Twenty percent of all South Koreans have the surname Kim. Fifteen percent are named Lee, and eight percent named Park. Half of all Koreans use one of the five most common surnames.
The Ontario Legislature is located in Queen’s Park in Toronto. “Queen’s Park” is often used to refer to the Ontario government in casual use.
Queens Park Rangers Football Club plays at Loftus Road in White City, London, which is in the Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, and forms the northern part of Shepherd’s Bush. The side was formed by the merger of St. Jude’s and Christchurch Rangers.
Jude Law played the hot and obnoxious significantly younger boyfriend who brings an older successful closeted man to disaster in two movies in 1997: *Midnight In The Garden of Good and Evil *and Wilde.
The Mississippi Bubble was a Ponzi-like speculation frenzy of 18th century France, where people speculated on the value of land in the New World. Financier John Law was behind the company, whose stock rose to extremely high levels before crashing.
The wrestling team New World Order, including Hollywood Hulk Hogan, Kevin Nash and Scott Hall, took its name from the theorized conspiracy of a small, powerful elite to control all of Earth. Participants are said to include the Bilderberg Group, Bohemian Club, Club of Rome, the Council on Foreign Relations, Rhodes Trust, Skull and Bones, and the Trilateral Commission, among others.
Iowa State wrestler Dan Gable won every match but one of his collegiate career. In the 1972 Munich Summer Olympics he won Gold while not losing a single point in any of his matches.
The National Association, the first organized baseball league in America, had teams in Boston, Brooklyn, Chicago, Hartford, New York, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Washington., and Keokuk,*** Iowa. *** The Keokuk Westerns were not successful, folding with a record of one win and 12 losses in the 1875 season. The following year, the National League was formed, without Keokuk.
Just north of Clear Lake, Iowa, at the corner of Gull Ave. and 315th St. is a modest monument of only a pair of eyeglasses.
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A short walk west into the adjacent cornfield, maybe about 300-400 yards, leads you to this memorial:
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This is where the plane crashed on The Day the Music Died, 03 February 1959, taking the lives of Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper (Jiles Perry “JP” Richardson), and Ritchie Valens, and also the young pilot Roger Peterson.
(Personal note: I visited this spot on Saturday 16 August 2014.)
On 3 February 1931 the Hawke’s Bay earthquake struck New Zealand, killing 256 people and destroying almost every building in the central business areas of Napier and Hastings.
Around 40 km[sup]2[/sup] of sea bed were lifted to form dry land. Napier airport is now located in this area.
The quake remains New Zealand’s deadliest natural disaster.
Due to the sports coverage of the 1989 World Series, the October 17 Loma Prieta earthquake became the first major earthquake in the United States that was broadcast live on national television.
The shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald by Jack Ruby was the first killing which was broadcast live.
The maximum possible score from a cribbage hand is 29 points, where the hand contains a Jack and three fives, and the starter card is the remaining five, of the same suit as the Jack.
Cribbage holds a special place among American submariners, serving as an “official” pastime. The wardroom of the oldest active submarine in the United States Pacific Fleet carries the personal cribbage board of World War II submarine commander and Medal of Honor recipient Rear Admiral Dick O’Kane on board, and upon the boat’s decommissioning the board is transferred to the next oldest boat.
The Oceanic Pole of Inaccessibility is the point in the ocean furthest from land. It lies in the South Pacific, 2688 km from:
- Ducie Island in the Pitcairns;
- Mota Nui in the Easter Island group; and
- Maher Island off the coast of Antarctica.
It is referred to as Point Nemo.
With a population of just over fifty, the people of the Pitcairn Islands are descended from the mutineers of HMAV Bounty and their Tahitian companions.
Pitcairn Island is approximately 3.2km (2 miles) long and 1.6km (1 mile) wide with the capital Adamstown located above Bounty Bay and accessed by the aptly named road, “The Hill of Difficulty”.
The island was named after Midshipman Robert Pitcairn, a fifteen-year-old crew member who was the first to sight the island some 23 years before the Mutineers landed. Robert Pitcairn was a son of British Marine Major John Pitcairn, who was later killed at the Battle of Bunker Hill in the American Revolution.
My house in Edinburgh is named “Pitcairn” for reasons we have been unable to discover thus far.
Dunedin in New Zealand takes its name from Dùn Èideann, the Scottish Gaelic for Edinburgh. It is the second largest city in the South Island, and the largest in the Otago region.
Dunedin is the city farthest from London.
My cousin and her husband were both awarded The New Zealand Bravery Medal (awarded to civilians for acts of bravery).
Her daughter was awarded the higher ranked New Zealand Bravery Decoration (awarded for acts of exceptional bravery in situations of danger). Collectively they managed to keep a man alive for over an hour, following a tragic shooting incident, until the emergency services arrived. He lived.
My niece won the silver ***medal ***for ice dancing in the 2006 Winter Olympics.
The 2006 medalists for ice dancing in Turin were:
Gold: Tatiana Navka / Roman Kostomarov (Russia)
Silver: Tanith Belbin / Benjamin Agosto (United States)
Bronze: Elena Grushina / Ruslan Goncharov (Ukraine)