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19 unusual facts about the world


Ahoy

Ahoy Rotterdam, an indoor sports arena in Rotterdam, Netherlands

Andrew Kriss

He received a Student Oscar from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2009 as the producer of The Bronx Balletomane.

Argus Motoren

Their early products were car and boat engines, but later that year they were contracted to produce engines for the French airship, Ville de Paris, supplying them with a converted boat motor.

Bargoed

Bargoed is regularly namechecked during televised snooker tournaments as Mark Williams, Embassy World Snooker Champion in 2000 and 2003, practises his sport at the town's Emporium Snooker Hall.

D+D Real Czech Challenge Open

The D+D Real Czech Challenge Open is a golf tournament on the Challenge Tour that is played at the Golf&Spa Kunětická Hora in Dříteč, Czech Republic.

Dinesh Lalintha

Not to be confused with Dinesh Lalinda, who played for Panadura.

F. Maurice Speed

Having been an assistant to Edward Martell, proprietor of The Sunday Referee, it was to Martell that Speed turned when he had the idea to set up the listings magazine What's On in London.

Hinduism in India

The Hindus still form the majority community in most regions of the country, except the Valley of Kashmir, Punjab and three states in the North-East - namely Mizoram, Nagaland and Meghalaya.

History of the Acadians

A related concern was whether their Mi'kmaq neighbours might perceive this as acknowledging the British claim to Acadia rather than the Mi'kmaq.

Janus Djurhuus

Djurhuus said that his "poetic baptism" came in school, when he heard Jákup Dahl (later a provost and Bible translator and author of the first school grammar of the Faroese language) declaim Jóannes Patursson's Nú er tann stundin komin til handa (Now is the hour come for acting), the anthem of the Christmas Meeting.

Julio César Godoy Toscano

Godoy was later disavowed by the party and stripped of his office when an audio recording was released of him apparently speaking with La Familia drug cartel leader.

M. R. Gurusamy Mudaliar

After completing his bachelor's, Guruswami Mudaliar joined Madras Medical College for a degree in medicine.

Mirza Delibašić

After leaving Bosna, Delibašić went to the Spanish League, where he ended up being considered one of the best players ever to play for Real Madrid, along with the likes of Juan Corbalán, Wayne Brabender, Fernando Martín Espina, Fernando Romay, Dražen Petrović, and Arvydas Sabonis.

Pansipit River

In 1941 fishing in the river and its surrounding waters was banned with a 5-year closed season by the then Commonwealth of the Philippines.

Rudenko

Sergei Rudenko (1885-1969), Soviet anthropologist and archaeologist

Scots law

Although there was some indirect Roman law influence on Scots law, via the civil law and canon law used in the church courts, the direct influence of Roman law was slight up until around the mid-fifteenth century.

Skanstull metro station

The station was originally an underground tram-stop from 1933 called Ringvägen but became a stop on the first metro line (from Slussen south to Hökarängen) on 1 October 1950 after it was remodelled to full metro standard.

Takadimi

Of the systems they used as either inspiration or examples of unwanted attributes, three are mentioned in the journal where they first proposed their system in 1996: The Kodály Method, the McHose/Tibbs system, and Edwin Gordon's system.

Viral vector

A viral vaccine induces expression of pathogen proteins within host cells similarly to the Sabin Polio vaccine and other attenuated vaccines.