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26 unusual facts about the world


Biathlon at the 2014 Winter Olympics – Qualification

During the 2012/13 or 2013/14 Biathlon World Cup season the athlete must have two results at IBU Cup, Open European Championships, World Championships or World Cup in the Sprint or Individual that at a maximum is 20% behind the average time of the top three athletes.

Björn Hjörtur Guðmundsson

Björn was born in Ferjubakka í Borgarhreppi in 1911, son of Guðmundur Andrésson (31 October 1870 – 3 January 1969) and Ragnhildur Jónsdóttir (2 September 1877 – 2 July 1943).

Bob Pridden

He is credited on several of The Who's albums including Live at Leeds, and produced the 1973 Eric Clapton's Rainbow Concert.

Casa de los Botines

The Casa de los Botines (built 1892-1893) is a Modernist building in León, Spain designed by Antoni Gaudí.

Cennino Cennini

According to Victoria Finlay, in her book Colour: Travels Through The Paintbox, the infamous UK forger, Eric Hebborn was greatly influenced by Cennino Cennini.

Chip Prather

Charles Prather (born 1953) is an American former firefighter who was the second Fire Chief of the Orange County Fire Authority (OCFA) in California, United States.

EMARSS

The Enhanced Medium Altitude Reconnaissance and Surveillance System, or EMARSS, is an American reconnaissance aircraft project that grew out of the failed Aerial Common Sensor project.

English Music Festival

The Violin Sonatas by Arthur Bliss and Henry Walford Davies have languished in manuscript form for over one hundred years, and were performed at the 2010 English Music Festival by regular EMF artists Rupert Marshall-Luck and Matthew Rickard.

Glenn Docherty

It was announced in January 2013 that Docherty had gained Liberal preselection for the State seat of Newland in the 2014 state election.

House of Dinefwr

Rhodri's second son Cadell ap Rhodri, however, looked outside Gwynedd's traditional borders and took possession of the Dark Ages kingdom of Dyfed by the late 9th century, establishing his capital at the citadel of Dinefwr.

Impressions chronology

Fred Cash (a returning original member of the Impressions precursor group, The Roosters)

La Seu d'Urgell

The city is at the confluence of two rivers, the Segre and Valira, located in a plain 7 km long and 691 meters high surrounded by high mountains, such as the Cadí mountain range.

Lake Neale

Lake Neale was named after Frank Neale, one of the pilots of an aerial expedition to accurately survey the desert regions northwest of Alice Springs in 1930.

Military history of the Mali Empire

Fakoli of the Koroma clan took one-third of the army out to conquer the town of Bambougou within the Bambouk area, which was famous for its goldfields.

Muriel Resnik

She was known for her comedy play Any Wednesday, performed for the first time on Broadway in 1964 and starring Sandy Dennis, Don Porter, Gene Hackman and Rosemary Murphy.

Murnaghan equation of state

It was subsequently shown that this generalized equation was not new but was reduced to the Tait equation.

Nightmare as a Child

Helen Foley was the name of a beloved teacher of Serling's at Binghamton High School, and the main performance theater at that school is named after her.

Rebecca Riots

The film was not released until 1992, and starred Peter O'Toole, Paul Rhys and Joely Richardson.

Richard Harison

He married Maria Jones, and their son was George Folliott Harison (1776–1846), the namesake of "Harison's Yellow Rose".

Russell T. Osguthorpe

He was previously a visiting faculty member at the University of Toronto, the University of Paris and a member of the faculty of the National Technical Institute for the Deaf in Rochester, New York.

Sokrat Jinjolia

Recently, Jinjolia became a member of the newly founded Public Chamber of Abkhazia.

Twinkie Clark

Its success warranted another live effort, the Asaph Ward-produced Home Once Again: Live in Detroit, two years later.

U.S. Route 54 in Texas

The southwestern portion was originally part of the Ozark Trails, paralleling the El Paso and Southwestern Railroad, and was originally given the numbering of State Highway 33.

United Nations Security Council Resolution 752

The irregular forces present in the territory should have been disbanded and disarmed.

WAEZ

The station also has to deal tremendous co-channel interference in and around Marion, Virginia from WSLC-FM in Roanoke.

Winnipeg Sun

Some of the initial comics published in the Sun were Ziggy, Frank and Ernest, Dallas, Ben Swift, John Darling, Graves, Inc., Barbara Cartland's Romances, Heathcliff, The Neighborhood, and Winthrop.