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23 unusual facts about the world


Abdurrahman Sharafkandi

#Sifra bê biraneve (vergêra pirtûka Şerîetî ) (Translation of One and Zeroes without end by Ali Shariati from Persian into Kurdish)

Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, 1986

Players eligible for the first time who were not included on the ballot were: Bill Bonham, Pedro Borbón, Bernie Carbo, Ralph Garr, Ken Henderson, Von Joshua, Fred Kendall, Lerrin LaGrow, Skip Lockwood, Elliott Maddox, Roger Metzger, Fred Norman, Marty Pattin, Dave Rader, Merv Rettenmund, Jim Rooker, Ted Sizemore and Bob Stinson.

Bellême

Les Mycologiades internationales : Annual international wild mushroom festival.

Capital punishment in Virginia

Executions are carried out at Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt, Virginia, and death row is located at the Sussex State Prison near Waverly, Virginia.

Chicano rap

In 1990, the Chicano hip hop group A Lighter Shade of Brown released their album Brown & Proud, which included hits "On a Sunday Afternoon" (a top 40 hit on the Billboard Hot 100) and "Latin Active".

Cinnamon Attila

Its range stays contiguous along the Caribbean coast through the Guianas and only ends south and southeast of the Amazon River outlet with Marajo Island, and the outlet of the downstream Tocantins River, in the northeastern Brazilian state of Maranhão on the Atlantic coast.

Confraternities in Nigeria

The coup of Ibrahim Babangida in 1983 caused a large degree of political tension.

Cornélie van Oosterzee

Her studies ended when her family moved to the Dutch East Indies, but she resumed her studies with Nicolaï when she returned to the Netherlands at the age of 25.

Dagfinn Føllesdal

Dagfinn Føllesdal (born 22 June 1932) is the Clarence Irving Lewis Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University, and professor emeritus at the University of Oslo.

Fleeming Jenkin

His descendants include the Tory MPs Patrick, Lord Jenkin of Roding and Bernard Jenkin.

Johanna Gadski

She did not return to the operatic stage, however, until the late 1920s; her first such appearance being in a 1928 production of Die Walküre mounted by the Washington National Opera, a semi-professional company not related to its present namesake.

Laura Diffenderfer

In 2008, Laura presented "A Wagner Matinee," an evening-length work based on the writings of Willa Cather.

Leslie Gossage

Following his retirement from regular service with the Royal Air Force, Gossage agreed to be re-employed to assume the role of Commandant Air Cadets after the retirement of Air Commodore John Adrian Chamier.

Mount Alexander Road, Melbourne

Mount Alexander Road was named as its original destination was the Gold Fields of Mount Alexander, now known as Castlemaine.

Rotation group

Cyclic group, rotational symmetry group for an object with n-fold symmetry in a plane of rotation

Sarah Daniels

Her plays have appeared at other venues including the National Theatre, the Battersea Arts Centre, the Crucible, Sheffield and Chicken Shed.

Sinful Innocence

Sinful Innocence is the second studio album from Canadian R&B singer Cory Lee.

Statewide opinion polling for the Republican Party presidential primaries, June 2012

Haley Barbour of Mississippi, Jeb Bush of Florida, Chris Christie of New Jersey, Jim DeMint of South Carolina, Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota, Paul Ryan of Wisconsin and John Thune of South Dakota all succeeded in leading polls in their home states at some point in 2011, although only Pawlenty actually launched a campaign.

The Man Without a Country

"The Man Without a Country" has been adapted for film several times, starting in 1917 with The Man Without a Country starring Florence La Badie, a 1918 film My Own United States, one in 1925, and another Man Without a Country starring John Litel and Gloria Holden and released by Warner Brothers in 1937.

Thomas St. Angelo

From 1945 to 1951 and again in 1958, St. Angelo chaired the Barron County, Wisconsin chapter of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.

Tippecanoe High School

They participated have on the TV show High Q multiple times throughout their history and are one of the most successful academec quiz teams in Ohio.

Utah State Route 31

A second collapse on August 16, 2007, killed a Mine Safety and Health Administration investigator and two more miners, bringing the total to nine.

Valérie Bemeriki

After Kantano Habimana, Bemeriki was the announcer with the second most airtime, approximately 17% of all RTLM broadcasts.