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29 unusual facts about the world


168 BC

Caecilius Statius, Roman comic poet, admirer and imitator of the Greek playwright Menander (b. c. 219 BC)

Air hammer

Jackhammer, a larger pneumatic hand tool used to break up matter

Atef Helmy

Helmy was awarded his master's degree in 1981; a diploma in computer science from Ain Shams University in 1979, and B.Sc.

Black Ice / White Noise

A would-be cyberpunk action/adventure set in San Francisco 40 years in the future, BIWN uses a large 3D city like Grand Theft Auto.

Bryan Konietzko

In a 2010 interview the president of Nickelodeon, Cyma Zarghami, confirmed that Bryan Konietzko and Avatar: The Last Airbender co-creator Michael Dante DiMartino were developing a new series for the network, called The Legend of Korra.

Deene Park

The manor is located in the countryside not far from the Harringworth Viaduct and is surrounded by historic villages and hamlets.

Felice Pazner Malkin

She subsequently exhibited at the Tel Aviv Museum, and produced Israel’s first artist-designed theater posters for the Habima, Cameri, and Matateh theater companies.

Giuseppe Maria Boschi

During the first decade of the century he is known to have performed at Casale Monferrato, Vicenza, Ferrara, Vienna, Bologna and at Venice, where he created the role of Pallas in Handel's Agrippina for the 1709–1710 Carnevale season.

Guan Lu

At one time Governor Wang Ji of Anping heard of the fame of Guan Lu and invited him to come on a visit, in which he went.

Gyula Vályi

After qualifying as a teacher of mathematics and physics Vályi was awarded a scholarship to allow him to study for two years at the University of Berlin, where the remarkable mathematics team of Kummer, Borchardt, Weierstrass and Kronecker were lecturing.

Henry Odera Oruka

Henry Odera Oruka (June 1, 1944, Nyanza Province–December 9, 1995, Nairobi) was a Kenyan philosopher who is best known for Sage Philosophy, a project started in the 1970s in an attempt to preserve the knowledge of the indigenous thinkers in traditional African communities.

Huna Kingdom

Yudhishthira, followed by the Patachcharas, the Hunas, the Pauravakas and the Nishadas, the Pisachas, with the Kundavishas, and the Mandakas, the Ladakas (Ladakh in Jammu-Kashmir), the Tanganas, and the Uddras, the Saravas, the Tumbhumas, the Vatsas, and the Nakulas.

Igaraçu River

It flows from its origin on the Parnaiba River southwest of the city of Parnaíba to the mouth on the Atlantic Ocean near the city of Luís Correia.

Indian Neck, Virginia

Indian Neck is also home to the Rappahannock tribe of Algonquin Native Americans, who incorporated in 1921 and achieved recognition as a tribe from the Commonwealth of Virginia in 1983, but do not yet have Federal recognition.

Kanbawza

Kanbawza F.C., a football club based out of Taunggyi, Shan State

Kirk Adams

He ran for the Republican nomination in 2012 for Congress in Arizona's 5th congressional district and was defeated by former U.S Congressman, Rep. Matt Salmon.

Lucy Fleming

She is the daughter of the actress Dame Celia Elizabeth Johnson and writer Lt-Col Robert Peter Fleming (the brother of James Bond author Ian Fleming ).

Mac Miller

This was done even though the song is itself based on an Oscar Peterson sample, which he himself never paid for.

Merced Falls, California

A pair of sawmills in Merced Falls cut wood for the Yosemite and Sugar Pine Lumber Company, which shipped lumber down from the Sierra Nevada on the Yosemite Valley Railroad.

Milman Parry

For example "swift footed Achilles" can be seen as looking forward to Hector and Achilles' race around the walls of Troy.

Needle's Eye Wilderness

Needle's Eye Wilderness is surrounded by the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation to the north and south, and private lands to the east and west.

Piiroja

alternative name of Paasiku, a village in Anija Parish, Harju County, Estonia

Tax protester conspiracy arguments

One convicted tax protester, Edward Lewis Brown, has charged that law enforcement officials who surrounded his property in a standoff over his refusal to surrender after his conviction were part of a "Zionist, Illuminati, Free Mason movement," and that the federal government had no jurisdiction in New Hampshire.

Tempo FM

The radio's area overlaps in areas with that of Asian Fever FM (East Leeds, in particularly Harehills, Oakwood and Seacroft) and Stray FM (Harrogate), while broadcasting in conjunction with regional radio stations such as Radio Aire, Real Radio and BBC Radio Leeds.

The Mark of the Rani

This was the first story since Season 3's The Gunfighters to feature specific historical characters, in this case landowner Lord Ravensworth and his employee George Stephenson.

Trepanging

To supply the markets of Southern China, Muslim Makassar Indonesia trepangers traded with Indigenous Australians of Arnhem Land from at least the 18th century or likely prior.

Vivienne Tam

She has worked with Hewlett Packard on a special Vivienne Tam range of designer netbook computers, such as a version of the HP Mini 1000 and the HP Mini 210.

Western Region, Nigeria

In 1963, two provinces Benin and Delta were illegally split from the region to form the new Mid-Western Region.

Whitehaven Beach

The beach was awarded Queensland's Cleanest Beach in Keep Australia Beautiful's 2008 Clean Beach Challenge State Awards.