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30 unusual facts about the world


Aksel Berg

Berg joined the Imperial Russian Navy in 1914 and served as junior navigating officer on the Russian battleship Tsesarevich and as liaison officer on the British submarine HMS E8, which was operating in the Baltic in alliance with Russia.

Allan Saxe Field

The softball venue was renamed after popular Professor Allan Saxe gifts made renovations possible in 1993.

Alpha Arae

The 'n' notation in the suffix indicates that the absorption lines in the star's spectrum appear spread out and nebulous because of the Doppler effect from rapid rotation.

Apostolius

Michael Apostolius (died c. 1480), a Greek theologian and rhetorician of the 15th century.

Brihtwine

He was consecrated in 1013, was expelled to restore his predecessor Aethelwine, but was restored and died thirteen days after Aethelwine.

Clan Bannerman

The current Chief of Clan Bannerman is Sir David Gordon Bannerman of Elsick, 15th Baronet of Elsick, Chief of the Name and Arms of Bannerman, OBE.

Country changes in figure skating

Historically, countries with deep fields have more World-class skaters than slots to the World Figure Skating Championships.

Cymbal-banging monkey toy

The Devil's Gift, a 1984 horror film, exhibits similarities to the Stephen King story and was later re-edited as the 1996 film Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders.

Decoherence-free subspaces

Noteworthy is also independent work by Martin Plenio, Vlatko Vedral and Peter Knight who constructed an error correcting code with codewords that are invariant under a particular unitary time evolution in spontaneous emission.

Don Paul

Don Michael Paul (born 1963), actor, director, writer and producer

Festering Hate

The credits for the movie include former LOD member David Buchwald and 2600 Magazine publisher Eric Corley.

Heidberg-Melverode

The palace was built between 1768 and 1769, with a surrounding English garden planned by Lancelot "Capability" Brown, for Princess Augusta of Great Britain, wife of Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, to remind her of her home in England.

Karem Aircraft

Karem was the former chief designer for the Israeli Air Force — who built his first drone during 1973's Yom Kippur War — and has been described by The Economist as the man who "created the robotic plane that transformed the way modern warfare is waged — and continues to pioneer other airborne innovations".

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Land of Look Behind

In addition, Father Amde Hamilton of The Watts Prophets performs a spoken word piece during Marley's funeral service.

Mirza Abolhassan Khan Ilchi

He was sent to London to learn English, where he was trained by Sir Gore Ouseley, who came to Iran along with Kabir as the first British consulate to Iran.

Occupation of Alcatraz

Grace Thorpe, daughter of Jim Thorpe (Sac and Fox), was one of the occupiers and helped convince celebrities like Jane Fonda, Anthony Quinn, Marlon Brando, Jonathan Winters, Buffy Sainte-Marie and Dick Gregory, to visit the island and show their support.

Orris E. Kelly

Reverend Kelly completed his AB degree at Kansas Wesleyan University, Salina, Kansas in 1950 and graduated with a Bachelor of Divinity degree from the Garrett Theological Seminary, Evanston, Illinois in 1953.

Planes That Never Flew

In The Last Rocket Fighter, the series examined at the Saunders-Roe SR.177, a combined jet- and rocket-powered interceptor aircraft, planned by the British company Saunders-Roe, but cancelled in 1957 due to a change in strategic plans.

Red Banner Caucasus Army

In subsequent operations along the Caspian coast 11th Army troops, overcoming stiff resistance, in early 1920 liberated the towns of Petrovsk, Derbent, and finally Baku, facilitating the transfer of the richest oil region into the hands of the workers.

Robert De Cormier

He has also recorded several Christmas albums with his choral group, The Robert DeCormier Singers.

Royal Porthcawl Golf Club

The club has hosted many prestigious tournaments including The Amateur Championship on six occasions, the Walker Cup in 1995, the Curtis Cup in 1964, the British Masters in 1961, and European Tour event, the Welsh Golf Classic in the early 1980s.

Selman Stërmasi

Selman Stërmasi is a former footballer, coach and president of KF Tirana and is regarded as one of their greatest players and most famous coaches.

Sylvana Gómez

Sylvana Anali Rivera Gómez is a female beach volleyball player from Guatemala, who played with María Orellana in the 2003 Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

The Star-Ledger

Tony Soprano received home delivery of the paper, and several episodes opened with him picking it up at the end of his driveway.

Trestin George

In 2012, George joined the SAG-AFTRA union, and George made his major film debut in the movie Fruitvale Station.

Vali Myers

A film by Sheldon and Diane Rochlin, co-Produced by George Plimpton.

Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said that VASIMR technology could be the breakthrough technology that would reduce the travel time on a Mars mission from 2.5 years to 5 months.

Welcome to Westfield

"Welcome to Westfield" was co-written by co-producer Graham Roland and consulting producer J. R. Orci.

Wyre Piddle

It was the home village of Claude Choules, who was born in Pershore on 3 March 1901 and became the last surviving male veteran of World War I.