Trivia Bits 10 May

 

• Giacomo Bove, an Italian explorer (1852 - 1887), was icebound in the Arctic Ocean, shipwrecked off Tierra del Fuego and fever-stricken on the Congo River.
• Traditional Argentine chimichurri sauce green in colour used for grilled meat and is made from finely chopped parsley, minced garlic, olive oil, oregano, and white or red wine vinegar.
• To be called "Blue Stilton", a cheese must be made only in the English counties of Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire from local milk, which is pasteurized before use and have delicate blue veins radiating from the centre.
• Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar was awarded the Order of Australia in November 2012.
• Wolverines belong to the animal family of Weasel – Mustelidae.
• New Yorker, David Karp, created the blogging platform Tumblr which allows users to post multimedia and other content to a short-form blog. Users can follow other users' blogs, as well as make their blogs private. Much of the website's features are accessed from the "dashboard" interface, where the option to post content and posts of followed blogs appear. Tumblr was founded in February 2007.
• The bone in the human body that is also known as the femur is the thigh bone.
• Set and filmed in the gold rush town of Ballarat, in Victoria, Australia The Doctor Blake Mysteries is an Australian television starring Craig McLachlan in the lead role of Doctor Lucien Blake, who returns home to Ballarat in 1959 to take over his late father's general medical practice after an absence of 30 years with Doctor Blake is a keeper of secrets and a solver of mysteries.
• The Baltic States include Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania which gained independence from the Russian Empire in the wake of World War I, between the World Wars, the Baltic states also included Finland.
• The 2003 film Harvie Krumpet was narrated by Australian actor Geoffrey Rush.