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30 unusual facts about the world


Bernt Rosengren

Roman Polanski's collaborator Krzysztof Komeda used Rosengren in the performance of his jazz score for Polanski's film Knife in the Water (1962).

Charles Anderson-Pelham, 1st Earl of Yarborough

There are two monuments to him: one at Culver Down, on the Isle of Wight and Pelham's Pillar Monument at Caistor, Lincolnshire, England.

Clement Laird Brumbaugh

He served as chairman of the Committee on Railways and Canals (Sixty-fifth Congress).

Declaration of the Lillooet Tribe

Signed in Spences Bridge on May 10, 1911 by a committee of the chiefs of the St'at'imc peoples, taken down by anthropologist James Teit, a resident of Spences Bridge who lived among the Nlaka'pamux, it is an assertion of sovereignty over traditional territories as well as a protest against recent alienations of land by settlers at Seton Portage, British Columbia.

Donald F. Turner

He headed Antitrust Division at the United States Department of Justice under Lyndon Baines Johnson.

Glenfinnan

He waited at Glenfinnan for a number of days as more MacDonalds, Camerons, McPhees and MacDonnells arrived.

Grange Fell

Grange Fell is owned by the National Trust and was one of its first acquisitions in the Lake District in 1910; the fell was purchased by public subscription as a memorial to King Edward VII at the bequest of the King’s sister Princess Louise, who then was President of the Trust.

Harold Alfond

In the 1980s Alfond helped sponsor Kevin Mahaney in the latter's effort to compete in the Olympics.

Hurricane Belle

Just after midnight on August 10, Belle made landfall on the South Shore of Long Island, NY, near Jones Beach, as a Category-1 hurricane with winds of 75 mph (120 km/h) and a central pressure of 980 mb.

Institut français des relations internationales

Guests from previous years have included, between others, Nicolas Sarkozy, Dmitri Medvedev, Hu Jintao, Jalal Talabani, Hamid Karzai, Vladimir Poutine, Mikheil Saakashvili, Abdoulaye Wade, Vaclav Klaus, Pervez Musharraf, Abdullah Gül, Boris Tadic, Viktor Yanukovych, Paul Kagamé, Herman Van Rompuy, José Manuel Barroso, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, etc.

Jack Agazarian

Jack Agazarian is honored on the Runnymede Memorial in Surrey, England, on the SOE memorial at Flossenbürg and also on the Roll of Honor on the Valençay SOE Memorial in Valençay, in the Indre département of France

John Dillon

He was suspended on the 20 March for violent language addressed to Joseph Chamberlain.

John Thomas Campbell

In 1824, Governor Sir Thomas Brisbane suggested his name for appointment to the new Legislative Council.

Keeper of the Seven Keys, Pt. 2

Michael Weikath's "Eagle Fly Free", one of the well known songs of the album has also been covered, as Kai Hansen's "I Want Out", by bands like Vision Divine, and Bassinvaders.

Kiremitliktepe Ski Jump

Women's record belongs to Japanese Sara Takanashi with 110.5 m set at same event on the same day.

Lausanne railway station

There is also a network of local services from Lausanne, primarily as part of the Léman RER, and platforms for line 2 of the Lausanne Metro.

Mario Stoppani

In February 1915, he was selected for pilot's training at Pisa.

Peanut punch

Peanut Punch Drank is a variation of the official drink inspired by Chicago Bears CB Charles Tillman, whose nickname is "Peanut", and his penchant for punching the ball loose and forcing fumbles.

Pete Drake

He organized a band, Sons of the South, in Atlanta in the 1950s, which included future country stars like Jerry Reed, Doug Kershaw, Roger Miller, Jack Greene, and Joe South.

Play the Red

After his strong placing performance in the Preakness Stakes he was entered into a stud career and stood at Reeve Ranch, Norman, Oklahoma beginning in 1982.

Rover Group

(Note: After being declared bankrupt in 1993 the new DAF NV company split into three independent companies; the UK van operation became LDV, the Dutch operation resumed trading as DAF Trucks and the UK truck operation resumed trading as Leyland Trucks. Both truck operations were later acquired by PACCAR of the USA.)

Rudrapur

The has proppeled the town into forefront of industrial activity and has attracted companies like Tata Motors,Unimax International,Unimax Scaffoldings, Britannia Industries, Greenply Industries Ltd., Parle Agro, HCL, HP, Hindustan Zinc Limited, Ashok Leyland, GuruTie.com etc.The city has been transformed into a major industrial hub with many automobile and agro based industries.

Servando Cabrera Moreno

Stylistically, his paintings are rooted in the tradition of vanguardia, and are especially indebted to the work of Carlos Enríquez Gómez.

Skor-Piony

Skor-Piony was the second album to be recorded with legendary Greek producer Stefanos Korkolis.

Stokłosy metro station

Metro Stokłosy is a station on Line 1 of the Warsaw Metro, located in the Imielin neighbourhood of the Ursynów district in south Warsaw at the junction of Aleja KEN, Herbsta Street and Jarzębowskiego Street.

Ulysses Dove

He then transferred to Bennington College where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in dance in 1970.

Unshelved

The Unshelved sequence starting September 25, 2006 featured a parody of MTV's Pimp My Ride featuring a library bookcart.

Western Governors University

In 2010, the first state-established school, WGU Indiana, was founded by Mitch Daniels, governor of Indiana, and the school reached 20,000 students for the first time.

William de Bois Maclaren

William Frederick de Bois Maclaren was born on 17 November 1856, in Blythswood, Glasgow in Scotland, as the son of Walter Gray McLaren (Master Printer, sometimes misspelt as painter) and Caroline Amelia De Bois, from France.

William Stenson

His house (now demolished) was near the site of the present day North West Leicestershire Municipal Offices.