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26 unusual facts about the world


A Certain Woman

Directed by Shirō Toyoda and starring Machiko Kyō in the role of Yōko, Masayuki Mori, who was the son of the author Arishima Takeo, played the role of the journalist, and Eiji Funakoshi played the role of Kimura.

A Gettysburg Address

Alex Berenson of Esquire praised the episode's subplots and the shootout scene, but felt that the Carrie/Brody/Quinn dynamic in the main storyline fell short.

Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth

A major sub-plot of the game is inspired by Lovecraft's novella The Shadow Out of Time.

Chip Hourihan

Hourihan wrote and directed the feature film Glissando, based upon a short story by Robert Boswell, which won numerous Best Picture and Best Actors awards on the film festival circuit.

Dakota Staton

Later she performed regularly in the Hill District, a jazz hotspot, as a vocalist with the Joe Westray Orchestra, a popular Pittsburgh orchestra.

Dave Blalock

Blalock appeared in the theatrical production of Friedrich Schiller's Wallenstein of Helgard Haug and Daniel Wetzel of Rimini Protokoll (2005–2007) where among a cast of ten people out of real life - such as a conservative politician unveiling his election campaign strategies, a German former Hitler Youth, Weimar's former chief police officer - to tell his story of a fragging in the midst of Intrigue, War & Death.

DJ M.E.G.

While being signed to this label, DJ M.E.G. worked with Russia's mainstream POP artists like Timati, Sergey Lazarev, Karina Koks, and more.

Frank Butcher

Following Anita Dobson's (Angie) and Leslie Grantham's (Den) decisions to quit the show in 1988, Frank was reintroduced as a full-time character and installed as the new landlord of The Queen Vic, which he ran with his future wife, Pat, before opening a used car-lot on the Square.

Freden

Freden is a village and a municipality in the district of Hildesheim, in Lower Saxony, Germany.

Go Together

The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4 stars and stated "A melodic but explorative player, Bley (whose use of space sometimes recalls Thelonious Monk) interacts closely with the electric bass of Steve Swallow on this excellent duet session".

Homarus gammarus

Homarus gammarus is traditionally "highly esteemed" as a foodstuff and was mentioned in "The Crabfish" a seventeenth century English folk song.

Józef Sylwester Sosnowski

Sosnowski refused him his daughter's hand, reputedly telling the future hero of the American Revolution and leader of Poland's Kosciuszko Uprising against Russia that "turtledoves are not for common sparrows, and magnates' daughters are not for petty nobility."

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol

Mark Wahl of Critical Angle Inc., Tim Howes, and Steve Kille started work in 1996 on a new version of LDAP, LDAPv3, under the aegis of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).

Mahmud Bayazidi

With the assistance of Bayazidi, a number of Kurdish documents were sent to the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg, including some of Bayazidi's own writings.

Mayo, County Mayo

St. Colmán, Bishop of Lindisfarne, founded a monastery here for a group of Saxon monks, Saint Gerald becoming the first abbot in 670.

Nick Harper

In summer 2006, he again played a multitude of festivals, including the Moseley Folk Festival, Jersey Live, Beautiful Days and Clonakilty's second annual Guitar Festival, along with appearances at festivals in France and Catalonia.

Nintendocore

The Depreciation Guild, who disbanded in 2011, were an indie band that incorporated 8-bit sounds, video game music, and elements of shoegaze.

Pasinler

Pasinler District, an administrative district of Erzurum Province, Turkey

Pictures of Fidelman

First published in Idiots First; Fidelman finds himself working as a toilet-scrubber in a whorehouse, at the mercy of Scarpio and Angelo, who convince him to forge Titian's Venus of Urbino in exchange for his freedom.

Polite

Polite architecture, or the polite: a form of building design which is aestheticly led and characterised by intentionally incorporated stylistic or romantic features

Rufus Sage

In fall of 1836 he ventured to Washington County, Ohio, where he became teacher and junior intern at the Marietta Gazette.

Sam Freed

While he apprenticed with Festival Theatre (now known as Pennsylvania Centre Stage), he first met Barrie Youngfellow, whom he would eventually marry.

Sharon Keogh

Later Sharon moved to CBC television and produced Three Women, an acclaimed 90 minute documentary music special featuring performers Maureen Forrester, Pauline Julien, and Sylvia Tyson.

Stephan Schmidheiny

After years of investigation, the Prosecutor Raffaele Guariniello and his team acted on behalf of 2,619 former Eternit employees from the Italian factories in Casale Monferrato (Province of Alessandria), Cavagnolo (Province of Turin), Rubiera (Province of Reggio Emilia) and Bagnoli (Naples) and 270 family members or local residents who received para occupational or environmental exposure to Eternit asbestos.

Virginius

Virginius Dabney (1901–1995), a U.S. teacher, journalist, writer and editor

William Homer Leavitt

Ruth Bryan Owen lived abroad for several years during her English husband's postings, until she returned to America, where she ran for Congress from Florida after his early death.