Tuesday, July 8, 2014

Trivia Bits 08 July

 

Detective Loki in the 2013 crime thriller Prisoners is played by Jake Gyllenhaal and was directed by Denis Villeneuve with the cast also including Hugh Jackman, Viola Davis, Maria Bello, Terrence Howard, Melissa Leo, and Paul Dano.

In 1935, J Edgar Hoover became Director of the US Government agency the FBI - The Federal Bureau of Investigation.

The Old Gum Tree under which South Australia was proclaimed as a colony of Great Britain on 28 December 1836 is located in the Adelaide suburb of Glenelg North.

The 1903 Tour de France, the first Tour de France won by Maurice Garin, often required riders to cycle through the night because the stages were so long, all started before dawn with the last stage starting at 21:00 the night before.

Kangaroo Island is the third largest island in Australia after Tasmania and Melville Island.

In 1655, Alfonso Litta - the archbishop of Milan - organised a militia of 900 armed clerics during the invasion of the Duchy of Milan by Thomas Francis of Savoy.

The 1998 movie The Thin Red Line, an American war film written and directed by Terrence Malick, was set during World War II and starred Sean Penn, Jim Caviezel, Nick Nolte, Elias Koteas and Ben Chaplin.

Pope Benedict XVI made history in becoming the first Pope to use Twitter with his handle being @pontifex.

Orica-AIS is an Australian women’s professional team in the sport of Cycling.

18th century French salons were often led by those who were creating the Encyclopédie, a general encyclopedia published in France between 1751 and 1772. As of 1750, the full title was Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, par une société de gens de lettres, mis en ordre par M. Diderot de l'Académie des Sciences et Belles-Lettres de Prusse, et quant à la partie mathématique, par M. d'Alembert de l'Académie royale des Sciences de Paris, de celle de Prusse et de la Société royale de Londres. ("Encyclopedia: or a Systematic Dictionary of the Sciences, Arts, and Crafts, by a Company of Men of Letters, arranged by M. Diderot of the Academy of Sciences and Belles-lettres of Prussia: as to the Mathematical Portion, arranged by M. d'Alembert of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Paris, to the Academy of Sciences in Prussia and to the Royal Society of London.")

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