Saturday, August 2, 2014

Trivia Bits 02 August

 

The first country in the world to ban aerosol cans was Sweden on June 30, 1979.

American retailer that focuses on casual wear for consumers aged 18 to 22 Abercrombie & Fitch was founded in 1892 in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, by David T. Abercrombie and Ezra H. Fitch and originally sold hunting, camping and fishing gear.

The Crusaders under Bohemond I of Antioch exacted a large tribute from the Muslim residents of al-Muslimiyah following their capture of the village in 1103.

The European football club Ajax is based in Amsterdam.

The famed Uffizi Gallery is in the Italian city of Florence and is one of the oldest and most famous art museums of the Western world. The gallery had been open to visitors by request since the sixteenth century, and in 1765 it was officially opened to the public.

Archdiocesan Cathedral of the Holy Trinity in New York City is the largest Orthodox Christian church in the Western Hemisphere.

Internationally known wine growing area, the Barossa Valley in South Australia, had the first winery start operations in 1847.

In 1894, Roman Catholic St. Mary’s was the first church in Albany, New York, to have electric lighting.

Mary Browne married the Earl of Southampton at the age of thirteen in 1565 and after the Earl's death in 1581 married twice more before her death in 1607.

American television host, comedian and late-night talk-show host Johnny Carson was once a writer for The Red Skelton Show in 1953.

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