News At A Glance #34

By ASH Smyth
February 2023

—    The Nelson Evening Mail, 3 October 1906

The portrait of George Washington used for the dollar bill is unfinished.

Colophon was an ancient city in Ionia, founded around the turn of the first millennium BC.

Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan does not – repeat not – look like Gollum out of Lord of the Rings.

The first diesel engine ran for one minute.

Before being called Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs, Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs were called the (Royal) Charms, the Gladiolas, and then the Excellos.

February 21st is the 52nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar.

48% of Finns support joining the NATO alliance.

Anglican activists are good at passive aggression.

The word ‘penguin’ first appears in literature at the end of the 16th century.

Serving alcoholic drinks to French schoolkids was legal until 1956.

100-year-olds can’t go skateboarding.

The head of the Chechen Republic has received the Order of Merit for Dentistry.

Whoopi Goldberg’s mansion is just unacceptable.