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17 unusual facts about the world


1906 Targa Florio

The entry list was badly affected by a dock strike in Genoa but the race was won by the Italian driver Alessandro Cagno in an Itala.

Betty Millard

Published by International Publishers and appearing first in her own New Masses magazine, the work examined and explained the history of the women's movement in the United States, in the socialist movement, and in the USSR.

Dáire Drechlethan

His kindred, the Dáirine or Corcu Loígde, believed to be related to the Érainn, provided a number of powerful kings of Tara in the early period, and this could not be ignored by the Uí Néill compilers of the list.

Gallant Man

A small brown horse by Migoli (the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe winner) out of Majida (winner of both the Irish Oaks and the Irish 1,000 Guineas), Gallant Man stood a little over fifteen hands and was afflicted with bad ankles.

John J. Scannell

John Jay Scannell (1841 – March 5, 1918) was a Tammany Hall politician who was the leader of the Eleventh Assembly District.

Mark Salter

Salter lives in Alexandria, Virginia, with his wife Diane, and their two daughters, Molly and Liddy.

Ontario general election, 1937

Meanwhile, the fledgling democratic socialist Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) lost its sole MLA, Sam Lawrence.

Peace thru Vandalism

The song gained renewed interest when it was mentioned in the 2002 Vin Diesel movie xXx.

Phi Beta Delta

Harriet Mayor Fulbright, former Executive Director of the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities and President of the J. William and Harriet Fulbright Center.

Ronald Frank Thiemann

While acting President of Haverford College, Thiemann officiated at the May 1986 graduation ceremonies during which honorary doctorates were to be awarded to Edwin Bronner, Robert M. Gavin Jr., Eleanor Holmes Norton, and Andrew L. Lewis, Jr. Lewis, head of the Union Pacific Railroad had recently served as U.S. Secretary of Transportation in the cabinet of Ronald Reagan and overseen the lockout of striking air traffic controllers in 1981.

Samuel Bernard

In order that the King would not have to stoop to receive the financier in an audience, the Controller-General of Finances, Nicolas Desmarets (1648-1721), carefully choreographed a meeting which took place at Marly.

Stewart Milne

He joined the board of directors in 1994 to replace Dick Donald.

Svetla Dimitrova

Dimitrova was a contestant in the second season of Survivor BG: Expedition Robinson.

Tornado Alley

The term "tornado alley" was first used in 1952 by U.S. Air Force meteorologists Major Ernest J. Fawbush (1915–1982) and Captain Robert C. Miller (1920–1998) as the title of a research project to study severe weather in parts of Texas and Oklahoma.

Urith

John Leland makes no mention of her, nor does Capgrave's Nova Legenda Angliae, and Nicholas Roscarock knew little of her apart from the fact of her existence.

Walter Bruch

-- This needs a reliable source, as according to more recent research in Germany, some of the achievements Bruch was credited for were actually the work of other co-workers, in--> During World War II he operated a closed-circuit television system installed at the Peenemünde launch site, so that the V-2 rocket launches could be watched at a safe distance from a bunker.

Winchester, Indiana

Randy Jo Hobbs, born in Winchester, bassist and founding member of The McCoys; later worked extensively with Johnny Winter and also played with Jimi Hendrix.