The Wimbledon Tennis Trophy (pictured) features a pineapple in its design and has been awarded since 1887 bearing the inscription: "All England Lawn Tennis Club Single Handed Championship of the World."
Australian wheelchair rugby player and 2012 Paralympian Chris Bond is missing both legs below his knees, his left wrist and his right four fingers as a result of a severe infection from a flesh-eating disease.
Based on the 1944 semi-fictionalized biographical novel by Margaret Landon Anna and the King of Siam was the basis for the Broadway musical by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II The King and I which premiered on March 29, 1951, at Broadway's St. James Theatre.
Starring as rock journalist Lester Bangs in the 2000 comedy-drama film written, co-produced, and directed by Cameron Crowe Almost Famous was American actor and director Philip Seymour Hoffmann.
Archaeoindris, a now extinct giant lemur from Madagascar, was the largest known lemur, comparable in size to a male gorilla.
American singer, songwriter and actor Tim McGraw is afraid of rollercoasters commonly known as "coasterphobia," although this fear is often related to acrophobia, claustrophobia, or a traumatic event.
The Vätsäri Wilderness Area in Lapland covers an area of 1,550 square kilometres (600 sq mi) including taiga forests of Scots Pine and thousands of small lakes.
The official language of Cuba is Spanish.
The captain of the 2012 Australia women's national wheelchair basketball team, Bridie Kean, is nicknamed "bird" because people in the United States could not pronounce her first name correctly.
The Australian magazine frankie released its first issue in October 2004 featuring music, art, fashion, photography, craft and other cultural content.
No comments:
Post a Comment