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30 unusual facts about the world


Battle of the Vorskla River

Inspired by their successes, Vytautas declared a "Crusade against the Tatars" and in May 1399 received blessing from Pope Boniface IX.

Benedict Wachira

Wachira was born in Nairobi’s Eastlands area, going through different schools and eventually joining the University of Nairobi where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Mathematics and Chemistry.

Berry L. Cannon

According to John Piña Craven, the U.S. Navy's head of the Deep Submergence Systems Project of which SEALAB was a part, SEALAB III had been "plagued with strange failures at the very start of operations".

Billy Bajema

He co-wrote a book with Nazarene General Superintendent Stan Toler.

Bjørnar Olsen

Olsen has published 10 books (and close to 160 scientific papers), including Archaeology: The Discipline of Things (2012 with Michael Shanks (archaeologist), Timothy Webmoor and Christopher Witmore), In Defense of Things. Archaeology and the Ontology of Objects (2010), and Persistent memories: Pyramiden – a Soviet mining town in the High Arctic (2010, with Elin Andreassen and Hein Bjerck; see Pyramiden) .

Blechman

R. O. Blechman (born 1930), American animator, illustrator, children's-book author, graphic novelist and editorial cartoonist

C. W. Ceram

In 1949, Ceram wrote his most famous book, Götter, Gräber und Gelehrte — published in English as Gods, Graves and Scholars: The Story of Archaeology — an account of the historical development of archaeology.

Consolidated P-30

When the Detroit Aircraft Corporation failed, the chief designer of the YP-24, Robert J. Woods was hired by Consolidated Aircraft.

Davydd Greenwood

Minnesota State University.

Fiscal year

The fiscal year for the Government of Singapore and many government-linked corporations runs from 1 April to 31 March.

Giovio Series

Intended by Giovio as a public archive of famous men, the collection was originally housed in a specially-built museum on the shore of Lake Como.

James Lawrence Cabell

When yellow fever broke out in Memphis, Tennessee he was appointed chairman of the National Sanitary Conference and devised a plan that checked the spread of the epidemic.

KCPO

Knight Commander of the Pontifical Order of Pius IX, a class in one of the orders of knighthood of the Holy See

Kurt Weitzmann

He is well known for the time he spent researching the icons and architecture at Saint Catherine's Monastery in Egypt.

Mining act

Das den Bergordnungen zugrunde liegende Direktionsprinzip der Bergämter wurde durch ein Inspektionsprinzip ersetzt, das Gewerbefreiheit, Selbstverwaltung und die Nichteinmischung in die Privatwirtschaft garantierte.

Mirza Salim

The East India Company exiled Jahangir after he attacked their resident, Sir Archibald Seton, in the Red Fort.

Mutalau

Che Fu is also another New Zealand popular artist of Niuean descent, his father Tigilau Ness is full blooded Niuean from Mutalau.

Operation Halo

The task force was composed of the 2nd Battalion, The Royal Canadian Regiment from CFB Gagetown, the Canadian Forces Joint Operations Group from CFB Kingston, and 430 Tactical Helicopter Squadron from CFB Valcartier.

Orang Pendek

Bears in general are known for having feet that look quite human-like, and the size of a Sun Bear's are similar to those of a child.

Patrick Lindner

Born as Friedrich Günther Raab, Lindner worked as a chef before his breakthrough in 1989 when he was second in the Grand Prix der Volksmusik.

Pierre Victor, baron de Besenval de Brünstatt

Born at Solothurn, he was the son of Jean Victor de Besenval, colonel of the regiment of Swiss Guards in the pay of France, who was charged in 1707 by Louis XIV with a mission to Sweden to reconcile Charles XII with the tsar Peter the Great, and to unite them in alliance with France against England.

Printing in Tamil language

This press was sold to the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (the American Board Mission or ABM) in Çintadaripet in the mid 19th century.

Reuben Burrow

Initially a teacher, he was appointed assistant to Maskelyne, then astronomer-royal, at the Royal Greenwich Observatory and was involved in the Schiehallion experiment.

Sanskrit grammar

Frits Staal, Word order in Sanskrit and Universal Grammar, Foundations of Language, supplementary series 5, Springer (1967), ISBN 978-90-277-0549-5.

Scottish trade in the Middle Ages

In 1508 James IV moved the Staple to the small port of Veere in the Province of Zealand, where it remained until the late seventeenth century.

Solar eclipses on Jupiter

Spacecraft can be used to observe the solar eclipses on Jupiter, these include Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11 (1973 and 1974), Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 (1979), Galileo orbiter (1995-2003), Cassini-Huygens (2000) and New Horizons (2007) observed the transits of their moons and its shadows.

Tantamani

Tantamani (Assyrian pronunciation, identical to Tandaname) or Tanwetamani (Egyptian) or Tementhes (Greek) (d. 653 BC) was a Pharaoh of Egypt and the Kingdom of Kush located in Northern Sudan and a member of the Nubian or Twenty-fifth dynasty of Egypt.

Tessa's Troopers

Over the past 14 years, Tessa's Troopers has raised over 6 million dollars for research for Type 1 Diabetes with the majority of funds being donated to JDRF.

The Rockfords

Produced by John Goodmanson, it featured vocalist/guitarist Nancy Wilson (of Heart) contributing guest vocals on the track "Riverwide".

William Aldous

Charles Tremayne of Granada Television, described Aldous's decision to allow broadcast as "welcome and surprising".