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28 unusual facts about the world


2008–09 Bavarian ice hockey season

Two clubs finished the season with only one loss to their name, the Bezirksliga and Landesliga champions TSV Schliersee and EHC Bayreuth, while the TSV Trostberg II was the only team not to record a win, having now not won a league game since January 2006.

Act of Uniformity 1558

This section, from "and be yt (or it)" to first "aforesaid" was repealed by section 1(1) of, and Part I of the Schedule to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1888.

Adolph Bachmeier

However, he returned to the lineup in 1961 for the only U.S. game that year, a loss to Colombia.

Andrew Gottlieb

He has written sitcoms (The Single Guy, Watching Ellie), feature films (Agent Fabulous), daytime serial (ABC Daytime's Loving), and books (In The Paint, Death to All Sacred Cows, Drink Play F@#k).

Bernard J. D. Irwin

Second Lieutenant George Nicholas Bascom led a group of 60 men from the 7th Infantry after Cochise but was soon besieged, prompting a rescue mission by the army.

Brad Klippert

Klippert is a Pentecostal minister and a sheriff's deputy for the Benton County sheriff's department, serving as a school officer during legislative sessions and a patrol officer at other times.

Communion token

Communion tokens were first suggested in 1560 by John Calvin and Pierre Viret in Geneva, and although the city council rejected the practice, the following year their idea was implemented in Nîmes and Le Mans.

David Demarest

Demarest was instrumental in directing the Willie Horton message during the 1988 presidential campaign and in setting up the crack buy in Lafayette Park that kicking off President Bush's war on drugs.

Dipylidium caninum

Dipylidium caninum, also called the flea tapeworm or the double-pore tapeworm, is a cyclophyllid cestode that infects organisms afflicted with fleas and canine chewing lice, including dogs, cats, and pet-owners, especially children.

Donna Ludlow

Michelle Fowler (Susan Tully) and Sharon Watts (Letitia Dean) take pity and allow her to stay with them, but after Donna tries to come between them, they throw her out.

Farnese Hercules

In Scotland a rare copy in lead, of the first half of the 18th century, is sited incongruously in the central Highlands, overlooking the recently restored Hercules Garden in the grounds of Blair Castle.

Fay Grim

Seven years after the events of Henry Fool, Fay Grim (Parker Posey) is coerced by a CIA agent (Jeff Goldblum) to try to locate 'the confession novel' notebooks that belonged to her fugitive husband (Thomas Jay Ryan) whom he believes to be deceased.

Foothill College

Brad Gilbert, All American tennis player at Foothill, former pro player ranked as high as #4, and coach to Andre Agassi

Gail Kobe

She appeared on daytime television in the NBC serial Bright Promise as Ann Boyd Jones (1970–72).

Gangaridai

According to Dr. N.K. Sahu's opinion, the illustrious Ganga Dynasty of Orissa (and also Karnataka, Madras) were the descendants of the Gangaridai people who migrated to South India from Tamluk (Midnapur) in South Bengal.

George Washington on Horseback

George Washington on Horseback is an equestrian statue by sculptor Herbert Haseltine.

Jim Kincaid

Three D-Day veterans from the Norfolk area accompanied Jim to several historic World War II sites, including Weymouth, England, Omaha Beach, Bastogne, the Dachau concentration camp, and Margraten in the Netherlands, site of the largest American cemetery in Europe.

Juan Pablo Ángel

As a sign of the commitment to the team, his wage is 30 million pesos (US$ 15,600) per month compared to his former salary in the U.S. was 300 million pesos (US$ 156,000) a month.

Marabou Stork Nightmares

In his fantasy life, however, he is an adventurer in the wilds of South Africa, where he and his loyal guide, Sandy Jamieson, hunt for the Marabou Stork.

Nathaniel Cartmell

While the reason why Cartmell was nicknamed "Bloody Neck" is not entirely known, author Ken Rappoport speculates that it either comes from his use of the term Bloody due to the fact his family came from Cartmel, England, or from the fact that he had a childhood accident where he lost two and a half fingers from his right hand when an ax slipped while he was chopping wood.

Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix

The Presenting Sponsor since 2001 has been Shop 'n Save, and funds raised by the event benefit the Autism Society of Pittsburgh and Allegheny Valley School, which care for individuals with mental and physical disabilities.

Poongsan

Tim Starnes, whose credits include The Twilight Saga: Eclipse and the second and third of the Lord of the Rings franchise, edited the soundtrack.

Robert Foliot

Robert Foliot was a relative of both Gilbert Foliot, Bishop of Hereford and Bishop of London, and of Robert de Chesney, Bishop of Lincoln.

S. A. Agulhas

Included in the itinerary were visits to Tema and Abidjan to take on additional cadets from Cameroon, Gambia, Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire, while en route to London, UK.

Smart shop

Tryptophan and 5-hydroxy-tryptophan, for instance, can be used to help the body replenish serotonin levels in the brain after the use of MDMA, and vitamin supplements are appropriate for users of stimulants such as amphetamine.

Underwoodisaurus milii

Their distribution in Western Australia is throughout the southwest, the goldfields, wheatbelt, and nullarbor regions to the east, and to Shark Bay in the north.

Windbelt

The Windbelt's inventor, Shawn Frayne, was a winner of the 2007 Breakthrough Award from the publishers of the magazine, Popular Mechanics.

Zubeida Begum

She also had a son from her first marriage, Khalid Mohamed, a film critic, who wrote the screenplay for the film Zubeidaa (2001), directed by Shyam Benegal, loosely based on her life.