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26 unusual facts about the world


2011 Fed Cup Americas Zone Group I – Play-offs

The top team advanced to World Group II Play-offs, and the bottom two teams were relegated down to the Americas Zone Group II for the next year.

Antonio Maldonado

Maldonado was born in Comerio, a town located in the center-eastern region of Puerto Rico.

Arzamas

Alexander Stupin art school was located in Arzamas between 1802 and 1862 and many famous Russian artists studied there, including Vasily Perov.

Bernard Rapp

He created a minor stir on 18 May 1986 when he became the first French newscaster to appear on camera without a tie.

Brandon DiCamillo

Additionally, DiCamillo has also provided voice overs for the Xbox Live Arcade game Trials HD and its sequel Trials Evolution.

Ebbor Gorge

The ground flora is indicative of the calcareous nature of the site, with Dog's Mercury (Mercurialis perennis) being locally dominant.

Eve Adler

Adler was also an important scholar of political philosophy in general, and extensively studied the political thought and approach to Scholarly method advocated by Leo Strauss, and was widely regarded as one of the leading Straussians even though she had never studied with him.

Geirr Tveitt

The movement rejected Christianity and sought to re-introduce the Norse pre-Christian system of belief - the adoration of Odin, Thor and Balder.

Giovanni Antonio Antolini

He designed grandiose Neoclassical projects such as the Foro Bonaparte in Milan, which was never executed, and plans for the Procuratie buildings on St Mark's Square in Venice, which were modified and completed by others.

Hamilton Coolidge

Ham Coolidge and Quentin Roosevelt attended Groton School together, attended Harvard together, and served together in the U.S. Army Air Service First Pursuit Group in France.

Hormonal sentience

There exists some sort of communication between a fungus garden and workers of the leaf-cutting ant Atta sexdens rubropilosa.

Jean Metcalfe

Self-effacing and gently spoken, she pioneered the art of interviewing stars in their own homes, including the wartime 'forces sweetheart' singer Vera Lynn, the irascible television personality Gilbert Harding, the song and dance man Frankie Vaughan and the stiff-upper-lipped film actor Kenneth More.

Jedidiah Morse

In 1805 he established The Panoplist for the purpose of illustrating and defending the commonly received orthodoxy of New England, and continued its sole editor for five years.

Larry Elgart

The instrumental was a medley of swing jazz hits - "In the Mood", "Cherokee", "American Patrol", "Sing, Sing, Sing", "Don't Be That Way", "Little Brown Jug", "Opus #1", "Zing Went the Strings of My Heart", and "String of Pearls" - that became so popular it even cracked the US Billboard Pop Singles chart (at #31) and Adult Contemporary chart (#20).

Larry Nixon

Lawrence "Larry" Nixon (born September 3, 1950 - Bee Branch, Arkansas) is a professional fisherman whose career started at the 1977 Florida Invitational in Welaka, Florida.

Lehtonen

Kari Lehtonen (born 1983), Finnish professional ice hockey goaltender

Lower Alabama

These sections of the state are where jokes are often heard with punch lines of "Yep, I'm from L.A. too: Lower Alabama"; or references to natives of southeastern Alabama being "Born in East L.A." (better known as the title of a Cheech Marin song parody of Bruce Springsteen's Born in the U.S.A.).

Medicine Head

The demo recording of "His Guiding Hand" was released as a single, Peel describing it as "the cheapest single ever made and one of the classic records of all time" and keeping the single in his box of most treasured records.

Melbourne University Private

It also allowed the public university to operate a management model and mission more akin to private market-driven universities in the USA (like the University of Phoenix).

Mimic 3: Sentinel

Mimic 3: Sentinel stars horror film veteran Lance Henriksen and takes a departure from the tone of the first two films, as it has a feel similar to Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window rather than the action/horror tone of its predecessors.

Princess Juliane of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld

He had a huge list of candidates, but during his trip became ill and was forced to stay in Coburg, where he was attended by the Ducal court doctor, Baron Stockmar, who, once he knew the real intention of his trip, drew the General's attention to the daughters of Duke Franz.

Sjoerd Koppert

Recognized as one of the leading engineers in Europe at the time, he worked with many top acts, from The Who, Pink Floyd, ABBA, the Doors, Jefferson Airplane, the Beach Boys to Elton John, Rod Stewart, the Faces, The Rolling Stones, the Doobie Brothers, J. Geils, Frank Zappa, and many more.

The Accidental Spy

The scene of Buck's disguising while escaping from thugs was reproduced in Bollywood movie "Thank You" (2011), wherein Akshay Kumar's character, detective Kishan, also hides by twisting hanging materials around himself.

The Million Pound Bank Note

The 1983 comedy film, Trading Places, features elements from both the short story and Twain's novel, The Prince and the Pauper

The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo

Ellen David: Detective Sharon Delancey; Works at Boston Detective Agencies who replaces Detective Hineline.

Yé ké yé ké

Due to the international popularity of the song, Cantopop singer Priscilla Chan made a cover version (地球大追蹤) which was part of her 1988 album "The Color of Autumn".