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29 unusual facts about the world


Americas Quarterly

Americas Quarterly has attracted contributions from leading figures in the region such as Bill Gates, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Ricardo Lagos, José Antonio Ocampo, Richard Feinberg, and Admiral James Stravidis.

Closing statement

Closing argument, or "summation", the concluding statement of each party's counsel in a court case

Deadly Desire

The complications which result from this "triangle" follow a pattern reminiscent of Double Indemnity and Body Heat.

Dede Gorgud High School

The school was established in Corat settlement of Sumgayit city in 1993, one year after the first high school of the company in Azerbaijan.

Einzelhaft

In 1980 Falco, who played in the band Drahdiwaberl, signed a contract for three solo-albums produced by Robert Ponger and managed by Markus Spiegel.

Escaping Your Ambitions

Escaping Your Ambitions is a largely instrumental album by The Tough Alliance, released in 2006.

Ghana at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Half of its team had competed at their first Olympic games; sprinter Vida Anim, on the other hand, was the first Ghanaian female athlete to participate in her fourth Olympics.

Harrison family of Virginia

J. Hartwell Harrison (1909-1984), third great grand nephew of Benjamin V, of Boston, collaborated in the first kidney transplant in 1954.

Hartberg Umgebung

Hartberg Umgebung is a municipality in the district of Hartberg in Styria, Austria.

Hinduism in China

Many Chinese tourists visits Phra Phrom in Thailand to make wishes, such as the celebrity Deborah Lee.

James B. Belford

Upon the admission of Colorado into the Union as a State, Belford was elected as a Republican to the Forty-fourth Congress as United States Representative for the first district of Colorado and served from October 3, 1876, until March 3, 1877.

June Harding

She is best known for appearing opposite Hayley Mills and Rosalind Russell in the Columbia Pictures film The Trouble with Angels.

Keith Park

Leigh Mallory, already envious of Park for leading the key 11 Group while 12 Group was left to defend airfields, repeatedly failed to support 11 Group and his Big Wing (led by Douglas Bader) often ran amok through 11 Group airspace confusing the UK's defences.

Larry Lloyd

Laurence Valentine Lloyd (born 6 October 1948 in Bristol, England) was a footballer, a burly and tough central defender who won honours for both Bill Shankly's Liverpool and Brian Clough's Nottingham Forest, both highly successful sides of the 1970s.

Lehman Hot Springs

Pendleton, Oregon photographer Walter S. Bowman captured images of bathers at the hot springs during the early 20th century including partygoers at a masquerade party.

Operation Gaff

On July 18, Lee and his team parachuted into Orléans; they found that Rommel had been severely injured the previous day after his staff car had been overturned in an attack by RAF Hawker Typhoons and replaced by Günther von Kluge.

Reinhold Brinkmann

Reinhold Brinkmann (born August 21, 1934 in Wildeshausen, Oldenburg; died 10 October 2010) was a German musicologist.

Richard Kingsland

He was sent to Morocco in 1940 to rescue two of Britain's most senior WWII leaders, Duff Cooper and John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort.

Rzeszów–Jasionka Airport

It has also become a preferred arrival point for Jews on pilgrimage to the tomb of Rabbi Elimelech of Lizhensk in Leżajsk usually in March.

Spirit Indestructible

The music video was shot on Vancouver’s scenic Grouse Mountain and captures the song’s empowering and spiritual message, featuring snow-capped mountains and beach bonfires, as well as Furtado performing in a theater alongside a kid playing on a miniature piano.

Stade Richter

Even after the Stade de la Mosson opened, the Stade Richter was used for concerts, by artists including Pink Floyd, Michael Jackson & Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band.

Tharpa Publications

Universal Compassion is based on Je Tsongkhapa's Sunrays of Training the Mind

The Maple Leaf Forever

It is the opening theme of each episode of The King Chronicle, Donald Brittain's 1988 NFB/CBC miniseries about the long career of Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King.

The Sound of Hush

Since then, they have toured in various countries including UK and Canada, sometimes with support of musicians such as Sally Barris, other times acting as support for Turin Brakes and Stephen Fretwell in 2005, Jamie Cullum in 2006, and Runrig in 2010.

Tomahawk Conference, Ohio, 1958-1960

Ned Novell, the Mogadore coach, contacted Ravenna Township and Garrettsville about whether Windham had used freshmen in their games, and then protested to the state that since Windham had violated Rule 2, Section 2 of the Classification of Schools, they had no right to be classified as Class A. Rather, since they had used freshmen at one point in the season, they could not claim that they were a three-year school, and should be reclassified as Class AA.

Twickenham Academy

Twickenham Academy (formerly Whitton School) is a co-educational secondary school and Sixth Form with academy status located in Whitton, Twickenham, London, England.

Un Soir du Paris

"Dua Perempuan dengan HP-nya" ("Two Women and Their Cell Phones") was written by Seno Gumira Ajidarma in Jakarta on 18 August 1997.

Uzi and Ari

The band takes its name from the children of Ben Stiller's character in the movie The Royal Tenenbaums, and does not refer to any members of the band (Uzi and Ari was never a duo, as is sometimes mistakenly assumed).

WWiSE

World-Wide Spectrum Efficiency, an industry group formed espousing an approach to achieving next-generation wireless technologies.