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27 unusual facts about the world


2011 census of India

Information on castes was included in the census following demands from several ruling coalition leaders including Lalu Prasad Yadav, Sharad Yadav and Mulayam Singh Yadav supported by opposition parties Bharatiya Janata Party, Akali Dal, Shiv Sena and Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam.

Beckenham by-election, 1997

Also held on the same day was a by-election at Winchester.

Cascade and Columbia River Railroad

The railroad line follows the Columbia River Valley north from Wenatchee to the Okanogan River Valley and north to Oroville, just north of where the Smilkameen River joins the Okanogan River.

Charles Irving Thornton

His tombstone, located in Cumberland State Forest in Cumberland County, Virginia, is listed on the Virginia Landmarks Register and the National Register of Historic Places as one of only two gravestones in the world, and the only one in the United States, known to exist with an epitaph by Charles Dickens.

Etobicoke School of the Arts

Students are accepted into their chosen field, namely Drama, Dance, Visual Arts, Music (Band or Strings), Film and Musical Theatre, after undergoing an application process and passing an audition the year before.

Fanny Durack

During World War I, the statue of Mary and the infant Jesus on top of the Basilica of Notre-Dame de Brebières in Albert, Somme, France, was hit by a shell on January 15, 1915, and slumped to a near-horizontal position.

Frank Graves

Frank Pierrepont Graves (1869–1956), Commissioner of the New York State Education Department, 1921–1940

Hits Now!

Its playlist is composed of mostly Top 40 (CHR) music from artists such as Rihanna, Katy Perry, Taylor Swift, Bruno Mars, Ke$ha, The Black Eyed Peas, and Usher among others, that mainly targets listeners ages 18–49.

Hoddy Hildreth

He spent his final year of undergraduate studies at Forman Christian College in Lahore, Pakistan before returning to Bowdoin to take his final exams and participate in commencement.

ISREC

The Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research (ISREC, French: Institut suisse de recherche expérimentale sur le cancer) is a not-for-profit institution founded in 1964 and located in Épalinges, Switzerland.

James E. Kearney

Kearney graduated from DeWitt Clinton High School in 1901, and then attended the Teachers College of Columbia University, where he earned a Regents license to teach in New York State.

KLRN

Unusually for stations of that time, it was licensed to serve two markets—San Antonio and Austin.

Living Syndication

Living Syndication is a hard rock band from Massachusetts started by frontman Pervez Taufiq in 2001.

Martinstor

According to dendrochronological research the wooden beams date back to the year 1202; the gate was first given documentary evidence in 1238 as „Porta Sancti Martini“ (Latin Gate of the Holy Martin).

Michael Brodkorb

Brodkorb has announced his intention to file litigation again the State of Minnesota, the Minnesota Senate and Secretary of the Senate Cal Ludeman over his termination from the Minnesota Senate.

Mohamed Nur

The family initially stayed in Hackney, later relocating to the Queen's Crescent neighborhood, where they are still based.

Per Welinder

Per Welinder was a stunt double for some of Michael J. Fox´s skateboard scenes in the classic 1985 time travel movie Back to the Future.

Rallidae

The Guam Rail came perilously close to extinction when Brown tree snakes were introduced to Guam, but some of the last remaining individuals were taken into captivity and are breeding well, though attempts to reintroduce it met with mixed results.

Reid Lennan

Reid Burgess Lennan (August 17, 1920 – February 1979) was an American football offensive lineman in the National Football League for the Washington Redskins.

Rock im Park 2001

Released in 2008, it features a performance from June 1, 2001 by the band at the Rock im Park festival in Nuremberg, Germany.

Statewide opinion polling for the Republican Party presidential primaries, June 2012

Haley Barbour of Mississippi, Jeb Bush of Florida, Chris Christie of New Jersey, Jim DeMint of South Carolina, Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota, Paul Ryan of Wisconsin and John Thune of South Dakota all succeeded in leading polls in their home states at some point in 2011, although only Pawlenty actually launched a campaign.

Steve Gaynor

Gaynor started his career in game design as a tester for Sony and Perpetual Entertainment, during which time he made amateur levels for F.E.A.R. in his free time.

Susi Ganeshan

The film, which featured Jeevan, Sonia Agarwal and Malavika in principal roles, emerged a sleeper hit and ranked among the highest-grossing Tamil films of the year.

The Process Church of The Final Judgment

The organization eventually became Best Friends Animal Sanctuary in Kanab, UT, later renamed to Best Friends Animal Society.

Thomas Holderness

He chose the North-Western Provinces and served from 1873 to 1876 as a district officer in the small towns of Bijnor, Fatehpur, and Muzaffarnagar.

Tiffin School Boat Club

The Tiffin School Boat Club (also known as TSBC) is an amateur rowing club, based in London, run by Tiffin School.

Vermont South, Victoria

Victoria's floral emblem, the Pink Heath (Epacris impressa), can be seen growing wild within the remnant areas.