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According to a 2010 survey, the Dalai Lama may just be the most popular religious leader in the world.
Leader of the Gelug sect of Tibetan Buddhism, the Dalai Lama is believed to be the latest incarnation of a succession of tulkus&#8211;enlightened Buddhist lamas said to be able to reincarnate themselves to continue their vows&#8211;descended from [...]]]></description><link>http://most-popular.net/spiritual-leader</link> </item> <item><title>World&#8217;s Most Popular RPGs</title> <description><![CDATA[Role-playing games in their current form owe their existence to a 15th century form of improvisational theatre called commedia dell’arte, where players were given roles and situations without a script to guide them. It wasn’t until the 1970s, however, that Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson combined this theatrical form with Gygax’s Chainmail wargame to create [...]]]></description><link>http://most-popular.net/rpgs</link> </item> <item><title>America&#8217;s Most Popular Department Store</title> <description><![CDATA[
If you’ve ever seen an &#8220;I’d rather be shopping at Nordstrom&#8221; bumper sticker, take note: America really would rather be shopping at Nordstrom. According to a recent survey by the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ASCI), Nordstrom is the most popular department store in the country.
The upscale department store was founded in 1901 when Swedish immigrant [...]]]></description><link>http://most-popular.net/department-stores</link> </item> <item><title>Most Popular Day to Rob a Bank</title> <description><![CDATA[
In 2009, there were more than 6,000 robberies, burglaries and larcenies committed in banks across the United States—almost 1,000 fewer than in 2008. Thankfully, only twenty-one people were killed during these incidents and each of those was one of the criminals involved. Of the over $45,000 taken during these robberies, only $8,000 has been recovered. [...]]]></description><link>http://most-popular.net/day-to-rob-a-bank</link> </item> <item><title>World&#8217;s Most Popular Web Browser</title> <description><![CDATA[
“The most important program on your computer is your web browser—and yet most people aren’t sure which web browser they’re using or what a web browser even is.” So begins a video, posted on Google’s official blog, which briefly attempts to remedy that problem.
Given that information, you might expect Microsoft Internet Explorer, Windows’ built-in web [...]]]></description><link>http://most-popular.net/web-browser</link> </item> <item><title>World&#8217;s Most Popular Club</title> <description><![CDATA[
On February 1st, 2009, Boston’s new House of Blues opened its doors for its first public event. After just one year, that club has become the world’s most popular music venue.
Live Nation, owners of the House of Blues franchise since 2006, opened the new club in the former location of Avalon, one of Boston’s more [...]]]></description><link>http://most-popular.net/club</link> </item> <item><title>Most Popular Ads of Super Bowl XLIV</title> <description><![CDATA[The New Orleans Saints may have won the game in 2010, but the real Super Bowl XLIV winner was the same as the year before. No, I’m not talking about the Indianapolis Colts—I’m talking about Doritos. Their 4th quarter spot is 2010’s most popular Super Bowl ad.
The ad, featuring a Doritos-clad samurai reclaiming a purloined [...]]]></description><link>http://most-popular.net/super-bowl-xliv</link> </item> <item><title>Most Popular Girls&#8217; Names in the US</title> <description><![CDATA[Since 1996, Emily has been the most popular girl’s name in the US. In fact, the Social Security Administration, the government organization that tallies babies’ names every year, named its own spokesbaby Emily. It looks like Emily’s going to have to resign now, though, as Emma has become the most popular girl’s name in the [...]]]></description><link>http://most-popular.net/girl-names-us</link> </item> <item><title>Most Popular Destinations for College Graduates</title> <description><![CDATA[The most populous city in the US is also the most popular city for college graduates looking to put their degrees to work. New York City topped a list of cities, compiled by job hunting sites CareerCast.com and Going Global, ranked by their popularity as destinations for graduates looking for entry level employment opportunities.
The [...]]]></description><link>http://most-popular.net/destinations-college-graduates</link> </item> <item><title>Most Popular Video Sites</title> <description><![CDATA[In the early days of popular internet culture, your website was on the bleeding edge if it had something as cool as an animated Quake logo. As broadband internet service became de rigueur, though, delivering video content became increasingly feasible. Nowadays, with amateur videos far outnumbering their professional counterparts, internet video is just a fact [...]]]></description><link>http://most-popular.net/video-sites</link> </item> <item><title>Most Popular Soda in the US</title> <description><![CDATA[
Whether you call it pop, soda, coke or soda pop, if you’re a US citizen it’s likely that you drink soda on a fairly regular basis. In 2007, it was estimated that, on average, Americans drink three quarts of soda per week. So what is it that we’re drinking so much? Well, just take another [...]]]></description><link>http://most-popular.net/soda-us</link> </item> <item><title>Most Popular Republican</title> <description><![CDATA[
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee has been a little busy since earning second place in the 2008 Republican presidential primaries. He’s worked as a political commentator and host for both Fox and ABC, spoken at the 2008 Republican National Convention and published his seventh book. He may even be the most popular Republican in the [...]]]></description><link>http://most-popular.net/republican</link> </item> <item><title>Most Popular Twitter Account</title> <description><![CDATA[
Ashton Kutcher
Actor and Hollywood prankster Ashton Kutcher became the most popular dude on Twitter in a recent competition with CNN to see which Twitter account would receive their millionth follower first.
The contest may have seemed like an easy win for CNN when they purchased @cnnbrk, an account set up to tweet CNN’s breaking news and, [...]]]></description><link>http://most-popular.net/twitter-account</link> </item> <item><title>Most Popular Leader in the Americas</title> <description><![CDATA[
Far be it from me to turn the wheels of propaganda, but this wouldn’t be The Most Popular Journal if we ignored a story like this. After a poll of 10,000 people in twenty-two Ibero-American countries, President Barack Obama has been declared the most popular leader in the Americas.
The poll shows a 70% approval rating [...]]]></description><link>http://most-popular.net/popular-leader</link> </item> <item><title>Most Popular iPhone Apps</title> <description><![CDATA[
Apple’s infamous App Store recently hit the 25,000 app milestone, but how many of those are worth downloading? Changes to the store since its debut in July of 2008 have addressed this issue, but users still complain about paying for dud apps that are quickly removed to save space. Luckily, third party market researcher ComScore [...]]]></description><link>http://most-popular.net/iphone-apps</link> </item> <item><title>Most Popular Email Services</title> <description><![CDATA[
If email seems a little clunky and outdated to you, there’s a good reason for that—it actually predates the internet. Originating out of MIT in the 1960s, email addresses are now as common as telephones. Someone has to provide those email addresses, though, and they’re usually doing it free of charge.
The two most popular email [...]]]></description><link>http://most-popular.net/email-services</link> </item> <item><title>Most Popular Museum</title> <description><![CDATA[It’s no wonder the Musée du Louvre is the most popular museum in the world. The historic Parisian fortress became the first museum accessible by even the lowest caste when the royal collection of King Louis XVI was opened to the public one year after his imprisonment during the French Revolution. Under the auspices of [...]]]></description><link>http://most-popular.net/museum</link> </item> <item><title>Top 5 Most Popular MP3 Players</title> <description><![CDATA[I’m sure this won’t shock or amaze you, but Apple pretty much has the MP3 player market cornered with the omnipresent iPod. Since you already know that, I’ll just get it out of the way first. You might want to skip past the first few entries on our list if you’d like to know about [...]]]></description><link>http://most-popular.net/top-5-mp3-players</link> </item> <item><title>Most Popular Actors</title> <description><![CDATA[
A recent poll has allowed ordinary Americans to vote on their own favorite actors and actresses. The poll was conducted jointly between Parade magazine and Entertainment Tonight. Participants were allowed to vote on previous Academy Awards winners in various Oscar-like categories.
Tom Hanks was voted Best Actor in the poll, proving that the two-time Oscar winner [...]]]></description><link>http://most-popular.net/actor-actress</link> </item> <item><title>Most Popular Ads of Super Bowl XLIII</title> <description><![CDATA[Super Bowl is about more than football, snacks and camaraderie—it’s also about watching the most extravagant ads of the year. The most popular Super Bowl ads this year, however, weren’t the most expensive to make.
Doritos’ “Crash the Super Bowl” contest allowed aspiring filmmakers and amateur marketers to submit their own ads to, well, crash the [...]]]></description><link>http://most-popular.net/ads-super-bowl-2009</link> </item> <item><title>Most Popular NBA Jerseys</title> <description><![CDATA[
One of the most important questions facing NBA fans today is “Whose jersey is the most popular?” Last year, the answer would have been Kevin Garnett’s No. 5 Boston Celtics jersey. This year the answer is the jersey worn by none other than the Los Angeles Lakers’ 11-time All-Star—Kobe Bryant.
Bryant’s No. 24 jersey dominated sales [...]]]></description><link>http://most-popular.net/nba-jerseys</link> </item> <item><title>Most Popular Books</title> <description><![CDATA[This may come as a surprise for you but, back in the old days, people used to read books. They were made out of paper and cardboard or something. Sometimes they had pictures, but people would make fun of you for reading those. More often they were just words on paper.
Of course, in the old [...]]]></description><link>http://most-popular.net/books</link> </item> <item><title>Most Popular Song on iTunes</title> <description><![CDATA[]]></description><link>http://most-popular.net/most-popular-song-on-itunes</link> </item> <item><title>Most Popular Birth Control</title> <description><![CDATA[
Condoms are one of the oldest of prophylactics with usage (debatably) dating back to ancient civilizations. Prior to the fifteenth century, glans condoms, which covered only the head of the penis, were used in Asia. They were usually made of oiled silk or lamb intestines.
That’s right—lamb intestines. History is disgusting.
Of course, the oldest method of [...]]]></description><link>http://most-popular.net/birth-control</link> </item> <item><title>Most Popular Halloween Costumes</title> <description><![CDATA[
The Joker
Halloween is just around the corner and costume shop owners couldn’t be happier as this year’s blockbusters drive costume sales. So what are this year’s most popular Halloween costumes?&#8220;Sexy&#8221; Rainbow Brite
For men, the most popular costume is from the hit movie Dark Knight—but it isn’t Batman. Instead, the late Heath Ledger’s ghoulish portrayal of [...]]]></description><link>http://most-popular.net/halloween-costumes</link> </item> <item><title>Most Popular Social Networking Site</title> <description><![CDATA[
Social networking sites have come a long way since they were first introduced to the internet. Sites like The makers of Classmates.com and SixDegrees.com were pioneers in a field that eventually exploded onto the mainstream. Of course, no one remembers those sites now, but most readers will be intimately familiar with the most popular social [...]]]></description><link>http://most-popular.net/social-networking-site</link> </item> <item><title>Most Popular International Vacation Spots for Americans</title> <description><![CDATA[
In general, Americans aren’t a particularly worldly people. In fact, most estimates place the number of US citizens with passports somewhere around 20%. It should be no surprise, then, that according to a recent survey of our most popular international destinations we generally stick close to home.
TNS, a respected market research organization, recently conducted their [...]]]></description><link>http://most-popular.net/international-vacation-american</link> </item> <item><title>Most Popular Passwords</title> <description><![CDATA[
If you’ve seen the movie Hackers (1995), you may remember that it used to be plausible that the most popular password was, simply, “god.” Try to set a password like that nowadays and see how far it gets you. So what are the world’s most popular passwords in this security conscious day and age? A [...]]]></description><link>http://most-popular.net/most-popular-passwords</link> </item> <item><title>America&#8217;s Most Popular Magazines</title> <description><![CDATA[If the most popular magazines are anything to judge by, then there are a couple of rules to abide by if you want to make your own successful magazine. First, your magazine should be family-safe. Second, it should appeal to women.
Don’t believe me? Check out the list of America’s most popular magazines.Family Circle
Published by the [...]]]></description><link>http://most-popular.net/magazines-united-states</link> </item> <item><title>Most Popular Board Game</title> <description><![CDATA[
Parker Brothers’ famous game of economics, Monopoly, has been called “the most played board game in the world.” It’s certainly a believable title when you consider that, according to Hasbro, the game has been played by over 750 million people since Parker Brothers originally published it in 1935.
Monopoly is actually based on a game patented [...]]]></description><link>http://most-popular.net/board-game</link> </item> <item><title>Most Popular Spoken Languages</title> <description><![CDATA[After many painstaking hours of research, we have compiled a list of what we believe to be the most popular languages in the world. Be warned; the results may surprise you. Esperanto is nowhere on the list.
Spanish (español) – 417 million speakers
Spanish may only be the fifth most popular language in the world, but it [...]]]></description><link>http://most-popular.net/spoken-languages</link> </item> <item><title>Most Popular YouTube Videos Ever</title> <description><![CDATA[Because I don’t value my sanity at all, I have decided to watch and tell you about the most popular YouTube videos of all time. After all, I have no better way to spend my time than sifting through the internet’s landfill.Rihanna – Don’t Stop The Music
68.4 million viewsJudging by the video, this song is [...]]]></description><link>http://most-popular.net/youtube-videos</link> </item> <item><title>World&#8217;s Most Popular Newspapers</title> <description><![CDATA[
“Popular newspapers” may seem like an oxymoron in this post-paper-and-ink era, but you may be surprised by the number of copies of printed news publications in circulation. While newspaper readership is in decline, the world’s most popular newspapers report circulation in the tens of millions.
Surprisingly, the top newspaper is Northern India’s Dainik Jagran. With thirty-two [...]]]></description><link>http://most-popular.net/newspapers-world</link> </item> <item><title>Most Popular Mexican Baby Names</title> <description><![CDATA[El Instituto Nacional de Estadística published their list of the most popular baby names in Mexico in 2006. Mexican children usually have one or two given names followed by two apellidos. The first appellido is that of the father while the second is that of the mother. This naming system allows a father’s name to [...]]]></description><link>http://most-popular.net/mexican-baby-names</link> </item> <item><title>Most Popular Russian Baby Names</title> <description><![CDATA[In an effort to prove everyone from the Greatest Generation to the last of the Cold Warriors wrong, the Rooskies have carried out their most dastardly scheme yet—naming their kids something other than Ivan. Ivan has taken second place to Alexander in Moscow, no doubt in hopes that their children may one day replace their [...]]]></description><link>http://most-popular.net/russian-baby-names</link> </item> </channel> </rss>

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