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26 unusual facts about the world


1956 Tour de France

The cycling fans had not been happy to see unknown Walkowiak win the race, and he was not cheered for when the race finished in the Parc des Princes.

Abyei status referendum

The Abyei status referendum is a delayed referendum that was originally due to be held in 2011 in which the residents of Abyei can decide either to remain part of the Sudanese South Kordofan region or to become part of the Bahr el Ghazal region of South Sudan.

Al Sharjah SC

Sultan Bin Mohamed Al-Qasimi (Ruler of Sharjah as (Honorary President of the honor council))

American Jewish Congress v. Bost

The Rockefeller Institute of Government reported that the lawsuit is a response to the 1996 gathering of a number of churches and businesses in Brenham, Texas, that formed the "Jobs Partnership of Washington County," a program which has come under legal scrutiny.

Bharati Vidyapeeth Institute of Technology

It is located in CBD Belapur, but closer to Kharghar being situated opposite to the Kharghar railway station.

Çandarlı family

The same was true for the ethnic differences; the only prerequisite for an official appointment was conversion to Islam.

China International

China Review International, a journal for English-language reviews of recently published China-related books and monographs

Eddie Rambeau

The following year, 1962, Rambeau recorded two more singles, "My Four Leaf Clover Love" and "Summertime Guy."

Elizabeth Johnson

Eliza McCardle Johnson (1810–1876), First Lady of the United States, wife of President Andrew Johnson

Hans von Halban

The CEA Saclay laboratory developed the independent French nuclear bomb and oversaw the development of French civil nuclear energy.

Henry Smart

In 1831 he became organist of Blackburn parish church, where he wrote his first important work, a Reformation anthem; then of St Giles-without-Cripplegate; St Luke's, Old Street; and finally of St Pancras New Church, in 1864, which last post he held at the time of his death, less than a month after receiving a government pension of £100 per annum.

John Walwayn

Walwayn was a candidate in the hotly contested election for Bishop of Durham in 1316, but lost despite the support of the Earl of Hereford.

Kaleidoscope Century

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the KGB diversified and became "the Organization," a counter-insurgency group that supplied technical and logistic support to every side in the Eurowar, a NATO-Central European Union-Russian conflict in the early 21st century.

Militão Ribeiro

After the death of the former General Secretary of the Party, Bento Gonçalves, in the prison camp of Tarrafal, in Portuguese Cape Verde, Militão Ribeiro initiated, along with Álvaro Cunhal and Júlio Fogaça, a major reorganization of the Party, in the early 1940s.

Nancy Cato

Cato's other books include: Green Grows The Vine, Brown Sugar and Mister Maloga, which tells the story of Daniel Matthews and his Maloga Mission to Aboriginal people on the Murray River in Victoria.

Partha Niyogi

Partha Niyogi (July 31, 1967 – October 1, 2010) was the Louis Block professor of computer science and statistics at the University of Chicago.

Pasquale Amati

Pasquale Amati (1716–1796) was an Italian antiquary, born at Savignano di Romagna (now Savignano sul Rubicone), and educated at Cesena, Rimini, and Rome.

Paul Degen

In 1970 he moved to New York and worked, besides freelancing as a cartoonist and illustrator for The New York Times, Esquire, Harper's Magazine and The Atlantic Monthly, at the Push Pin Studios with Milton Glaser and Seymour Chwast.

Pete Sanstol

After winning his professional debut against the British boxing veteran Bert Gallard in Oslo, Sanstol was invited by Max Schmeling’s manager to train in Berlin.

Riaad Moosa

In February 2010, Moosa was one of the headline acts along with other South African comedians (including Trevor Noah, David Kau, John Vlismas, Tumi Morake and Marc Lottering).

Royal Jersey Agricultural and Horticultural Society

Located in the Parish of Trinity in the heart of the Island, these new Headquarters and showground were officially opened on 13 July 2001, by the Society's Patron, Her Majesty The Queen.

Short Range Devices

The European Commission mandates through CEPT and ETSI the allocation of several device bands for these purposes, restricts the parameters of their use, and provides guidelines for avoiding radio interference.

The Cuckoo's Egg

Stoll recorded the hacker's actions as he sought, and sometimes gained unauthorized access to military bases around the United States, looking for files that contained words such as "nuclear" or "SDI".

Tomasz Chołodecki

He joined a local insurgent group and fought in the Battle of Staszów under Marian Langiewicz in February of that year.

Traffic control

Air traffic control, a service provided by ground-based controllers who direct aircraft

Vishvamitra

This resulted in Satyavati's mother giving birth to Vishvamitra, the son of a Kshatriya Gadhi with the qualities of a Brahmin; and Satyavati gave birth to Jamadagni, the father of Parashurama, a Brahmin with qualities of a Kshatriya.