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4 unusual facts about Verna


Joaquim Abranches

Joaquim Abranches born (born October 28, 1985 in in Verna, Goa) is an Indian professional football player who plays as Striker for East Bengal in I-League.

Konkan Railway Corporation

Konkan Railway currently runs five rakes of service between Kolad-Verna, Kolad-Surathkal and Ankola-Surathkal.

Verna: USO Girl

Verna's fellow troupe members include Eddie, a second-rate vaudevillian, and would-be chanteuse Maureen, who encourages Verna (of whom she observes, "She's invented a new way to sing flat and dance clumsy") to set aside her show business fantasies and accept a proposal of marriage offered by Army engineering captain Walter.

Western India Shipyard

There are also storage/warehousing facilities of Central Warehousing Corporation (CWC) & Container Freight Station (CFS) at Verna, Goa.


Bholu Brothers

He has suffered defeat at the hands of Kala Pahalwan " the Lion of Punjab" during the 50's, Big Bill Verna and the 3 times world Judo champion Anton Geesink in South America in 1968.

Gregory Despres

Gregory Allan Despres was convicted of the murders of Fred Fulton, 74, and Veronica "Verna" Decarie, 70, of Minto, New Brunswick, Canada, which occurred on April 23, 2005.

José Manuel Cortina

Judith de Verna Cortina married Mario Milian and had one daughter, Judith Marty née Milian (founder and principal of Mater Academy Charter School).

Lenny Rodrigues

Developing a passion for the game when his grandfather took him to watch football matches, the Verna, Goa-born Cortalim-based Rodrigues turned professional at the age of 17 when he played for Fransa-Pax FC, a club who’s dissolving led Rodrigues to train with Salgaocar F.C. for a year and a half.

Mahalasa

In recent years, due to the increased popularity of the goddess, new temples have been established in Verna, Kumta, Mudgeri, Kundapura, Basruru, Shirva, Mangalore, Kasargod, harikhandige, binaga and other areas mostly along coastal Karnataka.

Noholme

A successful stallion at Goff's Verna Lea Farm in Fayetteville, Arkansas, in 1967 he was syndicated for $1-million and moved to Robin's Nest Farm near Ocala, Florida then in 1974 to the nearby stud farm owned by Dan Lasater (now Southland Farm) where he died on 17 May 1983 at the age of 27.

Of Missing Persons

Of Missing Persons is a 1955 science fiction short story by Jack Finney, which describes a burned-out bank teller named Charley Ewell living in 1955 New York City who receives a chance to emigrate from Earth to Verna, a lush, earthlike planet light-years away.

The Moms

Verna confesses that she once sexually assaulted former professional basketball player Scottie Pippen.


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