X-Nico

21 unusual facts about the world


Amoako

K. Y. Amoako (born 1944), Ghanaian economist and civil servant

Cockhill Celtic F.C.

Cockhill Celtic Football Club is a football club from Ireland currently competing in the Ulster Senior League.

Erythrae

:This article is about Erythrae in Turkey, not to be confused with Erythrae in Boeotia.

Great White North

Great White North Records, an extreme metal record label based in Sainte-Julie, Quebec

Hellmuth Kneser

He assisted Wilhelm Süss in the founding of the Mathematical Research Institute of Oberwolfach and served as the director of the institute from 1958 to 1959.

Ilija Garašanin

His anti-Russian views resulted in Prince Menshikov, while on his mission in Constantinople, 1853, peremptorily demanding from the prince Aleksandar Karađorđević, his dismissal.

Jacob Cohen

Jacob I. Cohen Jr. (1789-1869), Baltimore banker and Jewish-rights activist

Jayme Dee

She was signed by Universal Records in 2012, and soon afterwards was asked to sing the The Hunger Games Soundtrack.

Kosmopoisk

In 1980, Chernobrov and his colleagues from the Moscow Aviation Institute created the group whose objectives were to collect information about UFOs and anomalous events in the Soviet Union, to develop a Lovondatr device (aka "time car"), and to send expeditions to explore the most promising anomalous zones.

Mulago Hospital massacre

The Mulago Hospital massacre occurred at the Mulago Government African Hospital in Kampala, Uganda on July 28, 1950.

Phases of Venus

This observation essentially ruled out the Ptolemaic system, and was compatible only with the Copernican system and the Tychonic system and other geoheliocentric models such as the Capellan and Riccioli's extended Capellan model.

Protein ligand

Grid.org has been succeeded by similar projects such as World Community Grid, Human Proteome Folding Project, Compute Against Cancer and Folding@Home.

Richard Illingworth

He also appeared four times in the 1996 World Cup, but thereafter the selectors' preference turned decisively to Tufnell, and Illingworth never played international cricket again.

Sir William Roberts

Sir William Roberts, 1st Baronet (1638–1688), of Willesden in Middlesex, English landowner and politician

Solange Bertrand

Born in Montigny-lès-Metz, Bertrand studied art for four years to the École des Beaux-Arts in Nancy, and then attended the Beaux–Arts in Paris.

Sonny Umpad

Glover, the first student of Bruce Lee, referred to Umpad as “Bruce Lee with a stick” because of the speed and economy of his movement.

Star Warped

Star Warped was released in late 1997, with versions for the Windows PC and Apple Macintosh operating systems.

Suburbia I've Given You All and Now I'm Nothing

Another line "The most famous person to come out of here was the guy that played Leatherface in all of those chainsaw massacres." refers to Andrew Bryniarski, a graduate of North Penn High School in Lansdale.

United States Senate election in Illinois, 1990

Senator Simon was opposed by Republican nominee Lynn Morley Martin, a United States Congresswoman from Illinois's 16th congressional district, whom he easily defeated to win a second and final term in the Senate.

Viktor Blom

After taking a small break from poker, Viktor came back strong, he deposited 10 000 SEK and decided to stick to Heads-up no limit Hold'em.

Xiaoliang Sunney Xie

Xie received a B.S. in chemistry from Peking University, followed by his Ph.D. in 1990 from the University of California at San Diego.