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29 unusual facts about the world


2012 Asian Championship of Ski Mountaineering

Like the European Championship of 2012 the Asian championship did not follow the previous edition in the typical biannual rhythm because the World Championship, which was originally planned for 2012, was moved to the year 2011.

Akšamija

Naida Akšamija (born 1991), Bosnia and Herzegovina figure skater

Ansonia Clock Company

In 1844, metal dealer Anson Greene Phelps formed the Ansonia Brass company in Connecticut, to supply the expanding clock business - nine companies were producing clocks in Connecticut.

Bruno Meissner

Bruno Meissner also Bruno Meißner (25 April 1868 Graudenz - 13 March 1947 Zeuthen) was a German assyriologist.

Camponotus japonicus

Camponotus japonicus inhabit a wide range, including Japan, Korea, Myanmar, the Philippines, China, Mongolia and Siberia.

Celeste in the City

Celeste in the City is a television movie starring Majandra Delfino and Nicholas Brendon.

Charles Woodward

Charles Edgar Woodward - (1876 – 1942), United States federal judge, and formerly Attorney-General of Illinois

Cheetah caste

These two communities intermarried with each other up till the middle of the 20th Century, when this practice was discontinued due to religious differences and due to the customs of Cheetas being more close to the Pathans and the customs of Rawats being similar to the Rajputs.

Counts of Montfort

The influential and wealthy counts of Montfort had their name from an ancestral castle, Montfort, which was situated quite close to today's Swiss border near Götzis in the present-day Austrian state of Vorarlberg.

Earth Peoples Park

After negotiations with the US Attorney's office state officials, including the office of then governor Howard Dean, the Vermont Land Trust, and other agencies, an agreement was signed to give the land to the state of Vermont.

F28

Fokker F28 Fellowship, a Dutch commercial passenger jet produced between 1967 and 1987

FV432

One FV432 was modified on commission from THQ to look like a Rhino tank from Games Workshop's tabletop game Warhammer 40,000, as part of a marketing campaign for the computer game Dawn of War II.

Haribhai M. Patel

He was responsible for the policy that all foreign companies must form corporations with an Indian company holding a 50% stake, which caused Coca-Cola to pull out of India, but most others did not.

Hohenlockstedt

Hohenlockstedt is a municipality in the district of Steinburg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Hoklo

Min Nan, the Chinese language group spoken by the Hoklo

Japanese general election, 2005

He also pledged that he would not visit Yasukuni Shrine; this could noticeably improve foreign relations with South Korea and China.

Jill Shumay

She won the semifinal against Amber Holland and defeated Lawton in the final to go to her first national championship, where she finished in fifth place with a 6–5 win-loss record.

Joe Bisenius

The next season at Lakewood, Bisenius was converted to a reliever, posting a 6–4 record in 40 games, striking out 56 batters in 64⅓ innings.

Joe Garagiola, Jr.

In 1973 Garagiola, along with Chris Hart, appeared on the game show To Tell the Truth as impostors pretending to be police detective Richard Buggy.

Little Foot

In 1994 while searching through museum boxes labelled 'Cercopithecoids' containing fossil fragments, paleoanthropologist Ronald J. Clarke identified several that were unmistakably hominin.

Miriam Mone

When Irish president Mary McAleese was elected in 1997, she selected Mone to design her inauguration outfit.

Neverin

Neverin is a municipality in the district Mecklenburgische Seenplatte, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

Oxford's Men

Oxford's players almost immediately got involved in a brawl with some Inns of Court students while playing at The Theatre in Shoreditch, and several members were thrown into gaol, but they were out and on the road by early June.

Papal conclave, 1621

Roberto Ubaldini (December 2, 1615) – Cardinal-Priest of S. Pudenziana; Prefect of the S.C. of the Tridentine Council; Bishop of Montepulciano

Rumblefish Inc.

In late 2011 Rumblefish entered into a partnership with CD Baby to license the music from CD Baby's independent artists for movies, TV shows, ads, video games, apps, and YouTube.

Sivaram

Taraki Sivaram or Dharmeratnam Sivaram was a popular Tamil journalist of Sri Lanka.

The Alphas

The Alphas is a spin-off of the Clique book series by Lisi Harrison.

The Lion and the Unicorn

The rhyme is also the basis of an episode in the novel Stardust by Neil Gaiman, in which the protagonists of the novel, Tristran Thorn and Yvaine, witness a lion and a unicorn fight over a crown during their travels through an enchanted forest.

Wallace McIntosh

He served on the ground, but became an air gunner in March 1943, and joined 207 Squadron at RAF Langar, near Nottingham, as a mid-upper turret gunner in the Lancaster bomber flown by Flying Officer Fred Richardson.