David Wallechinsky - The Book of Lists

Todd, Brent, 1

Tolkien, J.R.R., 1

Tolstoy, Leo, 1, 2, 3

Tom Collins (cocktail), 1

Tomalin, Nicholas, 1

tomb of King Mausolus, 1

tools, best, 1

Toomey, Regis, 1

Torrigiano, Pietro, 1

Tourog, Norman, 1

Tracy, Spencer, 1

travel, 1

ancient world wonders, 1

bizarre weather, 1

Garden of Eden sites, 1

least populous nations, 1

lost property, 1

museums, 1

shipwreck survival, 1

unlikely placenames, 1

Travolta, John, 1

Treffert, Darold, 1

Trench, Brinsley Le Poer, 1

Trevino, Chris, 1

Trevino, Jennifer, 1

trials and riots, 1

Trigger (horse), 1

Trimmer, Capt John W., 1

Trotsky, Leon, 1

Truman, President Harry S., 1, 2

Trumbull, Col John, 1

Truss, Lynne, 1

Tse Tsan Tai, 1

Tubb, Ernest, 1

Tulp, Dr Nicholas, 1

Tune, Mehmet, 1

Tunney, Gene, 1

Turnbull, Colin, 1

Turner, Dr Monica, 1

Turner, Kelton Rena, 1

Turner, Lana, 1

Turner, Nat, 1

Tutankhamun, King, 1, 2

Twain, Mark, 1, 2, 3, 4

death and, 1, 2

literature, 1, 2

work, money and, 1

Tyson, Mike, 1, 2

U2 (band), 1

Uganda kob, 1

Ukrainian Partisans, 1

Upton, Albert, 1

Urbain, Professor Achille, 1

Urquhart, Sir Thomas, 1

Urwin, Alan, 1

Urzua, Capt Pedro De, 1

Utrillo, Maurice, 1

Vader, John, 1

Valens, Ritchie, 1

Valentino, Rudolph, 1

Vallandigham, Clement L., 1

van der Rohe, Ludwig Miles, 1

van Gogh, Vincent, 1

Vanzetti, Bartolomeo, 1

variety acts, 1

vases, 1

Vaughn, Harry, 1

Vega, Lope de, 1

Velez, Edward, 1

Velvet Underground (band), 1

Venezuelan Coup, 1

Ventura, Jesse, 1

Verdi, Guiseppe F.F., 1

Vergez, Jacques, 1

Verlaine, Paul, 1, 2

Verrell, Ronnie, 1

Vespucci, Amerigo, 1

Victoria, Queen, 1, 2, 3, 4

Vidal, Gore, 1

Vidor, King Wallis, 1

Vietnam War, 1, 2

Volk, Jules, 1

Volkswagen Beetle, 1

Voltaire, François, 1

Von Stroheim, Erich, 1

Vonnegut, Kurt, 1, 2

Voss, Sergeant Carl, 1

Vries, Peter de, 1

Vu Khac Minh, 1

Wagner, Richard, 1, 2

Waite, Dr Arthur Warren, 1

Waksman, Dr Selman, 1

Wallace, Amy, 1

Wallace, Edgar, 1

Wallace, Irving, 1, 2

Walsh, Raoul, 1

Walsh, Stella, 1

Walter Reed Army Medical Centre, 1

Walton, Sam, 1

war, politics and world affairs, 1

actors and politics, 1

armies of the CIA, 1

arms import/export, 1

commanders and own troops, 1

dictators, 1

disasters, unusual, 1

gunmen and Kennedy, 1

men conquering miles, 1

women in legislatures, 1

Warner, Charles Dudley, 1

Warner, Jack, 1

Warren, Leonard, 1

Warwick, Dionne, 1

Warwick, John, 1

Washington, Booker T., 1

Washington, President George, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Washington, Dr James A., 1

Watts, Charlie, 1

Wawro, Richard, 1

Wayne, John, 1

weather, bizarre, 1

Weaver, Larry, 1

Webster, Stephen, 1

Weddell, James, 1

Wedders, Thomas, 1

Weising, George P., 1

Weissmuller, Johnny, 1, 2, 3

Welch, Denton, 1

Welles, Orson, 1

Wellington, Duke of, 1, 2

Wells, Bombardier Billy, 1

Wells, H.G., 1, 2, 3, 4

Wesley, John, 1

West, Mae, 1, 2, 3

West, Nathaniel, 1

Westheimer, Manfred ‘Fred’, 1

Westheimer, Ruth, 1

Wharton, Edith, 1

Wheeler, Billy Edd, 1

White, Dan, 1

White, Geneva, 1

White, Ricky, 1

White, Rev Robert L., 1

White, Roscoe, 1

Whitman, Gov Christine Todd, 1

Whitman, Walt, 1, 2, 3, 4

Wilde, Oscar, 1, 2, 3, 4

Wilder, Billy, 1, 2

Wilder, Thornton, 1

Wildman, Daniel, 1

Wilkerson, Billy, 1

Wilkes, Charles, 1

Will, George, 1

Willard, Clarence, 1

Williams, Betty Lou, 1

Williams, Hank, 1, 2

Williams, Richard, 1

Williams, Robert, 1

Williams, Ted, 1

Williams, Tennessee, 1

Williams, William Carlos, 1, 2

Willis, Bruce, 1

Willson, Henry, 1

Wilson, Calvin, 1

Wilson, Jim, 1

Wilson, Owen, 1

Wiltshire, Stephen, 1

Winchilsea, Earl of, 1

Wind, Timothy E., 1

Windsor, Duke of, 1

wine, Italian, 1

Winfrey, Oprah, 1

Wingate, David, 1

Winokur, Jon, 1

Wolfe, Fred, 1

Wolfe, Tom, 1

Wolfowitz, Paul, 1

Wolfram, Stephen, 1

wolves, 1, 2

Womack, Tommy, 1

woman, perfect, 1

wonders, ancient world, 1

Wood, Frederick Charles, 1

Wood Jr, John H., 1

Wood, J.T., 1

Wood, Natalie, 1

Woods, Tiger, 1

Woodward, Joanne, 1

Woodward, Rear Admiral Clark, 1

Woolf, Virginia, 1

words, 1

with alphabetical vowels, 1

contradictory proverbs, 1

messages in bottles, 1

names of things, 1

obscure and obsolete, 1

sayings, 1, 2, 3

untranslatable, 1

used in negative form, 1

Wordsworth, William, 1

work and money, 1

billionaires’ careers, 1

eBay unusual sales, 1

librarians, 1

poets earning a living, 1

product names, 1

very odd jobs, 1

working in bed, 1

world affairs see war, politics and world affairs

Worthington, A.M., 1

Wozniak, Stephen, 1

Wray, Fay, 1

Wright brothers, 1, 2

Wright, Ernest Vincent, 1

writers, 1, 2, 3

see also literature

Wyman, Jane, 1, 2

Yanayev, Gennady, 1

Yardbirds (band), 1

Yates, Peter, 1

Yates, Simon, 1

Yeltsin, Boris, 1

Yitzhaki, Major Ishmael, 1

Yooket Paen, 1

Yooket Pan, 1

Young, Lester, 1

Young, Terence, 1

Yussupov, Prince Felix, 1, 2

Zannuck, Darryl F., 1

Zappa, Frank, 1

Zeus (statue), 1

Zidane, Zinedine, 1

Zola, Émile, 1, 2

Zwerin, Charlotte, 1

The authors warmly thank Flora Wallechinsky for long hours of typing, organising and troubleshooting, Elijah and Aaron Wallechinsky and Macho Boubekour for help with typing, and Jaime Loucky for his creative research. Our love and thanks to our mother for her support and encouragement. To Chris Fishel, for his wonderful work and ingenuity as staff writer; to Danny Biederman for organising the celebrity lists; to Scott Bradley, for his work as researcher and writer of celebrity biographies and as editor with Amy; to Allison Berry, for abstracting texts and research. Warm thanks to Jamie Byng, our publisher at Canongate Books, whose vision and enthusiasm inspired us throughout. And with gratitude to Canongate’s wonderful and enthusiastic staff, including our two editors, Helen Bleck and Nick Rennison. Thanks also to our agents, Ed Victor, for his long, long support of The Book of Lists series, and Wendy Shmalz, the model of equanimity and humour. And special thanks to Jeremy Beadle for being available for consultations, for providing good advice and for always being a friend in need.

Amy would like to extend special thanks to Allison Berry for helping to keep her life running and to Scott Bradley for having saved his school lunch money at 13 to buy The Book of Lists , only to grow up to become part of its creation; and to Richard Jennings for support and keeping the wolves from the door.