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26 unusual facts about the world


1992 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final

Declan Bonner kicked left footed his fourth point and Donegal's final point to leave the final score at 0-18 to 0-14.

Battle of al-Musayfirah

The battle of al-Musayfirah was one of the major military engagements between Druze rebels and the French Army on 17 September 1925, during the early stage of the Great Syrian Revolt, which continued on until 1927.

Consociationalism

S Issacharoff, ‘Constitutionalizing Democracy in Fractured Societies’ (2003–2004) 82 Texas Law Review 1861

Eastgardens

Eastgardens, New South Wales - a suburb of Sydney in New South Wales, Australia

Gamestar Mechanic

Initial design and development of the game was by Gamelab in partnership with Katie Salen, The Institute of Play and the Academic Advanced Distributed Learning Co-Lab (AADLC) at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Geoff Craige

He served in the Royal Australian Navy from 1961 to 1980, becoming a chief petty officer in the navy's medical branch.

History of the University of North Georgia

Not only was the military integrity of NGC preserved, but during this time it was the only junior college in the nation to have an (ASTP) Army Specialized Training Program.

Hypergolic propellant

The ending ergol is a combination of Greek ergon or work, and Latin oleum or oil, later influenced by the chemical suffix -ol from alcohol.

Illya Woloshyn

He started acting at a very young age, playing the role of Jacob in Jacob Two Two Meets the Hooded Fang at Young People's Theatre in Toronto, and later Gavroche in the original Toronto production of Les Misérables at the Royal Alexandra Theatre in 1988.

Jakob Steiner

Eminent analysts succeeded in proving some of the theorems, but it was reserved to Luigi Cremona to prove them all, and that by a uniform synthetic method, in his book on algebraic curves.

Jay Maisel

One of Maisel's most known images is his photograph of Miles Davis that appeared on the cover of Davis's album Kind of Blue.

Joe Breeze

An early participant in the sport of mountain biking, Breeze, along with other pioneers including Gary Fisher, Charlie Kelly, and Tom Ritchey, is known for his central role in developing the mountain bike.

Karen Dunne

United States Association of Blind Athletes National Championships: Gold medals - Mixed Tandem Match Sprints and Kilometer Time Trial

Liberal Democrat Voice

Contributors to Liberal Democrat Voice include Lib Dem MPs such as Jeremy Browne, Lynne Featherstone, Chris Huhne, Michael Moore, Andrew Stunell, Sarah Teather and Jenny Willott as well as peers such as Chris Rennard.

Lori Saunders

In addition to Petticoat Junction, she was a regular cast member on Dusty's Trail, a mid-1970s comedy television series starring Bob Denver.

Michael W. Straus

Through Nancy he was a brother-in-law of photographer Eliot Porter and painter Fairfield Porter.

Nicola LeFanu

Nicola LeFanu was born in England to William LeFanu and Elizabeth Maconchy (also a composer, later Dame Elizabeth Maconchy).

Phog Allen

Allen later coached in the 1952 Summer Olympics, leading the United States to the gold medal in Helsinki, Finland.

Pyg

Formed in 1971, the unit was fronted by the two biggest stars of the era: lead singers Kenji Sawada of The Tigers and Kenichi Hagiwara of The Tempters.

Scheßlitz

Scheßlitz lies right on Bundesstraße 22, the former Rottendorf–Weiden Imperial Road (Reichsstraße) which runs from Rottendorf near Würzburg to Cham in the Upper Palatinate and has a connection with the A 70, which runs from Bamberg to Bayreuth.

Serbian Telecommunication Agency

Serbian Telecommunication Agency (RATEL) was founded at the end of May 2005, as one of the conditions for the implementation of Serbian telecommunication regulations prescribed by the law.

Sixteen Stone

When asked why lead singer Gavin Rossdale chose the name "Sixteen Stone" for the name of their album, he said: "Once upon a time there was a lonely man... my friend, who called a phone number advertising a '21-year old Scandinavian beauty, new in town.' When she arrived, she was forty years old and sixteen stone..."

Thiruvankulam

The Katthanar (Vicar) of Karingachira was considered the representative of the Nasarani community of the erstwhile Cochin State.

Tokugawa Iesato

Iesato is remembered for having recovered the political fortunes and reputation of the Tokugawa family, holding many senior government positions before his retirement, including a tenure as 6th head of the Japanese Red Cross Society, head of the Japan-America Society, and President of the national organizing committee for the 1940 Olympics.

United World College in Mostar

Mostar is widely known by the famous Old Bridge (Stari Most), originally built in 1566, destroyed by HVO forces during the Bosnian War in 1993 and rebuilt in 2004.

Whish

C. M. Whish (1794–1833), English civil servant of the East India Company