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Hart wrote the 1999 follow-up A View from the Year 3000, [33] voiced in the perspective of a person from that future year and ranking the most influential people in history. Roughly half the entries are fictional people from 2000 to 3000, but the remainder are taken mostly from the 1992 ranking, with some sequence changes. [34] [35]
Time 100 is a list of the top 100 most influential people, assembled by the American news magazine Time.First published in 1999 as the result of a debate among American academics, politicians, and journalists, the list is now a highly publicized annual event.
Charlophobia – the fictional fear of any person named Charlotte or Charlie, mentioned in the comedic book A Duck is Watching Me: Strange and Unusual Phobias (2014), by Bernie Hobbs. The phobia was created to mock name bias , a form of discrimination studied by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Chicago .
The Guinness Book of World Records dubbed Beyonce “the First Lady of Music” in 2024 due to her unparalleled legacy of besting most female artists of her time . Her work and music promote ...
True power is ageless. From the toddling Prince George, third in line to succeed the British throne, to 100-year-old Pulitzer Prize-winning author Herman Wouk, we found the most powerful person at ...
Roy Sullivan. Struck by lightning seven times. Roy Sullivan, a park ranger in Shenandoah National Park, Virginia, seemed to have an uncanny knack for, how do we put it, angering the universe.
Roy Cleveland Sullivan (February 7, 1912 – September 28, 1983) was an American park ranger in Shenandoah National Park in Virginia. Between 1942 And 1977, Sullivan was claimed to have been struck by lightning on seven occasions, surviving all of them.
Here’s another fun fact: every time you learn something, your brain is never the same again. It physically changes whenever you gain new information, skills, or experiences.