Showing posts with label People. Show all posts
Showing posts with label People. Show all posts

Friday, 3 August 2012 7 highest earning DJs over the past year

  1. Tiësto — $22 million
  2. Skrillex — $15 million
  3. Swedish House Mafia — $14 million
  4. David Guetta — $13.5 million
  5. Steve Aoki — $12 million
  6. Deadmau5 — $11.5 million
  7. DJ Pauly D — $11 million

Friday, 15 June 2012 7 South Africans

  1. Sid James
  2. Dave Matthews
  3. Arnold Vosloo
  4. Manfred Mann
  5. Charlize Theron
  6. Kevin Curren
  7. Zola Budd

Thursday, 14 June 2012 7 Edinburgh Perrier comedy award winners

  1. Adam Riches
  2. Russell Kane
  3. Brendon Burns
  4. Daniel Kitson
  5. Dylan Moran
  6. Al Murray
  7. Simon Fanshawe

Wednesday, 6 June 2012 7 books by Ray Bradbury (1920-2012)

  1. Fahrenheit 451
  2. Dandelion Wine
  3. Something Wicked This Way Comes
  4. The Halloween Tree
  5. A Graveyard for Lunatics
  6. From the Dust Returned
  7. Let's All Kill Constance

Monday, 4 June 2012 7 singers who perform under just their first name

  1. Kylie
  2. Madonna
  3. Beyonce
  4. Jamelia
  5. Prince
  6. Björk
  7. Beck

Friday, 20 April 2012 7 characters that Frank Oz has voiced

  1. Cookie Monster - Sesame Street
  2. Miss Piggy - The Muppets
  3. Bert - Sesame Street
  4. Yoda - Star Wars (II,III,V,VI)
  5. Fozzie Bear - The Muppets
  6. Grover - Sesame Street
  7. Animal - The Muppets

Friday, 13 April 2012 7 remaining American Idol contestants

  1. Skylar Laine
  2. Colton Dixon
  3. Jessica Sanchez
  4. Joshua Ledet
  5. Hollie Cavanagh
  6. Phillip Phillips
  7. Elise Testone

Friday, 6 April 2012 7 rappers' real names

  1. Tinie Tempah - Patrick Junior Chukwuemeka Okogwu
  2. Labrinth - Timothy McKenzie
  3. Tinchy Stryder - Kwasi Danquah III
  4. Dappy - Costadinos Contostavlos
  5. Chipmunk - Jahmaal Noel Fyffe
  6. Skepta - Joseph Junior Adenuga
  7. Dizzee Rascal - Dylan Kwabena Mills

Saturday, 17 March 2012 7 facts about Antonio Vivaldi

  1. His nickname was Il Prete Rosso
  2. He was born in Venice
  3. He had 5 siblings
  4. His father taught him to play the violin
  5. He suffered from what we now call asthma
  6. He was ordained a priest in 1703
  7. He died as a pauper

Friday, 16 March 2012 7 Tim Burton movies without Johnny Depp in them

  1. Pee-wee's Big Adventure
  2. Beetlejuice
  3. Batman
  4. Mars Attacks!
  5. Planet of the Apes
  6. Big Fish
  7. Luau

Thursday, 15 March 2012 7 Bond Villains

  1. Ernst Stavro Blofeld - From Russia with Love / Thunderball / You Only Live Twice / On Her Majesty's Secret Service / Diamonds are Forever
  2. Dr. Kananga - Live and Let Die
  3. Francisco Scaramanga - The Man with the Golden Gun
  4. Hugo Drax - Moonraker
  5. Elliot Carver - Tomorrow Never Dies
  6. Elektra King - The World is Not Enough
  7. Dominic Greene - Quantum of Solace

Friday, 9 March 2012 7 influential Italian women

  1. Trotula of Salerno (11th Century) - Considered the world’s first gynecologist
  2. Dorotea Bucca (1360-1436) - The first female professor to be accepted onto the board of the university of Bologna
  3. Artemisia Lomi Gentileschi (1593-1653) - First great female Italian painter
  4. Elena Cornaro Piscopia (1646-1684) - The first woman in the world to be officially awarded a university degree
  5. Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718-1799) - Wrote the first book discussing both differential and integral calculus
  6. Virginia Oldoini (1837–1899) - The first active woman politician
  7. Tina Anselmi (b. 1927) - Italy's first woman cabinet officer

Wednesday, 22 February 2012 7 positions in the UK legal system

  1. Legal Secretary
  2. Legal Researcher
  3. Conveyancer
  4. Solicitor
  5. Paralegal
  6. Barrister
  7. High Court Judge

Sunday, 12 February 2012 7 notable Ians

  1. Ian Flemming - Author
  2. Ian Brown - Singer
  3. Ian Somerhalder - Actor
  4. Ian Wright - Footballer
  5. Ian Hislop - Editor/Writer
  6. Ian McKellen - Actor
  7. Ian Dury - Singer

Wednesday, 1 February 2012 7 facts about Leonardo da Vinci

  1. Born, Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, April 15 1452 in Vinci, Italy.
  2. Born out of wedlock to a notary, Piero da Vinci, and a peasant woman, Caterina.
  3. At the age of twenty, Leonardo qualified as a master in the Guild of St Luke, the guild of artists and doctors of medicine.
  4. His collection of scientific observations and inventions are collected in the Codex Leicester, now owned by Bill Gates.
  5. In 1502, Leonardo produced a drawing of a single span 220m bridge as part of a civil engineering project for Ottoman Sultan Beyazid II of Constantinople. Bayazid decided not to pursue the project as it was believed that the construction was impossible.
  6. In 2006 the Turkish goverment built the 220m bridge from Leonardo's drawings.
  7. Leonardo died at Clos Lucé, on May 2, 1519 from natural causes.

Saturday, 21 January 2012 7 people who have the same firstname and lastname

  1. Li Li - Chinese Gymnast
  2. Samoa Samoa - American Footballer
  3. Lance Lance - Wrestler
  4. Yang Yang - Skier
  5. James James - Harpist
  6. Neville Neville - Cricketer
  7. Sirhan Sirhan - Assassin

Sunday, 15 January 2012 7 notable Mafiosi

  1. Vito Cascioferro (19862-1943)
  2. Salvatore "Ciaschiteddu" Greco (1923-1978)
  3. Luciano Leggio (1925-1993)
  4. Salvatore Riina (b1930)
  5. Stefano Bontade (1939-1981)
  6. Salvatore Inzerillo (1944-1981)
  7. Matteo Messina Denaro (b1962)

Sunday, 1 January 2012 7 actors who look better with a beard

  1. Leonardo DiCaprio
  2. Hugh Jackman
  3. Robert Downey Jr.
  4. Gerard Buttler
  5. Keith Hamilton Cobb
  6. Jason Mamoa
  7. Alan Rickman

Sunday, 25 December 2011 7 things named after Isaac Newton

Happy 369th Birthday Isaac :)

  1. Newton's Cradle
  2. Newton (SI Unit of force)
  3. The Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, UK
  4. XMM-Newton X-ray observatory
  5. Newton Game Dynamics physics engine
  6. Apple Newton
  7. Newton crater, Mars

Saturday, 3 December 2011 7 movies staring Liam Neeson

  1. Krull
  2. Darkman
  3. Schindler's List
  4. Michael Collins
  5. Taken
  6. Chloe
  7. The A-Team