King George VI, while Duke of York, played at Wimbledon in the Men’s Doubles in 1926. His parter was Louis Greig, a naval surgeon and talented sportsman, who also played rugby for Scotland.
Rugby, North Dakota, is regarded as the geographic center of North America.
There are two forms of rugby football. A rugby *union *team has 15 players. A rugby *league *team has 13 players.
Canadian football shows more of its rugby roots than four-down US football, particularly in the rules regarding kicking the ball into and out of the end zone.
The Canadian Football League (CFL) used to include two teams with essentially the same name: the Saskatchewan Roughriders, and the Ottawa Rough Riders. Ottawa’s team folded in 1996, but was later resurrected as the Ottawa Renegades (2001-2006) and later as the Ottawa Redblacks in 2014.
Ottawa is the capital of Canada. Its sister cities include Beijing, Cairo and Catania.
Ottawa was originally settled as a suburb of Gatineau, Quebec, across the Ottawa River. It was previously known as Wrightstown and Bytown, before incorporating as the city of Ottawa.
Canada’s most-visited museum is the Canadian Museum of History in Ottawa.
The Australian Museum is the oldest museum in Australia. It was founded in 1827 by the Earl Bathurst.
H. Beam Piper (no relation 
) wrote a wonderful alternate history short story, “He Walked Around the Horses,” about the disappearance of a British diplomat, Benjamin Bathurst, in Germany in 1809.
Queen Victoria referred to her youngest child, Princess Beatrice, as ‘my Benjamina’ in reference to Benjamin, the twelfth and youngest son of Jacob.
The 12 sons of Jacob were the 12 tribes of Israel. Jacob was renamed to Israel by God. These sons (and tribes), named in the book of Genesis, were Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Issachar, Zebulun, Joseph, and Benjamin.
Saint Luke’s gospel recounts the story of Simeon, a devout Jew who had been promised that he would not die before seeing the Christ. On seeing the child Jesus being presented in the Temple in Jerusalem, Simeon recited the lines immortalised as the Nunc Dimittis…“Lord, now lettest Thou Thy servant depart in peace”.
These words have been recited daily at Compline (Night Prayer) for over 1500 years.
Luke’s is the longest gospel. It covers twenty-five percent of the entire New Testament. Also, Luke contains 18 unique parables, including the Good Samaritan, the Lost Sheep, and the Prodigal Son.
Sheep are unable to refocus to see distant objects, as their eyes lack the ability for accommodation, and they have poor depth perception.
In the second episode of the TV series “Monty Python’s Flying Circus”, Graham Chapman as a country farmer, observing his sheep’s attempts to fly, notes to John Cleese as a visiting city slicker that “they do not so much fly as *plummet *… One thing is for sure; a sheep is not a creature of the air. They have enormous difficulty in the comparatively simple act of perchin’. (crash) As you see. As for flight, its body is totally unadapted to the problems of aviation. Trouble is, sheep are very dim. Once they get an idea in their heads, there’s no shifting it.”
Moving from Monty Python to Douglas Adams, a Sheppey is a unit of measure of distance equal to about 7⁄8 of a mile (1.4 km), defined as the closest distance at which ***sheep ***remain picturesque.
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That surprised me, so I thought I’d check.
The New Testament at my right hand [ha!] has Luke running from pages 57 to 93, which is to say a good deal less than a quarter of the whole NT, which encompasses page 1 to page 284.
Most of the letters aren’t long, but there sure are a lot of them, and books such as Acts, Matthew, and John aren’t a lot shorter than Luke.
Curious about where you got this information.
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The Isle of Sheppey is an island off the north coast of Kent in England. It was the scene of some of the early development of aviation in the UK.
Killiniq, an*** island off the north coast ***of Canada, was once one of the smallest islands in the world lying in two countries. Before 1947, it was divided between Canada and Newfoundland.