The yellow token in Cluedo represents Colonel Mustard.
The Kentucky Colonels were a member of the American Basketball Association for all of the league’s nine years. The Colonels won the most games and had the highest winning percentage of any franchise in the league’s history, but the team did not join the NBA in the 1976 ABA-NBA merger.
The Kentucky Colonels were only one of two ABA teams, along with the Indiana Pacers, to play for the entire duration of the league without relocating, changing its team name or folding.
The highest possible score for a hand in cribbage is 29, with the hand containing J,5,5,5 and the turn up card being the 5 of the same suit as the Jack.
In Gilbert and Sullivan’s 1879 comic opera The Pirates of Penzance, Frederic was apprenticed to a band of pirates as a child until his 21st birthday. When he passes his 21st year, he leaves the pirate band and falls in love. However, since he was born on February 29, that day will not arrive until he is eighty-four. As such, he must leave his fiancée and return to the pirates. It may be worked out from the opera’s dialogue[that Frederic’s birthday is February 29, 1852, thus making the opera set in 1873. (This assumes that Frederic is aware that 1900 will not be a leap year. If not, the dates would be later by four years.)
On February 29, 1940, The New York Times noted the end of Frederic’s indentures in an article headlined “Frederic Goes Free.”
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Polish composer / pianist Frederic Chopin, who spent his brief adult life mostly in Paris, had a relationship with French writer George Sand (Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin). The troubled romance nevertheless inspired his most creative work. He was later supported by Scottish patroness Jane Stirling, who sponsored his visit to Scotland that was futile in treating Chopin’s tuberculosis.
Tuberculosis, also known over the years as consumption, phthisis, scrofula, Pott’s disease, and the White Plague, has evidence of existing since about 5,000 to 6,000 years ago, during the Neolithic Age. The American Lung Association was previously called the National Tuberculosis Association. The Christmas Seals program began in 1904 to raise funds to fight tuberculosis. In Denmark.
Seal Flipper Pie is a local delicacy in Newfoundland. As the name suggests, it is made from the flippers of seals. It taste rather like fishy beef.
Operation Flipper (also called the Rommel Raid) was a British commando raid, during the Second World War, carried out mainly by men from No.11 (Scottish) Commando. The operation included among its objectives an attack on the headquarters of Erwin Rommel, the commander of the Axis forces in North Africa. Unfortunately Rommel had left the house in Libya weeks before, and most of the commandos were captured or killed.
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, on the fringes of the German military’s abortive plot to kill Hitler, committed suicide when given the chance to do so, rather than be court-martialed, executed and disgraced by the Nazi regime.
The *Campus Martius *(Latin for ‘Field of Mars’) was an area of ancient Rome about 2 km[sup]2[/sup] in extent. It was used for military exercises, games and various religious observances.
The Champ de Mars in Paris stretches between the École Militaire and the Eiffel Tower. It was the site of the Festival of the Supreme Being during the Revolution, and later of Expositions Universelles in 1867, 1878, 1889, 1900, and 1937.
Alexandre Gustave Eiffel was a French civil engineer and architect, best known for the design of the Eiffel Tower in Paris. He made his name with his designs for various bridges for the French railway network, most famously the Garabit viaduct. In his career he designed churches, theatres, stations, bridges and industrial buildings in many countries: France, Bolivia, Chile, Peru, Hungary, Mexico, Portugal, Vietnam etc.
(in play) and the internal framework of the Statue of Liberty.
The Cathedral of Our Lady of Strasbourg in France is widely considered to be among the finest examples of high Gothic architecture.
With a spire of 142 metres, it was the world’s tallest building from 1647 to 1874, when it was surpassed by Saint Nikolai’s Church in Hamburg. Today it is the sixth-tallest church in the world and the highest extant structure built entirely in the Middle Ages.
In April 1794, during the turmoil of the French Revolution, the mob started planning to tear the spire down, on the grounds that it hurt the principle of equality. However it was saved when citizens of Strasbourg crowned it with a giant cap of Liberty (‘Phrygian’ cap).
The Los Angeles California Temple is the tallest church in California and the 21st tallest church in the USA.
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, was a British statesman who served twice as Prime Minister in the mid-19th century. He was the only Prime Minister to be over 70 years old at the beginning of his first term and is the most recent British Prime Minister to die in office.
The oldest US President to assume office was Ronald Reagan (age 69 years, 349 days), who was also the oldest in office (age 77 years, 349 days), ending at the inauguration of George H. W. Bush.
The word ‘inauguration’ can be traced back to the early Roman Republic, where all major decisions, such as when to go to war, and whom to appoint to positions of power, were based on the advice of augurs.
An augur was considered to be a divine soothsayer who could interpret the will of the gods by observing the flight patterns of birds. The Latin noun inauguratio was derived from the verb inaugurare (to take omens from birds in flight).