11 October 2016

listicle

[lis-ti-kuh l]

noun

1. an article structured in the form of a list, typically having some additional content relating to each item:
“The Best Cities for Singles” and other featured listicles.

Origin of listicle

2000-2005; list1+ (art)icle

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Examples from the Web for listicle

Contemporary Examples

There was the listicle with 13,000 Facebook likes “explaining” why “Dana Brody is the worst.”
‘Homeland’ Star Morgan Saylor: TV’s Most Hated Character Talks Back
Andrew Romano
October 6, 2013

Her campaign to appeal to Latino voters with a listicle titled “7 Ways Hillary Clinton Is Like Your Abuela” backfired tremendously and Twitter users called her “out of touch.”
5 Reasons People Hate Hillary Clinton — and How True They Are
http://www.popsugar.com/news/Why-Dont-People-Like-Hillary-Clinton-41786128
Nadya Agrawal
18 July 2016

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Today’s quote

I hope to arrive to my death late, in love and a little drunk.

– Atticus

On this day

11 October – International Day of the Girl.

11 October 1844 – birth of Henry John Heinz, founder of Heinz Company, responsible for canned baked beans. Died 14 May 1919.

11 October 1935 – death of Steele Rudd, Australian author, (pen-name for Arthur Hoey Davis). Wrote ‘On Our Selection‘, which introduced Australia to ‘Dad and Dave’. Born 14 November 1868.

11 October 1930 – Australian Rules football club, Collingwood, win the VFL premiership for the fourth consecutive year.

11 October 1939 – German theoretical physicist, Albert Einstein explains to the United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the possibility of building an atomic bomb.

11 October 1967 – premier of the childrens’ TV series, ‘Johnny Sokko and his flying robot‘.