Trivia Bits 06 May

 

• Iconic American actor Charles Bronson was born was born Charles Dennis Buchinsky north of Johnstown, Pennsylvania on November 3, 1921.
• The ball game Lacrosse originated in America where it was originally played by Native Americans it was known by several different names, depending on the tribe, including "bagataway" or "the little brother of war" in the Ojibwe language, and "tewaarathon" in the Mohawk language.
• Popular boy band Boyz II Men had a hit in 1992 with End of the Road.
• Small town sheriff's deputy who awakens from a coma to find the world overrun with zombies, Rick Grimes, portrayed by English actor Andrew Lincoln, is a character from the 2010 premiering American post-apocalyptic horror drama television series The Walking Dead.
• Timber from the leadwood tree, a protected tree in South Africa, burns very slowly and is often used for nightlong fires intended to keep animals at bay.
• The Bahamas have the internet code .bs.
• Linguicism is the unfair treatment of an individual based solely on their use of language.
• Playing Wladyslaw Szpilman in the 2002 movie The Pianist was Adrien Brody an American actor and film producer.
• Jezebel is mentioned in the Biblical Book of Kings and was a princess the daughter of Ethbaal, King of Tyre (Phoenicia) and the wife of Ahab, king of north Israel.
• Amharic, a Semitic language, is the official language of the African country of Ethiopia.