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30 unusual facts about the world


Daniel Pe'er

Pe'er continued to be associated with Eurovision, hosting Kdam Eurovision (the Israeli heat to choose the artist to represent Israel), which he hosted from 1981 until 1983 and again in 1986, he also gave the Israeli results out in 1992 and 1995 and provided the Israeli radio commentary on several occasions.

Dokufest

Dokufest is an International Documentary and Short Film Festival that is held every year during August in Prizren, Kosovo.

Fa'asaleleaga

Maota Airport is the main airfield on the island, located 10 minutes south of Salelologa.

Faruqi dynasty

He commenced his rule from Laling, as Thalner was under the control of his younger brother Malik Iftikar Hasan.

Gamestar Mechanic

Initial development of Gamestar was supported by a grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation based on a grant proposal authored by James Paul Gee and Eric Zimmerman.

Guitar Freaks

GuitarFreaks is played using a controller designed to imitate the shape of an electric guitar, most like the Fender Jazzmaster or Fender Mustang.

Henry W. King

Henry W. King opened a law office in Akron, Ohio in 1839 with Milton Sutliff, and later with James D. Taylor, and in 1849 with his brother David L. King as King & King.

History of cricket in Bangladesh

The MA Aziz Stadium in Chittagong also dates back to 1954 as a first-class venue but it was not used for Tests until Bangladesh played there in 2001.

Holmbury St Mary

Holmbury-St-Mary is also home to the UCL Department of Space and Climate Physics (Mullard Space Science Laboratory), a Department of University College London and the UK's Largest University-Based Space Science Research Group.

Horseheads, New York

Starting in 1990, Horseheads was the sister city of Bato in Tochigi Prefecture in Japan, a town that could be translated as Horseheads.

Isfield railway station

The second engine, a WD Austerity 2-10-0, came to Isfield shortly afterwards and, following a year-long restoration, was the object of a visit by Dame Vera Lynn on 6 August 1985 who gave the locomotive her name.

Jack Narz

Narz first achieved television fame in 1952, when he was the on-camera announcer and narrator of the sitcom Life with Elizabeth starring Betty White.

Jamie P. Merisotis

Merisotis previously served as chairman of the board for Scholarship America, the nation’s largest private-sector scholarship and educational-support organization; as vice chairman of the board of directors for the Washington Internship Institute; and as a member of the executive committee of the London-based European Access Network.

John Hamlin

Hamlin moved frequently in the subsequent years, staying at times in Massachusetts, New York, Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana.

Kay Dalton

In 1977 he joined Lou Saban's coaching staff, serving as the Quarterbacks and Receivers Coach of the Buffalo Bills.

Matthew Géczy

He has also worked as the voice director for numerous animated television series including the Children's BAFTA-nominated series Eliot Kid (BBC, ABC Australia, Cartoon Network), Mouk (Disney Junior), I.N.K. Invisible Network Of Kids (Pop, ABC Australia), Season 2 of Casper's Scare School (Cartoon Network (US), and is currently in production for Season 2 of The Mysterious Cities of Gold, and Lassie for DreamWorks Classics.

Ming City Wall Relics Park

The Ming City Wall Relics Park is accessible by Beijing Bus to Dongbianmen (Routes 25, 29, 39, 43, 44, 59, 434, 525, 610, 674 and 特2), Chongwenmen East (Routes 12, 25, 39, 43, 44, 525, 610) and Jianguomen South (Routes 25, 39, 43, 44, 52, 122, 434, 637, 638, 750 and 特2); and by Beijing Subway to Chongwenmen (Line 2) and Jianguomen (Lines 1 and 2).

Nadia Bakhurji

Bakhurji gained her BSC in Interior Architecture from King Faisal University in 1989, before establishing 'Riwaq of the Kingdom Est.'

National Students Federation

One of the leading leaders of NSF, Meraj Muhammad Khan, was made a minister in Bhutto's first cabinet but both NSF and Meraj fell out with the Bhutto government in 1973 when Bhutto started to compromise on his socialist agenda.

NoWayOut

No Way Out or NoWayOut is a Catalan (from Barcelona - Spain) pop punk band who sings in Castilian and English.

Olympic Park Stadium

Australian middle distance star John Landy featured in a memorable race at the 1956 National Championships, where he stopped during the Mile championship to assist the fallen junior champion, Ron Clarke.

P. Shwetha

She debuted in the critically acclaimed film Malli (1998), directed by Santosh Sivan, playing the young girl Malli, on an adventure to find a blue wishing stone to help cure her best friend's ailments.

Patricia Schroeder

During the 1995 budget debates, after Democrats claimed that Social Security payments would leave seniors with no choice but to eat dog food, Rush Limbaugh humorously claimed that he was going to get his mother a can opener.

Peter Price

Peter O. Price (born 1941), former journalist and CEO of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences

Peter Zizka

In 2008, Zizka won the design competition for the Kieler Woche Festival, following the likes of Wim Crouwel (1998), Fons Hickmann (2002), and Klaus Hesse (2006).

Richard Bandler

John Grinder, a professor at the University, said to Bandler that he could explain almost all of the questions and comments Bandler made using transformational grammar, Grinder's specialty in linguistics.

Stephen Milne

Milne finished the 2012 season with 56 goals from 22 games, and was selected in the 2012 All-Australian team, earning this recognition for the second time in his career.

Tiyanak

In modern-day Philippines, this definition has extended to that of aborted fetuses that returned from death to seek revenge on those who deprived them of life.

Transco plc v Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council

Transco plc (British Gas come commercial) had sued the council for repairs of £93,681.55 underneath one of its pipes in Brinnington.

XFree86 logfile

After the keyboard setup XFree86 locates the path to the RGB database, to the modules and to where the fonts are.