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17 unusual facts about the world


2014 Scottish League Cup Final

Greg Tansey put the Highlanders ahead shortly after half time, but a double from Jamie Hamill swung the game in the favour of the Edinburgh side.

Anthony Casso

Casso's attorney tried to get federal judge Frederic Block to overrule the prosecutors in July 1998, but Block refused to do so.

Bertram Wainer

His claims were published in stories written by journalist Evan Whitton in Melbourne's Truth newspaper.

Blue Mont Central College

The school was then chartered by an act of the Kansas Territorial legislature, signed by Territorial Governor James W. Denver on February 9, 1858—making it one of the first three institutes of higher education incorporated in Kansas Territory, all of which were incorporated on that date.

Boyne Resorts

Robert Trent Jones designed the first resort course in the region at Boyne Highlands in 1966.Chet Huntley's Big Sky Resort was purchased in 1976, only a few years after its opening in December 1973.

Chryss Goulandris

She has been Chairperson of the O'Reilly Foundation since its establishment, was invited by family friend Paul Newman to be first Chairperson of the Barrettstown Castle Hole in the Wall Club.

Classic Countdown

Twenty featured songs from a particular season — often, from the 1970s — are featured and played countdown-style, from No. 20 to No. 1.

Club Passim

Bonnie Raitt chose to attend Radcliffe College in Cambridge in order to be near Club 47, though the club closed temporarily after her first year as a student (1967).

Edgar Ravenswood Waite

Following the expedition to Funafuti in the Ellice Islands (now know as Tuvalu) Waite published an account of The mammals, reptiles, and fishes of Funafuti.

John O. Reed

With Clive Wake he published several anthologies, as well as translations from French of the work of Léopold Sédar Senghor and Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo, in Heinemann's African Writers Series.

Mr and Mrs Smith and Mr Drake

Mr and Mrs Smith and Mr Drake is an album performed by a side project of Cardiacs, created by Tim Smith, Sarah Smith and William D. Drake.

Mutnedjmet

Mutnedjmet (Mutnedjemet, Mutnodjmet, Mutnodjemet) an Ancient Egyptian queen, the Great Royal Wife of Horemheb, the last ruler of the Eighteenth Dynasty.

Nadinne I. Cruz

While earning a PhD in Transformative Studies at the California Institute of Integral Studies, Cruz works with colleges and universities across the U.S. and with the National and state Campus Compacts.

Robert Kinsey

In 1924 he won the U.S. National Championship men's doubles championship with his brother Howard Kinsey by defeating the Australian team of Gerald Patterson and Pat O'Hara in four sets.

Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company

Before the Cartsdyke yard closed in the late 1970s it was used to film part of a BBC Television Play for Today called "Just a Boys' Game".

Substantia gelatinosa

Substantia gelatinosa of Rolando (usually what is meant when "Substantia gelatinosa" is used by itself)

The Last Month of the Year

The Last Month of the Year is an album of Christmas music by The Kingston Trio, released in 1960 (see 1960 in music).