Friday, July 11, 2014

Trivia Bits 11 July

 

The Romanian flag features rectangular panels of red, yellow and blue and wad adopted 24 June 1848. The blue panel is always flown next to the pole, then yellow then red.

Chichen Itza was a large pre-Columbian city built by the Maya civilization with the archaeological site located in the municipality of Tinum, in the Mexican state of Yucatán.

Joan of Arc was burnt at the stake in 1431 in the French city of Rouen.

On Wings' songs Cook of the House and Love in Song, ex-Beatle Paul McCartney plays the same double bass that Bill Black played on Elvis Presley hits such as Heartbreak Hotel.

Premiering on Sunday, October 23, 2011, Once Upon a Time is an American fairy tale drama series that takes place in the fictional seaside town of Storybrooke, Maine, whose residents are actually characters from various fairy tales transported to the "real world" town and robbed of their real memories by a powerful curse with episodes typically feature a primary storyline in Storybrooke, as well as a secondary storyline usually from another point in a character's life before the curse was enacted.

English musician Jay Kay is best known as the lead singer of the band Jamiroquai.

In October 1947, the USAF Northrop YB-49, a prototype jet-powered heavy bomber aircraft, set both unofficial endurance record of staying continually above 40,000 ft (12,200 m) for 6.5 hours.

The champion of a good cause is often known as the White Knight.

A prehistoric mound is located on the U.S. Air Force's Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio and is believed to have been built by people of the prehistoric Adena culture, who inhabited southwestern Ohio approximately between 500 BC and AD 400 and was listed on the US National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

India launched the Mars Orbiter Mission in November 2013 by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) from the First Launch Pad at Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh near Chennai.

Ball’s Pyramid, the tallest volcanic stack in the world is located of the coast of the Australian state of New South Wales and is part of the Lord Howe Island Marine Park.

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