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29 unusual facts about the world


2008 Croatian Figure Skating Championships

The competition took place between 16 February and 17 February, 2008 in Zagreb.

Acompañame A Estar Solo

The song was nominated for Record of the Year and Song of the Year at the Latin Grammy Awards of 2006, losing on both categories to Shakira's song "La Tortura".

Altaras

Jakob Altaras (1918–2001), Croatian-German physician and president of the Jewish community Giessen

Baños de Coamo

General James H. Wilson ordered the 3rd and 4th Regular Pennsylvania Artillery to provide artillery support for the frontal assault on the Baños, while Troop C covered the right side against flanking.

Coimbatore bypass

In 2011, the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, J. Jayalalithaa, announced the construction of two new flyovers at Ukkadam and Athupalam to help decongest the Palakkad Road.

David P. Landau

Not to be confused with Lev Landau.

Domenic Sarno

Significantly, in 2007 the board voted in favor of conducting a full search for a new police commissioner after Edward A. Flynn left to become Milwaukee police chief.

Doug Mountjoy

Mountjoy's first success was in the 1977 Masters at the New London Theatre as a late replacement, and his first professional tournament.

Drug carrier

Microspheres made of the biodegradable polymer poly(lactic-co-glycolic) acid

FC Bagnols Pont

Football Club Bagnols-sur-Cèze – Pont-Saint-Esprit (Occitan Banhòus de Céser – Lo Pònt Sant Esperit; commonly referred to as FC Bagnols Pont or simply Bagnols Pont) is a French football club based in Bagnols-sur-Cèze in the Languedoc-Roussillon region.

Godfrey Ellis

He was drafted in the second round with the tenth overall pick in the 2005 CFL Draft by the Calgary Stampeders.

Ivoprop

Zdarsky started the company after carving his own propeller for a homebuilt ultralight trike that he flew from Cold War Czechoslovakia, over the Iron Curtain to Vienna in 1984.

LTIB

Linux Target Image Builder (LTIB) is an open source project based on RPM, Menuconfig and Perl.

Mi plačemo iza tamnih naočara

The original album cover features an image of fictional comic book superhero The Phantom.

Million Pieces

"Million Pieces" is the debut single by Swedish singer, songwriter, pianist, and model Tove Styrke who finished third on Swedish Idol 2009.

Morrison-Knudsen

MK was also involved in the construction of rail projects such as the BART extension (M-K also built 80 C2 cars for BART in 1994) and the single track Apoera-Bakhuys railway in Suriname (1976–1977).

Newcastle, KwaZulu-Natal

Fani Madida – Former soccer player (Current Amazulu Assistant Coach)

Nigeria Olympic Committee

In January 2011 the NOC announced that it had chosen Loughborough University as training camps for Team Nigeria prior to the London 2012 Olympic Games, a location that would also be used by the Japanese athletes.

Our Tune

The original speech was an apology for Clegg's promise to block an increase in University tuition fees before the 2010 general election, a pledge on which he later reneged as a member of the post-election coalition government.

P-process

Such proton captures on stable nuclides (or nearly stable), however, are not very efficient in producing p-nuclei, especially the heavier ones, because the electric charge increases with each added proton, leading to an increased repulsion of the next proton to be added, according to Coulomb's law.

PackML

In the late 1980s the ISA (International Society of Automation) began an effort to develop a set of standards for the Batch Control Industry with the intent of providing improved system performance and programming efficiencies by way of a standard set of models and procedures.

Penygraig

Penygraig, like many of the villages of the Rhondda, also produced notable boxers, including Tom Thomas, who in 1908 became the first British national middle-weight champion, and in 1909 was the first winner of the Lonsdale Belt at the same weight.

Perrier's Bounty

Jim, left behind, approaches Jerome (Brendan Coyle) and Russ (Conleth Hill), two members of the Savage Canine Vernacular, who are training their Rottweilers to attack.

S. David Griggs

In 1967 Griggs entered the U.S. Naval Test Pilot School at Patuxent River, Maryland and upon completion of test pilot training was assigned to the Flying Qualities and Performance Branch, Flight Test Division, where he flew various test projects on fighter and attack-type aircraft.

Sabzevar

The city is home to the Islamic Azad University of Sabzevar (IAUS), founded in 1985 in response to increasing demands for a higher education center in the region; expansion and development have always continued within the university.

Sikh Ajaibghar

Sikh museum is inaugurated by Punjab minister for jails, tourism and cultural affairs Hira Singh Gabria.

South Branch, New Jersey

Diamond Jim Brady once lived in the house known as the South Branch Hotel, which he purchased for his mistress, Edna Maculey in 1903 paying $68,000 for it and altering it to suit his taste, "Going down to Brady's Farm" became the fashionable thing to do and Anna Held, Flo Ziegfeld, Lillian Russell and other famous personalities of the days were frequent guests.

Stormy Monday Blues

The song has sometimes been confused with T-Bone Walker's 1947 song "Call It Stormy Monday (But Tuesday Is Just as Bad)", which is frequently shortened to "Stormy Monday" or "Stormy Monday Blues".

The Notwist

Markus Acher, in addition to his work with The Notwist and 13 & God, also works with the band Lali Puna, while Mecki Messerschmidt now also plays drums for the recently reformed Schweisser.