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25 unusual facts about the world


Asheville Zombie Walk

During the 2008 presidential campaign between Barack Obama and John McCain, vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin made a campaign appearance in Asheville on World Zombie Day.

Bijou Kisombe Mundaba

Bijou Kisombe Mundaba (born September 29, 1976) is a Congolese football player who, as of 2004 was playing for AS Vita Club.

Bishopsbourne

Photographic pioneer Joseph Bancroft Reade was rector from 1863 until his death in 1870, and is buried at St Mary's.

Blelack

Blelack House is situated 30 miles west of Aberdeen, near the village of Logie Coldstone, 3 miles north of the River Dee in the Cromar, a basin of agricultural land carved out of the Grampian foothills.

Božidar Petranović

By the early twentieth century, this led to the founding of a Department of World Literature in the School of Philosophy at the University of Belgrade; its first professor was Svetomir Nikolajević, later Professor in the School of Philology at the University of Belgrade.

Coates, Minnesota

The city of Coates incorporated in 1953 at the northwest corner of Vermillion Township, and was named for early settler G. A. Coates.

Colin Windsor

Four computer models for the ZX81 micro-computer, C.G. Windsor, 1983, ISBN 978-0-9509197-0-6

Helen McCrory

In The Queen (2006) she played Cherie Blair, a role she reprised in Peter Morgan's follow-up The Special Relationship.

Henry Keppel

Admiral of the Fleet Sir Henry Keppel, GCB, OM (14 June 1809 – 17 January 1904) was a British admiral, son of the 4th Earl of Albemarle and of his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Lord de Clifford.

Henry Musgrove

Henry "Harry" Alfred Musgrove (27 November 1858 in Surbiton, Surrey – 2 November 1931 in Darlinghurst, New South Wales) was an Australian cricketer who played in one Test in 1885.

Heywood Community High School

Elliott Tittensor, an actor best known for his role of Carl Gallagher in the Channel 4 show Shameless, is a former student of Heywood Community High School.

Konstantin Katakazi

At the beginning of 1865 Konstantin Catacazy wrote a memorandum to Prince Alexander Mikhailovich Gorchakov state chancellor of the Russian Empire in which he outlined a plan for a Russian mediation in the American Civil War.

KTBY

The station originally aired AWA All-Star Wrestling (in conjunction with a short-lived attempt on their part to promote events in the market), and later World Class Championship Wrestling and WWF Superstars of Wrestling.

Mark Recchi

Recchi is a co-owner of the Kamloops Blazers, along with Dallas Stars owner Tom Gaglardi, Jarome Iginla, Shane Doan, and Darryl Sydor.

Mbed

These are contributed under the Apache License 2.0 (encouraged) or other licenses chosen by the creators, and supported by those individual companies and members of the developer community

Move Your Car

A Creature from the Black Lagoon pinball game inspired the song's title and the cover art.

New algebra

It provides a new approach to writing algebra and begins with the famous dedication to the Melusinide princess Catherine de Parthenay.

Pola Gojawiczyńska

During World War I she was active in the independence movement and was a member of Polish Military Organisation.

Politics of Prince Edward Island

Voter turnout on Prince Edward Island is the highest for any jurisdiction in North America above the municipal level.

Sacri

The Sacri Monti of Piedmont and Lombardy are a series of nine groups of chapels and other architectural features in northern Italy.

Sevnica Castle

One of the most prominent Slovenian Protestants of that time was Jurij Dalmatin, the first translator of the Bible in Slovenian language and native from Krško.

Siege of Kahun

A 300-man detachment from the 2nd Battalion, 5th Bombay Native Infantry, led by Captain Brown, marched on Kahun, then the Marri tribe's main stronghold, in order to support the Bombay field force's march north into Sindh.

Treaty of Kars

The treaty required Turkish troops to withdraw from an area roughly corresponding to the western half of Armenia's present-day Shirak Province (including Alexandropol (Gyumri)).

Treaty of Münster

Peace of Münster, a treaty between the Dutch Republic and Spain signed in January 1648 ending the Thirty Years' War

Wake Up the Gypsy in Me

The plot concerns a village of Russian Gypsies, led by a caricature of jazz bandleader Paul Whiteman, generally singing, dancing and whooping it up, when the mad monk Rice-Puddin' (a caricature of Grigori Rasputin) casts his eye on one of the apparently underage girls in the village and has her abducted in an attempt to force himself upon her.