- The River Avon flows through the New Zealand city of Christchurch.
- The expression “up the creek and without a paddle” means you are in predicament or in trouble.
- Napoleon Bonaparte advocated “six hours of sleep for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool”.
- Beginning and ending with “und” is the world underground.
- The characters Theseus, Hermia and Lysander appeared in the Shakespearean play “A Midsummer’s Night Dream”.
- Swedish actor Great Garbo’s final movie was “Two-Faced Woman”.
- Brigadoon is a Broadway musical about a Scottish town that disappears and returns every 100 years.
- The epic poem “Paradise Lost” was written by John Milton.
- The musical direction “con delore” means “with sadness: sorrowfully”.
- A mihi is a formal Maori greeting.
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