Canopus is a Southern Hemisphere star, but it’s visible in the Northern Hemisphere up to latitudes in the mid 30s e.g. Florida.
In play: Women can be carriers of haemophilia without suffering from it. This is because the relevant faulty gene is on the sex-linked X chromosome and they have a ‘healthy’ version of the gene on their other X chromosome.
St. Jones ***Without ***was a community in Newfoundland at the entrance to a bay, within which another community was named St. Jones Within. St. Jones Within still exists, bur some houses were floated there by sea when St. Jones Without was abandoned in the 1960s.
At 42,031 mi², Newfoundland is the world’s 16th-largest island. It is just smaller than Luzon in the Philippines (hey- where I was born!) at 42,458 mi², and just larger than Cuba’s 40,369 mi².
Historically the value of the Australian dollar was pegged to other, external currencies e.g. Pound sterling, US dollar. On 12 December 1983 the Australian dollar was floated, and its subsequent value has been determined by demand and supply for the currency on the markets.
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The Philippines were named for King Philip II of Spain.
Some Spain athletics:
Rafael Nadal is considered the greatest Spanish tennis player of all time. He has won the French Open for five consecutive times, and altogether won nine Roland Garros titles surpassing Björn Borg’s record of six French Open titles.
Fernando Alonso won two Formula One World Championships, in 2005 and 2006.
The most successful Spanish cyclist is Miguel Indurain. He won the Tour de France in five consecutive years between 1991 and 1995.
A number of Spanish players such as Pau Gasol and his younger brother Marc Gasol, José Calderón, Ricky Rubio, and naturalized Spaniard Serge Ibaka are currently playing in the NBA. Other Spanish players who have recently played in the league include Rudy Fernández and Sergio Rodríguez.
Soccer is the most popular sport in Spain. Successful teams in recent European competitions are Real Madrid, FC Barcelona, Sevilla, Celta,Deportivo de la Coruña Valencia and Atlético Madrid.
Despite their name, Valencia oranges originated in Southern California.
The “orange” in the name of William of Orange is not pronounced in Dutch like the fruit, but rather with a hard G – Or-rang-uh.
(A hard G: Or-rang-guh. Interesting.)
William of Orange’s great-grandson William the third, King of England and Scotland and Stadtholder in the Netherlands, is buried in Westminster Abbey.
William III of England reigned in Scotland as William II, since there had only been one prior King of Scots named William: William the Lion.
In Dutch, which is phonetic, a word spelled “orange” would be pronounces with the Hard-G, which is why William of Orange’s name spelled in Dutch is “Willem van Oranje”, as is the Dutch word for the color orange. It’s pronounced “o-ran-yeh”.
A Dutch auction is one in which the auctioneer starts with a high price and successively lowers it until a buyer accepts the price.
Nigel Powers (Michael Caine) in Austin Powers in Goldmember said, “There’s only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people’s cultures, and the Dutch.”
Nicknames of Ronald Reagan include The Gipper, The Great Communicator, Ronnie, Ronald the Right, The Jelly Bean Man, The Teflon President, and Dutch.
And probably some others that can’t be shared on prime time. 
His father is the one who’d first called him Dutch.
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A prime number is an integer greater than 1 that has no positive divisors other than itself and 1. The prime numbers less than 30 are 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23 and 29.
There is no known formula that gives the nth prime number. However it can easily be proven, as Euclid demonstrated, that the number of primes is infinite.
Infiniti is the luxury auto division of Nissan. Infiniti started selling cars in 1989, and up to now has manufactured its cars exclusively in Japan. This year, 2014, Infiniti is also building cars in China, and next year Infiniti will be building cars in England as well.
The English word ‘manufacture’ is derived from the Latin words facere (past participle factus) meaning ‘to make’ and manus (ablative singular manu) meaning ‘by hand’.
Learned Hand was a highly respected federal court judge, who served for over half a century, first on the District Court of New York, and then for close to forty years on the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals.