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20 unusual facts about the world


Akhmim wooden tablets

In 2002 Hana Vymazalová obtained a fresh copy of the text from the Cairo Museum, and confirmed that all five two-part answers were correctly checked for accuracy by the scribe that returned a 64/64 hekat unity.

Antonio Pelle

Antonio Pelle was arrested on June 12, 2009, in a hospital in Polistena (Calabria), recovering from a hernia surgery.

Brad Case

Case has worked at a variety of studios including Disney, MGM, Walter Lantz, Tempo, Calvin Co., Academy Studios, ERA Productions, Hanna-Barbera, UPA, Warner Bros., Sanrio, DePatie-Freleng (and its later incarnation, Marvel Productions), Graz Entertainment and New World from 1934 until 1999.

David Poplack

David Poplack is the Director of the Texas Children's Cancer Center at Texas Children's Hospital.

Dunklin County, Missouri

Like most rural areas throughout Missouri, voters in Dunklin County generally adhere to socially and culturally conservative principles but are more moderate or populist on economic issues, typical of the Dixiecrat philosophy.

Frederick Race Godfrey

A member of the Council of the Diocese and also Chairman of Committees (Church Assembly and Synod) for many years a lay clerk (Honorary Reader) and Vice President of the Cathedral Choir Association, and Vicars Churchwarden at All Saints, St Kilda.

Golden-collared Toucanet

The plumage of both subspecies is very similar to that of the related Spot-billed, Tawny-tufted and Gould's Toucanets.

John Kroner

John Harold Kroner (November 13, 1908 – April 26, 1968) was a second baseman in Major League Baseball who played from 1935 through 1938 for the Boston Red Sox (1935–36) and Cleveland Indians (1937–38).

Lycoris squamigera

The resurrection lily is featured in the Korean manhwa Bride of the Water God by Yun Mi-kyung, where it is used symbolically to represent the character Nakbin.

Peel and Dufferin Regiment

Some of the officers felt they would have to recruit from beyond the bounds of the county in order to be viable, and the Headquarters, A and B Companies were located in a large second story flat at the corner of Pacific and Dundas Streets in West Toronto; C Company was in Brampton and D Company in Port Credit.

Plane Crazy

In Porco Rosso, in a theater in Milan, Porco watches a movie which has references to vintage cartoons.

PostBank

PostBank was formed when the New Zealand Post Office (a former Government Department) was split up by the Postal Services Act 1987 into Post Office Bank Ltd (trading as PostBank), New Zealand Post Ltd (a Postal Services company) and Telecom Corporation of New Zealand Ltd (a telecommunications company).

Ski boot

Boot designer Sven Coomer later improved the design with a corrugated tongue, and this technique was commercialized by Comfort Products, an Aspen, Colo. company owned by the ex-ski racer Erik Giese.

St Ivo School

The society members also had trips themselves, usually pursuing local natural history but sometimes further afield, for example to Dieppe.

Stratford-sub-Castle

Dating back to the 13th century, it was restored by Thomas Pitt in 1711 and is still used as a church today.

The Singing Estate

In subsequent programmes they learned new pieces including Carl Orff's Carmina Burana; visited Italy, where they sang O Sole Mio with Italian tenor Franco Malapena; held a marquee concert in Blackbird Leys (singing Handel's Hallelujah chorus); travelled to Liverpool, where they rehearsed with a full orchestra for the first time and finally went to London for the big performance.

Unification Church political activities

In 1995, the former U.S. President George H. W. Bush and his wife, Barbara Bush, spoke at a Unification Church event in the sold-out 50,000-seat Tokyo Dome.

Viotti Stradivarius

The violin receives its name from its first known owner, violinist Giovanni Battista Viotti, who is said to have received it as a love token from Catherine the Great.

WKBH

WKBH-FM, a radio station (100.1 FM) licensed to West Salem, Wisconsin, United States

Wrestling at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Men's freestyle 48 kg

The Men's Freestyle 48 kg at the 1980 Summer Olympics as part of the wrestling program were held at the Athletics Fieldhouse, Central Sports Club of the Army.