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unusual facts about Hoste


Chiral knot

The only known amphichiral knot with odd crossing number is a 15-crossing knot discovered by Hoste et al.


Geert Hoste

After the premiere of his mime solo "Vlaas is zot" (Vlaas is crazy) in 1983, Hoste was approached by the BRT (Belgian Radio and Television) with the request to cooperate on a new children's programme for Sesame Street.

Hoste Island

As of 1894 the Stirling House, a prefab house built on behalf of the South American Mission Society, is reinstalled in Tekenika Bay, on the southeast coast of Hoste Island in order to avoid the abuses and crimes caused by the recent arrival of miners and diseases in Ushuaia.

Siege of Ragusa

There were reinforcements of British troops of the 35th regiment of foot from HMS Elizabeth which had arrived with Edward Leveson-Gower on the 29th but he declined to take part in the negotiations seeing that Hoste had everything under control.


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