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26 unusual facts about the world


2004–06 European Nations Cup Third Division

The team defeated in the first round and two new teams (Azerbaijan) and Armenia) played a "challenge", that wasn't completed.

2014 World Junior Curling Championships

The 2014 World Junior Curling Championships will be held from February 26 to March 5 at the Waldhaus Arena in Flims, Switzerland.

Abdulelah Haider Shaye

Journalist Jeremy Scahill reports that, according to his sources in Yemen, Saleh rescinded his pardon primarily due to the call from President Obama.

Asterius of Amasea

One of them, Oration 4: Adversus Kalendarum Festum attacks the pagan customs and abuses of the New Years feast, denying everything that Libanius had said supporting it - see Lord of Misrule for extensive quotations.

Chinigchinix

John Peabody Harrington (Boscana 1933) thought that Chingichngish might have been a historical figure, but most scholars have interpreted him as a deity.

Comedy in Music

Comedy in Music is an original Broadway comedy by Victor Borge, with no additional cast involved, performed as a one-man show.

Elections in Poland

The Senate (Senat) has 100 members elected for a four-year term via the first past-the-post system, with 100 single member constituencies.

Hannah Margaret Mary Closs

She married August Closs, an Austrian-born professor of German Studies, in 1931.

Hayes Valley, San Francisco

In 2005, a section of the freeway was rebuilt to end at Market Street, with the new, tree-lined Octavia Boulevard running north through the Hayes Valley along the previous path of Octavia Street, to Fell Street.

International Clearing Union

The International Clearing Union (ICU) was one of the institutions proposed to be set up at the 1944 United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, in the United States, by British economist John Maynard Keynes.

Jersbek

Jersbek is a municipality in the district of Stormarn, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

King Alfred's Tower

Henry Hoare II planned in the 1760s the tower to to commemorate the end of the Seven Years' War against France and the accession of King George III near the location of 'Egbert's stone' where it is believed that Alfred the Great, King of Wessex, rallied the Saxons in May 878 before the important Battle of Ethandun.

Larry Eustachy

During the photo scandal, the Register reported that Iowa State documents showed that the NCAA cited Eustachy for rules violations related to paying players, including Jackson Vroman, for making free throws.

MacPublisher

It was Paul Brainerd, Aldus' chairman, who gave the industry the name "desktop publishing."

Mahantango Creek

Little Mahantango Creek joins Mahantango Creek near the village of Rough and Ready.

Malling series

In 1912, Ronald Hatton initiated the work of classification, testing and standardization of apple tree rootstocks.

Michael Akins

As of DC's 'One Year Later' jump as part of Infinite Crisis, Akins is no longer Commissioner, with Gordon having resumed the position (And the GCPD's relations with Batman).

Monster of Aramberri

As the Museum of Natural History of Karlsruhe could not accept any more remains because it was at its maximum capacity, new remains were sent to the Museo del Desierto in Saltillo, Coahuila, also in Mexico, where the specialist in marine reptiles, Dra.

Orto Botanico dell'Università di Camerino

The garden also contains two greenhouses with tropical and subtropical species, with many succulents and epiphytes including Begonia, Orchidaceae, and Tillandsia, as well as Cinnamomum camphora, Kalanchoe beharensis, Nepenthes mirabilis, Piper nigrum, Stanhopea tigrina, etc.

Perivascular cell

Pericyte, a connective tissue cell that occurs about small blood vessels

Plötzkau

Plötzkau is a municipality in the district of Salzlandkreis, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

Richard S. Whaley

He was re-elected to the Sixty-fourth, Sixty-fifth, and Sixty-sixth Congresses and served from April 29, 1913, to March 3, 1921.

Rudolph Foods

Lee’s Pig Skins is based in New Hebron, Mississippi, and was founded in 1978 and incorporated in 1988.

Tafas

It had a population of 73 households and 40 bachelors, all Muslim.

Toponymy of England

Modern Winchester was 'Venta Belgarum', the 'Win-' element deriving from 'Venta' in a similar way to the names Caerwent and Gwent from Venta Silurum in south Wales.

Vladimir Fontikov

Born in Novorossiysk, Russian SFSR, to a Russian father and an Armenian mother, Fontikov moved to Yerevan, Armenian SSR in 1943 and lived there until 1962, when he began his studies at the Moscow Conservatory.