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29 unusual facts about the world


Arterial insufficiency ulcer

A special type of ischemic ulcer developing in duodenum after severe burns is called Curling's ulcer.

Battle of North Borneo

The two 20th Brigade battalions were now joined by the 2/13th Battalion, which had conducted an unopposed landing at Lutong on 20 June, before continuing their advance down the south-western coast, passing through Miri, Lutong and Seria on their way towards Kuching.

Bell Multicultural High School

In 2008, Newsweek ranked Bell Multicultural the 77th best high school in the United States, and 12th in the D.C. metropolitan area.

Bogdan Tirnanić

He was a member of the managing board of the football club Red Star Belgrade.

Canada and weapons of mass destruction

Materials included the cavity magnetron which was essential to RADAR, British information related to the German Enigma machines, Jet Engine designs as well as "Tube Alloys".

Carter B. Magruder

During his command, a military junta led by Park Chung-hee overthrew the elected premier, John Chang.

Charbel Farhat

Farhat led the development of the Finite Element Tearing and Interconnecting (FETI) method for the scalable solution of large-scale systems of equations on massively parallel processors.

Collège du Léman

Mustafa Sandal, popular Turkish pop music singer, record producer, businessman, and occasional actor.

David Warnock

Warnock was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta for the Pincher Creek electoral district in the 1909 Alberta general election.

Edmond Louis Alexis Dubois-Crancé

In his report, submitted on 12 December 1789, he was the first one to promote the idea of conscription, which he opposed to the recruiting system practiced; however, the document was not adopted.

Hoang Van Chi

This book was well received and was translated into various languages, including Urdu, Spanish, Japanese, and Arabic.

IBLA Internationals season 2000-01

The team was made up of players from around the world, with the majority of the team being made up of prospects from the LG Twins of the Korean Major league, Other players from the USA, New Zealand, South Africa, Japan and Australia.

Jimmy Jazz

Jimmy Jazz Records, a Polish record label with bands such as The Analogs, WC and Karcer

KV19

Tomb KV19, located in a side branch of Egypt's Valley of the Kings, was intended as the burial place of Prince Ramesses Sethherkhepshef, better known as Pharaoh Ramesses VIII, but was later used for the burial of Prince Mentuherkhepshef instead, the son of Ramesses IX, who predeceased his father.

Manasse Mbonye

He also carried out research at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland as a National Research Council Senior Research Associate.

Marina Hedman

Throughout the late 1970s and early 1980s, Hedman had supporting roles in mainstream films such as Primo Amore (1978) for Dino Risi and La città delle donne (City of Women) (1980) for Federico Fellini, as well as leading roles in pornographic cinema, in which she was considered one of the first Italian divas.

Miguel Acevedo

Along the way Acevedo fought a number of notable opponents, including Jackie Graves, Sandy Saddler, Corky Gonzales, Glen Flanagan, Charley Riley, Willie Pep, Phil Terranova, Kid Gavilan, Redtop Davis, and others with equally stellar records.

Officers Club

The Officers Club, a defunct UK clothes retailer whose brand is now owned and used by Blue Inc.

Ohio Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania

In recent years, several retail outlets have been built near the Camp Horne Road interchange of Interstate 279.

Pem-Air

After 31 years in 2001 the company ended its route between Pembroke, Ontario and Toronto Pearson International Airport, after failing to reach an agreement with Atomic Energy of Canada (that was response for two-thirds of its business) the commercial airline service was discontinued to refocus on its flight school an aviation service operated jointly in partnership with Algonquin College.

Richard Gaffin

He has contributed to or edited several volumes, including Jerusalem and Athens (a Festschrift for Cornelius Van Til), Redemptive History and Biblical Interpretation; The Shorter Writings of Geerhardus Vos (editor), Biblical Principles & Business: The Foundations, Theonomy: A Reformed Critique, and the English translation of Reformed Dogmatics by Geerhardus Vos.

Self-propelled artillery

The next major advance can be seen in the Birch gun developed by the British for their motorised warfare experimental brigade (the Experimental Mechanized Force) after the end of the War.

Semyon Semyonov

Once the formal recruitment of Rosenberg was completed Semenov used Rosenberg to conduct formal recruitments of two of Rosenberg's friends from City College of New York, Joel Barr and William Perl.

Shiloh, Gregg County, Texas

Local legend tells of the Shiloh School being burned down by angered members of the Ku Klux Klan, killing several children that were trapped inside.

Silky shark

A scientific description of the silky shark was first published by the German biologists Johannes Müller and Jakob Henle under the name Carcharias (Prionodon) falciformis, in their 1839 Systematische Beschreibung der Plagiostomen.

Tall Timbers, Maryland

Tall Timbers, St. Mary's County, Maryland, an unincorporated community in St. Mary's County

Waterperry

The house has extensive grounds, and until 1971 housed the Waterperry School of Horticulture under Beatrix Havergal.

Wendel Archibald Robertson

Born in Guthrie, Oklahoma, he joined the Air Service, United States Army in 1917 during World War I. After pilot training in the United States, Lieutenant Robertson was assigned to the 139th Aero Squadron, 2d Pursuit Group, First Army Air Service.

Yoshiharu Sekino

while still a student at Hitotsubashi University, he cofounded and participated in a university team that descended the entire length of the Amazon, thereafter travelling around south America.