Monday, June 30, 2014

Trivia Bits 30 June

 

Jamil Mihhu, contesting the Beirut II constituency in the 1968 election, was the first Kurd to run for office in Lebanon.

Annie Oakley was a famous American sharpshooter and exhibition shooter and was born Phoebe Ann Moses on August 13, 1860 in North Star, Ohio.

The grand opera Aida was written by Giuseppe Verdi and was first performed at the Khedivial Opera House in Cairo on 24 December 1871, conducted by Giovanni Bottesini.

A Baja Bug is a Volkswagen Beetle that has been modified to operate on sand dunes and originated in Southern California in the late 1960s as an inexpensive answer to the successful Volkswagen-based dune buggies of the mid-1960s, with the first Baja Bug generally credited to Gary Emory of Parts Obsolete, circa 1968.

If you were surfing at Roaring Beach, you would be in the Australian state of Tasmania.

In 1996, UK female pop group Spice Girls had a hit with Wannabe.

There are five living species of rhinoceros - the white rhinoceros, the black rhinoceros, the Indian rhinoceros, the Javan rhinoceros and the Sumatran rhinoceros.

Tala can mean either a Somoan monetary unit or a rhythmic pattern in Indian music.

The grizzly bear is native to North America and are normally solitary, active animals, but in coastal areas, grizzlies gather around streams, lakes, rivers, and ponds during the salmon spawn.

Muixeranga is a name given to ancient acrobatic street dances and human castles originating in the Valencian Community being still preserved in the town of Algemesí, 30 km (19 mi) southwest from Valencia, Spain.

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