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24 unusual facts about the world


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Black Mountain Brewing Company in Cave Creek, Arizona, brews "Cave Creek Chili Beer", the only internationally marketed chile beer.

Bill Brison

For the writer with a similar name see Bill Bryson

Brendan Hughes

Against the wishes of the IRA Army Council, on 27 October 1980, Hughes along with six other republican prisoners, including Tom McFeely, John Nixon, Sean McKenna, Tommy McKearney and Raymond McCartney, refused food and started a hunger strike.

Broughton, Cambridgeshire

The small village has a lot of history, and once famous Eric Broadley founder of Lola Cars currently lives there.

Canadian Automobile Association

Many English-language TourBooks and maps about Canada distributed by CAA clubs are published by AAA, and carry both CAA and AAA branding.

Caroline Islands

In 1906 twelve fathers and twelve brothers were working in thirteen stations, and several Sisters of St. Francis left Luxembourg to take charge of the ten schools, in which were 262 children.

Charles Warren Currier

In Rome, on July 6, 1913, he was consecrated by Cardinal Diomede Angelo Raffaele Gennaro Falconio, O.F.M., and assisted by Domenico Serafini, Titular Archbishop of Seleucia Pieria, and Donato Sbarretti, Titular Archbishop of Efeso, Bishop Emeritus of Havana.

Christmas in Vienna II

# Hear My Song – Plácido Domingo (Orchestration by Juan J. Colomer)

Craig-y-Don

Queen's Road (named in honour of Queen Victoria) leads from the promenade through to the pleasant residential area of Craig-y-Don where Roumania Drive and several other streets are named in memory of the visit to Llandudno in 1890 of Carmen Sylva (Queen Elisabeth of Romania).

Eugène Schneider

Eugène Schneider died in 1875 and was buried in the San Charles church in Le Creusot (Saône-et-Loire).

George Cromwell Scott

Upon defeating Democratic and Bull Moose Party challengers in the general election, Scott was immediately sworn to fill the remainder of Hubbard's term in the Sixty-second Congress.

Greek destroyer Lonchi

The island was firmly in Greek control by the next day, after which the naval force conducted a series of amphibious assaults throughout the Aegean, capturing Thasos, Samothrace, Imbros, and Tenedos in the span of several days.

James Edwin Campbell

James E. Campbell (1843–1924), Democratic politician and Governor of Ohio

John Giannini

He attended Fenwick High School in Oak Park, and received a bachelor's degree in psychology from North Central College in Naperville.

John Shaw-Lefevre

Lefevre Peninsula, South Australia, was named by Governor John Hindmarsh on 3 June 1837 after Shaw-Lefevre, who was one of South Australia's Colonisation Commissioners.

KTXH

The group signed on a similarly formatted station, KTXA in Fort Worth, in January 1981.

Luke Kerr

Kerr has a background in professional sport and is a qualified full England ABA boxing coach, FA and UEFA football licensed coach as well as a tutor and assessor, he spent several years in the British Army as a PTI (Physical Training Instructor), where he represented the British Army at both boxing and football.

Modern poetry

Modernist poetry, the application of modernist aesthetics to poetry.

Pigpen

Pig-Pen, a character in Charles M. Schulz's comic strip Peanuts

Rabí Castle

It is likely that the Lords of Velhartice established it after 1300 to protect trade routes along the Otava and also to inspect gold-bearing deposits in it.

Rita Keane

Rita Keane (born 31 December 1922, Caherlistrane, near Tuam, County Galway, Ireland - died 28 June 2009, Galway City) was an Irish traditional singer and accordionist.

River City Casino

Located in Lemay, Missouri, River City Casino is on the western bank of the Mississippi River.

The Masque of Mandragora

The BBC Books Past Doctor Adventures novel The Eleventh Tiger by David A. McIntee features an energy helix that is strongly implied to be the same one featured in The Masque of Mandragora.

Vitis tiliifolia

Vitis tiliifolia may have some resistance to Pierce's disease (PD) which afflicts many commercial grape species; it has exhibited atypical symptoms despite harboring high populations of the plant pathogen Xylella fastidiosa, which causes PD.