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20 unusual facts about the world


1982 European Athletics Championships – Women's 4 × 400 metres relay

These are the official results of the Women's 4x400 metres event at the 1982 European Championships in Athens, Greece.

Alice Troughton

Her work on Doctor Who makes her only the second person (after Colin Teague) to direct episodes of each of Doctor Who, Torchwood, and The Sarah Jane Adventures.

Bicycle parking station

Vitoria - Biceberg system at Club Deportivo Mendizorrotza, Vitoria-Gasteiz.

Carl Hansen Ostenfeld

Ostenfeld, C.H. & C.G. Johannes Petersen (1908) On the Ecology and Distribution of the Grass-Wrack (Zostera marina) in Danish Waters.

Denis Caulfield Brady

Denis Caulfield Brady, was a Liberal Member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom who represented the constituency of Newry.

Giulio Camillo

This tradition has inspired artists from many disparate disciplines, amongst them, the writers, Ted Hughes (1992), Carlota Caulfield (2003), and Hilary Mantel in Wolf Hall (2009); visual artists, Jean Dubuffet (1977) and Bill Viola (1985); and composer John Buller (2003).

Great Temple of the Aten

Project leader Sarah Parcak of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, "Based on the coins and pottery we found, it appears to be a massive regional center that traded with Greece, Turkey and Libya."

Hugh Iltis

Hugh Hellmut Iltis (born April 7, 1925 in Brno, Czechoslovakia) is Professor Emeritus of Botany at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and is best known for his discoveries in the domestication of corn (maize).

Jeanne Sylvanie Arnould-Plessy

Jeanne Sylvanie Arnould-Plessy (September 7, 1819 in Metz, France – 1897) was a French stage actress.

Johan Edvard Mandelberg

Arbien helped Mandelburg secure financial support by contacting Pilo in Copenhagen, who then interested the Danish Legation secretary to the French Court in Paris Justitsråd Joachim Wasserschlebe, foreign minister Count Johan Hartvig Ernst Bernstorff and Adam Gottlob Moltke, and finally through them King Frederick V of Denmark.

Kip Janvrin

In 2001, he won his only US title at the USA Outdoor Track & Field Championships in Eugene, Oregon, on June 21-22, attaining 4,030 on day one and 4,211 on day two for 8241 total points.

KJCQ

KWLK, a radio station (88.5 FM) licensed to serve Westwood, California, United States, which held the call sign KJCQ from 2003 to 2013

Laura Keene

It was her company that was playing at Ford's Theatre, Washington, on the night of Abraham Lincoln's assassination.

Nicholas II, Duke of Opava

He was a supporter of King John of Luxembourg of Bohemia, who gave him Opava as a fief in 1318 and at the same time raised it to an independent duchy.

One Hundred and Two

"One Hundred and Two" is the title of a song written by Wynonna Judd, Paul Kennerley and Don Potter, and recorded by American country music duo The Judds.

Robert Risko

At 25 he was chosen by renowned art director Bea Feitler along with Rolling Stone photographer Annie Leibovitz and artist Keith Haring to define the look of the new Vanity Fair when the magazine was relaunched in 1983.

Rowan Mayfair

Rowan is the culmination of centuries of manipulation of the Mayfair bloodline, often by means of incest and the addition of other people in possession of 'magical' or psychic abilities, by the spirit Lasher.

Trippin'

George Ouzounian criticised the show in a May 2005 article on his website, The Best Page in the Universe, stamping it hypocritical and patronising.

Tulwitz

Tulwitz is a municipality in the district of Graz-Umgebung in the Austrian state of Styria.

USS LST-953

LST-953 carried elements of the 2nd Marine Division to Nagasaki on 24 September for the occupation of Japan and men of the US Army's 24th Infantry Division to Matsuyama on 27 October.