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30 unusual facts about the world


A Boy in a Bush

Special Agent Seeley Booth shows up at Dr. Temperance Brennan's lecture at American University.

Alleycat race

Alleycat veteran and videographer Lucas Brunelle is widely credited as having pioneered the art of filming alleycat races from the first-person perspective and sharing the footage online.

Baron Archer

Thomas Archer (1668–1743), youngest son of Thomas Archer, Baroque architect and courtier

Bill Yawkey

Upon his death, he left his $40 million estate to his nephew and adoptive son, Tom Yawkey, who later bought the Boston Red Sox.

Charles Sousa

He was the province's Minister of Citizenship and Immigration and Minister Responsible for the 2015 Pan and Para Pan American Games in the Cabinet of Premier Dalton McGuinty until November 9, 2012 when he resigned in order to enter the Liberal Party's leadership election.

Cherie Hausler

Cherie’s TV career begun when she was chosen as the co-host of Pepsi Live alongside Dylan Lewis.

Claes Borgström

In 2013, citing his dissatisfaction with what he refers to as the right-leaning changes in the Social Democratic Party, Borgström changed his party membership to the Swedish Left Party.

Coal Strike of 1902

The employers were willing to accept a union leader as the "eminent sociologist," so Roosevelt named E. E. Clark, head of the railway conductors' union, as the "eminent sociologist" and, after Catholics exerted pressure, added a sixth, Catholic bishop John Lancaster Spalding, and Commissioner Wright as the seventh member.

Dionisio Calvo

After the Second World War, Calvo coached the second Philippine Olympic basketball team in the 1948 Summer Olympics held at London, England, United Kingdom.

Edward Spelman

‘A Short Review of Mr. Hooke's Observations concerning the Roman Senate and the Character of Dionysius Halicarnassus,’ London, 1758, written in reply to some criticisms of Nathaniel Hooke; Spelman's tract was answered by William Bowyer in ‘An Apology for some of Mr. Hooke's Observations,’ London, 1783.

Glossodia minor

Glossodia minor is found along the eastern coastline of Australia in Queensland and New South Wales, where it reaches as far west as Temora.

Harelle

Amiens, Dieppe, Falaise, Caen, Orléans, and Rheims were all seized by rebels who followed the pattern established by Rouen and Paris.

John Campbell of Stonefield

Campbell joined the army as an ensign of the 37th Regiment of Foot on 25 June 1771 and was appointed lieutenant in the 7th Fusiliers on 9 May 1774, serving in Quebec, where he was taken prisoner in the Siege of Fort St. Jean in 1775.

Kamalamai

King Jaya Prakash Malla of Kathmandu sought help from the British and so the East India Company sent a contingent of soldiers under Captain Kinloch in 1767.

Language Proficiency Assessment for Teachers

The LPAT examination is jointly held by the Hong Kong Examinations and Assessment Authority (HKEAA) and the Education Bureau (EDB) of the Hong Kong Government.

Marshall Township, Mower County, Minnesota

The township was first named "York" and later "Beach" before finally being named for William Rainey Marshall in 1870.

Mother Brain

In the show, she was voiced by Levi Stubbs, Jr. of the Four Tops, who was also well known for playing the voice of Audrey II in the film Little Shop of Horrors.

Nonhelema

Nonhelema is the subject of Warrior Woman, a novel authored by James Alexander Thom.

Piyale Pasha

In 1554 he captured the islands of Elba and Corsica with a large fleet which included famous Ottoman admirals like Turgut Reis and Salih Reis.

RML Group

For the 2010 season, the team is retaining the Lola B08/80 chassis, but with a normally aspirated V8 engine developed by Honda Performance Development, the same engine used in the HPD ARX-01.

SolidThinking

Brothers Alex Mazzardo and Mario Mazzardo started the solidThinking project in 1991 with Guido Quaroni, today Vice President of Software R&D at Pixar Animation Studios.

SPSA

Scottish Police Services Authority, a public body of the Scottish Government responsible for certain central services for police forces

St. Andrew's United Church

Located downtown near the intersection of Yonge and Bloor it is a combination of five other downtown Toronto congregations.

The Ethereal Mirror

Adam Lehan – Guitar, acoustic guitar, 12-string acoustic guitar

The Wave Pictures

The band has its origins in a group called Blind Summit, which David and Franic formed with Hugh Noble in Wymeswold, near Loughborough in Leicestershire, in 1998.

Tipton County, Tennessee

The western boundary of Tipton County is the Mississippi River, where Tennessee meets Arkansas; however, in several places where the river's course was altered by the 1812 New Madrid earthquake, the boundary still follows the old alignment of the river, with the result that a few of Tipton County's communities — including Reverie and Corona — are exclaved on the Arkansas side, rather than the Tennessee side, of the river.

Tired of Being Sorry

Starting with an argument with his girlfriend, Iglesias storms out of an apartment and while on the streets he spots a seductive female vampire, played by model Donna Feldman, and follows her into a busy underground club where she lures him into a back room and bites him.

Tom Hewitt

Leatherface's real name in the The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2003 movie and the 2006 prequel

Truman Bethurum

(1957), Facing Reality (1958), and The People of the Planet Clarion (1970), published after his death in Landers, California in 1969.

White torture

German artist Gregor Schneider based his room design of "Weiße Folter" (lit. German for White torture) on this idea.