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27 unusual facts about the world


AK-103

A manufacturing plant to produce the AK-103 in Maracay is operational, and it produces up to 50,000 units per year.

Ashburton, Baltimore

It is located near Liberty Heights Avenue and Hilton Street and home to many prominent African-Americans including Baltimore's former mayor Kurt L. Schmoke, State Senator Lisa Gladden, State Senator Catherine E. Pugh, State Delegate Shawn Z. Tarrant, childhood home of Current Baltimore mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Clerk of the Court Frank Conaway, Attorney Dwight Pettit, and many more.

Borsec

One famous visitor to Borsec was Moldavian writer Vasile Alecsandri, who wrote the following in 1845: "at Borsec they all are brothers, if not in Jesus then in mineral water ... one of the most important merits of Borsec is that it gives people human feelings!"

Canadian Life and Health Insurance Association

In May 2010, Ontario Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) Jeff Leal introduced a private member's bill based on the CLHIA's proposals for insurance reform.

Coat of arms of Argentina

The Phrygian cap was typically worn by the inhabitants of Phrygia, in the Anatolian peninsula, and is commonly mistaken for being a Pileus.

Communist Party of Russia

Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, the forerunner of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Coy Privette

In one case, court documents show Summers was found with a man's Wachovia teller card.

Cricket in India

The entire history of cricket in India and the sub-continent as a whole is based on the existence and development of the British Raj via the East India Company.

Dragoș

In the chronicle of the Ragusan Luccari, completed in 1601, Dragoş is designated “barone di Ust, cittá in Transilvania” (“Baron of Hust, a town in Transylvania”).

Drew Hayden Taylor

As well as his writing, Taylor has been the artistic director of Native Earth Performing Arts, and has taught at the Centre for Indigenous Theatre.

Fhourstones

In computer science, Fhourstones is an integer benchmark that efficiently solves positions in the game of Connect-4.

Francis Bertie Boyce

Memorials to Boyce were placed in the Sydney and Bathurst cathedrals and his portrait by Julian Ashton was presented to the National Art Gallery of New South Wales in 1917.

Government Polytechnic Institute Attock

The Government Polytechnic Institute Attock, or GPI Attock is a government technical education institute in Attock and Rawalpindi District, Punjab, Pakistan.

Homebase

From March 2009 "Young Folks" by Peter Bjorn and John featuring Victoria Bergsman is used, 2009– 2010 saw the transformation of Carlisle railway station one of the most expensive adverts Homebase has produced to date.

J. Franklin Bell

In the early spring of 1917, Bell was transferred to the Department of the East at Fort Jay, Governors Island in New York City, and as commander of that department, assuming responsibility for Officers' Training Camps created by his predecessor, Leonard Wood, at Plattsburgh, Madison Barracks, and Fort Niagara.

Józef Piłsudski Institute of America

An affiliate of the Institute was also established in Ankara through a group of politicians, among them Michał Sokolnicki.

Le Rouret

Peter Churchill, famous SOE agent in the Second World War, lived here after the war until his death in 1972.

Michael Eysenck

There is a photographic portrait of Hans and Michael Eysenck in the National Portrait Gallery permanent collection, by Anne-Katrin Purkiss.

Mike Jerrick

The Wichita native started his career at Topeka's WIBW-TV in Kansas (when fellow Foxer Steve Doocy was doing the weather at WIBW's crosstown rival, KSNT-TV).

Mongol invasions of India

The Mongol commander Bala chased Jalal ad-Din throughout the Punjab region and attacked outlying towns like Bhera and Multan and had even sacked the outskirts of Lahore.

Ray Shulman

He also has created music for several video games, such as Privateer 2 and Azrael's Tear.

Riven Rock

It also shows, above all, how much is to be gained by giving literary treatment to historical characters and events—an exercise that Boyle repeats in The Women and other of his works.

Sekolah Tun Fatimah

Sekolah Tun Fatimah or better known as STF, is a premier all-girl boarding school(Sekolah Berasrama Penuh) located in Johor Bahru, Johor.

Sidney Fay Blake

The same year he received his PhD, he started his botanical career at the Bureau of Plant Industry for the United States Department of Agriculture, and worked there till he died in 1959.

Suwałki Region

The aforementioned units were roughly correspondent to the actual administrative division of the area into powiats of Augustów, Suwałki and Sejny of the Białystok Voivodeship of Poland, respectively.

Ulrik Wilbek

He was reappointed as coach for Viborg HK's elite women, and again he showed his excellence: The team became national champions for four consecutive years and reached the final in the 2001 EHF Champions League.

Vada Pinson

He was a graduate of Oakland's famed McClymonds High School, attended by Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder Frank Robinson (a Pinson teammate in the major leagues for nine years) and Basketball Hall of Fame center Bill Russell.