Top Items About Bans
Type | Title | Teaser | Author | Views | Rating |
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| Trivia | A hugging epidemic? | Nara Schoenberg (The Chicago Tribune): "Beyond all the hand-wringing over the so-called hugging ban at [a Chicago-area] | root | 152 | |
| Anecdotes | White House Squirrels | Dwight Eisenhower once banished squirrels from the White House grounds. Why? An avid golfer, the president had had a... | Anonymous | 52 | |
| Trivia | Trivia about Movies, Censorship and Bans | In 1920, the censorship board of Ohio tried to ban a film version of Treasure Island (1918) for fear that it would... | Anonymous | 51 | |
| Jokes | Craig Ferguson's Disney scripts | "Disney announced today that they’re banning smoking from all their movies. Which means they won’t be buying the scripts... | root | 50 | |
| Anecdotes | Swan Car | "In 1912, Mr R.N. Matthewson, of Swan Park, Alipore, Calcutta, collected his new car from the makers in Lowerstoft, Suffolk. | Anonymous | 41 | |
| Anecdotes | Great Plague | In 1664, Czar Dmitri was allegedly told that a comet seen over Russia portended a plague in autumn, albeit one less... | Anonymous | 31 | |
| Trivia | Trivia about Prudery, Dancing and Dumb Laws | In 2005, the Texas House of Representatives passed a bill that would outlaw sexually suggestive dance moves by... | Anonymous | 26 | |
| Trivia | Trivia about Death, Misunderstandings and Journalism | Ban On Soliciting Dead in... | Anonymous | 26 | |
| Anecdotes | Reaching the top in Libya | The Leader [Muammar Qaddafi]’s vagaries have kept Libya’s élites off balance, sometimes in almost absurd ways. In... | root | 25 | |
| Anecdotes | M-My Generation | The BBC has a long history of banning hit songs from its airwaves - chief among them "A Day in the Life" (drug... | Anonymous | 21 |
