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30 unusual facts about the world


26268 Nardi

It is named after Patricia Nardi, an American educator in Hewlett, New York.

Air Central

As of April 2007, Air Central served the following destinations on the Japanese islands of Honshū, Shikoku and Kyūshū.

Ashen Empires

At that time, a monthly subscription fee was required to play (a business model seen in many MMORPG's, including World of Warcraft and EverQuest).

Atlantic and Yadkin Railway

In 1924, the North Carolina Supreme Court ruled that the sale and reorganization was legal.

Avare

:For the city in São Paulo, Brazil, see Avaré, São Paulo

Challenge Park

Cedar Point#Challenge Park, an area that features the parks upcharge attractions at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio

Chaotic hysteresis

The first model of such a phenomenon was due to Otto Rössler in 1983, which he viewed as applying to major brain dynamics, and arising from three dimensional chaotic systems.

Columba Catholic College

The Primary Curriculum at Columba Catholic College is designed to emphasise the basic skills of numeracy and literacy, whilst integrating the Key Learning Areas (KLA's) of Religious Education , English, Maths, Science, Studies of Society and Environment, Languages other than English (LOTE), Health and Physical Education, The Arts and Technology.

Duncan II of Scotland

The Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature: From Columba to the Union, until 1707 includes a history of the Kingship by Benjamin Hudson.

Florida Scrub Jay

The Florida Scrub Jay was featured in episode 11, season 3 of the Showtime television series Penn & Teller: Bullshit!.

Goldsmiths Students' Union

The Students' Union primarily organises student-led events but also hosts big gigs and has seen the likes of the Mystery Jets, Metronomy, Late of the Pier, Shy Child all player.

Gravel Pit

In October 2011, NME placed it at number 116 on its list "150 Best Tracks of the Past 15 Years".

Hasantha Fernando

After just one first-class season, spent with Sebastianites Sports Club, he impressed the selectors after having made three centuries, and was an ideal player to be picked for the 2003 Cricket World Cup.

Hubert Kah

Together with Michael Cretu, Kemmler wrote and produced songs for other artists, including "Dancing Into Danger" by Inker & Hamilton, "Love at First Sight" by the band Münchener Freiheit and a number of tracks by Sandra such as "Maria Magdalena", "Heaven Can Wait", when wife Susanna Kemmler was partly responsible for the background vocals.

Launch status check

For space shuttle missions, in the firing room at the Launch Control Center, the NASA Test Director (NTD) performed this check via a voice communications link with other NASA personnel.

Lichfield Gospels

The marginalia were edited by J. Gwenogvryn Evans with John Rhys in their 1893 edition of the Book of Llandaff.

Lucky Thirteen

Lucky 13, an episode and DVD release of the television show All Grown Up

Movie Quik

Movie-Quik and 7-Eleven stores were part of Southland's convenience stores along with their auto parts chain, Chief Auto Parts, later spun off to GE.

Nahoo 3 – Notes from the Republic

Nahoo 3 – Notes from the Republic is the third album by Scottish musician Paul Mounsey released in 1999 (See 1999 in music).

New South Wales Writers' Centre

Together with Varuna - The Writers' House and the Sydney Writers' Festival, the NSW Writers' Centre is the main support organisation for writers in New South Wales.

Radio Wayne

Common Sense Media gave the album 4/5 stars and said the "album teaches kids all about manners, good behavior, hygiene, and eating vegetables, but in a way that's so fun and danceable that kids may not even realize that they're learning".

Real Women Have Curves

While attending Beverly Hills High School, where she is an accomplished student, she works in near-sweatshop conditions in her sister's dress factory alongside her mother, Carmen (Ontiveros), who considers this to be her younger daughter's vocation.

Reforms of Amānullāh Khān and civil war

Faizal Maksum's forces briefly captured the town of Gharm until they were expelled by Soviet forces.

Ron Gostick

His mother, Edith Gostick, was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta in the 1935 provincial election that brought Social Credit to power for the first time, making Aberhardt Premier of Alberta.

Turid Karlsen

That same year she sang her first Isolde in Wagner's Tristan und Isolde in a concert at Neuschwanstein Castle with the Stuttgart Philharmonic.

Ukrainian Championship

Ukrainian Hockey Championship, the national championship tournament of Ukrainian ice hockey

Universities UK

In 1930, under the chairmanship of Sir Charles Grant Robertson, vice-chancellors secured a mandate from their respective universities that "it is desirable in the common interests of the United Kingdom to constitute a Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals for purposes of mutual consultation".

Wanda Landowska

A Camera Three series program entitled Reminiscences of Wanda Landowska aired 17 March 1963 on CBS.

Wilfred Harvey Schoff

Schoff, Wilfred H., The ship "Tyre"; a symbol of the fate of conquerors as prophesied by Isaiah, Ezekiel and John and fulfilled at Nineveh, Babylon and Rome; a study in the commerce of the Bible, (New York Longmans, Green and co., 1920)

Yoni Rechter

In 1984, he produced Israeli singer Nurit Galron's album "One Soft Touch" (נגיעה אחת רכה "Negi'aa Achat Rakah").