1- Simo Häyhä
2- Carlos Norman Hathcock II
3- Adelbert F. Waldron
4- Corporal Francis Pegahmagabow
5- Lyudmila Pavlichenko
6- Vasily Zaytsev
7- Rob Furlong
8- Charles ‘Chuck’ Mawhinney
9- Sgt Grace
10- Thomas Plunkett
According to List Verse
1. Next year marks the 125th anniversary of the 1885 Northwest Resistance.
2. The poet laureate of Edmonton is a hip-hop artist named Roland Pemberton, a.k.a. Cadence Weapon.
3. Shelburne, Nova Scotia is said to have been the fourth-largest town in North America at one point and has the third-largest natural harbour on the continent.
4. Thunder Bay is developing its waterfront much like Toronto.
5. Despite worries about Olympic crowds, the folks in Whistler say up to 95 per cent of ski runs at Whistler-Blackcomb will be open to the public for January, February and March.
6. They say there’s a guy in his 70s named Stevie who wanders from bar to bar on George St. in St. John’s most nights and delivers dance performances.
7. Up in Ottawa, the tourism folks are making farmers cool by putting out “trading cards” with their names and information to highlight local producers. Cool.
8. Moncton has free wireless all over downtown and even on city buses, which encourages folks to take public transit.
9. Calgary is finding its urban groove.
10. Northwest Territories communications coordinator Julie Warnock says the NWT is home to what she calls mercenaries, missionaries and misfits.
According to theStar.
1. Boston Celtics
2. Golden State’s “The City”
3. Cleveland Cavaliers’ wine and gold
4. Chicago Bulls
5. Washington Bullets
6. San Antonio Spurs’ staid, simple, solid
7. New York/Jersey Nets ABA throwbacks
8. Los Angeles Clippers cursivey goodness
9. Los Angeles Lakers Sunday whites
10. Detroit Pistons’ return to red, white and blue
According to Yahoo Sports
1. First City to Pave a Concrete Road
2. Home to the Ice Cream Soda
3. Supplied 75% of liquor during Prohibition
4. First Ever News Radio Broadcast
5. Only Floating Post Office in the U.S.
6. Largest Island Park Within a City
7. Only City From Which One Can Look South to Canada
8. Great Salt Mines Lie Beneath
9. Birthplace of Techno
10. Sports Capital of the Midwest
According to eLoveThisCity.com
Karen SilkwoodAccording to Scanner…
1. The Swiss Spaghetti Harvest
2. Sidd Finch
3: Instant Color TV
4: The Taco Liberty Bell
5: San Serriffe
6: Nixon for President
7: Alabama Changes the Value of Pi
8: The Left-Handed Whopper
9: Hotheaded Naked Ice Borers
10: Planetary Alignment Decreases Gravity
1. John Adams
2. Martin van Buren
3. Franklin Pierce
4. James Buchanan
5. Ulysses S. Grant
6. Chester A. Arthur
7. Grover Cleveland
8. William Howard Taft
9. Franklin D. Roosevelt
10. George W. Bush
1 | Barack Obama
2 | Larry Page and Sergey Brin
3 | Steve Jobs
4 | Bono
5 | Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert
6 | Henry Waxman
7 | Kanye West
8 | Tina Fey
9 | Rahm Emanuel
10 | Arianna Huffington
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