Trivia Bits 28 July

 

The Vietnam Women's Memorial, located on National Mall in Washington D.C., is a memorial dedicated to the women who served in the Vietnam War, was designed by Glenna Goodacre and dedicated on November 11, 1993.

The nearest known star to our sun is Proxima Centauri.

Polish Communists forbade the use of Wymysojer, a West Germanic language spoken in the small town of Wilamowice (Wymysoj in Wymysorys) near Bielsko-Biała, shortly after World War II, and now less than 100 native speakers remain.

If using an oast, you would be drying hops or malt.

Much like Anne Frank's diary, the letters of Philip Slier, a Jewish Dutch typesetter who lived in Amsterdam during the German occupation and discovered more than fifty years after his death, reveal the history of Nazi-controlled Netherlands through a personal perspective. They have been published in a book called Hidden Letters.

Botany is the study of plants with the word coming from the Ancient Greek word βοτάνη (botane) meaning "pasture", "grass", or "fodder"; βοτάνη is in turn derived from βόσκειν (boskein), "to feed" or "to graze".

In 1169 Denny Abbey, near Waterbeach, six miles (10 km) north of Cambridge in Cambridgeshire, England, was handed over to the Knights Templar and became a hospital for sick members of the Order in the mid-13th century.

The European country that is known as the Emerald Isle is Ireland.

The Roman-era temple in al-Sanamayn, originally dedicated to the Greek goddess Tyche in the 2nd century CE and later converted into a mosque, is one of the best preserved edifices in Syria.

The Cryolophosaurus, excavated in Antarctica in 1991, is informally referred to as the Elvisaurus because the bizarre crest running across its head resembles Elvis Presley's 1950s pompadour haircut.