Every Nobel Prize Without Its Laureate
The Nobel ceremony has a script. The winners are announced in October, fly to Stockholm or Oslo in early December, are presented their medals by the king on the 10th, give a speech, attend... Read More →
Every McDonald's Location That Existed Before Ray Kroc
On April 14, 1955, Ray Kroc spent the night before his grand opening checking the temperature on his deep fryers in Des Plaines, Illinois. He was 52 years old and had just bet his... Read More →
Every Item on the Original McDonald's Bar-B-Q Menu
On May 15, 1940, two brothers from Manchester, New Hampshire opened a drive-in restaurant at the corner of 14th and E streets in San Bernardino, California. They served slow-cooked barbecue from a pit stocked... Read More →
Every Film That Got Both Best Actor and Best Actress Nominations and Lost Both
The 1937 film A Star Is Born received seven Academy Award nominations, including Best Actor for Fredric March and Best Actress for Janet Gaynor. The 1954 musical remake received six nominations, including Best Actor... Read More →
Every Best Picture Oscar Winner That Won Best Picture and Nothing Else
Ben-Hur won eleven Academy Awards. Titanic won eleven. The Return of the King won eleven from eleven nominations and lost nothing at all, which is still the largest clean sweep anyone has managed. This... Read More →
Every Best Picture Oscar Winner That Won Without a Best Director Nomination
The Academy Award for Best Picture is voted on by every member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The Academy Award for Best Director is nominated by the directors’ branch alone.... Read More →
Every Best Picture Winner Directed by a Woman
Eighty-one years passed between the first Academy Awards ceremony and the first Best Picture winner directed by a woman. In that span, the Academy handed out the top prize to films directed by Cecil... Read More →
Every Best Picture Oscar Winner That Was a Western
The Western built American cinema. From the 1903 silent short The Great Train Robbery through John Wayne’s six-decade career, the genre was the medium’s signature export – its definitive image, its biggest stars, its... Read More →
Every Gym Leader in Pokemon Generation 9 (Paldea)
In 1996, every badge run began the same way: Brock, in a stone-floored room in Pewter City, waiting for you because the game gave you nowhere else to go. The eight Kanto gym leaders... Read More →
Every U.S. State Capital That Has Been Moved
Forty-eight times between 1777 and 1910, an American state moved its capital. The count is unsettling because most people assume capitals were settled fixtures, chosen at statehood and inherited from the territorial period, but... Read More →
