Scottish actor and producer Sean Connery played the iconic role of James Bond seven times between 1962 and 1983.
The 1964 book Storm Boy was written by noted Australian author Colin Thiele and was made into a movie in1977 starring Greg Rowe, Peter Cummins and David Gulpilil. Storm Boy won the AFI Award for best film in 1977.
The English translation of the Gaelic inscription on Spike Milligan’s gravestone is I told you I was ill.
Yang Kyoungjong, born 1920, was a Korean soldier who was drafted into the Japanese, Soviet and German armies, and captured by US soldiers in Normandy on D-Day. Yang later emigrated from Russia to the United States, where he lived until he died in Illinois in 1992.
Chris DeWolfe is best known as one of the creators of the website Myspace, a social networking service with a strong music emphasis that was launched in August 2003.
Cross-country skiing and rifle shooting combine to form the Winter Olympic sport of the Biathlon.
The metal Copper is added to Gold to produce Rose Gold.
13th Avenue, a commercially successful Orthodox Jewish shopping district in Brooklyn, New York, has 18 banks in the space of 10 blocks.
Coal seam gas is a natural gas consisting mainly of methane.
The sermon regarded as the "first set-piece confrontation of the English Reformation" was preached by Robert Barnes on Christmas Eve 1525 at St Edward King and Martyr on St Edward's Passage, Cambridge which became known as the "Cradle of the Reformation".
There are four one digit prime numbers - 2, 3, 5, 7.
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