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28 unusual facts about the world


1977 Summer Universiade

Stadium = Vassil Levski Stadion

Aconitum napellus

Aconite produced from the roots of a number of different species of Aconitum is used ethnomedically in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), to treat "coldness", general debility, and "Yang deficiency".

Alta River

The battle is known as the Taras Night and is described in the Taras Shevchenko poem Taras Nich

Boeing Skyfox

As of June 2008, the prototype is parked on the flightline at Rogue Valley International (MFR) in Medford, Oregon without engines.

CCGS Samuel Risley

Based in the Great Lakes, CCGS Samuel Risley is responsible for keeping an ice-free passage between Port Colborne, Ontario and Thunder Bay, Ontario.

Charles Winchester Breedlove

Breedlove testified he left Los Angeles early in 1929, went to Duluth, Minnesota, but returned seven months later.

China Time-honored Brand

There are currently around 1,000 brands granted, among which notably are Tongrentang (traditional Chinese medicine), Quanjude (Peking Duck) and Go Believe (baozi or steamed dumpling).

Crimson Peak

British playwright Lucinda Coxon was enlisted to rewrite the script with del Toro in hopes of bringing it a "proper degree of perversity and intelligence".

Dawn Gallagher

Gallagher has appeared in fashion and cosmetic campaigns including Maybelline, Clarins, Loreal and Clairol.

Family Coalition Party

Family Coalition Party of Ontario (1987 - present), a small political party in Ontario, Canada that promotes a socially conservative ideology

Geocaulon

It is native to northern North America, where it is common and widespread from Alaska to Newfoundland and into the northernmost contiguous United States.

Industrial applications of nanotechnology

Grey goo: an uncontrollable, self-replicating nano-machine or robot.

Jang Yoon-ju

Infinite Challenge's IF special (ep 363-365) - Noh Hong Chul's pretend wife

Jeff Horton

He was the interim head coach at the University of Minnesota, having replaced Tim Brewster, who was fired midway through the Golden Gophers' 2010 season.

Kaela Kimura discography

The discography of Kaela Kimura consists of 7 studio albums, 1 compilations albums, 16 physical singles and many digital downloads.

Kimberly Goss

Their success in Japan led Kimberly to receive an offer to write a monthly column for over 3 years in Burrn! magazine, the country's most popular music publication.

Kultur- und Sozialstiftung Internationale Junge Orchesterakademie

Dagmar Wöhrl, MdB (CSU), who is parliamentary undersecretary at the ministry of economic affairs and technology

Mordecai Sherwin

The name of Arthur Conan Doyle's most famous character, Sherlock Holmes, is said to have been inspired partially by Sherwin, and partially by Frank Shacklock.

Oscar Ramjeet

from the University of the West Indies, a Caribbean Legal Education Certificate, and a diploma in journalism and public relations from West Germany.

Simca Vedette

Chapron had another order the next year, to build two four-door convertibles for the French President Charles de Gaulle.

Stade Marche Verte

The stadium held 4,000 people before its destruction in 2006 for the Bou Regreg development project.

Thanos Mikroutsikos

After the elections of October 1993 he was appointed by the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) which formed the new government, as Alternate-Minister of Culture with late Melina Mercouri as minister.

The Tea Ladies

The producer of these programs, William G. Stewart, had earlier produced a pilot episode for a UK situation comedy series based on a group of tea ladies and resurrected the concept as The Tea Ladies in Australia.

Thymme Jones

He has appeared on a number of Bobby Conn albums, playing drums on Conn's biggest hit "Never Get Ahead", as well as trumpet, piano and moog synthesizer on Conn's later albums "Rise Up!" and The Golden Age".

Tony Biggs

Tony Biggs has been the drummer in bands such as The Black Assassins, Never Again, Hell To Pay (Ian and Cathy from X (Australian band) with Spencer P. Jones), The Outer Limits (who opened in Brisbane for Iggy Pop on his 1979 Australian Tour with the New Christs), The Fuck Fucks and The Love Addicts.

Ultradrug

Ultradrug is a compilation of material from the Psychic TV albums Ultrahouse The L.A. Connection and Ultrahouse The Twelve Inch Mixes.

Valentine Cameron Prinsep

Born in Calcutta, India, his parents were Henry Thoby Prinsep, for sixteen years a member of the Council of India, and Sarah Monckton Pattle, sister of pioneering photographer Julia Margaret Cameron (née Pattle) and Maria Jackson (née Pattle), grandmother of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell.

Walter Stirling

Stirling declined, but his eldest son, also named Walter, later claimed the title, becoming Sir Walter Stirling, 1st Baronet of Faskine.