Saturday, July 12, 2014

Trivia Bits 12 July

 

The 15.4-metre (51 ft) long Anantashayana Vishnu at Saranga is the longest sculpture of a reclining Vishnu in India.

The Magyars are an ethnic group belonging to the European country of Hungary.

Kolkota, capital of the Indian state of West Bengal, is called the City of Palaces because of its abundance of European-style buildings.

On December 17, 1973 Pan Am Flight 110 was attacked by six gunmen of the Abu Nidal Organization at Leonardo Da Vinci International Airport in Rome.

Musically, the opposite of playing legato is playing staccato.

The Singapore Grand Prix 11 was held at the Marina Bay Street Circuit in 2013 and was won by Sebastian Vettel driving for the Red Bull Racing-Renault team.

George Williamson Crawford, a New Haven city official, activist, and freemason, was the second black graduate of Yale Law School around 1900.

Time’s Magazine 2012 Person of the Year was US President Barack Obama.

H. B. Reese, the creator of Reese's Peanut Butter Cups created in 1928, once worked for famed chocolatier Milton S. Hershey as a dairy farmer and shipping foreman.

Cuban singer-songwriter Jon Secada earned the Grammy Award and received the highest number of nominations at the Lo Nuestro Awards in 1993.

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