O'Hara's Tower was built in the late 18th Century in the mistaken belief that it would enable the garrison at Gibraltar to spy on ships massing at Cadiz. It was struck by lightning just after its completion and then remained in ruins for much of the 19th century.
Sunday or Sabbath sticks were the golf enthusiasts' answer to the Church of Scotland's discouraging golfing on Sundays as the clubs were disguised as walking sticks, the club head comfortably fitting in the palm of the golfer's hand, until feeling unobserved, the stick was reversed and a few strokes were played.
Clint Eastwood won the Best Director Oscar for his 1992 American Western film Unforgiven which starred Eastwood in the lead role, with Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, and Richard Harris.
To walk the Black Cat Track you would have to visit Papua New Guinea and walk the rough overland track in Morobe Province running from the village of Salamaua on the coast of the Huon Gulf, south into the mountains to the township of Wau.
Joan of Arc lived in the 15th Century who was "The Maid of Orléans" and is a folk heroine of France and a Roman Catholic saint.
Yabba the Duckling is a character from the 2009 TV series Timmy Time - a British animated pre-school children's comedy series created by the BBC and Aardman Animations.
Horn of plenty, saffron, milk cap and chanterelle are all types of the food known as mushrooms.
Famke Janssen is a Dutch actress, director, screenwriter, and former fashion model best known for playing the villainous Bond girl Xenia Onatopp in GoldenEye (1995) and Jean Grey/Phoenix in the X-Men film series (2000–2013).
Bag o’ Nuts relates to the score of 45 in the game of darts.
A major environmental issue in Northern Australia particularly Queensland are cane toads which were initially released into the countryside in 1935 to assist in controlling pests in the sugar cane fields. Originally 102 cane toads from Hawaii were released for this purpose.
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