The phantom island of Brazil, also known as Hy-Brasil, supposedly emerges from the mists only once every seven years lying in the Atlantic Ocean west of Ireland. Hy-Brasil was featured in the 1989 British comedy-fantasy film Erik the Viking starring Tim Robbins.
Noddy is a character created by English children's author Enid Blyton, originally published between 1949 and 1963.
The Australian $100 banknote was first issued in 1984 and was paper issue with a portrait of Antarctic explorer Douglas Mawson, with a background of a mountain range with a geological strata format. Astronomer John Tebbutt is on the reverse, with a background of the observatory he built and a local church
The Mona Lisa, a half-length portrait of a woman by the Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci, has been permanently on display at the The Louvre since 1797.
Kerry Anne Wells was the first Australian to be crowned Miss Universe in 1972 at the pageant held in San Juan, Puerto Rico the first pageant to take place outside the continental United States.
Job’s tears is a tall grain-bearing tropical plant of the family Poaceae (grass family) native to Southeast Asia.
The Yazidis, an ancient religion that linked to Zoroastrianism and Sufism, think of their god, Melek Taus, as a golden peacock, although some Christians and Muslims think of him as Lucifer.
John Gatins, the Academy Award-nominated screenwriter of the 2012 movie Flight, got into scriptwriting when a fellow Vassar graduate offered him $1,000 to pen a screenplay.
Titan is the largest moon orbiting the planet Saturn.
Lion Beer was Asia's first brand of beer being first sold by Dyer Breweries at Kasauli in the Himalayan Mountains in the 1855. Lion was originally an IPA (India Pale Ale) but the beer style was changed in the 1960s to a lager.
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