Tuesday, June 17, 2014

Trivia Bits 17 June

 

Australian journalist and television presenter Indira Naidoo wrote the book The Edible Balcony which was released in 2011.

Bob Dylan’s son Jakob is best known as the lead singer of the band The Wallflowers a rock band from Los Angeles, California.

T S Elliot’s 434-line poem The Waste Land begins “April is the cruellest month” and was first published in 1922 and first appeared in the U.K. in the October issue of The Criterion.

Located in Center City, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Hospital, cofounded by Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Bond on May 11, 1751, was the first hospital in the United States.

In the classic film Citizen Kane, a 1941 American drama film directed, co-written, produced by, and starring Orson Welles, the old man’s final word is Rosebud.

The South Australian capital city of Adelaide is named after Queen Adelaide, the wife of British Monarch King William.

Pule cheese is made from the milk of a donkey.

Fashion magazine Marie Claire's co-founder Marcelle Auclair also wrote biographies of socialist Jean Jaures and Catholic Saints Teresa of Avila and Bernadette of Lourdes. Marie Claire's first issue appeared in 1937. The US edition was started by the Hearst Corporation, based in New York, in 1994.

Providing the voice of Buzz Lightyear in the Toy Story films is American comedian, actor, voice-over artist and entertainer Tim Allen.

Scottish-Aboriginal Artist Lin Onus who’s most famous work, a 1992 painting Michael and I are just slipping down to the pub for a minute, has been featured on a postcard, and is a reference to his colleague, artist Michael Eather and also shows a dingo on a sting-ray surfboard riding a Hokusal wave.

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