Friday, July 4, 2014

Trivia Bits 04 July

 

In 1878, François Roudaire proposed flooding the Sahara by a channel cut from the Mediterranean to the Chott el Fejej, an event which was portrayed in Jules Verne's last novel.

Ella Havelka became the first indigenous dancer to join the Australian Ballet in 2012.

The Sun Sessions album included all of the Elvis Presley tracks recorded in Sun Studios in 1954 and 1955 by producer Sam Phillips, the head of Sun Studios.

The traditional London taxi is coloured black.

Jason Bateman’s character in the 2003 American television sitcom Arrested Development is Michael Blutch.

There are32 bones in the human arm which is the upper limb of the body, comprising regions between the shoulder and the elbow joints, and out to the fingers.

The Beaumont Children, Jane (aged 9), Arnna (aged 7), and Grant (aged 4) disappeared without a trace from Glenelg a beach near Adelaide, South Australia in 1966 and to date the disappearance has never been solved.

Lord Mountbatten of the British Royal Navy invented Mountbatten pink, a naval camouflage colour resembling grayish mauve paint used during World War II designed to render ships difficult to see during dawn and dusk.

The Tokyo Monorail, which travels at speeds of up to 80 kph, was constructed to coincide with the 1964 Summer Olympics and connects Haneda Airport in Ōta, Tokyo, Japan, to Hamamatsuchō Station in Minato, Tokyo.

American illustrator and writer of children's books, Maurice Sendak is best known for his 1963 children’s book Where the Wild Things Are.

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