Monday, August 4, 2014

Trivia Bits 04 August

 

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US jazz singer Billie Holiday was nicknamed Lady Day.

Three alleged miracles drew pilgrims to Kippinge Church in north-western Falster, Denmark at the end of the 19th century - the first miracle was the bleeding Sacrament in 1492; the second was a miraculous altarpiece depicting the Virgin Mary and the healing properties of its holy spring.

The Great Train Robbery of Thursday 8 August 1963, from a Royal Mail train heading between Glasgow and London, is the best-known example of the type of mail fraud known as "theft from the mails”.

Hugh Lee Pattinson, an English industrial chemist, took the first-ever photo of Niagara Falls in 1840.

The so-called Loughall Martyrs were a group of eight men from the Provisional IRA's East Tyrone Brigade who were ambushed and killed on May 8 1987 by the British special forces, the SAS.

Veal is the meat traditionally used for a wiener schnitzel which is a very thin, breaded and deep fried Schnitzel and is the national dish of Austria.

The Konopiště château (castle) about 50 km (30 mi) southeast of Prague, was the last residence of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, houses a large collection of antlers and also a shooting hall with moving targets.

Long running BBC TV producer Barrie Edgar produced the first television broadcast from a submarine.

The shallowest ocean is considered to be the Arctic Ocean with the deepest point being Litke Deep in the Eurasian Basin, at 5,450 m (17,880 ft).

Bucharest is the capital of the European country of Romania.

The small African republic that lies opposite Yemen where the Red Sea meets the Gulf of Aden is Djibouti which occupies a total area of just 23,200 km2 (8,958 sq mi).

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