- The sacrum is in the Spine / pelvis area of the human body and is a large, triangular bone at the base of the spine and at the upper and back part of the pelvic cavity.
- The expression to have the flute means to monopolise a conversation.
- The Triangle-and-Two-Defense is a tactic used in the sport of Basketball.
- The car manufacturer Volvo takes its name from the Latin meaning I roll.
- The chemical term for chalk is Calcium Carbonate.
- The 1993 novel The Shipping News was written by American author E Arnie Prouix and won both the Pulitzer Prize and the U.S. National Book Award.
- The Year of the Monkey follows the Year of the Goat in the Chinese calendar.
- DuckDuckGo is the name of a search engine.
- Peter Lalor was the leader of the Eureka Stockade – an organised rebellion in Australia in 1854.
- A cube has 6 sides.
- Lancelot was the greatest knight of legendary English King Arthur.
- The Bridge of Sighs is in the Italian city of Venice.
- The Magna Carta was originally written in Latin.
- Elvis Presley sang Wooden Heart in the 1960 movie G.I. Blues.
- No angel born in hell could break that Satan’s spell was part of the lyrics of the 1970s hit American Pie.
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