Trivia Bits 11 December

 

• A Bellini cocktail consists of peach puree and sparkling wine.
• The Parthenon Temple stands on the Acropolis in Athens.
• Russian Yuri Gagarin first orbited the earth in 1961 and tragically died in a jet trainer in 1968.
• A ukase, in Imperial Russia, was a proclamation of the tsar, government, or a religious leader (patriarch) that had the force of law. Adequate translations are "edict" or "decree" of Roman law.
• Gait is a word that describes the style of a person’s walk.
• In the Mobil logo the only letter that is red is the O.
• The 1979 novel Puberty Blues was written by Gabrielle Carey and Kathy Lette.
• In cookery, agneau is French for lamb meat.
• As a student at West Point military college, US President Ulysses Grant set and equestrian high jump record that stood for 25 years.
• The first female governor of South Australia was Dame Roma Mitchell from 1991–1996. She also was the first female Governor appointed in Australia.