Monday, June 16, 2014

Trivia Bits 16 June

 

The red and green kangaroo paw is the floral emblem of the Australian state of Western Australia.

The British Army requisitioned the Manor House in Chew Magna, Somerset, England, during World War II until they discovered it had no electricity, running water or modern sanitation.

The South Australian suburb of Adelaide known as Albert Park was laid out by W R Cave in 1877 and was named after Queen Victoria’s consort, Prince Albert.

Lourdes is a small market town lying in the foothills of the Pyrenees in south-western France, famous for the Marian apparitions of Our Lady of Lourdes said to have occurred in 1858 to Bernadette Soubirous when at that time, the most prominent feature of the town was the fortified castle that rises up from a rocky escarpment at its centre.

The Beaufort Sea is a part of the Arctic Ocean and is located north of the Northwest Territories, the Yukon, and Alaska, west of Canada's Arctic islands.

US actor and musician born Alicia Augello-Cook is better known by her stage name of Alicia Keys – an American R&B singer-songwriter, pianist, musician, record producer, and actress.

The Gospel of Philip, dating back to around the 3rd century, was one of the many Gnostic writings found in 1946 in the Egyptian village of Nag Hammâd.

French sociologist, social psychologist and philosopher David Émile Durkheim founded L'Année Sociologique, the first French social science journal In 1898 as a way of publicizing his own research and the research of his students and other scholars working within his new sociological paradigm.

The modern mandolin has eight – four pairs – of strings.

The four Kalamazoo-class monitors, a class of ocean-going ironclad monitors, begun during the American Civil War, were eventually scrapped in November 1865 because the unseasoned wood of their hulls rotted while they were still on the building stocks.

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