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The Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats is a collection of whimsical poems by T. S. Eliot about feline psychology and sociology which were collected and published in 1939. The poems formed the basis of CATS the a musical composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber in 1980.
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In the 2011 Canadian/British animated children’s television series Mike the Knight, the name of Mike’s sister is Evie who is voiced by Erin Pitt in North America and Jessica Hann in the United Kingdom.
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St Mark’s Basilica is in the Italian city of Venice and has only been the city's cathedral since 1807, when it became the seat of the Patriarch of Venice, archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Venice, formerly at San Pietro di Castello.
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The oldest library in Australia is the State Library of New South Wales starting as the Australian Subscription Library in 1826.
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The porticoes of the Great Colonnade at Apamea in the Orontes River valley in northwestern Syria were paved with mosaics along the full 2-kilometre (1.2 mi) stretch of the avenue.
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Plisse is a lightweight fabric with a permanent stripe produced by treating it with caustic soda.
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The lyrics for "Puff, the Magic Dragon", the Peter, Paul and Mary song, were based on a 1959 poem by Leonard Lipton, a 19-year-old Cornell University student. Lipton was inspired by an Ogden Nash poem titled "Custard the Dragon", about a "realio, trulio little pet dragon."
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Walter and Skyler White are characters in the TV series Breaking Bad.
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A Klondike bar is not a gold bar but is a dessert generally consisting of a vanilla ice cream square coated with a thin layer of chocolate and was introduced in the early 1920's with the first recorded advertisement on February 5, 1922 in the Youngstown Vindicator, Ohio. Six original Flavours were available in 1922 all with chocolate coating: Vanilla, Strawberry, Chocolate, Maple and Cherry.
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It is on the sport of Golf that a mashie niblick, an early wooden club, was used up to the 1940’s and was replaced by the No 7 iron.
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