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24 unusual facts about the world


Alexei Kitaev

In July 2012, he was an inaugural awardee of the Fundamental Physics Prize, the creation of physicist and internet entrepreneur, Yuri Milner.

Amazon China

Joyo was founded by Kingsoft in August 1998, while Joyo.com became a website in February 1999.

Beverly McClellan

Beverly McClellan studied at South Fork High School and then at Indian River Community College in Fort Pierce, Florida.

Biblioteca Comunale Ariostea

In the library holds mediaeval manuscripts, among them the biblical manuscripts: 581, 582.

Cooney Weiland

Weiland coached seven All-Americans, including three-time first-team selection Joe Cavanagh '71 and two-time pick David Johnston '63.

Cultural District, Pittsburgh

The Byham family of Pittsburgh made a major naming gift for a 1995 renovation, and it has been the Byham Theater since.

Konsh Valley

The Konsh Valley is located on extreme Northern border of the Mansehra district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.

Lie

In the film Liar Liar, the lawyer Fletcher Reede (Jim Carrey) cannot lie for 24 hours, due to a wish of his son that magically came true.

Lim Swee Say

A member of the governing People's Action Party (PAP), he has been a Cabinet Minister in the Prime Minister's Office since 2004 and Secretary-General of the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) since 2007.

Los Angeles County Office of Public Safety

Most patrol assignments drove Ford Crown Victoria Police Interceptor police cars equipped with, as with the majority of police vehicles, touch screen computers, emergency lights & sirens, back-seat partitions, and push bumpers.

Margaret Leech

Reveille in Washington, 1860-1865, is an account of Washington, D.C. during the American Civil War and deals with, inter alia, Abraham Lincoln and his wife, along with Rose Greenhow, the Confederate spy whose work was helpful in the Southern forces winning the First Battle of Bull Run.

Naval Station Pearl Harbor

Despite the warnings of the Bureau of Equipment, the War Department, the Department of Labor and Commerce, and the Department of Agriculture had secured permission to settle on the naval reservation.

Newbury, Massachusetts

Theophilus Parsons, Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

North Pacific Yachts

North Pacific Yachts is a privately held company based in Surrey, British Columbia which builds 28 to 43 foot recreational trawler motoryachts, which it produces in Ningbo, China.

Seelitz, Perry County, Missouri

Although only one of the colonists is recorded as coming from the small parish of Seelitz, which is near Niederfrohna in the Mulde valley, Bürger may have chosen it out of filial piety and the memory of his own first pastorate, rather than Lunzenau, from which he and most of his people had actually come.

Seven Pines

Seven Pines (and the Seven Pines National Cemetery) are located in the unincorporated town of Sandston in Henrico County, Virginia.

Spiritism

In Brazil, Catholic priests Dom Carlos Kloppenburg and Oscar González Quevedo, among others, have since the 1960s written extensively against Spiritism from both a doctrinal and parapsychologic perspective.

Şükrü Enis Regü

Later he settled in Ankara as the Children's Editor for Ulus newspaper, the leading national daily of that period.

Taiwan Strait Tunnel Project

At nearly 150 km, the proposed tunnel would be nearly three times longer than the Channel Tunnel.

Tartit

At the WOMAD Festival in Seattle, after performing their own set, the group joined fellow Malians Ali Farka Touré and Afel Bocoum on stage.

The Gene Generation

The soundtrack for the film features various tracks by Combichrist, Encephalon and Tribal Machine, while the score was composed by Scott Glasgow with additional music by Ronan Harris of VNV Nation.

Wembley Conference Centre

It was also the venue for the Eurovision Song Contest in 1977, hosted the very first Brit Awards that same year, and provided the location for the 1979 Blake's 7 episode "Voice from the Past".

White Cliffs, New South Wales

White Cliffs was one of the many places visited by Bill Bryson in research for the book In a Sunburned Country.

William Chaffey

Alfred Deakin, then a minister in the Victorian government and chairman of a royal commission on water supply, visited the irrigation areas of California in 1885 where he met George and William Chaffey.