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26 unusual facts about the world


Alysson

Alysson Paolinelli, Brazilian agronomic engineer and public official

Brian Schwager

Brian Schwager (aka Ares Schwager) is an American musician and the guitarist from Rapcore band Downset.

Charles Konig

On the completion of this work he became assistant to Dryander, librarian to Joseph Banks.

Culemborg

Roelof de Man (1634 - 1663), bookkeeper and second-in-charge to Jan van Riebeeck at founding of Cape Town (South Africa)

Daniel Schafer

Dan Schafer, Detroit-Nashville musician, songwriter, recording artist, Daniel Joseph Schafer,

Domestos

The commercial ends with a voiceover of the slogan, read by famous British actor Patrick Stewart.

Frankie Bunn

Paul Scholes described Bunn as his favourite footballer of all time, in an interview at the 2002 World Cup.

Gtk-gnutella

After a while Raphael Manfredi took over as the main software architect, and the client has been in active development ever since.

Luisa Moreno

She invited Admiral David W. Bagley, commandant of the Eleventh Naval District in San Diego, to a meeting of San Diego-area community and labor leaders.

Matt Fishel

The single's artwork is another illustration by Joe Phillips, featuring the two lead cartoon characters from the accompanying music video.

Memorijal Hakija Turajlić

The first Memorijal Hakija Turajlić was held in 1994, during the Siege of Sarajevo, and since then more than 400 boxers from 30 countries have participated in the tournament.

National Presbyterian Church in Mexico

In the 1920s, a Ministry among the Chiapas people began first in Spanish speaking population and in 1950 an outreach among Mayan-speaking people was made, such as Chol, Tzotil, Tzeltzal indigenous groups.

Patrick V. McNamara Federal Building

It houses offices of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, Army Corps of Engineers, Defense Contract Management Agency, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Internal Revenue Service, Peace Corps, Railroad Retirement Board and Social Security Administration.

Prover9

Prover9 is an automated theorem prover for First-order and equational logic developed by William McCune.

Richard Carvel

The Carvel Hall Hotel became very popular, notably with visiting midshipmen, as it was near the United States Naval Academy.

Richard Cheyney

The isolated Cheyney was a target for Edmund Campion, who had received sympathetic treatment from him.

Rosemary Willis

Even though she was a very close assassination witness, Rosemary was never interviewed by any Warren Commission investigators.

Sheet explosive

(This approach is a rough conventional-explosive analogue to the Project Orion nuclear rocket, although with many more explosions per second.) Note that this differs from a pulsed detonation rocket because the fuel consists solely of pre-positioned solid explosives.

Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-Ohki

After Cartoon Network's rights to broadcast the show expired, International Channel picked up the rights to air the dubbed version in 2004.

The Spooners of Porthmadog

Later engines were delivered on the newly opened Cambrian Railways to Minffordd where Spooner had laid out a pattern of exchange sidings that inspired many visitors from abroad to adopt narrow gauge as the inexpensive feeder line to the standard gauge.

Thomas Boude

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1802 to the Eighth Congress.

Ugo Fantozzi

A few years after the release of the first two books of Paolo Villaggio Fantozzi, the director Luciano Salce will turn with the author two films, the most famous character in the series, titled Fantozzi (1975) and Il secondo tragico Fantozzi (1976).

Vilhelm Bjerknes

In 1917, he founded the Geophysical Institute, University of Bergen where he wrote his book On the Dynamics of the Circular Vortex with Applications to the Atmosphere and to Atmospheric Vortex and Wave Motion (1921), and laid the foundation for the Bergen School of Meteorology.

Weapons of Happiness

Weapons of Happiness is a 1976 political play by Howard Brenton about a strike in a London crisp factory.

William French Smith

In 1992, independent presidential candidate Ross Perot considered naming Smith, "who'd been dead for a couple of years," as his vice presidential running mate, according to Perot's campaign manager Ed Rollins.

Wudja Cudja

Wudja Cudja was a UK-based gameshow hosted by Abbie Eastwood and Jayne Sharp, and was based on the dares-for-cash principle, similar to shows such as I Bet You Will and Indecent Proposals.