Saturday, March 28, 2015

Trivia Bits 28 March

 

nazca-condor

Created by the Nazca culture between 400 and 650 AD, the Nazca Lines are a series of ancient geoglyphs located in the Nazca Desert in southern Peru being designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1994. (Condor pictured)

Mezzogiorno is the traditional term used for the southern regions of Italy encompassing the southern section of the continental Italian Peninsula and the two major islands of Sicily and Sardinia.

Barbie Doll’s former Australian boyfriend was Blaine, an Australian surfer, during her split with Ken in 2004.

Man of La Mancha, the popular 1965 musical by Dale Wasserman, Joe Darion and Mitch Leigh, features the principal song, The Impossible Dream which became a standard.

Bill Clinton was the last US President to serve in the 20th Century serving from 1993 to 2001 as the 42nd President of the United States.

Meals on Wheels first originated in the United Kingdom with the first home delivery of a meal on wheels made in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, England during the blitz of World War II.

Nancy Takes Revenge, a 1930 sequel, was released four months after the original film Nyai Dasima which is a 1929 silent film from the Dutch East Indies, modern day Indonesia.

German sculptor Walter Lemcke designed the first 27 cm wood and metal Olympic torch for the Berlin 1936 Summer Olympics torch relay, which began the tradition of taking the Olympic Flame to the host city. The German manufacturer Krupp produced 3,840 copies for the runners, over 500 more than would be needed with the shaft of the torch featuring an eagle over the Olympic rings

Concentrating on the life of Argentine political leader Eva Perón, the second wife of Argentine president Juan Perón, Evita is a musical with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Tim Rice which began as a rock opera concept album released in 1976, then productions in London's West End in 1978 and Broadway a year later and a major 1996 film of the musical starring Madonna and Antonio Banderas.

The discovery in the 17th Century of calculus, the mathematical study of change, is attributed to Gottfried Liebniz and Isaac Newton.

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