Trivia Bits 03 December

 

 

Rhythmic gymnast Georgina Cassar (pictured) was the first athlete from Gibraltar to compete at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, United Kingdom.

Pompeii and Herculaneum were mostly destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.

Angel Falls is a waterfall in Venezuela and is the world's highest uninterrupted waterfall, with a height of 979 m (3,212 ft) and a plunge of 807 m (2,648 ft) after dropping over the edge of the Auyantepui Mountain in the Canaima National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage site in the Gran Sabana region of Bolívar State.

Starring Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law and Cate Blanchett, The Talented Mr Ripley is a 1999 American psychological thriller written for the screen and directed by Anthony Minghella being an adaptation of the 1955 Patricia Highsmith novel of the same name.

Famous Austrian physicist and Nobel Prize winner in Physics 1933, Erwin Schrodinger wrote the 1944 non-fiction science book What Is Life? which contains a discussion of negentropy and the concept of a complex molecule with the genetic code for living organisms.

The classic bibliophile is one who loves to read, admire and collect books, often amassing a large and specialized collection, not necessarily wanting to possess the books they love but, for example, books with unusual bindings and autographed copies

American television series Kojak starring Telly Savalas as the title character, a bald New York City Police Department Detective Lieutenant Theo Kojak which aired from October 1973 to March 1978.

Australian geologist, Antarctic explorer and academic Douglas Mawson was made Emeritus Professor of the University of Adelaide, South Australia in 1952.

Russian composer whose works included symphonies, concertos, operas, ballets, chamber music, and a choral setting of the Russian Orthodox Divine Liturgy Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s death in 1893 is commonly attributed to cholera.

New Netherlands was a 17^th Century colonial province on the east coast of North America with the provincial capital of New Amsterdam located at the southern tip of the island of Manhattan on New York Harbor.