Thursday, July 10, 2014

Trivia Bits 10 July

 

Express Yourself was a 1989 hit for American singer-songwriter Madonna being from her fourth studio album Like a Prayer.

The main vegetable in the traditional Irish champ, native to the North of Ireland, is the potato being made by blending scallions or green onions with creamy mashed potatoes.

While travelling in Italy in 1898, American hydraulic engineer Clemens Herschel found an ancient manuscript about the water system of Rome, and translated and published it in English.

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are characters from William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet.

Vishvaksena is described as the commander-in-chief of the army of the Hindu god Vishnu and the gate-keeper and "chamberlain" of Vishnu's abode Vaikuntha.

The Aswan Dam is an embankment dam situated across the Nile River in Aswan, Egypt.

The Best Actress Oscar went to Marion Cotillard for the 2007 movie La Vi en Rose.

When the Plaza Mayor of Manila was renamed Plaza de Roma in 1961, the city of Rome reciprocated by renaming one of its squares "Piazza Manila".

French can-can dancer made famous by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec through his paintings, Jane Avril was the inspiration for Nicole Kidman's character, Satine, in Baz Luhrman’s 2001 film Moulin Rouge!

During the 1939 Battle of Wizna in Poland during World War II, German planes dropped leaflets asking the Poles to surrender.

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