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18 unusual facts about the world


Annalee Dolls

The Winnipesaukee Playhouse, a small 84-seat theater located in the Weirs Beach section of Laconia, purchased the Annalee Doll Factory site for 1.05 million dollars.

C. Loring Brace

His ancestors were New England schoolteachers and clergymen including, John P. Brace, Sarah Pierce, and the Rev. Blackleach Burritt.

Charles Warburton Meredith

Sir Archibald Sinclair, Secretary of State for Air, praised the excellent quality of the reinforcements coming to the RAF from the RATG.

ConservativeHome

In 2010, ConservativeHome launched an American site, ConservativeHomeUSA, which is edited by Ryan Streeter and Montgomerie.

Dorian Baxter

Dorian Baxter (born 3 April 1950 in Mombasa Island, Kenya) is an Anglican minister in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada who uses the music of Elvis Presley in his services, using the name The Reverend Elvis Priestly.

Joffre cake

Some commentators say the size of the Joffre cake probably had as a model the French casquet worn by soldiers during World War I.

John Ortberg

Ortberg's retelling of his experience of playing Monopoly with his grandmother was used as the beginning narration of Peter Joseph's 2011 documentary Zeitgeist: Moving Forward.

Kalan Müzik

Because laws passed after the 1980 Turkish coup d'état banned songs in minority languages, especially in Kurdish (deeming them separatist), Kalan's output has sometimes met governmental opposition.

Lophosoria quadripinnata

Genetic analysis has placed the species unequivocally in the Dicksoniaceae family, but the story of its taxonomic placement is long.

Lucy Isabelle Marsh

Marsh married Walter Colwell Gordon, a medical doctor, in 1910, and moved to Providence, Rhode Island.

Megan Donner

Various sources said Delaney was written out of the show as there was not enough on-screen chemistry between her and her co-stars, especially David Caruso.

Narrative

Narratives can be both abstracted and generalised by imposing an algebra upon their structures and thence defining homomorphism between the algebras.

Oregon gubernatorial election, 1930

The Oregon Republican Party, at the time dominant in Oregon politics, initially nominated George W. Joseph, but the nominee died prior to the general election.

Oriental studies

In 2007 the Faculty of Oriental Studies at Cambridge University was renamed the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, but Oxford still has its Faculty for Oriental Studies, as do Chicago, Rome, London (covering African studies also), and other universities.

Quintana

Carlos Morales Quintana (born 1970), Spanish architect and yachtsman, husband of Princess Alexia of Greece and Denmark

Shoalhaven Scheme

Tallowa Dam has been a barrier to migratory native fish with estuarine/marine juvenile stages, blocking species including Australian bass from more than 80% of their former range in the Shoalhaven system.

Ungaro

Gaetano Ungaro (born 1987, Reggio Calabria), an Italian professional football player

Volatile Times

New songs from the album that were performed on October 22, 2010 at the Prague show at Meet Factory included "Fire and Whispers", "Bernadette", "Oh Beautiful Town", "Music People", and "Cold Red Light".