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20 unusual facts about the world


Ada Gentile

Ada Gentile was born in Avezzano and attended the Conservatorio di St. Cecilia in Rome, graduating in piano and composition.

Bob Stump

In 2006 SR 303L was renamed the Bob Stump Memorial Highway.

Caribbean Blue

The song follows a waltz time signature, and mentions the Anemoi (Ancient Greek wind gods): Boreas, Afer Ventus (Africus), Eurus, and Zephyrus.

Cashis

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Conservative Europe Group

Founded to promote the UK's entry to the European Economic Community (now the European Union), CEG was launched in May 1967 as the European Forum, with David Baker as the founding chairman.

Eric Harper

In 1918, while serving in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force during World War I, he was killed in action in Jerusalem; becoming one of 11 New Zealand rugby internationals to die during the conflict.

György Rózsahegyi

During his career as painter he had the most important personalities of the Hungarian cultural life as models, like Lajos Kassák, Hilda Gobbi, Boris Palotai, Ferencz Karinthy, Tibor Déry and many others.

Hat Yai Junction Railway Station

and the Butterworth, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore Line (border point with Malaysia at Padang Besar).

I Got a Man

The spoken intro of the song is sampled from the 1990 film Die Hard 2 in which John McClane (played by Bruce Willis) complains about his bad luck.

Joop Ave

Joop Ave Foreign Service Academy (1957), was brought up by his mother who lives in Los Angeles, USA.

Libellus responsionum

Before it was ever transmitted in Bede's Historia, however, the Libellus circulated as part of several different early medieval canon law collections, often in the company of texts of a penitential nature.

Madjid Bougherra

In his first season with the club, he helped Lekhwiya win the 2011–12 Qatar Stars League.

Multichannel television in Canada

The introduction of IPTV services by telephone providers such as Bell (Fibe TV), MTS (MTS TV), SaskTel (MaxTV), and Telus (Optik TV) brought additional competition to the multichannel television industry in Canada as an alternative to incumbent cable providers.

Nicholas Grigsby

A former organ scholar of Salisbury Cathedral, he studied organ and improvisation with Colin Walsh, Organist Laureate of Lincoln Cathedral, Peter Wright at Southwark Cathedral, London and in France at Rouen Conservatoire with the blind organist Louis Thiry, a former pupil of the late virtuoso Marchal.

Robert's Lounge

Robert's Lounge was a saloon in New York City owned by Lucchese crime family associate James 'Jimmy the Gent' Burke.

The Living Legend

Led by the legendary and sometimes arrogant Commander Cain, the fleet is torn in its loyalty between Adama and Cain, but they eventually join forces in a daring attack on the Cylons.

Thomas Buckley

He received his Ph.D. in anthropology in 1982 from the University of Chicago, where he studied under Raymond D. Fogelson.

Vice admiral

Charles, Prince of Wales holds the honorary rank of vice admiral in the Royal Canadian Navy.

Wilson S. Hill

Born near Lodi, Mississippi, Hill attended the common schools and the University of Mississippi at Oxford.

Yellowhead Power Station

General Electric LM6000 simple cycle gas turbines for a total capacity of 138-megawatt commissioned in 2010.