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26 unusual facts about the world


Art for art's sake

George Sand wrote in 1872 that L'art pour l'art was an empty phrase, an idle sentence.

Cartrivision

Cassettes of major movies such as The Bridge on the River Kwai and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner were ordered via the initial 200-movie catalog at a retailer, delivered by parcel mail, and then returned to the retailer after viewing.

Cassopolis, Michigan

Among his accomplishments, Archer went on to become an attorney, Michigan Supreme Court Justice, two-term mayor of Detroit, and President of the American Bar Association.

Central and Eastern European Software Engineering Conference in Russia

The list of keynote/invited/panel speakers from previous CEE-SECR’s includes: Thomas Erl, Bjarne Stroustrup, Erich Gamma, Richard Soley, Igor Agamirzian, Grady Booch, Lars Bak, Alexander L. Wolf, Yuri Gurevich, Victor Ivannikov, Stephen Mellor, Larry Constantine, Ivar Jacobson, Rick Kazman, Michael Cusumano and other leading figures in the software field.

Country lawyer

Robert H. Jackson (1892–1954), last U.S. Supreme Court justice (1941–1954) not to have graduated from law school, chief U.S. prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials (1945–1946).

DECpc AXP 150

The charter for the development and production of the DEC 2000 AXP was held by Digital's Entry Level Solutions Business, based in Ayr, Scotland.

East Anglian Railway Museum

The East Anglian Railway Museum is located at Chappel and Wakes Colne railway station in Essex, England, which is situated on the former Great Eastern Railway branch line from Marks Tey to Sudbury.

Easter Vigil

#The Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom is celebrated as usual, but with special features added that are unique to the Paschal season.

Harry Mazer

Mazer co-authored three books with his late wife, Norma Fox Mazer.

Havendale

Havendale is a suburban, neighborhood located in Kingston, Jamaica.

Jeanne Cooper

“Mom passed this morning,” her son, Corbin Bernsen, said on Twitter the day of her death.

La Fin du monde est à 7 heures

Hosted by Marc Labrèche, the program was a satirical take on news and current affairs, somewhat similar in style to the English Canadian series This Hour Has 22 Minutes.

Lívia Ághová

Her other roles with the company included Mimi in Giacomo Puccini's La Boheme, Micaela in Georges Bizet's Carmen, and Marguerite in Charles Gounod's Faust.

Mithridate

Ephraim Chambers, in his 1728 Cyclopaedia, says "Mithridate is one of the capital Medicines in the Apothecaries Shops, being composed of a vast Number of Drugs, as Opium, Myrrh, Agaric, Saffron, Ginger, Cinnamon, Spikenard, Frankincense, Castor, Pepper, Gentian, &c".

Opperzau

The southern part of Opperzau is named Oppertsau which belongs to the municipality Fürthen and even belongs to Rhineland-Palatinate.

Peter Drummond

Peter Drummond-Murray of Mastrick (born 1929), Scottish retired banker and authority on heraldry

Rietfontein

It functions as the Rietfontein Borderpost with Namibia during the day hours of 08:00-16:30, that gives access to and from south-east Namibia via Aroab on the C16 main road.

Robert Fellowes, Baron Fellowes

He is also the President of Degremont UK following an approach by Prince Jean of Luxembourg (citation needed).

Sabrina Hughes

Bob Hughes and Kim Sullivan Hughes, Frannie's father and stepmother/aunt, came to England to help Frannie and when Bob came face to face with Lansing, he figured out the truth.

San Cristóbal de La Paz

It was located five or six kilometers to the southwest of Yumbel on the west shore of the Claro River to the north of its confluence with the Laja River.

Test Pilot

Test pilot, pilots who work on developing, evaluating and proving experimental aircraft

University of Aberdeen School of Law

The course examines comparison of U.S. and U.K. law, and is taught by Scottish and American tutors.

West Mount Barren

Visitors are encouraged to stay on the footpath so as to minimise the spread of dieback which is a threat to the native plants of the area.

William Cline Borden

In 1909 Borden was named Dean of the School of Medicine and Health Sciences at The George Washington University.

Zaurbek Baysangurov

In December 2008 he lost via an upset 5th round KO to former The Contender star Cornelius Bundrage.

Zegrze

It gave its name to the nearby Zegrze Reservoir, a man-made lake constructed in 1963 with a hydroelectric complex producing 20 Megawatts of energy, a popular place of recreation for the residents of Warsaw.