X-Nico

22 unusual facts about the world


Baseball Ontario

While living in Denver, Colorado, he wrote of his recollections that the match was played on a square field in a pasture.

Bird Studios

Music Videos: Iron Maiden "Wildest Dreams", "Different World", Robert Post 'Got None', Pet Shop Boys 'Liberation', 'Yesterday, When I was mad', 'Single Bi-lingual', A-Ha 'Analogue', Soundgarden 'Black Hole Sun', Mike Oldfield 'Let there be light', Meat Loaf "I'd Lie for You (and That's the Truth)".

Bob Savage

John Robert Savage (December 1, 1921 – July 26, 2013) was a pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Philadelphia Athletics and St. Louis Browns in parts of five seasons seasons spanning 1942–1949.

Charles X of France

On the same day, after much cajoling by Chateaubriand, Charles agreed to a meeting with his daughter-in-law, which took place in Leoben on 13 October 1833.

Christian egalitarianism

William J. Webb, author of Slaves, Women and Homosexuals (2001)

Colin Skipp

Colin Skipp is a British actor, best known for playing Tony Archer in the BBC radio series The Archers for 46 years.

College Boyz

The College Boyz was an American hip hop group composed of R.O.M., Squeak, B. Selector and DJ Cue.

Electoral district of Ascot

At the resulting by-election, 28-year-old schoolteacher Mal Bryce was elected.

Gandersheim

Bad Gandersheim, town in Lower Saxony, called Gandersheim until 1931

Jarod Green

2010 also saw his international television debut, performing alongside Rhys Darby in New Zealand for the TV3 television show RadiRadiRah.

Jerry Cruncher

Back in England, he helps Sydney Carton "get something" on the paid government witness and spy, John Barsad.

Josef Stránský

In 1921 the Philharmonic merged with the National Symphony, conducted by Willem Mengelberg.

King's Badge

It was issued by the British government to persons who served after World War II was declared, on September 3, 1939, and who were discharged through injury due to war service.

Matt Costa

These were later combined and mixed by Phil Ek in order to form Costa's first full-length CD entitled Songs We Sing.

Modern Art Oxford

He shifted the focus to exhibitions of contemporary artists, who have included Cecily Brown, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Tracey Emin, Gary Hume, Daniel Buren, Stella Vine, Sol LeWitt and Kerry James Marshall.

Oulad Aissa

Oulad Aissa is a small town and rural commune in Taroudant Province of the Souss-Massa-Drâa region of Morocco.

Second Soul

Without bodies to inhabit, the N'Tal will die within two years — including Kadimas (Richard Grove), the N'Tal liaison Alders has come to know well.

Silver mining

The silver mines at Laurium were very rich and helped provide a currency for the economy of Ancient Athens.

Sowy River

During 2009 and 2010 work was undertaken to upgrade sluice gates, watercourses and culverts to enable seasonal flooding of Southlake Moor during the winter diverting water from the Sowy River onto the moor.

Thebe Medupe

In particular, he investigated the interaction of radiative transfer and pulsations in the atmospheres of stars by solving non-adiabatic pulsation equations.

Trailer Made

Days Of Our Lives alums Kevin Spirtas and Patrika Darbo presented the award for Best Writing in a Comedy Webseries and announced Vitteri-Lewis as the category's winner.

World Bowl IX

Nearing the end of the half, quarterback Jonathan Quinn and the Thunder responded with a four-play, 67-yard drive that ended with a 46-yard pass to wide receiver Dwaune Jones.