Saturday, December 6, 2014

Trivia Bits 06 December

 

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The 19th Century painting Starry Night Over The Rhone (pictured) was painted by Vincent Van Gogh during September 1888 and is one of a series of paintings of the southern French city of Arles at night time.

Karl Pilkington is best known for his work in the 2010 British travel documentary television series An Idiot Abroad created by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant.

.dz is the internet top level domain for the North African country of Algeria.

True Blood is an American TV series based on novels written by Charlaine Harris featuring the character Sookie Stackhouse who is a fictional character and protagonist of The Southern Vampire Mysteries book series and is portrayed by Anna Paquin.

Discovered in 1869 in Victoria, Australia, the Welcome Stranger claimed to be the world’s largest gold nugget with a calculated refined weight of 3,123 oz 6 dwts 9 gr (71.018 kg) and measuring 61 by 31 cm (24 by 12 in).

Elephant Seals can be found on Macquarie Island and lies in the southwest Pacific Ocean, about half-way between New Zealand and Antarctica, and politically, it is part of Tasmania, Australia since 1900 and became a Tasmanian State Reserve in 1978 and a World Heritage Site in 1997.

Isla Fisher is an actress who began her acting career on Australian television who was born to Scottish parents in Oman and raised in Australia and who in 2013 starred as Myrtle Wilson in The Great Gatsby and as Henley Reeves in Now You See Me.

Italian goldsmith, sculptor and early printer of Florence Bernardo Cennini was among the assistants to Lorenzo Ghiberti to produce the Doors of Paradise for the Battistero di San Giovanni also known as the Baptistry of Saint John in Florence, Italy, that was constructed between 1059 and 1128.

English mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer Charles Babbage is best remembered now originating the concept of a programmable computer.

In 2009, Arawak artist and archaeologist George Simon and a team of researchers uncovered evidence of human settlements in Guyana that date back to 3,000 BCE.

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