Monday, December 1, 2014

Trivia Bits 01 December

 

kangaroo

The kangaroo (pictured) is the mascot of the Royal Australian Air Force with The Australian Air Force being formed on 31 March 1921 with King George V approving the prefix "Royal" in June 1921 becoming effective on 31 August 1921.

Worshipping the spirits known as kami are followers of the Shinto religion.

American film director, television director, visual artist, musician and occasional actor David Lynch acts opposite his former real-life partner Italian actress, filmmaker, author, philanthropist, and model Isabella Rossellini in Tina Rathborne's semi-autobiographical 1988 American drama film Zelly and Me.

The US Department of Defense is the largest employer in the world with just over 3.2 million servicemen, servicewomen, and civilians.

The capital of landlocked and mountainous Kyrgyzstan is Bishkek a city of wide boulevards and marble-faced public buildings combined with numerous Soviet-style apartment blocks surrounding interior courtyards.

Men’s faults to themselves seldom appear is a quote credited to playwright William Shakespeare is from the narrative poem The Rape of Lucrece (1594) which was entered into the Stationers' Register on 9 May 1594, and published later that year, in a quarto printed by Richard Field for the bookseller John Harrison ("the Elder").

Irish Republican politicians in the 1920s were expected to pay for their own meals in order to prevent political corruption.

Praslin and Curieuse Island are part of the island country The Seychelles which is a 155-island country, as per the Constitution, spanning an archipelago in the Indian Ocean.

In Gaelic football the grass playing field is rectangular, stretching 130–145 metres (142–159 yards) long and 80–90 m (87–98 yd) wide with H-shaped goalposts at each end, formed by two posts, which are usually 6–7 metres (20–23 feet) high, set 6.5 m (21 ft) apart, and connected 2.5 m (8.2 ft) above the ground by a crossbar, a net extending behind the goal is attached to the crossbar and lower goal posts.

Sovereign state on the west coast of Central Africa, Gabon shares borders with Equatorial Guinea, Cameroon and the Republic of the Congo.

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