Tuesday, July 1, 2014

Trivia Bits 01 July

 

Christopher Walken won an Oscar for the 1978 movie The Deer Hunter.

The Roman Harbaqa Dam in the Syrian Desert, dating back to the first or second century AD, was reused by the Umayyads in the eighth century to supply water to the nearby palace of Qasr al-Hayr al-Gharbi.

Red-bellied black, common copperhead and yellow-faced whip are breeds of snake.

Based on a folk tale, the Croatian comic opera in three acts by Jakov Gotovac, Ero the Joker, was first performed on November 2, 1935.at the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb.

Rock melon is often referred to as a Cantaloupe with its first known usage in English dates from 1739 in The Gardeners Dictionary Vol. II by Scottish botanist Philip Miller (1691–1771).

A Kensington Pride is a named commercial mango cultivar that originated in Australia in the 1960’s.

American singer-songwriter, author, actress, writer, film producer, and director Barbra Streisand’s second husband is American actor, producer and director James Brolin whom she married on July 1, 1998.

Above the north doorway of St Laurence's Church, Church Stretton in Shropshire, England, is a sheila-na-gig - figurative carvings of naked women displaying an exaggerated vulva.

Hurricane Debbie in September 1961 produced record-breaking winds across parts of Ireland, gusting up to 114 mph (183 km/h) off the coast of Arranmore.

Rhinoplasty is a surgical procedure for correcting and reconstructing the form, restoring the functions, and aesthetically enhancing the nose.

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