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30 unusual facts about the world


Battle of Delium

This was history's first documented incident of fratricide (Geoffrey Regan, Back Fire, Robson Books Ltd., London, 1995).

Beast of the Bonzos

This American best of album differs from the British in having different cover art, an extra flap with an article about the Bonzos by John Mendelsohn, and about half different songs.

Bristol and Exeter Railway 4-2-4T locomotives

No. 39, recently renumbered as GWR 2001, derailed at Long Ashton near Bristol on 27 July 1876 and was withdrawn from service.

Bulgarian parliamentary election, 1887

Voter turnout was only around 33%, with only 3,039 votes cast in Sofia.

Cametá Sport Club

Cametá Sport Club, commonly known as Cametá, is a Brazilian football team based in Cametá, Pará state.

Cangzhou West Railway Station

Platforms 1 and 2 are used for trains to Ji'nan, Qingdao and Shanghai Hongqiao; platforms 3 and 4 are used for services to Beijing South and Tianjin West.

Chad–Cameroon Petroleum Development and Pipeline Project

The original consortium of oil companies involved in the pipeline project were Exxon, Royal Dutch Shell and Elf Aquitaine.

Chronology of the 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis

Lanny Davis, who served as President Clinton's personal lawyer, was hired by the Honduran chapter of the Business Council of Latin America to help their delegation lobby against economic sanctions against Honduras.

Edinburgh of the Seven Seas

It was damaged in a volcanic eruption on the island in 1961 which forced the entire population to abandon the settlement and evacuate to Calshot, Hampshire in the UK.

Einloft

The family Einloft is original of Hesse, of the region known as "Hessisches Hinterland", around the municipalities of Gönnern (Angelburg), Dautphetal and Biedenkopf.

Galarrwuy Yunupingu

In 1985, he was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for his services to the Aboriginal community.

Grenny Lansdell

Lansdell did not return to football following the war; instead, he piloted flights for Trans World Airlines for more than 30 years.

Haijian 23

Haijian 23 was renamed China Coast Guard 1123 in July 2013 under the unified, newly-reestablished China Coast Guard.

Ibicuí River

It is formed by the confluence of the Ibicuí-Mirim River and Santa Maria River at the city of Cacequi.

J. Michael Adams

He was a member of the Governing Council of the United Nations University, Steering Committee of the World Bank's Researchers Alliance for Development and the Editorial Advisory Board for International Educator, the flagship bimonthly magazine of NAFSA: Association of International Educators.

John Kelso Hunter

John was born at Dankeith, South Ayrshire, and he was a relation to the McCallums of Troon.

Kaplow

Herb Kaplow (1927–2013), American television news correspondent

Kohlrausch

Otto Kohlrausch (1811–1854), German surgeon, son of Heinrich

Leiden Glossary

The glossary contains 48 chapters or glossae collectae, which explain terms from texts used in the classroom by Theodore of Tarsus and Adrian of Canterbury, who both taught at St Augustine's Abbey in Canterbury, and thus "contain the record of their classroom teaching".

Michèle Bernstein

Bernstein and Debord visited Cosio di Arroscia in July 1957: the Situationist International officially came into being there on July 28.

Raja Ram Pal

The son of Ram Nath Pal and Rukmani Devi, Raja Ram was born in the town Sirohi and attended D.A.V. College, Kanpur.

Schifflange communal council

In the collège échevinal, the LSAP rules outright, under the leadership of mayor Roland Schreiner.

Shōji Nishimura

In the Surigao Strait between Leyte and Dinagat Islands on the evening of 24 October 1944, he contacted the U.S. 7th Fleet under Rear Admiral Jesse Oldendorf, which consisted of six battleships, eight cruisers, 29 destroyers, and 39 motor torpedo boats.

Soldo

It quickly became widespread in Italy where it was coined in Genoa, Bologna and numerous other cities.

Sportitalia

Subsequently, in 2004 Tarak Ben Ammar successfully lobbied the then Italian Communications Minister Maurizio Gasparri for a decree allowing him to convert the concessions from crypted TV to free TV: here, then, Sportitalia.

Untererthal

The American television sitcom Hogan's Heroes (which ran on CBS from 1965 to 1971), featured a fictional Stalag 13, said to be near Hammelburg, possibly in or near Untererthal.

Walker Pass

Walker Pass was charted as route through the Sierra in 1834 by Joseph R. Walker and Garland Guthary, members of the Bonneville Expedition who learned of it from Native Americans.

William Bergsma

He eschewed the avant-garde—his obituary in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer describes him as having "never deserted tonality" and seeing "dozens of his former avant-garde colleagues returning to the fold"—though he did embrace aleatoric techniques later in his career.

WWQQ-FM

Station alumni from that era include Dan Hester, "Dr. Dale" O'Brian, Mike Grohman, Mark McKay, Joanie D., Tom Lamont, J.J Carroll and Tom Burton In 1995, WXQR-FM joined the "Q Network" that included WWQQ and WQSL when HVS Partners bought the station.

Yehiam

The local British authorities assisted in the kibbutz establishment, despite it being against British policy.