Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Trivia Bits 25 June

 

The phonograph was invented in 1877 by Thomas Edison and was the first to be able to reproduce the recorded sound.

Staurophobia is the fear of crucifixes or crosses.

There are large stands of primeval forest on the border between Poland and Belarus and are forests that have attained great age without significant disturbance thereby exhibit unique ecological features.

Salsa verde translates into English as Green Sauce.

The Prince Regent, later King George VI, sometimes stayed at Moulsecoomb Place, in the English coastal city of Brighton and Hove, where he would sit in a dovecote and practise playing a silver flute.

In 2010, Australian theatre, film, and television actress Jacki Weaver won an AFI Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for the Australian crime drama Animal Kingdom.

Darkness at Noon was a 1940 novel written by the Hungarian-born British novelist Arthur Koestler and is the tale of Rubashov, an Old Bolshevik who is arrested, imprisoned, and tried for treason against the government which he had helped to create.

Australian actor Shane Porteous starred as Dr Terence Elliott in the TV series A Country Practice it and ran on the Seven Network in for 1,058 episodes from 18 November 1981 to 22 November 1993.

The creator and executive producer for the American crime drama television series Breaking Bad which premiered in 2008 is Vince Gilligan.

The Eastern Pacific giant conchs, Lobatus galeatus, were used as wind instruments by a pre-Incan civilization nearly 3000 years ago.

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