Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Trivia Bits 15 July

 

In 2005, Camilla Parker Bowles became the Duchess of Cornwall upon her marriage to HRH Prince Charles.

Currants are the dried fruit traditionally used in a Banbury cake.

The Balıklı Greek Hospital in Istanbul was originally established as the Yedikule Hospital through Ottoman government edict in 1753.

It was at Coolah, 388 kms northwest of Sydney, where the Australian expression beyond the black stump was coined.

The IBM 350 disk storage unit, the first disk drive, was announced by IBM as a component of the IBM 305 RAMAC computer system on September 13, 1956 where RAMAC is an acronym for "Random Access Method of Accounting and Control."

Bach interpolated music from his secular cantata BWV 36c with four stanzas from two Advent hymns in Schwingt freudig euch empor, BWV 36, for the first Sunday in Advent, 2 December 1731.

Consumption is another name of the disease of tuberculosis.

The highest mountain in the Americas is Aconcagua at 6,960.8 m (22,837.3 ft). It is located in the Andes mountain range, in the province of Mendoza, Argentina,

Mosconi, in Luxembourg, was the first Italian restaurant in the Benelux nations to receive a Michelin star.

Manchego is a kind of cheese made in the La Mancha region of Spain from the milk of sheep of the Manchega breed.

The larvae of the Cameraria ohridella moth, horse-chestnut leaf miner, feed in a mine in the leaves of the tree, damaging the leaves and stunting growth.

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