Saturday, June 14, 2014

Trivia Bits 14 June

 

In relation to the sport of cricket the term DRS stand for Decision Review System.

The Melisende Psalter, an illuminated manuscript commissioned around 1135 in the crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem, is the most notable example of Crusader art.

The natural rock basin in the Flinders Ranges, South Australia is called Wilpena Pound and comes from the Aboriginal word meaning bent.

Construction of Kelso Abbey, Scotland took 15 years and was completed in 1243 and was founded by a community of monks of the Tironesian order, from Tiron, near Chartres, in France.

In 2002 Australian boxer Jeff Fenech, a three-weight world champion and a boxing trainer, was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame.

Indiana's Eel River once served as informal boundary between the lands of the Potawatomi people in the north and Miami people in the south who called it Ke-na-po-co-mo-co by the Miami people, who inhabited the area at the time of European contact.

High profile US actor Joaquin Phoenix has sisters named Liberty, Rain and Summer.

Phnom Santuk hill is the most sacred mountain of Kampong Thom in Cambodia with several reclining Buddhas at its summit.

Clementine is a variety of the citrus fruit mandarin.

Blaster, Eject, Grand Slam and Raindance are characters from the TV and comic series Transformers.

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