Trivia Bits 18 August

 

• The Near East includes the regions of the Balkan States and Egypt.
• Edel Land was the former Dutch name for the part of the Western Australian coast between Geraldtown and Shark Bay.
• Artefacts with the main attribute of being unusual are often described as exotica.
• A theatre in which the event space or stage is lower than the audience is called an arena.
• When Princess Elizabeth came first in succession line to the British Throne she was 10 years old.
• Influenced by Japanese and Indonesian music, 20^th Century Australian composer Peter Sculthorpe wrote the opera Rites of Passage (1974) and Cello Requiem (1979).
• The soft rindless cows milk cheese used in cooking and developed by Hanne Nielsen in Havarthigaard, in Øverød, north of Copenhagen, in the mid-19th century is known as Havarti.
• Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881 -1938) was an Ottoman and Turkish army officer, revolutionary statesman, writer, and the first President of Turkey. He is credited with being the founder of the Republic of Turkey.
• The French seaside town once the centre of cartography is a port on the English Channel, famous for its scallops, and with a regular ferry service from the Gare Maritime to Newhaven in England, Dieppe also has a popular pebbled beach, a 15th-century castle and the churches of Saint-Jacques and Saint-Remi.
• The Sagrada Familia from 1882 in Barcelona was designed by Antoni Gaudí who was born in Reus in 1852 and received his Architectural degree in 1878.