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27 unusual facts about the world


Á Móti Sól

Most of Á Móti Sól's members come from, and continue to be based out of, the south Iceland region that includes the towns of Hveragerði and Selfoss, about 45 km SE of Reykjavik.

Alexander Macomb House

Two of Martha Washington's grandchildren were part of the First Family: Nelly Custis (born 1779) and "Wash" Custis (born 1781).

Alyson Reed

Additional Broadway credits include "Oh Brother", Dance a Little Closer, Cabaret, A Grand Night for Singing, and Marilyn: An American Fable.

Anwar Chowdhry

In a personal message AIBA President Wu Ching-kuo said, "It's a huge loss for the world’s sports community and especially for boxing."

Assemblies of God USA

The current General Superintendent of the General Council is Dr. George O. Wood.

Bible translations into Cree

In the final decades of the 20th century the Canadian Bible Society, working in partnership with the Cree Nation, the Church and other partners – including the Summer Institute of Linguistics – began working on a new Cree Bible that would make the Word of God available to a little over 30,000 native speakers of the dialect, largely concentrated in Saskatchewan.

Czarni Wierzchosławice

Ludowy Zespół Sportowy Czarni Wierzchosławice is a football club from Wierzchosławice, Poland.

Don McNeill's Breakfast Club

It remained a fixture on the ABC radio network (formerly the NBC Blue Network; it became known as ABC in 1945), maintaining its popularity for years and counting among its fans Supreme Court Associate Justice William O. Douglas.

Eastern philosophy in clinical psychology

He developed the science of breath and mind and wrote his knowledge in the form of between 194 and 196 aphorisms called the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali.

Elizabeth Vargas

After three years of dating, on July 20, 2002, Vargas married singer-songwriter Marc Cohn.

James Brunton Stephens

He had experience as a teacher at Stanthorpe and was afterwards in charge of the school at Ashgrove, near Brisbane.

John Joy Edson

John Joy Edson (May 17, 1846 - July 15, 1935), was president of the Washington Loan and Trust Company, Equitable Co-operative Building Association, and treasurer of the American Geographical Society.

Josef Peters

J. Peters (1894–1990), Communist political activist and espionage agent in the United States from 1924 to 1949

Kids' Night on Broadway

The event, sponsored by Madame Tussauds New York and The New York Times, included an educational component and pre-theatre events in addition to the discounted tickets.

Manteo, North Carolina

Bideford town clerk George McLauchlan, told him locals had never heard of Manteo and the only town Bideford was twinned with was Landivisiau in France.

Microreactor

This allows the subsequent processing of unstable intermediates and avoids typical batch workup delays.

Military Council for Justice and Democracy

It was led by the former director of the national police force, Colonel Ely Ould Mohamed Vall.

Mister Loco

Beck helped out Jared with the soundtrack to his movie Nacho Libre, starring Jack Black.

Mohammad Mottahedan

From here he continued to assemble a comprehensive collection of historically important works, including those of Jeff Koons, Peter Halley, Carroll Dunham, Christopher Wool, Cindy Sherman and Barbara Kruger.

Murphy Himself

The duo had a terrific success together, completing Badminton several times, receiving the silver medal at the 1990 FEI World Equestrian Games in Stockholm representing the British Team, and competing in the Barcelona Olympics.

Paul Usher

He was educated at Wirral Grammar School for Boys, Bebington, and is best known for playing Barry Grant in Brookside, from the first episode until the last (with a lengthy gap before the final episode in November 2003), and PC Des Taviner in The Bill from 2001 to 2004.

Pierre Woods

Woods was a two-year letterman at Glenville High School in Cleveland, Ohio under the guidance of coach Ted Ginn, Sr., and his most notable teammates at the time were Troy Smith, Donte Whitner and Ted Ginn, Jr..

Pruinescence

In the Common Whitetail and Blue Dasher dragonflies (Plathemis lydia and Pachydiplax longipennis), males display the pruinescence on the back of the abdomen to other males as a territorial threat.

Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility

The National Park Service in 2003 approved for sale in the Grand Canyon National Park bookstore Grand Canyon: A Different View; a book that presents the formation of the Grand Canyon as a result of Biblical events.

Radio KLF

Radio KLF was a radio station based in Helsinki, broadcasting on FM on the frequencies 100.0 MHz (Helsinki), 101.9 MHz (Turku), 101.6 MHz (Tampere) and 98.1 MHz Oulu.

Rewa F.C.

A league competition was organised in Rewa for the first time in 1928, although football was known to be played in the area since 1916.

Vladimir Belussov

His best known successes were at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, where he won a gold medal for the Soviet Union in the individual large hill event, and at the Holmenkollen ski festival, where he won the ski jumping competition twice (1968, 1970).