X-Nico

21 unusual facts about the world


Actopan

Actopan, Hidalgo, a city and municipality in Hidalgo, central-eastern Mexico

Blaesilla

Blaesilla (died 384) was the daughter of Paula, and sister of Eustochium, from one of the Senatorial families of Ancient Rome.

Bostwick family

; Standardbred horse breeder, hockey player and a director and treasurer of the United States Trotting Association.

Canton of Troyes-1

The Canton of Troyes-1 is one of the 22 cantons of the arrondissement of Troyes, in the Aube department, in northern France.

Condom machine

In the novel Porterhouse Blue, conflict over an attempt to introduce such a device to a Cambridge college, is one of the factors that leads to murder.

Edmund Burke Society

In 1971, three of five Ontario Social Credit candidates in the 1971 provincial election were identified as EBS members.

Falling Home

Falling Home is the fifth solo album from the singer/songwriter Jude Cole.

Legacy Virus

During the X-Cutioner's Song crossover, the villain Stryfe gave Mister Sinister a canister that he claimed contained 2,000 years worth of genetic material from the Summers bloodline.

Luchita Hurtado

Hurtado's third husband was artist Lee Mullican; their son Matt Mullican is a New York-based artist; their son John Mullican is a Los Angeles based writer and director.

Marie of Valois

Marie of Valois, Prioress of Poissy, daughter of Charles VI of France and Isabeau of Bavaria

Marielle Gallo

She is the wife of famous French historian and member of the French Academy, Max Gallo.

Mick Stallard

After retiring from racing, Stallard had his own bike shop in Bradmore and later also took over his father's shop.

Niedersayn

Since 1971 it has belonged to what was then the newly founded Verbandsgemeinde of Wirges, a kind of collective municipality.

Norman W. Walker

Walker's work influenced later juice advocates such as Jason Vale in the UK, otherwise known as The Juice Master, and Jay Kordich, who popularized "juicing" in the United States with extensive television advertising in the 1990s.

Ohagamiut, Alaska

Ohagamiut (Urr’agmiut in Central Alaskan Yup'ik) was a Yup'ik village along the Kuskokwim River in the Bethel Census Area of the southwestern part of the U.S. state of Alaska, located between Crow Village and Kalskag.

Olympische Hymne

A slightly abbreviated version of the Olympische Hymne can be heard on the soundtrack to the closing sequence of part 1 of Leni Riefenstahl's Olympia, the film of the 1936 Olympics.

Ricky Barnes

Barnes and Mahan would share the 2003 Ben Hogan Award and would lead the United States to victory at the 2002 Eisenhower Trophy.

The Mighty Mighty Bosstones discography

The Bosstones' 1997 release Let's Face It was the most commercially successful album for the band, featuring the hit single "The Impression That I Get", which hit #1 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart.

Time-to-digital converter

While the basic concepts (like Vernier methods (Pierre Vernier 1584-1638) and time stretching) of dividing time into measurable intervals are still up-to-date, the implementation changed a lot during the past 50 years.

Winston Churchill as historian

His better-known historical works include: Marlborough: His Life and Times, The World Crisis (a history of World War I), The Second World War, which earned him the Nobel Prize in Literature, and A History of the English-Speaking Peoples.

Zach Crowell

The song is featured as the theme song in the 2014 Chevrolet Silverado advertising campaign.