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21 unusual facts about the world


Academy for Technology and Academics

The Academy for Technology and Academics (formerly known as The Career Center) is a branch school of the Horry County Schools in Horry County, South Carolina, USA.

Bang Racing

He announced he would field the #82 Dodge in the Busch Series in 2005, with Kvapil at the wheel, and possibly expand into Nextel cup that same year, with NetZero sponsoring the #28 Dodge driven by Ward Burton.

Discrete Hartley transform

On the other hand, a non-DHT-based adaptation of Rader's algorithm for real-input DFTs is also possible (Chu & Burrus, 1982).

Erwin Olaf

He has been commissioned to photograph advertising campaigns for large international companies such as Levi's, Microsoft and Nokia.

George Grubb

George Grubb was born in Edinburgh (in 1935) and was educated at James Gillespie’s Boys School, Edinburgh, the Royal High School, Edinburgh, the Open University (BA, 1974 and BPhil, 1983), the University of Edinburgh (BD, 1978) and San Francisco Theological Seminary (DMin, 1993).

H. John Caulfield

He was the author of numerous refereed publications, a Fellow of the Optical Society of America and the SPIE.

Houston Football Stadium

On August 18, 2011, the University of Houston announced that they had received the largest single donation for the stadium when co-CEOs and co-founders of Austin-based Data Foundry, Ron and Carolyn Yokubaitis donated $10 million USD to the project.

HSCT

High School Competency Test, a standardized test previously used by high schools in Florida.

Justice and Equality Movement

In April 2013, JEM and its allies in the Sudan Revolutionary Front engaged in many successful attacks against Sudanese government forces.

Kaare Klint

Klint apprenticed as a furniture maker in Kalundborg and Copenhagen from 1893 and took classes at technical school in Copenhagen, Jens Møl­ler-Jensens furniture school and the Artists' Studio Schools under Johan Rohde.

KQV

In addition to its news content and public affairs programs such as Pittsburgh Profiles and Pittsburgh Global Press Conference, the station is home to a number of live sporting events, including NFL football, Penn State football, and WPIAL football and basketball, as well as the Triple Crown and Masters updates.

Lauren Powers

Moved to join the Laguna Beach Fire Department, she began weight training in order to pass the physical agility test in 1994.

Leamon King

He had been a successful student athlete at Delano High School, making the finals at the CIF California State Meet in both the 100 yard dash and 220 yard dash each of his four years, winning the 100 once and the 220 twice.

Maria Rodriguez

María Ignacia Rodríguez de Velasco y Osorio Barba (1778–1851), Mexico City socialite, also known as "la Güera Rodríguez"

New York Comptroller election, 2010

The New York comptroller election of 2010 involved the first election campaign of Democrat Thomas DiNapoli to the Office of State Comptroller.

Ostrau, Saxony

Ostrau is a municipality in the district of Mittelsachsen in Saxony in Germany.

Paul Amen

Amen earned a master's degree in education from the University of Nebraska in 1940 while an assistant football coach there under Biff Jones.

Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy

Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy (TIZA) was an elementary school (K-8) in Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota named after Tarek ibn Ziyad, the Berber general of medieval Morocco who entered Gibraltar in 711 CE on behalf of the Umayyad Caliphate and defeated the Visigoths.

Thinking about Consciousness

Thinking about Consciousness by David Papineau, is a book (published in 2002) about consciousness that describes what Papineau calls the 'Intuition of Distinctness'.

Whippingham

The church has a tower reminiscent of a castle on the Rhine, with five soaring pinnacles.

William Kilpatrick Stewart

During the war years Stewart was to conduct original research into the physiological effects of acceleration and deceleration, extreme heat and cold and decompression, and was engaged in the design of the ejector seat, G suits and oxygen systems.