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27 unusual facts about the world


Clint Brown

Ali Williams, former All Black lock, makes reference to this event in his book "Ali Tall Book Of Tales".

David A. Booth

In 1966-72, he was Research Fellow in the Laboratory of Experimental Psychology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Sussex, on his own funds from SERC, MRC and MHRF.

Friesland, Minnesota

Friesland is an unincorporated community in Dell Grove Township, Pine County, Minnesota, United States.

Gaius Fulcinius

By the second half of the 5th century BC, the former Roman colony of Fidenae had revolted against Rome, and placed themselves under the protection of the wealthy Etruscan city-state of Veii.

George R. Mather

Following an assignment as Chief of Staff, Fourth United States Army at Fort Sam Houston in 1961, he was assigned as Chairman, United States Delegation, Joint Brazil-United States Military Assistance Advisory Group in Rio de Janeiro until September 1964.

Glossary of USSR Russian aviation acronyms – Organisations

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Jennings Bryant

Bryant was a Spencer Foundation Fellow in Formative Evaluation for Children's Television Workshop in New York in 1972 where he worked on research underpinning the creation of new segments and formats for Sesame Street and The Electric Company.

Judith Estrin

Estrin is a technology entrepreneur who co-founded seven companies with Bill Carrico and was the CTO of Cisco Systems from 1998 to 2000.

Jules Berry

Born Marie Louis Jules Paufichet in Poitiers, Vienne, he starred in the French films Les Visiteurs du Soir and Arsene Lupin, Detective.

Lu Hao-tung

Born in Cuiheng Village, Xiangshan County, Guangdong, Lu Hao-tung had been a playmate and close friend of Sun Yat-sen since they were classmates at the Lu-shi Ancestral Temple (陸氏祖祠) school.

Maurício Waldman

His thesis, Água e Metrópole: Limites e Expectativas do Tempo (Water and Metropolis, Limits and Expectations of the Time), is today the more complex and bigger academical work (5 v.) about Brazilian water resources and Water management in the Metropolitan Region of São Paulo (see External Links).

Max Friedman

He composed several songs about World War I including "Like a Baby Needs its Mother That's How Uncle Sam Needs You" (1917); "Our Own American Boy (1917); and the post-war "Give the Job to the Gob and the Doughboy" (1919), a plea for employers to hire veterans, featuring lyrics by Lew Porter and Alex Sullivan.

Melissa Lefton

Her cover of "He Blinded Me With Science" appeared on the soundtrack to Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius.

OGPlanet

On February 16, 2012, OGPlanet announced that it will be publishing Tactical Intervention, a new first-person shooter from the co-creator of Counter-Strike, Minh Le.

One-Two-GO Airlines Flight 269

Two years later, National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) reported that wind shear was not a factor in the crash.

Open Services Access

The API for OSA is called Parlay, (or Parlay/OSA or OSA/Parlay) as the APIs are developed jointly in collaboration by 3GPP, ETSI, and the Parlay Group.

Operational amplifier

Engineer's Mini-Notebook – OpAmp IC Circuits; Forrest Mims III; Radio Shack; 49 pages; 1985; ASIN B000DZG196.

PNS Qasim

In 1974, Marine Corps were disbanded from the services of Pakistan Armed Forces by President, later elected Prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto as the Service branch was were completely failed to achieve any minor or major objectives in the both 1971 Winter War and the Bangladesh Liberation War.

Project Gutenberg Canada

Some authors whose complete works can now be made available (in Canada) are A. A. Milne, Walter de la Mare, Sheila Kaye-Smith, Amy Carmichael, Gertrude Lawrence, Marshall Broomhall, Lilias Trotter, Laura Ingalls Wilder and Isobel Kuhn.

Samuel Pennant

He was also a distant relative of the Welsh naturalist and antiquarian Thomas Pennant.

San Francisco general elections, November 2008

Proposition V would make it City policy to urge the San Francisco Board of Education to reverse its elimination of the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps (JROTC).

Space Battleship Yamato

Takashi Nishiyama, the creator of the video game Street Fighter, credited the Space Battleship Yamato series and a battleship's missile system "Hadouho" as the inspiration for the special move Hadouken from the fighting game.

The Shrinking Man

In 2012 it was included (under the original title) in the Library of America two-volume boxed set American Science Fiction: Nine Classic Novels of the 1950s, edited by Gary K. Wolfe.

Thomas Nickerson

Nathaniel Philbrick's 2000 non-fiction work In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex is partly based on Nickerson's account.

Thrissur in popular culture

Malayalam writer Sarah Joseph's works are generally set in the background of city of Thrissur and nearby areas.

Torah Academy of Bergen County

The school's Mock trial team was the 2005 New Jersey State Champions and received a lot of press coverage both in the Tri-State Region as well as overseas for its efforts to gain accommodations to participate in the National High School Mock Trial Championship in Charlotte, North Carolina without being required to compete during the Jewish Sabbath.

Type 3 submergence transport vehicle

Yu 11, assigned Detachment Kuchinotsu, Transport Sunbmarine Group on 15 May 1945, assigned Detachment Mikuriya in June 1945, survived war.