dustin, 1

Hogg, Thomas Jefferson, 1

Hogshire, Jim, 1

Holden, Edith, 1

Holden, William, 1, 2, 3

Holdstock, Robert, 1

Holloway, Stanley, 1

Holly, Buddy, 1

Holm, Eleanor, 1

Holmes, T.H., 1

Holt, John T., 1

Honecker, Erich, 1

Hooker, John Lee, 1

Hooper, Tobe, 1

Hoover, J. Edgar, 1

Hopkins, Anthony, 1

Horne, Lena, 1

Horsley, Tom, 1

Hoskins, Bob, 1

Houdini, Harry, 1

Howarth, Humphrey, 1

Hu Jintao, 1

Hudson, Jeffrey, 1

Hudson, Rock, 1

Hugo, Victor, 1

Hume, David, 1, 2

Humphries, Barry, 1

Humphry, Mrs, 1

Huncke, Herbert, 1

Hung, William, 1

Hunt,’ Golf Bag’ Sam, 1

Hunter, John, 1

Hussein, Saddam, 1, 2

Huston, John, 1, 2, 3

Huston, Walter, 1

Huxley, Aldous, 1, 2

ibn Mussad Abdel Aziz, Prince Faisal, 1

Ibn-Saud, King (Saudi Arabia), 1

Ibsen, Henrik, 1

Icelandic Phallological Museum, 1, 2

ideas, worst, 1

Iggy Pop (band), 1

incestuous couples, 1

indestructable people, 1

infamous men, mothers of, 1, 2

insects, 1

insomnia, 1

Inter-Parliamentary Union, 1

Irving, Amy, 1

Irving, Washington, 1

Irwin, May, 1

Isherwood, Christopher, 1

Italians, 1, 2

Ito, Nitara, 1

Jackson, President Andrew, 1

Jackson, Glenda, 1

Jackson, Janet, 1, 2

Jackson, John ’Gentleman’, 1

Jackson, Michael, 1

Jackson, Peter, 1

Jackson, Gen Thomas ‘Stonewall’, 1

Jagger, Mick, 1

Jahaleen, Eid Saleb al, 1

Jairzinho (footballer), 1

James I, King, 1, 2

James, Henry, 1

James, Jesse (bandit), 1

James, Jesse S., 1

James, Skip, 1

James, Steve, 1

James, Zerelda Cole, 1

Janek, Miroslav, 1

Jarvis, D.C., 1

Jay, Ricky, 1

Jaynes, Julian, 1

jazz, 1, 2

Jefferson, President Thomas, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

death of, 1, 2

Jenkins, Florence Foster, 1

Jenner, Bruce, 1

Jennings, Humphrey, 1

Jernigan, Joseph Paul, 1

Jersey, Lady, 1

Jobs, Steve, 1

John II, King (Portugal), 1

Johnson, Allison, 1

Johnson, Vice President Andrew, 1

Johnson, Chris, 1

Johnson, J.J., 1

Johnson, President Lyndon B., 1

Johnson, Robert, 1

Johnson, Samuel, 1

Johnson, Terry, 1

Johnson, Virginia E., 1

Johnston, Lynn, 1

Johnston, Sir Harry, 1

Johst, Hanns, 1

Jolie, Angelina, 1

Jolson, Al, 1

Jones, Ben, 1

Jones, John Paul, 1

Jones Jr, Roy, 1

Jones, Penn, 1

Jones, R. William, 1

Jones, Thornton, 1

Jones, Virginia Lucille, 1

Joplin, Janis, 1

Jordan, Michael, 1

Joubert, Joseph, 1

Joy Division (band), 1

Joyce, James, 1, 2

Jumbo the elephant, 1

Kabila, Laurent, 1

Kabotchnik, Harry, 1

Kafka, Franz, 1, 2

Kama Sutra, 1

Kamprad, Ingvar, 1

Kapoor, Shashi, 1

Karloff, Boris, 1

Karpis, Alvin ’Kreepy’, 1

Kawthar of Tunisia, 1

Kazan, Elia, 1

Kazin, Alfred, 1

Keating, Ronan, 1

Keaton, Buster, 1, 2, 3

Keats, John, 1

Keevil-Matthews, Lori Jean, 1

Kelly, Gene, 1, 2

Kelly, George ’Machine Gun’, 1

Keneally, Thomas, 1

Kennedy Onassis, Jacqueline, 1, 2, 3

Kennedy, President John F., 1, 2, 3, 4

Kennedy Shriver, Eunice, 1

Kennedy, William, 1

Kenyon, John, 1

Kerouac, Jack, 1

Khamba Horsemen, 1

Khomeini, Ayatollah, 1

Khrushchev, Nikita, 1

Kichizo, Ishida, 1

Kidd, Capt William, 1

Kidd, Walter, 1

Killy, Jean-Claude, 1, 2, 3

Kilsey, W.L., 1

Kim IL Sung, 1

Kim IL Sung Gift Museum, 1

Kim Jong IL, 1, 2, 3, 4

King, B.B, 1

King Cobra (mountain), 1

King, Henry, 1

King Jr, Martin Luther, 1, 2

King, Marjorie, 1

King, Rodney, 1, 2

King, Stephen, 1, 2, 3

Kinks (band), 1

Kinsey, Alfred C., 1

kisses, 1

Kneipp, Sebastian, 1

Knowles, Roderic, 1

Koestler, Arthur, 1

Kolingba, Gen Andre, 1

Komodo dragons, 1

Komodo dragons129

Kondrashkin, Vladimir, 1

Kongur (mountain), 1

Koons, Stacey C., 1

Kopietz, Heino, 1

Kottowitz, Anna von, 1

Krafft-Ebing, Richard von, 1

Krakauer, Jon, 1

Kramer, Stanley, 1

Kravitz, Lenny, 1

Kubrick, Stanley, 1, 2, 3

Kuehl, Sheila, 1

Kugler, Kay, 1

Kühn, Ruth, 1

Kurd Rebels, 1

Küttel, Josef, 1

La Brash, George E., 1

La Cava, Gregory, 1

La Manch Negra, 1

La Rue, Al ’Lash’, 1

Laattsch, Joe, 1

Ladd, Alan, 1

Lafayette, Marquis de, 1

Laloo, 1

Lamarr, Hedy, 1, 2

Lancaster, Burt, 1

Landale, James, 1

Langley, Professor Samuel, 1

Lanzmann, Claude, 1

Lao-Tzu (writer), 1, 2

Larkin, Philip, 1

L’Armée Clandestine, 1

Larson, Lance, 1

Lashkevich, Capt, 1

Lasser, Louise, 1

Laurents, Arthur, 1

LaVigne, Michelle, 1

Law, Denis, 1

Lawrence, D.H., 1, 2

Lawrence, Syd, 1

lawsuits, unusual, 1

Laytner, Ron, 1

Le Carré, John, 1

Le, Stephen, 1

Leach, Bobby, 1

Leadbelly, 1

Leahy, Admiral William, 1

Led Zeppelin (band), 1, 2

Lee, Bruce, 1

Lee, Harper, 1

Lee, Tommy, 1

Legman, Gershon, 1

Lehrer, Lonnie, 1

Leifer, Carol, 1

Leigh, Janet, 1

Leigh, Vivien, 1, 2

Lemke, Leslie, 1

Lemon Mountains, 1

Lenin, V.I., 1, 2

Lennon, John, 1, 2

Lentini, Francesco, 1, 2

Leonard, Elmore, 1

Leonard, Eric, 1

leopards, 1, 2

Lepage, Robert, 1

Lerman, Jonathan, 1

Lewis, Sinclair, 1, 2

Li Po (poet), 1

Libbera, Jean, 1

librarians, 1

Life of Pi (Yann Martel), 1

lifespan of animals, 1

Lighthouse of Pharos, 1

Limbaugh, Rush, 1

limbs and digits, extra, 1

Lincoln, Abraham, 1, 2, 3, 4

Lind, Jenny, 1

Lindblom, Gerhard, 1

Lineker, Gary, 1

lines

beginning novels, 1

Bob Dylan’s, 1

ending novels, 1

erroneously attributed, 1

of national anthems, 1

lions, 1, 2

lipograms, 1

Lipton, Kenneth, 1

Lisciarelli, Arturo, 1

literature, 1

American authors, 1

authors, favourite, 1

books

fact stranger than fiction, 1

mind-changing, 1

for a new planet, 1

reference, 1

unlikely how-to, 1

histories and esoteric studies, 1

lipograms, 1

novels

beginnings to, 1

favourite, 1

last lines of, 1

poets earning a living, 1

reviews, 1

science fiction, 1

strange stories, 1

surprise best sellers, 1

titles

original, 1

scholarly, 1

writers, 1

Little Feat (band), 1

Little, Graham, 1

Lloyd, Arthur, 1

Locke, John, 1

Loeffelbein, L., 1

Lofty, Margaret, 1

Logan, Joshua, 1

Lollobridgida, Gina, 1

Lomax, Alan, 1

Lombard, Carole, 1

Lombardi, Vince, 1

Lombardo, Tullio, 1

Lon Nol, 1

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1

Longhurst, Simon, 1

Lonsdale, 5th Earl of, 1

Loren, Sophia, 1

Lorre, Peter, 1

Lorz, Fred, 1

lost property, 1

Louis XI, King (France), 1

Louis XV, King (France), 1, 2

Louis XVIII, (France), 1

Louise L., 1

love see sex, love and marriage

Lovell, Stanley, 1

Loveridge, Marguerite, 1

Lowell, Amy, 1

Lowther, Hugh, 1

Lowther, Jim, 1

Loy, Myrna, 1

Luciano, Charles ’Lucky’, 1

Ludendorff, Gen Erich, 1

Ludwig, King (Bavaria), 1

Luetgert, Adolph, 1

Lumet, Sidney, 1

Lumley, Joanna, 1

Lund, David, 1

Lupino, Ida, 1

Luria, A. R., 1

Lutz, Tom, 1

Lydekker, Richard, 1

Lyne, Adrian, 1

Lynryd Skynyrd (band), 1

lynx spiders, 1

Maalin, Ali Maow, 1

McAlea, Edward, 1

McCall, Jack, 1

McCartney, Paul, 1

McCrew, Anderson, 1

McDonald, Hugh, 1

MacDonald, Jeanette, 1

Macdonald, Kevin, 1

Macfadden, Bernard, 1

McGehan, Thomas, 1

MacGraw, Ali, 1

McGregor, Ewan, 1

MacGregor, Major, 1

Macgregor, Robert ‘Rob Roy’, 1

McGuire, Ivan, 1

McIntyre, James, 1

McKellan, Sir Ian, 1

Mackenzie, John, 1

MacKinnon, John, 1

Mackowski, Carmen, 1

MacLaine, Shirley, 1

McLaughlin, Terence, 1

MacLaurin, Dr C., 1

MacLean, Charles, 1

McLean, Don, 1

MacLeish, Archibald, 1

McLeod, Duncan, 1

McManus, Hump, 1

McMurtry, Larry, 1

McNamara, Robert, 1

McQueen, Steve, 1

Madison, Helene, 1

Madonna, 1, 2

Madsen, Michael, 1

Madsen, Wayne, 1

Mafia, 1, 2, 3

Magellan, Ferdinand, 1

Magherini, Dr Graziella, 1

Mahmud of Ghazni, 1

maiden names, 1

Mailer, Norman, 1, 2

Malcolm X, 1, 2

Mallarmé, Stéphane, 1

Malloy, Michael, 1

Mamas and the Papas, 1

Mamet, David, 1

Manilow, Barry, 1

Manivet, Jean-Pierre, 1

Mankiewicz, Joseph, 1, 2

Mann, Michael, 1

Mansfield, Jayne, 1

Mansi, Sandra, 1

Mao Tse Tung, 1, 2, 3

Maradona, Diego, 1

Marat, Jean-Paul, 1

Marciano, Rocky, 1

Marconi, Guglielmo, 1

Marcos, Ferdinand, 1

Marcos, Imelda, 1

Marcus, Col David, 1

Margarita (cocktail), 1

Maria Hertogh Custody Case, 1

Marikina City Footwear Museum, 1

Markowitz, Burt, 1

Marley, Bob, 1

Marquez, Gabriel García, 1

marriage see sex, love and marriage

Marsh, Mae, 1

Marshall, Chief Justice John, 1

Martel, Yann, 1

Martial (poet), 1, 2

Martin, Jean, 1

Martin, Martin, 1

Martin, Ricky, 1

Marvin, Lee, 1

Marx, Groucho, 1, 2, 3

Marx, Karl, 1, 2

Mary I, Queen, 1

Mary Queen of Scots, 1

Masiello, Joe, 1

Mason, Bobbie Ann, 1

Massaro, Daniele, 1

Massie, Robert K., 1

Masters, William H., 1

Mather, Cotton, 1

Mathias, Bob, 1

mating habits, 1

Matsumo, Kazuhiko, 1

Matsuyama, Chunosuke, 1

Matthau, Walter, 1

Matthews, Sir Stanley, 1

Maud, Queen, 1

Maugham, W. Somerset, 1, 2, 3

Maupassant, Guy de, 1, 2

Mausolus, King (Caria), 1

Max Planck Institute, 1

Mayle, Peter, 1

Mayo, Gerald, 1

Maysles, Albert, 1

Maysles, David, 1

Meacham, John, 1

medical conditions, 1

Medical Museum of the Armed Forces

Institute of Pathology, 1

Medjuel, Sheik, 1

Meister, Hulda, 1

Meliton of Chalcedon, Metropolitan, 1

Mellencamp, John, 1

Melville, Herman, 1, 2, 3

Melville, Jean-Pierre, 1

Mencken, H.L., 1

Mengistu Haile Mariam, 1

Menninger, Bonar, 1

Mercouri, Melina, 1

Meriweather, Charles A., 1

Mesmer, Franz, 1

messages in bottles, 1

Metchnikoff, Élie, 1

meteorites, 1, 2

Meyer, Dr Alfred, 1

Meyer, Kathleen, 1

Michelangelo, 1, 2, 3

Mickey Finn (cocktail), 1

Microsoft Corporation, 1, 2

Milding, William, 14th Earl of Streatham, 1

Miles, Carl, 1

Milk, Harvey, 1

Millardet, Pierre-Marie-Alexis, 1

Miller, Arthur, 1

Miller, B.J., 1

Miller, Elva, 1

Miller, Henry, 1

Ming Huang, Emperor, 1

Minnelli, Vincent, 1

Minnock, Tommy, 1

Mirren, Helen, 1

Mitchell, Alex, 1

Mitchell, Attorney Gen John, 1

Mitchell, Margaret, 1, 2

Mitchell, Nelly, 1

Mitchum, Robert, 1

Mittermeier, Dr Russell, 1

Mobuto, Sese Seko (Joseph), 1, 2

Modrow, John, 1

Mogwai (band), 1

monkeys, 1, 2, 3

Monmouth, Duke of, 1

Monroe, Marilyn, 1, 2, 3

monsters, lake and sea, 1

Montague, J.F., 1

Montaigne, Michel de, 1

Montesquieu-Fezenac, Robert de, 1

Moody, Jerome, 1

Moon, Keith, 1

moon landings, 1

Moon, Mary, 1

Moore, Archie, 1

Moore, Demi, 1

Moorman, Mary, 1

Mootageri, Shivshankari Yamanappa, 1

Moran, Thomas ’Butterfingers’, 1

Morgan, Frank, 1

Morgan, George, 1

Morphy, Paul, 1

Morris, Errol, 1

Morris, Glenn, 1

Morris, W.B., 1

Morrison, Jim, 1, 2

Morstoel, Bredo, 1

Morton, Nails, 1

Moscone, George, 1

mothers

of infamous men, 1

maiden names of, 1

Motion, Andrew, 1

mountain climbing, 1

movies, 1

comedies, 1

crime films, 1

discovery of stars, 1

documentaries, 1

favourite, 1

film scenes cut, 1

lines erroneously attributed, 1

love on set, 1

Olympic medalists and, 1

as part of history, 1

roles turned down, 1

scariest scenes, 1

tales of, 1

writers working for, 1

Moyer, Milton, 1

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1, 2

Mswati III, King (Swaziland), 1

MTV Celebrity Kissfest, 1

Mugabe, Robert, 1

Muhammad Ali, 1

Mundy, Bessie, 1

Murdoch, Iris, 1

Murphy, A.C., 1

Murray, Bill, 1

Musa, Mansa, 1

Museum of Bad Art, 1

museums, 1

Museveni, President Yoweri, 1

music see arts

Mussolini, Alessandria, 1

Mussolini, Benito, 1, 2

Mussolini, Rosa Maltoni, 1

mutilations, 1

Mütter Museum, 1

Myers, Mike, 1

Myers, Tom, 1

Myslivecek, Josef, 1

Nabokov, Vladimir, 1, 2

Nakaruma, Wasaaki, 1

names

of body parts, 1

changed by accident, 1

drink, 1

earth surface, 1

of famous bands, 1

maiden, 1

underworld nicknames, 1

unfortunate product, 1

unlikely place, 1

unnamed women, 1

of unusual things, 1

Narayan, J.P., 1

Nashe, Thomas, 1

Nat Turner Rebellion, 1

Nath, N., 1

national anthems, 1

Naylor, R.H., 1

Neale, Dianne, 1

Nebuchadnezzar, 1

Needle (mountain), 1

Nelson, Lester ’Baby Face’, 1

Nero, 1

Neruda, Pablo, 1

Nevins, Allan, 1

Newley, Anthony, 1

Newman, Paul, 1

Newton, Caroline, 1

Newton, Dennis, 1

Newton, Isaac, 1

Newton, Krandel Lee, 1

Nguema, Teodoro Obiang, 1

Nicaraguan Contras, 1

Nichols, Nichelle, 1

Nicoletti, Charles, 1

Nietzsche, Friedrich, 1, 2, 3

Nightingale, Florence, 1

Nile, River, 1

Nixon, Richard, 1, 2

Niyazov, Saparmurat, 1

Nobel, Alfred, 1

Nobel, Ludwig, 1

Noble, Herbert ‘The Cat’, 1

Noebel, David A., 1

Noriega, Felicidad, 1

Noriega, Manuel, 1, 2

noses, famous, 1

Novak, Kim, 1

novels see literature

nuclear weapons test, 1

Nung Mercenaries, 1

Nye, Bill, 1

Nyman, Lena, 1

Oates, Joyce Carol, 1

O’Banion gang, Dion, 1

Obasanjo, President Olusegun, 1

O’Connor, Flannery, 1

O’Hare, Virginia, 1

Oliver, Jamie, 1

Olivier, Laurence, 1

Olympics, 1, 2, 3

O’Neal, Ryan, 1

Ono, Yoko, 1

Onyshchenko, Major Boris, 1

Ophuls, Marcel, 1

Orlovsky, Peter, 1

Orwell, George, 1, 2

Osborne, John, 1

Osbourne, Ozzy, 1

O’Sullivan, Maureen, 1, 2, 3

Oswald, Lee Harvey, 1, 2

Otis, James, 1

Otto, King (Greece), 1

Outkast (band), 1

Ouwens, Major P.A., 1

Owen, Michael, 1

Ozyurek, Mehmet, 1, 2

Pace, Elgie, 1

painting see arts

Palmer, William, 1

Paluck, Jason, 1

Panouse, Clementine de la, 1

Park, Si-Hun, 1

Parker, Charlie, 1

Parker, Dorothy, 1

Parker, Janet, 1

Parker, Matthew, 1

Parker, Robert M., 1

Parton, Dolly, 1

Pasternak, Boris, 1

Pastrana, Julia, 1

Patey, Tom, 1

Patton, Charles, 1

Paul VI, Pope, 1

Paul, Henri, 1

Paule, Barbara, 1

Pauling, Linus, 1

Pausanias, 1

Pavlov, Valentin, 1

peaches, 1

Peaks, Tawny, 1

Pearl Harbor, 1

Pearson, Karl, 1

Peck, Gregory, 1

Pedro, King of Castile, 1

Peek, Kim, 1

Peel, John, 1

Peel, Robert, 1

Pelé (footballer), 1, 2

Pelias, King (Thessaly), 1

Pelletier, David, 1

Pellito, Penny, 1

penguins, 1

penicillin, 1

penises, 1, 2, 3

Pennsylvania Society of the Order of

Founders and Patriots of America, 1

people, 1

almost indestructable, 1

drinks named after, 1

earth’s surface and, 1

electric, 1

extra limbs and digits, 1

with famous noses, 1, 2

had they lived to 2005, 1

with namechanges, 1

who cried in public, 1

women of the Bible, 1

Pepys, John ‘Stumpey’, 1

Pepys, Samuel, 1, 2

Percival, Spencer, 1

Percy, Walker, 1, 2

Pere Ubu (band), 1

Perec, Georges, 1

Perelman, S.J., 1

Perez, Joanne, 1

performers, wretched, 1

Perkins, Elizabeth, 1

Perón, Eva, 1

Perón, Juan, 1, 2

Perot, Ross, 1

Perrault, Charles, 1

Peruvian Regiment, 1

Petiot, Ferdinand L., 1

Petrides, Gilbert, 1

Pettiford, Oscar, 1

Petty, Tom, 1

Pfeiffer, Michelle, 1

Philips, Shaun, 1

Philon, 1

Phoenix, River, 1

Picasso, Pablo, 1

Pickens, Tyrone, 1

Pickering, William H., 1

Pietri, Dorando, 1

pigs, 1, 2

Pillault, Christopher, 1

Pimm’s (cocktail), 1

Pinochet, Augusto, 1

Pinter, Harold, 1

Pique, Monsieur de, 1

Pistor, Fanny, 1

Pitt the Younger, William, 1

Pittsburg Gasometer Explosion, 1

Pittsburgh Pirates, 1

Pius XI, Pope, 1

Pizarro, Francisco, 1

Pizzo, Cecilia M., 1

Plainsong (band), 1

Plant, Tom, 1

Plante, Joseph, 1

Plaster Caster, Cynthia, 1

Plath, Sylvia, 1, 2

Pleasant, Wally, 1

Plimpton, George, 1

Pliny the Elder, 1

Plymouth Brethren, 1

Poe, Edgar Allan, 1, 2

poets, 1

poison, 1, 2

Pol Pot, 1

Polanski, Roman, 1

politicians, 1

politics see war, politics and world affairs

Pomeroy, Sarah C., 1

Pompadour, Madame de, 1

population, 1

porcupines, 1, 2

Potter, (Helen) Beatrix, 1

Powell, Lawrence M., 1

Powell, Major John W., 1

Powell, William, 1

Power, Tyrone, 1

predictions, bad, 1

Preminger, Otto, 1

Prescott, Peter, 1

‘Preserved Lady’, 1

Presley, Elvis, 1, 2, 3, 4

Prevette, Johnathan, 1

Priestley, Raymond, 1

Pritikin, Nathan, 1

Proclaimers (band), 1

Proulx, Annie, 1

Proust, Marcel, 1, 2, 3

proverbs, 1

Pryor, Richard, 1

Puccini, Giacomo, 1

Pujol, Joseph, 1

Pullman, Philip, 1

Puskas, Ferenc, 1

Putnam, George, 1

Puzo, Mario, 1, 2, 3

quiz questions, 1

Rabelais, François, 1, 2

radios, 1

Raft, George, 1

Rahe, T.H., 1

rain, 1, 2, 3

Rainey, Ma, 1

Raleigh, Sir Walter, 1

Rama Rao, N.T., 1

Ramachandran, M.G., 1

Ramirez, Gloria, 1

Ramones (band), 1

Rank, J. Arthur, 1, 2

Rankin, Ian, 1

Rasputin, Grigori, 1, 2

Reader, John, 1

Reagan, Nancy, 1

Reagan, President Ronald, 1, 2, 3, 4

recipes, 1

Redd, G.C., 1

Redding, Otis, 1

Redford, Robert, 1

Reeves, Keanu, 1

Relf, Keith, 1

REM (band), 1

Remarque, Erich Maria, 1

Renfry, Alan, 1

Renoir, Jean, 1

Residents (band), 1

Ressler, Robert K., 1

Reuben, Dr David, 1

Rhine, J.B., 1

Rice, John C., 1

Rich, Buddie, 1

Rich, Charlie, 1

Richard II, King, 1

Richardson, Janet, 1

Richelieu, Cardinal de, 1

Richmond, Clifford A., 1

Richmond, Ken, 1

Rickenbacker, Edward V., 1

Riga, Peter de, 1

Righteous Brothers, 1

Rimbaud, Arthur, 1

Ringling Brothers Circus, 1

riots, 1

Rizal, José, 1

Rizzo, Dr Peter, 1

Rob Roy (cocktail), 1

Robbins, Jerome, 1

Roberts, Julia, 1

Roberts, Tiffany, 1

Robertson, Patrick (writer), 1

Robida, Albert, 1

Robinson, Tom, 1

Rochefort Ridge, 1

rocket research, 1

Rodale, J.I., 1

Rodgers, James W., 1

Rodin, François Auguste, 1

Rodney King Beating Trial, 1

Rogers, Ginger, 1

Rogers, Roy, 1

Rogers, Ruth, 1

Rohan-Csermak, Géza de, 1

Rohl, David, 1

Rolling Stones, 1, 2

Romero, George, 1

Rooney, Mickey, 1

Roosevelt, President Franklin D., 1

Roosevelt, President Theodore, 1

Rorty, Richard, 1

Rostand, Edmond, 1

Rosten, Leo, 1

Roth, Philip, 1, 2

Rothstein, Arnold, 1

Rouse, Al, 1

Rowling, J.K., 1

Royer, Jean, 1

Ruby, Jack, 1

Ruddy, Albert S., 1

Rudolf I, King (Hapsburg), 1

Ruiz, Maria del Carmen y, 1

Rumsfield, Donald, 1

Runyon, Damon, 1

Russell, Bertrand, 1

Russell, Jane, 1

Russell, Lillian, 1

Russell, Tony, 1

Ruth, Babe, 1, 2

Rutledge, Leigh, 1

Ryan, Elizabeth, 1

Ryzhkov, Nikolai, 1

Sacco, Nicola, 1

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold, 1

Sada, Abe, 1

Sade, Marquis de, 1

Sagal, Katey, 1

St Anthony, 1

St Bernadette, 1

St Bonaventure, 1

St Paul, 1

St Pierre Snake Invasion, 1

Saint, Eva Marie, 1

Sakata, Harold, 1

Sale, Jamie, 1

Salinger, J.D., 1

Salle, David, 1

Saltzman, Harry, 1

Salvadoran Death Squads, 1

Samples, Gordon, 1

Samuelson, Bill, 1

Sanders, Red, 1

Sandow, Eugene, 1

Sarnoff, David, 1

Sarti, Lucien, 1

sausage events, 1

Savage, Matthew, 1

Savalas, Telly, 1

savants, 1

Saverland, Thomas, 1

Sawyer, Mary, 1

sayings, 1, 2, 3

Scaglione, Michael, 1

Scagnetti, Jack, 1, 2

Schachtman, Tom, 1

Schell, Maximilen, 1

Schindler, Oskar, 1

Schlesinger, John, 1

Schnabel, Julian, 1

Schomburgk, Hans, 1

Schönberg, Arnold, 1

Schopenhauer, Artur, 1

Schott, Ben, 1

Schranz, Karl, 1

Schubert, Franz, 1

Schulz, Charles, 1

Schumann, Robert, 1

Schwabe, Calvin W., 1

Schwartz, Sheldon, 1

Schwarz, Marco, 1

Schwarzenberg, Count von, 1

Schwarzenegger, Arnold, 1, 2

Schwarzkopf, Norman, 1

Sclater, P.L., 1

Scorsese, Martin, 1

Scott, Bernadette, 1

Scott, Doug, 1

Scott, Ridley, 1

Scottsboro Boys, 1

Screen Actors Guild, 1

Seale, Bobby, 1

Seiler, Lewis, 1

Self, Will, 1

Sennett, Mack, 1

September 11th, 1

Sepu Kangri, 1

Sertoli, Enrico, 1

sex, love and marriage, 1

aphrodisiacs, 1

celebrity marriages, 1

incestuous couples, 1

meeting mates, 1

memorable kisses, 1

movie stars and, 1

perfect woman, 1

preserved sex organs, 1

sexual intercourse, 1

thoughts on, 1

Shah, Nadir, 1

Shakespeare, William, 1, 2, 3, 4

Sharpe, Mrs Hollis, 1

Shatner, William, 1

Shaw, Clay, 1

Shaw, George Bernard, 1, 2

Shcherbakov, Deputy Prime Minister, 1

Shea, Mary, 1

Shearer, Norma, 1

Sheen, Charlie, 1

Sheen, Martin, 1

sheep, 1, 2, 3

Shelley, Mary, 1

Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1

Shepard, Sam, 1

Shiloh Baptist Church Panic, 1

Shimkonis, Paul, 1

shipwreck survival tips, 1

Shivling (mountain), 1

Shortis, Emily Ann, 1

Shortis, William, 1

Shortman, Dr Kenneth, 1

Shriver, Maria, 1

Siamese twins, 1

Sickles, Dan, 1

Siegel, Benjamin ’Bugsy’, 1

Sieveking, Paul, 1

Sihanouk, Prince Norodom, 1

Sikharulidze, Anton, 1

Silva, Adhemar Ferreira da, 1

Silviera, Ana Mari da, 1

Simmons, Jean, 1

Simon and Garfunkel, 1

Simon, Neil, 1

Simon, Randall, 1

Simpson, Joe, 1

Simpson, Wallis, 1

Sinatra, Frank, 1, 2, 3

Sinclair, Upton, 1

Singer, Isaac Bashevis, 1

Singh, Rev J.A. L., 1

Skids (band), 1

Skutch, Alexander F., 1

sky, objects falling from, 1

Slyke, Rev D.O. Van, 1

smallpox, 1

Smith, Bessie, 1

Smith, Dr Southward, 1

Smith, George Joseph, 1

Smith, James, 1

Smith, Jem, 1

Smith, Joseph, 1

Smith, Martin Cruz, 1

Smith, Penny, 1

Smith, Pvt Billy Dean, 1

Smith, Tommy, 1

Smith, Will, 1

Smithsonian Institution, 1

snakes, 1, 2, 3

Snell, Hannah, 1

snow, 1, 2

Snow, Edgar, 1

Snow, Hank, 1

Socrates, 1

Sondheim, Stephen, 1

songs, 1, 2

Sonny and Cher, 1

Soto, Hernando de, 1

Soule, John, 1

soups, Italian, 1

Soutre, Jean Rene, 1

Sozio, Ciro, 1

Spacek, Sissy, 1

Spallanzani, Lazzaro, 1

Sparks Circus, 1

Spears, Britney, 1

Spencer, Herbert, 1

spiders, 1, 2

Spinal Tap (band), 1

sports, 1

bizarre events, 1

boxing champions, 1

football, 1

inventing games, 1

mountain experiences, 1

Olympics, 1, 2

pistol duels, 1

squid, 1, 2

Stalin, Joseph, 1

Staller, Ilona, 1

Stallone, Sylvester, 1, 2, 3, 4

Stamm, Orville, 1

Stanley, Mike, 1

Stanley, Robert H., 1

Stapledon, Olaf, 1

Starks, Jabo, 1

Starr, Ray, 1

Starr, Ringo, 1

Stein, Peter, 1

Steinbeck, John, 1, 2, 3

Steininger, Hans, 1

Stephens, Helen, 1

Stephenson, Nicola, 1

Steppenwolf (band), 1

Stevens, Wallace, 1

Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1, 2, 3

Stewart, Jimmy, 1

Stobbs, Betty, 1

Stockholm International Peace Research (SIPRI), 1

Stoker, Bram, 1

stolen objects, 1

Stoppard, Tom, 1

Storey, David, 1

Storey-Moore, Ian, 1

Story, George, 1

Strauss, Erwin S., 1

Strick, Joseph, 1

Strindberg, August, 1

Striptease Museum, 1

Stroessner, Alfredo, 1

Stuart, Gloria, 1

Stubblefield, Clyde, 1

Sturgis, Frank, 1

submarines, 1

Suharto, 1

Suilven, 1

Sukarno, President, 1

Sulabh International Museum Of Toilets, 1

Sullivan, John L., 1

Sumatran Rebels, 1

Supremes (singers), 1

Suskind, Patrick, 1

Suu Kyi, Aung San, 1

Swanson, Gloria, 1, 2, 3

Swift, Frank, 1

Swift, Jonathan, 1, 2

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Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 1

Sykes, Gloria, 1

Tagore, Rabindranath, 1

Tait, Charles, 1

Talking Heads (band), 1

Tamerlane (chieftain), 1

Tarantino, Quentin, 1

Targino, Salvador, 1

Tasker, Joe, 1

Tasman, Abel Janzoon, 1

tattoos, 1

Tatum, Art, 1

Taylor, A.G., 1

Taylor, Charles, 1, 2

Taylor, Elizabeth, 1, 2

tears in public, 1

temperature, 1

Templeton, Richard G., 1

Temptations (band), 1

Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, 1

Testa, Barbara, 1

Texas City Chain Reaction Explosions, 1

Than Shwe, General, 1

Thatcher, Lady Margaret, 1

theatre productions, 1

Theron, Charlize, 1

Thich Tranh Nhung, 1

thieves, 1

Third Battle Of The Aisne River, 1

Thomas, Dylan, 1

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Thompson, Emma, 1

Thompson, Fred, 1

Thompson, Jim, 1

Thoreau, Henry David, 1, 2

Thornley, Kerry, 1

Thornton, Billy Bob, 1

tigers, 1, 2

Tillman, Cpl Pat, 1

Tirevit, Mademoiselle, 1

Titian, 1

Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1

Todd, Brent, 1

Tolkien, J.R.R., 1

Tolstoy, Leo, 1, 2, 3

Tom Collins (cocktail), 1

Tomalin, Nicholas, 1

tomb of King Mausolus, 1

tools, best, 1

Toomey, Regis, 1

Torrigiano, Pietro, 1

Tourog, Norman, 1

Tracy, Spencer, 1

travel, 1

ancient world wonders, 1

bizarre weather, 1

Garden of Eden sites, 1

least populous nations, 1

lost property, 1

museums, 1

shipwreck survival, 1

unlikely placenames, 1

Travolta, John, 1

Treffert, Darold, 1

Trench, Brinsley Le Poer, 1

Trevino, Chris, 1

Trevino, Jennifer, 1

trials and riots, 1

Trigger (horse), 1

Trimmer, Capt John W., 1

Trotsky, Leon, 1

Truman, President Harry S., 1, 2

Trumbull, Col John, 1

Truss, Lynne, 1

Tse Tsan Tai, 1

Tubb, Ernest, 1

Tulp, Dr Nicholas, 1

Tune, Mehmet, 1

Tunney, Gene, 1

Turnbull, Colin, 1

Turner, Dr Monica, 1

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Tutankhamun, King, 1, 2

Twain, Mark, 1, 2, 3, 4

death and, 1, 2

literature, 1, 2

work, money and, 1

Tyson, Mike, 1, 2

U2 (band), 1

Uganda kob, 1

Ukrainian Partisans, 1

Upton, Albert, 1

Urbain, Professor Achille, 1

Urquhart, Sir Thomas, 1

Urwin, Alan, 1

Urzua, Capt Pedro De, 1

Utrillo, Maurice, 1

Vader, John, 1

Valens, Ritchie, 1

Valentino, Rudolph, 1

Vallandigham, Clement L., 1

van der Rohe, Ludwig Miles, 1

van Gogh, Vincent, 1

Vanzetti, Bartolomeo, 1

variety acts, 1

vases, 1

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Vega, Lope de, 1

Velez, Edward, 1

Velvet Underground (band), 1

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Verdi, Guiseppe F.F., 1

Vergez, Jacques, 1

Verlaine, Paul, 1, 2

Verrell, Ronnie, 1

Vespucci, Amerigo, 1

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Vidal, Gore, 1

Vidor, King Wallis, 1

Vietnam War, 1, 2

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Volkswagen Beetle, 1

Voltaire, François, 1

Von Stroheim, Erich, 1

Vonnegut, Kurt, 1, 2

Voss, Sergeant Carl, 1

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Vu Khac Minh, 1

Wagner, Richard, 1, 2

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Waksman, Dr Selman, 1

Wallace, Amy, 1

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Walter Reed Army Medical Centre, 1

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men conquering miles, 1

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Warwick, John, 1

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Wolfowitz, Paul, 1

Wolfram, Stephen, 1

wolves, 1, 2

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woman, perfect, 1

wonders, ancient world, 1

Wood, Frederick Charles, 1

Wood Jr, John H., 1

Wood, J.T., 1

Wood, Natalie, 1

Woods, Tiger, 1

Woodward, Joanne, 1

Woodward, Rear Admiral Clark, 1

Woolf, Virginia, 1

words, 1

with alphabetical vowels, 1

contradictory proverbs, 1

messages in bottles, 1

names of things, 1

obscure and obsolete, 1

sayings, 1, 2, 3

untranslatable, 1

used in negative form, 1

Wordsworth, William, 1

work and money, 1

billionaires’ careers, 1

eBay unusual sales, 1

librarians, 1

poets earning a living, 1

product names, 1

very odd jobs, 1

working in bed, 1

world affairs see war, politics and world affairs

Worthington, A.M., 1

Wozniak, Stephen, 1

Wray, Fay, 1

Wright brothers, 1, 2

Wright, Ernest Vincent, 1

writers, 1, 2, 3

see also literature

Wyman, Jane, 1, 2

Yanayev, Gennady, 1

Yardbirds (band), 1

Yates, Peter, 1

Yates, Simon, 1

Yeltsin, Boris, 1

Yitzhaki, Major Ishmael, 1

Yooket Paen, 1

Yooket Pan, 1

Young, Lester, 1

Young, Terence, 1

Yussupov, Prince Felix, 1, 2

Zannuck, Darryl F., 1

Zappa, Frank, 1

Zeus (statue), 1

Zidane, Zinedine, 1

Zola, Émile, 1, 2

Zwerin, Charlotte, 1