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26 unusual facts about the world


1997 ATP Super 9

The 1997 ATP Super 9 (also known as Mercedes-Benz Super 9 for sponsorship reasons) were part of the 1997 ATP Tour, the elite tour for professional men's tennis organised by the Association of Tennis Professionals.

Allgemeiner Deutscher Musikverein

The Allgemeiner Deutscher Musikverein (ADMV) (General German Music Association) was a German musical association founded in 1861 by Franz Liszt and Franz Brendel, to embody the musical ideals of the New German School of music.

Angola–Cuba relations

Piero Gleijeses, Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington and Africa, 1959-1976 ISBN 978-0-8078-5464-8

BridgePort Brewing Company

Blue Heron Pale Ale, named after Portland’s official city bird (the Great Blue Heron), was first brewed in 1987 as a special release for the Audubon Society of Portland.

Burma Campaign 1944–1945

The Japanese 18th Division faced the American and Chinese Northern Combat Area Command (NCAC) under Lieutenant General Daniel Isom Sultan advancing south from Myitkyina and Mogaung which the Allies had secured in 1944, while the Japanese 56th Division faced the large Chinese Yunnan armies led by Wei Lihuang.

Christian Otto Mohr

In 1882, he famously developed the graphical method for analysing stress known as Mohr's circle and used it to propose an early theory of strength based on shear stress.

Edlington attacks

The two suspects pleaded guilty to causing grievous bodily harm with intent, to robbing one of the boys of a mobile phone and the other of cash, to two counts of intentionally causing a child to engage in sexual activity, and one additional charge of actual bodily harm relating to a previous incident involving another 11-year-old boy.

FinanceWorks

FinanceWorks is an Online Financial Management application developed by Digital Insight, the financial institution division of Intuit, and is offered to consumers through their bank or credit union website.

Francis Thibaudeau

His book, La lettre d'imprimerie (The Letter of the Printing Office), was printed in Auriol, a typeface designed by its namesake, George Auriol and reflecting typical Art Nouveau design.

FSV 63 Luckenwalde

After the Berlin Wall was erected, the club was re-founded in 1963 as TSV Luckenwalde and after unification renamed itself FSV 63 Luckenwalde.

Gangstabilly

Hood wrote Demonic Possession while watching Pat Buchanan's televised speech at the 1996 Republican National Convention.

Georges-Emmanuel Clancier

He founded, with Robert Margerit and Rene Rougerie, the magazine Centres, then edited a collection of poems, manuscripts, poetry and criticism, in Rougerie (including poems by Claude Roy, Jean Lescure, Boris Vian).

Harry Dean

Harry Deane (1846–1925), American baseball player in the National Association

HM Motor Gun Boat 2007

Political exigencies meant that the boats were classed as merchant vessels operated by crews drawn from Hull trawlermen and officers from Ellerman Lines.

Hussey College Warri

Clement Temile - Who was a member of the nation's football team, the Green Eagles.

Isaac Milles

Bromley mentions a rare engraved portrait of him, signed by George Vertue.

Jessie Andrews

In 2012, she was honored with the AVN Award for Best Actress, the XBIZ Award for the Acting Performance of the Year for her performance in Portrait of a Call Girl and Best New Starlet, and the XRCO Award for Best Actress and New Starlet.

Jimmy Jansson

Jansson was engaged with Sandra Dahlberg, who was also a contestant in Fame Factory 2002 and has also competed in Melodifestivalen.

Ludorf

Ludorf is a municipality in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

Master Point Press

Notable bridge players whose works have been published by Master Point Press include Michael Rosenberg, Larry Cohen, Edwin Kantar, Terence Reese, Barbara Seagram, and David Bird.

Nutch

Since April, 2010, Nutch has been considered an independent, top level project of the Apache Software Foundation.

Precious Cargo

When Tucker enters the cargo hold inside Goff's ship, he clears the frost covering the stasis canopy, and sees a beautiful female alien (Padma Lakshmi).

Smygehuk

The model for the statue was Birgit Holmquist, mother of the model Nena von Schlebrügge and grandmother of actress Uma Thurman.

Stephen Elliott

Stephen Elliott, Jr. (1830–1866), Confederate general in the American Civil War.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions

The phrase is used by Benjamin Sisko in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode In the Pale Moonlight regarding his actions in "tricking" the Romulan Empire to join the United Federation of Planets in war against the Dominion.

Villa Barbarigo, Noventa Vicentina

In 1588, the Barbarigo family had commissioned the building from a generally unknown Veronese architect, who was familiar with Andrea Palladio's works.