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26 unusual facts about the world


2013–14 PIHA Pro season

The regular season began on September 7, 2013 and ended on January 4, 2014, with the playoffs to follow until February.

Anselmo Banduri

He also defended himself successfully against Casimir Oudin, an ex-Premonstratensian, whose attacks were made on a second-hand knowledge of Banduri's work.

Archimedean principle

Archimedean property, a mathematical property of numbers and other algebraic structures.

Astete

He saw the founding of San Miguel de Piura, chose the location for Trujillo and was among the first residents at Huamanga (now known as Ayacucho).

Ceruletide

Ceruletide was discovered and its structure elucidated in 1967 by Australian and Italian scientists from dried skins of the Australian green tree frog (Litoria caerulea, formerly Hyla caerulea).

Christian, Count of Waldeck

Christian, Count of Waldeck (25 December 1585 in Eisenberg – 31 December 1637 in Waldeck), was Count of Waldeck-Wildungen and also imperial chamberlain.

Differential interference contrast microscopy

Differential interference contrast (DIC) microscopy, also known as Nomarski Interference Contrast (NIC) or Nomarski microscopy, is an optical microscopy illumination technique used to enhance the contrast in unstained, transparent samples.

Drottningholm Palace Theatre

The interior of the theatre was originally scheduled to be featured in Ingmar Bergman's 1975 film version of The Magic Flute.

Graach Gate

The name Graach refers to the neighbouring village of Graach connected by a narrow road to the gate.

Josiah Henson

Born into slavery in Charles County, Maryland, he escaped to Ontario, Canada, in 1830, and founded a settlement and laborer's school for other fugitive slaves at Dawn, near Dresden in Kent County.

KEIS

KEIS is a stateful EBCDIC charset used in Hitachi mainframe systems.

Laurent de Gouvion Saint-Cyr

In 1792 he was chosen a captain in a volunteer battalion, and served on the staff of General Custine.

Martin Castle

His wife, M. Judith Donovan Post M.D., graduated from the University of Kentucky College of Medicine, and is a prominent Neuroradiologist at Jackson Memorial Hospital and Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine.

Michael P. Malone

He also appointed the second chancellor at MSU-Norther, Michael Rao.

Midichloria

The genome of Midichloria mitochondrii was recently sequenced by an international scientific consortium formed by researchers belonging to the University of Milan, the University of Sydney, the University of Valencia, the University of Pavia, and the University of Milan Bicocca.

Nightwork: Sexuality, Pleasure, and Corporate Masculinity in a Tokyo Hostess Club

Nightwork: Sexuality, Pleasure, and Corporate Masculinity in a Tokyo Hostess Club (1994) is a book-length study in the field of cultural anthropology of contemporary Japan by Anne Allison.

Niroshta

Madurai T. N. Seshagopalan, a disciple of Ramanathapuram C. S. Sankarasivam, who in turn is a disciple of Muthiah Bhagavatar has composed a thillana in Niroshta "tanana dhirana" in Adi Tala.

No. 22 Group RAF

It was activated at East Fortune but moved its headquarters to the Station Hotel, Stirling.

Queer Latinos in Cinema

While many have attempted to bring the Latino transgender man into queer cinema, such as in Arturo Ripstein’s El Lugar sin limites (1978), the man is seldom portrayed in a positive light.

Radio Radio Radio

They had briefly performed live with Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day as their second guitar player, but Billie Joe decided to stay with Green Day rather than become a full member of Rancid.

Roy Levy

In 1932, Levy along with Roger Hartigan, persuaded Jack Hutcheon, president of Queensland Cricket, to call a meeting at Brisbane YMCA Hall for men interested in playing baseball and produced great interest among cricketers in the winter off-season.

Saltonstall family

Sir Richard Saltonstall, colonist with the Winthrop Fleet, nephew of the above

Therapeutic target

Therapeutic Targets Database, a database to provide information about the known and explored therapeutic targets

Thomas S. White, Jr.

During this period he began a close working relationship with John Templeton and developed his proprietary method of value investing based on identifying the analytical tools appropriate to country, region or industry group.

Tom Milne

His book length studies of film directors include monographs on Joseph Losey (1967) and Rouben Mamoulian (1969) in the Thames & Hudson Cinema One series, the former comprising a series of extended interviews with the director.

Trappenkamp

Trappenkamp is a municipality in the district of Segeberg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.