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29 unusual facts about the world


Bobby Z.

Both shows took place on the same night with Bobby taking over from Prince's current drummer Hanna-Ford-Welton.

Burke Moses

In 2008 Moses played the role of Captain von Trapp in Mirvish Productions' The Sound of Music at the Princess of Wales Theatre in Toronto alongside the winner of the TV show How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?, Elicia MacKenzie.

Extermination of Evil

The Divine Insect (神虫, Shinchū) is a deity depicted as a silkworm moth.

Football rivalries in Argentina

The teams nicknames relate from the same incident where Rosario Central refused to play a charity game for a Leprosy charity, hence their nickname Canallas (Scoundrels).

George Willis Kirkaldy

George Willis Kirkaldy (1873, Clapham –1910, San Francisco) was an English, entomologist who specialised on Hemiptera.

GhettoPhysics

It also includes a colorful contingent of street characters, with names such as Fillmore Slim, Candy, Hook da Crook, Loreal, Mac Breed and Lo Da Show.

Henry Baillie

Baillie married firstly the Honourable Philippa Eliza Sydney Smythe, daughter of Percy Smythe, 6th Viscount Strangford, in 1840.

Italian Baroque art

Prolonged visits to the town were made by artists from other parts of Italy and other countries, including Velázquez, Van Dyck, the French sculptor Pierre Puget, Bernardo Strozzi and Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione.

Jan Rezek

In 2003 he won the Czech Cup with FK Teplice, one year later he won the cup with Sparta Prague.

Johann Christoph Fugger

Johann Christoph Fugger (1561-1612) was a German businessman and the last famous survivor of the Fugger vom Reh branch of the Fugger family.

Kalinin Front

In May 1942, the Air Forces of the Kalinin Front were reorganised as the 3rd Air Army, comprising three fighter, two ground attack, and one bomber division.

Karri Koira

Karri Koira rose to fame as a member of the group Vähäiset äänet and gained even wider audience in the summer of 2011 with Ruudolf on the single "Mammat riivaa", a Finnish remake of "Danza Kuduro" by Lucenzo and Don Omar.

Kill and Kill Again

Filmed in Sun City, Bophuthatswana, the film has a more tongue in cheek comedy approach than its predecessor.

Live at The Woodlands

Live at The Woodlands is the first live album from Crystal Lewis was released on June 15, 1999.

Manuel Komnenos Doukas

After a spell among the Seljuks of Rum and in Nicaea, Manuel returned to Greece with Nicaean support in 1239 and captured several fortresses including Larissa and Pharsalos from Theodore's son John Komnenos Doukas, establishing himself as ruler of Thessaly.

Maria Heiskanen

In 2008, Heiskanen starred in the leading role of Jan Troell's Everlasting Moments, for which she won the Guldbagge Award for Best Actress and the Best Actress Award from Valladolid International Film Festival.

Old Windsor

After changing hands a few times, the estate was bought by Henry Frederick Tynne who had the house redesigned in 1705 by architect James Gibbs, renamed it Bowman's Lodge.

Orlando Airport

Orlando International Airport (MCO) – the primary commercial service airport for Orlando, Florida

Romanian Armies in the Battle of Stalingrad

After a highly successful summer campaign in 1941 as part of Army Group South, the Romanian Armed Forces regained the territory between the Prut and Dniestr rivers.

Skipsfjorden

Skipsfjorden, Torsken, part of the Torskenfjorden in Torsken municipality in Troms

SportsChannel

The network obtained the National Hockey League rights from ESPN in 1988 by offering the NHL almost triple the amount of money that ESPN was offering (a move not unlike the 2005 NHL rights grab by Comcast/OLN over ESPN).

St. Louis Arsenal

This action had been ordered over a week before by Secretary of War Simon Cameron, but blocked by General Harney's refusal to execute his orders.

The X-Files Game

During the course of the game the "present day" date of April 1996 is displayed alongside certain locations, placing this "episode" after the season three episode "Avatar" and before "Wetwired" , which take place March 7 and April 27 respectively.

WAWB

WAWB-LP, a low-power radio station (107.3 FM) licensed to West Branch, Michigan, United States

Weekend Edition

On Saturdays the program featured an exchange between the program's host and the late commentator, Daniel Schorr, during which they discussed the events of the past week.

Weena

On the other side of the Centraal Station the street is called the Beukelsdijk.

William Carey Jones

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1898 to the Fifty-sixth Congress.

William Soden Hastings

He was elected as a Whig to the Twenty-fifth, Twenty-sixth, and Twenty-seventh Congresses, serving from March 4, 1837, until his death in 1842.

Youri Messen-Jaschin

In 1967, he met Jesús-Rafael Soto, Carlos Cruz-Diez and Julio Le Parc during an exhibition at the Kunstmuseum of Gothenburg.