X-Nico

22 unusual facts about the world


69230 Hermes

Radar observations led by Jean-Luc Margot at Arecibo Observatory and Goldstone in October and November 2003 showed Hermes to be a binary asteroid.

Alger Theater

The Alger Theater is a theatre located at 16451 East Warren Avenue in the MorningSide neighborhood of Detroit, Michigan.

Annie Villeneuve

In the winter of 2010, Villeneuve worked with Stephan Moccio to record both a French and a bilingual version of the 2010 Vancouver Olympics theme song.

Antoinette Gabrielle Danton

Back in Paris on 17 February 1793, Danton was so affected by her death that he recruited sculptor Claude André Deseine and brought him by night to Sainte-Catherine cemetery to excavate Charpentier's body and execute a death mask.

C. R. Vyas

He had his initial training from Govindrao Bhatambrekar of the Kirana gharana for a decade.

Currency bill tracking

The act of tracking a $20 bill was the binding theme between various stories in the film Twenty Bucks.

Edmond Locard

Dr. Edmond Locard (13 December 1877 – 4 May 1966) was a pioneer in forensic science who became known as the "Sherlock Holmes of France".

George Kane

George Proctor Kane (1820–1878), mayor of Baltimore, Maryland, 1877–1878

Get the Fire

The documentary follows them along the full two years of their mission from the Missionary Training Center until they leave the mission and return home.

Hel Fortified Area

In 1948, the battery was redone, its name was changed to 13 BAS, and Soviet-made B-13 130 mm naval guns were mounted.

Idol Backstage

It followed the pranks, gags and interviews of host Josh Zepps as he roamed behind the scenes of the Australian Idol set as the show went to air.

Inocencio Arias

Inocencio F. Arias, also known as Chencho (born April 20, 1940 in Albox, Almería province), is a multifarious Spanish diplomat, who served as consul general in Los Angeles, California, United States.

Jim Berkenstadt

Berkenstadt, previously an attorney of many years, has consulted on a number of audio, video, and online projects for George Harrison, as well as for The Beatles' company Apple Corps and many others in the music industry.

Joseph J. Sisco

Joseph John Sisco (October 31, 1919 – November 23, 2004) was a diplomat who played a major role in then-Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's shuttle diplomacy in the Middle East and whose career in the State Department spanned five presidential administrations and numerous foreign-policy crises.

Mandala

Also in Jodo Shinshu Buddhism, Shinran and his descendant, Rennyo, sought a way to create easily accessible objects of reverence for the lower-classes of Japanese society.

Pagination

By using AJAX, hybrid server/client-side pagination can be used, in which Javascript is used to request the subsequent page which is loaded and inserted into the Document Object Model via AJAX.

Rattletrap

Richard Hudson Rattletrap, a character in The Disappointment, one of the first American operas, it was to have been performed on 20 April 1762 in Philadelphia

Super Tuesday II, 2008

Obama had been under fire for controversial remarks made by Jeremiah Wright, and his lead in North Carolina polls had been reduced to single digits, so Clinton's double-digit loss in that state was a major disappointment.

Tackle Happy

Tackle Happy is an Australian documentary film released in 2000 about the live performance show Puppetry of the Penis starring Simon Morley and David Friend.

TekWar

Shatner began to write notes that would become the novels on the set of Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, and is quoted to say that the original book was an attempt to blend elements from Star Trek and T. J. Hooker.

The King of Yesterday and Tomorrow

Maggie Cheung Ho-yee won the TVB Anniversary Award for Best Actress and one of twelve My Favourite Television Character awards, while Paul Chun won My Favourite Powerhouse Actor.

Willem Schellinks

Schellinks' hand-written journal, written some years after his travels 1661-1665 and based on his now lost notes, is preserved in the Royal Library of Copenhagen; a transcription Schellinks had made is now owned by the Bodleian Library.