Trivia Bits 18 December

 

• The largest island that is entirely in Indonesia is Sumatra.
• In 1565 the Genoese military engineer Giovan Giacomo Paleari Fratino designed and built at Mortella (Myrtle) Point in Corsica the world's first Martello tower which are small defensive forts whose round structure and thick walls of solid masonry made them resistant to cannon fire.
• Detective Superintendant Tony Clark, played by Neil Pearson, features in the BBC TV series Between the Lines from 1992 - 1994.
• Australian country music singer-songwriter, John Williamson wrote the Australian anthemic song True Blue released in 1982.
• Residenz Ansbach and the churches of St. Gumbertus and St. Johannis are venues for the biennial Bachwoche Ansbach a music festival in Ansbach, Germany, dedicated to the life and works of Johann Sebastian Bach held since 1947.
• British painter Fred Cress, who migrated to Australia, won the 1988 Australian portraiture Archibald Prize with a portrait of John Beard, a British-born forester and ecologist who resided in Australia.
• American rock band formed in 1989, The Black Crowes released their debut album Shake Your Money Maker in 1990.
• James George Janos is best known in professional wrestling as Jesse “the Body” Ventura, an American politician, actor, author, veteran, and former professional wrestler who served as the 38th Governor of Minnesota from 1999 to 2003.
• Chinese-Indonesian journalist and filmmaker Tan Tjoei Hock's 1941 film Tengkorak Hidoep has been credited as the first horror film made in Indonesia.
• The Olt River is the longest river flowing exclusively through Romania for 382 miles (615 km) before flowing into the Danube River.
• Robyn Rihanna Fenty is better known by her stage name Rihanna, a Barbadian recording artist, actress, and fashion designer.
• Landing at the Pablo Ruiz Picasso terminal will place you in Spain at the Terminal 2 (styled as T2) of the Málaga Airport which was opened on 30 November 1991.
• Leerdammer, Munster and Etorki are all types of cheese – Leerdammer is a Dutch semi-hard cheese; Munster is a strong tasting, soft cheese from France, and Etorki is is a cheese made in the French Basque country and differs from the other two in that it is made from sheep’s milk.
• The Andrés Bello Catholic University is the oldest of private universities in Venezuela founded in October 1953 by the Society of Jesus.
• The role of Marshall Eriksen is played by Joseph Segel in the American sitcom TV series How I Met Your Mother t hat premiered on CBS on September 19, 2005.