Thursday, September 4, 2014

Trivia Bits 04 September

 

Budgie the Little Helicopter

First published in 1989 Budgie the Little Helicopter series of books by Sarah, Duchess of York, and animated television series the budgie is blue.

Mother Teresa's father Albanian businessman, benefactor and politician Nikollë Bojaxhiu was the only Catholic member of the city council of Skopje and his company constructed the city's first theatre and part of the railway line that connected Skopje with the region of Kosovo.

The worldwide "Spanish Flu" epidemic which broke out in 1918 killed more than 30 million people in less than a year's time.

The 1995 book Take It Like A Man is the autobiography of English singer-songwriter George Alan O'Dowd better known as Boy George.

Australian sports television program Live and Sweaty, broadcast on the ABC from 1991 until 1995 was hosted by Australian television producer and comedian Andrew Denton and was part panel-based, part talk show and part comedy.

In 1942 during World War II, Operation Bertram deceived Rommel about the timing and location of the El Alamein attack, using camouflage and dummies all planned to make the enemy believe that the attack would take place to the south, far from the coast road and railway, and about two days later than the real attack.

British–American actress and children's author Julianne Moore wrote the 2007 children’s book Freckleface Strawberry.

Polish Count, scholar, ardent historical collector and numismatist, Count Emeryk Hutten-Czapski gathered his historical collections for the National Museum in Kraków mainly through purchasing the entire collections of other noble families and after his untimely death in 1896, the family had donated his collections to the city in 1903 along with the palace he bought in 1894 specifically for the purpose of being a museum.

There are more statues of Sacajewa, Lewis & Clark's female Indian guide, in the United States than any other person.

To raise public revenue, Emperor Vespasian--who built the Colosseum--was the first to introduce pay toilets in the city of Rome. When his son and successor Titus protested that the toilets were raising a stink with the poor, Vespasian held a coin up to his nose and said, "money doesn't stink." Today, Romans still refer to public toilets as vespasiano.

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