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27 unusual facts about the world


A.L.A. catalog

He tried to obtain suggestion from Columbia faculty members through their lectures on “bibliography and literature in their areas of expertise” when the School of Library Economy was established in 1887, and later Dewey moved to University of the State of New York in 1888, where he continued his work on catalog by asking his library employees and students in Albany to compile the catalog through scholarly journals.

Boulez Conducts Zappa: The Perfect Stranger

The title track was also commissioned by Boulez, and contains references to Zappa's 1971 film, 200 Motels.

Cascade and Columbia River Railroad

The railroad line follows the Columbia River Valley north from Wenatchee to the Okanogan River Valley and north to Oroville, just north of where the Smilkameen River joins the Okanogan River.

Common keelback

Rhabdophis subminiatus — red-necked keelback (South and Southeast Asia)

Conformal cyclic cosmology

In 2010, Penrose and Vahe Gurzadyan published a preprint of a paper claiming that observations of the cosmic microwave background made by the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe and the BOOMERanG experiment showed concentric anomalies which were consistent with the CCC hypothesis, with a low probability of the null hypothesis that the observations in question were caused by chance.

Essex Cares

These include the new Reablement Service which provides intensive support for people either leaving hospital or in need of assistance in their home environment, the specialist Sensory services team focus on visual and deaf and hard hearing needs for the people of Essex as well as aids, adaptations, personal alarms and telecare delivered and installed in people’s homes.

Executive Council of British Columbia

Almost always made up of members of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia the Cabinet is similar in structure and role to the Cabinet of Canada while being smaller in size.

Fort Dayton

The 1778 attack and the 1782 siege are represented in the historical novel Drums Along the Mohawk and the 'based upon the book' movie of 1939.

Frederick Thomas Bidlake

That year, 7,000 cyclists at the Royal Albert Hall in London watched Bidlake sign the first page during a concert to honour time-trialling champions.

Fremont County, Idaho

Sherman P. Lloyd, Utah State Senator and Member of the United States House of Representatives from Utah

Golden number

Golden ratio, an irrational mathematical constant with special properties in arts and mathematics

History of the Constitution of the Roman Kingdom

These Greek constitutional principles probably came to Rome through the Greek colonies of Magna Graecia in southern Italy.

Illarion Ivanov-Schitz

He was one of the few architects born in the 1860s who integrated into the Soviet establishment, earning the Order of Lenin for various resort projects and for redesigning the interiors of the Grand Kremlin Palace in the 1930s.

Life of Christ

Hans Memling's Scenes from the Passion of Christ and Advent and Triumph of Christ are examples of a large number of scenes, in these case over twenty, shown in a single bird's eye view image of Jerusalem; another is illustrated here.

Luisa Gallegos

The event was presented by Leslie Heaphy, history professor at Kent State University of Ohio, during the Cuban Baseball Congress held on August 20 at Fordham University.

Park County, Wyoming

95.6% were White, 0.6% Native American, 0.6% Asian, 0.2% Black or African American, 0.1% Pacific Islander, 1.4% of some other race and 1.6% of two or more races.

Parker, Colorado

Michael "Ffish" Hemschoot, animator and film director was raised in Parker.

Perak Coronation Cup

The Coronation Cup was inaugurated in 1985 to commemorate the installation of Azlan Shah as the Sultan of Perak.

Peter Dudley

Dudley was openly homosexual, and in 1982 he was observed exposing himself to another man in a public toilet in Didsbury, and was charged with importuning.

Phnom Penh Cable Television

The Cable TV of PPCTV provided a first cable TV ever in Cambodia and fostered a relationship with Singapore and Angkor Cable of Siem Reap.

Saint Andrew of Patras

Construction of the church, of Greek Byzantine style, began in 1908 under the supervision of the architect Anastasios Metaxas, followed by Georgios Nomikos.

Sensations of 1945

It was Powell's first and only non-MGM film after becoming a star at MGM nearly a decade earlier; it was also her final starring role in a film, after which she would only make a cameo in MGM's Duchess of Idaho in 1950 and some unused footage of her would appear in a 1946 MGM compilation, The Great Morgan.

SpongeBob Moves In

As players advance in the game, they can unlock exclusive-to-the-app, untold stories about how their characters, including SpongeBob, Patrick, Mr. Krabs, Plankton, Squidward and Sandy, first arrived in the town.

Taylor Field

DeLand Municipal Airport, also known as Sidney H. Taylor Field, in DeLand, Florida, United States

Tongi–Bhairab–Akhaura line

The Tongi–Bhairab–Akhaura line is a railway line connecting Tongi and Akhaura, via Bhairab Bazar in Bangladesh.

TwentyWonder

Featured acts included an All-Star Roller Derby match featuring members of the LA Derby Dolls, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Exene Cervenka, Funny or Die, The Axis of Awesome, Joel Hodgson, Lynda Barry, JP Incorporated, Two-Headed Dog, and R.V.I.P. Karaoke.

Worthing Cricket Club

Founded in March 1855 at the Steyne Hotel (now the Chatsworth Hotel) in Worthing, under the patronage of Lord Henry Paget, Marquess of Anglesey, and Lord Alexander Paget.