Trivia Bits 12 August

 

• On 20 November 1947, Queen Elizabeth II as Princess Elizabeth married Prince Phillip of Greece.
• In classical times, Erato was the muse of erotic poetry.
• Sydney Harbour-side suburb of Woolloomooloo is named after the name of the first homestead in area, Wolloomooloo House, built by the first landowner John Palmer afrter a land grant was given to him in 1793.
• Lindisfarne is a tidal island off the north coast of England and contained a priory that in the 700’s produced a beautiful illuminated manuscript of the gospels known as the Lindisfarne Gospels, an illustrated Latin copy of the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
• From the Latin word impellere comes the English word impel meaning to urge forward.
• In rhetoric, a metonym is a word used in place of another with which it has a common relationship such as the bottle for alcohol.
• The last Stuart ruler of England was Anne who ruled ascended the thrones of England, Scotland and Ireland on 8 March 1702. She died 1 August 1714 without having produced an heir.
• The Wash is the name given to the shallow bay of the North Sea on the eastern coast of England.
• The literary term for a sustained piece of prose fiction is a novel.
• The Thai region located at the centre of the Khorat Plateau runs along the mighty brown waters of the Mekong River bordering Laos to the north and east and Cambodia to the southeast. Fishermen laden with tangled nets drift along the river's length in small wooden canoes, trawling the waters for their hidden bounty. Some of the largest freshwater fish species in the world dart between the khaki currents - several varieties of catfish and giant freshwater stingray among others.
• Czar Nicholas of Russia, Queen Elizabeth II’s grandfather’s cousin was shot dead with his family in Russia in 1918.