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17 unusual facts about the world


Alan Craig

Craig opposed the building of the London Markaz Mosque; he said that while he supports the right to worship, he had fears over the impact upon the community and on security.

Band Waggon

A show of the same name and starring Askey and Murdoch with Tommy Trinder was playing at the London Palladium when World War II broke out.

Chauncey W. Reed

He served as chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary for the 83rd Congress.

Daewon

Daewon University College, private technical college in Chungcheongbuk-do, South Korea

Daniel Sturm

In 2002, after moving to the U.S. Sturm became a staff writer for City Pulse, a popular alternative newsweekly in Lansing, Michigan.

Diane Humetewa

Humetewa resigned effective August 2, 2009 when President Barack Obama nominated Dennis K. Burke as the next United States Attorney for the District of Arizona.

Gembloux

Lincoln, Kewaunee County, Wisconsin, third most Belgian American town, was originally named Grandlez, after Grand-Leez where Belgian founding migrants came from.

Heinrich Anton de Bary

He inoculated sporidia from the winter spores of the wheat rust on the leaves of the "common barberry" (Berberis vulgaris).

Ingrid Seynhaeve

Seynhaeve has walked for fashion shows such as Michael Kors, Carolina Herrera, Nicole Miller, Elie Saab, Victoria's Secret, Bella Freud, and Bill Blass.

Kabekona, Minnesota

Kabekona is an unincorporated community in Hendrickson Township, Hubbard County, Minnesota, United States.

Kid Gleason

Gleason has been referenced in pop culture in several books, and is a prominent supporting character in Ring Lardner's 1916 novel You Know Me Al.

La Minute de vérité

La Minute de vérité (US title: The Moment of Truth) is a 1952 French language motion picture drama directed by Jean Delannoy who co-wrote screenplay with Henri Jeanson, Roland Laudenbach and Robert Thoeren.

Nordisk Film

In addition to this, Nordisk Film has a co-operation with Sony Pictures Entertainment in regards to theatrical distribution.

Sage Reynolds

Sage has performed and recorded with many different musicians and groups such as Sage Reynolds Quartet, Sienna Dahlen, Stars, Amon Tobin, Ismail Fencioglu, Kaba Horo, Sean Craig Quintet, Michel Berthiaume Quintet, Rita Chiarelli, and Lenya B. He is currently collaborating with local bassist/composer Miles Perkin in the organization of “Mont-Royal Composers Forum”, a project that showcases new and adventurous original music.

Salo Landau

Salo (Salomon) Landau (1 April 1903, Bochnia, Galicia, Austria-Hungary – 15 November 1943, Grodziszcze, Świdnica County, Poland) was a Dutch chess player, who died in a Nazi concentration camp.

Statute of Westminster Adoption Act 1942

Although King George V disapproved of Isaacs, the 1930 Imperial Conference upheld the procedure under the declaration, and so the King appointed Isaacs.

Taman, Russia

The modern stanitsa was founded by the Zaporozhian Cossacks under Anton Golovaty on August 25, 1792 as the latter's residence and the first garrison of the Black Sea Cossack Host.