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25 unusual facts about the world


Aaldert Wapstra

Aaldert Hendrik Wapstra (24 April 1923 – 2 December 2006, Naarden) was a Dutch physicist.

Atlético Infop

The club was defeated by Atlético Gualala in the Liga Mayor de Honduras promotion playoff and missed the right to be promoted to Liga de Ascenso de Honduras.

Brittney Rogers

They ended up in 9th place out of 10 teams and were the second team eliminated in Middleburg, Virginia.

Bronx High School for the Visual Arts

The Bronx High School for the Visual Arts (BHSVA), familiarly known as Visual Arts, is a New York City public high school established as an art school in 2002 under Mayor Michael Bloomberg's Small Schools Initiative program (officially, the New Century High Schools Initiative).

Brother Henry

Brother Henry is a rock 'n' roll band from Nashville, Tennessee.

Bundesstraße 54

The Bundesstraße 54 or B54 is a German federal highway running in a north–south direction from the Dutch border near Gronau to the Hessian state capital Wiesbaden.

Chilean National Ballet

A Ballet Corps was eventually added, and under the name the Chilean National Ballet, the company debuted in 1945 with a production of Leo Delibe's Coppelia.

De Schelde Scheldemusch

In 1935 the Dutch dockyard NV Koninklijke Maatschappij De Schelde, based at Vlissingen (Flushing) on the Schelde (Scheldt) estuary moved into aircraft manufacture with the acquisition of the staff of the Pander Company.

DSL modem

It usually also has a USB jack which can be used to connect to computers via a USB cable, to allow connection to computers without an Ethernet port.

Five valve euphonium

Also, Cerveny Musical Instruments manufactures several euphoniums with five vertical rotary valves today, but this is an unrelated recent development.

Frog Baseball

Beavis and Butt-head are then shown switching channels on their TV, watching various TV commercials and laughing at a Suzanne Somers Thighmaster commercial.

German Type U 31 submarine

Later Admiral and head of the Abwehr from 1935 to 1944 Wilhelm Canaris also served as commander on two different U 31 U-boats.

John Alday

The book was dedicated to Sir William Chester, alderman of London, and verses in its praise appear on the back of the title-page.

Leutkirch station

On 27 May 1979, the first express train was introduced on the MunichMemmingenLindau route.

Márton Rakovszky

Thereafter, Rakovszky moved on to Bártfa/Bártfeld, now Bardejov, where he studied with noted humanist Leonard Stöckel, and later Brassó/Kronstadt, now Brasov before spending 1555-56 at the University of Wittenberg studying under Phillip Melancthon, an associate of Martin Luther.

Nosepass and Probopass

Like its pre-evolution, Probopass is based on the moai stone heads of Easter Island, but Probopass now also has a red magnet "hat" top that resembles the pukao worn by some of the moai heads.

Phil Mac Giolla Bhain

In 2010, Mac Giolla Bhain also broke "Dallasgate" — The story of Hugh Dallas sending an e–mail which led to his sacking from the position of Head of Referee Development at the Scottish Football Association.

Salt Lake, Hawaii

Nearby Fort Shafter is the headquarters of the United States Army Pacific.

Scott Dann

He moved up the ranks at Walsall to become a regular in the reserve team throughout 2004–05 and was allowed to join Danish side Køge BK on loan towards the end of the campaign.

Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corporation

In 1939, the old shipyard in Commencement Bay, Tacoma was revived by Todd and Kaiser Shipbuilding together with the aid of some $15 million in capital provided by the US Navy, for the production of vessels in anticipation of possible US entry into World War II.

Thomas Kielinger

In 1971 he joined the German daily national newspaper, Die Welt in Hamburg, as its literary critic.

UBC War Memorial Gymnasium

The gymnasium has hosted the likes of the Harlem Globetrotters, the B.C. high school basketball championships, Billy Idol and is the current venue for the finals of all division of the TELUS Basketball Classic.

University of Oxford Chancellor election, 1925

The 1925 University of Oxford election for the position of Chancellor was called upon the death of the incumbent Chancellor, George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston on 20 March 1925.

Van Deren Coke

In 1970—during Beaumont Newhall's final year—he served as Deputy Director and from 1971 to 1972 as Director of George Eastman House.

Z-pinch

They can be found in various institutions such as University of Nevada, Reno (USA), Cornell University (USA), University of Michigan (USA), Sandia National Laboratories (USA), University of California, San Diego (USA), University of Washington (USA), Ruhr University (Germany), Imperial College (United Kingdom), École Polytechnique (France), and the Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel).