Friday, July 18, 2014

Trivia Bits 18 July

 

In the Australian folk song Waltzing Matilda, a matilda is a swag – a rolled up bed and bag.

The Leningrad première of Shostakovich's Symphony No. 7 was on 9 August 1942 while the city was under siege and was broadcast by loudspeakers throughout the city, and to the German forces as psychological warfare.

Ashley Eriksson’s song Island Song is the ending song on the US animated series Adventure Time.

The Iron Confederacy, an alliance of North American Plains Indians, expanded its power base from what is now northern Manitoba in the 1690s to Montana by the 1850s.

The Opinel knife, a simple, wooden-handled pocket-knife, has been manufactured since the 1890s in the town of Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne in the Savoie region of France.

Victor Chang AC was a famous Australian heart surgeon who was murdered on 4 July, 1991, following an extortion attempt on his family.

The Garnet is the birthstone for the month of January.

Bouncy techno is a hardcore dance music rave style that developed in the early 1990s from Scotland and North England.

In Queensland Australia there are more than 10,000 kms of in-use railway tracks.

The Spanish military stud farm Yeguada Militar, founded in 1847, started the oldest written breed registry for Arabian horses, and is also a genetic reservoir for the Andalusian horse.

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