Wednesday, July 16, 2014

Trivia Bits 16 July

 

The two autonomous regions of Portugal are the Azores and Madeira.

In 1974 Faye Glenn Abdellah became the first nurse officer in the U.S. to receive the rank of a two-star rear admiral and whose pioneering work in nursing research has been recognized with 77 professional and academic honours.

Since 2 November 1925, The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Warsaw holds the remains of a Polish soldier killed at the Battle of Lvov in 1919.

The number 88 is depicted in Roman numerals as LXXXVIII.

The chimney of Cape Cornwall Mine at the western tip of Cornwall in southwest Great Britain, has a plaque in the shape of a Heinz Baked Beanz label set into its base.

Malacology is a branch of zoology that deals with the study of Mollusca or Molluscs including snails and slugs, clams, octopus and squid, and numerous other kinds, of which have shells.

Meeting at Cameron’s Corner are the Australian states of Queensland, South Australia and New South Wales and named for the surveyor, John Brewer Cameron, from the New South Wales Lands Department who marked the intersection in September 1880.

The fastest four legged land animal is the cheetah.

Convicted British murderer Colin Pitchfork was the first person to be convicted using DNA fingerprinting in 1986.

The Kommercekollegiet (The Board of Trade or The Trade Authority) was established in 1704 for the purpose of advising the Danish monarch on matters related to trade and industry.

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