Best-Worst-Last-First Whatever Lists

[stan reid]

My Top 12 Sexiest Living Women Born Before 1940 (over 75 y/o) with year of birth:

12-Angie Dickenson-1931
11-Judi Dench-1934
10-Jean Marsh-1934
9-Connie Stevens-1938
8-Barbara Eden-1931
7-Julie Andrews-1935
6-Nancy Kwan-1939
5-Julie Adams-1926
4-Tina Turner-1939
3-Jane Fonda-1937
2-Rita Moreno-1931
1-Sophia Loren-1934

MMMM, I wonder if any of the above would be interested I dating a younger man.

 

[stan reid]

The last two people still living who lived as a subject of Queen Victoria (24 May 1819 - 22 January 1901):

1-Ethel Lang born in the UK on May 27 of 1900

2-Violet Brown born on March 10 of 1900 in Jamaica, then a British colony

Ethel Lang died January 15 of this year so Ms. Brown is the endling. R.I.P. Ethel

 

[stan reid]

The three smallest U.S. coins-for perspective, the current Dime is 17.91 mm in diameter:

3~Silver Half Dime(1794-1873)~15.5 mm diameter

2~Gold Dollar(1849-1889)~15 mm diameter

1~Silver Three Cent Piece(1851-1873)~14 mm diameter

 

[stan reid]

Four famous actors who died as a result of accidents that occurred while shooting a scene for a movie:

1-Vic Morrow (1982) was killed, along with two child actors, when a helicopter crashed on top of them while filming a scene for the movie Twilight Zone.

2-Brandon Lee (1993) was shot and killed by a gun that was not fully unloaded while filming a scene for the movie The Crow.

3-Eric Fleming (1966) drowned while filming a scene for the movie High Jungle.

4-Jeffrey Hunter (1969) was seriously injured by a special effects explosion while filming a scene for the movie Viva America and died later as a result.

 

[stan reid]

The four smallest dominations of U.S. Mint issued coins:

1-Half Cent (1793-1857)
2-Cent (1793-NOW+)
3-Two Cent Piece (1864-1873)
4-Three Cent Piece (1851-1889)

 

[stan reid]

My Top Five Motorsports Movies:

5-Grand Prix(1966)
4-Buck Privates Come Home(1947)
3-Le Mans(1971)
2-The World's Fastest Indian(2005)
1-Rush(2013)

 

[stan reid]

The two films released in Todd-AO/30 frame rate:

1-Okalahoma!-1955
2-Around the World in 80 Days-1956

 

[stan reid]

The world's 5 largest value denominations of currency that can legally be used by private individuals and their approximate value in U. S. dollars:

5-United States 5,000 dollar bill-US $5,000

4-Brunie 10,000 dollar note-US $7,000

3-Singapore 10,000 dollar note-US $7,000

2-United States 10,000 dollar bill-US $10,000

1-Thialand 500,000 baht note-US $16,000

 

[stan reid]

The world's 5 largest automakers by unit sales:

5=Hyundai-Kia

4=Nissan-Renault Group

3=General Motors

2=Volkswagen Group

1=Toyota Motor

 

[stan reid]

The last 5 surviving people on Earth who were born in the 1800s:

1-Misao Okawa, Japan, born March 5 of 1898
2-Gertrude Weaver, U.S., born July 4 of 1898
3-Jeralean Talley, U.S., born May 23 of 1899
4-Susannah Jones, U.S., born July 6 of 1899
5-Emma Martinuzzi, Italy, born November 29 of 1899

Now there are four. Misao Okawa died today at the age of 117. R.I.P. Misao

 

[stan reid]

The four legal Formula One "roadsters" with engine and year of introduction-Roadster defined as a front engine car with a drive/propeller shaft that passes outside the driver's hip on its way to the rear axle:

1-Kurtis 500/Offenhauser(1952)
2-Lancia D50/Ferrari(1954)
3-Scarab/Goossen(1960)
4-Ferguson P99/Climax(1961)

 

[stan reid]

The last "WW1 Veterans"-Name(year of death)Branch and details:

1-Harry Patch(2009)British Army and the last WW1 ground combat veteran
2-Claude Choules(2011)British Navy and the last WW1 combat veteran
3-Florence Patterson Green(2012)Women's Royal Air Force and the last WW1 veteran
4-Jozef Kowalski(2013)Polish Army of 1919 and the last verified veteran of a contemporary WW1 related conflict i.e. the Polish-Soviet War
5-Alexander Imich(2014)Claimed Polish Army of 1919 and the last claimed veteran of a contemporary WW1 related conflict i.e. the Polish-Ukrainian War

 

[stan reid]

Fascist Wars of Aggression (1935-1945):

1-Second Italo-Ethiopian War (1935-1936)
2-Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)
3-Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)
4-Second World War (1939-1945)

 

[stan reid]

The last 5 surviving people on Earth who were born in the 1800s:

1-Misao Okawa, Japan, born March 5 of 1898
2-Gertrude Weaver, U.S., born July 4 of 1898
3-Jeralean Talley, U.S., born May 23 of 1899
4-Susannah Jones, U.S., born July 6 of 1899
5-Emma Martinuzzi, Italy, born November 29 of 1899

There are now three. Both Misao Okawa and Gertrude Weaver died in the last six days.

 

[stan reid]

The last 3 surviving people on Earth who were born in the 1800s:

1-Jeralean Talley, U.S., born May 23 of 1899
2-Susannah Jones, U.S., born July 6 of 1899
3-Emma Martinuzzi, Italy, born November 29 of 1899

What they have in common is that they are all females who gave birth to no more than one child.

 

[Capt. Vick]

Interesting...

 

[stan reid]

B.C. Serial Killers [#-name-year(s)-place then/now-description]:

1-Roman Femme Fatale Poison Syndicate-331 BC-Roman Republic/Italy-A ring of mostly upper crust women who used poison to rid themselves of troublesome men in their lives
2-Prince Liu Pengli-144 to 116 BC-East Han/China-Royal family member who, along with some minions, made sport of brutally murdering lower class citizens in nocturnal attacks
3-Oppianicus the Younger-about 74 to 66 BC-Roman Republic/Italy-Killed several of his family as well as others with poison
4-Calpurnius Bestia-about 60 to 54 BC-Roman Republic/Italy-Murdered his wives with the poison aconite
5-Anula of Auradhapura-50 to 47 BC-Auradhapura Kingdom/Sri Lanka-Queen Regent who poisoned a son and four husbands to remove them as a threat to her reign

 

[stan reid]

My 5 best movies of all time in order of release:

1-Rear Window-1954
2-Dr. Strangelove-1964
3-Alien-1979
4-White Mischief-1987
5-No Country for Old Men-2007

 

[stan reid]

Six women named as possibly being Jack(ie) the Ripper:

1-Mary Hughes Williams
2-Elizabeth Halliday
3-Olga Tchkersoff
4-Constance Kent
5-Helena von Hahn Blavatsky
6-Mary Wheeler Pearcey

 

[stan reid]

Four eight engine passenger aircraft (# built):

Germany:
1-Hindenburg Class Zeppelins (2)

Italy:
2-Caproni Ca.60 (1)

Soviet Union:
3-Tupolev ANT-20 (2)

United Kingdom:
4-Bristol Brabazon (1)