In 1618, Sir Walter Raleigh was executed in England by King James I as an appeasement to the Spanish as some of his men ransacked a Spanish outpost during an ill-fated search for El Dorado.
Feline is to cat as equine is to horse.
On some Celtic imitations of the Kingdom of Macedonia's gold philippeioi, the chariot on the reverse side was replaced by a single horse sporting a humanoid head.
Ambloplites species, a genus of freshwater fish in the sunfish family, are native to a region extending from the Hudson Bay basin in Canada to the lower Mississippi River basin in the United States
Warsaw is the capital of Poland with the first fortified settlements on the site of today's Warsaw being Bródno (9th/10th century) and Jazdów (12th/13th century).
The first helicopter flight was in 1907 in Lisieux France when two French brothers, Jacques and Louis Breguet who sometime between 14 August and 29 September 1907, their Gyroplane No. 1 lifted its pilot into the air about two feet (0.6 m) for a minute.
Potato is commonly used to make gnocchi which is eaten as a first course (primo piatto), as an alternative to soups (minestre) or pasta.
Gilbert and Sullivan were writing partners of many operettas including The Pirates of Penzance and The Mikado. Their first names were William and Arthur respectively.
If you were at 0o latitude and 0o longitude, you would be in the Gulf of Guinea in the Atlantic Ocean, about 380 miles (611 kilometers) south of Ghana and 670 miles (1078 km) west of Gabon.
The peasant Masetto is a character in Mozart’s opera Don Giovanni and is based on the legends of Don Juan. It was premiered by the Prague Italian opera at the Teatro di Praga (now called the Estates Theatre) on October 29, 1787.
Hank Azaria provides the voices for Moe Szyslak and Chief Wiggum in The Simpsons.
Cornwall's cliff castles may have served principally as prestigious sites for religious ceremonies, trade and administration, and that their defensive capacity may have been a secondary function.
The 1814 historical novel Waverley was written by Sir Walter Scott and is often regarded as the first historical novel. It became so popular that Scott's later novels were advertised as being "by the author of Waverley" with his series of works on similar themes written during the same period have become collectively known as the "Waverley Novels".
Wollemi National Park is the second largest national park in New South Wales, Australia and is part of the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area.
Kevin Gosper is a famous Australian athlete who mainly competed in the 400 metres and was formerly a Vice President of the International Olympic Committee.
Canadian crime drama series with elements of comedy Due South starred Paul Gross and David Marciano and ran for 68 episodes over four seasons, from 1994 to 1999 and the show follows the Chicago adventures of Constable Benton Fraser (Paul Gross), an officer of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), who is attached to the Canadian consulate but works with Detective Raymond Vecchio of the Chicago Police Department to solve crimes, assisted by Fraser's companion Diefenbaker, a deaf white wolfdog.
Queen Victoria said that Viscountess Amberley, the mother of the philosopher Bertrand Russell, "ought to get a good whipping" for speaking publicly in favour of women's suffrage.
Jehovah’s Witnesses sometimes refer to their Bible students as Millennial Dawnists.
In 1961, Zarzaitine was considered to be the largest oil field of the eastern Sahara, with primary reserves of 80 million tons.
A chicken’s egg shell is primarily c composed of calcium carbonate.
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