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27 unusual facts about the world


6 inch 35 caliber naval gun 1877

The 6 inch 35 caliber gun formed the standard secondary battery of Imperial Russian Navy pre-dreadnought battleships from mid-1880s to mid-1890s and was used on Ekaterina II and Imperator Aleksandr II-class battleships along with Gangut, Dvenadsat Apostolov and Navarin battleships.

Ali Najim

On April 2007, Eman Najem left and Ali continued doing the night show before, Ali changed its name to Refresh in 2008.

Bizcocho

Margaritas are always sweet and they got their name from the flower they resemble (a daisy, known in Spanish as "margarita").

Elie Buconyori

Iwacu additionally revealed that Buconyori is President Pierre Nkurunziza's chief private advisor and best friend.

George K. Hollister

Traveling to Ireland with Olcott's crew that included leading lady and principal screenwriter, Gene Gauntier, and actor Robert Vignola, George Hollister shot The Lad From Old Ireland plus a number of film shorts in Blarney Castle, Glengarriff and at the Lakes of Killarney.

George Melville

George W. Melville (1841–1912), engineer, Arctic explorer and author

Hanley Grange

Hanley Grange is the name given to an eco-town planned for land north of Hinxton in South Cambridgeshire.

Heart Heart Heartbreak

"Heart Heart Heartbreak" is the title of a song written by Boys Like Girls's lead singer Martin Johnson, along with Sam Hollander and Dave Katz of the production team S*A*M and Sluggo.

Henry John Hatch

Following the conviction for perjury of his main accuser – one of the children – he was granted the Royal Pardon and embarked on a series of court actions to win compensation for wrongful imprisonment.

Hugh X of Lusignan

Isabella of Lusignan (1234 – 14 January 1299), lady of Beauvoir-sur-Mer et de Mercillac, married (1st) Maurice IV de Craon (1224/1239 – soon before 27 May 1250/1277) (2nd) Geoffrey de Rancon, seigneur of Taillebourg.

Isaiah Rider

"It was the ultimate low point of my life ... There were no visitors. No one down for me. No letters. I had fake friends. They left me for dead," Rider told Yahoo! Sports.

Iwerne Minster

In fiction, a pre-Norman conquest Iwerne Minster is imagined (along with neighbouring village Shroton) in Julian Rathbone's novel The Last English King.

Karl Plagge

In this letter he compares himself with the character of Dr. Rieux in Albert Camus' novel The Plague and describes his hopeless struggle against a plague of death that slowly envelops the inhabitants of his city.

Klaus Mehnert

Subsequently, Mehnert taught politics at Berkeley and then at the University of Hawaii at Manoa until 1941, where he started intensively studying Russian and Pacific history.

Lausanne Conference of 1949

Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett had hoped for a comprehensive peace settlement at Lausanne, but he was no match for Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, who saw the armistice agreements that stopped the fighting with the Arab states as sufficient, and put a low priority on a permanent peace treaty.

Mamta Mohandas

Subsequently, she was asked to sing several songs for composer Devi Sri Prasad, including the chartbuster "Akalesthe Annam Pedtha" for the Chiranjeevi-starrer Shankardada Zindabad (later dubbed as Daddy Mummy in the Tamil film Villu), "36-24-36" for the film Jagadam, "Mia" for Tulasi, and "Ghanana (Funny)" and the title song for the film King.

Maur Hill – Mount Academy

Mike Haverty (Maur Hill Prep School, 1962) - former President and CEO of Kansas City Southern Railway

Moša Pijade

Among those was Tommy Lapid who became Deputy Prime Minister of Israel and is the father of Yair Lapid.

Mount Meridian, Indiana

Mainly used as a test track, it holds races, practices and special events for all types of motor vehicles, including motorcycles, Porsche, Dodge Viper, and professional race car drivers of all types and levels.

Shondra Kinsolving

Shondra first appears in Batman #486, acting as physiotherapist for Jack Drake, father of Tim Drake aka Robin, and neighbor of Bruce Wayne.

Shuttington

The River Anker flows through the parish, with Shuttington north-east of the river, and Alvecote south of it.

Sounds Like Chicken

Sounds Like Chicken shared stages and toured with such bands, including Reel Big Fish, Mad Caddies, Crowned King, Hilltop Hoods, Kisschasy, Area-7, Gyroscope, Bodyjar, 28 Days, Killing Heidi, The O.C. Supertones, and Antiskeptic.

Spoleto

Owing to its elevated position Spoleto was an important stronghold during the Vandal and Gothic wars; its walls were dismantled by Totila.

Tanya Holland

In France, she trained with Michel Sarran at Le Mas Du Langoustier on the Island of Porquerolles and with Jean-Michel Bouvier at Restaurant L’Essential in Chambéry.

Viktoria Mullova

Mullova was born in Zhukovsky, near Moscow, in Soviet Russia.

Yang people

Yang culture is best preserved in Vieng Poukha and Nale districts of Luang Namtha province (Chazee 1998).

Zvi Galil

He is the dean of the Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing.