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28 unusual facts about the world


Aaron Lemonick

Ruth Simmons, the current president of Brown, who worked under Lemonick as a Princeton administrator, cites him as one of the major influences on her career.

Abed Elrahim Abu Zakrra

Abed Elrahim was born in the small village of Tangassi El-soeq in Northern, Sudan, close to Meroë town (which is different from the historical Meroë).

Amber Benson

In September 2007, Benson signed a three-book deal with Ginjer Buchanan of Penguin Books.

Aryeh Leib ben Asher Gunzberg

It is very likely that this legend is the source of the urban myth surrounding the death of the French-Jewish composer Charles-Valentin Alkan, whose family originated from Metz.

Brissago

In 1949 the islands were acquired under joint ownership: the canton of Ticino, the municipalities of Brissago, Ascona and Ronco sopra Ascona, the Swiss Heritage Society and the Swiss Federation for Nature Conservation.

Harvest Hills Cooperative Community

The Harvest Hills Cooperative Community or Harvest Hills 'commune' was a communitarian experiment in communalism established in the late 1960s by the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (renamed the "Community of Christ" in the year 2000), in keeping with early Latter-day Saint notions of "religious communism" alluded to in the New Testament.

Headstrong

Operation Headstrong (2003–2004), involving the training of Afghan commandos by British special forces

Ilaria Graziano

Graziano has also performed songs for the recent 2005 Cowboy Bebop soundtrack, Tank! THE! BEST!.

Irving Berry

On 4 December 2010, Berry lost first title shot to WBA World featherweight champion, Jonathan Victor Barros.

Ivan Raimi

He created the short-lived television series Spy Game and co-wrote the stories and screenplays for Spider-Man 3 and Drag Me to Hell, both projects directed by Sam Raimi and featuring Ted Raimi.

James Douglas McComas

McComas had been in office only a year when the state learned that its projected revenues had been vastly overestimated, and Gov. L. Douglas Wilder ordered severe funding cuts to higher education to balance the budget.

James N. Rowe

Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape (SERE) is now a requirement for graduation from the U.S. Army Special Forces Qualification Course.

John Lothrop Motley

In 1861, just after outbreak of the American Civil War, Motley wrote two letters to The Times defending the Federal position, and these letters, afterwards reprinted as a pamphlet entitled Causes of the Civil War in America, made a favourable impression on President Lincoln.

Jucu

In 2007, Nokia started a €200 million investment in Jucu, building a cellphone factory that has begun production in 2008 and in 2010 it's possible that an American pharmaceutical company will invest another €210 million to make a factory.

Lloyd Chapman

Born and raised in Texas, Lloyd began his career working for legendary Texas political leader Bob Bullock.

Merlin's Bones

The narrators, all characters in relative ignorance, find themselves caught in a struggle between various powers of Arthurian legend, such as Mordred, Morgan le Fay, the Fisher King, and Merlin himself, which stretches across different centuries and different realities, and seems to have as its focus the bones of Merlin and a laboratory investigating quantum mechanics.

Mighty Raju vs The Great Pirate

Mighty Raju vs The Great Pirate is an Indian Animated Movie featuring Raju, The character of the hit series Chhota Bheem.

Order of the Most Holy Annunciation

Amadeus VIII's statutes were subsequently amended and reformed by Charles III, Duke of Savoy in 1518, by Emanuele Filiberto, Duke of Savoy in 1570, and thereafter by succeeding Sovereigns.

Ouyang Tzu

Taipei: National Institute for Compilation and Translation, 1975, II, 357-74.

Paul Chaikin

Awards include a Sloan Fellowship (1979-81), a Guggenheim Fellowship (1997), and election to both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2003) and the National Academy of Sciences (2004).

Rhinecliff, New York

The town is also the setting of the fictional book series The It Girl by Cecily von Ziegesar and Hudson River Bracketed by Edith Wharton.

Robert Hanrahan

:For the U.S. Representative from Illinois, see Robert P. Hanrahan.

Sankt Urban

Sankt Urban lies in the Gurktal Alps in north-central Carinthia, about 10 km northeast of Feldkirchen on St. Urban Lake.

Stigmata High-Five

Stigmata-High Five is the seventh full-length album by the Canadian grindcore band Fuck the Facts released August 20, 2006 (see 2006 in music).

Storm chasing

In the 1980s and 1990s, The Weather Channel and A.M. Weather were popular with chasers, in the morning preceding a chase for the latter and both before and during a chase for the former.

Tired of Being Alone

"Tired of Being Alone" was produced and recorded by Willie Mitchell at Hi Records, and mixed by Mitchell and Terry Manning.

University of Valence

Cujas again filled a chair at Valence, August 1567-75; he had among his auditors Scaliger, the historian Jacques-Auguste de Thou, the jurist Pithou.

Yeshivas Ner Yisroel

Rabbi Avi Shafran – Director of Public Affairs, Agudath Israel of America, author, blogger