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30 unusual facts about the world


Aconcagua River

The valley of Aconcagua River was used as route of Transandine Railway on Chilean side.

Auerbach in der Oberpfalz

Heinrich Stromer (b. 1476 in Auerbach in der Oberpfalz – November 25, 1542), professor at the Leipzig university, physician and founder of Auerbach's Cellar.

Bartholomew le Gros

Bartholomew established a monastery at the Saint James Hill at Pécs for the hermits, up to that time scattered in the Mecsek Hills.

Cecil J. Doty

Doty spent his childhood in May, Oklahoma, then attended Oklahoma A&M (now Oklahoma State University), and received a degree in architectural engineering in 1928.

Chen Jiangong

1923, he graduated from Tohoku University, he then went back to China, became a lecture in Zhejaing Industrial School (later immerged into National Chekiang University).

District of Columbia Public Schools

After three U.S. Senators (Ben Cardin of Maryland, Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, and Carl Levin of Michigan) initially placed "holds" on the bill to prevent its consideration in the United States Senate, the Senate agreed to pass H.R. 2080 without amendment on May 22, 2007 by unanimous consent.

Fergus Kearney

Fergus cheated on her however and purchased the local bar in 2000 before he started to date Waverley Wilson (Claire Chitham) amongst speculation he was a drug dealer.

Fox Nation

The site features news articles, video clips, and links to editorial blogs by noted conservative political commentators like Bill Kristol and Charles Krauthammer, as well as liberal political commentators, like Susan Estrich.

George Foreman vs. Tommy Morrison

After WBO Heavyweight champion Michael Moorer opted to vacate the title in February of 1993, the WBO sanctioned a match between popular 44-year-old ex-WBC and WBA heavyweight champion George Foreman and the then-up-and-coming 24-year-old prospect Tommy Morrison to determine who would be the next WBO Heavyweight champion.

Jeanette I. Sustad

She was promoted to lieutenant colonel in September 1962 while stationed at Headquarters Marine Corps.

Jim Folsom, Jr.

Only weeks after Folsom assumed the office, state officials were approached by Mercedes-Benz about the possibility of locating its first manufacturing plant outside Germany in Alabama.

Jyoti Kirit Parikh

She was a Senior Professor at Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR), Mumbai.

Kristy Moore

In a match in that year she scored six goals against the legendary goalkeeper Bente Nordby.

Lucas Friedrich Julius Dominikus von Heyden

Lucas Friedrich Julius Dominikus von Heyden (22 May 1838, Frankfurt - 13 September 1915, Frankfurt) was a German entomologist specialising in Coleoptera beetles.

Michael Fraser

He has previously played for Inverness Caledonian Thistle, Motherwell, Montrose and Birkirkara.

Neglected tropical disease research and development

It gained interest by Senator Sam Brownback of Kansas who championed its introduction in the FDA Amendments Act of 2007.

Neo-Trotskyism

Examples of neo-Trotskyists would be Tony Cliff and Max Schachtman (who eventually no longer referred to Trotskyism).

Percy Shakespeare

In 2009, his work was featured, together with members of his family, in an episode of BBC TV's Flog It!.

Slayer's eleventh studio album

When asked about whether or not Exodus guitarist Gary Holt, who had been filling in for Hanneman during live shows, would play on the record, King denied it, saying that he would handle all guitars except for Hanneman's lead parts.

Spamd

Greylisting: this forces email to be delayed for a configurable period, requiring the remote end to resend mail at least once in order for it to be delivered.

Sult

Sult, Albania, a municipality in the Gramsh District, Elbasan County, central Albania

Tetracentron

Specimens from British Columbia and Washington state are found in a series of Eocene Lakes in the Okanagan Highlands region in association with several extinct Trochodendron species.

The Beezer Book

The Beezer Annual was the final name of the book that had been published every year since 1957, to tie in with the children's comic The Beezer.

The Mongol in Our Midst

It advanced the now-discredited idea, then prevalent in contemporary scientific racism, that so-called "Mongolian imbecility," a form of mental retardation now known as Down syndrome, was an atavistic throwback to the more primitive Mongoloid race.

Thomas F. Magner

Magner was elected as a Democrat to the 51st, 52nd and 53rd United States Congresses, holding office from March 4, 1889, to March 3, 1895.

Uchinoura

Uchinoura Space Center, Japan's rocket launch facility close to Uchinoura.

Vietnamese poetry

Imagery, or the use of words to create images, is another fundamental aspect of Vietnamese poetry.

Wal-Mart v. Dukes

Judge Harry Pregerson wrote for the majority, which also included Judge Michael Daly Hawkins, while Judge Andrew J. Kleinfeld dissented, criticizing the majority's view of the class certification standards.

Ward Preston

He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film The Towering Inferno.

Zargari

Zargari people, a Romani ethnic group in Afghanistan, Iran and Turkey