Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Trivia Bits 25 March

 

Police Woman 

Police Woman (poster pictured) is an American television police drama starring Angie Dickinson that ran for four seasons, from September 13, 1974, to March 29, 1978 and revolves around Sgt. "Pepper" Anderson (Angie Dickinson), an undercover police officer working for the Criminal Conspiracy Unit of the Los Angeles Police Department.

The African country of Somalia located in the Horn of Africa has a coastline on the Indian Ocean.

The movement called Dadaism started in the 20th Century and is an art movement of the European avant-garde said to have been born out of negative reaction to the horrors of World War I.

American entertainer Jennifer Lopez's 2011 song Invading My Mind, from her seventh studio album Love?, was co-produced by Lady Gaga.

With origins dating back to 1845, Swiss chocolate and confectionery company Lindt & Sprüngli AG, more commonly known as Lindt, now has six factories located in Kilchberg, Switzerland; Aachen, Germany; Oloron-Sainte-Marie, France; Induno Olona, Italy; Gloggnitz, Austria; and Stratham, New Hampshire in the United States.

The Kane and Abel series of novels were written by English author and former politician Jeffrey Archer and consisted of the novels Kane and Abel (1980), The Prodigal Daughter (1982) and Shall We Tell the President? (1983).

The statue of George V, by Scottish sculptor William Reid Dick, that is now located opposite the House of Lords in London was hidden in a quarry during the Second World War and was unveiled by King George VI, on 22 October 1947 and was attended by Queen Elizabeth, Queen Mary, and Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret.

Naturalist Charles Darwin's third book in a series of geology books Geological Observations on South America, published in 1846, is based on travels during the second voyage of HMS Beagle.

In Healdsburg, California, United States, Madrona Manor, on the United States' National Register of Historic Places, is now a bed and breakfast inn with a Michelin-starred restaurant

Swedish actress and film director Mai Zetterling who, from 1948, starred in a number of English films, playing against such leading men as Tyrone Power, Dirk Bogarde, Richard Widmark, Laurence Harvey, Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom, Richard Attenborough, Keenan Wynn, Stanley Baker, and Dennis Price.

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