The French village of Giverny, best known as the home and landscape subject of Claude Monet, is a pre-Roman town known in ancient deeds as Warnacum.
Australian writer Randolph Stow worked as a patrol officer in New Guinea and write in 1979 The Visitants which is set on an island in New Guinea in the 1950s, 2 white Australian officials, accompanied by the Government interpreter visit the Island of Kailuana to investigate the events which lead up to a violent uprising.
Inside All Saints Church, Claverley, Shropshire, is a carving of two dragons nibbling a human head.
In the TV series The Following, the character of Joe Carroll is played by James Purefoy.
Dominican nun Marion Irvine became the then-oldest participant at a U.S. track and field Olympic Trials in 1984, running in the women's marathon trials at the age of 54.
Spinning Around was a hit song from Australian pop-princess Kylie Minogue’s seventh studio album Light Years released on 25 September 2000.
The main ingredient in the Mexican condiment of pico de gallo is the tomato.
The full name of American children’s author and producer R L Stine is Robert Lawrence Stine.
Myrmecia is an insect better known as the Bull Ant with almost all of the approximately 90 species endemic to Australia.
The planet Neptune’s two largest moons are Triton and Nereid.
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