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26 unusual facts about the world


Aalborg University – Esbjerg

The university offers programmes in information technology, with a Department of Software and Media Technology.

Asaga

The 11th century Kannada grammarian Nagavarma II claimed Asaga to be an equal to Sri Ponna, and 12th century writer Brahmashiva refers to Asaga as Rajaka, or one among the greats of Kannada literature.

Bhavashankari

At that time the Rudranarayan, the king of Bhurishrestha was passing by in a sip along the Damodar towards Kasthasangara.

Clark Keltie

After trialling with the club during the summer of 2011, Keltie said on his arrival that he was grateful that Tommy Dunne had given him a second opportunity to sign for the club.

Clayton Luckie

The felony charges included Engaging in a Pattern of Corrupt Activity, Theft in Office, Money Laundering and Forgery.

Conwy County Borough

These come from the reputed arms of Nefydd Hardd, associated with the Nant Conwy area.

Ellen; or, The Fanatic's Daughter

Ellen; or, The Fanatic's Daughter' is an 1860 plantation fiction novel written by Mrs. V.G. Cowdin.

Gabriel Guevrekian

His subsequent garden for Charles and Marie-Laure de Noailles at Villa Noailles had an imposed space whose triangular shape the clients and Mallet-Stevens viewed as suited to Guevrekian's new design style.

Honeysuckle Rose Aquarela Do Brasil

Honeysuckle Rose Aquarela Do Brasil is a 1969 bossa nova-style jazz LP album by Elis Regina and Toots Thielemans on the Fontana Special sublabel of Philips Records.

Hull Blokes

In May 2002, Gill Adams, a Hull-born playwright, used her column in the Hull Daily Mail to advertise for men to join a series of writing workshops funded by the Gulbenkian Foundation.

Huntington Wilson

Wilson retired from government service in 1913 and settled in Philadelphia.

Ilopango

It is located near Lake Ilopango, the country's largest lake at 72 square kilometers.

Interstate '82

;Skye Champion, voiced by Melissa Disney: The youngest Champion, Skye is a punk rocker who convinces Taurus to come out of retirement and help track down Groove.

Isabella of Aragon, Queen of Germany

On 11 May 1315, Isabella married Frederick I of Austria, King of Germany in Ravensburg.

Jeff Dahlgren

He was credited as a guitarist on "Anamorphosee" and "Innamoramento", two albums by Mylène Farmer, and was a member of her backup band during 1996 and 2000 tours.

Kanako Fukaura

Born in Tokyo, she developed fame largely through many performances as a supporting actress.

Landmine Marathon

Landmine Marathon spent much of 2010 on the road in support of “Sovereign Descent”, including an appearance at the second Scion Rock Fest in Columbus Ohio, Many shows at Austin TX’s South by Southwest Festival, Fun Fun Fun Fest afterparty and a North American tour with labelmates Skeletonwitch.

Ñuflo de Chaves

In 1561 he moved to the southern Amazon Basin with a group of settlers, where he founded the town of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, giving it the name of his hometown in Spain.

Plachutta

The Plachutta is related to a number of other problem themes: it can be regarded as a Würzburg-Plachutta brought about by a white sacrifice on the critical square (a Würzburg-Plachutta itself being a pair of Holzhausen interferences); or it can be thought of as a Novotny with similarly moving (rather than differently moving) black pieces involved (a Novotny itself being a Grimshaw brought about by a white sacrifice on the critical square).

Roma, Texas

The town is the scene identified as the burial site of artifacts from the Library at Alexandria in Clive Cussler's novel Treasure.

Ronald Shakespear

Diseño Shakespear designed Identity Programs for the most important Argentine companies as Avex, Banco Galicia, Luigi Bosca, Banco Patagonia, Luigi Bosca, Boca Juniors, Duty Free Shop, Red Link, Oca, Banelco, Harrods,and hundreds more.

Scintillating bolometer

The luminescent bolometer has since then been developed by scientists from several groups, including the CNRS Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale and University of Zaragoza collaboration in view of the proposed ROSEBUD particle detector experiment in the Canfranc Underground Laboratory.

Take Back The Tech!

For example, the use of social networking platforms such as Facebook and Twitter to track a person's activity and movements, the use of spyware to monitor a person's computer and Internet use, and the use of global satellite positioning devices to track a person's physical movement and location, usually by a domestic violence abuser.

Tyler Turner

At the seniors he was noted for his 2007 performance, a decision over 2008 Olympic alternate Kimdo Bethel and a come from behind knockout over reigning US champ Jonte Willis, in the final he was KOd himself, though, by Nathaniel James.

Victor Premasagar

On invitation from Wartburg Theological Seminary, Dubuque, Iowa, in the United States of America, he took sabbatical from ACTC to teach there for a year.

Watchman Institute

In 1920, Holland acquired the North Scituate campus of the former Pentecostal Collegiate Institute, which had moved to Wollaston in Quincy, Massachusetts the year before.