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28 unusual facts about the world


Ainur

AINUR (Atlas of Images of Nuclear Rings), catalogue of star-forming ring-shaped regions that circle certain galactic nuclei

Archibald Joyce

Harold Bride's recollection that the orchestra was playing "Autumn" as the Titanic foundered in 1912 has led to speculation by Walter Lord that he was in fact referring to Songe d'Automne, which was part of the repertory of the White Star Line orchestras and with which he would undoubtedly been familiar.

Armagh Planetarium

In the same year Patrick Moore was appointed as Director of the Planetarium to oversee its construction.

Armorica

When Vikings or Northmen settled in the Cotentin peninsula and the lower Seine around Rouen in the ninth and early tenth centuries, and these regions came to be known as Normandy, the name Armorica fell out of use in the area.

Bruce Montague

In 2000, he guest-starred in the Doctor Who audio adventure The Genocide Machine and, in the following year, he starred alongside Paul McGann in the Doctor Who story Sword of Orion.

Camp Kinser

Camp Kinser is equipped with a DeCA Commissary, AAFES Shopette, and an AAFES PX, which also houses a food court with notable eateries such as Subway, Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell.

Carmen Trutanich

In 2009, Trutanich won the runoff election and replaced Rocky Delgadillo as Los Angeles' City Attorney by defeating Jack Weiss and winning the 2009 Los Angeles City Attorney Election on May 19, 2009.

Characters of Blake's 7

In 2012, Big Finish approached Paul Darrow to write a Blake's 7 novel set after Gauda Prime dealing with the life of Avon after the death of Blake; Darrow agreed and his novel Lucifer was released in both printed and audiobook (read by Darrow, ISBN 978-1-78178-110-4) form in June 2013.

Clayton Mordaunt Cracherode

He died at Queen Square, Westminster, on 5 April 1799, and was buried on 13 April near his mother, in the east cloister of Westminster Abbey.

Colorado County, Texas

ex image cap =The Colorado County Courthouse is a classical revival building erected in 1890-1891.

Daniel Rodrigues

Dani Rodrigues (born 1980), Portuguese footballer for Doxa Katokopias F.C.

Family as a model for the state

Arius Didymus in Stobaeus, 1st century CE, writes: “A primary kind of association (politeia) is the legal union of a man and woman for begetting children and for sharing life.” From the collection of households a village is formed and from villages a city, “so just as the household yields for the city the seeds of its formation, thus it yields the constitution (politeia)”.

Fortified wine

The person credited with the second vermouth recipe, Antonio Benedetto Carpano from Turin, Italy, chose to name his concoction "vermouth" in 1786 because he was inspired by a German wine flavored with wormwood, an herb most famously used in distilling absinthe.

Gregory Whitehead

Since 2000, Whitehead has produced numerous plays and documentary essays for BBC Radio, including The Marilyn Room (2000), American Heavy (2001), The Loneliest Road (2003), On One Lost Hair (2004), No Background Music (2005), The Day King Hammer Fell From The Sky (2007) and Bring Me The Head of Philip K. Dick (2009).

Joseph Robertson

Joseph Clinton Robertson (c.1787–1852), pseudonym Sholto Percy, Scottish patent agent and periodical editor

Kasian Franks

While at UC Berkeley, Franks consulted for Genentech and eventually started his own company in 1993, The Berkeley Integration Group, which later landed Genentech as its first client.

Love No Limit

In 1995, the song was sampled by American R&B singer Mona Lisa and rapper Lil' Kim on "Time to Shine" off of the Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood soundtrack.

María Belón

On 26 December 2004, María was enjoying a Spanish novel, The Shadow of the Wind, poolside at a resort in Khao Lak, Thailand, while her three sons, Lucas, 10, Tomás, 8, and Simón, 5, splashed in the water.

OneClimate

In May 2010, The Guardian also named OneClimate as one of the 50 key people to follow on Twitter.

Outside of a Small Circle of Friends

Billboard wrote that the record "should put folkster Ochs high on the Hot 100" and the Cleveland Press said that if radio stations "give it a chance, this will be a giant record".

Paul Dewar

He has also been actively involved with the Coalition for a Healthy Ottawa, the Partnership for a Pesticide Bylaw, the Old Ottawa East Community Association, and Fair Vote Canada, and he has served on the board of directors of the Ottawa Community Immigrant Services Organization.

Romantic St.

The song was composed and arranged by a team of songwriters including Matthew Heath, Hailey Collier, DK, Jordan Kyle, Hyuk Shin and Jee Yoon Yoo.

Rustam Kuvatov

Reaching the 8 km lap, Kuvatov's strong lead came to an end, as he was passed by several race walkers including Ivano Brugnetti of Italy, and Paquillo Fernández of Spain, both of whom won gold and silver in the previous Olympics.

Sir Harold and the Gnome King

For instance, Harold and Belphebe are able to learn the gender of their unborn child through a test unknown in the 1940s; Harold also displays knowledge of the 1986 death of L. Ron Hubbard and Hubbard's authorial connection with the world of The Friendly Corpse — even though the Hubbard story was published in the 1940s and takes place after Harold's visit to that world in the present tale!

The Androids

Though not a huge success internationally, they are remembered for the music video for "Do it With Madonna", which featured drag queens dressed as Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, Pink, Kylie Minogue and Madonna, the song's namesake.

The Fireclown

He takes them out in his specially designed starship The Pi-Meson and shows them at incredibly close quarters, the sun's Corona.

Thomas Lake Harris

The community — the Brotherhood of the New Life — decided to settle at the village of Brocton, New York on the shore of Lake Erie.

Vivaha Panchami

The day is also of great importance at Janakpur in Nepal, where thousands of pilgrims arrive many from India, as it is believed here that Sita was born at Janakpurdham and got married to Bhagavan Sri Ram here.