Trivia Bits 10 December

 

Buckingham Palace (pictured) is the official London residence and principal workplace of the British monarch and is a setting for state occasions and royal hospitality being originally known as Buckingham House, the building which forms the core of today's palace was a large townhouse built for the Duke of Buckingham in 1705.

Australian adventurer Ben Carlin travelled over 80,000 kilometres (50,000 mi) over land and sea in a modified Jeep, becoming the first person to circumnavigate the world in an amphibious vehicle between 1951 and 1958.

Surviving in complete condition, Minuscule 880, a 15th-century manuscript of the New Testament on paper, was written by teacher George Hermonymus and has 355 paper leaves (size 21.2 cm by 13.8 cm).

In the American comic strip created by cartoonist Chic Young Blondie, the first name of her husband was Dagwood which was first published September 8, 1930.

The video game series of The Sims featured a spin-off called The Urbz with the Hip hop group The Black Eyed Peas providing several music scores for the game, which have also been translated into Simlish.

The Italian city of Venice is built on 118 islands separated by canals and linked by bridges in the marshy Venetian Lagoon which stretches along the shoreline, between the mouths of the Po and the Piave Rivers.

Australian novelist and short story writer, Tim Winton, authored the 2013 book Eyrie which tells the story of Tom Keely, a man who’s lost his bearings in middle age and is now holed up in a flat at the top of a grim high-rise, looking down on the world he’s fallen out of love with.

British and Canadian 2009 children’s interactive animated television series Guess with Jess, Mimi is a Rabbit.

Along with Mindanao and Luzon, the Visayas is one of the main divisions of the island nation of the Philippines consisting of several islands, primarily surrounding the Visayan Sea.

Yule Colorado marble from Treasure Mountain, Colorado, was used in the building of the Lincoln Memorial which was dedicated on May 30, 1922 with Lincoln's only surviving son, 79-year-old Robert Todd Lincoln, was in attendance.