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30 unusual facts about the world


A Letter to Elise

Sense Field recorded a cover of this song on their 2003 album Living Outside.

Aurora Inn

The Aurora Inn renovation team included Pleasant Rowland, Katie Waller(Director of Aurora Foundation) and Steve McGlynn(Project Manager), Holt Architects of Ithaca, McGlynn Interiors of Skaneateles and Northeast Construction Services of Syracuse.

Barak Fever

In 2000, he finished his position in the statistics department and began to work as a commentator and reporter for soccer matches at the Mexican league, reporting directly from Spain in 2004 and 2005 during the performance of Mexican soccer players such as Rafael Márquez and Maribel Domínguez.

Battle of Abbeville

The Battle of Abbeville took place from the 28th of May 1940 to the 4th of June near Abbeville.

Bonus Bill

Bonus Bill of 1817, U.S. proposed legislation vetoed by President Madison

C. W. Thamotharampillai

With Iyer and Pillai printed and published Tholkappiyam, Nachinarkiniyar urai (1895), Tholkappiyam Senavariyar urai, (1868), Manimekalai (1898), Cilappatikaram (1889), Pattupattu (1889), and Purananuru (1894), all with scholarly commentaries.

Calice Becker

Davidoff Silver Shadow Private with Jacques Huclier (2008)

Circuit Court of Cook County

Dorothy Brown is the current Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County, and Timothy C. Evans is system's chief judge.

Comyn, Texas

The town also had a lumberyard, a blacksmith shop, a cotton gin, a number of stores and a Woodmen of the World lodge.

Confession album

Whatever their origins, confession albums were an established form by the 1860s: Henry d'Ideville records using an album in 1861 (see Germany and France below); Karl Marx filled out answers to one in the spring of 1865 (his favourite colour was red); and Friedrich Engels answered another in 1868 (his idea of happiness was Château Margaux 1848).

Curry goat

In Britain, the carnivals in St Pauls, Bristol and Notting Hill, London and other Caribbean cultural events will usually have curry goat available as well as other regional foods.

Earl Graves

Earl G. Graves, Sr. (born 1935), American entrepreneur, publisher, businessman and philanthropist

Edge Development Option

EDO is a toolkit based on EDGE Whole Earth, a software program developed by a company named Autometric, now part of Boeing.

Edith O'Shaughnessy

Edith O'Shaughnessy (January 31, 1876 - February 18, 1939) was a journalist, biographer, film screenwriter and, as the wife of United States Chargé de Affairs in Mexico, Nelson O'Shaughnessy, during the early years of the Mexican Revolution she was both a witness and a participant in Mexican political affairs during the presidency of Francisco I. Madero and Victoriano Huerta.

Georg Nees

In order to create this art, Nees also wrote some of the world's first graphics libraries, packages named G1, G2, and G3 that extended the ALGOL programming language by adding commands for controlling a plotter and generating random numbers.

George Herbert Morrell

George Herbert Morrell MA, MP, JP, DL (1845, Adderbury – 30 September 1906, Bad Nauheim) was an English politician and lawyer.

Henry X Rumpold

Under the service of Emperor Sigismund, Henry X was a mediator in international affairs, and he was sent in a diplomatic mission to Denmark, where after successfully negotiations with the King Eric, was arranged his betrothal with the King's first cousin Adelaide (b. 1410 - d. aft. 1445), daughter of Duke Bogislaw VIII of Pomerania-Stargard; but he died soon after in a military camp in Flubsberg.

House of Quartigiani

The Quartigiani family was a noble family from Lucca, the family was mentioned in the Lucca statute of 1308 as noble and powerful.

Joseph Burstyn, Inc v. Wilson

"The Miracle" originally premiered in Europe in 1948 as the anthology film L'Amore with two segments, "Il Miracolo" and "La voce umana", the latter based on Jean Cocteau's play The Human Voice and also starring Magnani.

Larry J. Kolb

Prior to his career as an author, Kolb, by his own account, worked as a close advisor to Muhammad Ali and Adnan Khashoggi and as a spy with CIA co-founder Miles Copeland, Jr., with whom he was involved in intrigues in Pakistan, Iran, the Philippines, Nicaragua, and elsewhere, until Kolb was forced to retire to a safehouse in Florida to avoid extradition to India.

Molwyn Joseph

Despite a scandal surrounding donations he had received from Texan businessman Robert Stafford, Joseph was selected to contest the seat of St Mary's North in the 2004 Antiguan general election, in which the ALP lost power, being replaced in government by the United Progressive Party (UPP) led by Baldwin Spencer.

Noel A. Mitchell

To improve upon the appearance of the benches Al Lang, elected mayor in 1916, passed an ordinance that required all benches to be both green and of a uniform size.

Pugilina morio

This species is found in the Atlantic Ocean along Angola, the Canary Islands, Cape Verde, Gabon, Mauritania; in the Caribbean Sea and the Lesser Antilles and along Brazil.

Richard Elfman

Richard is the son of novelist Blossom Elfman (aka "Clare Elfman"), and the older brother of musician and film composer Danny Elfman, with whom he founded Oingo Boingo, an eclectic band popular in the 1980s & 1990's.

Shalom Hanoch

In London Shalom signed a contract with producer and music publisher Dick James, who worked with Elton John that time.

SK8

The visual hierarchy determined with object would receive the message first - the Stage was Z-ordered and objects closer to the front got the messages first.

Sniglet

Homer Simpson, a character on the animated series The Simpsons, suggests Son of Sniglet as a good book to name as a favorite and a life influence on a college application in the episode "Homer Goes to College".

Still Unforgettable

#"Somewhere Along the Way" (Kurt Adams, Sammy Gallop) – 4:42

The Kid from Brooklyn

The Kid from Brooklyn (1946) is a comedy film starring Danny Kaye and co-starring Virginia Mayo, Vera-Ellen, Steve Cochran, Walter Abel, Eve Arden, and Fay Bainter, about a milkman who becomes world boxing champion.

WWLR

Licensed to Lyndonville, Vermont, USA, the station serves the Northeast Kingdom and Northern New Hampshire area, and is run by students, faculty and staff of Lyndon State College.