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21 unusual facts about the world


Alsatia

The name is thought to be a cant term for the area and is first known in print in the title of The Squire of Alsatia, a 1688 play written by Thomas Shadwell.

Avtaar

Chander is married to Renu (Rajni Sharma), while Ramesh is married to Shobha (Priti Sapru).

Central Radio

Central 103.1 FM, UK based radio station serving Falkirk, Stirling and Clackmannanshire

Custom Nation

It looks at Vistaprint, Shutterfly, Zazzle, CafePress, Starbucks, Dell, Subway, and other companies whose business concepts depend on customization.

George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence

Blake was saved at the eleventh hour by a plea for his life from James Goldwell, Bishop of Norwich, but the other two were put to death as ordered.

Geostrophic current

The direction of geostrophic flow is parallel to the isobars, with the high pressure to the right of the flow in the Northern Hemisphere, and the high pressure to the left in the Southern Hemisphere.

Henry Brooke, 11th Baron Cobham

His brother, Sir George Brooke, on the other hand, was involved in radical religious politics.

India Buildings

At the basement level are four decorative shop fronts, and to the right of these is an entrance to the James Street underground station.

International Turkmen-Turkish University

In 2003, at the International Turkmen-Turkish University team was created football club HTTU Aşgabat, speaking in various competitions among students, and then among the masters.

Jimmy D'Anda

2014 - Jimmy has a couple of creative projects coming up featuring George Lynch including George's movie Shadow Nation and the band Shadow Train which recorded their album in 2013 and will be released in collaboration with the movie - Jimmy appears in the movie and is part of the Shadow Train band.

Karen Pendleton

Karen toured Australia in 1959 and 1960 with a number of other Mouseketeers and Jimmie Dodd.

Mastoparan

At the same time, it promotes dissociation of any bound GDP from the protein, enhancing GTP binding.

Michal Navrátil

Gain contract with Royal Caribbean which is the most exclusive and largest luxury cruise lines in the world.

MiR-214

miR-214 is likely to have emerged within the Dnm3 gene after the divergence of jawed and jawless vertebrates and is located on the opposite strand of an intron of Dnm3 and is associated in an expression cluster with miR-199.

Mission partner

Presbyterian Church of Australia’s missionary organisation is Mission Partners, formerly the Australia Presbyterian World Mission

Nuremberg–Crailsheim railway

Near Lichtenau forest, the line continues to Sachsen bei Ansbach and from there runs parallel with the Fränkische Rezat and from the Ansbach district of Eyb it runs next to the railway line from Treuchtlingen to Ansbach station.

Simla, Colorado

Notable athletes from Simla include Glenn Morris, gold medal winner of the 1936 Olympic decathlon, as well as Barry Helton, former professional football player in the NFL.

The Klingon Dictionary

In the season 2 episode "The Panty Piñata Polarization" of The Big Bang Theory, the dictionary is being used during a game of Klingon Boggle.

The Tragedy of Macbeth Part II

The play is written in a blank verse style close to Shakespeare's original, with British spellings used in place of American English due to Lukeman's desire for continuity, which he felt could not be achieved using American English.

Umiat, Alaska

In 1944, the Naval Oil Reserve was set up and it later became an air force base, which is now closed.

Windowing

Windowing system, a graphical user interface (GUI) which implements windows as a primary metaphor