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30 unusual facts about the world


1973 New York Giants season

With Yankee Stadium undergoing refurbishment after the 1973 baseball season, the Giants played their final game there on September 23, against the Philadelphia Eagles, a 23–23 tie.

19th-century Catholic periodical literature

Gradually the Tractarian converts appeared in the lists of contributors: Ward, Frederick Oakeley, Marshall, John Brande Morris, Christie, Henry Formby, Capes, Thomas William Allies, Anderson, Manning, and a glance through the volumes of the "Dublin' will reveal names prominent in the great religious, scientific, and literary movements of the century.

Adam Chanler-Berat

Chanler-Berat then originated the leading role of Boy in the off-Broadway production of Peter and the Starcatcher at New York Theatre Workshop, alongside Celia Keenan-Bolger and Christian Borle.

Alice James

She was struggling with the urge to kill her father, though this diary entry does not state the reason why she was patricidal.

Bedlingtonshire Community High School

Bedlingtonshire Community High School (BCHS) is a Maths and Computing College located in Bedlington, Northumberland in the North East of England.

Colin Windon

In 1952 he was selected for the domestic series against Fiji and that year made his third tour of New Zealand playing in nine of ten games including both Tests.

Dang Wangi

Dang Wangi is an area in the city centre of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia situated north from the Dataran Merdeka, next to Bukit Nanas and located between the Gombak and Klang Rivers.

Dindori

Dindori, Madhya Pradesh, town and district headquarters in Madhya Pradesh, India

Drumragh

Drumragh Integrated College, an integrated Secondary school in Omagh, County Tyrone

Frances Parker

In July of that year, Fanny Parker and a fellow campaigner, Ethel Moorhead attempted to set fire to Burns Cottage in Alloway.

George Miller, Jr.

Roosevelt and Douglas at first encouraged and supported him for the position, but then "double-crossed" Miller, who was opposed by Malone, and instead chose a little-known man from the San Joaquin Valley.

Giuseppe Fiorini

Walter Hamma, Meister Italienischer Geigenbaukunst, Wilhelmshaven 1993, ISBN 3-7959-0537-0

Joseph William Tobin

he obtained a Bachelor's degree in philosophy from the Holy Redeemer College, Waterford, Wisconsin in 1977 and, in 1979, a Master's in Religious Education and the Master of Divinity (Pastoral Theology) at the Mount St. Alphonsus Seminary in Esopus, New York.

Karnataka Milk Federation

Karnataka Milk Federation (KMF) is an Indian Cooperative that sells products such as pedha, jalebi, paneer, curds and milk in the name of Nandini.

KDE Software Compilation 4

Nokia adopted Phonon for multimedia use in Qt 4.4 and are developing backends for Gstreamer, Windows and OS X in the KDE SVN repository under the LGPL.

Lamont Dozier

Three years later, Dozier cowrote "Infidelity" and "Suffer" with Simply Red frontman Mick Hucknall for the British pop-soul band's second album, Men and Women.

Lecturer

When confusion arose about Barack Obama's status on the law faculty at the University of Chicago, the institution stated that although his title was "senior lecturer," the university uses that title for notable people, such as federal judges and politicians, who are deemed of high prestige but lack the time to commit to a traditional tenure-track position.

Margarita la tornera

Chapí: Margarita la tornera – Elisabete Matos (Margarita), Plácido Domingo (Don Juan), Stefano Palatchi (Gavilán), Àngel Òdena (Don Lope), Ángeles Blancas (Sirena), María Rey-Joly ("La tornera").

Mickey Levy

:For the Israeli–American actress, see Micky Levy.

Ottoman general election, 1912

Although the two main parties competing in the election, the Committee of Union and Progress and the Liberal Entente, were largely secular in their political outlook, issues such as the Islamic religious piety of their candidates became sensationalized election topics.

Paul Hillier

In 2001, he became the Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir.

Port Huron Northern High School

Recently, the school had begun to sell treats and baked goods from Tim Hortons.

Roland Janes

He was born in Brookings, Clay County, Arkansas, the second youngest in a family of seven, and grew up there and in St Louis, Missouri, where he lived with his mother after his parents divorced.

Seborrheic keratosis

Condylomas and warts can clinically resemble seborrheic keratoses, and dermatoscopy can be helpful.

Shelly Gross

They also produced theatrical revivals on Broadway, such as a year-long run of Lorelei in 1974 with Carol Channing, and a Yul Brenner-led production of The King and I that debuted in 1977 and ran for nearly 700 performances.

Stuyvesant Heights, Brooklyn

In 1968, Ocean Hill and neighboring Brownsville experienced the worst teacher strike in history when the central Board of Education gave the community board neighborhood control.

Sydney Waterlow

Sir Sydney Waterlow, 1st Baronet (1822–1906), English philanthropist and politician

Sylvie Fogiel Bijaoui

Sylvie Fogiel-Bijaoui (born 1951) is a Prof. of Sociology at College of Management in Israel.

The California Honeydrops

In October 2008 The California Honeydrops set off for their first European tour to play the Rawa Blues Festival in Katowice, Poland as well as shows in Poland, Germany and The Netherlands.

Victor Tesch

The Longwy branch, via Messancy, was operational from 1860.