Sunday, June 29, 2014

Trivia Bits 29 June

 

The wide sash worn around a kimono is called an Obi.

Cornwall Terrace, constructed between 1821 and 1823, was one of the earliest buildings constructed in Regent's Park in London.

The equinox happens in two months of the year – around 20 March and 22 September with the oldest meaning is the day when daytime and night are of approximately equal duration.

Angie Harman and Sasha Alexander co-star in the TV series Rizzoli and Isles a one-hour drama based on the Rizzoli & Isles series of novels by Tess Gerritsen which premiered on July 12, 2010.

The Monastery of the Holy Trinity, Meteora in Greece was featured in the 1981 James Bond film, For Your Eyes Only.

The bulb of the Wavy-leafed Soap Plant, found in most of California, the Sierra Nevada and the deserts, and in southwestern Oregon, can be used to wash your hair, to stun fish, to cure rheumatism and to make brushes

Released in January 2013 How to be a Good Wife was a debut novel by British writer Emma Chapman.

The first game in the Catan game series is The Settlers of Catan and is a multiplayer board game designed by Klaus Teuber first published in 1995 in Germany.

Introduced in 1986, The Adelaide O-Bahn is a guided busway in South Australia that runs from Adelaide CBD to the Tea Tree Plaza shopping centre in Tea Tree Gully a distance of approximately 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) long.

Charles W. Adams, a Confederate colonel during the American Civil War, was a grandfather of author, political activist, disabilities advocate and lecturer Helen Keller who overcame blindness to achieve her many accomplishments.

The chemical element sodium has the symbol Na.

Gaulden Manor (also Gavelden or Gaveldene) dating back to the thirteenth century in the southeast of Tolland, Somerset, England. It is a double storied building with interior plasterwork with a chapel featuring a c.1640 ceiling featuring an angel with trumpet on Judgment Day.

The 1872 founded State Historical Museum in Moscow, Russia, wedged between Red Square and Manege Square, has 1.7 million coins in its collection.

A Sinologist studies China and Chinese topics and may also refer more strictly to the study of classical language and literature.

Podestà is the name given to certain high officials in many Italian cities beginning in the later Middle Ages mainly being the chief magistrate of a city state with first documented usage of podestà was in Bologna in 1151, when it was applied to Guido di Ranieri di Sasso of Canossa, brought in from Faenza to be rettore e podestà (Rector and Mayor).

Angkor Wat is a Buddhist temple complex in Cambodia and the largest religious monument in the world.

The lowest point in Australia is Lake Eyre being 15 metres (49 ft) below sea level and on the rare occasions that it fills the largest lake in Australia and 18th largest in the world.

Amercian Gothic was painted by US artist Grant Wood in 1930.

Cockaigne or Cockayne is medieval figurative language denoting a mythical land of plenty, an imaginary place of extreme luxury and ease where physical comforts and pleasures are always immediately at hand and where the harshness of medieval peasant life does not exist.

Believe to be up to 120 km (75 mi) in diameter, The Woodleigh meteorite impact crater is in Western Australia centred on Woodleigh Station east of Shark Bay and was announced in the 15 April 2000 edition of Earth and Planetary Science Letters.

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