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23 unusual facts about the world


Abdelrahim Mohamed Abdelrahim

Abdelrahim also took part in the 50 m freestyle and 50 m butterfly events at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships.

Abdul Razak Bin Haji Mohd Yusof

# Counter Maritime Interdiction Course, organized by the Naval Special Warfare - 1st Unit, United States Navy SEALS,

Artem Kontsevoy

He plays as a striker for Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino and is a former member of the Belarus national team.

Benelli

HSR-Benelli (personal watercraft), an Austrian-Italian manufacturer of personal watercraft

Check to the Queen

Silvia comes to her service as a lady companion, but her submissive role soon acquires masochistic traits and homosexual shades.

Council of Pisa

Intimidated, the ambassadors, among them Boniface Ferrer, Prior of the Grande Chartreuse, secretly left the city and returned to their master.

Delafossite

Delafossite was first noted by Charles Friedel in 1873 and given the composition Cu2O.Fe2O3.

Diana Weynand

Television shows like “Sixty Minutes,” “The David Letterman Show,” and “The Tonight Show” have all updated and trained their staff with Weynand’s support.

History of Chechens in the Russian Empire

Tsarist rule was marked by a transition into modern times including the formation (or re-formation) of a Chechen bourgeoisie, the emergence of social movements, reorientation of the Chechen economy towards oil, heavy ethnic discrimination at the expense of Chechens and others in favor of Russians and Kuban Cossacks, and a religious transition among the Chechens towards the Qadiri sect of Sufism.

HMS Windsor Castle

She was renamed HMS Duke of Wellington a month after being launched as a screw propelled ship in 1852.

Jeff Dowd

Radio host and comedian Phil Hendrie voices a character, Jeff Dowder, who is very similar to Jeff Dowd's inspired character "The Dude".

Józef Kiedroń

In 1902 he graduated from a Coal Mining Academy in Leoben.

Karuppu Roja

H. Sridhar won the Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Audiographer for his work in the film, while D. Rajan also won the Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Art Director.

Marisat

It was relocated to 326.1 E (33.9º W), over the Atlantic ocean, and since 1999 F2 had been providing a wide-band data link for the National Science Foundation's U.S. Antarctic Program's Amundsen-Scott research station at the South Pole.

Mutla Ridge

During operation "Desert Spring" in 2003, a detachment of the Oklahoma National Guard 45th division 1/179 infantry B company followed by the Indiana National Guard watched and defended the outpost until late in the war, when they were moved to Taillil Airfield in Iraq.

Santa Ana metro station

It was initially a single-line station on the Line 2, subsequently in 1998, the station begins to be adapted to become a transfer station, as a part of the extension of the Line 5 from Baquedano metro station to Santa Ana station, in which was used the New Austrian Tunnelling method.

Tatiana Navka

Linichuk then dissolved the team and paired Kostomarov with Anna Semenovich.

Tess Gaerthé

She was asked by Jetix/Dolfinarium Harderwijk to write and sing the title song for the popular TV series Spetter (Mijn allerbeste vriend) and following this came the request to sing the Dutch version of the main duet of High School Musical 2, by Disney.

Willacoochee, Georgia

In the movie Jungle Fever, Rev. Purify (played by Ossie Davis), Flipper Purify's (played by Wesley Snipes) father, makes reference to being born in Willacoochee.

WVNA

WVNA-FM, a radio station (105.5 FM) licensed to Muscle Shoals, Alabama, United States

Y. G. Parameshwara

In 1979, he was appointed Health Officer and Assistant Surgeon in the Department of Health and Family Welfare of the Government of Karnataka.

Yugoslav minelayer Zmaj

These minefields may have caused the loss of the Yugoslav passenger ships SS Karadjordje and SS Prestolonaslednik Petar off Zlarin.

Zayar Thaw

At one concert, he teamed with poets Saw Wai and Aung Way to raise money for a charity for HIV-positive orphans founded by the comedian Zarganar.