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30 unusual facts about the world


11.6

The film, based on Alice Géraud-Arfi's book Toni 11,6 : Histoire du convoyeur, tells the real life story of criminal Toni Musulin, the only person to pull off one of the largest heists in France's history without the aid of firearms.

Alnavar

The place is famous for raw mangoes produced,used for making pickles.

Anne Herbert

Anne Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, née Anne Parr, sister to Henry VIII's sixth wife, Katherine Parr, c.1514–1552

Collegium Vocale Köln

The original impetus for the ensemble's founding, however, was an appearance by Alfred Deller at the Cologne Courses for Early Music, and the group has always performed both early and contemporary works (Fuhrmann 1986).

Crites

Shirley Crites (1934-1990), All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player

David Hewitt

Dave Hewitt (born 1961), editor of The Angry Corrie, a hillwalking magazine

Diocesan Synod

There are also ex officio members, including the lay representatives elected by the Diocese to the General Synod.

Ectaco jetBook

jetBook uses the advanced T9 text input method that refers back to its pre-installed dictionaries to complete words as you type them (similar to the alphanumeric keypad on cell phones).

Emanuel Bachrach-Barée

Bachrach-Barée was born in Oderberg in Austrian Silesia to Jewish parents, the miller and merchant Philipp Israel Bachrach (1818-1892) and his wife Helena née Kremser (1837-1921).

Francesco Ottavio Magnocavalli

Born in Casale Monferrato to Ippolito, count of Varengo (today part of the commune of Gabiano) and the countess Veronica Pico Pastrona, he studied at a Jesuit college in Parma.

Got the Life

The single had "phenomenal success", and its music video was requested more than any other video on MTV's TRL, making it the first officially "retired" music video.

Istoria della Compagnia di Gesu

La Cina (1663) recounts the intellectual and intercultural adventure of the Jesuit missions in China centering around the eminent Jesuit Sinologists Michele Ruggieri and Matteo Ricci and their successors at the imperial court.

José Alfredo Castillo

José Alfredo Castillo Parada, nicknamed "El Pícaro" (born February 9, 1983 in Santa Cruz de la Sierra) is a Bolivian football striker who is currently playing for Guabirá in the Liga de Fútbol Profesional Boliviano.

Julius von Mohl

In 1844 he was nominated to the academy of inscriptions, and in 1847 he became professor of Persian at the Collège de France.

Kate Sanborn

She was born in Hanover, New Hampshire, the daughter of educator Edwin David Sanborn and his wife Mary Ann (Webster) Sanborn, daughter of Ezekiel Webster, and a niece of Daniel Webster.

Lee S. Wolosky

Wolosky's work at the White House also included directing sensitive operations, including leading U.S. government efforts to apprehend "Merchant of Death" Viktor Bout, the Taliban and al Qaeda-linked arms trafficker, who is now awaiting trial in New York.

Lewis Valentine

Valentine is also famed as the writer of the hymn Gweddi dros Gymru ("A prayer for Wales"), usually sung to the tune of Jean Sibelius's Finlandia Hymn.

Library damage resulting from the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake

A team from the National Library of Indonesia visiting in January 2005 was able to salvage only three books and one sheet of the genealogy of the Muslim kings of Aceh.

Nothing but Trouble

"Girls Ain't Nothing but Trouble", the debut single by DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince

Pamela Ashley Brown

She is also the granddaughter of politician John Y. Brown, Sr. and the half-sister of former Kentucky Secretary of State John Y. Brown, III.

Petitmoni

Shortly after their formation, the group released their first single, "Chokotto Love", which sold more than 1 million copies.

PSM3

PSM3 also had a number of regular freelance contributors, including writers from Edge, PC Gamer and NME.

Samuel Putnam

Putnam's complete translation, originally published by Viking Press, was reprinted in the Modern Library, and has seldom been out of print since its publication more than sixty years ago.

Sarbanes

Sarbanes–Oxley Act, a United States federal law on accounting reform sponsored by Paul Sarbanes and Michael G. Oxley

Shakti

A commonly accepted list of Shakti peethas and their famous temple complexes includes: Jwalaji (Himachal), Tara Tarini (Berhampur, Orissa), Katyayani (Chattarpur, Delhi), Kamakhya (Assam), Kali at Kalighat (Kolkata, West Bengal), Naina Devi (Himachal), Guhyeshwari Temple Devi (Kathmandu, Nepal), Vishalakshi Temple (Varanasi).

St Martin's Cathedral, Ypres

After the Concordat of 1801 between Napoleon and Pope Pius VII, Ypres was incorporated into the diocese of Ghent, and Saint Martin's lost its status as a cathedral.

Tristram Speedy

In 1871 Speedy sailed to the Straits Settlements in Malaya and became superintendent of police on the island of Penang.

Warder Cresson

Warder Cresson (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, July 13, 1798 - Jerusalem November 6, 1860) was the first U.S. Consul to Jerusalem.

Yossi Gestetner

In early 2010, Gestetner led a PR effort in a campaign asking then-Florida Governor Charlie Crist to grant a 60-day clemency to Martin Grossman to make times for a court appeal.

You Wanted More

"You Wanted More" is a 1999 song by the Los Angeles band Tonic that originally appeared in the 1999 film, American Pie.