Trivia Bits 05 May

 

• Calligraphy is made up from two Greek words kallos "beauty" and graphẽ "writing".
• British produced situation comedy, Please Sir!, was created by writers John Esmonde and Bob Larbey and featured the actors John Alderton, Deryck Guyler, Joan Sanderson, Noel Howlett, Erik Chitty and Richard Davies running for 55 episodes between 1968 and 1972.
• Noted Australian singer Tina Arena was born Fillipina Lydia Arena.
• The animal aye-aye is a lemur, a primate native to Madagascar that combines rodent-like teeth and a special thin middle finger to fill the same ecological niche as a woodpecker.
• From the 1961 Atlantic hurricane season, Hurricane Carla ranks as the most intense U.S. tropical cyclone landfall on the Hurricane Severity Index with a category 5 ranking.
• Two cheeses, Stilton and Double Gloucester, are combined to make English Huntsman Cheese.
• The 2010 Carnegie Medal was awarded to Neil Gaiman for the book The Graveyard Book.
• Apollo 17 was the last Apollo mission to land on the moon.
• The umbraculum is a symbol representing the religious leader of Roman Catholicism – The Pope. The Umbraculum from the Italian: Ombrellino, "little umbrella", is a historic piece of the papal regalia and insignia, once used on a daily basis to provide shade for the pope. In modern usage the umbraculum is a symbol of the Roman Catholic Church and the authority of a pope over it. It is found in the contemporary Church at all the basilicas throughout the world, placed prominently at the right of their main altars. Whenever a pope visits a basilica, its umbraculum is opened.
• The fish, Tuna, is featured in the 2010 Australian documentary TV series The Hardliners with long-line tuna fishermen at the heart of the action-packed high seas adventure showing a unique breed of men who risk their lives every day chasing lucrative, high-grade wild tuna off the east coast of Australia.