Saturday, June 7, 2014

Trivia Bits 07 June

 

The 2012 novel Pandemonium is the second novel in the Delirium Trilogy, a dystopian young adult novel written by Lauren Oliver.

The northeast of Sumatra has a coastline on the Strait of Malacca being named after the Malacca sultanate that ruled over the archipelago between 1400 and 1511.

The Bab al-Faraj, also known as The Gate of Deliverance, is the only surviving city wall gate in Damascus that was added after the Muslim conquest in 1154 AD.

The scientific study Seismology focuses on earthquakes and the propagation of elastic waves through the Earth.

Queen Noor of Jordan was born in the United States being born Lisa Najeeb Halaby on 23 August 1951 in Washington, D.C. She married King Hussein wed on 15 June 1978 in Amman, becoming his fourth wife and Queen of Jordan.

An oboe is a soprano-ranged, double reed musical instrument of the woodwind family made from a wooden tube roughly 65 cm (25-1/2 inches)long, with metal keys, a conical bore and flared bell.

Wine from Verduzzo, the grape behind the modern Italian wine Ramandolo, was first recorded being served at a 1409 banquet honoring Pope Gregory XII.

In relation to the animal organization, PETA stands for People (for the) Ethical Treatment (of) Animals and is an American animal rights organization founded March 1980.

The Shakespearean play that features the line incanted by the Three Witches double, double toil and trouble is Macbeth which is believed to have been written between 1603 and 1607.

The Mount Mulligan mine disaster occurred on 19 September 1921 in Mount Mulligan, Far North Queensland, Australia. Seventy-five workers were killed by the disaster which is the third worst coal mining accident in Australia in terms of human lives lost.

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