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26 unusual facts about Europe


Aleksey Belyakov

Aleksei Stepanovich Belyakov (born 1917) was a Soviet diplomat and ambassador to Finland 1970–71 and the leader of the European section of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

Alphonse Lavallée

His son developed an arboretum in the park of the Château de Segrez in Saint-Sulpice-de-Favières (Essonne), which was one of the biggest in Europe at this time.

Arthur Jessup

Following the end of combat operations, he served an additional year in Europe as a lawyer representing those being tried under courts-martial.

Bert Hellinger

Hellinger travelled widely, delivering lectures, workshops and training courses throughout Europe, the USA, Central and South America, Russia, China, and Japan.

Center for Policy Studies

CPS has published several volumes of policy research, runs its own policy paper series and offers an on-line library of policy documents from Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union: the Policy Documentation Center.

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The center is committed to strengthening local capacity for critical policy analysis and pursues research and publication that is interdisciplinary and carried out with partners in the global policy community, particularly in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.

Cumhur Oranci

He left Turkey before the coup d'état of 12 September 1980 and spent some time in Europe working for the left-wing daily Aydinlik.

Flowerpot

Also Orchids, African violets and Pelargonium geraniums were shipped in pots from other parts of the world, including Africa, to North America and Europe.

Football in Ghana

It is on record that the game of football was introduced into the Gold Coast region towards the close of the 19th century by merchants from Europe.

Geography of Romania

Located at the intersection of Central and Southeastern Europe, bordering on the Black Sea, the country is halfway between the equator and the North Pole and equidistant from the westernmost part of Europe—the Atlantic Coast—and the most easterly—the Ural Mountains.

Guillem de Copons

Guillem de Copons (?, segle XIV — ?, segle XV) was a writer and diplomat, possibly of Valencian origin, that made some translations into Catalan from some important ancient Greece, ancient Rome and the European Middle Ages literary works.

Heinrich von Maltzan, Baron zu Wartenburg und Penzlin

He then visited Aden and Bombay, and after some two years of study in Europe again began to wander through the coasts and islands of the Mediterranean, repeatedly visiting Algeria.

Jerome Tafani

Jerome Tafani is the Chief Financial Officer for Europe of the United States' Illinois based McDonald's Restaurant Corporation.

Jerre Noe

Stationed in Europe during World War II, he conducted research and development related to radar, before returning to California to complete a Ph.D. in electrical engineering at Stanford University.

Jewish emancipation

Jewish emancipation was the external and internal process in various nations of expanding the rights of Jewish people of Europe, including recognition of rights as equal citizens, and the formal granting of citizenship to individuals.

Mišnice

Its date of invention is unknown but it is known to have existed in Europe by the 9th century.

Nigel Hastilow

It was reported in 2008 that he had been approached to stand as a candidate for the UK Independence Party (UKIP) at the European elections but turned down the opportunity arguing that he had always said he would remain loyal to the Conservative Party.

Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe

:For other theatres with this name, see Odeon

Panteón Rococó

While being stars in Mexico, they have been touring Europe for the last several years, especially Germany, where their European Label Übersee Records is located.

Pearl Flutes

The flutes are distributed worldwide by Pearl Musical Instrument Company, in the USA by Pearl Corporation based in Nashville, Tennessee, and in Europe by Pearl Music Europe based in Venlo, The Netherlands.

Peter Berngardovich Struve

Pyotr's grandson, Nikita Struve (b. 1931), is a professor at a Paris university and an editor of several Russian-language periodicals published in Europe.

Teodoro A. Dehesa Méndez

When the artist Diego Rivera was looking for a sponsor to allow him to travel to Europe to further his art career, he approached Governor Dehesa who agreed to sponsor him.

Theatre of Yugen

Theatre of Yugen’s experimental ensemble features artists from North America, Europe, and Asia who have been trained in traditional Japanese Noh and Kyogen forms.

Trial of the Talmud

The Trial of the Talmud is one of a series of disputations that took place in Europe during the Middle Ages, a group of rabbis were called upon to defend the Talmud.

University of Bergen Department of Comparative Politics

Initially, the subject was mainly concentrated on European affairs, but global political developments has caused a widening of interests and focus to themes associated with democracy and democratisation in Asia, Africa and Latin America as well.

Vince Graham

Vince is an advocate for advancing human-scaled urbanism, and has spoken at architectural and planning symposia in Australia, Europe, and throughout the United States.


14th Battalion, Maratha Light Infantry

In the last weeks of the war in Europe, during February 1945, the 14th Battalion proceeded overseas for service in Iraq (Mesopotamian campaign).

1918 Michigan Wolverines football team

On November 16, 1918, five days after the signing of the Armistice marking the end of hostilities in Europe, Michigan defeated Syracuse 16–0.

1988 Asia-Pacific Touring Car Championship

With the championship generally ignored by most of the top teams from the stronger Group A championships (Australia, Europe and Japan), Crowe, Bond and Pirro were able to gain the top three placings despite each only running in two of the four rounds.

1994 plague epidemic in Surat

Much like the Black Death that spread through medieval Europe, some questions still remain unanswered about the 1994 epidemic in Surat.

2007 Weber Cup


Team USA captain Tim Mack, together with Tommy Jones, put the Americans in front overall for the first time, with a 226-207 win over Team Europe's captain Tomas Leandersson and Mika Koivuniemi.

A Jewish Girl in Shanghai

One flashback scene of the film, set in 1936, sees Rina and Michaili, in what appears to be an alpine setting in Europe, escaping being bombed by Nazi planes, despite the date preceding the aerial warfare of the Second World War.

A Spectre Is Haunting Texas

The title appears to be based on a Karl Marx quote from The Communist Manifesto: "A spectre is haunting Europe...the spectre of communism."

Ancestry of Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden

House of Mecklenburg, in which a princess of Sweden Euphemia, have ancestors there and (in several ways) in all ruling royal houses of Europe through her son Magnus I of Mecklenburg and grandson Magnus II, Duke of Mecklenburg

Army Squad

There are also many Angolan rappers well known especially in Africa and in Europe such as SSP, Puro Style, VIP, Negrobue, Heavy C, Marita Venus, Bruna Tatiana, Paul G, Guto, Warrant B and many others.

Atlantic Europe

Bob Quinn in his documentary series Atlantean speculates that western European Celtic culture is actually an earlier, pre-Celtic, Atlantic culture that included Atlantic Europe and people of the Maghreb such as Berbers and that it continues today.

Austria in the Eurovision Dance Contest

Their routine was a fusion of Foxtrot, Jive and Hip Hop, and was performed to a medley of "The Third Man/Harry Lime theme by Anton Karas, "Der Kommissar" by After The Fire/Falco, "The Pink Panther Theme" by Henry Mancini and "U Can't Touch This" by MC Hammer, all of which were performed by the Dance For Europe Orchestra.

Büyük Vatankhah

He continues to live in his beloved Tehran, although he has made many visits to Europe and the Persian Gulf States.

Club Nintendo

Club Nintendo in Australia was launched on April 24, 2008 to coincide with the release of Mario Kart Wii, with the website, catalogue and product registration going live on March 11, 2009 using the same system offered by Nintendo of Europe.

Collegium Musicum Den Haag

l'europe réunie (ORF Edition Alte Musik) Georg Philipp Telemann: Wasser-Ouvertüre in C / Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto for 2 violins, 2 recorders, 2 oboes, bassoon & strings RV 566 / Johann Sebastian Bach: Concerto for harpsichord, 2 recorders, 2 violins, viola & b.c. BWV 1057 / Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer: Concerto armonico Nr. 5 / Jean-Féry Rebel: Fantaisie

Common bream

The common bream's home range is Europe north of the Alps and Pyrenees, as well as the Balkans.

Crispin Odey

Through the early part of the 2000s Odey worked closely with Hugh Hendry, whom he had recruited and who ran Odey's top performing Continental Europe Fund.

Crossair Europe

Crossair Europe (European Continental Airways) was an airline headquartered on the grounds of EuroAirport Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg in Saint-Louis, Haut Rhin, France, near Basel, Switzerland.

Deirdre Cartwright

As a solo artist she has played with the American guitarist Tal Farlow, toured with Jamaican composer Marjorie Whylie, played throughout Europe, has seen the weekly jazz club she co-runs, 'Blow The Fuse', become one of the most popular in London, and has been a regular presenter for BBC Radio 3.

Doncho Papazov

The yacht, named Tivia, took the journey around Europe in the winter of 1978, going through the Baltic Sea, the Bay of Biscay, the Mediterranean, and finally the Black Sea.

Epilepsy Is Dancing

"Epilepsy is Dancing" is the first single from Antony and the Johnsons' 2009 album The Crying Light, released on April 6 (April 7 in the US) licenced through Secretly Canadian (worldwide), and Rough Trade (Europe).

Fan EP

Released in 2005 by Wind-up Records as a promotional CD in Europe, the EP contains the song "Metalingus" from the band's debut album, One Day Remains, in addition to three rare live songs recorded on March 28, 2005.

Florence Mills

Mills became well-known as a result of her role in the successful Broadway musical Shuffle Along (1921) at Daly's 63rd Street Theatre (barely on Broadway), one of the events credited with beginning the Harlem Renaissance, as well acclaimed reviews in London, Paris, Ostend, Liverpool, and other European venues.

Gas Exporting Countries Forum

In May 2006 Gazprom deputy chairman Alexander Medvedev threatened that Russia would create "an alliance of gas suppliers that will be more influential than OPEC" if Russia did not get its way in energy negotiations with Europe.

Gekido

Gekido (known as Gekido: Urban Fighters in Europe) is a beat 'em up for the PlayStation game console. The game uses a fast paced beat 'em up system, with many bosses and a colorful design in terms of graphics. The game features the music of Fatboy Slim and Apartment 26. Marvel comic book artist Joe Madureira also contributed. A version of Gekido was also released on the Game Boy Color in Europe.

Gmina Baranów, Masovian Voivodeship

Baranów is the most possible location for the new Warsaw Airport - planned as the biggest hub for Central and Eastern Europe.

Goede tijden, slechte tijden

Many former actors who once were part of the cast are now well known in the Netherlands and Europe, such as Katja Schuurman, Reinout Oerlemans and Antonie Kamerling.

Halsbrücker Esse

With a height of 140m it was the highest smokestack in the world at its completion and it remains the tallest brick building in Europe (the Anaconda Smelter Stack in Montana is higher) and is a technical and industrial historical monument.

Henry F. May

Born in Denver, Colorado, he was reared in Berkeley, California and spent a formative year in Europe with his family as the youngest of three children.

Image Entertainment Corporation

Team Galaxy (co-produced with Marathon Media, YTV, VRAK TV, Jetix Europe, France 3, and RAI Fiction)

Interpreting notes

For example, the letter “E” laid on its side (like the Cyrillic letter sha, Ш) may represent Europe.

Jacob Kirkegaard

Aside from academics, Jacob Kirkegaard collaborates with various artists on installations and resonances and has performed in Asia, America and Europe.

Lucile Grahn

After 1846, Grahn toured much of Europe, not only dancing, but also producing several ballets, including a revival of Perrot's Catarina, and her even her own play Bacchus et Ariadne.

Martina Violetta Jung

Martina Violetta Jung (born 1963 in Wülfrath, Germany) is a visionary business woman, writer and speaker active across Europe.

Maureen Fleming

Fleming has performed in North America, Europe, and Asia, and collaborated in her multimedia works with playwright David Henry Hwang, composer Philip Glass, photographer Lois Greenfield, and ikebana artist Gaho Taniguchi.

Meldrum

Their second album, Blowin' Up the Machine (produced by Toby Wright), was released through Frontiers in Europe on May 11, 2007, and in the U.S. on September 11, 2007.

Middlesex County Volunteers

They have also performed numerous times with John Williams, Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops, at Colonial Williamsburg's Grand Illumination, and throughout the British Isles and Western Europe.

Paradip

Paradip has been identified for development as one of the six major petroleum, chemicals and petrochemical investment regions (PCPIRs) in India, along the lines of Pudong in China, Rotterdam in Europe and Houston in North America.

Pontalba Buildings

According to Christina Vella, historian of modern Europe, the Pontalba buildings were not the first apartment buildings in the United States, as is commonly believed, because they were originally built as row houses, not apartments.

Ramji Raghavan

Later he worked with the Europe based Cedel Group as Director and member of the Strategic Advisory Group.

Rise of nationalism in Europe

The Polish attempts to win independence from Russia had previously proved to be unsuccessful, with Poland being the only country in Europe whose autonomy was gradually limited rather than expanded throughout the 19th century, as a punishment for the failed uprisings; in 1831 Poland lost its status as a formally independent state and was merged into Russia as a real union country and in 1867 she became nothing more than just another Russian province.

River kingfishers

Three species reach Australia, but only the Common Kingfisher is found across most of Europe and temperate Asia.

Royal Air Force Germany

RAF Germany was disbanded as a separate command in 1993 as part of the reduction of British Armed Forces presence in Europe at the cessation of the Cold War.

Sabiha Al Khemir

Between 1991–1992 Al Khemir was a consultant for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York for the exhibition ‘Al-Andalus: Islamic Arts of Spain.’ She traveled in Europe and North Africa in search of objects and history that would provide the basis for the show.

Strawberry tree

Arbutus, the genus in the Ericaceae family to which Arbutus unedo belongs, native to Europe and temperate North America

The Little Drummer Girl

The story follows the manipulations of Martin Kurtz, an Israeli spymaster who is trying to kill a Palestinian terrorist named Khalil, who is bombing Jewish-related targets in Europe, particularly Germany, and the English actress Charlie, who becomes a double agent working on behalf of the Israelis.

The Wallet of Time

Its title is taken from the words of William Shakespeare: "Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, Wherein he puts alms for oblivion,..." American stage actors and actresses, most of whom had been born in Europe, of the nineteenth century and the first decade of the twentieth century are the subjects covered in the publication.

Tourrettes, Var

The aerodrome of Fayence-Tourrettes was one of the most active in Europe.

Utah Museum of Fine Arts

Cinderella: Masks, Magic and Mirrors (Sept. 2 - Mar. 31 2008) which included materials from Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas.

VH1 Europe

Though produced in Warsaw (Poland), VH1 Europe broadcasts from MTV Networks Europe's premises in Camden Town (London, UK) to the whole continent of Europe, covering also the Middle East, South Africa and parts of Northern Africa.

ZaMirNET

Amidst the "worst crimes committed in Europe this century" the first major experiment in email was launched in June 1992 in Zagreb and Belgrade, almost exactly a year after Croatia seceded from Yugoslavia, triggering a brutal response from Serbia.