Friday, October 24, 2014

Trivia Bits 24 October

 

lionel richie commodores

Lionel Richie and the Commodores

American singer-songwriter, musician, record producer and actor Lionel Richie was from 1968 lead vocalist for the Commodores signed to Motown Records.

19th-century American tanner who was convicted of murdering one man in Kentucky and another in Texas, Isaac B. Desha was twice convicted of murder and sentenced to hang before being pardoned by his father, Kentucky Governor Joseph Desha in June 1827.

During the Albanian Revolt of 1432–36, Albanian forces under Gjergj Arianiti defeated 10,000 Ottoman troops under Ali Bey near the valley of Shkumbin.

Crownies is an Australian 2011 television drama series starring Australian actress Marta Dusseldorp who was part of a group of solicitors fresh from law school, working with Crown Prosecutors, who are the public prosecutors in the legal system of Australia, working for the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).

A spin-off of the TV series The Vampire Diaries, the 2013 American television series The Originals is set in New Orleans, centring on the Mikaelson siblings known as the world's original vampires.

Australian snowboarder who competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Kent Callister has the nickname The Vegemite Kid.

American singer-songwriter and poet, best remembered as the lead singer of Los Angeles rock band The Doors, Jim Morrison died in the French capital of Paris in 1971.

2012 British Paralympian Helena Lucas was the only female sailor in the 16-boat fleet for the 2.4 mR event, in which she won her nation's first ever Paralympic sailing gold medal

Explorer, sealer and a notable figure in the early history of the Falkland Islands Matthew Brisbane survived three Antarctic shipwrecks but was murdered in the Falkland Islands in 1833.

German East Africa was a colony in South-East Africa that included the three modern-day countries of Barundi, Rwanda and Tanzania.

First collected in 2010 Trogloraptor, found in the caves of south-western Oregon, is the namesake and sole member of an ancient family of cave-dwelling spiders with hook-like feet.

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