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30 unusual facts about the world


Al Akins

After his playing career, Akins became an assistant football coach at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon.

Araripesaurus

In 1991 researcher Alexander Kellner concluded that Araripesaurus was identical to Santanadactylus and that due to a lack of distinguishing features it could only be more generally classified as a pterodactyloid.

Bridger Bowl Ski Area

Local skiers are alerted to the presence of fresh snow by a flashing blue beacon placed atop the Baxter Hotel in downtown Bozeman.

Chainsaw Vigilante

The Chainsaw Vigilante later appeared in his own self-titled three issue spin-off series, written and illustrated by Zander Cannon.

Coquillage: The Best Collection II

Of the new recordings, "Inori" is a self-cover of the song "Inori" that Kokia wrote/produced for Ayahi Takagaki comes across Feldt Grace, a character single for Mobile Suit Gundam 00.

Crazy Making Tour

The Crazy Making Tour was a 2009 summer tour which featured the alternative rock bands Switchfoot and Blue October co-headlining.

Dropping the writ

However, there is a more recent counter-example in the 1985 election in Ontario.

Faraday constant

The Simpsons episode "Dark Knight Court" (RABF10) has Mr. Burns asking Comic Book Guy how much he wants for his entire comic book inventory.

George Whitty

As a musician, he has played and recorded with artists such as Dave Matthews and Carlos Santana ("Supernatural"), Celine Dion ("Falling Into You" and "These are Special Times"), Michael and Randy Brecker (4 years on the road, 7 CDs), Chaka Khan ("The Woman I Am"), Richard Bona (phenom from Cameroon), Chris Minh Doky, Sadao Watanabe, Grover Washington, Jr., Till Brönner ("Midnight") and other well-known artists.

Holy Innocents' Episcopal School

All students in grades 5 through 12 receive Apple MacBook Pros, which are programmed with a range of productivity, research, and multimedia software central to their classes.

Keizō Komura

Participating in naval operations in the Indian Ocean with the carrier task force, Komura took part in several battles including the Battle of Midway and the Battle of Santa Cruz.

Konrad Mutian

Like Erasmus, he was with Luther in his early stage, but deserted him in his later development.

Le Bénédicité

To the bourgeois establishment, the works of Chardin now represented a salutary contrast to the decadent aristocratic flimsy of Watteau.

Lee Orr

After high school, Orr ran for the Washington State University Cougars where he was coached by Karl Schlademan.

Levant

The term Levant, which first appeared in English in 1497, originally meant the East in general or "Mediterranean lands east of Italy".

Long-Term Capital Holdings v. United States

The tax shelter had been designed by Babcock & Brown for Long-Term Capital to shelter their short-term trading gains from 1997.

Marina Bosi

She became Dolby's representative to the MPEG audio standards committee and served as the Editor of the committee that developed the "Advanced Audio Coding" (AAC) standard that was later brought to mainstream attention by its use in the Apple iPod.

Mary Baker Eddy Library

An original work of art created by acclaimed glass sculptor Howard Ben Tré serves as the centerpiece of this two-story hall.

Palazzo of Monte di Pietà, Naples

The chapel vault was frescoed by the Greek painter Belisario Corenzio and on the right is a painting by Ippolito Borghese, on the left a painting begun by Girolamo Imparato and completed by Fabrizio Santafede, and in the center, behind the high altar, the Deposition by Santafede.

Portuguese irregular forces in the Overseas War

Fiéis (Faithfuls) - force composed of military and police from Katanga, exiled for opposing the regime of Mobutu; these men fled to Angola with their families in a total of nearly 5,000 people.

Shano Collins

In 1930, he was named manager of the Red Sox, but he only won a total of 73 games in parts of two seasons.

Spiritual intelligence

Howard Gardner, the originator of the theory of multiple intelligences, chose not to include spiritual intelligence amongst his "intelligences" due to the challenge of codifying quantifiable scientific criteria.

Suolahti

Jack Smack, guitarist and backing vocalist of the Finnish rock band Private Line.

The Last Hunter

Unlike director Michael Cimino, Antonio Margheriti did not want to make a political film that was for or against the Vietnam War.

The Megas

The Megas is a 5-issue mini-series from Virgin Comics and film director Jonathan Mostow (Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, U-571).

The Old Reader

The Old Reader is a web-based news feed reader that attempts to provide a similar feature set to the now-defunct Google Reader.

The Tenth Dimension

The Tenth Dimension has published some of the biggest names in science fiction and fantasy, including Neil Gaiman, Ray Bradbury, Joe Haldeman, Philip K. Dick, Orson Scott Card, Ursula K. Le Guin, Brian Aldiss and many others.

Tiger swallowtail

Papilio rutulus or Western Tiger Swallowtail, endemic to the Western United States

WASH-1400

The Union of Concerned Scientists released a 150-page report critiquing the WASH-1400 report, and in June 1976, the House Subcommittee on Energy and Environment held hearings on the validity of the report's findings.

World of Black and Silver

World of Black and Silver is Crystal Eyes' first album released in 1999 by Crazy Life Music.