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30 unusual facts about the world


2005 NCAA conference realignment

Led by Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, the football schools that would be left behind under this initial plan — UConn, Pittsburgh, Rutgers, Virginia Tech, and West Virginia — filed two lawsuits, one against the ACC, and the other against Miami and BC, accusing them of improper disclosure of confidential information and of conspiring to weaken the Big East.

Aravind Enrique Adyanthaya

Working with the Casa Cruz de la Luna Theater Company, Adyanthaya has done experimental staging of several plays by Federico García Lorca, of one of Miguel de Cervantes's exemplary novels, and of several stories by the Puerto Rican author Pepe Liboy.

Beast Cops

There, Cheung meets a madam named Yoyo (whose name in dubbed version is sometimes given as Yo-Yo Ma), who is also Fai's moll.

Brodhead's Bridge Railroad Station

It was a destination for tourists and vacationers from New York City who would stay at local resort homes (boarding houses) and use the nearby Esopus Creek to swim and fish.

Cassiber

After Harth left they recorded two more albums, Perfect Worlds (1986) and A Face We All Know (1990), the latter dealing with issues surrounding the collapse of the Berlin Wall and incorporating texts from Thomas Pynchon's 1973 novel Gravity's Rainbow.

David Barrufet

6 Catalonian leagues (1990–1991, 1991–1992, 1992–1993, 1993–1994, 1994–1995 and 1996–1997)

Deformation

Deformity, in medicine, a major difference in the shape of body part or organ compared to the average shape of that part

Geoff Brock

:For the American poet and translator, see Geoffrey Brock.

George Warren Russell

The family emigrated to Tasmania when he was still a child, and then moved again to New Zealand in 1864.

Gippsland Art Gallery

The Gallery is operated by the Shire of Wellington, and is situated within the Wellington Shire Offices at the Port of Sale Civic Centre, 70 Foster Street, Sale.

Goncourt brothers

The first-ever English-language version of Manette Salomon, translated by Tina Kover, will be published in the spring of 2012 by Hol Art Books.

GWR Iron Duke Class

Name of the class, Iron Duke was a reference to the Duke of Wellington.

Hannes Holm

Hannes Martin Holm, born on 26 November 1962 in Lidingö, is a Swedish director and screenwriter.

I'm Talking with My Mouth

It consists of five cover songs and was sometimes included with pressings of their debut album, Rabbit Songs.

Joe Son

As a condition of his plea agreement, Son was required to provide a DNA sample.

Johann Wilhelm Weinmann

Seuter and Ridinger turned out the first volumes, while Johann Jakob Haid managed the later volumes.

John G. Kerr

Sir John Graham Kerr (1869–1957), Scottish embryologist and Member of Parliament

K. N. Choksy

His paternal grandparents had migrated to Colombo from Surat, North of Bombay, in the year 1885 in order to manage an established business house in the Coconut oil industry at Colombo, belonging to a Bombay Parsi family.

Leezen

Leezen is a municipality in the district of Segeberg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

MS Norsea

The MV Pride of York was built as the MV Norsea for North Sea Ferries as part of their response to the need for larger vessels in the mid to late 1980's.

Pratapgarh district, Uttar Pradesh

Anupam Shyam Ojha (born 1957), film and television actor, who usually plays villainous role on international films set in India

Rated-RKO

On the April 26, 2010, episode of Raw, Edge cost Orton a title shot against John Cena by spearing him during a triple threat match against Batista and Sheamus.

Republic of Biak-na-Bato

This was after a peace treaty was signed by Aguinaldo and the Spanish Governor-General, Fernando Primo de Rivera, that includes Aguinaldo's exile to Hong Kong.

Resia, Friuli

Many Slovenian folk and folk rock groups, such as Katalena and Terrafolk, have drawn their inspiration from the Resian folk tradition.

San Sevaine Flats

Henry was killed by a posse led by San Bernardino County Sheriff Benjamin Franklin Mathews on September 14, 1865, at San Jacinto Canyon in what is now Riverside County, California.

Saxifraga globulifera

He found Saxifraga globulifera in the clefts of rock on the south side of the mountain, as well as other plants that grow on Mount Atlas.

Takamasa Suga

Kamen Rider Ryuki: Episode Final (live-action movie) as Shinji Kido / Kamen Rider Ryuki; Mirror Shinji / Kamen Rider Ryuga

Tara Bray Smith

The proposed series, called Betwixt and then Changelings, would have starred three teenagers (Jessy Schram, Allison Miller and Josh Henderson) who find out they are "changelings" who have the ability to protect the world from evil.

The Assassination of Trotsky

The Assassination of Trotsky is a 1972 British film directed by Joseph Losey with a screenplay by Nicholas Mosley.

William Garbutt

On 22 July 1927 a new club was founded from the merger of numerous clubs in Italy's capital of Rome, the new club in question was A.S. Roma and Garbutt was brought in as their first ever manager.