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24 unusual facts about the world


16th New York State Legislature

Subsequently the congressional elections were held in January 1793.

1960 Oakland Raiders season

Billy Lott ran for a touchdown in the second quarter; Charlie Hardy caught an 11-yard pass from Tom Flores in the same period.

Acadian World Congress

The third congress, in 2004, was held jointly by several Nova Scotia communities in the ancestral Acadie region and celebrated the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first French-speaking settlers in Canada.

Adolf Fierla

Fierla died 8 September 1967 in London and is buried in the Finchley district of London.

Bartercard Premiership

In the Seniors competition, Canterbury achieved their first Premiership in the new competition in a rematch of the 2008 final, defeating Auckland at Rugby League Park, Christchurch.

Brett Deacon

On 19 December 2013, Deacon was forced to retire due to a diagnosis of lupus, an autoimmune disease which in his case led to potentially life-threatening blood clots; he was immediately placed on blood thinners.

Casimir II, Duke of Cieszyn

He was the eldest child and only son of Bolesław II, Duke of Cieszyn, by his wife Anna, daughter of Ivan Vladimirovich, Prince of Bielsk.

Commonwealth Saga

Other books set in the Commonwealth Universe include Misspent Youth and the Void Trilogy.

Delta Sigma Chi

On November 6, 1913, B.J. Palmer was initiated into the brotherhood of Delta Sigma Chi.

Elizabeth Vargas

After three years of dating, on July 20, 2002, Vargas married singer-songwriter Marc Cohn.

Féchín of Fore

The village of St Vigeans, near Arbroath in Angus, has a major collection of early medieval sculpture surviving from a monastery dedicated to the saint, perhaps founded in unrecorded circumstances among the Picts in the 8th century.

G. D. H. Cole

Cole was also a theorist of the Co-operative movement, and has made a number of contributions to the fields of Co-operative studies, Co-operative economics and the study of Co-operative History.

Law enforcement in Singapore

When Singapore attained self-government in 1959, the nation's first prime minister Lee Kuan Yew moved it to the Prime Minister's Office.

Marc Lawrence

He played gangsters in two James Bond movies: 1971's Diamonds Are Forever opposite Sean Connery, and 1974's The Man with the Golden Gun opposite Roger Moore.

Mini-RF

Previous SAR instruments, such as the radar on the Magellan mission to Venus, were large, massive, power-hungry, and expensive.

Natalie Dessay

Her "Olympia" received acclaim from the Viennese audiences and praise from Plácido Domingo.

National Register of Historic Places listings in Worcester, Massachusetts

Two historic districts have boundaries that cover portions of more than one section of the city: milestones that make up the 1767 Milestones are found in the northwestern and eastern sections, and the Blackstone Canal Historic District extends through all three sections.

Parkwood Secondary College

PSC has also offered an extensive range of VCE subjects as well as the Victorian Certificate of Applied Learning programme in its time as a school.

Priyamudan

Stunt choreographer Jaguar Thangam won the Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Stunt Coordinator, for 1998 for his work in Priyamudan.

Sadie Thompson Building

The Sadie Thompson Building, on the main road in Malaloa, on the outskirts of Pago Pago, in American Samoa, has significance from 1916, when author W. Somerset Maugham stayed there for six weeks.

Santosh Lad

Santosh Lad is the son of Late Shivaji Lad and Smt Shailaja S Lad, Santosh was born 27 February 1975 in Sandur taluk of Bellary district and has one elder sister.

Sumbat I of Klarjeti

The Art Museum of Georgia in Tbilisi possesses a late 9th-century reliquary cross whose donation inscription refers to Khosrovanush, wife of Sumbat, and her sons Bagrat and David.

Walter Gaitán

In the Mexican Spanish version of the EA Sports FIFA games, he is nicknamed "Mago" ("magician"), to replace "El Divino".

Wardon Abbey

From the orchards at Wardon came the Warden pear, rated the best of English pears, and so distinctive that a pie made from them was a "wardon pie": "I must have Saffron to colour the Warden Pies" (Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale iv.3).