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25 unusual facts about the world


Alberto Edjogo-Owono

Edjogo made his Equatorial Guinea national team debut on 6 July 2003, in an 2004 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying match against Morocco in Bata, a 0–1 home loss.

Battle of Chester

The charge against Augustine was challenged or rejected by scholars of the 18th and 19th century such as Elizabeth Elstob, Henry Spelman, Henry Wharton, and Jeremy Collier.

CNR Spadina Roundhouse

Toronto's Canadian Pacific Railway, John Street Roundhouse, now the home of the Steam Whistle brewery along with Spadina Roundhouse were two of hundreds of roundhouses in North America in the 1930s.

Gate of Dawn

Church festival of the Blessed Virgin Mary Mother of Mercy—celebrated in the third week of November—is of great importance in the Vilnius Archdiocese.

Helena, Alabama

It is also one of three cities, along with Alabaster and Pelham, that make up the area known as "North Shelby" or "North Shelby County".

Homer Plessy

Homer Adolph Plessy (March 17, 1862 – March 1, 1925) was the American Creole plaintiff in the United States Supreme Court decision in Plessy v. Ferguson.

International School of The Hague

The International School of The Hague caters to the large international community of The Hague, which exists as a result of the many international organizations and companies located in the area, such as the European Patent Organisation, Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, Royal Dutch Shell or International Court of Justice.

Jennifer Fallon

Jennifer Fallon was born in Melbourne, Australia and after living in Central Australia for a number of years, now resides in the South Island of New Zealand.

John Crane

Between stints with The Groundlings in the early 1990s, Crane co-wrote and starred in Nickelodeon's Saturday night ensemble variety series, Roundhouse, produced by Sheffield and his former spouse, Rita Hester.

Jonathan Rosenberg

Rosenberg has occasionally appeared as a character in other webcomics, particularly as Mr. Jon Rosenberg in Jeffrey Rowland's Overcompensating.

Judith Walzer Leavitt

She is the wife of Waisman Center medical director Lewis Leavitt and the sister of political theorist Michael Walzer.

Kwamena Bartels

Bartels is a member of the Afro-European Bartels family, whose ancestor Cornelius Ludewich Bartels was Governor-General of the Dutch Gold Coast between 1798 and 1804, and whose son Carel Hendrik Bartels was the most important mulatto trader on the Gold Coast in the second quarter of the nineteenth century.

Mad Rad

Mad Rad is a Seattle-based hip hop/electronic music group that consists of five members; three vocalists, a DJ, and a drummer.

Mandy Hampton

It has been said Mandy Hampton was partially inspired by Mandy Grunwald, the Democratic political consultant and media advisor who worked on the presidential campaigns for both Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Mar Thoma VII

While it was going on Mar Thoma VI died on April 8, 1808 at Niranam and Mar Thoma VII was enthroned as the Malankara Metropolitan.

Nasiriyah

Some of the leading thinkers who grew up around Nasiriyah were Aziz al‑Syed Jasim, Aziz Abdul Sahab, Sadiq Atemish, Mohamed Ali al-Nasiri, along with many poets (e.g., Ayniah al‑Husewani, Aryan Syed Khalif), singers (e.g., Hazery Abu Aziz, Taleb al‑Qayraqwli, Hussein Nameh) and artists (Huessien al‑Halali, Majed al‑Najar).

Nek Muhammad Wazir

He rose rapidly in the ranks, becoming a sub-commander of a Waziri Taliban unit, and fighting in battles against the Northern Alliance forces of Ahmad Shah Massoud in Bagram, Bamyan and Panjshir.

Oranmore Castle

In March 1642 the town, Oranmore, joined Confederate Ireland in a rebellion, against which the owners of the castle, the Marquess and the fifth Earl Clanricarde, held out.

Padrón peppers

These peppers are grown along the banks of the river Ulla and its tributary Sar, especially in the greenhouses of the municipality of Padrón, hence the name.

Penguin Group

In 2011, the online writing and publishing community Book Country was launched as a subsidiary of Penguin Group USA.

Pierre Bertin

Pierre Bertin (actor) (1891–1984), French film and theatre actor, appeared in the film Les Tontons flingueurs

Robota

Robota (2003) is an illustrated book by Doug Chiang and Orson Scott Card about a mysterious fourth planet of the solar system named Orpheus.

Sabbioneta

The church and the summer palace contain frescoes by artists of the Campi family of Cremona.

Safra A. Catz

She has been an executive at Oracle Corporation since April 1999, and a board member since 2001.

Stephen Alfred Forbes

He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1918.