Saturday, June 21, 2014

Trivia Bits 21 June

 

The Sea of Galilee, also Kinneret, Lake of Gennesaret, or Lake Tiberias, is the largest freshwater lake in Israel, and it is approximately 53 km in circumference, about 21 km long, and 13 km wide.

Queensland, South Australia and Northern Territory meet at Poeppel Corner named after Augustus Poeppel who conducted a survey in the mid-1880s to find the exact location of the central Australian state borders.

Minsk is the capital of the European country of Belarus.

Soap opera actress Catherine Hickland notably as the character of Lindsay Rappaport on ABC's One Life to Live, starred in the Broadway production of Les Misérables as Fantine in 1995.

Napoleon III, Emperor of France, bought the American ironclad Dunderberg in 1867 over the objections of his own navy, which preferred a home-built ship.

The compass and the steel square are commonly symbols of the Freemasons.

The golden age of arcade video games defined as the peak era of arcade video game popularity and technological innovation began with the release of Space Invaders in 1978.

Brownie Wise, a pioneering American saleswoman, was responsible for the success of Tupperware through 1950 development of the "party plan" system of marketing.

The zloty, which literally means golden, is the official currency of the European country of Poland.

Alexander Pope's 1711 An Essay on Criticism is a poem written in heroic couplets.

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