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25 unusual facts about the world


2006 Ykkönen

League Tables for teams participating in Ykkönen, the second tier of the Finnish Soccer League system, in 2006.

Cemetery Ridge

Cemetery Ridge is a geographic feature in Gettysburg National Military Park, south of the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, that figured prominently in the Battle of Gettysburg, July 1 to July 3, 1863.

Chat Moss

Chat Moss threatened the completion of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, until George Stephenson succeeded in constructing a railway line through it in 1829; his solution was to "float" the line on a bed of bound heather and branches topped with tar and covered with rubble stone.

Children of the Corn: Revelation

A woman named Jamie (Claudette Mink) comes to Omaha, Nebraska after numerous phone calls to her grandmother have gone unanswered.

Church music

The introduction of church organ music is traditionally believed to date from the time of the papacy of Pope Vitalian in the 7th century.

Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament

By prayer in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament and an active apostolic life, he strives to make Christ in the Eucharist better known and loved.

Deathbed phenomena

Deathbed visions have been described since ancient times, however the first systematic study was not conducted until the 20th century.

Dorothy Wedderburn

Between 1993 and 1995, a Turner ("Van Tromp going about to please his Masters, Ships at Sea, getting a good wetting" c.1844), Constable ("A Sketch for View on the Stour, nr Dedham" c.1821/2) and Gainsborough ("Peasants going to Market: Early Morning" c.1770) were sold for a total of £21m.

Endangered Planet Foundation

Additional activities aimed at raising awareness of environmental and humanitarian issues included supporting Habitat for Humanity of Orange County, promoting/co-funding Sailors Without Borders in its mission to bring aid (such as solar panels and much-needed goods) to the victims of the 2010 Haiti earthquake, and a collaboration connecting arts with the environment known as the “Environmental Mile” which toured internationally as part of the Art Miles Mural Project (AMMP).

Fiore II

The thirteen-track set features a selection of songs from Mizuki's third and fourth studio albums, Arisa III: Look and Cute, chosen by Mizuki herself, as well as five original songs.

Firetide

In 2009, Firetide got the assignment to install a wireless mesh network in Seoul Metropolitan Subway.

Hayashi Shiryu

Shiryu originally was a student of the Shinto-ryu style of swordsmanship before becoming a disciple under the famous Miyamoto Musashi.

Isaac Ware

Ware was dissatisfied with the first English language edition of Andrea Palladio's I Quattro Libri dell'Architettura, translated by Giacomo Leoni), and in particular with Leoni's illustrations.

Joseph Elijah Armstrong

Born in York County, Canada West, Armstrong was educated in National School of Elocution and Oratory in Philadelphia, PA.

Kate Campbell

In addition to her Americana/Folk flavored albums, her catalog includes the all-acoustic Sing Me Out; Twang on a Wire, which features covers of songs made famous by female country artists of the 1960s and '70s; the piano-based 1000 Pound Machine; and two gospel CDs (Wandering Strange and For the Living of These Days) recorded at FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals with Spooner Oldham on keyboards.

La Fuga

Belisario "El Pampa" Zacarías (Oscar Alegre): A homosexual who is incarcerated along his accomplice and lover, "The Turk", for kidnapping and murder.

Mohamed Ibrahim Moustafa

The raids were described by Human Rights Watch as the most serious incident of mass unlawful killings in modern Egyptian history.

Mu Ying

Mu Ying (1345-1392) was a general during the Ming Dynasty, and an adopted son of its founder, the Hongwu Emperor (aka Zhu Yuanzhang).

New Lantao Bus

The major service area of the company is Lantau Island, while it is the only bus company in the southern part of the Island.

Oakhurst Primary School

The houses are named after Governor-Generals of the Union of South Africa: Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone, Sydney Buxton, 1st Earl Buxton and George Villiers, 6th Earl of Clarendon.

Perceptual control theory

Perceptual control theory (PCT) is a model of behavior based on the principles of negative feedback, but differing in important respects from engineering control theory developed by William T. Powers.

Radeon HD 6000 Series

The 5-way VLIW Architecture which was introduced with the Radeon HD 2000 Series was reused for all models of this series except from the HD 6900 models which feature a 4-way VLIW Architecture.

Ravishankar Raval

The artist Ravishankar Raval was given the title of Kalaguru (in Sanskrit, meaning a grand master of art) by the well-known Gujarati author Kakasaheb Kalelkar for the remarkable efforts he made towards establishing the status of art in Gujarat, a region often considered to be devoid of culture, and preoccupied only with trade and commerce.

Two Blondes

Pam Ravenscroft: Vampire, co-owner of a bar called 'Fangtasia', progeny of Eric Northman.

Wyman's Brook

Wymans Brook is a district in the north-west of Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, named after the small river which flows through the district.