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30 unusual facts about the world


1997 Australian Men's Hardcourt Championships

The 1997 Australian Men's Hardcourt Championships was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at the Memorial Drive Park in Adelaide in Australia and was part of the World Series of the 1997 ATP Tour.

2009 Jarama Superleague Formula round

Polesitter Tottenham Hotspur (Craig Dolby) stalled and were effectively out of the race at the start, coming in at the finish 6th and last some way behind.

Barry Quin

In 1980, he would star in the television miniseries Lucinda Brayford co-starring Wendy Hughes and Sam Neill and, the following year, in Sara Dane.

Billboard Top Country Hits: 1986

Billboard Top Country Hits: 1986 is a compilation album released by Rhino Records in 1994, featuring 10 hit country music recordings from 1986.

Caimito

Caimito, Cuba, a town in Artemisa Province (before 2011 in Havana Province)

Charlotte Frogner

She has been employed by Oslo's Det Norske Teatret since 2004 where she has appeared in a number of productions and acted for Norwegian television.

CS Bayou City

Just over a year after its charter, in October 1862, she was taken over by the Confederate States Army.

Despro

Annually Switzerland invests about 2.8 billion Swiss francs to fight poverty and to support the economic growth in the developing countries and Eastern European countries, including the CIS.

Dollar Sweets dispute

Dollar Sweets was a confectionery company in the Melbourne suburb of Malvern employing 27 people on a 38-hour week basis.

Evan Thornley

He is a board member of the Brotherhood of St Laurence and the Chifley Research Centre, was a founding director of GetUp!, and a founding officer of the National Union of Students.

Gérard Encausse

In the articles Sergei Witte and Pyotr Rachkovsky were attacked, and it was suggested that there was a sinister financial syndicate trying to disrupt the Franco-Russian alliance.

Giggs Hill Green

Two local roads are named after Thames Ditton, Surrey and England cricketers: Maurice Read and Tom Hayward.

Grunwald, Poznań

It is also bordered by the town of Luboń to the south, and the administrative districts (gminas) of Dopiewo to the west and Komorniki to the south-west.

Héctor Icazuriaga

Icazuriaga has enjoyed a relatively good working relationship with both Presidents Kirchner, though his Deputy Director, Francisco Larcher, is reportedly closer to the couple than the Director himself.

Henry Seebohm

His expeditions included the lower Pechora River in 1875 along with John Alexander Harvie-Brown as well as a visit to Heligoland at the home of Heinrich Gätke.

Hiddenite

The first specimens of the hiddenite variety of spodumene were recovered about 1879 near the tiny settlement of White Plains, west of Stony Point, Alexander County, North Carolina.

Hiroshi Minagawa

Director Naoki Yoshida considered the fact that one of the Final Fantasy XII directors was now solely responsible for one aspect of Final Fantasy XIV an indication of how serious Square Enix was about improving the game.

KateModern

Tara Rushton as Charlie, Kate's best friend who almost loses everything she has in order to protect her loved ones from the Order.

Los Gatos Daily News

All except the online-only Los Gatos Observer were briefly owned by the non-local McClatchy company after McClatchy's acquisition of Knight Ridder in early 2006, and are now controlled by MediaNews Group of Denver, Colorado.

Memoirs of a Geisha

This book has inspired many people around the world in art as also as in music, world-wide famous music artists such as Madonna in her 1999 music video for "Nothing Really Matters".

Nils Brahe

Count Nils Brahe (October 14, 1604 – November 21, 1632) was a Swedish soldier and younger brother of Per Brahe.

Poppendorf, Styria

Poppendorf is a municipality in the district of Südoststeiermark in the Austrian state of Styria.

San Pietro Apostolo

These were repeatedly targeted by bandits and still preserve their defense systems, among which are two holes through which hot oil was cast out onto attackers who tried to break down the doors.

Spyder Turner

Turner left his management after dissatisfaction with MGM's soul division (which consisted only of Howard Tate and himself), and played regionally in the South in the early 1970s.

The Thing I Like

It was released on the soundtrack for the action-comedy film A Low Down Dirty Shame (1994) and the international version of Aaliyah's debut studio album Age Ain't Nothing but a Number (1994).

Transnistrian border customs issues

From February 1996 to 2001, there was an agreement between Moldovan and Transnistrian authorities, according to which PMR (Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic) export and import goods were not subject to Moldovan taxes, PMR was granted the right to use the customs seal of the Republic of Moldova on its goods, and PMR agreed to establish joint customs centers with Moldova on the border with Ukraine.

WNOO

On December 30, 1960, Jerry Tucker of WNOO interviewed Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. just before the Civil Rights leader gave a speech at Chattanooga's Memorial Auditorium.

World Alliance of Reformed Churches

On 1 February 2006, Clifton Kirkpatrick, president of the WARC, and Douwe Visser, president of the Reformed Ecumenical Council (REC), said in a joint letter, "We rejoice in the work of the Holy Spirit which we believe has led us to recommend that the time has come to bring together the work of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches and the Reformed Ecumenical Council into one body that will strengthen the unity and witness of Reformed Christians."

Yang Huiyu

She died in 278 at the age of 65 (by East Asian age reckoning) and was buried with honors due an empress, with her husband Sima Shi.

Zadvydas v. Davis

Representing the United States was Deputy Solicitor General Edwin Kneedler.