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25 unusual facts about the world


Benny Wenda

Benny and his wife Maria perform traditional West Papuan music as The Lani Singers.

Boettgerilla compressa

Another known locality is the ruins of Bagrat Castle near Kutaisi in Georgia.

Borovichi

There are road connections to Tikhvin (via Lyubytino), Okulovka, and Pestovo.

Cornish Riviera Express

Additional slip coaches were added to be dropped from the train on the move at various stations to serve holiday destinations such as Weymouth, Minehead, Ilfracombe, and Newquay, and the train began to run non-stop to Newton Abbot where a pilot engine was added for the climb over the Dainton and Rattery banks, the southern outliers of Dartmoor.

Coronation of the Virgin

The subject seems to first appear in art, unusually, in England, where a tympanum over the door of the church at Quenington in Gloucestershire of perhaps 1140 may be the earliest surviving depiction, and there is another in Reading, Berkshire.

Dallas Harlequins R.F.C.

In 1972, the Harlequins became the first Texas RFU club to win a match against a club from outside the United States when they defeated the Baillou Club of Nassau, Bahamas.

DJ Broiler

on November 4, 2013 they released their debut studio album The Beginning, peaking to number 9 on the Norwegian Albums Chart, the album also inclues the single "Bonski", which has peaked to number 5 on the Norwegian Singles Chart.

Don't Wanna Lose You Again

Despite this, the song received over 264,000 votes to be entered as Norway's official song, but came second to Didrik Solli-Tangen's "My Heart Is Yours", which scooped over 440,000 votes.

Driver's license in the United States

Texas was expected to also implement an enhanced driver's license program, but the program has been blocked by Texas Gov. Rick Perry, despite a state law authorizing the Texas Department of Public Safety to issue EDLs and a ruling by the state attorney general, Greg Abbott, that Texas' production of EDLs would comply with federal requirements.

G25

Zenoah G-25, a single cylinder, two stroke, carburetted aircraft engine

Harry Scolinos

In 2003 Scolinos formally announced his candidacy for the 29th Congressional District with introductions made by former Olympian John Nabor and Scolinos’ daughter, Tasia Scolinos, spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

Jim Nance McCord

McCord had a lifelong interest in livestock breeding, focusing mainly on Jersey cattle and Tennessee Walking Horses.

José de Córdoba y Rojas

He was the son of José de Córdoba y Ramos, a vice admiral and commander of the Spanish fleet, who was defeated at the Battle of Cape St Vincent (1797) and who was consequently dismissed from service.

Joyce Anne Barr

She has held assignments in Stockholm (1980), Budapest (1982), Nairobi (1985), Khartoum (1989), Ashgabat (1998), and Kuala Lumpur, where she was Counselor for Management Affairs.

Oscar Nissen

His father had migrated from Holstein to Norway in 1825, and his mother was born at Falster.

Paul Due

During this period he designed more than 150 railway stations, including the stations at Hamar, Kristiansand, Levanger and Kornsjø.

Planet of the Drums

For the 2008 POTD intro, Dieselboy hired Julianne Moore, the disembodied female voice in the movie thriller "Eagle Eye", with sound design by SPKTRM and Dieselboy

Real Art Ways

Real Art Ways has also hosted notable performances by John Cage, Philip Glass, Ornette Coleman, Steve Reich, Laurie Anderson, Allen Ginsberg and others.

Richard Cadette

Born in Hammersmith, Cadette began his career in non-league football with Wembley, before playing professional football in both England and Scotland for Leyton Orient, Southend United, Sheffield United, Brentford, Bournemouth, Falkirk, Millwall and Clydebank.

Stately home

The term is also used imprecisely by commentators on modern society such as Robin Leach in Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous and parodists such as Dame Edna Everage.

Steinunn Valdís Óskarsdóttir

Steinunn Valdís Óskarsdóttir (born 7 April 1965) is an Icelandic politician, and a former mayor of Reykjavík.

Sven Lindqvist

In 1992, Lindqvist was embroiled in heated public debate, when his book Exterminate all the Brutes was attacked for its treatment of the Second World War and the Holocaust.

Uppland Runic Inscription 181

Uppland Runic Inscription 181 or U 181 is the Rundata catalog number for a Viking Age memorial runestone located at Össeby-Garn, which is about one kilometer east of Karby, Uppsala County, Sweden.

Vaccine Act of 1813

Dr. Edward Jenner discovered smallpox vaccine in 1796, and hucksters quickly exploited the demand for vaccine by offering fraudulent versions.

Venedikt Yerofeyev

Yerofeyev is best known for his 1969 "poem in prose" (ironical assignment of the genre) Moscow-Petushki (several English translations exist, including Moscow to the End of the Line and Moscow Stations).