Wednesday, June 18, 2014

Trivia Bits 18 June

 

Keratoconus is a degenerative disorder of the eye causing structural changes within the cornea.

Medieval royal official Reginald de Warenne (died 1179) was one of the first persons summoned as a Serjeant-at-Law, being summoned in 1168 by King Henry II of England.

Traditionally, Arborio rice is the main ingredient in risotto.

Opened on 24 May 1906, The Ritz Hotel, a 5-star hotel located in Piccadilly in London, England, was the first hotel to offer a private bathroom for every guest room.

An Embassy is the collective noun for a group of people from one state or an international inter-governmental organisation, such as the United Nations, present in another state to represent the sending state/organisation officially in the receiving state.

But, for my own part, it was Greek to me is a line from William Shakespeare’s play Julius Caesar believed to have been written in 1599.

Danish film director and screenwriter Lars von Trier is closely associated with the Dogme 95 collective – an avant-garde filmmaking movement started in 1995 – aimed to create filmmaking based on the traditional values of story, acting, and theme.

It was in the 1960’s that the first electronic push-button system telephones were introduced when on 18 November 1963 the Bell System in the United States officially introduced dual-tone multi-frequency (DTMF) technology under its registered Touch-Tone® mark.

Australian actress and musician, Toni Collette’s character in the American drama TV series Hostages is Dr Ellen Sanders.

The highest peak in the Northern Territory is Mount Zeil situated in the western MacDonnell Ranges with a height of 1,531 metres (5,023 ft).

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