Thursday, May 29, 2014

Trivia Bits 29 May

 

The popular tourist destination of Alanya, a beach resort city, is located on the southern coast of Turkey.

The Nullabor Plain in Australia separates the Great Victoria Desert from the Great Australian Bight.

The School of Athens is one of the most famous frescoes by the Italian Renaissance artist Raphael and was painted between 1509 and 1510 as a part of Raphael's commission to decorate with frescoes the rooms now known as the Stanze di Raffaello, in the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican.

Suryavarman II was a 12 Century king of the Khmer Empire from 1113 AD to 1145-1150 AD and the builder of Angkor Wat, which he dedicated to the Supreme God Vishnu.

Kwanzaa is a weeklong festival celebrated by people with an African or African-American heritage.

A modified version of a chemical naturally occurring in the mushroom Strobilurus tenacellus, found in Europe and Japan, is the world's biggest-selling fungicide. The strobilurin-derived compound azoxystrobin was first made commercially available in 1996.

La Rinconada, at a height of 5,100 m (16,732.28 feet) above sea level, is one of the highest cities in the world and is in the South American country of Peru.

Kristin Davis gained fame in playing Brooke Armstrong in the TV series Melrose Place - an American primetime soap opera that aired on Fox from July 8, 1992, to May 24, 1999 for seven seasons.

The aardwolf is closely related to the Hyena and unlike its relatives the aardwolf does not hunt large animals, or even eat meat on a regular basis; instead it eats insects, mainly termites.

Someone who constructs bows is known as a bowyer.

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