List of Rare Baseball Events

Baseball is a game with a rich history and a vast record of statics.  For some of the more obscure rare occurances somebody put together this page.  

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rare_baseball_events

Lake Winnipeg

In Canada there is a giant, relatively shallow lake which is defintely worth learning about, if only to know the answer to the following question: "What is the 11th largest freshwater lake in the world?"  Canada has 5 of the 11 largest freshwater lakes in the world. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Winnipeg

Profanity in American Sign Language

Occasionally, friends submit pages for the blog, which I will try and do a better job of posting.  Here is one such page.  

(Assist from A. Clark)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profanity_in_ASL

List of most popular given names

This list was on Digg, but is exactly the short of thing that this blog is about.   In case you were wondering what the third most popular name in Iceland is; it is Guðmundur.  

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_popular_given_names

List of posthumous Academy Award winners and nominees

Since the Oscars were last night, here is an Oscar-related post.  It could only be better if it listed Cause of Death on the page itself. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_posthumous_Academy_Award_winners_and_nominees

Serbian Ukrainian Relations

Periodically, a google search yields some surprising results, this is one such time.  While looking for some information on a football match this was the first hit for "Serbia Ukraine".  

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serbian-Ukrainian_relations

Roustabout

What a hilarious word!  Roustabout.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roustabout_(disambiguation)

Lamarckism

Not a lot of thought is given to theories that didn't make and fell out of favor.  Here is one such theory.  

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamarckism

White House Intruders

This goes hand and in hand with list of would be assassins.  Sadly, this list is not very informative.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House_intruders

List of United States presidential assassination attempts

The total number of attempted assassinations is surprisingly high at ninety.  Also unknown were the three apparent attempts on George W Bush. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presidential_assassination_attempts

Curse of Tippecanoe

The creepiest part is 1940 and 1960 when people were very aware of the "curse."  

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_Tippecanoe