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30 unusual facts about the world


2by4

2by4 or 2 x 4 (Two by Four) is a 1998 American drama film directed by and starring Jimmy Smallhorne.

Andrey Vlasov

With Lieutenant Colonel Vladimir Boyarsky, Vlasov wrote a memo shortly after his capture to the German military leaders suggesting cooperation between anti-Stalinist Russians and the German Army.

Benjamin Kyle

Doctor Benjamin Kyle is a fictional character from the universe of the science-fiction television series Babylon 5, portrayed by Johnny Sekka.

Callender's Cableworks Band

Ltd, later British Insulated Callender's Cables, in Belvedere, south-east London, and performing in London and south-east England.

Cross-community vote

2007!!

Dayyan-Assur

Dayyan-Assur was commander-in-chief, or Tartan (turtānu), of the Assyrian army during the reign of Shalmaneser III (859 - 824 BC).

Edward Augustus Holyoke

Born in Marblehead, Massachusetts, son of the Reverend Edward Holyoke, a former President of Harvard, Edward Augustus graduated from that college in 1746.

Fingal Bay, New South Wales

It seems Cook's initial choice had actually been Point Keppel (named after Augustus Keppel, a Lords Commissioner of the Admiralty), but instead he used Keppel later when he named Keppel Bay.

Fortriu

Other Pictish scholars, such as James E. Fraser are now taking it for granted that Fortriu was in the north of Scotland, centered on Moray and Easter Ross, where most early Pictish monuments are located.

Halifax Public Gardens

Another plaque is to mark a tree than was planted for renowned temperance crusader John Bartholomew Gough by the Sons of Temperance and the Rosebud Band of Hope, the latter group being the children's wing of the.

Hollywood and Vine

Later Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins, the astronauts of the first lunar landing mission Apollo 11, were awarded television stars for coverage of the mission, and given the places of honor at the exact corners of Hollywood and Vine.

Interleukin 10

Extensive IL-10 locus remodeling is observed in monocytes upon stimulation of TLR or Fc receptor pathways.

IWW

Irish Whip Wrestling, an Irish-owned independent professional wrestling promotion established in 2002

Jastreb Vuk-T

Designed by Prof. Dr. Tomislav Dragović at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Aero Engineering Institute, University of Belgrade, the Vuk-T was manufactured by FAJ Jastreb in Vršac entirely from fiberglass.

Leon Gellert

After an education at Adelaide High School, he embarked on a teaching career; first as a student-teacher at Unley High School then at the University of Adelaide's Teacher Training College.

Little Liberia, Staten Island

The Liberian Civil War led to a flight of Liberian immigrants, fleeing ethnic struggles between the Kru, Gola and Grebo communities, corrupt government, and political strife.

Mariano S. Otero

He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1888 to the Fifty-first Congress and in 1890 to the Fifty-second Congress.

Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics

It has six scientific directors, each of whom is responsible for one of the scientific disciplines: Anne Cutler (language comprehension), Wolfgang Klein (language acquisition), Peter Hagoort (language production), Stephen C. Levinson (language and cognition), Simon Fisher (language and genetics) and Antje Meyer (individual differences).

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds

The singles for Gallagher's debut album are "The Death of You and Me", "If I Had a Gun...", "AKA... What a Life!", ""Dream On"" and "Everybody's on the Run".

Rietfontein

It functions as the Rietfontein Borderpost with Namibia during the day hours of 08:00-16:30, that gives access to and from south-east Namibia via Aroab on the C16 main road.

RIT Capital Partners

RIT Capital Partners has its headquarters in Spencer House, ( St James's, London, England ), one of the last surviving city palaces in London (next door to Bridgewater House, one of the others).

Royal Gorge Bridge

He was to go over the bridge while fellow skydiver Jeb Corliss was to go under it.

Simon Fellows

Blessed: A fertility clinic visit becomes an unfathomable nightmare for a woman (Heather Graham) who's impregnated with the devil's DNA.

SM Megamall

Seasonal services in the Chapel include evening Mass on all Fridays of Lent and the traditional Christmastide novena of Masses called Simbang Gabi.

St George's Day in England

BBC Radio 3 had a full programme of St George's Day events in 2006, and Andrew Rosindell, Conservative MP for Romford, has been putting the argument forward in the House of Commons to make St George's Day a public holiday.

Thomas Michael McMillan

A year later, McMillan was named Minister of the Environment, replacing the controversial Suzanne Blais-Grenier.

United States Twelfth Fleet

The Twelfth Fleet was a unit of the United States Navy and was operational from October 1st, 1943.

Vendrell

Josep Vendrell, Spanish army officer and president of FC Barcelona

West Australian Airways

On 5 December 1921 the very first flight as an airline Ted Broad and Bob Fawcett in the Bristol Tourer G-AUDI crashed 130 km north of Geraldton.

Western Science Center

The highlights of this gallery are the skeletons of "Max", the largest mastodon ever discovered in the western United States, and "Xena", a Columbian mammoth.