X-Nico

17 unusual facts about the world


465 BC

King Xerxes I of the Persian Empire, together with his eldest son, is murdered by one of his Ministers, Artabanus the Hyrcanian.

Andrew L. Stone

Stone's stories frequently featured characters called Cole, Pringle and Pope, usually in law enforcement and interchangeably played by the same actors, Jack Kruschen, Barney Phillips and Jack Gallaudet.

Atiamuri Power Station

The station connects to the single-circuit Wairakei to Whakamaru A line (WRK-WKM-A) at the substation to the south of the powerhouse, with electricity being distributed to Taupo and the southern Waikato, and further north to Hamilton and Auckland.

Baseball superstition

Justin Morneau, the 2006 American League Most Valuable Player winner, wears number 33 to honour his idol, ex-NHL goaltender Patrick Roy.

Bhagwandas Bagla

The water attracts birds and mammals such as ‘Nilgai’ (blue bull – a large antelope.) .

Charaton

Charaton (Olympiodorus of Thebes: Χαράτων), also known as Aksungur or Aksuvar, was said to be the first of the kings of the Huns from c.

Democratic Party of the Friendly Islands

The "Friendly Islands" are a name originally given to Tonga by Captain James Cook.

Dimitri Mihalas

Dimitri completed his PhD degree in three years in 1963 in Physics and Astronomy, also from California Institute of Technology.

GeoNet

The UK systems GEO2 and MCR1 were run by Poptel which aimed its services at non-commercial organisations, and the distinctive GeoNet addressing format (e.g. GEO2:TONY.BLAIR – a well-known user in the early 1990s) was widely recognised in NGO and labour movement circles.

HIT training

High-intensity interval training - intended to give sedentary people a basic level of fitness, a session might be 3 x 30 seconds on an exercise bike

Laurel Hester

The cancer metastasized and spread to her brain, and it became clear that she had little time to live.

Maritime Matters

He traveled on many classic ships in the 1990s, including the Achille Lauro weeks before it sank in 1994.

Preliminary Working Committee

The mainland members included those with vice-ministerial rank form the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office, Ministry of Public Security, People's Liberation Army, Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation, People's Bank of China, and the CCP's United Front Work Department.

Pyaar ki Pungi

There have been concerns raised about the song's alleged similarity to the song Soosan Khanoom by Iranian pop band Barobax.

Saint Kitts and Nevis at the Olympics

Saint Kitts and Nevis first participated at the Olympic Games in 1996 and has sent athletes to compete in every Summer Olympic Games since then.

The Dalkey Archive

Saint Augustine, on the other hand, appeared in a magical underwater cave and held a conversation with De Selby.

Zafer Ergin

Zafer Ergin (born 30 August 1942, Ankara) is one of the mid-1990s Turkish actors who played in present Arka Sokaklar and gave an importance with Hırsız, being the main-role of Gülse Birsel.