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Some 330,000 people left Greater Syria (modern day Syria, Israel and Lebanon) between the 1870s and 1930, mainly bound for America.
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The fountain outside the Canberra Centre, known as Canberra Times Fountain, was donated to the city of Canberra on the paper’s 50th Anniversary.
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In the event of a house fire you have 2-3minutes to evacuate from a modern day house compared to 17-20minutes of a house 30 years ago. The difference is due to houses today being filled with plastics and petroleum-based products, having more open floor plans, bigger rooms and higher ceilings.
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In the US during the late 1800s, pharmacies used to sell ice-cream syrup drinks which once contained cocaine and other hallucinogens.
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The Savoy started operating in 1889 and the Ritz in 1906. Cesar Ritz had been a hotel manager at the Savoy before opening the Ritz Hotel and coining the term and hospitality philosophy of “everything is possible, unless it’s illegal”.
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Oscar Wilde had many sexual relations with males at the Savoy - where he lived for a period - and it was due to the statements given by Savoy staff that he was convicted to two years labour for “indecent acts.”
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The concept of dining or entertaining out, was not done in England until the Savoy Hotel was opened.
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A forest of 300,000 oak trees in Sweden were planted in 1830 for the use of ship production. When the government received word that the trees were ready in 1975 they had little use for them due to the advancement of technology.
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Chad and Romania have the same flag design, with only subtle differences in the shade of colours.
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South Australia has a population of 1.7m people, of which 1.33 of whom live in Adelaide.
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📸: Advice from a hotel window sill (taken earlier this year).