Trivia Bits 25 July

 

Henry VIII ruled England from 21 April 1509 until his death on 28 January 1547.

The full name of Doc on the Back to the Future trilogy is Dr Emmett Brown and was played by Christopher Lloyd.

God Defend new Zealand is one of New Zealand’s National Anthems. It was written by Thomas Bracken in the 1870s, and in 1940 the New Zealand government bought the copyright and made it New Zealand's national hymn in time for that year's centennial celebrations. The other National Anthem is God Save the Queen most often only played when the Sovereign, Governor-General or other member of the Royal Family is present, or on some occasions such as Anzac Day.

Barbara Hanrahan wrote the 1973 semi-autobiographical novel The Scent of Eucalyptus. Barbara an Australian artist, printmaker and writer whose work mostly revolved around the roles of and relationships between women.

The Sun of May appears on the flags of both Argentina and Uruguay.

China’s Yangtze River flows for 6,418 kilometres (3,988 mi) from the glaciers on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in Qinghai eastward across southwest, central and eastern China before emptying into the East China Sea

The Iliad and the Odyssey were just two parts of the eight-part Trojan War cycle of epic poems that were the distillation in literary form of an oral tradition that had developed during the Greek Dark Age.

Mila Kunis was born in 1983 in Chernivtsi, in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic now known as Ukraine.

The Dog Fence in Australia is the longest continual construction in the world. Stretching 5,300 kms from near Surfers Paradise in Queensland and ends up in Ceduna in South Australia on the Great Australian Bight. It was built to protect the sheep in the south of the country from the dingoes in the northern area of Australia.

Anatolia denotes the westernmost part of Asia making up the majority of the Republic of Turkey.