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19 unusual facts about the world


A Union in Wait

The film includes interviews with Andrew Sullivan, Barney Frank, Robert Knight, Jimmy Creech, Fred Phelps, Candace Gingrich, Wake Forest University students, and local ministers.

Ben Torgersen

Ben Torgersen is best known for appearing as Gordon Tracy in the 2004 film Thunderbirds.

Benjamin Nahawandi

This etc., the establishment of which, in consequence of a confusion in the text of Shahrastani, has been wrongfully attributed to Benjamin, is identified with the Essenes by Abraham Harkavy, who shows that they were called "The Men of the Caves," because they lived in the desert.

Britannia Beach, British Columbia

About 1859 Royal Navy hydrographer Captain Richards of HMS Plumper named the range of mountains for HMS Britannia, the third of a series of vessels to bear that name.

Bury Park

The wards form part of the parliamentary constituency of Luton South, and the MP is Gavin Shuker (Labour).

Ecoregions of Zambia

:32 —Nyika Plateau in the Nyika National Park, 80 km², and two smaller patches to the north including the Mafinga Hills, on the Malawi border.

Jennifer Hornyak

At this time she honed her technique at the Vermont Studio Colony with Stanley Boxer, George McLean and Elmer Bischoff and with Elizabeth Lyons in Tuscany, Italy.

Lentvaris

Teresa Żylis-Gara, the 20th century soprano singer was born in Lentvaris.

May Ayim

May Ayim's poem "They're People Like Us" is cited in Paul Beatty's 2008 novel Slumberland.

Navigational instrument

Parallel rules used for transferring a line to a parallel position.

New South Wales state election, 1962

He promised to build the Newcastle freeway without a toll, to construct the Eastern Suburbs Railway and to plan for a second crossing of Sydney Harbour.

News ratings in Australia

Real Life continued until 1995, when it was replaced by state-based editions of the current program Today Tonight.

Pets.com

The Pets.com management stayed during the liquidation and CEO Julie Wainwright received $235,000 in severance on top of a $225,000 "retention payment" while overseeing the closure.

SS Picton

On Saturday, the Admiralty instructed the Furness Withy people to remove Picton from the harbour and beach her in the Eastern Passage.

Tanna Ground Dove

Its taxonomic affiliation is uncertain but at its first scientific discussion by Johann Georg Wagler in 1829 it was classified into the genus Gallicolumba (which includes Ground Doves and Bleeding-hearts); its closest relative is possibly the Santa Cruz Ground Dove.

Time perception

Students were shown extracts from films known to induce fear (horror movies such as The Blair Witch Project, Scream, The Shining) or sadness (dramas such as City of Angels, Philadelphia, or Dangerous Minds).

Transient kinetic isotope fractionation

Transient kinetic isotope effects (or fractionation) occur when the reaction leading to isotope fractionation does not follow pure first-order kinetics and therefore isotopic effects cannot be described with the classical equilibrium fractionation equations or with steady-state kinetic fractionation equations (also known as the Rayleigh equation).

Wiesent

Wiesent, Bavaria, a municipality in Regensburg District, Bavaria, Germany

William of St. Barbara

From William's name, it is presumed that he was a native of Sainte-Barbe-en-Auge in Calvados in Normandy.