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28 unusual facts about the world


134th meridian

134th meridian west, a line of longitude west of the Greenwich Meridian

2002 South Carolina Gamecocks football team

The Gamecocks were led by Lou Holtz in his fourth season as USC head coach and played their home games in Williams-Brice Stadium in Columbia, South Carolina.

2011 Magny-Cours Superbike World Championship round

In Supersport, Chaz Davies, who finishing sixth in the race, secured his title with one round remaining.

Alf Dubs, Baron Dubs

His father had fled to England the day the Nazis arrived in Czechoslovakia and young Alf was to meet him at Liverpool Street station.

Boglin

The Boglins were part of the "monster creatures" craze during the late 1980s, which included Ghoulies, Critters,and Gremlins.

Bruce R. Ellingwood

In 1975, he moved to the Center for Building Technology at the National Bureau of Standards (now the National Institute of Standards and Technology), and later became the leader of the Structural Engineering Group for the Center for Building Technology.

Bruno Forte

After the election of Pope Benedict XVI Forte was seen as a possible successor to become Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, before William Levada was chosen.

Cranium, Inc.

Giorgio Davanzo created the packaging and brand identity for the game, and Gary Baseman, creator of the animated series Teacher's Pet, did the art.

Fritz Seitz

Fritz (Friedrich) Seitz (12 June 1848, Günthersleben-Wechmar, Saxe-Coburg and Gotha – 22 May 1918) was a German Romantic Era composer.

Greatness

To prove this thesis Galton collected data showing that genius clusters in what he termed “Notable Family Lines”, such as those of Bernoulli, Cassini, Darwin, Herschel, and Jussieu in science, or Bach in music.

Hannelore Kohl

On 5 July 2001, Kohl was found dead at age 68 in her Ludwigshafen home.

Ilhéu das Cabras

The islet is located just north of the coast of the island of São Tomé north of the city of and east of the island's northernmost point and north of the Água Grande and Lobata district boundary.

Infliximab

Etanercept also binds and inhibits the action of TNF-α, but is not a monoclonal antibody (it is instead a fusion of TNF-receptor and an antibody constant region).

Jail Birds of Paradise

As Miss Deering and her secretary tour the prison there are a series of sight gags that involve various prisoners; among them, registering at Paradise's front desk, are Joe Pantz (Moe Howard), an axe murderer who has transferred from Leavenworth.

Jews with Horns

Matt Darriau - alto saxophone (2, 15), backing vocals (4)

Karen Flaherty

Rear Admiral Flaherty received her Masters of Science from the University of Pennsylvania and has held senior executive leadership positions at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, St. Francis Hospital in Wilmington, Delaware, and the Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Kyeshi

The use of the term is described in article 19 of the competition rules administrated by the World Taekwondo Federation.

Luštica

Since the closure of Tivat Naval Base a Kotor Class Frigate, previously of the Yugoslav Navy, has been moored at a facility directly below the village of Zabrđe in the Kumbor strait.

Naval Undersea Museum

The Naval Undersea Museum is an official naval museum located at Keyport, Washington, USA.

Pete Jarman

He served in the Alabama National Guard as inspector general with rank of major 1922-1924, and as division inspector of the Thirty-first Infantry Division with rank of lieutenant colonel 1924-1940.

Privatsykehuset Haugesund

Privatsykehuset Haugesund is a private hospital located in Haugesund, which is at the west-coast of Norway.

RDS Cup

The Cup was known as the Molson Cup from 1991 to 1994, and the New Face Cup from 1994 to 1996, but is now sponsored by the French-language sports network Réseau des sports (RDS).

Robin Kevan

In 2007 he appeared on the BBC's documentary series Mountain presented by Griff Rhys Jones in which it highlighted his work in cleaning up Snowdon in Wales.

Sam Craigie

He won two matches in attempts to reach both the Australian Goldfields Open and German Masters respectively and had his best set of results in qualifying for the China Open, where he beat Adam Wicheard, Liu Song and Gerard Greene, before losing to Ricky Walden 3–5 in the final round.

Teddy Kollek

On November 13, 1972, Kollek appeared alongside New York Mayor John Lindsay on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.

Tetragrammaton in the New Testament

Along with Howard, David Trobisch and Rolf Furuli both have written on the how the Tetragrammaton may have been removed from the Greek MSS.

The 49ers

The underground success of this album caught the ears of the Japanese record label Goon Trax, a subsidiary music label of Media Factory.

The Little Prince and the Aviator

Based on the classic book by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, the musical deviates from the original in that aviator Toni, whose plane crashes in the Sahara Desert, explicitly is real-life author Saint-Exupéry, and the plot alternates flashbacks to actual events in his life with his interaction with the fictional Little Prince, a refugee from Asteroid B6-12.