The University of Sydney was founded in 1850. It is the oldest university in Australia.
The main campus is spread across the inner-city suburbs of Camperdown and Darlington.
The elder half-brother of Charlie Chaplin was British actor Sydney John “Syd” Chaplin.
Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney, held the post of Home Secretary in the UK in the second half of the 18th century. The two cities of Sydney in Nova Scotia, Canada and Sydney in New South Wales, Australia were named for him, in 1785 and 1788 respectively.
Wales is the only one of the four countries of the United Kingdom which is not represented on the Union Flag.
Union College in Schenectady, NY is the oldest nondenominational college in the US. It is the alma mater of one president, Chester Alan Arthur, and Jimmy Carter took classes there during WWII.
The racecourse in Chester, known as the Roodee, is said to be the oldest racecourse still in use in England.
The oldest dog in the world lived 29 years and 5 months. It was an Australian Cattle Dog that was born in 1910.
The combined, post-federation Commonwealth naval forces were granted the name Royal Australian Navy (RAN) in 1911.
Today, the RAN consists of 48 commissioned vessels, 4 non-commissioned vessels and over 16,000 personnel.
The Royal Australian Air Force was the last armed service in the world to fly the General Dynamics F-111 swing-wing fighter-bomber, retiring the “Aardvark” only in 2009.
Commonly referred to as the 1911, or a 1911, the M1911 pistol is a favorite among many pistol owners as the most desireable semiautomatic to own and use. While there are many fans of Glock and other manufacturers, the 1911 has a specific manual of arms that is markedly different from Glocks.
The 1911 was invented in the year 1911 by American John Browning. Chambered in .45ACP, it was first invented to stop Moro guerrillas of the Philippines where lesser handguns of smaller caliber would fail. The 1911, and more specifically the .45ACP round, typically has better “stopping power” than smaller caliber rounds like .38 Special and the NATO 9X19.
The 1911 has two variants, the 1911A1 and the 1911A2. The 1911A1, released in 1926, included subtle external improvements from World War I battlefield experience to make it easier to use for people with smaller hands. The A1 shares internal parts with the 1911. The 1911A2 variant stems from a project in 2004 to improve on Browning’s design on its internal mechanics including it’s extractor.
The 1911, although replaced in 1984 by the M9 pistol chambered in NATO 9X19, has returned to US military service use, and also use by the US Air Force.
The M9 family of Louisville Slugger baseball bats from Hillerich & Bradsby is made of maple wood, not the usual northern white ash.
Mary Chapin Carpenter’s song, “The Bug”, included this as the chorus:
Harry Chapin, remarkable musician and tireless social activist, died as a result of a car crash on July 16, 1981. The official cause of death was a heart attack.
Chapin was driving without a license. It had been revoked due to may traffic violations.
According to Wikipedia Chapin was driving a 1975 VW Rabbit when he died on the LIE - “ell eye ee”, the Long Island Expressway. This was the second year the Rabbit was sold in the United States. It was introduced in 1974 along with the VW Scirocco. The year before, 1973, the VW Dasher was introduced in the US.
The national dish of Malta is stewed rabbit.
President Carter was once attacked by a rabbit swimming towards him while he was fishing. :eek:
The press blew the incident all out of proportion, calling it a “killer rabbit.” :rolleyes:
Actually, it was a pacifist vegan rabbit, outraged by Carter’s attempt to catch, kill and eat fish. The rabbit cracked under the strain of defending its piscine compatriots. 
Carter Hall – in the Golden Age of Comics, the reincarnation of the Egyptian prince Khufu; in the Silver age, Katar Holl, a Thanagarian police officer – fought crime as Hawkman.
The *Domus Aurea *(Latin for ‘Golden House’) was a large landscaped portico villa built by the Emperor Nero in the heart of ancient Rome, after the great fire in AD 64 had cleared away the aristocratic dwellings on the slopes of the Palatine Hill.
In EE “Doc” Smith’s book, “Triplanetary”, the Emperor Nero is possessed by the Eddorrian who millennia later is known as Grey Roger.
The emperor penguin is endemic to Antarctica. It is the largest of all living penguin species.
When hunting, the species can remain submerged for up to 18 minutes, diving to depths of around 500m. It has several adaptations to facilitate this, including an unusually structured haemoglobin that allows it to function at low oxygen levels.