The strategic fortress of Baarin in central Syria was captured by Imad ad-Din Zengi from the Crusaders in the Battle of Ba'rin in 1137.
James Francis Carney was the first Roman Catholic Archbishop of Vancouver born in the city of Vancouver and amongst his outstanding legacies was that he mandated that St. Paul's Hospital open its doors without hesitation to people with AIDS, even as other hospitals turned them away.
The Orangutan was the primate featured in the 2008 documentary The Last Trimate directed by Stephen Van Mil with narration by Mel Gibson.
Ceramic representations of sunflower seeds formed Ai Weiwei’s acclaimed installation at the Tate Modern during 2010 and 2011 and was made up of millions of small works, each apparently identical, but actually unique as these life-sized sunflower seed husks are intricately hand-crafted in porcelain.
In the classic Warner Brothers cartoons, Road Runner’s feathers are colored blue.
Traditional drink pina colada is a sweet, rum-based cocktail made with rum, cream of coconut, and pineapple juice, usually served either blended or shaken with ice.
India’s least populous state is Sikkim a landlocked Indian state located in the Himalayan Mountains with a 2011 population of 607,688.
The 2012 American television series Girls is set in the city of New York and has been lauded for its raw nature, humor, and refreshing tone.
The semi-precious stone lapis lazuli has been prized since antiquity for its intense blue colour being mined as early as the 7th millennium BC in northeast Afghanistan which is still the major source of lapis lazuli in the world
Animated franchise Scooby Doo features Fred Jones and Daphne Blake.
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