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28 unusual facts about the world


1860 in New Zealand

The New Zealand Derby is held for the first time, at Riccarton Racecourse.

9×18mm Makarov

The Soviet military required that their ammunition should be incompatible with NATO firearms, so that in the event of armed conflict a foreign power would be unable to use captured Soviet ammunition supplies.

Akhnoor

The picturesque town is located on the banks of the Chenab River.

APGA

American Public Gardens Association, an association of public-garden institutions and professionals primarily in the United States and Canada

Ben Macintyre

In 2008 MacIntyre wrote an informative illustrated account of Ian Fleming, creator of the fictional spy James Bond, to accompany the For Your Eyes Only exhibition at London's Imperial War Museum, which was part of the Fleming Centenary celebrations.

Buddleja 'Gulliver'

'Gulliver' is cultivated in the UK and France; it is included in the NCCPG National Collection held by Longstock Park Nursery near Stockbridge, Hampshire.

Chinese Garden of Friendship

The Chinese Garden of Friendship was designed by Sydney's Chinese sister city, Guangzhou in China.

Deborah Carthy-Deu

From 2000 to 2004, Carthy-Deu was in a relationship with politician Eduardo Bhatia.

Dr. Brain

Dr. Brain: Action Reaction - The third game is played in a first-person perspective, and the player and Dr. Brain have been kidnapped by S.P.O.R.E, an evil organization bent on world domination.

Duval County Public Schools

The case was controversial because Forrest was a slave trader, a confederate General, and one of the founders of the first incarnation of the Ku Klux Klan.

Ellyn

Ellyn Stern, professional actress, voice actress and director in California

Émile Taddéoli

In his newly acquired Dufaux 4 biplane, from September to October 1910 he became the instruction pilot for Armand Dufaux and Henri Dufaux.

Fyvie Castle

The castle also played host of the setting of a children's gameshow on CBBC called Spook Squad in 2004.

Jhunjhunu district

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, one of the prestigious engineering institutes of the country, is situated at Pilani, a town in Jhunjhunu District.

Jim Schrader

After graduating from Scott Township High School in Carnegie, PA, he went on to the University of Notre Dame, where he played under head coach Frank Leahy who was the former line coach for the Seven Blocks of Granite and played shoulder-to-shoulder with Tackle Art Hunter Guard Menil Mavraides, and Fullback Neil Worden as the main blockers for Heisman Trophy winning running back Johnny Lattner.

Jim Towers

After his footballing career, Towers worked for 25 years as a baggage handler at London Heathrow Airport.

John George I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau

In Heidelberg on 21 February 1595 John George married for a second time to Dorothea (b. Kaiserslautern, 6 January 1581 – d. Sandersleben, 18 September 1631), the only surviving child of John Casimir of Simmern, third son of Frederick III, Elector Palatine.

Lusaka–Livingstone road

The Lusaka–Livingstone Road or Livingstone Road is the main highway of the Southern Province of Zambia from the capital, Lusaka, to the principal tourist destination, Livingstone, Southern Africa.

Oliver Bulleid

He led the first major dieselisation programme, which involved the procurement of diesel multiple units from AEC of Southall, 94 diesel locomotives (60 CIE 001 Class and 34 CIE 201 Class) from Metropolitan-Vickers and 12 Sulzer-engined diesel locomotives (CIE 101 Class) from the Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company.

Pancreatin

Some contact lens cleaning solutions contain porcine pancreatin extractives to assist in the intended protein-removal process.

Past, Present and Future

The U.S. album cover (Janus Records), by Hipgnosis and George Hardie, is a photography-like rendition of the Marvel Comics character Doctor Strange using his Cloak of Levitation to travel through a hole created in the air into an alternative universe.

Red Flag Linux

As of 3 December 2008, it has been reported that Internet cafes in Nanchang, since November 2008, have been required to install the Red Flag Linux as a replacement for pirated versions of the popular Microsoft Windows operating system, or switch to legitimate copies of Microsoft Windows.

Roy Thompson

Mat Roy Thompson, aka Roy Thompson, (1874 – 1962), American civil engineer and builder of Scotty's Castle

Siegmund, Margrave of Bayreuth

On the death of his father on 11 March 1486, his elder brothers Johann Cicero and Friedrich succeeded to Brandenburg and Ansbach respectively, and Siegmund succeeded to Bayreuth.

Terminal amine isotopic labeling of substrates

# This eluted sample is then quantified and analysis completed by MS/MS.

West Wallabi Island

more than 150 years before expeditions to the Australian continent by James Cook and Arthur Phillip.

Yi Lijun

She taught Polish at the Department of East European Language, Beijing Foreign Studies University.

Young Corbett III

Three months later, he was dethroned by Hall of Famer Jimmy McLarnin via a one round knockout.