Trivia Bits 24 January

 

• Australia’s nearest port to Asia is Port Darwin.
• Goodpasture’s syndrome effects the lungs and kidneys being first reported by the American pathologist Ernest Goodpasture of Vanderbilt University, in 1919.
• The Bangka-Belitung Islands is a province of Indonesia, lies off Sumatra and has a capital of Pangkal Pinang.
• Although Wellek and Warren's Theory of Literature was imprinted with three copyright dates of 1942, 1946 and 1949, none of which were the year it was published by Harcourt, Brace, and Company of December 1948.
• Kathryn Bigelow won the Best Director Oscar for the 2008 movie The Hurt Locker and starred Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, and Brian Geraghty.
• The Champaner-Pavagadh Archaeological Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site located in Gujarat, India, contains dozens of monuments, including the Bawaman, Jama, Kevada, Lila Gumbaj, and Nagina mosques, as well as the Kalika Mata Temple atop Pavagadh Hill.
• Short lived 2010 TV series The Gates, an American supernatural crime drama, centred on Nick Monohan and his family and was cancelled after its first season due to low ratings.
• The common chiffchaff is a migratory bird which breeds in open woodlands throughout northern and temperate Europe and Asia.
• Santorini, Andros and Mykonos are part of the Cyclades group of islands situated in the Aegean Sea.
• American cartoonist Harvey Kurtzman's 1959 Jungle Book was the first book-length work of original comics in the United States with the satirical stories aimed at an adult audience. The alternative full title was Up from the Apes! (and Right Back Down)—In Which Are Described in Words and Pictures Businessmen, Private Eyes, Cowboys, and Other Heroes All Exhibiting the Progress of Man from the Darkness of the Cave into the Light of Civilization by Means of Television, Wide Screen Movies, the Stone Axe, and Other Useful Arts.
• Canadian author Alice Munro was awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize for Literature.