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27 unusual facts about the world


Andrew Gilbert Wauchope

In 1873, he served in the Second Anglo-Ashanti War, detached on special service with a Hausa regiment; he was twice wounded and mentioned in despatches.

Bill Bird

Bird's interest then dropped, and he sold the printing press, Caslon type and goodwill to Nancy Cunard, supervising the move to her Normandy farmhouse.

Daniel L. LaRocque

LaRocque would eventually become a Chief Judge before being appointed to the Court of Appeals by Governor Tony Earl in 1985.

Fog Bowl

50th Grey Cup, the 1962 Canadian Football League Championship Game won by the Winnipeg Blue Bombers over the Hamilton Tiger-Cats

Gizo

Gizo, Solomon Islands, the capital of the Western Province in the Solomon Islands

Go God Go

With religion often forming the subject matter of South Park, this two-parter satirizes atheism, as well as evolutionary biologist and atheist Richard Dawkins, whose bestselling book The God Delusion was published in the months before the episode's broadcast.

Il nous faut

"Il nous faut" is a song performed by French singer Elisa Tovati and Belgian singer-songwriter Tom Dice released from her third studio album Le syndrome de Peter Pan (2011).

Jedara Bale

It was the first of a series of movies created along the lines of the James Bond films.

Kaikoura

Freight trains also pass through the town, mainly carrying freight between the marshalling yards at Middleton in Christchurch and the Interislander rail ferries at Picton.

Kuhimana

When Kuhimana was slain at the Battle of Kaeleiki, his sister-bride was so distraught that she killed herself and fell over the corpse of her husband.

Mark Crispin

He developed the first production PDP-10 32-bit address ARPAnet NCP for the WAITS operating system, and wrote or rewrote most of the WAITS ARPAnet protocol suite.

Mary Devenport O'Neill

Bluebeard, a ballet based on her play, was choreographed by Ninette de Valois as one of the final productions of the Abbey school of ballet.

Pamplico, South Carolina

Santee Cooper is currently building a coal-fueled power plant approximately four miles east of Pamplico, providing nearly 1,400 jobs for the community.

Pebbles, Volume 4

Dave Edmunds – the only artist represented who is not American – had numerous hit songs in the late 1970s and early 1980s, including 1970's international success, "I Hear You Knocking." The Trashmen are renowned for their 1963 hit "Surfin' Bird" and are a prolific enough band that a 4-CD box set was released several years ago on Sundazed.

Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec

Colonel (ret) Jean Berthiaume, OBE, CD - Infantry officer of the Régiment de St-Hyacinthe and of the Royal 22e Régiment - 1915-2003

Sakyō-ku, Kyoto

The train station Demachiyanagi is the terminal for both the Keihan railway with trains running south to Osaka, and the Eizan railway running north to Yase and Kurama.

Sevnica Castle

Situated atop a hill, it dominates the old town of Sevnica and offers views the surrounding countryside.

Shadowspire

Baron Blitzkrieg - Baron Reiter, also known as the Chief of Shadows; this seems to be his title in the organization.

Soviet Occupation Day

Occupation of the Latvian Republic Day, to recall the Soviet occupation of Latvia in 1940

The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie

Immediately after becoming a police detective (with the codename "Elegant Mess"), Bugs is captured by Rocky and his gang, who try to drown him.

United States Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights

The subcommittee was best known in the 1970s as the committee of Sam Ervin, whose investigations and lobbying — together with Frank Church and the Church Commission — led to the founding of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

Veljko Milatović

In 1968 he headed the 25th anniversary of the Montenegrin partisan parliament, in Kolašin.

Wacker von Wackenfels

He was born in Konstanz (Constance) in 1550 in a Lutheran Protestant family and studied in Strasbourg, Geneva and Padua.

WinMX

If a file was found, the hash of the file along with IP address and Primary node details of the user with the file was sent to the user who made the search.

Yebbo Communication Network

According to 2006 client request data, the Afro-Asiatic Amharic, Tigrinya, Somali and Oromo are designated as Yebbo’s Core languages, in addition to the Niger-Congo Swahili language, and the Nilo-Saharan Dinka and Nuer languages.

Yellow Card Man

In the recent Stephen King novel, 11/22/63, a character is called the Yellow Card Man, and is later found having slashed his own throat with a broken whiskey bottle.

Zeppelin-Staaken Riesenflugzeuge

The first Zeppelin-Staaken R-planes were designed by Ferdinand von Zeppelin, aided by Robert Bosch GmbH (engineers), the V.G.O. I, (Versuchsbau Gotha-Ost), was built at Gothaer Waggonfabrik due to lack of facilities at the Zeppelin works, hence the V.G.O. Designator.