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30 unusual facts about the world


2011 Recife Open Internacional de Tenis

It was the first edition of the tournament which was part of the 2011 ATP Challenger Tour.

An Army of Davids

Virginia Postrel, a columnist and author of books such as The Future and its Enemies, called it a "smart, fun tour of a major social and economic trend." Mickey Kaus called Reynolds "fearless", and stated that the book features "one big idea after another, like a Hollywood thriller that piles on the plot rather than stopping to tie up the loose ends".

Anton Kuerti

In 2002, Kuerti directed The Czerny Music Festival in Edmonton, to draw attention to the work of Austrian composer Carl Czerny (1791-1857).

Ashmyanka River

Tributary of Neris (Wilia), it has a length of 104 km, starting from the village of Muravanaya Ashmyanka and passing through the town of Ashmyany (Oszmiana).

Bea Wain

In James A. Michener's 1971 novel The Drifters, characters discuss Bea Wain and her recording of "My Reverie" in two separate chapters of the book.

Brian T. Bennett

In March 2006, Bennett wrote an account of Operation Swarmer disputing claims on television news shows that it was the largest air attack in Iraq since Shock and Awe in 2003.

Charlie Faulkner

With Bobby Windsor and Graham Price he became part of the Pontypool Front Row also known as the Viet Gwent (a play on Viet Cong) and immortalised in song by Max Boyce.

De Havilland Iris

Notable as the first aero engine to be designed by Geoffrey de Havilland it was produced in small numbers between 1909 and 1910 by the Iris Motor Company of Willesden from which it took its name.

Expected linear time MST algorithm

Thus if the expected number of edges in a problem at the top of a left path is k then the sum of the expected number of edges in each subproblem in the left path is at most \sum {d=0}^{\infty} \frac{k}{2^d}=2k (see Geometric series).

Fred Uhlman

He studied at the Universities of Freiburg, Munich and Tübingen from where, in 1923, he graduated with a degree in Law followed by a Doctorate in Canon and Civil Law.

Hanuka

Asaf Hanuka (born 1974), Israeli illustrator and comic book artist

Henry Grattan Guinness

Dr. Gershom Whitfield Guinness was a medical missionary to China who escaped the Boxer Rebellion and went on to found the first hospital in Honan south of the Yellow River.

Hugues Dufourt

Many of Dufourt's larger works have been inspired by the paintings of artists as various as Brueghel, Giorgione, Rembrandt, Poussin, Guardi, Goya, and Pollock (Pasler 2011, 198, 227).

InfoCom Corporation

Ghassan Elashi, in particular, was the chairman of the Holy Land Foundation.

John Thomas Dunlop

John Thomas Dunlop (July 5, 1914 – October 2, 2003) was a United States administrator and labor scholar.

Kelly Jones

They also recorded their biggest audience to date when they played to 80,000 in Slane Castle in Ireland and ending with a Christmas show at the Millennium Stadium, Cardiff, supported by Feeder and Ocean Colour Scene - who they had supported years before.

Keshavashram

His reign was from 1785 to 1823, a period of 38 years (42 years including his period as disciple of Swami Shankarāshram II).

Mapy Cortés

Contrary to popular belief, Cortés was not Mexican; she was Puerto Rican, but she adopted Mexico as her residential country from her youth and almost until she died.

N'Klabe

The album debuted in the Top 5 of the iTunes Top Latin Album list, along with Romeo Santos, Pitbull, Jenni Rivera, and Vicente Fernández.

Neočekivana Sila Koja Se Iznenada Pojavljuje i Rešava Stvar

In 2001, the band appeared on the Munje! movie soundtrack with the theme "Disaster", and the song "Bullet Proof (Remix Cycle 99)", appeared on the Apsolutnih 100 (The Absolute 100) movie soundtrack.

PSSC Labs

In 2007, the company focused on supercomputer development for life sciences researchers and announced its technological solution for full-genome data analysis, including assembly, read mapping, and analysis of large amounts of high-throughput DNA and RNA sequencing data.

Robert Bogardus

His daughter Sarah Jay Bogardus (b. 1794) married Foxhall A. Parker (1788–1857), and their children were Foxhall A. Parker (1821–1879) and William Harwar Parker (1826–1896).

Sisse Marie

She has done model photos, catalogues and billboards for Tiffany Bridal, O'Neill, Heineken, Volvo, Citroën and Wonderbra.

Stephen Wise Free Synagogue

In 1905, Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise then serving a congregation in Portland, Oregon, was under consideration as Rabbi of Temple Emanu–El in New York City, but withdrew his name after learning that his sermons would be reviewed in advance by the synagogue's board of trustees.

Tema da Vitória

The Victory Theme was also executed by the Globo Network after the Brazilian national team won the 1994 FIFA World Cup, as a hommage to Ayrton Senna, who died earlier that year.

The Blue Cross

On 26 January 2010, Blue Cross announced the proposed closure of the two animal adoption centres (Felixstowe and Northiam, East Sussex), both of which had been in existence for over 50 years.

Tim Greenwood

Currently, he serves as outside counsel for the Ohio Attorney General and is the Law Director of Sylvania Township.

Tom Hilpert

In 2009 he published Superior Justice, a mystery novel set on Minnesota's Lake Superior Shoreline.

Ubsunur Hollow

Animal species that inhabit both mountains and tundra, such as the Siberian roe deer, and Altai snowcock, flourish here.

West of Scotland Cricket Club

In August 1975 a benefit match was held for the then Club Professional, Salahuddin, and those taking part included Colin Cowdrey, Mike Denness, Intikhab Alam, Majid Khan, Asif Iqbal and Sir Garfield Sobers.