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27 unusual facts about the world


Arthur F. Wright

In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Arthur Wright, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly 70+ works in 200+ publications in 6 languages and 8,800+ library holdings.

Arvfurstens palats

In the room are two 17th century desks by Gottlieb Iwerson and Georg Haupt, the latter featuring an ornamental inkstand originally intended to be a gift to Marie Antoinette.

Asturias Offensive

Opposing them, the Republicans had the Army of the Norh, led by the Colonel Prada, with the XIV Army Corps led by Francisco Galán (8,000–10,000 men) and the Colonel Linares's XVII Army corps (35,000).

Athlon 64 X2

Multi-tasking also runs a sizable number of threads; intense multi-tasking scenarios have actually shown improvements of considerably more than two times.

Australian Blind Sports Federation

Blind and vision impaired athletes and teams participate in national championships in Athletics, Cricket, Equestrian, Goalball, Golf, Judo, Karate, Lawn Bowls, Powerlifting, Rowing, Sailing, Swimming, Tandem cycling, Tenpin Bowling, Water Skiing, Wrestling, and Winter Sports.

Battle of Wola Cyrusowa

The Battle of Wola Cyrusowa took place on September 8, 1939 near the village of Wola Cyrusowa near Stryków in Poland.

Chronux

From 1996 to 2001, the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) at Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA hosted a workshop on the analysis of neural data.

Duchess Sibylle of Saxe-Lauenburg

He was also known as Türkenlouis (Turk Louis) due to his famous efforts again Louis XIV in the field and as part of the Imperial Army.

Even a Fool Would Let Go

Even a Fool Would Let Go is a country song by songwriters Tom Snow and Kerry Chater (a former member of Gary Puckett & The Union Gap).

George E. Hyde

George E. Hyde (1882–1968) was the "Dean of American Indian Historians." He wrote many books about Indian tribes, especially the Sioux and Pawnee plus a life of the Cheyenne warrior and historian, George Bent.

Gmünd, Lower Austria

The development of the town, first mentioned in a 1208 deed, was decisively pushed by the inauguration of the Emperor Franz Joseph Railway from Vienna to Prague in 1869.

Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership

Stephen Halbrook, in the law article "Nazi Firearms Law and the Disarming of the German Jews", asserts that German arms laws were extremely lax, and even under the 1920 "Law on the Disarmament of the People", only items such as grenades and machineguns were banned; however, small arms such as rifles and pistols remained in common use.

Jose L. Torero

José Luis Torero (born in Lima, Peru) is a professor in fire safety engineering at the University of Queensland.

Julián Herranz Casado

One of two cardinals – along with Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne – who belong to Opus Dei, Herranz Casado is the organisation's highest-ranking member in the Church's hierarchy.

Larry Gott

His 'reaction recliner' won many plaudits and awards including the Allemuir Award for Industry and the Blueprint Award for Creativity, presented by the Milanese architect Mario Bellini at the 2001 '100% design' show at London's Earls Court.

Make Model

Make Model were a Scottish 6 piece indie band formed in Glasgow and formerly signed to EMI.

R-7 Semyorka

The warhead was tested on Novaya Zemlya in October 1957 and again in 1958, yielding an estimated 2.9 Mt.

Retrosplenial region

In humans, fMRI studies implicate the posterior cingulate region in the recall of episodic information.

The Ladd Company

The day after the contracts expired, the trio placed ads for the newly named "Ladd Company" in The Hollywood Reporter and Variety.

Thomas Thetcher

He or she was very resourceful: I copied it from an inscription on a tombstone in the churchyard of Winchester Cathedral, and a military friend then quartered there informed me that a statement once appeared in Fraser's Magazine to the effect that the quatrain commencing "Here sleeps in peace," was written by Dr. Benjamin Hoadley, sometime Bishop of Winchester.

Trajectory optimization

JModelica.org (Modelica-based open source platform for dynamic optimization)

Turid Balke

Throughout the years she would appear in classic Norwegian films such as Støv på hjernen, (1959), its sequels Sønner av Norge and Sønner av Norge kjøper bil, and other popular titles like Olsenbanden for full musikk (1976) and Kamilla og tyven (1988).

U.S. Route 169

U.S. Route 169 currently runs for 966 miles (1,555 km) from the city of Virginia, Minnesota to Tulsa, Oklahoma at Memorial Drive.

Vermont State Treasurer election, 2012

Wendy Wilton, the Rutland City Treasurer and former State Representative, was the Republican nominee.

Vostok watches

A popular myth claims that after the Desert Storm operation in 1992, the Pentagon awarded soldiers from the allied forces with a special edition Vostok Amphibian military watch called Desert Shield.

Wim Naudé

According to Research Papers in Economics (RePEc/ IDEAS) Wim Naudé is ranked amongst the top 4% of economists in the world.

Zoe Lister-Jones

Lister-Jones starred in the independent feature film Lola Versus (2012), her second project co-written with director Daryl Wein.