Friday, June 20, 2014

Trivia Bits 20 June

 

Jarman Gap in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia is the site of the first European settlement in the mountain area near Albemarle County in 1734 by Michael Woods and his family.

Australia’s national capital, Canberra has two sister cities – Beijing in China and Nara in Japan.

The satellite tracking station of Pine Gap is in the Australian state of Northern Territory.

Bonuses promised to girls for Sumangali (child labour) work in Tamil Nadu are deducted from their stipends and held until they complete three years of work, a form of debt bondage illegal in India since 1976.

The Alpine Ibex, a species of wild goat living in the mountains of the European Alps including Gran Paradiso National Park in northwest Italy, were first protected in 1816.

Golda Meir was the first female Prime Minister of Israel and the fourth Prime Minister of Israel having been elected on March 17, 1969, after serving as Minister of Labour and Foreign Minister.

On top of the traditional Canadian Nanaimo bar is chocolate and is a wafer crumb-based layer topped by a layer of light vanilla or custard flavoured butter icing which is covered with melted chocolate.

In 2013, American Grammy Award-nominated humorist, comedian, author, and radio contributor David Sedaris released a collection of narrative essays as a book titled Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls.

The Koori indigenous Australians traditionally occupied the areas now known as New South Wales and Victoria.

The capital of the country in Southeastern Europe Albania is Tirana with the first records of the Albanian people as a distinct ethnicity date to the 14th Century.

No comments:

Post a Comment