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30 unusual facts about the world


1974 FA Charity Shield

The match finished 1–1, Phil Boersma had opened the scoring for Liverpool in the 20th minute, but Trevor Cherry headed home Leeds equaliser in the 70th.

A.C. Ponte San Pietro Isola S.S.D.

Associazione Calcio Ponte San Pietro Isola Società Sportiva Dilettantistica (usually referred to as Pontisola) is an Italian association football club located in Ponte San Pietro and also representing the towns of Terno d'Isola and Chignolo d'Isola, Lombardy.

Badge of Honour of the Bundeswehr

Wins (a conscript doing his military service) was travelling on a commuter bus in Kiel when a man attacked the bus driver with a knife and injured her severely.

Balderic, Abbot of Montfaucon

Saint Balderic (or Baudry) was the founding abbot of Montfaucon.

Bob Clement

In 2002, when Republican Senator Fred Thompson stated that he had changed his mind regarding his previous announcement that he would run for a second full term, Clement entered the Democratic primary for Thompson's seat.

Bradford Graves

Bradford Graves Sculpture Park opened May, 2010 in Kerhonkson, New York

Coast Guard Aviation Association

The Coast Guard Aviation Association is headquartered in Chantilly, Virginia.

Cycling in Syracuse, New York

During the 1890s cycle races like the Cicero Plank Road Race in Cicero, New York and the Century run of the Century Road Club to Utica and back were very popular forms of entertainment and drew thousands of spectators.

David Finkelhor

In 1994, he was given the Distinguished Child Abuse Professional Award by the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children.

Earl Foreman

At the conclusion of the season Foreman added George Gervin to the Squires' roster, putting two future Hall of Famers on the same team.

Fåvang

The Norwegian movie Jonny Vang was principally filmed in the town of Fåvang during 2003.

Fernando Bonilla-Musoles

In 1982, Bonilla's team began to develop in vitro propagation techniques of Britain's Robert Edwards, in Spain.

Hay Magpies

In 1954 the CRL reshuffled the boundaries and formed the Group 20 competition comprising the Western Zone teams plus Ivanhoe, Deniliquin, Barellan and Coleambally.

John G. McMynn

However, when the American Civil War started he went back to Wisconsin and joined the 10th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment and was commissioned a colonel.

John Taylor Gatto

Gatto also ran for the New York State Senate, 29th District in 1985 and 1988 as a member of the Conservative Party of New York against incumbent David Paterson.

Loreto Aprutino

In the 13th century, the d'Aquino family - Lombard nobility became lords of the town, and though there are legends that Thomas of Aquinas (Tommaso d'Aquino) once took residence in Loreto, evidence of this is obscure.

Milton and the Devils Party

As Robinson explains in numerous interviews, the name of the band is derived from a passage in William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell in which Blake calls the poet John Milton "a true Poet and of the Devils party without knowing it".

Misasa, Tottori

For this reason, the town of Misasa organizes a yearly Marie Curie festival – Marie Curie discovered radium.

Non-judicial punishment

The U.S. Navy and the U.S. Coast Guard call non-judicial punishment captain's mast or admiral's mast, depending on the rank of the commanding officer.

Peter Wales

He opened the batting in Sussex's first-innings, scoring 29 runs before being bowled by Charles Knott.

Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting

1976: Sydney H. Schanberg, New York Times, "for his coverage of the Communist takeover in Cambodia, carried out at great risk when he elected to stay at his post after the fall of Phnom Penh."

Rind et al. controversy

The study's lead author was psychologist Bruce Rind, and it expanded on a 1997 meta-analysis for which Rind was also lead author.

South Kyme

This was a mediaeval castle which is believed to have been built between 1339 and 1381 by Gilbert de Umfraville third Earl of Angus and Lord of Kyme.

The Albany Academies

Administrative services are shared under The Albany Academies banner; Dr. Douglas M. North '58 is Head of School.

The Quarterly

"The Magazine of New American Writing" featured works by; Ann Pyne, Jan Pendleton, Victor Barall, Jennifer Allen, Harold Brodkey, M. D. Stein and others.

Unruochings

The family is named for the first member to come to prominence, Unruoch II of Friuli (floruit early 9th century).

WDVV

Anderson, an owner of several McDonald's franchises, started Praise Broadcasting Network Inc., with Escalante as vice-president.

Westpoint Performing Arts Centre

Legend says that the building was named 'Westpoint' because it is located right on the border between three Auckland suburbs - Western Springs, Westmere, and Point Chevalier.

Wheel and axle

The oldest known example of a wooden wheel and its axle was found in 2002 at the Ljubljana Marshes some 20 km south of Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia.

William Mathews

Bill Mathews (William Henry Mathews, 1919–2003), Canadian geologist