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22 unusual facts about the world


Adélaïde Dufrénoy

The daughter of Jacques Billet, a jeweller for the Crown of Poland, she had a lavish education and learnt Latin to a proficient enough level that she was able to translate the works of Horace and Virgil.

Audio-lingual method

In Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, an LP record of a French lesson instructs a pair of obliging children to 'repeat' short phrases in French and then in English.

Criticisms of anarcho-capitalism

Some critics, including libertarian socialist Noam Chomsky, reject the distinction between positive and negative rights.

El Balcó del Pirineu

El Balcó del Pirineu was urbanised on 1975 on a mountain range on the left of river Segre, near of Montferrer and Castellciutat villages, in the same mountain range.

Fairlie, North Ayrshire

These include the "Village Inn" (a pub and restaurant), a petrol station, a deli, a Chinese takeaway and a small gift and flower shop.

George Arundale

Rukmini went on to become the first Indian lady of so-called decent birth to dance in public, and was instrumental in rejuvenating the Bharatanatyam style of classical dance by emancipating it from the brothels and the Devadasi community to which it had been confined for many centuries.

Hugh Scott

He was Chairman of the Select Committee on Secret and Confidential Documents (92nd Congress).

Hunter Island, New York

One can also find traces of John Hunter’s estate garden, which held grape hyacinth, periwinkle, daylily, and Tartarian honeysuckle.

Inka Essenhigh

Essenhigh's work attracted attention as one of a generation of young painters in New York in the late 1990s, including Cecily Brown, Damien Loeb and Will Cotton.

Joan Gamper

On 24 June 1925, FC Barcelona fans jeered the Spanish national anthem and then applauded God Save the Queen performed by a visiting British Royal Marine band.

John Kongos

Drummer Henry Spinetti joined and the remaining members recorded three singles as Scrugg.

Juan Ponce de León y Loayza

In his trip from Spain to Puerto Rico in August 1577, Bishop Diego de Salamanca, not finding a commercial ship heading to Puerto Rico at the time, boarded a Spanish warship headed to Mexico, which dropped him off in the southern coast of Puerto Rico at Guanica.

Makhmalbaf

Samira Makhmalbaf (born 1977 or 1980), Iranian film director, daughter of Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Mount Olivet, West Virginia

Mount Olivet is the name of several unincorporated communities in the U.S. state of West Virginia.

Nouri Bouzid

Bouzid was featured in a 2009 documentary film about the experience of cinema in different cultures called Cinema Is Everywhere.

RAF Driffield

Squadron, when six Wellington aircraft were despatched to bomb Bremen.

Sparta, Mississippi

The film was actually made in Sparta, Illinois while most seasons of the television series were filmed in Covington, Georgia, east of Atlanta (and near the real I-20).

STARD5

Sterol transport is mediated by vesicles or by soluble protein carriers, such as steroidogenic acute regulatory protein (STAR).

Thomas Fenby

Led by Walter Runciman this group of 'conservative' Asquithians formed the 'Radical Group' in December 1924.

Tottenham High Cross

The high cross was constructed of plain brick, in an octagonal, four level design, which was later stuccoed and ornamented in the Gothic style in 1809.

Upper Sandusky, Ohio

Steve Meretzky, an Infocom interactive fiction author, chose the setting of Upper Sandusky at random and did not intend the town to be reflected in any particular light.

Virginia State Route 228

In the center of town, the state highway intersects the Washington & Old Dominion Railroad Trail next to the Herndon Depot Museum.