Monday, November 17, 2014

Trivia Bits 17 November

 

Elisabeth Shue csi

Julie Finlay is a fictional character on the CBS crime drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, portrayed by Elisabeth Shue (pictured) who made her first screen appearance in the season twelve episode "Seeing Red", broadcast on February 15, 2012.

India's National Metallurgical Laboratory is an Indian research centre was inaugurated by Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru in 1950 and is situated in Jamshedpur, the largest city in Jharkhand, and a major industrial zone in Eastern India.

Peameal bacon originated in Canada and reflects the historic practice of rolling the cured and trimmed boneless loin in dried and ground yellow peas, originally for preservation reasons but nowadays is rolled in ground yellow cornmeal and is low in fat, and slow cured.

In Search of Lost Time (French: À la recherche du temps perdu)—translated previously as Remembrance of Things Past—is a novel in seven volumes by Marcel Proust known both for its length and its theme of involuntary memory, the most famous example being the "episode of the madeleine." The title In Search of Lost Time, a literal rendering of the French, has gained usage since D. J. Enright adopted it for his revised translation published in 1992.

Four is the maximum number of players in the mathematical game Cuble in which players place tiles to form "cubles", which are made up of the addition or subtraction of two numbers to equal the third.

Car manufacturer Renault makes the Koleos, a compact SUV which was first presented as a concept car at the Geneva Motorshow in 2000 and later in 2006 at the Mondial de l'Automobile in Paris.

In 2006 South African Paralympic swimmer Achmat Hassiem had his right leg was severed by a four-and-a-half metre long great white shark whilst he was training for lifesaving exams at Muizenberg beach.

In 1947, prior to his marriage to Princess Elizabeth now Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Philip held his stag night at The Hinds Head in Bray, Berkshire, which went on to win a Michelin star under chef Heston Blumenthal.

Twelve standard bottles of champagne fit into a salmanazar, a 9 litre bottle and is believed to be named after a biblical Assyrian King.

Known to many United States military personnel as the mother of the 6th fleet, an Israeli Gilla Gerzon, the Director of the Haifa USO, had 241 trees planted in Israel in memory of the 241 Americans killed in the 1983 Beirut barracks bombing.

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