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25 unusual facts about the world


Anna James

Anna James, a notable Connecticut person whose James Pharmacy is listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Baroness Morris

Patricia Morris, Baroness Morris of Bolton (b. 1954), British peer & Shadow Minister for Children, Schools and Families for the Conservatives

EC Waves

Training is conducted at Eltham College swimming pool and Watermarc in Greensborough.

ENC

Eastern North Carolina, the eastern third, the coastal plains, of the state of North Carolina

Frank McNamara

Frank L. McNamara, Jr., United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts from 1987 to 1989

Frank Reberger

A 1962 graduate of Caldwell High School, Reberger played college baseball at the University of Idaho under head coach Wayne Anderson.

George A. Crawford

In 1857, along with Norman Eddy and others, he purchased and founded the city of Fort Scott, Kansas.

H. J. Heinz II

He was educated at Choate, graduated from Yale University, where he was a member of the Skull and Bones secret society, and also graduated from Oxford University, but spent his summers working for the Heinz Company in the pickling and salting stations, as bookkeeper and as handyman.

Indian Battle Park

Indian Battle Park is a park located in the Oldman River valley urban park system of Lethbridge, Alberta.

Johan Padan and the Discovery of the Americas

Fo researched the journals of a number of European explorers of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and wrote the play in a dialect that drew upon the Lombardian, Venetian, Catalanian, Castilian, Provençal, Portuguese and Arabic.

Keith Foulke

The media also had a field day when they found out that Foulke demanded a new truck as compensation for his weekly interviews with Dale & Holley on WEEI.

Kitay-gorod

One of two remaining parts of the wall is located in Zaryadye and the other near the exit from the Okhotny Ryad station of Moscow Metro behind the Hotel Metropol.

La Lechera

La Lechera, which means Milkmaid in Spanish, is a Nestlé brand, producing various dairy products.

Nicholas Mabodoko

During the Bulawayo mayoral elections of 2001, he clashed with Jonathan Moyo over alleged vote-buying.

Nimrod Kovacs

He started his new life as a dishwasher at a hotel in Tulsa, Oklahoma, from where he was elevated to become a waiter.

Potassium bromide

The anticonvulsant properties of potassium bromide were first noted by Sir Charles Locock at a meeting of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society in 1857.

Robin Hood Flour

The newer Saskatoon mill (built in 1928) continues to manufacture the Robin Hood brand flour.

Thee Oh Sees

The group began as an outlet for John Dwyer (of Coachwhips, Pink and Brown, Yikes, The Hospitals) to release his instrumental, experimental home recordings.

Thomas Higinbotham

He moved to Melbourne, Australia in 1857, living with his eldest brother George's household in Melbourne.

Tina Tyus-Shaw

She worked a series of radio and television jobs in Macon, Georgia; North Carolina; and Columbus, Georgia, before settling in Savannah in 1992.

Ventresca

Carla Ventresca is co-creator with her husband Henry Beckett of the comic strip On A Claire Day.

Virginia Mason Medical Center

In 2002, Virginia Mason spearheaded an effort to improve patient safety and quality of care by adopting the Toyota Production System (TPS) to health care.

Wright J65

Nevertheless, once it entered production it proved to be as good as the British versions, and along with the Martin B-57, its original target, the J65 went on to power versions of the North American FJ Fury, Douglas A-4 Skyhawk, Republic F-84F Thunderstreak, and the two Lockheed XF-104 Starfighter prototypes.

WWL-FM

The station was instrumental in assisting motorists over the air during Hurricane Gustav that occurred on August 31, 2008.

Yves Bolduc

Over his years as a practitioner, Bolduc was more specialized in service accessibility, and he recently implemented methods inspired from the Toyota assembly line to better manage the operating room at the Val-d'Or Hospital.