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29 unusual facts about the world


10th Louisiana Infantry

In April 1862, it totalled 595 men and during the war served in McLaws', Semmes', Starke's, Nicholl's, Iverson's, Stafford's, and York's Brigade.

2013 Australia Day Honours

The Australia Day Honours 2013 were announced on 26 January 2013 by the Governor General of Australia, Quentin Bryce, AC, CVO.

Alpha Secondary School

Devon Sawa, actor (Final Destination, Casper) (Class of 1998)

Berthold V, Duke of Zähringen

At the battle of Ulrichen in 1211, however, he failed to gain access to the Valais.

Bongoyo Island

The island lies close to the Msasani Peninsula (in the Kinondoni district of the city) and is reachable by means of a 30 minute boat ride from the mainland.

Celyn

Llyn Celyn, large reservoir in the valley of the River Tryweryn in North Wales

Cluemaster

He first appears in the episode "Q & A", in which he is an insane, obese genius with a severe case of Peter Pan Syndrome who seeks revenge on the people he blames for rigging his last question on Think Thank Thunk, a game show on which he competed when he was a child.

DECsystem

The DECsystem (or DECSYSTEM) name was also used for later models of the PDP-10 mainframe, namely the DECsystem-10 and DECSYSTEM-20 series.

Edwin Astley

In 1977, Astley wrote the orchestral score for Street in the City, a song contained in the Pete Townshend and Ronnie Lane's album Rough Mix.

Ernst G. Bauer

Medard W. Welch Award of the American Vacuum Society (1992) - "for his contributions to the fundamental understanding of thin film nucleation and growth and for his invention, development and use of multiple surface characterization techniques to study those thin films."

Gordy Carbone

He also has an online cooking show named 'Eat Me!' and has appeared on the Food Network grilling with Iron Chef Bobby Flay on Bobby's show, 'Grill It!, with Bobby Flay'

Groizer X

In Italy it was one of the few robotic anime to be aired on Silvio Berlusconi's Canale 5, in 1981, where it failed to garner much following and was never replayed.

Hugh Hastings Romilly

Romilly is described by Arthur Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Baron Stanmore as of "a quick intelligence, great physical strength, and an easy temper."

If You Had Wings

The ride was parodied in The Simpsons episode "Special Edna" in which monstrous robotic Eastern airliners were depicted enslaving the human race.

Jackie Johnson

Jacqueline "Jackie" Johnson (born January 23, 1978) is an American weather forecaster and television personality for KCBS-TV news at 5, 6 and 11 PM in Los Angeles, California.

James Marvel

Marvel's 2005 production of Igor Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress was deemed "breathtakingly beautiful" with "stage tableaux that were both kinetic and visually striking" by the San Francisco Chronicle.

Just a Day

Feeder's performance of Just A Day on CD:UK in December 2001 was Feeder's last with Jon Lee.

Knut Hamsun's obituary of Adolf Hitler

However, the charges against him were softened as professor Gabriel Langfeldt and chief physician Ørnulv Ødegård found him to have "permanently impaired mental abilities".

KRFT

KQQZ, a radio station (1190 AM) licensed to serve Fairview Heights, Illinois, United States, which held the call sign KRFT from 2000 to 2009

KSWO-TV

The KSWO call letters are now exclusively used by the television station and KRHD is now used as the call sign for the Drewry-owned ABC affiliate in Bryan-College Station, Texas.

Living Christ

"The Living Christ: The Testimony of the Apostles", a 2000 declaration by leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Matija Ban

He first lived and worked on the island of Halki (Heybeliada), near Istanbul (Constantinople); Bursa; and the metropolis of Constantinople.

McLaughlin Mound

In 1972, the McLaughlin Mound was listed on the National Register of Historic Places because of its archaeological significance; it is one of three Knox County mounds on the Register, along with the Raleigh and Stackhouse Mounds near Fredericktown to the northwest.

Milena Kitić

Kitic is married to entrepreneur and former Yugoslav prime minister Milan Panić.

Nabaneeta Dev Sen

Nabaneeta Dev Sen has been a writer in residence at several international Artists' Colonies, including Yaddo and MacDowell Colony in the United States; Bellaggio in Italy; and the Mishkenot Sha'ananim in Jerusalem.

Paul M. Bator

In June 1989, Harvard Law Review published tributes to Professor Bator by Professor David L. Shapiro, Professor Charles Fried and then-judge Stephen Breyer.

Pöhlde Abbey

Pöhlde Abbey was a Premonstratensian (previously Benedictine) monastery at Pöhlde, now a small village and part of the town of Herzberg am Harz, in Lower Saxony, Germany.

Thomas Lopton Campbell, Jr.

It was during this time that the family lived near the Ingalls family who later became famous in the Little House books.

Voices in Conflict

In 2007, 16 students from Wilton High School, in Wilton, CT developed a show consisting of memoirs drawn from letter of soldiers serving in Iraq.