Saturday, July 5, 2014

Trivia Bits 05 July

 

Lupton City in Chattanooga, Tennessee, was created in the 1920s as a planned community for a thread mill and its workers.

The Patagonian Desert is the largest desert in the South American country of Argentina occupying 673,000 square kilometres (260,000 mi²).

The 1920 poem Fire and Ice was written by American poet Robert Frost who was honoured frequently during his lifetime, receiving four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry.

A female fox is known as a vixen.

Holidays celebrated in Greece include Το Όχι, literally day of the "no", which honours Greece's 1940 refusal to surrender to the Axis Powers which were the nations that fought in the Second World War against the Allied forces.

The India-sponsored Pan-African e-Network project aims to link all member states of the African Union with each other and India through a satellite and submarine cable network.

Phil Collins, English musician, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, actor and writer. released his debut solo album Face Value in 1981.

Brecknockshire is one of the historic counties of Wales, a constituent country of the United Kingdom.

According to Greek mythology, Icarus flew so high that the sun melted his wings.

The Streisand effect is the phenomenon whereby an attempt to hide, remove, or censor a piece of information has the unintended consequence of publicizing the information more widely. It is named after American entertainer Barbra Streisand’s 2003 attempt to suppress photographs of her residence in Malibu, California, inadvertently generated further publicity.

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