- In 2004, French fashion designer and entrepreneur Christian Audigier licensed the rights to produce the clothing line of American tattoo artist Ed Hardy.
- The Evian Championship s a women's professional golf tournament in France, played at the Evian Resort Golf Club in Évian-les-Bains each July.
- The official language of Southeastern European country Montenegro is Montenegrin.
- European country of Estonia shares borders with Latvia and Russia.
- The Ballad of Reading Gaol is an 1890’s poem by Oscar Wilde written in exile either in Berneval-le-Grand or in Dieppe, France, after his release from Reading Gaol on or about 19 May 1897.
- Will in the TV series Will and Grace was played by Eric McCormack.
- Diamond is a pure or near-pure form of the element Carbon.
- Hsiao Li Lindsay, Lady Lindsay of Birker, the first Chinese-born peeress, smuggled supplies and taught English to Chinese communist guerrillas fighting the Japanese occupation during the Second World War.
- Jammers and blockers are used in Roller Derby which a contact sport played by two teams of five members roller skating in the same direction around a track.
- There are six questions on each card in Trivial Pursuit in which a player's ability to answer general knowledge and popular culture questions enables the player to progress.
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