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26 unusual facts about the world


Anti-copyright

One of the founders of Piratbyrån Rasmus Fleischer argues that copyright law simply seems unable to cope with the Internet, and hence is obsolete.

Bill Dollar

While waiting for his application to be approved, he moved to Shelbyville, Tennessee and served as morning host and sales manager, but decided he would be better off working for someone else rather than being his own boss.

Bob McAllister

By the time Mr. McAllister replaced Sonny Fox as host of the three-hour Sunday morning children's extravaganza known as Wonderama, in 1967, the show had been on the air for more than a dozen years.

Boyden

Boyden Cave, a mile-long cavern located in Kings Canyon National Park, California, United States

CADS

Center for Advanced Defense Studies, a Washington D.C.-based non-governmental national security research group

Carillon

Cornell University is home to the Cornell Chimes, one of the most frequently played set of bells on any American college campus.

Chimalpopoca

This aqueduct was of wood, and ran from the elevated place of Chapultepec to Tenochtitlan.

Dali Yang

Yang's more recent papers have tended to study specific regulatory problems in sectors ranging from sports doping, to drug manufacturing, and food safety.

DYNB-TV

and currently is the affiliated station of the Philippine television network AksyonTV; The station is operated and co-owned by TV5, Its studios is located at PLDT Compound, Luna St.

Eric Vanderaerden

In the Tour de France, his participation in the 1985 edition was a strong one, beating the later winner Bernard Hinault in a time trial stage.

Ezekiel Isaac Malekar

“According to Rabbi sic Hillel, the Torah can be capsulated into only one commandment: ‘What is hurtful and hateful to you, do not do to another.’ Everything else is footnote.”

Fernando C. Beaman

He was Chairman of the House Committee on Roads and Canals in the Thirty-ninth Congress.

Fioroni

Andrea Fioroni (born 1969), Argentinian former female field hockey player

James Young Deer

However, in 2008 the Library of Congress added White Fawn's Devotion, one of Young Deer's few surviving pictures, to its National Film Registry.

Johannes du Plessis Scholtz

He also worked under C. G. N. de Vooys at the University of Utrecht on his dissertation Die Afrikaner en Sy Taal, 1806-1875, for which he received the Hertzog Prize for scholarly prose (what is more, the award had existed until then; it was expressly created in order to honor him with it).

Juneau-Douglas Bridge

Egan Drive, Juneau's principal arterial highway, and the bridge are connected at the intersection of Egan and 10th Street, one of the busiest intersections in Southeast Alaska.

Leland Olds

In 1930/’31 he served as the “manager” of the American lecture tour of the famed Irish poet and cooperative propagandist Æ (George Russell).

Lucy Dunn

Lucetta "Lucy" Dunn is a business leader in Orange County, California, and is currently President and CEO of OCBC- Orange County Business Council.

Mark Frauenfelder

On June 21, 2003, Mark Frauenfelder and Carla Sinclair, along with their two young daughters, decided to move from Los Angeles to Rarotonga, an island in the South Pacific, where they lived for five months.

Michael J. Connor

Connor, like all U.S. submarine officers (with the exception of supply officers and some Limited Duty Officers (LDO) and Chief Warrant Officers assigned to Ballistic Missile Submarines) attended Nuclear Power School and received submarine training.

Neponset, Illinois

Neponset was named for the Massachusetts hometown of Myron Lee, the railroad's first agent at the Neponset station.

President of the Republic of China

After President Lee Teng-hui succeeded Chiang as president in 1988, the power struggle within the KMT extended to the constitutional debate over the relationship between the president and the premier.

Reija Hirvikoski

In 1987, she was the first female scenographer to win the Jussi - award (Finnish Oscar), which she got for visual design of the movie The Snow Queen.

Terry M. Moe

—Joel Klein, CEO, News Corp Education Division, and former Chancellor of New York City Public Schools

The Bush Undertaker

First Published: The Antipodean, 1892, under the title "Christmas in the Far West" or "The Bush Undertaker."

We Started Nothing

Jules De Martino – vocals, drums, guitar, bass, keyboards, producer