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28 unusual facts about the world


2007 Grand Prix Hassan II

The 2007 Grand Prix Hassan II was a tennis event on the 2007 ATP Tour played in Casablanca, Morocco on clay sourts.

Battersea Park School

Battersea Park School (formerly Battersea Technology College) is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form, located near Battersea Park in the Battersea area of the London Borough of Wandsworth, England.

Bloede

Marie Blöede (writer) (1821-1870; daughter-in-law of Karl August)

Bull Curry

Bull Curry is recognized as the originator of the hardcore style predating even legends such as The Sheik and Abdullah the Butcher.

Candy Cummings

According to a 2002 article by ESPN's Steve Wulf, Cummings was "fairly well-connected" in baseball, as evidenced by his position with the International Association, and this might explain why he received credit for inventing the pitch.

Christopher Bowman

In Inside Edge by Christine Brennan, Bowman admitted to having had a $950 a day cocaine habit during his eligible career, and that he had checked into the Betty Ford Center before the 1988 Olympic Games.

Don Raye

He also composed the song "(That Place) Down the Road a Piece," one of his boogie woogie songs, which has a medium bright boogie tempo.

Endoplasmic reticulum

The lacey membranes of the endoplasmic reticulum were first seen in 1945 by Keith R. Porter, Albert Claude, Brody Meskers and Ernest F. Fullam.

Entrenched clause

Article 152 specifies the Malay language as the national language of Malaysia; Article 153 grants the Malays special privileges; Article 181 covers the position of the Malay rulers; and Part III deals with matters of citizenship.

Franz Roh

But, though the lineage is direct, his magic realism has a very different meaning from the one used to describe the work of writers such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Isabel Allende that dominates our current understanding of the term.

Godmorgon, världen!

It was based on several foreign models, but particularly the Canadian programme Sunday Morning (aired on CBC Radio One 1976-1997).

Governor-in-chief

The office could be systematically vested in and cumulated with a governorship, as it was in the governors of Sierra Leone (at Freetown) the case in both periods of existence of British West Africa, 17 October 1821 - 13 January 1850 and 19 February 1866 - 24 November 1888, the other components being Gambia, the British Gold Coast (present Ghana) and, in the second period, also Lagos territory (later a colony; in present Nigeria).

Hannah More

Born in 1745 at Fishponds in the parish of Stapleton, near Bristol, Hannah More was the fourth of five daughters of Jacob More, a schoolmaster originally from Harleston, Norfolk.

Jack Maddock

Unable to continue working in his former role as a carpenter in his father's factory, let alone play professional football he spent 75 guineas of his money to pay for surgery to remove his damaged cartilage; the operation was a success.

L'Étoile de mer

Originally a silent film, recent copies have been dubbed using music taken from Man Ray's personal record collection of the time.

Martnaham Loch

The name may be Anglian or Gaelic and any connection with Saint Ninian's tutor, Saint Martin of Tours would be speculation.

Michael Hafftka

Circular Stairs, Distress in the Mirrors, poems by Peter Klappert with art by Michael Hafftka, Six Gallery Press 2008, ISBN 978-0-9810091-1-7

New Rose

Japanese singer/guitarist Hide covered the song in his solo tour, Hide Your Psychommunity Tour 1994, which was released on his live DVD Alive! and his live album Hide Our Psychommunity.

Park Lane Interchange

There are a number of amenities at Park Lane, including two newsagents, a Nexus Travelcentre, a Greggs Bakery, and public toilets.

Riverside County Sheriff's Department

This function is mandated by Public Law 280, enacted in 1953, which transferred the responsibility of criminal law enforcement on tribal land from the federal government to specified state governments including California.

Roy Marlin Voris

Upon his retirement from the Navy, Captain Voris went to work for the Grumman Corporation in Bethpage, New York, assisting in the development of the Navy's F-14 Tomcat and NASA's Lunar Module.

San Marino Highway

San Marino Highway (known simply as the Superstrada to locals) is a road from the castelli of Borgo Maggiore, to Domagnano, through to Serravalle and then the town of Dogana, where it enters Italy.

Shepherd Leffler

He had also been elected to represent Iowa's 2nd congressional district in the Thirtieth Congress from 1847 to early 1849.

Siasconset, Massachusetts

In the early twentieth century it was a summer retreat for an Actor's Colony which included Digby Bell, George Fawcett, Joseph Jefferson, Charles Penrose, Hassard Short, William H. Thompson and his wife Isabel Irving, DeWolf Hopper, Frank Gillmore and his daughters Ruth and Margalo Gillmore, among others.

The 5 Point Cafe

The 5 Point Cafe is a bar and 24-hour cafe and bar in the Belltown neighborhood of Seattle, Washington.

Violent Cop

The piano theme heard several times during the movie is Erik Satie's Gnossienne No.1.

Vittorio Moroni

Among the short films made, Eccesso di zelo (Too Much Zeal) (1997) won awards at many festivals - including the Nanni Moretti’s Sacher Silver Award and Universal Studios Award, which allowed Moroni to make a masterclass at the studios of Universal Pictures in Hollywood.

William Brittelle

Brittelle is also a passionate advocate for the arts in New York City, and is a co-director of New Amsterdam Records alongside Judd Greenstein and Sarah Kirkland Snider.