Total Trivia

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".

But you knew that anyway

 

[fire_breeze]

Many national names (such as Rrom, Magyar, Ndee (Apache), þeudō(Teutons)) in their original language mean "the people" or if in singular, "human"/"man".

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

The word "hamlet" means a small village.
The word has incorporated into place names such as Southampton, meaning "the south small village town"

 

[VanGogh66]

Bar trivia is tomorrow night. I need to start studying.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Bar trivia is tomorrow night. I need to start studying.

Whatever you learn will be devoured in here

 

[VanGogh66]

Whatever you learn will be devoured in here

Devouring is not a bad thing.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Today (12th July 2011) sees the first completed orbit around the sun by Neptune since its discovery in 1846.

 

[Kamadeva]

Americans eat on average 18 acres worth of pizza every day.

 

[VanGogh66]

I should have posted this yesterday in celebration of the anniversary of 7-Eleven convenience stores.

(copied from Wikipedia)
The company has its origins in 1927 in Dallas, Texas, when an employee of Southland Ice Company, Joe C. Thompson, started selling milk, eggs and bread from an ice house.
The original location was an improvised storefront at Southland Ice Company, an ice-manufacturing plant owned by John Jefferson Green.
Although small grocery stores and general merchandisers were present in the immediate area, Thompson, the manager of the ice plant, discovered selling convenience items, such as bread and milk, was popular due to the ice's ability to preserve the items.
This significantly cut back on the need to travel long distances to the grocery stores for basic items.
Thompson eventually bought the Southland Ice Company and turned it into Southland Corporation, which oversaw several locations which opened in the Dallas area.
Initially, these stores were open from 7 am to 11 pm, hours unprecedented in their length, and the new company had been founded on July 11 (read: 7-11), hence the name.
The company began to use the 7-Eleven name in 1946. By 1952, 7-Eleven opened its 100th store. It was incorporated as Southland Corporation in 1961

Among 7-Eleven's offerings are private label products, including Slurpee, a partially frozen soft drink introduced in 1967, and the Big Gulp introduced in 1980 that packaged soft drinks in large cups ranging in size from 20 to 64 US fluid ounces (0.59 to 1.9 liters).

 

[daus42]

I should have posted this yesterday in celebration of the anniversary of 7-Eleven convenience stores.

(copied from Wikipedia)
The company has its origins in 1927 in Dallas, Texas, when an employee of Southland Ice Company, Joe C. Thompson, started selling milk, eggs and bread from an ice house.
The original location was an improvised storefront at Southland Ice Company, an ice-manufacturing plant owned by John Jefferson Green.
Although small grocery stores and general merchandisers were present in the immediate area, Thompson, the manager of the ice plant, discovered selling convenience items, such as bread and milk, was popular due to the ice's ability to preserve the items.
This significantly cut back on the need to travel long distances to the grocery stores for basic items.
Thompson eventually bought the Southland Ice Company and turned it into Southland Corporation, which oversaw several locations which opened in the Dallas area.
Initially, these stores were open from 7 am to 11 pm, hours unprecedented in their length, and the new company had been founded on July 11 (read: 7-11), hence the name.
The company began to use the 7-Eleven name in 1946. By 1952, 7-Eleven opened its 100th store. It was incorporated as Southland Corporation in 1961

Among 7-Eleven's offerings are private label products, including Slurpee, a partially frozen soft drink introduced in 1967, and the Big Gulp introduced in 1980 that packaged soft drinks in large cups ranging in size from 20 to 64 US fluid ounces (0.59 to 1.9 liters).

Big gulp and the other garbage food 7-11 sells coincides with America becoming an obese nation.

 

[albertaboy]

Today (12th July 2011) sees the first completed orbit around the sun by Neptune since its discovery in 1846.

July 12th is also Orangeman's day in Northern Ireland.

It celebrates the victory of Protestand King William of Orange over Catholic king James at the battle of the Boyne in 1690.

In more recent times it is marching season in Northern Ireland generally causing violent clashes in Belfast and Derry.

Being the son of a Northern Irish Catholic we never celebrated it, it was always a tough day for my Dad.

 

[daus42]

July 12th is also Orangeman's day in Northern Ireland.

It celebrates the victory of Protestand King William of Orange over Catholic king James at the battle of the Boyne in 1690.

In more recent times it is marching season in Northern Ireland generally causing violent clashes in Belfast and Derry.

Being the son of a Northern Irish Catholic we never celebrated it, it was always a tough day for my Dad.

Ireland should be reunited just as Germany was. The religious differences are fading in the modern world. If only the politicians could agree......

70 Million people, worldwide, can claim Irish ancestry.

 

[papadoc19]

Simba is Swahili for lion...so in the film The Lion King the protagonist's name really meant lion the lion...

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

July 12th is also Orangeman's day in Northern Ireland.

It celebrates the victory of Protestand King William of Orange over Catholic king James at the battle of the Boyne in 1690.

In more recent times it is marching season in Northern Ireland generally causing violent clashes in Belfast and Derry.

Being the son of a Northern Irish Catholic we never celebrated it, it was always a tough day for my Dad.

And yet, despite the troubled past, the Irish can be the friendliest people on earth....

On a business trip to Belfast my taxi driver from the City airport asked for my destination. (And here is my trivia)

I told him The Europa Hotel.

He began to laugh and told me that it was in the Guinness Book of Records.

"Oh really?" I enquired.

And with almost an air of pride and devilish laughter he replied, "It's the most bombed hotel in the world!"

 

[VanGogh66]

And yet, despite the troubled past, the Irish can be the friendliest people on earth....

On a business trip to Belfast my taxi driver from the City airport asked for my destination. (And here is my trivia)

I told him The Europa Hotel.

He began to laugh and told me that it was in the Guinness Book of Records.

"Oh really?" I enquired.

And with almost an air of pride and devilish laughter he replied, "It's the most bombed hotel in the world!"

I bet that helped you to sleep that night there.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Vitamin D is the only vitamin manufactured by the body, all the rest are essential dietary requirements.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

As we say goodbye to the iconic reusable space planes, here are some surprising shuttle facts to keep in mind:

While in orbit, the space shuttle travels around Earth at a speed of about 17,500 miles (28,000 kilometers) per hour. At this speed, the crew can see a sunrise or sunset every 45 minutes.

The combined mileage of all five orbiters is 513.7 million miles (826.7 million km), or 1.3 times the distance between Earth and Jupiter. Each orbiter, except for Challenger, traveled farther than the distance between Earth and the sun.

 

[someoneyouknow]

It wasn't until 1997 that it was legal to have a tattoo shop in New York City.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

The original purpose of ENIAC, the world's first "modern" computer was to compute ballistic trajectories for artillery shells. ENIAC--an acronym for Electronic numerical integrator and Calculator --was introduced in 1946.

 

[fire_breeze]

Alexander Calder, an American sculptor and artist most famous for inventing mobile sculptures, was born today in 1898.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

Because a woman's sexual organs are for the most part located inside the body, both men and women seem to have less clarity and understanding about their appearance and function. Certainly as far as the G-Spot is concerned this is true, because some people still doubt that it even exists, while others maintain that it is essential to full female sexual satisfaction.

 

[albertaboy]

Canada is 7036 km across, from Victoria, BC to St John's NFLD.

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

This is a real bathroom with authentic artwork on the floor, who would dare to walk across without trepidation?

http://i328.photobucket.com/albums/l323/GaiaLorraine/Lizardsbathroom.jpg

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

More women talk dirty during sex then men do (Playboy).

 

[Gaia_Lorraine]

The futility of war...

The first Battle of the Somme was the bloodiest and most costly unsuccessful Allied offensive on the Western Front during World War I.

The Germans were securely entrenched and strategically located when the British and French launched their frontal attack on a 21-mile front north of the Somme River. A weeklong artillery bombardment preceded the British infantry's ‘going over the top’, but the latter were nevertheless cut down by concentrated machine-gun fire as they assaulted the virtually impregnable German positions. The British sustained 57,450 casualties (20,000 dead) on July 1st, the first day of the attack. This is the heaviest British loss in one day of warfare ever.