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17 unusual facts about the world


148th Field Artillery Regiment

The 148th Field Artillery was organized on 29 September 1917 by General Order 2, Headquarters 41st Division, trained at Camp Greene, North Carolina, Camp Mills, New York, and Camp Merritt, New Jersey.

ANZIIF

The supporters, a Lyrebird (Menura superba) and a Wedge-tailed Eagle (Aquila audax), were chosen to be different from the traditional Australian Kangaroo.

Film finance

Ryan Kavanaugh of Relativity Media also offers participation in profits to actors, rather than up-front fees, to lower production costs and keep profits protected.

Genesee Depot, Wisconsin

The quarry provided the stone for many Wisconsin buildings, including the state capitol in Madison, the Milwaukee Sentinel building, and Carroll University's earlier buildings.

Hugh Blumenfeld

He was active in the Greenwich Village music scene in the 1980s, attending the Cornelia Street Songwriters Exchange and performing at Folk City and Speak Easy while working on a PhD in Poetics from New York University.

Karol Antoniewicz

This, as well as the advice of his spiritual director, Father Frederic Rinn, S.J., induced him to seek admission into the novitiate of the Jesuits at Stara Wieś in September, 1839, where he took the solemn vows on 12 September 1841.

Kot Sabzal

As the historian Mohan Lal tries to remember in his travelogues, the city had gates, that had perished through want of repair and that one had a gun, which was kept towards the Bahawalpur country.

Maqasid

Since the turn of the century, a number of Islamic scholars including Mohammad Hashim Kamali, Ahmad Raysuni, Halim Rane, Jasser Auda, and Tariq Ramadan have all advocated the maqasid approach and contributed to its development.

Oliver Njego

With his godfather Predrag Miletić, actor of the National Theater, he has traveled for several years in a row with a bike to the monastery Hilandar on Mount Athos in Greece.

Potential flow

Note that multi-valued functions such as the natural logarithm may be used, but attention must be confined to a single Riemann surface.

Rosario Norte Station

From Rosario Norte the line continued to the northwest, crossing several provinces of Argentina to reach Tucumán.

Samuel Blake

In 1854, Blake ran for U.S. Congress and lost to Israel Washburn of the newly formed Republican Party over the issue of the extension of slavery into the U.S. territories.

Spice Times

Other non-regular features have been interviews with chefs and cricket stars such as Graeme Swann.

Suzanne Goodwin

In 1964, her novel Journey from Yesterday won the Romantic Novel of the Year Awardawarded by the Romantic Novelists' Association.

Tanir Rural LLG

The Tanir Rural LLG is a local government area in New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea.

The Trouble with Mr. Bean

While in the chair, when Mr. Peggit turns on the tape recorder playing The Blue Danube, he meddles with the controls on the dentist's chair and the dentist's equipment while his back is turned, even draining Mr. Peggit's cup of coffee with the suction tube.

William Hubbard

William Peyton Hubbard (1842–1935), Canadian local political figure; Toronto's first black alderman; son of escaped African-American slaves, he was Toronto's first black alderman and occasional acting mayor, serving from 1894 to 1914