The two vertical stripes on the Portuguese flag are red and green and was adopted on June 30, 1911 with the colours representing the hope of the nation (green) and the blood (red) of those who died defending it
Australia’s highest peak is Mt McClintock being the highest mountain (3,492 m / 11,456 ft) in the Britannia Range in Australian Antarctic Territory, surmounting the south end of Forbes Ridge.
The liver of the monkfish is used to make Japanese ankimo with this food being on Seafood Watch's list of foods to avoid, due to unsustainable fishing practices.
Blue Heelers is an Australian police drama series which depicted the lives of police officers stationed at the fictional Mount Thomas police station in a small town in Victoria with Australian actors John Wood and Julie Nihill staying with the series for the entire total of 13 seasons with 510 episodes that started airing on 18 January 1994.
Australian author Norman Lindsay wrote the enchanting children’s book The Magic Pudding in 1918. He was also an artist, sculptor, writer, editorial cartoonist, scale modeller, and an accomplished amateur boxer.
Charles Darwin called The Naturalist on the River Amazons, an 1863 book by the British naturalist Henry Walter Bates about his expedition to the Amazon Basin, "the best book of Natural History Travels ever published in England".
Climbing routes on Gibraltar Rock include Crime of Passion, Illusions of Grandeur, and Rooster Carnage.
It is true that chameleons can see light in the ultraviolet spectrum.
The Duchy of the Archipelago was an alliance of islands in the Aegean Sea organized after the Fourth Crusade in April 1204, the Crusaders of Western Europe invaded and sacked the Christian (Eastern Orthodox) city of Constantinople, capital of the Byzantine Empire.
Although Australian engineer Norman Selfe's steel cantilever bridge design won the 1903 competition for a Sydney Harbour Bridge, it was never built.
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