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24 unusual facts about the world


Alexei I. Miller

Alexei I. Miller is Russian professor of history at Central European University and formerly research fellow at the Russian Academy of Sciences, senior fellow at the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen.

Anelia Ralenkova

Ralenkova shared the silver medal with other teammate Lilia Ignatova and Soviet Galina Beloglazova.

ASP pistol

The ASP featured clear Lexan grips allowing the shooter to see how much ammunition is left, a rounded hammer, hooked triggerguard and no front sight.

Clint, Texas

Clint, Texas, was also mentioned in Johnny Cash's 1966 song "Red River Valley" from the album Everybody Loves a Nut, in which Cash repeatedly states that he bought his first harmonica for $2.98 in Clint.

Daring Mystery Comics

In the 1970s, the Blue Diamond resurfaced in period stories in Marvel Premiere, as a member of the homefront World War II team the Liberty Legion.

Dingo Creek Jazz and Blues Festival

With David and Marg's retirement the from Dingo Creek Jazz & Blues Festival, Gympie Rotary Club has agreed to take on the management of this event with all proceeds going to community charities and keeping with festival tradition, SIDS will be the major benefactor.

George C. Wheeler

Wheeler began studying ants at the Barro Colorado Island research station in the Panama Canal in 1924, having been urged to go to the tropics by William Morton Wheeler, who had mentored him at Harvard together with Charles Thomas Brues.

Glenstal Abbey School

Glenstal is south facing and has an excellent view of the Galtee Mountains.

Gluckstadt

Gluckstadt, Mississippi, an unincorporated community in the U.S. state of Mississippi

Janich

Oliver Janich (b. 1973), German author, journalist and politician

Jenifer Loon

She worked in several staff positions for the U.S. House of Representatives from 1990 to 1997, including legislative director, minority policy director, minority staff director, and staff director for the House Committee on Small Business (1995–1997), where she worked directly with the committee chair, Congresswoman Jan Meyers of Kansas.

Leon Ray Livingston

Due to this, Livingston was known to travel with a scrapbook of his journeys (which include a personalized note from President William Howard Taft and an autograph from Theodore Roosevelt), copies of his books, and always two $50 bills.

Louis Chen Hsiao Yun

Among his numerous local and international awards and honours are his election as Fellow of TWAS, The World Academy of Sciences in 2000 and Fellow of the Singapore National Academy of Science in 2011; a Public Administration Medal (Silver) in 2002; and the conferment by the French Government of the title of Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques in 2005 for his service to education.

Luis López Álvarez

His cultural commitment to the Congo led him to found and direct the Institute of Congolese Studies, a commitment which turned into political activism alongside Patrice Lumumba, future Prime Minister, who renewed many years later as an adviser of the first President of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Laurent Kabila.

Mickey's Amateurs

Goofy begins by playing "In the Good Old Summer Time," and then "There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight." (His cue is "Okay fellers, let's get hot!") But the tempo and intensity of the song causes the machine to be destroyed.

Oldtown, Maryland

The Western Maryland Railway was extended west from Big Pool, Maryland, to Cumberland as a Class-I railroad in 1906, with the mainline being constructed through Oldtown complete with a train station located at the lower end of town.

Pisith Pilika

Piseth Pilika was born to Oak Harl and Meng Mony in Phnom Penh.

Radio Taxi

The reunion of the successful mid-80s lineup happened in 2000, when Brazilian singer and pianist Guilherme Arantes invited Taffo, Marcucci and Fernandes to play with him on a live album.

Robert Dowd

Micheal Zakian, Ph.D. Director of the Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California organized a one-person exhibition of the artist Robert Dowd.

Samuel Heinrich Fröhlich

Frequently he denied many of the central tenets common to all Protestant traditions including Reformed, Lutheranism, Calvinism and Arminianism.

Stuttgart-Feuerbach

His company, Leitz subsequently became known in Germany as the inventor of the ring binder.

The Cambridge Edition of the Letters and Works of D. H. Lawrence

Love Among the Haystacks and other stories (1930), edited by John Worthen, Cambridge University Press, 1987, ISBN 0-521-26836-2)

William R. Newman

In 1994, Newman published Gehennical Fire, an intellectual biography of George Starkey (otherwise known as Eirenaeus Philalethes), a native of Bermuda who received his A.B. from Harvard College in 1646 and went on to become Robert Boyle's first serious tutor in chemistry and probably the favorite alchemical writer of Isaac Newton.

Yeraskh

Yeraskh is the last town in Armenia at the border with Nakhichevan on what used to be the main road and rail connections between Nakhichevan and Azerbaijan proper.