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27 unusual facts about the world


Alireza Sheikhattar

From 2003 to 2005 he was managing director and chief editor of the daily newspaper Hamshahri.

Badminton Hall of Fame

The inaugural members 1996 were Colonel S S C Dolby Apd, Sir George Alan Thomas, Betty Uber and Herbert Scheele.

Baron Monson

It was created in 1728 for Sir John Monson, 5th Baronet.

Bellevaux Abbey

:This article is not about the Bellevaux Abbey near Limanton, Nièvre, France, nor the abbey near Lausanne, Switzerland

Brian Belway

Belway played one game for the Los Angeles Raiders in the 1987 season.

Chris Corcoran

Along with Elis James he regularly performs as 'Mr Chairman' in Chris Corcoran's Committee Meeting, a live comedy show at The Ponty Muni arts centre in Pontypridd.

Dickinson Robinson Group

In 1978 DRG took over the Royal Sovereign group of companies which included well-known brand names such as Stephens inks, chalks and crayons; LePage's gums and adhesives; Seccotine; Patterson Blick; Vanguard stapling machines and Speedry magic markers.

Donald N. Frey

During World War II Frey worked on the Packard V-1650 version of the Rolls-Royce Merlin engine for Packard Motors, the engines to be sent to England for placement in the Hurricanes and Spitfires.

Flanagan High School

Flanagan-Cornell High School — the high school of Flanagan-Cornell Unit 74 in Flanagan, Livingston County, Illinois, and named Flanagan High School before 2008

Francisco Keil do Amaral

He was the only son of Francisco Coelho do Amaral Reis, 1st Viscount of Pedralva by Carlos I of Portugal in 1904 (Sátão, Águas Boas, 3 August 1873 – 5 April 1938), 100th Governor of Portuguese Angola from 1920 to 1921, son of José Caetano dos Reis and wife Lucrécia Coelho do Amaral, and first wife, as her second husband, Guida Maria Josefina Cinatti Keil, daughter of Alfredo Cristiano Keil and wife Cleyde Maria Margarida Cinatti.

Gemini Residence

It is located at the end of Bryggebroen, connecting Amager-side Islands Brygge to Zealand-side Vesterbro across the harbour, and close to the southern end of Havneparken.

IPhone art

Artists such as David Hockney and Corliss Blakely have held art exhibits with art made exclusively on their iPads.

K42HI

It was most recently a repeater that broadcast programming from the Trinity Broadcasting Network, via satellite.

Kennedy Miller Mitchell

The company has taken on staff from two Australian game developers that have collapsed, Krome Studios and Team Bondi.

KSAF

KSAF-LP, a radio station (104.1 FM) licensed to Minot, North Dakota, United States

Marion Rice

Rice was born in Hingham, Massachusetts, settled in Fitchburg, Massachusetts and founded the "Marion Rice Studio of the Dance" where she taught and performed Denishawn technique for over 60 years.

Miami County, Kansas

Near Osawatomie are historic sites of John Brown, such as his famouns Civil War lookout.

Nénette

In the TV show Gossip Girl, season 4 episode 11, two of the main characters, Blair Waldorf and Dan Humphrey, both express their love for this film.

Product sample

19th Century soap manufacturer Benjamin T. Babbitt was one of the first known people, though not the first ever, to offer free samples of his products.

Savigliano

It has important ironworks, foundries, locomotive works (once owned by Fiat Ferroviaria, now by Alstom) and silk manufactures, as well as sugar factories, printing works and cocoon-raising establishments.

Seacourt

The earliest known record of Seacourt is from 955, when King Eadwig granted 20 hides of land at Hinksey, Seacourt and Wytham to the Benedictine Abingdon Abbey.

Shatter

Shatter attack, in computing, a technique used against Microsoft Windows operating systems

Slab City

It was featured in the radio documentary program Hearing Voices episode "Small Town" the week of November 11, 2009.

Starlight Children's Foundation

Rooted in the entertainment industry, Starlight was founded in 1982 by fourth generation filmmaker Peter Samuelson and his cousin, actress Emma Samms (born 1960).

The Wacky Molestation Adventure

He then tells them the story of "the before time", which includes the reasons for the existence of Smiley Town, Treasure Cove, "Carousel", "The Provider" (who turns out to be a statue of John Elway), and "The M Word".

West Reading, Berkshire

As such it includes the densely populated area along and surrounding the Oxford Road as far as the foot of Norcot Hill, which is a typical example of the British town's rows of terraced houses, as well as the more affluent area to the north of the Bath Road and alongside Tilehurst Road as far as Prospect Park.

Willie E. Gary

Recently, he was seeking legal fees equal to $22,000 per hour in connection with litigation against Motorola.