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unusual facts about person-to-person lending



Agrarian Reform Law of 1970

The areas of agricultural land possessed by a person Tapu-authorized or granted under long lease (rain-irrigated land, irrigated areas) shall not exceed the limits defined in article 2.

Assault

;Assault by person committing an offence under the Night Poaching Act 1828: This offence is created by section 2 of the Night Poaching Act 1828.

Bagel

In modern times, Canadian-born astronaut Gregory Chamitoff is the first person known to have taken a batch of bagels into space on his 2008 Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station.

Brazil at the 1932 Summer Olympics

Since the San Pedro authorities charged one dollar for each person who disembarked in the Port of Los Angeles, the organizers only let out of the ship the athletes they felt had a chance to win medals plus swimmer Maria Lenk - the first South American woman to compete in the Olympics - to spend less.

Caffè Lavena

But the person who gave lustre to Caffé Lavena, patronizing it from his first coming to Venice and becoming an habitual customer, was the composer Richard Wagner.

Ceci n'est pas un conte

In the image of the painting The Treachery of Images by René Magritte, Diderot wants to tell us that a person's behavior is not in itself moral or immoral.

Celia Pearce

Her articles and book chapters include a section of Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Pat Harrigan's First Person: New Media as Story, Performance, and Game.

Corneal transplantation

Russian eye surgeon Vladimir Filatov's attempts at transplanting cornea started with the first try in 1912 and were continued, gradually improving until on 6 May 1931 he successfully grafted a patient using corneal tissue from a deceased person.

D' Fightin' Ones

They decide to disguise themselves in human clothes (with the other person hiding in a suitcase) and hop aboard a bus, but hightail it out of there when the bus is revealed to be headed for Sing Sing.

David Krummenacker

He was the first person to win the title 3 straight years since Johnny Gray accomplished the feat from 1985 to 1987.

De Moor

It literally means "the Moor" and probably referred to a person with a darker skin.

Diamond Lil

Katie Glass, a little person professional wrestler who used the ring name Diamond Lil

Disclosure Scotland

Any person can apply for a Basic Disclosure in their own name: this is a document listing the person's unspent convictions under the terms of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.

East Ferris

She was the oldest living person in the world for the eight months preceding her death, and remains both the oldest verified person in Canadian history and the fourth oldest verified person in the world.

GIBS

Gib, a term in first person shooter games for bits of a character left after a kill

Goffs School

Goffs School consists of six houses, each named after an influential person from history: Brontë, Churchill, Columbus, Curie, Mandela and Monet.

Gordon Juckes

Today, each year the Gordon Juckes Award is given by Hockey Canada to a person who has made exceptional contributions to the development of amateur hockey.

Green Fire

The author of the novel Green Fire, on which the film was based, was Major Peter William Rainier 1890-1946, a South African whose great-great-grand-uncle was the person that Mount Rainier, Washington was named after (by the explorer George Vancouver).

Hansō Sōshitsu

The first person in this line of the Sen family to use the name Sōshitsu was the youngest son of Sen Sōtan.

Honorific

Other honorifics may denote the honored person’s occupation, for instance "Doctor", "Captain", "Coach", "Officer", "Reverend" for all clergy and/or "Father" (for a Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, or Anglican Christian priest), or Professor.

Human cloning

Since a normal embryo implants at 14 days, Dr Robert Lanza, ACT's director of tissue engineering, told the Daily Mail newspaper that the embryo could not be seen as a person before 14 days.

John Zarnecki

In 1961, the school gave its pupils a day off to witness the first person in space, Yuri Gagarin, visiting the tomb of Karl Marx in Highgate Cemetery nearby.

Kaldor City

Through the course of the play, Iago also meets Psychostrategist Carnell (Scott Fredericks, reprising his role from Blake's 7) and makes it clear that he knows what a psychostrategist is and about the Federation; with Carnell remarking that he must be the only other person on the planet with this information.

Leszek Murzyn

For the Polish word for a black person, see Murzyn

Martin Buber

--This source says this Martin Buber's birthdate and death is 1878 to 1965 so it has to be the same person-->Chinesische Geister- und Liebesgeschichten included the first German translation ever made of Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio.

Mills River, North Carolina

It is home to approximately 7,000 people, and it was incorporated into a city in June, 2003, mostly thanks to the efforts of fireman Roger Snyder, who is now the mayor.

Nothing to Hide

She tells her friend to leave, scaring Tina who believes that Niki has turned into a completely different person, an assumption which is confirmed by the appearance of the RNA symbol tattoo on Niki's shoulder, showing that Jessica is in control.

Paper Mario

IGN's Matt Casamassina praised the game's accessibility, commenting that "it serves as the perfect introductory game to any person hoping to explore the genre".

Particular judgment

With the rise of the cult of Osiris during the Middle Kingdom (c. 2040–1640 BCE) in Ancient Egypt the “democratization of religion” offered to even his humblest followers the prospect of eternal life, with moral fitness becoming the dominant factor in determining a person's suitability.

Personal Antivirus

The person responsible for the ads originally requested that the New York Times run ads for Vonage VoIP service.

Putto

In the 1st-person shooter Team Fortress 2, the Meet the Pyro video has the BLU Team appear as putti in Pyroland (The Pyro's vision).

Raptio

The Oxford English Dictionary gives the definition "the act of carrying away a person, especially a woman, by force" besides the more general "the act of taking anything by force" (marked as obsolete) and the more specific "violation or ravishing of a woman."

Regis Ghezelbash

He has been the key-person in initiating cultural bridges and cooperations between France, Eurasia and the Asia-Pacific cultures through cinematographic initiatives such as the French-Kazak movie Ulzhan and French-Korean movie “Filmaker”.

Remember the Monsters?

Showtime president David Nevins praised the series finale against fan backlash by saying "The fundamental design of where they ended Dexter was really well conceived. He had to sacrifice the one person who was closest to him in the world, and he had to leave. That was where it was headed for a very long time."

Ron Vivian

When Jim Bancks died suddenly of a heart attack in 1952, Packer held a competition among several artists to select a suitable person to continue to draw Ginger Meggs.

S. P. Narasimhalu Naidu

Salem Pagadala Narasimhalu Naidu (or Pagadala Narasimhalu Nayadu) (12 April 1854 - 22 January 1922) was a Tamil Congressman, social worker, publisher and the first person to have written travelogues in Tamil.

Same language subtitling

This idea was struck upon by Brij Kothari, who believed that SLS makes reading practice an incidental, automatic, and subconscious part of popular TV entertainment, at a low per-person cost to shore up literacy rates in India.

Samson H. Chowdhury

He was considered as a Commercially Important Person (CIP) in Bangladesh.

Sexual assault

In 2011, the Supreme Court of Canada in R. v. J.A. interpreted the provisions below to find that a person must have an active mind during the sexual activity in order to consent, and that they cannot give consent in advance.

Sikh practices

No benefits are gained by where and to which family the person is born to – All have to undertake the rigours of Simran (meditation) and Sewa (selfless service) to progress spiritually.

Srbská Kamenice

On 27 January 1972, Serbian stewardess Vesna Vulović was the only person on board to survive the crash of JAT Yugoslav Flight 364 after Croatian Ustašas set up the bomb, which exploded 10,160 meters (33,000 ft) above Srbská Kamenice.

Sue Haywood

1st Transrockies--Open Women (2-person team with HIllary Harrison)

Take Back The Tech!

For example, the use of social networking platforms such as Facebook and Twitter to track a person's activity and movements, the use of spyware to monitor a person's computer and Internet use, and the use of global satellite positioning devices to track a person's physical movement and location, usually by a domestic violence abuser.

The Misleading Widow

The setting of the film is in England as the Third Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits the quartering of soldiers in a person's home without their consent.

The Naming ceremony of Santror

The deity Thirumal, acting as a Pantaram(a religious person hailing from, and serving the ordinary folk), made the Seven Virgins, who were to give birth to seven boys using seven seeds from seven upper worlds (astral planes or lokas).

Tundra Yukaghir language

Case assignment for core participants behaves in a broadly split-intransitive manner, though actual assignment is very complex, involving semantic role, focus, relative animacy of the participants (first or second person versus third), and nature of the noun itself.

Wolfert Acker

One person who bought his land was Washington Irving who took an existing structure and made it into his romantic Sunnyside out of it.

Yao Lifa

Yao Lifa, born in 1958, in Qianjiang City in the central province of Hubei, China, is apparently the first person in China elected through self-nomination to a municipal-level people’s congress.

Yawara

In the United Kingdom, "any article made or adapted for use for causing injury to the person, or intended by the person having it with him for such use" is defined as an offensive weapon under the Prevention of Crime Act 1953 thus potentially including a yawara stick.

Zombi

Zombie, traditionally an undead person in the Caribbean spiritual belief system of voodoo


see also

Curtis Arnold

Arnold also co-authored a book on person-to-person lending entitled The Complete Idiot's Guide to Person to Person Lending (Alpha Books/Pengiun Group USA, April 2009), part of the The Complete Idiot's Guide to... series of reference books.