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30 unusual facts about the world


Abie

Cal Abrams (nicknamed "Abie"), former American Major League Baseball player

Agoncillo, Batangas

Finally, on April 17, 1949, Executive Order No. 212 was issued by President Quirino, lifting the suspension and thereby, authorizing the immediate organization of the Municipality under the name of Agoncillo, in honor of Don Felipe Agoncillo, a native of Taal and one of the first Filipino representatives to the Spanish Cortes.

Alanköy

Alanköy, Göynük, a village in the district of Göynük, Bolu Province

Arne Nordheim

Written in memory of the Norwegian flautist Alf Andersen, who died that year at a very young age, the work incorporated Salvatore Quasimodo's poem Ed è sùbito sera.

Belz Museum of Asian and Judaic Art

The museums collection is based on the private collection of Memphis developers Jack and Marilyn Betz, who owned the Peabody Hotel and Peabody Place.

Cards on the Table

ITV adapted the story into a television programme in the series Agatha Christie's Poirot starring David Suchet as Hercule Poirot and Zoë Wanamaker as Ariadne Oliver, which aired in the US on A&E Network in December 2005 and, in the UK, on ITV1 in March 2006.

Carmen A. Orechio

John Kinder, who had served many years as the Republican Mayor of Bloomfield, received 2,371 (6%) of the vote as an Independent.

Christine Mayo

The New York Times reviewed the movie unfavorably, comparing it to a discarded Daisy Ashford effort.

Clomethiazole

Keith Moon (1946-1978), drummer of the renowned English rock band The Who, died after taking an overdose of clomethiazole on September 7, 1978.

Histone octamer

It consists of two copies of each of the four core histone proteins (H2A, H2B, H3 and H4).

Jaintia Hills district

Prominent Colleges in Jaintia hills include Jowai Polytechnic A reputed and the only Nursing School in the district namely Dr. Norman Tunnel Hospital School Of Nursing, Thomas Jones College and Kiang Nangbah Govt. College, Jowai which offers degree courses in arts and science.

Jennifer Moyle

Shortly after earning her degree, Moyle entered the Auxiliary Territorial Service.

John Fane, 11th Earl of Westmorland

General John Fane, 11th Earl of Westmorland GCB, GCH, PC (2 February 1784 – 16 October 1859), styled Lord Burghersh until 1841, was a British soldier, politician, diplomat and musician.

Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics

JINA is heavily involved in observations with the Apache Point Observatory within the framework of extensions to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, LAMOST in China, SkyMapper in Australia, and the Hubble Space Telescope.

Laura I. Catena

She is currently general director of Bodega Catena Zapata and her own Luca Winery in Mendoza, Argentina, as well as a practicing Emergency Medicine physician at University of California San Francisco Medical Center in California and a Fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians.

LTI – Lingua Tertii Imperii

: der ewige Jude (the eternal Jew); das ewige Deutschland (the eternal Germany)

Mark Siegel

Under the banner of First Second Books, located in the Flatiron Building in New York City, Siegel is the editor of works by authors and artists such as Joann Sfar, Eddie Campbell, Paul Pope, Jessica Abel and Lewis Trondheim, Jane Yolen, and Adam Rapp.

Nicholas Frederic Brady

The papal duke and duchess lived at 910 Fifth Avenue in New York City but also built a large Tudor Elizabethan mansion, Inisfada, on an estate on the North Shore of Long Island, New York that was completed by 1920 and known as "Inisfada" (Gaelic for "Long Island").

Nikhil Siddharth

After playing roles in few films, Nikhil rose to fame with Sekhar Kammula's college drama Happy Days (2007).

Numerical Recipes

The Numerical Recipes books cover a range of topics that include both classical numerical analysis (interpolation, integration, linear algebra, differential equations, and so on), signal processing (Fourier methods, filtering), statistical treatment of data, and a few topics in machine learning (hidden Markov models, support vector machines).

Pendle

It has a total population of about 100,000 people, and is represented in Parliament by Andrew Stephenson, Conservative.

Pycnanthemum incanum

It is listed as an endangered species in Vermont and New Hampshire, as well as in Ontario, where there are only two remaining populations located within a single stretch of oak savanna in Burlington.

Richard Long

Richard Long, 4th Viscount Long (born 1929), contemporary member of the family; second son of the above; Conservative MP

Richard Sadlier

In 2008, Sadlier joined RTÉ's panel of pundits for its League of Ireland coverage, dominated by Monday Night Soccer.

Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney

The Moreton Bay Figs, one of the major elements of this planting, continue to dominate the landscape.

Smultron

It is able to edit and save many different file types, and has syntax highlighting support for many popular programming languages including C, C++, LISP, Java, Python, PHP, Ruby, HTML, XML, CSS, Prolog, IDL and D.

Sonia Theodoridou

More specifically she enjoys singing Jacques Brel, Kurt Weill, Hadjidakis, Theodorakis, Édith Piaf as much as the opera, however the opera is the genre she enjoys the most (www.ekathimerini.com, Sandra Voulgari, Feb. 2008).

SS Viking

The SS Viking was a ship used by the film producer Varick Frissell in the making of the 1931 film The Viking.

WBBM-FM

Under this direction they would see ratings skyrocket out of nowhere and through most of the decade would set the standard as a cutting-edge leader when it came to breaking Dance music acts from La Bouche to Rozalla in the United States.

Worser Bay

There is also a strong emphasis on youth sailing in Optimist, P-Class and Starling dinghies.