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28 unusual facts about the world


12th/16th Hunter River Lancers

Since 2000 many members of the regiment have been attached to regular RAAC units and seen active service in East Timor, Iraq and Afghanistan.

1949 MacRobertson Miller Aviation DC-3 crash

The aircraft crashed in a clear area between huts at the South Guildford housing camp, a former Army camp where 70 huts were being used to house civilians.

Alwin Wagner

His personal best throw was 67.80 metres, achieved in July 1987 in Melsungen.

Badminton Asia Championships

Headcoach Li Yongbo said the tournament did not award any ranking points for 2004 Summer Olympics event and wanted to give the players more time to rest.

Baptist Foundation of Arizona

Arthur Andersen, the Big Five accounting firm that audited Enron, paid former BFA investors $217 million for Andersen's failure to identify fraudulent activities at the BFA.

Black Virgin of Oropa

The Black Virgin is also known as Madonna Nera di Oropa or María Reina de Monte Oropa, and she is the patroness of Lomas del Mirador City, in La Matanza Partido, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina.

BMW M12

The Megatron programme ended as a result of a change of Formula One engine rules which banned turbocharged engines at the end of 1988, with American driver Eddie Cheever achieving the old BMW engine's last podium finish with third place in the 1988 Italian Grand Prix at Monza.

Carrie Barton

At age 19 at the Annie Russell Theatre she played an 11-year-old stuttering Scottish girl, Mary Macgregor in Jay Presson Allen's popular play, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie for which she won Best Supporting Actress.

Central University of Rajasthan

The university had started to function from its temporary campus at Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur in the year 2009 with only two courses.

Charles I, Count of Hohenzollern

He had held the family possessions in a single hand since the Counts of Haigerloch had died out with the death of his cousin Jobst Nicholas II in 1558.

Charles Page Eden

His reputation was made by his editions (for the Library of Anglo-Catholic Theology) of Peter Gunning on the ‘Paschal or Lent Fast,’ 1845, and of Lancelot Andrewes's ‘Pattern of Catechistical Doctrine,’ 1846; and also an edition of Jeremy Taylor's Works, in 10 vols.

Ferdinando d' Aragona y Guardato, 1st Duke of Montalto

Issue: The so-called Antonio de Aragón y Moncada, 6th Duke of Montalto (1589–1631), 4th Prince di Paternò, 5th Duke of Bivona, who married Juana de la Cerda y la Cueva, daughter of Juan Luis Francisco de la Cerda y Aragón, 6th Duke of Medinaceli.

Franklin Mountains State Park

Although the present topography of the range and adjoining basins is controlled by extension during rifting in the last 10 million years, faults within the range also record deformation during the Laramide orogeny, between 85 and 45 million years ago.

House of the Binns

That Regiment, the Royal Regiment of Scots Dragoons, which later became the Royal Scots Greys in 1877, was to have itself a long history.

Jagaddipendra Narayan

He was educated at St Cyprian's School Eastbourne, Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge, and also at the Prince of Wales Royal Indian Military College, Dehradun.

Juvenal Edjogo-Owono

Juvenal qualified for Equatorial Guinea because of his father, born in Niefang – his mother hailed from Andalusia.

Kiveton Park

The building was demolished by George William Frederick Osborne, 6th Duke of Leeds in 1812, with local legend stating that the demolition was the result of a bet with the then Prince of Wales (subsequently George IV of the United Kingdom).

KPIF

KPIF was a full-power television station serving Pocatello and Idaho Falls, Idaho, as an affiliate of the Retro Television Network.

Lesjaskog

During the Second World War during the Namsos Campaign the British No. 263 Squadron RAF operated with 18 Gloster Gladiator biplane fighters from the frozen surface of Lake Lesjaskogsvatnet at Lesjaskog.

Michael Manser

Hilton Hotel (originally Sterling Hotel), Heathrow Terminal 4, 1990

NatA Acetyltransferase

Yeast cells lacking Natp and Ard1p show a reduced sporulation efficiency, failure to enter Palazzo Barbaran da Porto

Palazzo Barbaran Da Porto is a palazzo in Vicenza, Italy designed in 1569 and built between 1570 and 1575 by Andrea Palladio.

Polykarp Leyser

Polykarp Leyser II (1586 – 939), German Lutheran theologian, superintendent in Leipzig

Robin Sylvester

Clive Davis signed his folk-rock band The Movies to Arista Records, which played around New York and Los Angeles in the late 1970s.

Sebastian J.

Jacome's production, programming, arranging, and remixing credits include artists such as: Ines Gaviria, Ozomatli, Huecco, The Cheetah Girls, Jorge Villamizar (Bacilos), Laura Pausini, Lucho Gatica, Carlos Peña (Latin American Idol), Cristian Chavez, Anahi, Heidi Montag, Paulina Rubio, Justin Bieber, LMFAO, Gloria Trevi and Enrique Iglesias.

Stay Poor Stay Happy

Stay Poor.Stay Happy is the second album by the indie-rock band Cub Country, released on 28 September 2004, through the Future Farmer label.

The Dealians

On 20 April 1971, South African radio personality and singer, Peter Lotis, presented the group with their gold disc for their hit single, "Look Out, Here Comes Tomorrow", on stage at the Colosseum cinema.

WMKG-CA

Despite the station's low-power status, its location near Lake Michigan assures amplification of their signal across the lake into the Milwaukee market within the Port Washington and Sheboygan areas (Milwaukee itself is served by analog low-power station WBWT-LP on Channel 38).