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21 unusual facts about the world


179th meridian

179th meridian west, a line of longitude west of the Greenwich Meridian

Butch Stearns

From July 1994 – January 1996 Stearns co-hosted The Morning Battery, first with former Major League pitcher Lary Sorensen and later with Detroit Free Press reporter Keith Gave.

Chartwell Dutiro

A little later, in 1986, he joined the world-famous band Thomas Mapfumo & the Blacks Unlimited.

De Kleine Komedie

In 1784 Henry Hope of Hope & Co. purchased ground on the Amstel near the east side of the Halvemaansteeg in Amsterdam, together with his fellow banker friends Balthazar Elias Abbema, Pieter de Smeth, Henry Fizeaux, Jean Alexander Botereau, and Pieter Muilman.

Federico Ricci

Although he did not have his brother's energy, Federico's scores are judged by some to be more skilfully written than Luigi's: for example, it has been said that La prigione di Edimburgo shows a sensitivity towards its subject (from Sir Walter Scott's The Heart of Midlothian) that is rare among Italian operas of the period.

Filipe Oliveira

In July 2010 Oliveira joined Italian team Parma FC – who paid K.A.S. Eupen a fee of €1 million (5% Solidarity Contribution included) – being called up to training camp on the 12th.

Frank Selvy

Selvy is best remembered for scoring 100 points in a college game for Furman University against Newberry College on February 13, 1954, the only NCAA Division I player ever to do so.

Frederick George D'Utassy

The place where he was to be confined was the famous Sing Sing Prison in Ossining, New York.

Grupo Modelo

On June 12, 2008, The Wall Street Journal stated that Anheuser-Busch InBev, which owned a non-controlling 50% stake in the company, may attempt to acquire the remaining 50%.

Kava culture

In Rotuma, kava has two contexts, ceremonial and informal.

Koumbore

Koumbore is a town in the Boussouma Department of Boulgou Province in south-eastern Burkina Faso.

Magnetic proton recoil neutron spectrometer

The neutron beam is directed onto a thin plastic film (Polyethylene) where the neutrons scatter elastically on the protons of the foil.

Miriam Dehne

She then moved to Berlin where she studied design at the Hochschule der Künste (HdK, today UDK) under Professor Wolfgang Joop.

Muda River

The Beris Dam, which was completed in 2004 at a cost of RM360 million, is used to regulate the flow of water along the Muda River basin to augment water available for irrigation of paddy or upland crops, for domestic and industrial water supply and other uses.

Pedro Sosa

Sosa held Pitt defensive end Joe Clermond in check, and in the 2006 Texas Bowl vs. Kansas State, held all-Big 12 Conference end Ian Campbell sackless.

Peter Petrovich Troyanskii

He was born in the family of a railway repair-shop worker in Orenburg in the Southern Urals.

Poland at the 1984 Winter Olympics

Poland competed at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia.

Ronald MacDonald

Ranald MacDonald (1824–1894), first man to teach the English language in Japan

Tatra 813

Another military feature was CTI central tyre inflation system controlled from the cab for each wheel independently and an ability to pressurize gearbox and differentials housing during water crossing.

VAHS

Vicenza American High School, a United States Department of Defense Dependent School in Vicenza, Italy

Warkworth 2 dish

It was manufactured in 1983 by Nippon Electric Corp., and since then it was used by Telecom NZ for communication between New Zealand and Pacific Islands.