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30 unusual facts about the world


Anglesey Circuit

The TV motoring programme Fifth Gear regularly used the Anglesey circuit for the 'Shoot Out' segment of the show.

Bernhard von Spanheim

In the conflict between the rivaling House of Hohenstaufen and the Welfs around the German throne, he originally continued his brother's support for their relative Philip of Swabia, grandnephew of King Conrad III, who had been elected King of the Romans in 1198.

Berserker Range

The range is composed of a diverse group of mostly igneous rocks dating from the Devonian to Early Triassic Periods.

Central Arkansas Telephone Cooperative

Central Arkansas Telephone Cooperative (CATC) is a non-profit rural telephone utility cooperative serving the cities of Bismarck and Donaldson and the surrounding rural areas of Hot Spring County, Arkansas.

Children Act 1948

The Children Act 1948 was an Act of Parliament in the United Kingdom that established a comprehensive childcare service.

Coworth House

One might add to this every member of the army regardless of rank the numerous independent merchants living in the three British Presidencies of Bengal, Madras and Bombay – and the whole array of native Indian rulers ranging from Moslem sultans and Hindu rajas, to hordes of freebooters scouring the villages.

Engyon

Engyon is a legendary ancient town of the interior of Sicily, a Cretan colony, according to legend, and famous for an ancient temple of the Magna Mater (or Cybele) which aroused the greed of Verres.

Geography of Wollongong

The Southern Freeway and Old Princes Highway provide alternative inland routes, descending the escarpment further south at Bulli Pass or at Mount Ousley, entering the coastal plain at Gwynneville, just north of Wollongong's city centre.

Giambattista Rubini

:For the nineteenth-century tenor, see Giovanni Battista Rubini.

Gosh

Mkhitar Gosh, Armenian scholar and priest after whom the village is named

Halidon Hill

At the Battle of Halidon Hill in 1333, Edward III of England used longbowmen on the heights of the hill to defeat the Scottish army led by Archibald the "Tyneman" Douglas, Regent of Scotland.

Hosey

William J. Hosey (1854–1937), American politician and the 20th mayor of Fort Wayne, Indiana

Humo's Rock Rally

Many notable Belgian bands and musicians, such as dEUS, The Black Box Revelation, Evil Superstars, Novastar, Milow, Arid, An Pierlé, Das Pop, Admiral Freebee and Goose, launched their career in the Rock Rally.

Jigoku-Retsuden

The DVD portion of the bundle is concert footage from a 1977 performance at Budokan Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

John Pike

John Pyke (born 1940), Australian university law lecturer and Queensland Senate candidate

Lord Chamberlain's requirements

Three of the requirements (leaving the theatre, freedom of the gangways and the operation of the safety curtain) were set to music by Donald Swann for the revue Fresh Airs and were later used as encores for the Flanders and Swann revue At the Drop of a Hat.

Math Girls

In Japan, "Math Girls" was serialized from April 2008 through June 2009 in Comic Flapper (except for the November 2008 issue).

MUI Group

In recent years, MUI relocated Laura Ashley's United States corporate headquarters to a building at the former Heritage USA site that once served as Jim Bakker's PTL ministry headquarters.

NAAC

National Assessment and Accreditation Council, an organization that assesses and accredits institutions of higher education in India.

Neil Gordon Munro

Educated in the University of Edinburgh Medical School M.B., C.M. 1888 and M.D. 1909, he traveled in India and Japan before settling in Yokohama as director of the General Hospital in 1893.

No Place For Me

Tyler called his aquittance Don Pierce, who worked in Pappy Daily's Starday Records.

Plant With Purpose

Plant With Purpose began working with communities in the Mt. Kilimanjaro region of Tanzania in 2004.

Ray Mill Island

Boulter's weir runs from the top end of the island across to the Taplow bank.

Scannebago

To travel the state of North Carolina, "from Murphy to Manteo," takes 9 hours, and North Carolina's terrain varies greatly from the mountains to the sea.

Sokal Raion

Bieszczady County, Poland, which acquired the Ukrainian territories during the 1951 exchange

The Forsyte Saga: To Let

Soames and his wife Annette (Beatriz Batarda) host a country weekend to encourage a match between Fleur and Michael however Fleur is pining for the loss of Jon and does not warm to Michael’s advances.

Ushnu

In the top there existed a double armchair worked in stone, which according to the local tradition was covered with golden sheets and was the place where there were sitting down the Inca and the Coya (his wife) to give justice and to preside at the ceremonies and rituals that were developing in the square.In the peripheral Ushnu mas, his structure was enough a precarious mas, but it was arranged under archeoastronómics rules .

Vasily Nalimov

Rustum Roy held Nalimov in high regard and sponsored some of his works.

Victor A. Gangelin

Along with his Academy Award-nominated films, his 47 film and television credits include the John Wayne epics The Searchers and The Alamo as well as episodes of The Roy Rogers Show and My Mother the Car.

ZanZarah: The Hidden Portal

The title theme Come With Me was composed and performed by British-Latvian singer Kariina Gretere (aka Karina Gretere), whom some compare to Enya.