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26 unusual facts about the world


1996–97 League of Wales

For the first time, the League champions competed in the subsequent Champions League.

Bangalow Public School

Bangalow Public School (K-6) is a Primary School and is on Byron Street, Bangalow, New South Wales, Australia.

Bill Lipschutz

In 1995, with former Cornell classmates Lipschutz formed Hathersage, a currency hedge fund manager company where he is the Principal and Director of Portfolio Management.

Blasted

- A major revival of the play, 15 years on from its debut, by contemporary of Sarah Kane and the Lyric's Artistic Director Sean Holmes starring Danny Webb and Lydia Wilson.

Coalition combat operations in Afghanistan in 2006

An analysis of the coalition casualty figures from May 1 to August 12, 2006 by Sheila Bird, vice-president of the UK's Royal Statistical Society, revealed that during the period, an average of five coalition soldiers were killed every week by the Taliban, twice the death rate suffered during the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

Dmitri Stratan

He played for two years in Slovenia, and one year in France, and lived for some time in Lyubertsy, Moscow Oblast, where he played for Shturm 2002.

Downside, New South Wales

Downside is a farming community in the central east part of the Riverina and situated about 15 kilometres north west from Wagga Wagga and 24 kilometres south east from Coolamon.

Dracula 3D

Dracula 3D is a 2012 Italian-French-Spanish horror film directed by Dario Argento and starring Thomas Kretschmann and Rutger Hauer.

Everything Is Nice: The Matador Records 10th Anniversary Anthology

# One Two Three Four Five Six Seven Eight Nine Ten Barbie Dolls – Pizzicato Five

Frank E. Willis

Moore, in turn, was later defeated in the general election by Republican Governor Mark Sanford.

Gil Montilla

Gil Montilla (born September 11, 1876; date of death unknown) was a Filipino politician who served as Speaker of the National Assembly from 1935 to 1938, and a member of the Philippine Senate

Gruffudd Fychan I

Nevertheless, the Earl of Surrey persuaded the king to allow him possession of his lands, which he held from the king as a tenant at will for the rest of his life.

History of the French national rugby union team

The French national rugby union team first competed at the 1900 Summer Olympics.

Ibn Bassam

Ibn Bassam describes how the incessant invasions of the Castillans forced him to run away from Santarém in Portugal, "the last of the cities of the west," after seeing his lands ravaged and his wealth destroyed, a ruined man with no possessions save his battered sword.

Jacques François Mouret

Mouret was one of many strong players who played hidden in the Turk (others being Johann Baptist Allgaier, who defeated Napoleon in 1809, Schlumberger, Boncourt and Lewis).

John Roan School

The first chairman of the governors of the school was Dr Thomas Plume, the vicar of Greenwich.

M. Graham Clark Downtown Airport

A homebuilt Tri-Q2 from Florida crashed shortly after departing the field in 2006.

Maldonado Base

Maldonado Base, also Pedro Vicente Maldonado Base, is the Ecuadorian Antarctic research base situated at Guayaquil Bay, Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica opened in 1990.

Mobile Riverine Force

This was additional to such air support, both troop insertion and gunfire ships, as the Army tasked to each operation, and air support from Air Force TAC air units on call.

Mr. Pine

The resulting debut album, The Gift of Wolves, was released in April, 2006 on their independent label Whiskey Lad Recordings, to great acclaim from the Winnipeg Sun and the Winnipeg Free Press who hailed the album as a "mini-masterpiece".

Olivier Kosta-Théfaine

His work has been shown at institutions and galleries such as Fondation Cartier, A.L.I.C.E. and Cripta747.

Rogówek

Rogówek, Kłodzko County in Lower Silesian Voivodeship (south-west Poland)

Roussas

If you are looking for Roussas, a Portuguese parish in Melgaço, see Roussas (Melgaço)

Shona Le Mottee

It was released on the Stony Plain Records/Warner Canada label and won the Canadian Juno Award in March 1998 for "The Best Roots and Traditional Album - Group" category.

Sunpu

Sunpu Domain, a Japanese feudal domain during the Edo period centered in Suruga Province

Wushu at the 2005 Southeast Asian Games

Wushu at the 2005 Southeast Asian Games took place in the Emilio Aguinaldo College Gymnasium, in Ermita, Manila, Philippines.