Wednesday, July 23, 2014

Trivia Bits 23 July

 

The second story in The Jungle Book (1894), Kaa's Hunting is an 1893 short story by Rudyard Kipling featuring seven-year-old "man-cub" Mowgli, raised by wolves in the Indian jungle, being tutored in the Law of the Jungle by Baloo the bear.

The lead singer of internationally renowned band, Powderfinger, Bernard Fanning was raised in Brisbane, Australia.

Angela Jolie topped Forbes magazine’s 2013 list of Hollywood highest earning actresses.

Proverbially the sweetest fruit is that which is forbidden.

Stonehenge is surrounded by 56 pits known as Aubrey holes which are a ring of Chalk pits at Stonehenge named after the seventeenth-century antiquarian John Aubrey.

To the end of 2013, the only Australian woman to win a Best Actress Academy Award is Nicole Kidman for her performance as Virginia Woolf in the drama film The Hours (2002).

Jesse Fisher in the 2012 movie Liberal Arts is played by Josh Radnor who also wrote and directed the movie.

Sydney's Belmore Park, in New South Wales, is on land that used to be a police barracks, a cemetery, a women's shelter, an asylum and a common and was landscaped in 1868.

Yemen is bordered by two countries – Oman and Saudi Arabia.

English playwright and novelist, Dorothy “Dodie” Smith, wrote I Capture the Castle(1949) and The Hundred and One Dalmatians (1956).

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