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17 unusual facts about the world


Beverly M. Earle

In 2007, she announced her candidacy for Mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina.

De Bonis

De bonis non administratis, a legal term for assets remaining in an estate after the death or removal of the estate administrator

Embassy of France, Ottawa

Construction on the new mission building began on the property in 1936 with the first stone being laid by Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King on Bastille Day.

İzmit Clock Tower

In the former Balkan provinces of the Ottoman Empire, particularly in present-day Serbian, Bosnian and Montenegrin towns such as Belgrade, Prijepolje, Sarajevo, Banja Luka, Gradačac and Stara Varoš, similar Ottoman era clock towers are still named Sahat Kula (deriving from the Turkish words Saat Kulesi, meaning Clock Tower.)

James J. Hill Sapphire

The unnamed sapphire known for its former owner, railroad executive James J. Hill, is a 22.66 carat (4.532 g) gem that is currently the world's most valuable known sapphire.

Journey Prize

The award was endowed by James A. Michener, who donated the Canadian royalty earnings from his 1988 novel Journey.

Morris Minor

The Traveller featured an external structural ash (wood) frame for the rear bodywork, with two side-hinged rear doors.

Nawab of Pataudi

The term Nawab of Pataudi refers to the lineage of rulers of the princely Pataudi State in India, but most commonly refers either to the 8th Nawab, Iftikhar Ali Khan Pataudi, who played cricket for both England and India, or his son, the 9th Nawab, who captained the Indian cricket team.

Of Whales and Woe

The CD includes an assortment of musical styles and also includes Les' theme for Seth Green's hit animated show Robot Chicken that airs on Adult Swim.

Plotopteridae

That they went extinct at the same time as the giant penguins of the Southern Hemisphere, which also coincided with the radiation of the seals and dolphins, has led to speculation that the expansion of marine mammals was responsible for the extinction of the Plotopteridae.

Red-necked Phalarope

The most reliable place for them is the Shetland Isles, particularly the Loch of Funzie on Fetlar, with a few birds breeding elsewhere in Scotland in the Outer Hebrides (e.g. at Loch na Muilne, where a "phalarope watchpoint" has been set up) and sometimes the Scottish Mainland in Ross-shire or Sutherland.

Sue Morano

Born and raised in Nova, Ohio, Morano is a registered nurse who maintains shifts in the emergency room (ER) of the local county hospital even currently.

Swedish Pro Tennis Championships

The Swedish Pro Tennis Championships were created in Gothenburg, Sweden, as part of the 1972 WCT circuit, as one of the four non-American events of the tour, with the Canada International of Essen, Germany, and the Rotterdam Indoors of Rotterdam, Netherlands.

Symphony

Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique, a work famous for its innovative orchestration (Berlioz 2002, xv) is also a programme work and has both a march and a waltz and five movements instead of the customary four.

Tele2Vision

Tele2 was relatively late in adopting digital television, broadcasting analogue only until early 2006 (the other major distributors, Com Hem, SPA and Canal Digital, had been offering digital television for several years by then).

Tour of Utah

It was founded and managed by a local family of cycling enthusiasts until 2007, when it was bought by the Larry H. Miller Group.

TSN Radio

As part of TSN's television contract extension with the Canadian Football League, TSN Radio also owns the radio broadcast rights to the Grey Cup from 2013 to 2018.