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30 unusual facts about the world


Alma Mater Europaea – Evropski center, Maribor

It is based in Maribor, Slovenia, but has study centers in other Slovenian towns, including Ljubljana, Murska Sobota, and Ptuj.

Árnafjall

The mountain lies on the west side of Vágar close to the village of Gásadalur.

Bartholomew de Badlesmere, 1st Baron Badlesmere

Bartholomew de Badlesmere, 1st Baron Badlesmere (circa 1275 - 14 April 1322), English soldier, Member of Parliament, landowner and nobleman, was the son and heir of Gunselm de Badlesmere (died circa 1301) and Joan FitzBernard.

Brent Hassert

In his November 2008 bid for re-election, Hassert was defeated by Emily McAsey.

Cwm, Llanrothal

The Jesuits' South Wales Mission was originally based about 14 miles to the south, in Raglan, Monmouthshire, but soon after the year 1600, their Superior received from the Earl of Worcester an estate called The Cwm in the parish of Llanrothal.

Dee Dee Phelps

While attending college and working at a See's Candy store in Westwood, California, Sperling re-encountered Dick St. John, an old junior high classmate.

Deemi

Her song of choice was Whitney Houston's "Greatest Love of All." She was accepted into Manhattan's Talent Unlimited High School to perfect her craft.

Dumitru Dragomir

Dumitru Dragomir is the president of the Romanian "Professional Football League" since 1996.

Fairey Seal

In autumn 1940, after Latvia's annexation, the aircraft were taken by the Soviets, but they were not used by them afterwards, and remained stored on Kisezers lake.

Fortunato Anselmo

Born October 1, 1883, in Grimaldi, Province of Cosenza, Calabria, Italy, Fortunato Anselmo immigrated to the United States at the beginning of the 20th century.

German auxiliary cruiser Komet

Cooperating with the Orion, she sank two more British ships in August 1941 and captured the Dutch 7,300 ton freighter Kota Nopan which was sent as a prize to Bordeaux.

Henry Whitmore

At the 1852 general election, Whitmore was elected MP for Bridgnorth in succession to his brother Thomas Charlton Whitmore.

Jagmeet Singh

On March 26, 2012, he issued a statement opposing the Government of India’s decision to hang Balwant Singh Rajoana.

Liberal DS

In 2001 its leader Morando was a candidate at the III party congress and scored 4.1% of the votes; since then the group supported the leadership of the new party leader Piero Fassino.

Linda Nochlin

In the conference and in the book, art historians addressed the innovative work of such figures as Louise Bourgeois, Eva Hesse, Francesca Woodman, Carrie Mae Weems and Mona Hatoum in the light of the legacies of thirty years of feminist art history, appeared in 2006.

Mila Mulroney

Her frequent shopping sprees became tabloid fodder, with some in the press dubbing her “Imelda” for her love of shoes (she allegedly had over 100 pairs).

Parthenium argentatum

Currently, Yulex is the only commercial producer of guayule natural rubber in the world.

Pedro Folc de Cardona

Eventually, after interventions in France and Italy, Hugo Roger III, Count of Pallars, was imprisoned at the Royal Prison Castle of Xàtiva, occupied also by famous and ambitious Spanish-Italian Cesare Borgia, where he died in 1509.

Pontpierre

Pontpierre, Luxembourg, a town in the commune of Mondercange, in Luxembourg

Ra's Lanuf raid

According to Colonel Hamid Hassy, 15 people working at the oil terminal in Ra's Lanuf acted as arsonists, setting fire to the oil facility.

Robert Hindes Groome

Failing eyesight forced him to resign that office, when 186 clergy of the diocese presented him with his portrait by William R. Symonds.

Seekoei-vlei Nature Reserve

Seekoei-vlei Nature Reserve, is a massive wetland spanning some 30 km², surrounds the town of Memel, in the Free State, province of South Africa, which was declared a Ramsar site in 1999.

Shanaze Reade

On 16 March 2009, Reade was selected in the British squad for the World Track Cycling Championships in Pruszków, Poland, where she once again competed alongside Victoria Pendleton in the Women's Sprint and Team Sprint events.

Short-finned eel

Unable to scale the Great Divide, and not extending as far west as the outlet of the Murray River, they are excluded from the thousands of miles of waterways that drain inland eastern Australia.

Sir Christopher Lowther, 3rd Baronet

He spent the remainder of his life dwelling with his father-in-law or in his house on Brook Street, Holborn.

TAI/AgustaWestland T129

On 16 July 2007, the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK), Meteksan Savunma Sanayii AŞ and Bilkent University formed a consortium for the development of an advanced millimetre wave radar (MILDAR), similar to the Longbow and the IAI/ELTA radars.

Twórczość

Adam Ważyk was editor in chief from 1950 to 1954, when he was succeeded by Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz.

Tyrone Nix

He is the brother of Derrick Nix, a former Southern Miss star and former Southern Miss assistant coach as well as a former Atlanta Falcons assistant coach in the NFL.

Work station

computer workstation, a high-performance desktop computer (e.g., one with error-correcting memory), as may be designed for scientific or engineering applications, or

Worshipful Company of Wax Chandlers


Liverymen of the company include The Rt Hon The Lord Mayor (2013-14: Alderman Fiona Woolf CBE, former President of the Law Society of England and Wales), HM King Michael of Romania GCVO, The Most Revd & Rt Hon The Lord Williams of Oystermouth PC (Master of Magdelene College, Cambridge and former Archbishop of Canterbury), and His Honour Judge Sir Gavyn Arthur (675th Lord Mayor of London).