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30 unusual facts about the world


119th Regiment

Sassuntsi-Davit Tank Regiment (119th 'Sassuntsi-Davit' Separate Engineer Tank Regiment), a unit of the Soviet Army

183 BC

Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus Major, Roman statesman and general, famous for his victory over the Carthaginian leader Hannibal in the Battle of Zama in 202 BC, which has ended the Second Punic War and given him the surname Africanus (b. 236 BC)

Barnaby Bear

"Barnaby Bear", the English name given to Colargol, the 1970s Franco-Polish children's character when the show was broadcast by the BBC

Barthélemy

Barthélémy Bisengimana, Congolese chief of staff to President Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire

Battle of Tarapacá

Also, the unit lost its banner, which was recovered six months later after the battle of Tacna.

Bernstein Castle

A short time later (1644) Ehrenreich Christoph Königsberg sold the sovereignty and the castle to Count Ádám Batthyány.

Bob Ojeda

In 2009, Ojeda joined SportsNet New York as a Pre-Game and Post-Game studio analyst for New York Mets Broadcasts with Chris Carlin

Christian Kampmann

Christian Peter Georg Kampmann (July 24, 1939 in Hellerup – September 13, 1988 on Læsø) was a Danish writer and journalist.

Denis Mondor

In July 2012, he granted an unconditional discharge to a low-level cannabis dealer who had been apprehended by accident during an attempted sting on a crack dealer in the Rivière des Prairies area.

Elton Hayes

One of his best-loved songs was his recording of the Victor Hely-Hutchinson setting of Edward Lear's The Owl and the Pussycat.

Ernest Robinson Ackerman

A part of his valuable United States collection was bequeathed to the Smithsonian Institution’s National Postal Museum in Washington, D.C. Ackerman was named to the American Philatelic Society Hall of Fame in 2000.

First Aid Nursing Yeomanry

A small part of FANY - highly secret at the time and later famous - served as a parent unit for many women who undertook espionage work for the Special Operations Executive.

Grigoriy Krivosheyev

He is mostly known in the West, via an alternative transliteration of his name, Krivosheev, as the editor of a book on Soviet military casualties in the 20th century, which was translated and published in English.

Guo Jie

Soon after returning from the Olympics he began attending the University of Tokyo, graduating in 1942 with a degree in agricultural science and technology during the Second Sino-Japanese War.

Hafod

There is a dedicated express bus route to the east of Neath Road, which is used by buses serving the Landore Park and Ride site and the 'bendy bus' service from Singleton Hospital to Morriston Hospital.

Jake Hook

On 16 January 2010 Music Week listed Hook amongst the 'Movers, Shakers and Dead certs' – and one of EMI's signings of note in 2009, alongside JLS, Guy Chambers and Nadine Coyle.

Kithinji Kiragu

On Jamhuri Day, 12 December 2006, His Excellency President Mwai Kibaki honoured KK with Order of the Grand Warrior of Kenya (OGW).

League for the Fifth International

In this time the League developed the slogan of a 'new, Fifth International', which called on mass organisations of the working class to form a new global party, while also maintaining that such a party should adopt a revolutionary programme.

Martin Earley

The highlight of his career was a stage win in the 1989 Tour de France when he broke clear of three riders 750m from the end of 157 km from Labastide-d'Armagnac to Pau.

MetaEdit+

The research behind the genesis of MetaEdit+ was carried out at the University of Jyväskylä, as part of the MetaPHOR project.

Nicholas-Beazley Airplane Company

The Nicholas-Beazley Aircraft Company Museum resides at Marshall Memorial Municipal Airport in Marshall, Missouri, featuring a NB-3 on display.

Order of Grimaldi

As the Order rewards personal service to the Sovereign Prince of Monaco, it is awarded on the sole discretion of the Grand-Master, currently Albert II, Prince of Monaco.

Radiocarbon 14 dating of the Shroud of Turin

a sample of the cloak having belonged to Louis IX of France and preserved in Saint-Maximin, Var, France, which had a verifiable provenance and was woven between 1240 and 1270.

Rick and Bubba

The duo provided play-by-play commentary for the radio network of the Birmingham Thunderbolts of the XFL in 2001,

Runnemede, New Jersey

St. Teresa Regional School is a PreK-8 Catholic elementary school, that was once attended by Olympic Gold Medal-winning figure skater Tara Lipinski, and operates under the auspices of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Camden.

Samir Khuller

Khuller obtained his undergraduate degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur and was awarded a PhD in 1990 from Cornell University as a student of Vijay Vazirani.

Swede Risberg

Columbus, North Dakota newspaper reports claimed that Risberg played part of the 1927 season with a traveling team called Dellage's Cubans based in Lignite, North Dakota.

Trees Lounge

The film's black humor, based on examination of characters' self-destructive behavior, has been cited as an influence by The Sopranos creator David Chase, who later hired Buscemi to direct the "Pine Barrens" episode of the show and to star as Tony Soprano's cousin Tony Blundetto during the show's fifth season.

United States and weapons of mass destruction

Chemical weapons were not used by the U.S. or the other Allies, during World War II; however, quantities of such weapons were deployed to Europe for use in case Germany initiated chemical warfare.

You're Next

Also present at the vacation house are Crispian's parents Aubrey (Barbara Crampton) and Paul (Rob Moran), his brother, Drake (Joe Swanberg), Drake's wife, Kelly (Margaret Laney), his other brother, Felix (Nicholas Tucci), Felix's girlfriend Zee (Wendy Glenn), and his younger sister Aimee (Amy Seimetz) and her boyfriend Tariq (Ti West).