Friday, November 14, 2014

Trivia Bits 14 November

 

jheri curl michael jackson

American recording artist, actor, producer and dancer Michael Jackson (pictured) had a Jheri curl hairstyle which was a permed hairstyle, invented by the American, chemist, hair care products and entrepreneurial hairdresser Jheri Redding, that was common and popular in the African American, Black Canadian, and Black British communities, especially during the 1970s and 1980s.

Red Pontiac and Desiree are varieties of the vegetable potato.

The enclosed bridge made of white limestone and has windows with stone bars in Venice connecting the New Prisons to the Droge’s Palace is known as the Bridge of Sighs and was designed by Antoni Contino and was built in 1602.

Ruisreikäleipä is a flat rye flour loaf with a hole in the middle which was stored for the Nordic winter's length to mature and is still a component of the Finnish diet

The 1993 Australian film The Heartbreak Kid starred Claudia Karvan and Alex Dimitriades as spun off into the television series Heartbreak High running from 1994 to 1999 dealing with the students of the fictional Hartley High, a tough high school in a multi-racial area of Sydney.

Vigdis Finnbogadottir was the first female president of Iceland for sixteen years from 1980, was also Europe's first female president and the world's first democratically elected female head of state.

Cape Grim is located on the far north-western point of the Australian state of Tasmania discovered and named by Matthew Flinders on 7 December 1798, as he sailed from the East in the Norfolk and found a long swell coming from the South-west, confirming for the first time that Van Diemen's Land was separated from the Australian mainland by a strait which he named Bass Strait.

Zulu is the language of the Zulu people with about 10 million speakers, the vast majority (over 95%) of whom live in South Africa becoming one of South Africa's eleven official languages in 1994.

American writer of novels, short stories and poetry Herman Melville is best known as the author of his sixth book Moby Dick first published October 18, 1851 (Britain) and November 14, 1851 (U.S.).

The Roman equivalent of the Greek Goddess Athena is Minerva, goddess of wisdom and sponsor of arts, trade, and defence.

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