Wednesday, August 13, 2014

Trivia Bits 13 August

 

Guadalquivir River

The Guadalquivir River (pictured) is the fifth longest river in the Iberian Peninsula and the second longest river with its entire length of 657 kilometres in Spain.

Operation Predator, a U.S. government initiative started in July 2003, seeks to end child sex tourism, which may victimize as many as two million children annually.

Pancetta is made by salt curing pork belly.

American restaurant chain and international franchise Pizza Hut was founded by June 15, 1958 by brothers Dan and Frank Carney in their hometown of Wichita, Kansas.

Lucas Neff is best known for his work in the TV sitcom Raising Hope, an US television comedy program which first aired on September 21, 2010.

Indonesian politician and retired Army general officer Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono became President of Indonesia in 2004.

In the most famous 1880 novel, The Adventures of Pinocchio, by Italian children's writer Carlo Collodi, the pen name of Carlo Lorenzini, the character Pinocchio was carved from wood.

The long lasting Australia radio serial Blue Hills was written by Gwen Meredith and was about the lives of families in a typical Australian country town called Tanimbla. "Blue Hills" itself was the residence of the town’s doctor. Blue Hills was broadcast by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) for 27 years, from 28 February 1949 to 30 September 1976. It ran for a total of 5,795 episodes, and was at one time the world's longest-running radio serial.

French Chef Joël Robuchon has twelve "L'Atelier de Joël Robuchon" restaurants around the world, including in London and Hong Kong.

Arsenic is represented on the chemical periodic table by the symbol AS.

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