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25 unusual facts about the world


2011 Melbourne Cup

The winning jockey, Frenchman Christophe Lemaire, had arrived in Australia less than a day previously as a late replacement for Craig Williams.

Alan S. C. Ross

A patrilineal descendant of Robert the Bruce, he was the elder son of Archibald Campbell Carne Ross of Penzance and Brecon (through whom he descended also from Joseph Carne, of the Batten, Carne and Carne bank), and Millicent Strode Cobham.

André Castaigne

During a six-year period in France where he divided his time between a winter studio in Paris and a summer studio in Angoulême, he illustrated William Milligan Sloane's The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Richard Whiteing's Paris of To-Day and Bertha Runkle's The Helmet of Navarre.

Ernestine Schumann-Heink

In 1915, she appeared as herself in the early documentary film Mabel and Fatty Viewing the World's Fair at San Francisco, which was directed and starred by Fatty Arbuckle.

Exchangeable image file format

For example, a whistleblower, journalist or political dissident relying on the protection of anonymity to allow them to report malfeasance by a corporate entity, criminal, or government may therefore find their safety compromised by this default data collection.

Garcinia humilis

The fruit took third place in the 2012 Fruit Logistica Innovation Awards held in Berlin.

Gordon James

Gordon James (22 July 1878 – 1949) was an English actor who became known as the "heavy" in the Aldwych farces, between 1923 and 1933.

Grim Natwick Film Festival

Guests for the 2010 Festival included cartoonist and animator Nina Paley and other animators from Wisconsin.

Hare-Abian Nights

Flashing back to 1953's Bully for Bugs, Bugs recounts his problems with the bull he met there while trying to find the Coachella Valley, and Bugs' outsmarting the bull with a hidden anvil.

Helene Kottannerin

In her writing she describes how she prayed for success and promised to make a barefoot pilgrimage to Zell.

Jacques Cartier Strait

The Jacques Cartier Strait (French: Détroit de Jacques-Cartier) is a strait in eastern Quebec, Canada, flowing between Anticosti Island and the Labrador Peninsula.

Kathleen Bradley

Although a woman named Harriet holds the distinction of being the first African-American model on the show (she appeared occasionally in episodes from the first season of the Dennis James-hosted syndicated version in 1972), Bradley was the first permanent African-American model on the show.

Kellenhusen

Kellenhusen is a municipality in the district of Ostholstein, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Lady Libertine

This Playboy production, released theatrically in Europe and on television in the US, is an adaptation of the Victorian novel (1902) Frank and I by Bill Adler.

Majority Leader of the New York State Senate

Following the 2010 election and the Republican victory in the Senate, Senator Dean Skelos from Long Island serves as both Temporary President and Majority Leader.

Maria Costello

Maria was the rider-double for Oscar winning actress Reese Witherspoon and worked alongside the lead role

Mechinat Avnei Eitan

The mechina, the first of its kind for English speakers, was founded in 2004, on Moshav Avnei Eitan in the Golan Heights annexed by Israel in 1981.

Neptune Distribution

The proved to be successful with the company expanding into publishing in 1988 with Trident Comics and later help found Apocalypse Ltd, publishing Toxic!, a weekly title meant to compete with 2000 AD.

Operation Bretagne

Four Mobile Groups (Groupes Mobiles, GM) and General de Berchoux's two Amphibian Sub-Groups hunted and engaged the 9th Regiment (Division 304) and the 48th Regiment (Division 320) who were threatening the bishopric of Bui Chu.

Pottenstein, Austria

Pottenstein lies in the valley of the Triesting in the Vienna Woods and borders on Berndorf and Weissenbach an der Triesting.

Russian deep submergence rescue vehicle AS-28

Kommersant reports that the head of the Navy Vladimir Kuroyedov, may be relieved over this, the Kursk, and other accidents.

San Felipe, Texas

In the fall of same year, the site was chosen by Stephen F. Austin with the help of Baron de Bastrop to be the main site in Texas for colonization.

Smoking in Germany

Nevertheless, discontent against the new rules was blamed for the disappointing electoral results of the long-time leading party - CSU - in the 2008 election.

The Sunnyboys

The Oxley brothers, Jeremy and Peter, and Bill Bilson hailed from the northern New South Wales town of Kingscliff where they played in a garage band called Wooden Horse.

Upeksha Swarnamali

She gained national attention due to the controversial removal from the Paba teledrama aired by State run ITN, due to what she claimed as her open support for then opposition presidential candidate (General Sarath Fonseka).