Completed in 1993, the minaret of Hassan II Mosque in Casablanca, Morocco (pictured) is the world’s tallest at 210 m (689 ft), having been fitted at the top with an electronic laser directing rays towards Mecca.
The fictional character Macavity the cat was created by T S Elliot described in his poem Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats written during the 1930s, published in 1939 and also appears in Cats, the 1981 Andrew Lloyd Webber musical.
The Jumpinpin Channel separates North Stradbroke Island and South Stradbroke Island in Moreton Bay, Queensland.
Nubia is a region on the Nile River that is located in the countries of Egypt and Sudan.
Halle Berry won the Best Actress Oscar for the 2001 movie Monster’s Ball an American romantic drama film directed by German-Swiss director Marc Forster.
Cairns, the unofficial capital of Tropical North Queensland, located on Trinity Bay surrounded by the rainforest topped hills of The Atherton Tablelands and is one of the most popular tourist destinations in Australia with attractions as The Great Barrier Reef and the nearby Daintree Tropical Rainforests drawing over 1 million annual tourists.
An Indonesian actress and film director Ratna Asmara was the first female film director in Indonesian history after making her directorial debut in 1950 with Sedap Malam (Tuberose).
The two well known dances of Foxtrot and Tango are used in the NATO phonetic alphabet.
The 1963 semi-autobiographical novel The Bell Jar was written by American poet, novelist and short story writer Sylvia Plath and was her only novel, originally published under the pseudonym "Victoria Lucas".
Three islands make up the Cayman Islands, a British Overseas Territory in the western Caribbean Sea - Grand Cayman, Cayman Brac and Little Cayman.
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