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Strangest

The Strangest Man, 2009 biography of quantum physicist Paul Dirac written by British physicist and author, Graham Farmelo

Strangest Places, the second album by singer-songwriter Abra Moore, released on 20 May 1997, by Arista Records


Clipper route

Possibly the strangest yacht race ever run, it culminated in a successful non-stop circumnavigation by just one competitor, Robin Knox-Johnston, who became the first person to sail the clipper route single-handed and non-stop.

Edward Aczel

His 2008 Edinburgh Fringe Festival show was described by Zadie Smith in The New Yorker as "one of the strangest, and finest, hours of live comedy I’d ever seen".

Hep Stars

Among the hits were "I natt jag drömde" (a Swedish version of "Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream"), Mike Berry's "Tribute to Buddy Holly" (#4, Sweden), "Malaika" (with lyrics in Swahili), "Wedding", "Consolation", "Cadillac" (#1, Sweden), "Farmer John" (#2, Sweden), "No Response" and "Sunny Girl".

Nabil Shaban

In 2003 he made a TV documentary titled The Strangest Viking (part of Channel 4's Secret History series), in which Shaban explored the possibility that Viking chieftain Ivar the Boneless may have had osteogenesis imperfecta, the same condition he himself has.

Oscar Cook

Si Urag of the Tail (Hutchinson's Adventure-Story Magazine, January 1923; Weird Tales, July 1926; You'll Need A Night Light, ed. Christine Campbell Thompson Selwyn & Blount September 1927; A Century Of Creepy Stories, Hutchinson 1934; 50 Strangest Stories Ever Told, Odhams, 1937; Still Not At Night, Arrow 1962, Creepy Stories Bracken 1994)

Rupert Thomson

Once described as "one of the strangest and most refreshingly un-English voices in contemporary fiction", and compared to writers as various as Franz Kafka, J. G. Ballard, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Charles Dickens, Elmore Leonard, and Mervyn Peake, he is the author of nine critically acclaimed novels.

Service Corporation of America

In one of the strangest alliances in the company's history, SCA joined the Environmental Defense Fund to reinstate the ban of hazardous waste dumping.

The Strangest Man

The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius is a 2009 biography of quantum physicist Paul Dirac written by British physicist and author, Graham Farmelo, and published by Faber and Faber.

The title is based on a comment by physicist Niels Bohr four years before his death that of all the scientists who had visited his institute, Dirac was "the strangest man".


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