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30 unusual facts about the world


Allied naval bombardments of Japan during World War II

During the last weeks of World War II, warships of the United States Navy, Britain's Royal Navy, and the Royal New Zealand Navy bombarded several cities and industrial facilities in Japan.

Andy Byatt

This film was largely put together with highlights from the NHU's internationally acclaimed series, The Blue Planet, of which Byatt was one of the producers, along with Alastair Fothergill and Martha Holmes.

Barsanuphius of Palestine

During World War II, he is said to have spread his blue cape across the sky, thus causing a rainstorm, and preventing an air bombing by Allied Forces.

CDA Investment Technologies

CDA's time at Elsevier was limited, though, and the company was sold to Thomson Corporation in May 1987 for a profit.

Cercle Artístic de Sant Lluc

After the Spanish Civil War it was reorganized and it protected the activities of the Agrupació Dramàtica de Barcelona and the Coral Sant Jordi, as well as the early performances by Els Setze Jutges and Els Joglars.

Chester, New York

Chester, Warren County, New York, a town in Warren County, New York, United States

Circle, Alaska

Circle was named by miners in the late 19th century who believed that the town was on the Arctic Circle.

Eduard Hagenbach-Bischoff

The son of the theologian Karl Rudolf Hagenbach studied physics and mathematics in Basel (with Rudolf Merian), Berlin (with Heinrich Wilhelm Dove and Heinrich Gustav Magnus), Geneva, Paris (with Jules Célestin Jamin) and obtained his Ph.D. in 1855 in Basel.

Enrique Alejandro

On June 30, 2006, Alejandro was certified with the rank of First Degree Black Belt by the American Taekwondo Association, after several years of personal sacrifice and effort.

H. fenestrata

Hecatesia fenestrata, Boisduval, 1829, a moth species in the genus Hecatesia

Holistic moms network

Sara Snow, Green Living Expert and TV host, and Naomi Aldort, leading parent counsultant, will be featured as the keynote speakers at HMN's 6th annual Natural Living Conference in Basking Ridge, New Jersey on Saturday, October 17, 2009 at the Dolce Conference Center.

Ivan Magill

Working with plastic surgeon Harold Gillies, he was responsible for the development of numerous items of anaesthetic equipment but most particularly the single-tube technique of endotracheal anaesthesia.

Jeffris Hopkins

He later appeared for Wales in their only ICC Trophy appearance in 1979, playing in three matches against the Netherlands, Israel and the United States.

Jethro Compton

In 2010, he received a bursary from Stage One, an organisation that 'aims to facilitate and encourage the development of the next generation of commercial theatre producers'.

Lectionary 169

The manuscript was brought by Thomas Payne, English Chaplain in Constantinople, to England in 1738 and was presented by him to Charles Herzog from Marlborough.

Les Thatcher

On July 4, 1960, Les Thatcher made his professional wrestling debut against “Cowboy” Ronnie Hill in Blue Hill, Maine.

Lloyd Dangle

He also lobbied the United States Congress in favor of the unsuccessful Freelance Artists and Writers Self Protection Act, introduced by Michigan Senator John Conyers in 2002, which intended to extend collective bargaining rights to freelance artists and writers negotiating with large media companies.

Magnus Stenbock

The painting Magnus Stenbock i Malmö (Magnus Stenbock in Malmö) was made by Gustaf Cederström in 1892, one of several paintings of Swedish history by this artist.

Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: Jimi Hendrix

Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: Jimi Hendrix is a ten track companion release to the critically acclaimed television documentary series Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues shown on PBS in September 2003.

Past in Different Ways

All songs by Michael Kiske, except "How the Web Was Woven" by David Most and Clive Westlake.

Routhierville, Quebec

The community of Routhierville is located on the west bank of the Matapédia River along the Canadian National Railway that was originally constructed as the Intercolonial Railway in the 1860s, while its train station was built in 1878.

Safety coffin

Count Michel de Karnice-Karnicki, a chamberlain to the Tsar of Russia, patented his own safety coffin, called Le Karnice, in 1897 and demonstrated it at the Sorbonne the following year.

Shaun Teale

Between February 2005 and August 2006, Teale managed Northern Premier League First Division side Chorley, before leaving to run his pub and restaurant business in Burscough.

Sprawl

The Sprawl, the metropolitan region stretching from Boston to Atlanta in the same named William Gibson's fiction trilogy

Steven Horsford

In August 2011, Horsford appointed Senator Mo Denis to lead the caucus election efforts during for the 2012 election cycle, garnering criticism from some in his party due to Denis's sub-par fundraising.

Susannah Corbett

She attended Moira House Girls School in Eastbourne, East Sussex and trained as an actor at East 15 Acting School, Debden, Loughton, Essex.

Tetrapharmacum

All three mentions are credited to the now-lost biography of Hadrian by Marius Maximus.

Thomas Crofton Croker

His work Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland went to six editions, and was translated into German by the Brothers Grimm.

Thomas Inskip, 1st Viscount Caldecote

The Right Reverend James Inskip was his elder half-brother and Sir John Hampden, Lord Mayor of Bristol, his younger brother.

Unfair terms in English contract law

The topic of unfair terms is vast, and could equally include specific contracts falling under the Consumer Credit Act 1974, the Employment Rights Act 1996 or the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985.