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22 unusual facts about the world


Brecht Forum

On October 6, 2008, a discussion panel “An Offer We Can’t Refuse?” was held, on the financial crisis included Naomi Klein, Arun Gupta, Frances Fox Piven, William Greider, and Doug Henwood.

British Sugar

In 1981 the Ely, Felsted, Nottingham and Selby factories closed after a reduction in the allowed sugar quota.

Budoc

Budoc is reputed to have sailed across the Plymouth Sound, until he found an inlet on the Devon side of the River Tamar.

Canadian Railroad Trilogy

The "Canadian Railroad Trilogy" is a song by Gordon Lightfoot that describes the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway.

Capital punishment in New York

New York Law School Professor and death penalty advocate Robert Blecker advocated strongly in favor of reinstatement, while Manhattan District Attorney Robert M. Morgenthau strongly opposed reinstatement.

Carnegie Hall Concert: June 18, 1971

Some songs included: "Will You Love Me Tomorrow?", "You've Got a Friend", "Child Of Mine", "I Feel The Earth Move", "It's Too Late", "Beautiful", "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman", "After All This Time", "Carry Your Load", "Song of Long Ago", and "Home Again".

Dairo Paulos

Dairo Pawlos is now on a transit line of the municipality of Asmara near the Asmara International Airport.

Dewey Jackson Short

Short was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1956 to the Eighty-fifth Congress.

Eltham High School

The school has produced Tour de France winning cyclist Cadel Evans, footballer Peter Moore, Victorian cricketer Lloyd Mash, Seven Network newsreader Jennifer Adams, actor and musician Ben Mendelsohn, actress Emily Browning, Australian actress and cinema icon Kerry Armstrong, and Australian comedian and radio / television personality Merrick Watts of Merrick & Rosso.

Full Tilt Boogie Band

Like Till, the other members of Full Tillt were Canadians, mostly hailing from Stratford and Woodstock, Ontario, Canada.

Georgette Anne Sheridan

Georgette Anne Sheridan is a judge currently serving on the Tax Court of Canada.

Guedel's classification

Guedel's classification is a means of assessing of depth of general anesthesia introduced by Arthur Ernest Guedel (1883-1956) in 1937.

Hezbi Islami

On 16 May 2013 Hezbi Islami claimed responsibility for another attack in Kabul in the form of an explosive-loaded Toyota Corolla that was rammed into a pair of American military vehicles in which 16 people were killed.

Justice Waits

Dubbed "The Sweetheart Murders", the case remained cold until August 27, 2002, when incriminating DNA evidence obtained from a blanket in the kidnappers'  van proved that convicted child molester Richard Hirschfield was involved in the murders.

My Father's Dragon

The illustrations within the book are black and white done with a grease crayon on a grained paper, done by Ruth Chrisman Gannett, who also illustrated other children's books such as My Mother Is the Most Beautiful Woman in the World, Paco Goes to the Fair, Miss Hickory, Hipo the Hippo, and adult books such as Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck and Cream Hill by Lewis Stiles Gannett, the author's father and husband of the book's illustrator.

Nismo

In 1984, Nissan decided that it wanted to merge its two motorsport division, founded in the late 1960s, they were Publication Division 3, based in its Oppama factory, responsible for the needs of privateer teams and Special Car Testing Division, within its Ōmori plant, responsible for its factory operations.

Paul F Downton

Downton is a graduate from the University of Wales and his doctorate is in environmental studies from the University of Adelaide.

Quatre Bras

More specifically it refers to the crossroad of the Charleroi-Brussels road (currently named N5) and the Nivelles-Namur road South of Genappe in Wallonia, Belgium.

Ron Harris

Ronald Dale Harris (born 1956), former computer programmer for the Nevada Gaming Control Board

Super Genius

This led to the band's signing a deal with Track Records, who released it, with a bonus track and video, as "The Cult of Money."

The Genesis According to Spiritism

This chapter is particularly sore for Spiritists because it actually accepts spontaneous generation as fact: a phenomenon that took place every day (which was according to mainstream scientific thinking of that time, only to be displaced decades later by the work of Louis Pasteur).

White Lake, New York

Grand Rabbi Ben Zion Halberstam, the Bobover Rebbe of 48th st. spends his summers at the nearby Chiel Kurtz Bungalo Colony in White Lake.