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18 unusual facts about the world


Calow

Methodist minister the Rev'd Kathleen Richardson took as her title "Baroness Richardson of Calow", after the village, when she was created a life peer in 1998.

Chimney Point, Vermont

In 1731, the French decided to firmly establish their presence on Lake Champlain and block the lake route from the British colonies to Canada by building a fort at the strategic narrows between Chimney Point and Crown Point, New York.

Dore and Totley railway station

In 1894 the station became the junction for the new Dore and Chinley line (now the Hope Valley Line).

Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson

Her son, Atkinson's grandson, was the movie and television actor Wally Cox.

Heart rate

For example Miguel Indurain, a Spanish cyclist and five time Tour de France winner, had a resting heart rate of 28 beats per minute, one of the lowest ever recorded in a healthy human.

Jerry D. Page

Page was alleged to have revealed confidential bomb shortages in Vietnam and to have criticized defense policies of Defense Secretary Robert McNamara during an Air War College seminar for senior Air Force Reserve officers in December 1966.

Krishnaswamy Sundarji

In 1963 he served in the UN mission in the Congo, where he was chief of staff of the Katanga command and was mentioned in dispatches for his gallantry.

Linda Pastan

Two of her collections of poems were nominated for the National Book Award and one for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.

Martin Luther's Death House

Luther travelled on 23 January 1546 from Halle to Eisleben on a mission to solve an inheritance dispute in the House of Mansfeld.

Millington Conroy

Millington Conroy (born August 12, 1952) is a collector of Marilyn Monroe artifacts.

Odyssey: The Compleat Apventure

It was created for the Apple II platform and is considered one of the first microcomputer-based role-playing video games.

OSS 117 Mission for a Killer

The film was shot on Brazilian locations and featured action scenes arranged by Hunebelle's stunt coordinator Claude Carliez with production design by Paul-Louis Boutié.

Our Last Days as Children

There is also speculation the film may include the song of the same name, by Explosions in the Sky.

Rithy Panh

Rithy, along with director Ieu Pannakar, has developed Bophana: Audio Visual Resource Center – Cambodia, with an aim towards preserving the country's film, photographic and audio history.

Teatro Massimo

It is the biggest in Italy, and one of the largest of Europe (the third after the Opéra National de Paris and the K. K. Hof-Opernhaus in Vienna), renowned for its perfect acoustics.

Toop Toop

The song has been used as part of the soundtrack of Il Divo, an Italian movie by director Paolo Sorrentino.

United States House of Representatives elections in Kansas, 2010

Freshman incumbent Republican Congresswoman Lynn Jenkins, who was initially sent to Congress after defeating previous Congresswoman Nancy Boyda in 2008, was the only member of the Kansas congressional delegation to seek re-election this cycle.

Venustiano Carranza, D.F.

The vestibule contains a collection of murals depicting Mexico’s history done by Adolfo Mexiac.