Crossing the Gardon River in France is the famous Roman aqueduct Pont du Gard (pictured), is part of the Nîmes aqueduct, a 50 km-long (31 mi) structure built by the Romans to carry water from a spring at Uzès to the Roman colony of Nemausus (Nîmes) and was added to UNESCO's list of World Heritage Sites in 1985 because of its historical importance.
In July 1911 in Northeastern Ontario, Canada, William Henry Wright and his brother-in-law were hunting rabbits when they stumbled upon quartz outcropping that became the Kirkland Lake Break which hosted seven gold-producing mines eventually yielding 13.5 million ounces of gold.
David Evans is a famous musician better known as The Edge, an Irish musician and the guitarist, backing vocalist, and keyboardist of the rock band U2.
Detective Chief Inspector Thomas Geoffrey "Tom" Barnaby is a fictional detective created by Caroline Graham and is the main detective in Midsomer Murders, a popular television show based on the novels played by John Nettles from 1997.
The Garabogazkol Basin is a shallow inundated depression in the north-western corner of Turkmenistan.
Philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist George Santayana reportedly called The Sense of Beauty, his book on aesthetics, a "wretched potboiler" that he wrote mainly for tenure - a senior academic's contractual right not to have his or her position terminated without just cause.
The 2006 Australian stop-motion animated children's television show The Koala Brothers features brothers Frank and Buster as they seek to help their neighbours in a sleepy town in the Australian Outback.
The Australian Commonwealth Bank started the Dollarmites Club a banking programme in which children bank at school and earn Dollarmites tokens which they can redeem for great rewards and also have access to games, puzzles, activities and downloads to help learn about saving money.
With a vault of 6.16 metres on 15 February 2014, French pole vaulter Renaud Lavillenie broke Ukrainian former pole vaulter Sergey Bubka’s pole vault world record of 6.15 meters, set on 21 February 1993.
The Church of St Candida and Holy Cross in Whitchurch Canonicorum is the only parish church in England to have a shrine containing the relics of a saint belong to St Candida, the Latin form of St Wite, to whom the church is dedicated.
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