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30 unusual facts about the world


Agaçaim

Agaçaim, sometimes spelt Agassaim, is a village on the northern banks of the Zuari River in Ilhas, Goa, surrounded by Panjim to the north, Margão to the south, Vasco da Gama to the west and Ponda to the east, thus making it a main connection between North Goa and South Goa via the Zuari Bridge.

Alexander Hays

He served in the Mexican-American War, and won special distinction in an engagement near Atlixco.

Carl Princi

While at Boston University, Princi took a course in broadcasting, which led to a job at WESX.

Carlos Coloma

After a term as commander in Milan, Coloma returned to London in 1630 to restore peace between the two crowns.

CORE Media Group

19 owns, among other things, a share of the rights to the Idol series, including Pop Idol in Great Britain, American Idol in the United States, and numerous other international versions, and So You Think You Can Dance in the United States.

DV

Most Windows video software only supports DV packed into AVI containers, as they use Microsoft's avifile.dll, which only supports reading avi files.

Ferenc Krausz

Ferenc Krausz (born 17 May 1962 in Mór, Hungary) is a Hungarian-Austrian physicist, whose research team has generated and measured the first attosecond light pulse and used it for capturing electrons’ motion inside atoms, marking the birth of attophysics.

Giorgio Gaber

Subsequently he began to frequent the Santa Tecla, a venue in Milan where he had the chance to meet musicians of the time, including Luigi Tenco, Gianfranco Reverberi, Adriano Celentano, Ricky Gianco, and Mogol, who obtained a contract for Gaber with Dischi Ricordi.

Holy anointing oil

The standard reference works on Bible plants by Michael Zohary (University of Jerusalem, Cambridge, 1985), James A. Duke (2010), and Hans Arne Jensen (Danish 2004, English translation 2012) identify the plant as a variety of Cymbopogon.

Hugo Charteris

Guy Lawrence Charteris (1886–1967), the son of Hugo Charteris, 11th Earl of Wemyss and his first wife, Francis Lucy Tennant (1887–1925), a granddaughter of Sir Charles Tennant.

Jerzy Płaczkiewicz

He has been influential in promoting fading memory about Wiera Gran, singer largely forgotten in her native Poland.

John Benjamin Hickey

He has also appeared in Flightplan, Flags of Our Fathers, Freedom Writers, Then She Found Me, the remake of The Taking of Pelham 123, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, The Bet and Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows.

Klaus Dumke

He competed for East Germany in the individual and team épée events at the 1968 Summer Olympics.

Marshall Kirk

His research on Gov. Thomas Dudley was used by both Doug Richardson in Plantagenet Ancestry and in The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants (RD600) by Gary Boyd Roberts.

Maysa Matarazzo

For the American jazz singer who is also often known by the one name "Maysa", see Maysa Leak.

Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority

In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), MARTA provides Mobility for those persons defined as disabled by the ADA.

Micaela Villegas

Born in either Tomayquichua (in the province of Huanuco) or the capital city of Lima, she was baptized at the Lima Cathedral on December 1, 1748.

Restart

Reboot, the act of restarting a computer, forcing it to go through boot process

Robert Longfield

For fifteen years, Longfield was the band and orchestra director at Davison High School in Davison, Michigan.

Second inauguration of Richard Nixon

Johnson thus became the sixth president who died during his immediate successor's administration, following George Washington (1799), James K. Polk (1849), Andrew Johnson (1875), Chester A. Arthur (1886) and Calvin Coolidge (1933), who died during the administrations of John Adams, Zachary Taylor, Ulysses S. Grant, Grover Cleveland (1st term), and Herbert Hoover, respectively.

Seniora Doll

In the late 17th century she married an English trader and Royal African Company agent, Thomas Corker, and their two sons Stephen and Robin ruled as the first Caulker chiefs through her royal lineage.

Songs for a Simple Moment

Songs for a Simple Moment is the first foreign studio album by Nagisa ni te, released under Geographic Music on January 2, 2001.

Tapantí National Park

Three new species of Lepanthes orchids were discovered in the park in 2009 and is so far their only known habitat.

Timothy Brinton

Sometimes cited as a British parallel to Orson Welles's radio production of The War of the Worlds, Alternative 3 purported to be an investigation into Britain's contemporary "brain drain." Alternative 3 was supposedly a plan to relocate a cross section of Earth's scientific and philosophical population to Mars in the event of climate change or some other planetary catastrophe.

Violeta Menjívar

Born Elvia Violeta Menjívar in Arcatao, Chalatenango, she studied medicine at the University of El Salvador.

Wally Bastian

Drawing from his orchestral roots, he transformed the tunes of standards like "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" and "Inky Pinky Parlez Vous" into classic baila songs.

Webster's Revision

Noah Webster's 1833 limited revision of the King James Bible focused mainly on replacing archaic words and making simple grammatical changes.

Wild Westing

Six famous Native American Chiefs, Geronimo (Apache), Quanah Parker (Comanche), Buckskin Charlie (Ute), American Horse (Oglala Lakota), Hollow Horn Bear (Sicangu Lakota) and Little Plume (Blackfeet), met in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, to rehearse the parade with the Carlisle Cadets and Band.

Winnipeg Falcons

That team went on to represent Canada in the 1920 Olympic games held in Antwerp, Belgium.

World Saxophone Congress

The sixteenth World Saxophone Congress took place 10–15 July 2012 in St Andrews, Scotland, directed by Richard Ingham.