Thursday, August 14, 2014

Trivia Bits 14 August

 

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Nelson Mandela was inaugurated as the first black President of South Africa in 1994 (pictured).

The fictional detective Nero Wolfe was created in 1934 by the American mystery writer Rex Stout wrote 33 novels and 39 short stories from 1934 to 1974, with most of them set in New York City.

The Tso Kar, with a surface area covering 22km2, is a salt lake in Ladakh in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir.

Egypt and Syria led the Yom Kippur War against Israel in 1973 and served as a direct antecedent of the 1979 Camp David Accords which resulted in the Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty, the first ever between Israel and an Arab state.

Hulk Hogan’s character in the 1982 movie Rocky III was Thunderlips.

Carl von Ossietzky, the controversial recipient of the 1935 Peace Prize was German and won it for his work in exposing the clandestine German re-armament.

In 1995, Simple Minds, Scottish rock band formed in 1977, released the album Good News From the Next World.

Stotts Island Nature Reserve, protected area of 141 hectares (350 acres), situated on the Australian east coast near Tweed Heads, is home to the endangered Mitchell's rainforest snail.

The Australian state of Tasmania is known as The Apple Isle.

Although Mykola Leontovych's secular music was well known in the twentieth century, his Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom was little known because of a ban on sacred music in the Soviet Union.

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