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28 unusual facts about the world


2000 Democratic National Convention

The highlight of the first night of the convention was a speech given by President Bill Clinton.

2011 Pittsburgh Panthers football team

Paul Randolph - Executive Associate Head Coach/Co-Defensive Coordinator/Defensive Line

Altsevo peat narrow gauge railway

The Altsevo peat railway emerged in the 1962s in the area Tonshayevsky District, from the village Pizhma to the swamp "Altsovsky Moss".

Beberibe River

Its drainage basin measures 81 square kilometers and includes the following cities: Recife ( 65% ), Olinda ( 21% ) and Camaragibe ( 14% ).

Diogenes Laërtius

Barnes, Jonathan, "Diogenes Laertius IX 61–116: the philosophy of Pyrrhonism" in W. Haase and H. Temporini (ed.) Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt, II 36.6 (de Gruyter: Berlin/New York, 1992): pp.

Edward Welch

Hansom & Welch designed a number of buildings on the Isle of Man, most notably King William's College, where Welch's brother, John Welch also designed several churches independently.

How Can I Ease the Pain

In 1992 the single won a Soul Train Music Award for Best R&B/Soul Single, Female and it also won a 1992 Grammy Award for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance.

Howie Morales

Morales is currently the longest serving volunteer member of the Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Grant County.

Jerzy Sterczyński

He has also played works by Brahms, Liszt, Tchaikovsky, Dobrzyński, Lessel, Reger, Szymanowski and Wieniawski.

Jill Banner

Banner performed in several movies and TV shows in the late 1960s and early 1970s, including Shadow Over Elveron (1968) with Don Ameche and Adam-12 co-star Kent McCord.

Joanie Loves Chachi

The series also starred Ellen Travolta as Louisa Delvecchio, Chachi's mother, and Al Molinaro as Al Delvecchio, Chachi's stepfather (and formerly the owner of Arnold's Drive-In in Happy Days), who opened a restaurant in which Chachi and Joanie performed most of their music.

John Zerzan

Zerzan's claims about the status of primitive societies are based on a certain reading of the works of anthropologists such as Marshall Sahlins and Richard B. Lee.

Maria Novaro

Novaro has said that the work of Andrei Tarkovsky, Michelangelo Antonioni, and Theodoros Angelopoulos inspired her narrative style particularly the way she sees her film story as poetry and not dramaturgy.

Marilyn C. Jones

She pitched a 1–0 no-hitter against them, silencing a powerful lineup that included Wilma Briggs, Delores Brumfield, Thelma Eisen, Betty Foss, Katie Horstman, Dorothy Schroeder, Kathryn Vonderau and Joanne Weaver.

Melanie Klein

The indy band Volcano Suns dedicated their first record "The Bright Orange Years" to Klein for her work on childhood aggression.

Milwaukee District West Line

Metra has long range plans to eventually extend the line to Huntley and Marengo, Illinois, and, in the long term, out to Rockford.

Mr. Wendal

"Mr. Wendal" is a song recorded by American rap group Arrested Development in 1992, from their most commercially successful album, 3 Years, 5 Months & 2 Days in the Life Of....

North Shore Academy

Northshore Christian Academy, a private elementary and middle school in Everett, Washington, United States

Politics of Colorado

The Senate is currently composed of 18 Democrats and 17 Republicans, and is led by President of the Senate, Morgan Carroll, Majority Leader Rollie Heath, and Minority Leader Bill Cadman.

Robert Wodehouse

However, during his long career he had been well rewarded with a number of church benefices and in 1328 being appointed Archdeacon of Richmond, Yorkshire.

Robin Jackson

Jackson is the subject of a tune by Glasgow-based The Sons of Ulster Flute Band which is entitled Volunteer Robin Jackson; some of the members of the flute band had been his friends.

Sinewave synthesis

The first sinewave synthesis program (SWS) for the automatic creation of stimuli for perceptual experiments was developed by Philip Rubin at Haskins Laboratories in the 1970s.

Sri Palee College

Inspired by Guru Dev Rabindranath Tagore a great writer, artist and an educationist of India, and his famous university at Shanthi Niketan later called Visva Bharathi University, Mr. Wilmot A. Perera, a prominent revolutionary educationist and a politician of Sri Lanka, decided to establish a similar institution in Ceylon, and invited Gurudev Tagore to lay the foundation stone for this institution, which Tagore named Sri Palee (place where the goddess of fine arts lives).

Terlizzi

The oldest map of Terlizzi still hangs in the Palace at Monte Carlo of the latter's house.

The Flower King

The original line-up for the album consisted of Stolt (vocals, electric guitar, bass guitar, keyboards), Jaime Salazar (drums), and Hasse Fröberg (vocals).

Tim Mitchell

He grew up in Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan and attended Interlochen Arts Academy, an independent high school dedicated to the arts in Interlochen, Michigan.

Touch switch

Cypress Semiconductor CapSense: The CY8C21434 can be configured as an 8-channel capacitance sensor, as used in the Apple iPod

WSA World Tour 2012

She won 6 WSA World Tour titles including the Coronation London Open and reached the final of the prestigious British Open in 2002 lost against Sarah Fitz-Gerald and the final of Hong Kong Open.