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20 unusual facts about the world


Charlie Quintana

He was a member of 1970s punk band The Plugz (which became a popular roots band in the 1980s), Cruzados, Havalinas, Izzy Stradlin & the Ju Ju Hounds, and has toured and/or recorded with Joan Osborne, John Doe, Cracker, Bob Dylan, Jimmy and the Mustangs, 47C and many others.

Chicago mayoral election, 1987

Ed Vrdolyak, the leader of the Vrdolyak 29, opposed him on the Solidarity ticket but was ultimately unsuccessful, as Jane Byrne had been in unseating him in the Democratic primary.

Dae Gak

Dae Gak (born 1947), born Robert Genthner, is a Zen master and the guiding teacher of Furnace Mountain in Clay City, Kentucky, a Korean Buddhist temple and retreat center co-founded in 1986 with Seung Sahn.

Flor Ayala

Industrial and Systems Engineer graduate from the Monterrey Institute of Technology, Campus Monterrey.

Gill Isles

After moving to London to work at Radio 1's Newsbeat, Gill moved into TV comedy, working on shows such as ITV's The British Comedy Awards and The 11 O'Clock Show.

Heptachlor

In 1962, Rachel Carson's Silent Spring questioned the safety of heptachlor and other chlorinated insecticides.

Joseph Arch

The first spark of resistance came from a brave band of agricultural workers at Weston under Wetherley, who wrote a letter to the local newspaper, setting forth their small earnings and suggesting that farm labourers' pay be raised to at least two shillings and sixpence a day.

Kaskaskia, Illinois

In 1703, French Jesuit missionaries established a mission with the goal of converting the Illini Native Americans to Catholicism.

Klimov

The OKB was formed in the early 1930s to produce and improve upon the liquid-cooled Hispano-Suiza 12Y V-12 piston engine for which the USSR had acquired a license.

La Mujer de Mi Vida

Mara Croatto as Katiuska Cardona, Villain, good friend of Emilia, loves Valentino,hates then likes Barbarita, hates Ricarda, kills Valentino by shooting him with a gun, ends up in jail.

Leontius of Caesarea

He was childhood friends with Gregory the Illuminator, later in life Leontius would consecrate Gregory to become the patriarch of the Armenians.

Marc Foucan

Marc Foucan (born October 14, 1971 in Ermont, France) is a French athlete who specialises in the 400 meters.

Matt Thorr

He co-wrote the song "Back For More" with Stephen Pearcy on Ratt's album Out of the Cellar.

Nathalie Makoma

She took part in the Dutch Idols singing competition in its fourth season reaching the final and finishing as runner-up to Nikki Kerkhof.

Newminster Abbey

The estate including the site of the abbey was sold by the Crown to Robert Brandling in 1609, and was sold on by the Brandling family in 1709 to John Ord of Fenham.

No. 52 Commando

By 1943 the Commandos had moved away from small raiding operations and had been formed in Brigades of assault infantry to spearhead future Allied landing operations.

Sandy Amorós

Amorós, nicknamed for his resemblance to boxing champ Sandy Saddler, had a largely unremarkable major league career.

Sonnerie de Ste-Geneviève du Mont-de-Paris

An electronic version on a Fairlight synthesizer was used in the soundtrack of the 1982 film "Liquid Sky".

Thorsten Legat

The following year, he would be involved in another incident, in which he brandished a samurai sword to a group of youngsters after being threatened alongside his wife, slightly hitting one in the head.

World Under Blood

In April 2008, the band went into the studio to record four new tracks, one of them a cover of Megadeth's "Wake Up Dead."