Tuesday, December 2, 2014

Trivia Bits 02 December

 

capybara

Native to South America, the capybara (pictured) is the largest rodent in the world inhabiting savannas and dense forests and lives near bodies of water

The base of Bach's cantata Herr Gott, dich loben alle wir, BWV 130, for the feast of Michael on 29 September 1724 is a hymn by Paul Eber sung to a famous tune usually attributed to the French composer Loys Bourgeois known as Old 100th or Old Hundredth.

Mississippi's Spanish Fort is neither Spanish nor a fort but is an archaeological site in the Delta region of the U.S. state of Mississippi with its original purpose is believed to have been ceremonial, not martial and thought to have been constructed approximately 160 BC.

American military physician and neurologist Surgeon General William Alexander Hammond both founded the National Museum of Health and Medicine and wrote the first American treatise about neurology.

Christoph Waltz won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role in the 2012 American western/adventure film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino, Django Unchained which also starred Jamie Foxx, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kerry Washington, and Samuel L. Jackson.

In the first line of the song Hush Little Baby, Papa is going to buy a mockingbird but the author and date of origin are unknown.

Named by the Kew botanist John Lindley in 1828, the genus Clivia, monocot flowering plants native to southern Africa, was named after Queen Victoria's childhood governess, the Duchess of Northumberland, who was the first to cultivate those plants in Great Britain.

Hawayo Takata, a Nisei, which describes the children born to Japanese people in a new country, fluent in the language and culture of Japan and the United States, introduced Reiki to the Western World.

Muhammad Ali defeated George Foreman in the Rumble in the Jungle an historic boxing event in 1974 in Kinshasa, Zaire (now Democratic Republic of the Congo) held at the 20th of May Stadium on the morning of October 30, 1974.

Australian actor Heidi Arena plays fictional writer, chef, life coach and choreographer Audrey Gordon in Audrey’s Kitchen a satirical television cooking series produced by Working Dog Productions in Melbourne, Australia, for ABC Television.

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