The Chrysler LeBaron was originally a luxury car from the 1930s. Its engine was a 125-HP straight 8.
Baron Byng of Vimy, Governor General of Canada, got into a memorable constitutional row with his Prime Minister, Mackenzie King, which ultimately led to the Balfour Declaration of 1926 and the Statute of Westminster, 1931, establishing the Dominions as equal in status with the United Kingdom as sovereign nations.
The Governor-General of Australia has two official residences: Government House at Yarralumla, on the shore of Lake Burley Griffin in Canberra, and Admiralty House on the shore of Sydney harbour.
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Humpback and Southern Right whales are commonly seen in Sydney Harbour, a regular stop in their migratory pattern. Much less common, however, is for a whale to actually be calved in the harbour, though this actually did occur in 2012.
The arctic tern has the longest known migratory pattern, with average annual round trips of approximately 90,000 km for birds that nest in the Netherlands.
The Netherlands includes three islands in the Caribbean, Bonaire, Sint Eustatius, and Saba, which are also known as the BES islands. Formerly part of the Netherlands Antilles, Sint Eustatius became a special municipality within The Netherlands on 10 October 2010.
Barbara Tuchman wrote The First Salute, about the November 16, 1776 cannon salute rendered by the St. Eustatius fort to the 14-gun American brig Andrew Doria, the first time another country recognized the existence of the United States.
The Andrew Doria is also famous for her participation in the Battle of Nassau—the first amphibious engagement by the Continental Navy and the Continental Marines. She was named after the 16th-century Genoese admiral Andrea Doria.
The MS Stockholm of the Swedish-American Line, which collided with and sank the SS Andrea Doria of the Italian Line off Nantucket in 1956, is still in service as the *MV Azores *of Portuscale Cruises. She has also been named Völkerfreundschaft, Volker, Fridtjof Nansen, Italia I, Italia Prima, Valtur Prima, Caribe, and Athena.
Athena was born, fully mature, from the forehead of Zeus, when Prometheus hit Zeus with an axe.
Athena’s mother was Metis, the goddess of prudence. Zeus had swallowed her to keep her from having a son, who’d be a threat to him.
Patience and Prudence, the McIntyre Sisters, had hits in the Fifties with “Tonight You Belong to Me” and “Gonna Get Along Without You Now”, although they were only 11 and 14 at the time.
The Klingon sisters Lursa and B’Etor, known as the Duras sisters, were occasional adversaries to Capt. Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the USS Enterprise, and were killed in the movie Star Trek Generations.
The Three Sisters are a well-known rock formation in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney. They are a very popular tourist destination.
Mountain is a well known rock formation of Leslie West, Felix Pappalardi, Steve Knight and N. D. Smart.
Mississippi Queen!! You know what I mean!!
The explosion and sinking of the *SS Sultana *on the Mississippi River on 27 April 1865 killed approximately 1,800 people. It remains the greatest maritime disaster in United States history.
**Sultana **grapes are so widely used for making raisins, the word “sultana” is used as the generic word for raisins in some countries.
Indeed. Sultana Bran is one of my favourite choices for breakfast.
Only four countries lie entirely within the southern temperate zone: Uruguay, Lesotho, Swaziland and New Zealand.
New Zealand was granted Dominion status by a proclamation by King Edward VII in 1907.
New Zealand’s worst rail disaster occurred on Christmas Eve 1953 when a packed holiday Wellington-Auckland train plunged into a river at Tangiwai after the rail bridge had been swept away by a volcanic lahar. 151 people were killed.
To this day, each Christmas Eve, a wreath is thrown from a train into the river as the train crosses the new bridge at Tangiwai.