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30 unusual facts about the world


1953 Australian Championships – Women's Singles

Maureen Connolly is the champion; others show the round in which they were eliminated.

40 acres and a mule

In Pigford v. Glickman (1999), District Court Judge Paul L. Friedman ruled in favor of the farmers and ordered the USDA to pay financial damages for loss of land and revenue.

Allison Danger

She co-runs the promotion along with Dave Prazak, as well as being an active wrestler and color commentator for the DVDs.

Anthony Chabot

In 1852 and 1853 he and Edward Matteson, were working at Buckeye Hill and American Hill respectively, devised the first hydraulic mining technology.

Berliner Singakademie

The Sing-Akademie zu Berlin is a musical (originally choral) society founded in Berlin in 1791 by Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch, harpsichordist to the court of Prussia, on the model of the 18th century London Academy of Ancient Music.

Catholic Medical Center

The orthopedic surgeons now have access to the new O-ARM Imaging System, a high definition CT scan that provides real-time three dimensional images during spine surgery.

Columbia Lancaster

He was an unsuccessful candidate for Delegate to the Thirty-first Congress from Oregon before the separation of the Territories of Washington and Oregon.

Edward Griffith Colpoys

He left three sons, two of whom served in the Navy and one of which died just a few weeks after his father while stationed at Cape Town, and a daughter.

Jenny Humphrey

Jenny has been living in Hudson with her mother since May due to the troubles that occurred in "Last Tango, Then Paris", where she caused an uproar with Serena and Dan when she sent a picture of the two of them in bed together, which lead to the breakup of both Dan and Vanessa & Serena and Nate.

John Donoghue

John Donoghue (neuroscientist), Professor of Neuroscience at Brown University; cofounder of Cyberkinetics

Johnny Collins

including in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Poland and France as well as making frequent appearances in his native country at Cutty Sark Tall Ships Races, and maritime festivals at Hull, Lancaster, Bristol, Dundee, Maldon, Portsmouth, Gosport, Greenwich and Chatham.

Joseph Henry Green

In the autumn of 1817 he went to Berlin to take a private course of instruction in philosophy with Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand Solger, to whom he had been recommended by Ludwig Tieck in London.

Kōhaku

Kōhaku Uta Gassen, an NHK music show broadcast every New Year's Eve

Nacht und Nebel

If a camp did not have a gas chamber of its own, the so-called Muselmänner, or prisoners who were too sick to work, were often killed or transferred to other concentration camps for extermination.

NASCAR SimRacing

The game includes all of the 2004 NEXTEL Cup Series tracks including Pocono Raceway as an unlockable like in NASCAR 2005: Chase for the Cup The game cover features the cars of Ryan Newman, Ron Hornaday, and the Craftsman Truck Series truck of Chad Chaffin on the cover.

North Star Camp

The campers at North Star are boys aged 8–15 who come from all over the country (including Chicago, Texas, Nashville, Cleveland, Columbus, St. Louis, New York, Michigan, Georgia, Colorado, California, Florida, Kansas City, Omaha, and many more).

Opera Noire of New York

It was the first in a series that also includes A Tribute to Robert McFerrin and The Life and Times of Malcolm X.

Poetry Live

The next step was to offer days with poets such as Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney, Derek Walcott, James Fenton, Tony Harrison, U A Fanthorpe, Benjamin Zephaniah, Simon Armitage, Glyn Maxwell, Gillian Clarke, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Carol Ann Duffy, Liz Lochhead and Andrew Motion.

Richard Maloof

Richard graduated from San Juan High School in Citrus Heights, then attended Sacramento State University, Los Angeles City College and UCLA while searching for work as a musician.

Robert H. Roberts

Robert H. Roberts (June 5, 1837 Nantglyn, Denbighshire, Wales – September 3, 1888 Boonville, Oneida County, New York) was an American politician from New York.

Sextus Claudius Petronius Probus

Through his sons, Probus was the paternal grandfather of two Emperors, Petronius Maximus and Olybrius.

Shalamar Nursing College

Shalamar Nursing College (abbreviated as SCN), established in 2006 and named after the historical Shalimar Gardens, is a private college of nursing located on Shalimar Link Road, Shalimar Town, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.

Silver fern flag

New Zealand officially boycotted the 1980 Moscow Olympics as part of the US-led boycott of the games.

South Carolina Pacific Railway

For three decades ownership of the Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley changed hands repeatedly, until a North Carolina Supreme Court decision in 1924.

South Mall Arterial

The two halves of the highway are separated by only a jersey barrier until Pearl Street (US 20 and NY 32), where the arterial enters a large interchange at the western end of the Dunn Memorial Bridge.

Southwick, Sunderland

Southwick in Sunderland has a different origin to other places called Southwick: the name is of Scandinavian origin: and means "clearing by a marsh", from Old Norse sogr "moss, marsh, swamp (cf. modern "soggy")" and þveit/thveit "thwaite, clearing".

Stefan Kieniewicz

Stefan Kieniewicz (20 September 1907 in Dereszewicze - 2 May 1992 in Konstancin) was a Polish historian and university professor, notable for his works on 19th century history of Poland.

Victor Erofeyev

He later organised his own literary magazine, Metropol, in which many of the big names of Soviet literature participated, including Vasily Aksyonov, Andrei Bitov, Bella Akhmadulina, and others.

Whirld Tour 2010: Live in London

Daniel Gildenlöw of Pain of Salvation returns this tour, playing additional keyboards, guitars, percussion, and vocals throughout the show.

Wright Patman

In 2011 Rick Perry condemned the monetary policies of Ben Bernanke in populist-like language, earning him criticism from some mainstream Republicans, including Karl Rove.