The highest point on a railway line in Australia is 1,905 metres at Mt Blue Cow station on the Skitube Alpine Railway in NSW.
Saskatchewan and Alberta became provinces of Canada on September 1, 1905.
The boundaries of the provinces of New Zealand were altered a number of times between 1841 and the abolition of provincial government in 1876. Just prior to abolition there were 9 provinces: Auckland; New Plymouth; Hawke’s Bay; Wellington; Nelson; Marlborough; Westland; Canterbury and Otago.
Wellington and Nelson are both entombed in St Paul’s Cathedral.
Nelson’s signal to the fleet before the Battle of Trafalgar was to have been:
However his signal lieutenant John Pasco noted that ‘confides’ was not in the Signal Book and would therefore need to be spelt out letter by letter. He suggested that ‘confides’ be changed to ‘expects’, which was in the Signal Book. This resulted in the famous signal
The HMS Victory was Lord Nelson’s flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. She was made out of 6,000 trees, and 90% of them were oak.
Trafalgar Square has a namesake in the suburb of Waterloo in the city of Lower Hutt, New Zealand. It is situated opposite the Waterloo Interchange railway station.
I can say from experience that it is somewhat less impressive than the London version.
Lord Nelson died in the Bsttle of Trafalgar. His body was pickled in brandy for the long trip home.
There is a legend that when Nelson’s body got home, the cask was found not to be full, presumably because of thirsty jacktars who were willing to drink any liquor they could get. :eek:
This has led to the expression “tapping the admiral” to mean having a drink.
Tapping the Admiral is the name of a pub in north London.
James T. Kirk is promoted to admiral and named Chief of Starfleet Operations after his five-year mission in command of the USS Enterprise, NCC-1701.
The “Big E”, aircraft carrier USS Enterprise CVN-65 and launched in 1962, was the only ship of her class. She was the 11th-heaviest supercarrier, after the 10 carriers of the Nimitz class.
She went out of service on 01 December 2012. At that time she was the third-oldest commissioned vessel in the US Navy, after USS Constitution and USS Pueblo.
The year 1962 had a golden number of 6 in the Catholic liturgical calendar.
Easter is the first Sunday after the first full moon after the Vernal Equinox. However it is not necessarily astronomically based. In Roman Catholicism (and by descent other western Christian churches), the Vernal Equinox is considered to always be on 21 March and in Eastern Catholicism, the Vernal Equinox is 21 March in the Julian Calendar or 3 April in the Gregorian Calendar. Also the Paschal full moon is used which is 14 days after the new moon no matter what phase the moon is actually in.
The moon is currently 69.5% illuminated, in its waxing gibbous phase.
Anything Goes was a Cole Porter musical about a sea voyage with a group of comic characters, including Moon Martin, Public Enemy #13. Martin’s solo song, “Be Like the Bluebird” is written to make him sound like a poor singer.
Maurice Maeterlinck was a Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911. One of his-better known works is the play *The Blue Bird *(L’oiseau bleu), writen in 1908.
Author Maurice Sendak won the 1964 Caldecott Medal for the book he both wrote and illustrated, Where the Wild Things Are.
In a 2008 interview Sendak admitted to a secret that he had kept hidden from the public and his parents for 50 years: he was gay.
Steven Bradbury became the first Australian to win a winter Olympic gold medal when he won the 1,000 m ice skating event at the 2002 Winter Olympics after all of his opponents fell over.
Cool trivia. I had to look up this event from the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics. It was short track speed skating, and all the opponents fell in the last turn. Bradbury was well off the pace when the leaders, including the US’s Apollo Anton Ohno, crashed while jockeying for the win and the Gold Medal.