Top Items About Applause
Type | Title | Teaser | Author | Views | Rating |
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| Anecdotes | Melvin Laird: Stogie Blooper | When President Richard Nixon visited the Vatican in 1970 (at the height of the war in Vietnam), it was decided that... | Anonymous | 109 | |
| Anecdotes | 50-50 Proposition | While lecturing on probability at Warwick University one day in October 1972, Jeffrey Hamilton, demonstrating the effect... | Anonymous | 64 | |
| Anecdotes | Luciano Pavarotti: curtain calls | [Pavarotti`s] biggest break had come, in 1972, when he hit nine high Cs in Donizetti`s “La Fille du Régiment”; he was... | root | 63 | |
| Jokes | Bush visits Albania | "Over the weekend [mid June 2007], President Bush visited Albania. And everywhere his motorcade drove, he was greeted... | root | 57 | |
| Anecdotes | House of Rothschild | Shortly after Hitler`s rise to power in Germany, Twentieth Century-Fox chief Darryl Zanuck decided to produce a film... | Anonymous | 47 | |
| Jokes | Dean Martin: Opening Bit | Comedy writer Gene Perret: "One of my favorite opening bits is Dean Martin`s. He comes onstage with a cigarette and a drink. | Anonymous | 31 | |
| Anecdotes | Verdi! Verdi! | While Verdi was cheered by Italian patriots at every performance, their applause was perhaps not entirely attributable to... | Anonymous | 28 | |
| Anecdotes | B. B. King | "B. B. King talks about being booed one night in Baltimore. `It was like being black twice,` he says. Then he talks about... | Anonymous | 28 | |
| Anecdotes | Fred Allen: Comedy Act | Fred Allen once developed a comedy act in which he played the worst juggler in the history of juggling. Fearful that... | Anonymous | 26 | |
| Anecdotes | Curie On | Following the sudden death of her husband Pierre, Marie Curie was asked by the Sorbonne to assume the physics chair which... | Anonymous | 25 |
