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27 unusual facts about the world


1832 in New Zealand

The Weller brothers whaling station at Otakou is destroyed by fire before whaling operations have begun.

Albert Chevalier

Albert Chevalier was born in the Royal Crescent, in London's Notting Hill.

Alister McGrath

He spent the fall semester of 1990 as the Ezra Squire Tipple Visiting Professor of Historical Theology at the Divinity School of Drew University, Madison, New Jersey.

Beauceville, Quebec

On July 1, 2010, it was announced that Beauceville, Quebec was nominated to be a stop on the TSN Kraft Celebration Tour.

Carol Anne Davis

It charts the journey of an isolated university student and her pen-pal, a violent inmate of Maidstone Prison.

Daniel González Calvo

At the return leg, he was surprisingly put on the starting eleven by coach Jorge Pellicer, despite his low form and injury concerns.

David Grissom

He has also recorded sessions, played and toured with a number of other American recording artists, including Buddy Guy, Chris Isaak, Sarah Hickman and Bob Dylan.

Delwin Jones

His District 83 also includes the outlying communities of Levelland, Denver City, Plains, Shallowater, Slaton, and Seminole, Texas.

Demographics of Iceland

Of the North Germanic languages, the Icelandic language is closest to the Old Norse language and has remained relatively unchanged since the 12th century.

Edward Vischer

In 1835, he visited Peru on business, where he lived with artist Mauritius Rugendas and met Charles Darwin.

Empire Earth II

These special resources are tin—available until epoch 6, iron—first available in epoch 4 and is no longer used after epoch 9, saltpeter—first available in epoch 7 and is used until epoch 12, oil—first available in epoch 10, and uranium—first available epoch 13.

EXW

Explosion welding, a solid state process where welding is accomplished by accelerating one of the components at extremely high velocity through the use of chemical explosives

Flow sensor

Hall effect sensors may also be used, on a flapper valve, or vane, to sense the position of the vane, as displaced by fluid flow.

Flying Robert Records

One side of the live room wall is covered with custom made foil encrusted foam sound dampeners designed and shipped by an engineer from NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA.

George D. Pyper

When the Juvenile Instructor folded and was replaced by The Instructor, Pyper became the first editor of the new publication, a position he held until his death.

Godmoma

They have contributed to some of his other albums, including The One Giveth, the Count Taketh Away (1982), What's Bootsy Doin'? (1988), and Blasters of the Universe (1994).

Hosdurg taluk

It shares its borders on north with Kasaragod taluk, south with Kannur District, east with Dakshina Kannada district of Karnataka and on the west with the Arabian sea.

Joseph Seiss

Seiss was born in Graceham, Frederick County, Maryland, to an agricultural family; his interest in religious studies reportedly began in childhood.

Lewis Lehrman

Lehrman personally attended the event, called the "Democratic International".

Montgomery Bell Academy

It is the successor to two well-known schools, the Western Military Institute, which Sam Davis, the "Boy Hero of the Confederacy", attended, and the former University of Nashville.

New Swedish People's League

The organization was founded on January 19, 1930, as members of the National Socialist People's Party of Sweden in western Sweden rebelled against the party leader Konrad Hallgren.

Preetmohan Singh

The film explores the aftermath of the first post-9/11 hate crime fatality of a Sikh gas station owner in Mesa, Arizona on September 15, 2001.

Sarah Louise Delany

Sarah Louise "Sadie" Delany (September 19, 1889 – January 25, 1999) was an African-American educator and civil rights pioneer who was the subject, along with her younger sister Elizabeth "Bessie" Delany, of the New York Times bestselling oral history, Having our Say, by journalist Amy Hill Hearth.

Śrīpati

... one of the fundamental textbooks for later Indian genethlialogy, contributing an impressive elaboration to the computation of the strengths of the planets and astrological places.

Sunnydale

The episode "Pangs" reveals that Sunnydale is in the former homeland of the Chumash people, which is the area northwest of Los Angeles, centered on Santa Barbara County.

Swami Abhayananda

I teach four classes of philosophy-the Karma Loga(reporter might have misspelt for Karma Yoga), which is the philosophy of actions; the Bhakti Loga(reporter might have misspelt for Bhakti Yoga, the philosophy of devotion and love; the Rajah Loga(reporter might have misspelt for Raja Yoga), a physiological and psychological man, and the Gnana Loga(reporter might have mispelt for Jnana Yoga, or philosophy.

Yellowstone Expedition

Another novel feature was a paddlewheel built into the stern to reduce the danger of damage from snags.