Monday, November 10, 2014

Trivia Bits 10 November

 

Wendell Pierce

American actor Wendell Pierce (pictured) played Bunk Moreland in the TV series The Wire, an American crime drama television series set and produced in and around Baltimore, Maryland.

The Umbrellas was a controversial 1990s installation/environmental artwork by Christo and Jeanne-Claude with the plan to have yellow umbrellas set up in California and blue umbrellas in Japan at the same time and by September 7, 1,340 blue umbrellas in Ibaraki and 1,760 yellow umbrellas at the Tejon Ranch in southern California had been set up; the exhibition opened on 9 October 1991.

The Republic of San Marino is landlocked by Italy and is situated on the Italian Peninsula on the north-eastern side of the Apennine Mountains being just over 61 km2 (24 sq mi).

The 1954 book Reach for the Sky, by Paul Brickhill, was based on the life of WWII pilot Douglas Bader and was made into a film starring Kenneth More, directed by Lewis Gilbert and won the BAFTA Award for Best British Film of 1956.

The River Seine flows through the European city of Paris being a 776 km long river and an important commercial waterway.

A 19th-century brick synagogue in Radzanów, north-west of Warsaw, designed with Moorish-style motifs, serves as a public library since there are now no Jews in Radzanów

The planet Jupiter has 67 known moons.

British sitcom Only Fools and Horses originally broadcast on BBC One in the United Kingdom from 1981 to 1991 with David Jason playing Derek "Del Boy" Trotter, an archetypal South London market trader, willing to sell anything to anyone to earn money.

2012-2013 BBC nature documentary series Nature's Microworlds covers the wildlife of microclimates ranging from the Serengeti grasslands in Africa to the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard in the thirteen thirty-minute episodes.

The proverbial phrase when life gives you lemons, make lemonade" was first coined by Christian anarchist writer Elbert Hubbard in 1915.

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