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Great songwriting and musicianship does not guarantee that a song will be a hit, so it is wonderful when a recording artist uncovers a musical gem by, well… covering it. When a cover song becomes a hit, the original artist benefits. Often there is a renewed interest in the original artist’s work and hopefully (depending [...]
Posted by Dylan Moore on Friday, August 17, 2012 at 12:01 am
Filed under Music · Tagged Abraxas, all along the watchtower, Aretha Franklin, Aretha Franklinâ, Billboard Hot 100, billboard top 100, bob dylan, bob marley, Bruce Springsteen, Cale, clapton eric, Cocaine, Cover Songs, Eagles, Elvis Presley, Eric Clapton, Hendrix, hendrix jimi, Hurt, jimi hendrix, jimi hendrix experience, Johnny Cash, marley bob, musician, Nine Inch Nails, Otis Redding, Presley, R-E-S-P-E-C-T, recording, Respect, Rolling Stone, Rolling Stones, Santana, Tito Puente, top 10, TopTenz, TopTenz YouTube, Trent Reznor, video, watchtower, Whitney Houston, youtube
TopTenz.net had its 4th birthday on May 23, 2012, so it seemed appropriate to reflect on the site and provide some statistics and background. I started this top 10 list site back in May of 2008. At that time I wanted to write something about comic books and decided to write a list about the [...]
Posted by Shell Harris on Wednesday, June 6, 2012 at 12:01 am
Filed under Internet, TopTenz News · Tagged anniversary, bart simpson, companion site, iphone, list site, lists, search traffic, Social bookmarking, social media idols, stumbleupon, top 10, top 10 list, TopTenz, TopTenz.net, Vatican City
To zombie or not to zombie. That is the question faced by many Halloween revelers as the holiday approaches. The obvious choice is to go zombie or go home. Basically you can take any costume idea and zombify it up with a little make-up and some fake blood. In fact, many folks will argue that [...]
Posted by Shell Harris on Thursday, October 21, 2010 at 12:01 am
Filed under Bizarre, Holidays · Tagged bride zombie, cowboy zombie, disney zombie, film, funny zombies, girl scout zombie, halloween, halloween costume ideas, halloween costumes, halloween zombies, horror, office zombie, Philosophical zombie, priest and zombie wedding singer, Red Riding Hood, Rick Bitzman, rubber body parts, santa zombie, scary zombies, star wars, star wars zombies, superhero zombie, top 10, top 10 costumes, top 10 zombie, TopTenz.net, unique zombie costumes, zombie bride, Zombie Clause, zombie costumes, zombie kids, zombie make-up applications, Zombie Prom, zombie superheroes, zombie wedding, zombies, Zombies in popular culture
Usually these lists deal with what was, but after finishing my top ten inventions of the 19th and 20th century lists, I thought it might be fun to do a list of what might be coming down the road as well. Obviously, such a list is purely speculative, but the technologies/discoveries I list here are [...]
Posted by Jeff Danelek on Wednesday, October 13, 2010 at 12:01 am
Filed under Engineering, Science · Tagged 21 century, A.I., airplane, AMP Limited, artificial intelligence, Artificial life, car disappearing, Cloning, cutting edge technology, Energy, Energy development, energy sources, Engineering, everything from microchips to potato chips, exotic technologies, fantasy technologies, future technology, Genetic Engineering, http://www.ourcuriousworld.com, Hydrogen economy, Hydrogen vehicle, inventions, Jeff Danelek, natural gas, new technology, non-organic technologies, non-radioactive energy, nuclear and solar energy, organs, Physics, robot, Robotics, science, Self-replicating machine, technology, top 10, top 10 inventions, top 10 technology, TopTenz.net, zero-point energy generators
Life is the stories of all its heroes. The tiny ones, the unexpected ones, the scary ones and the big and ugly ones. And the most colorful one. Life is made of many stories. There’s the one that makes you giggle and the one that makes you well up. There’s also the red one, the [...]
Posted by Shell Harris on Tuesday, September 21, 2010 at 12:01 am
Filed under Animals, Nature, Photos · Tagged Animals, BBC, BBC Earth, BBC nature, BBC’s Natural History Unit, bird of paradise, blue-footed booby, booby leafy sea dragon, British Broadcasting Corporation, chameleon, Clownfish, colorful animals, colorful wildlife, facebook, fish, flamingoes, Human Interest, lesser flamingo, monarch butterfly, Natural History Unit, Nature, nature programs, panther chameleon, pink flamingo, Sailfish, Salmon, Sockeye, Sockeye salmon, temminick's tragopan, top 10, TopTenz, weedy sea dragon
There are about 375,000 species of plants in the world today, with more being discovered on a daily basis. Plants come in all different sizes, shapes, colors, and even scents. We’ve all seen the common household plants: ferns, orchids, violets… but most of the plants on this list you’ve probably never seen in real life. [...]
Posted by Ash Grant on Tuesday, September 14, 2010 at 12:01 am
Filed under Bizarre, Nature · Tagged amazon river, Australia, Balkans, Biology, bizarre plants, Botany, carnivorous plants, Crete, environment, exotic plants, Flora of Indonesia, flowers, Friedrich Welwitsch, Human Interest, John Lindley, Lithops, Lithops plant, Nepenthes, Nepenthes plant, North Carolina, Plant morphology, Pollination, Rafflesia, Rafflesia arnoldii, Rafflesiaceae, Stamford Raffles, strange plants, top 10, top 10 plants, TopTenz, United States, Victoria Amazonica, weird plants, Welwitschia plant, Wolffia
Opera in the Movies The first known opera was produced in Italy way back in 1597. Since then there have been hundreds of incarnations of this form of musical theater. What distinguishes opera from other forms of theater is that it is wall-to-wall singing, usually in a non-English language. As a source of inspiration, opera [...]
Posted by Shell Harris on Thursday, September 2, 2010 at 12:01 am
Filed under Movies, Music, Television · Tagged Actor, Alex Forrest, Allan Corduner, Amadeus, American Film Institute, Anne Archer, Antonio Salieri, Bill Kilgore, Bugs Bunny, characters, Charles Foster Kane, Charles Kane, Chuck Jones, Colonel, Dan Gallagher, Danny Aiello, Doc?, Don Giovanni, Dorothy Comingore, Elmer Fudd, Entertainment, Entertainment_Culture, F. Murray Abraham, film, Gerard Butler, Gilbert and Sullivan, Giuseppi Verdi, Glenn Close, glenn close fatal attraction, Italy, Johnny Cammareri, Juliet, Kevin Kline, Loretta, Margret Dumont, Mel Blanc, Michael Crawford, Michael Douglas, Moonstruck, Movies, mozart, Music, Musical films, Nicholas Cage, Opera, opera Ring Cycle, Operas, Orson Wells, Oscar, Puccini opera, Rabbit of Seville, Rex Smith, Richard Wagner, Rick Bitzelberger, Robert Duvall, Romeo, Ronny Cammareri, Sarah Brightman, Seville, Spain, Susan Alexander, Take Me Out to the Ballgame, The Magic Flute, The Phantom of the Opera, The Pirates of Penzance, The Ride of the Valkyries, top 10, top 10 movie characters, TopTenz, west side story, What's Opera, would-be manager
Oil spills have occurred ever since we began to harvest it for various uses, as a result of human error, laziness, or pure ignorance. Most recently, the devastating Deep Water Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has been all over the news- oil was pouring out of the blown rig for almost 100 [...]
Posted by Ash Grant on Wednesday, August 11, 2010 at 12:01 am
Filed under Nature · Tagged Amoco, Amoco Cadiz, Amoco Poland Petroleum Products SPzoo, Atlantic Empress, crude oil, disaster, Disaster_Accident, dumped oil, Earth, environment, Exxon, exxon oil spill, Exxon Valdez, exxon valdez oil spill, faulty offshore oil, Fergana Valley, florida oil spill, gulf of mexico oil spill, Gulf War oil spill, inland oil spills, Ixtoc I, Kyrgyzstan, large crude carrier, Middle East gulf, MT Haven, Nature, offshore oil, offshore oil terminal, oil, oil blow, oil deposits, oil disaster, Oil dispersants, oil field, oil platform, oil slick, oil spill, oil spilling, Oil spills, oil supplies, oil tanker, Oil tankers, Pemex, Pemex Master Trust, Petroleum, ship oil spill, top 10, TopTenz, valdez oil spill, world, worst, worst oil spills
Toptenz.net has an iPhone App – Read more our Top 10 List iPhone App and download yours today! Anyone who has an iPhone (or is looking for an excuse to get an iPhone) has spent a bit of time in the App Store on iTunes looking through the thousands of iPhone apps that are available. [...]
Posted by Shell Harris on Thursday, June 24, 2010 at 12:01 am
Filed under Business, Internet · Tagged Amazon Kindle, Amazon.com, app reviews, App Store, apple computers, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone, Apple iPod Touch Portable Audio Device, apps, AT&T, AT&T Corp., built-in location services, car expenses, computers, Computing, free apps, gas efficiency, Internet, internet access, iphone, IPhone OS, IPod Touch, ITunes, iTunes App Store, Kindle, Multi-touch, National Weather Service, online calendars, online interface, Portable media players, public transportation, Sean Easley, smart phone, Smartphones, software applications, Staples, Technology_Internet, top 10, top 10 apps, top 10 iPhone apps, top 10 lists, TopTenz, TopTenz.net, travel statistics, weather reports, WeatherBug, Wi-Fi, wiki, wikipedia, wireless hotspots
Political correctness aside, there are many colorful (no pun intended) assumptions about people in relation to their racial backgrounds. Stereotypes can be found for every race and ethnicity. In fact, quite aside from any racist or prejudicial purposes (for which they are often associated with); stereotypes commonly are simple truths usually relating to a few [...]
Posted by Lee Standberry on Monday, May 10, 2010 at 12:01 am
Filed under Humor · Tagged America, assumptions, caucasians, Ethnic stereotype, illegal aliens, illegal immigrant, language, lee standberry, Mexico, Middle East, National Basketball Association, People, racial stereotypes, racist, Social Issues, Social philosophy, Stereotypes, Stereotypes of East Asians in the Western world, top 10, top 10 stereotypes, TopTenz, United States, white folks