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21 unusual facts about the world


Atherton: The House of Power

Carman has stated that he drew on stories such as Frankenstein and The Turn of the Screw for inspiration for Atherton.

Bay State

Massachusetts, nickname "Bay State," a U.S. state with shores on Massachusetts Bay, Cape Cod Bay, Buzzards Bay and Narragansett Bay

Cabragh

Cabra, Dublin, Republic of Ireland; formerly spelt Cabragh

Crain Communications

G D. Crain died in 1973 and was succeeded by his widow, Gertrude Crain, who chaired the company until 1996.

Crazy Magazine

In 1982 a Dutch version of Crazy was published by Juniorpress.

Ellen Gates Starr

However, by belief she was firmly anti-industrialisation, idealizing the guild system of the Middle Ages and later the Arts and Crafts Movement.

Family of sets

Hall's marriage theorem, due to Philip Hall gives necessary and sufficient conditions for a finite family of non-empty sets (repetitions allowed) to have a system of distinct representatives.

Flag of Peru

Flag day in Peru is celebrated on June 7, the anniversary of the Battle of Arica.

Fontainebleau Schools

Inspired by setting of the Chateau and its magnificent formal gardens, its faculty has included prestigious international names in architecture, including F. Candela, A. Cuny, B. Doshi, Sheila Hicks, L. Kroll, R. Licata, R. Péchére, B. Rasica, Paolo Soleri, J. Soltan, A. Van Eyck, Y. Wohlert, and I. García.

Geoff Wragg

Part of Abington Place is currently being used by Jane Chapple-Hyam as a part of her training set up from 2009.

Lawrence S. Ting Memorial School

Lawrence S. Ting Memorial School was established in honor of Lawrence Ting, the founder of CT&D Group of Taiwan.

Mario Buatta

Mario Buatta's most extensive work was Carolands, an historic 92-room Chateau located in the Town of Hillsborough, CA located just south of San Francisco.

Munir Hussain

See Sharmin murder case, about Munir Hussain, Bangladeshi industrialist who killed his wife

Panguso

Compared to its private competitors, the Chinese Baidu and the US-based Google, which are used more frequently in China, the two shareholders of this joint venture are the state-owned Chinese news agency Xinhua and the in 2011 worldwide largest mobile telecommunication provider China Mobile.

Polish National-Territorial Region

The Polish autonomist movement (the leaders of which included Jan Ciechanowicz) was related to the Yedinstvo movement and had tacit support from Moscow (thus, when following the Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania the Soviets applied a blockade against Lithuania, the areas of Eastern Lithuania with significant minority population were mostly spared of the blockade, with the aim of gaining minorities' support for Moscow).

Scally the Dog

According to a post by Downs on the TV Forum website in 1998, the puppet of Scally now resides at the Museum of the Moving Image in Birmingham, and is owned by someone who used to work on the BBC Saturday morning kids' show, Live & Kicking.

Stacey Bradford

Bradford's articles have appeared in The Wall Street Journal's Sunday Journal, RealEstateJournal.com, and CareerJournal.com, as well as Consumer Reports, AOL and Yahoo! Finance.

Stanisław Barcewicz

On 20 or 21 September 1878, as part of the 1878 Paris World Exhibition, he performed at the Trocadéro in a concert of works by Tchaikovsky, including the first public performance of the Valse-Scherzo in C, conducted by Nikolai Rubinstein.

The Young Messiah

The Young Messiah, is a musical production of a modern adaptation of George Frideric Handel's oratorio Messiah, It was arranged by Tom Parker, in 1982, and featured vocals by Labi Siffre, Madeline Bell and Vicki Brown.

Urban Aeronautics X-Hawk

The Urban Aeronautics X-Hawk is a design for a flying car which is being developed by Rafi Yoeli in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Wrestling at the 1984 Summer Olympics – Men's freestyle 57 kg

The Men's Freestyle 57 kg at the 1984 Summer Olympics as part of the wrestling program were held at the Anaheim Convention Center, Anaheim, California.