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100 unusual facts about English Language


2006 State of the Union Address

Newly elected Governor of Virginia Tim Kaine gave the Democratic response in English and Mayor of Los Angeles Antonio Villaraigosa did so in Spanish.

2011 Ligue Haïtienne season

The 2011 Super Huit competition (English: Super Eight) is a knockout tournament played at the end of the season among the clubs finishing in the top 8 of the overall standings for the season for cash prizes.

2011–12 Prva A liga

The Opportunity Liga (in English: Opportunity League) is a national professional basketball league in Montenegro.

Adler Volmar

Not yet fluent in English, he misunderstood and thought that he was obligated to serve in the military.

Ahmed F. Mehalba

Mehalba received a medical discharge from the Army in May 2001 and was later hired a San Diego defense contractor, Titan Corporation, to be an Arabic-English translator at Guantanamo Bay.

Airspeed Envoy

:(Hinazuru - en Young Crane)Licence production by Mitsubishi, fitted with flaps and powered by Gasuden Jimpu, or licence-built Armstrong Siddeley Lynx or Wolseley Aries Mk.III engines.

Amit Offir

On 2013 Amit's books were translated to other languages such as English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and many more.

Amor Artificial

# "Quevoasaber" (Spelled as colloquial pronunciation for Que voy a saber) English: How Would I Know? or, more loosely, I Have No Clue

Amphibola crenata

Amphibola crenata (titiko in the Māori language or mud-flat snail in English) is a species of air breathing snail with an operculum, a pulmonate gastropod mollusc which lives in a habitat that is intermediate between the land and the sea, not entirely terrestrial and not entirely marine.

Anton Vassil

As a director fluent in French, English and German, he is often associated with international projects requiring multiligual skills and international co-productions.

Arpan Sharma

Arpan Sharma (born 1997) is a British polyglot who at the age of 10 could speak 11 languages: English, Hindi, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Tamil, Swahili, Polish, Thai, Welsh and Sanskrit.

Asher Arieli

Several of Reb Asher's students, such as Rav Eli Reznick,R Moshe Ahron Friedman,Rav Eitan Jaffan, and Rav Yosef Elefant, themselves also give lectures in Yeshivas Mir for English-speaking audiences, mainly in the Beis Yeshaya building of Mir.

Biblioislam.net

Biblioislam.net is according to its founder Hani Atiyyah, professor of Library and Information Science at Cairo University, the first and largest academic website to be launched in both Arabic and English in the Muslim world that provides comprehensive informative, academic, intellectual, and interactive services.

Bukit Bintang Monorail station

The station is situated at Bukit Bintang (translated from Malay to English as "Starhill"), a shopping hub in the Kuala Lumpur Golden Triangle commercial district.

Campeonato Carioca de Futebol Feminino

The Campeonato Carioca de Futebol Feminino (Carioca Women's Football Championship, in English), organized by the Rio de Janeiro State Football Federation (FFERJ) is the women's football state championship of Rio de Janeiro State, and is contested since 1983.

Castellum

The Latin word castellum is a diminutive of castra ("military camp"), which in turn is the plural of castrum ("watchpost"); it is the source of the English word "castle".

CBPM

CBPM is a Weatheradio Canada station which broadcasts weather information and alerts on a frequency of 1260 AM in Sicamous, British Columbia, Canada, in both English and French.

CBPT-FM

CBPT-FM is a Weatheradio Canada station which broadcasts weather information and alerts on a frequency of 99.3 FM in Fort Nelson, British Columbia, Canada, in both English and French.

Central fm

Central FM is by far the largest and longest serving English commercial radio station broadcasting in Southern Spain.

Chess Player's Chronicle

The Chess Player's Chronicle, founded by Howard Staunton and extant from 1841–56 and 1859–62, was the world's first successful English-language magazine devoted exclusively to chess.

Comhairle nan Eilean Siar

Western Isles Council was retracted in 1997 under the Local Government (Gaelic Names) (Scotland) Act 1997, meaning that the former Western Isles are now officially named Na h-Eileanan Siar, even in English language contexts.

Copa de Oro

The Copa de Oro (English: Gold Cup, Portuguese: Copa Ouro), or Copa de Oro Nicolás Leoz, was a football cup winners' cup competition contested on 3 occasions by the most recent winners of all Conmebol continental competitions.

Core ontology

Most applicable to teaching, e.g. the Longmans defining dictionary of the simplest meanings of 2,000 English words is used to define the 4,000 most basic English idioms -- this is a core glossary of the English language, which permits access to the core ontology (the idioms).

Coupe des Mousquetaires

La Coupe des Mousquetaires (English: The Musketeers' Trophy) is the trophy awarded to the winner of the Men's Singles competition at the French Open.

D. Quentin Miller

Quentin Miller (born 1967) is a professor of the English language and literature at Suffolk University in Boston.

Dasmariñas City Council

The ex officio members are the Association of Liga ng mga Barangay ng Dasmariñas (English: League of Barangays of Dasmariñas) President, who is currently, Antonio L. Ferrer, and the Sangguniang Kabataan (English: Youth Council) Federation President, who is currently, Jerome M. Menguito.

Delta Warp

Delta Warp was released only in Japan but features English text menus and the simple gameplay style means it can be played by non-Japanese readers.

Dr. Syed Gulam Farooq Mirranay

Dr. Mirranay is the official spokesperson for the Afghan Mellat Party and speaks both official Afghanistan languages, Pashto and Dari, as well as English.

Eala Frya Fresena

According to 16th century sources, it was spoken at the Upstalsboom in Aurich where Frisian judges meet on Pentecost and it is traditionally answered with Lever dood as Slaav, or in English, rather dead than slaves.

Enrique Badía Romero

Enrique Badía Romero (who signs his work simply Romero) is a Spanish comics artist, best known to English-speaking audiences for his work on Modesty Blaise.

Erdenechimeg Luvsannorov

Dr. Erdenechimeg has written 15 musicological and ethno-musicological books in Mongolian, several of which are also published in Chinese, Russian and English.

Estoc

The French estoc or English "tuck" was a type of European sword in use from the 14th to 17th centuries.

Frank A. Perret

Frank A. Perret became involved in the development of the theory of EMF (s:.Counter-electromotive force, CEMF).

French Road Cycling Cup

The French Road Cycling Cup (English for Coupe de France de cyclisme sur route) is a road bicycle racing competition under the Fédération Francaise de Cyclisme (French Cycling Federation) each year since 1992.

Gaus

A Gau is an administrative division formerly used in Germany, the plural of which is Gaue (though often rendered in English as Gaus).

Gedaliah Finkel

Rabbi Finkel delivers a daily English Talmudic lecture in a classroom above his older brother's house.

Geronimo Goeloe

He has a bachelor's degree in physical education learning and teaching, at this point conducting a master's degree course in English as a second language.

Glow-Worm Caves Tamborine Mountain

Tours consist of a seven minute DVD (available in English, Mandarin, Japanese and Korean), photo opportunities in front of the stalactites and stalagmites, and finally a 15 minute tour through "glow worm alley".

Grasellenbach

The Ellen part of the name most likely comes from the word Elm, which had the same meaning in German as it still has in English (although the current German word is Ulme).

Hagai Shaham

By shear luck the manuscripts have been saved from disposal and arrived in the Hebrew University (see more in the CD's elaborated notes, in English, Hebrew, and Yiddish).

Heckler v. Campbell

Ms. Campbell had been born in Panama, and though she had limited ability to speak and write English, she could read and understand English fairly well.

Hilmar Grétarsson

Hilmar Grétarsson (born March 8, 1982) is an Icelandic newspaper publisher best known for founding the Reykjavík-based, English language Reykjavik Grapevine with Jón Trausti Sigurðarson and Valur Gunnarsson.

John J. McClellan

In the 1985 English edition of the LDS hymnal, the music for "Sweet Is the Work" (hymn #147) was composed by McClellan.

Joop Ave

Former Director General of Tourism (1982), fluent in three foreign languages namely English, French, and German.

Jorge José Emiliano dos Santos

His nickname was Margarida (meaning Daisy, in English).

Jozi FM

In 1999–2000, Soweto Community Radio and Buwa Radio merged to form Jozi FM, to form the largest community radio station in South Africa, broadcasting in several languages including: isiZulu, isiXhosa, English, Sesotho, Sepedi, Setswana and Xhintsonga.

Julian Owusu-Bekoe

Julian Owusu-Bekoe (born 10 May 1989 in Tooting) is an English-born Ghanaian football player who plays for Hayes & Yeading United in the Conference National.

Julie Barlow

Julie Barlow is a Canadian journalist, author and conference speaker who writes and publishes both in English and French.

Juvelen

Jonas Pettersson better known as Juvelen (English: The Jewel), born July 15, 1976, is an electro-pop singer from Stockholm, Sweden.

Kaleohano

For the lyrics, and the English translation of the song, please visit reference #2.

Kalokairino Randevou me ton Saki Tour

The Kalokairino Randevou me ton Saki tour (Greek: Καλοκαιρινό Ραντεβού με τον Σάκη; English: Summer Fling with Sakis) was a small-scale Greek and Cypriot tour performed by Greek pop-rock musician Sakis Rouvas following his large-scale North American & Australian Tour with Antonis Remos.

Kolachalam Srinivasa Rao

Srinivasa Rao became famous after publishing the English translation of Prapancha Nataka Charitra (The Dramatic History of the World) (Vanivilasa Press, Bellary) in 1908.

Kühlung

In the Kühlung, some of the sites referred to as a "Berg" (Eng.: hill or mountain) are merely promontories, while some of its summits are unnamed.

Law of Hong Kong

The Law Drafting Division is responsible for drafting all legislation, including subsidiary legislation, in Chinese and English, and assists in steering legislation through the Executive and Legislative Councils.

Louis George Alexander

A British author of EFL course books, Louis Alexander was born in London and educated at Godalming Grammar School and the University of London, he taught English in Germany (1954–56) and Greece (1956–65) where he was head of English at the Protypon Lykeion, Athens (what is now the Scholi Moraïti).

Luigi Facelli

Despite the different walks of life, Lord Burghley considered Facelli a friend for years and invalidates, so that during the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, invited him to the opening ceremony, but when Facelli received the letter, he did not know the English language, if had it translated by a friend who brought back the greeting but simply was not able to translate even the invitation.

Malietoa Talavou Tonumaipe’a

Talavou was a keen student and statesman who was highly respected by resident Europeans on account of his dignified and friendly demeanor, not to mention his impressive command of both the English and Samoan languages.

Matěj Kůs

When he awoke he was suffering from amnesia and reportedly spoke perfect English, a sudden and unexplained knowledge of English, a paranormal phenomenon known as xenoglossy.

Matthew 1:18

English editions invariably give different translations for the two, but the author of Matthew may have been trying to link the two verses with the second geneseos symbolically beginning the second section of the chapter.

Metamorfosi, Laconia

Another important area is "Pigadia" (English: Wells) on the southern boundaries of the settlement.

Mike Naumenko

Some of Naumenko's songs are more or less faithful translations or remakes of English language source material (the notions of copyright and plagiarism being hardly established in the Soviet Union, especially as regards works created on the other side of the Iron Curtain).

Miles Kington

It was during this time, in the late 1970s, that he began writing his Franglais columns written in a comical mixture of English and French.

Mount Susitna

The mountain's Dena'ina name is Dghelishla, meaning "Little Mountain"; in English it was simply named for the Susitna River which means Sandy River.

Name of Joan of Arc

In the English language her first name has been repeated as Joan since the fifteenth century because that was the only English equivalent for the feminine form of John during her lifetime.

Naval Hospital Yokosuka Japan

Education is conducted English and focuses on a Western approach to medical care.

Osirica

The word is used in many French and Italian references to Ancient Egyptian culture and history, but very rarely is found in English.

Ottawa Fringe Festival

Because Ottawa is a bilingual city, both English and French productions are presented at the Fringe, though a small number of productions in past years have been bilingual.

Penny Bacchiochi

She continues to support a no-tax-increase state budget plans and has cosponsored legislation to make English the official language of Connecticut.

Peruvian Connection

Today, the company has about 200 employees in the United States, South America and the U.K. Peruvian Connection catalogs are printed in English with prices in dollars or pounds sterling, and in German with pricing in Euros.

Physalis pubescens

Physalis pubescens is a species of flowering plant in the nightshade family known by many common names, including husk tomato and hairy groundcherry in English, and muyaca and capulí in Spanish.

Physalis viscosa

Physalis viscosa is a species of flowering plant in the nightshade family known by many common names, including starhair groundcherry and grape groundcherry in English, and arrebenta-cavalo, balãozinho, and camambú in Portuguese.

Plebeian Council

The Concilium Plebis (English: Plebeian Council or People's Assembly) was the principal popular assembly of the ancient Roman Republic.

Pokémon Puzzle League

The game was not available in Japan due to a lack of popularity of the Nintendo 64 console in that region and because it is based on the English dub of the anime.

Polish passport

The two more recent designs are trilingual and written in Polish, English, and French.

Qantara.de

Qantara.de (Arabic: qantara = bridge) is an Internet portal in German, English and Arabic, designed to promote intercultural dialogue between the Western and the Islamic world.

Rakovički potok

The Rakovički potok (Serbian Cyrillic: Раковички поток, English: Rakovica Creek) is a short stream in north-central Serbia, a 8,5 kilometer-long right tributuary to the Topčiderka river.

Remi Raji

Aderemi Raji-Oyelade is a Nigerian poet, writing in English.

Rhoose Cardiff International Airport railway station

Following its recent re-opening with a new name (the station was known as "Rhoose" before it closed in 1964), this station now holds the distinction of having the longest name for a station as recognised by National Rail in the UK, in both English (33 letters, excluding spaces) and Welsh (Maes Awyr Rhyngwladol Caerdydd Y Rhws — 28 letters, as dd, ng and rh are single letters in Welsh).

Roberto Jordan

Many of his songs were covers of English-language rock and pop songs, with arrangements provided by music teachers and producers Enrique Okamura and Eduardo Magallanes.

Rovenky

There is a Pamyati pogibshikh museum in the city (In Memory of Dead in English), which is a branch of the Krasnodon-based memorial complex Young Guard.

Sable

The English and Medieval Latin word sabellum comes from the Old French sable or saible.

Shema Yisrael Torah Network

The Shema Yisrael Torah Network is a group of (mainly English) websites dedicated to spreading Jewish thought, halakha (Jewish law) and other material through the World Wide Web, email and written material.

Subject side parameter

English is an example of a "subject first" language, whereas Malagasy is an example of "subject last".

Suma Kanakala

Apart from Malayalam and Telugu, she is also fluent in Hindi, English, and Tamil.

Thé Au Harem D'Archimède

The album's French title, which translates into English as "Tea in the Harem of Archimedes," is a reference to the Mehdi Charef book Tea in the Harem (French title: Thé au Harem d'Archimède), as well as a pun on the French phrase "Théorème d'Archimède", the title of the album's fourth track.

Torah Judaism

Torah Judaism is an English term used by a number of Orthodox Jewish groups to describe their Judaism as being based on an adherence to the laws of the Torah's mitzvot as expounded in Orthodox Halakha.

Treaty on the Creation of the USSR

In the cover sheet the title Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was typed in Russian, French, English and German, as well as the actual words Treaty on the Formation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics also in those four languages.

Tsvi C. Nussbaum

Initially, he did not speak English; but having a talent for science, he later studied medicine and became an otolaryngologist in New York City.

University of California Education Abroad Program

The study abroad program offers students academic opportunities abroad in English, for learning a foreign language and culture, or for taking courses in the language of a host institution.

Utah Transit Authority

In addition to English, assistance can usually be provided in the following languages: Chinese, French, Spanish, Tongan, and Vietnamese.

Walter Schiller

He published this work in German in 1927 and in English in 1933, and wrote one of the earliest papers on dysgerminoma in 1934.

Wantok FM

Wantok is a Pijin word which comes from the English "one talk", and means people who speak the same language, belong to the same culture, are friends and help one another out.

Wasserstein metric

Most English-language publications use the German spelling "Wasserstein" (attributed to the name "Vasershtein" being of Germanic origin).

Will Tura

Will Tura's first hit was Eenzaam zonder jou (Eng, Lonely without you) in 1963, for which he wrote the melody, and Ke Riema the text.

World Heritage Memory Net

All of the collections are available in at least 6 official UN languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish.

WOYE

The station carries a mix of the 1980s, 1990s, and modern English music.

Wrist

The English word "wrist" is etymologically derived from the ancient German word wristiz from which are derived modern German rist ("instep", "wrist") and modern Swedish vrist ("instep", "ankle").

Zagrebačka banka

Zagrebačka banka was established in 1914 as Gradska štedionica (English: City savings bank) by the Zagreb municipal authority at a time when Zagreb had a population of 100,000 and was rapidly developing into a modern city.

Zamboanga City Council

Composed of 18 members, with 16 councilors elected from Zamboanga City's two legislative districts and two members composed of the President of the Liga ng mga Barangay ng Lungsod ng Zamboanga (English: League of Barangays of the City of Zamboanga) and the President of the Pederasyon ng Sangguniang Kabataan (English: Federation of Youth Councils).

Zulkifli Abdhir

According to the FBI, he is 5 feet 6 inches tall and 120 lbs and can speak Malaysian, Tagalog, English, and Arabic.


2012 Bucharest hair salon shooting

At around 17:40 EET, Vlădan entered the hairdressing salon Perla (English language: Pearl), located at the intersection between Dorobanti and Iancu de Hunedoara Blvd. in Bucharest, armed with a 9 mm Glock semi-automatic pistol with a magazine capacity of 19 rounds.

7th Wonder

"7th Wonder" (occasionally rendered as "Seventh Wonder") was the Maltese entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 2002, performed in English by Ira Losco.

Ahmed Mohamed Iman

His books included Toosiye Everyday English for Everyone (an English Grammar translated into Somali), Marine Ecosystem Data Gathered of Somalia and Taariikhda Taxan iyo Dhaqanka Soomaaliya (a book about the history and culture of Somalia).

Anna Terruwe

Dr. Baars discovered her work and went on to translate some of her work into English and further the work on "Emotional Deprivation Disorder" and the repressive disorders.

Ardboe O'Donovan Rossa GAC

Cumann Lúthchleas Gael Ard Bó Uí Dhonnabhain Rossa (Ardboe O'Donovan Rossa in English) is a club based in east County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, close to the shores of Lough Neagh.

Benjamin Blackledge

He was the first teacher of English language in Closter, New Jersey, and rose to become "the most prominent man in the northern part of Bergen County".

Charles Beck

He taught physical education classes with a curriculum modeled after Jahn's system, and translated Jahn's 1816 work Deutsche Turnkunst into English as Treatise on Gymnasticks, taken chiefly from the German of F. L. Jahn.

China Today

It is published in Chinese language, English, Spanish, French, Arabic, German and Turkish, and is intended to promote a positive view of the People's Republic of China and its government to people outside of China.

Christoph Peters

It was followed by a collection of short stories in 2001, and, in 2007, his first novel to be published in English, The Fabric of Night (Random House).

Czesław Piątas

He is interested in military history and tennis; speaks fluently Polish, Russian and English.

Dakheel Najafi

The different works on Islamic (Shi’ite) jurisprudence by Al-Najafi, all written in Arabic have never been translated into English or any other language.

Dans une galaxie près de chez vous

Dans une galaxie près de chez vous (English: In a galaxy near you) is a Quebec French language television series that aired on Canal Famille (later Vrak.TV) from 1998 to 2001, and a movie of the same name, released in 2004.

Demographics of Suriname

Dutch (official), Sranan Tongo (Surinamese, sometimes called Taki-Taki, is native language of Creoles and much of the younger population), Hindustani (Hindi-Urdu), Javanese, English (widely spoken), French due to cultural influence from French Guiana, Portuguese and Spanish.

Dorcas Cochran

Her English language lyric for "Under the Bridges of Paris" was recorded by both Eartha Kitt and Dean Martin for United Kingdom chart hits in 1955, although they failed to chart in the United States, and Frankie Laine's recording of her song, "In the Beginning" similarly charted in the UK but not in the US that year.

E-Play

Beside the material, featuring the song lyrics written by in both Serbian and English language, the band recorded a cover version of the Monteniggers track "Pop", originally released in 1996 on the album Tajna marenda.

Edmund Barton

The quotation, which spread by email and social networks, includes a photograph of Barton and an extract from a speech which argues for equal treatment of immigrants conditional on their cultural assimilation, the loyalty to the Flag of Australia and the exclusive adoption of the English language in Australia.

Elisabeth Eybers

Her poetry was mainly in Afrikaans, although she has translated some of her own work (and those of others) into English.

Furby

They are programmed, however, to speak less and less Furbish and more and more English as they "grow".

Gregory Mair

She came to Jamaica to study English and married his father, founder and owner of the Desmond G. Mair insurance brokerage.

Hinduism in Croatia

So far the Proceedings of the first 3 conferences have been published in English by the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, the 1st conference proceedings alone being brought out in India by Munshiram Manoharlal.

Indiana School for the Deaf

The Bilingual/Bicultural Philosophy provides language acquisition and facilitates proficiency in two languages, American Sign Language (ASL), and English.

Klingon Language Institute

Speers is known for having undertaken the endeavour to raise his child bilingually in English and Klingon; Speers spoke in Klingon and his wife in English.

La Jalousie

The title of its English editions is Jealousy, but this fails to capture the ambiguity of the French title: "la jalousie" can be translated as "jealousy", but also as "the jalousie window".

La Jerga: Periodismo Gonzo Independiente

La Jerga: Periodismo Gonzo Independiente (Independent Gonzo Journalism) is a free, bilingual (Spanish and English), gonzo newspaper established in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico in April 2003, that has been publishing consistently monthly for the past four years.

Las Supremas de Móstoles

Las Supremas de Móstoles (or The Supremes of Móstoles, in English) is a Spanish pop band made up of three sisters, Susi, Vicky and Luisi (two of them are twins).

Lima Azimi

At the time of the 2003 World Athletics Championships, Azimi was a student of English language and literature at Kabul University.

Lucha film

When American producer K. Gordon Murray bought the rights to three of Santo’s lucha libre films, he dubbed them into English for domestic release and changed the name of the wrestling hero to "Samson".

Nancy Ward

Nanyehi (Cherokee: ᎾᏅᏰᎯ: "One who goes about"), known in English as Nancy Ward (ca. 1738–1822 or 1824) was a Beloved Woman of the Cherokee, which means that she was allowed to sit in councils and to make decisions, along with the chiefs and other Beloved Women.

Omnism

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) quotes as the term's earliest usage the 1839 long poem "Festus" by English poet Philip J. Bailey: "I am an omnist, and believe in all religions".

Operation Lobster I

Tributh and Gärtner were both students and neither spoke English well.

Points classification in the Giro d'Italia

The Azzurri d'Italia classification (English: Azure or Sky Blue Italy) is an award in the Giro d'Italia in which points are awarded for the top three stage finishers (4, 2 and 1 point).

Primera Fila: Sasha Benny Erik

Primera Fila: Sasha Benny Erik (English: Front row: Sasha Benny Erik) is the first album by Mexican pop trio Sasha, Benny y Erik released on November 6, 2012 by Sony Music Latin.

Purva Rana

Rana speaks Hindi and English, she loves singing and modelling, and she is currently a student of Electronic engineering at Himachal Pradesh Technical University.

Radio Bulgaria

In 2004, Radio Bulgaria broadcasts to Europe, Asia, Africa, North and South America on short and medium wave in Bulgarian, English, French, German, Spanish, Russian, Serbian, Greek, Albanian and Turkish.

Sabras Radio

Although the majority of the schedule is presented in Hindi and English - there are speciality shows broadcasting in Bengali, Gujarati and Punjabi.

Slip End

The name of Slip End possibly has a connection with the brickworks, Slip is an old English word for clay and End is quite common in Bedfordshire and not unknown in other counties.

Star designation

In addition to the traditional names, a small number of stars that are "interesting" can have modern English names.

The News Today

The News Today is an English evening daily newspaper in Chennai, India.

Toma Sik

The International Institute of Social History keeps a vast collection of papers from Toma Sik in several languages, such as Hebrew, Hungarian, and English.

Ts'ao Yung-ho

Ts'ao has studied a number of languages in pursuit of his understanding of early Taiwanese history, meaning he can now make use of ten languages: Taiwanese, Japanese, English, German, Mandarin Chinese, French, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin.

Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? Treasures of Knowledge

At the start of the game, Carmen steals a rare Franco-Italian edition of The Travels of Marco Polo (which conveniently has the title written on the cover in English) and, as the game progresses, she goes on to steal a Māori wood carving, Incan Quipus and other seemingly random items.

William Bullokar

William Bullokar was a 16th-century printer who devised a 40-letter phonetic alphabet for the English language.

Września Miasto railway station

Września Miasto (English: Września City) was a narrow-gauge railway stop in Września, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland.