Damme Agatha Christie
(born Agatha Mary Clarissa
Miller) was a British writer
of the genres of murder mystery,
thriller, crime fiction,
detective and plays.

Agatha Christie also
used the pen name of Mary
Westmacott to write 6 romances
but none of them achieved the
popularity of her 80
detective novels.

Agatha Christie is the
best-selling writer of
books of all time according
to Guinness Book of World
Records with over four
billion copies of novels.

Christie is also the
most translated individual
writer according to UNESCO
with her works being
translated into no
less than 103 different
languages.

"The Mousetrap" a stage play
by Agatha Christie holds the
world's record for the longest
initial run, opening at the
Ambassadors Theatre on 1952
and is still running as of
the present days with over
23,000 performances.

Agatha Christie's books
and short stories have
been adapted to several
other media including
movies, TV series, radio,
comics and video games.

The Spanish treasure
fleets (or West Indies Fleet)
was a galleon fleet system used for
transporting varied goods by the
Spanish Empire from
1566 to 1790.

In the 1520's, due to the
increase in English and French
piracy, the Spanish Empire decided
to organize a system of heavily
armed convoys to increase
transport safety.

After completing the
download of its products
(manufactured goods, but
later also slaves), the
fleets met in Havana in
the island of Cuba for
the return trip.

Those convoys were
general purpose fleets
but they were most famous
for transporting silver,
pearls, gold and gems
from the Spanish
colonies to Spain.

The Nuestra Senora de
Atocha was a galleon part
of the West Indies fleet,
which sank in 1622 off
the coast of Florida.

The loss of the
Atocha and its fleet had
an immediate and tremendous
impact on Spain, resulting
in the selling of several
galleons to raise funds.

Family Feud is a
popular TV game show
created by Mark Goodson
and Bill Todman where two
family teams compete by
naming the most popular
responses to a 100-
people survey-type
question.

Family Feud in its
original version premiered
on ABC on July 12, 1976
and was hosted by Richard
Dawson until 1985 when
it was canceled.

Family Feud had
five installments on
ABC from 1976 to 1985,
on CBS from 1988 to 1993
and syndicated from
1977 to 1985, from
1988 to 1995 and
from 1999 to the
present day.

One of the reasons
Family Feud was canceled
in 1995 was the O.J.
Simpson murder trial,
which began in January

Family Feud had
six hosts Richard
Dawson (1976-1985,
1994-1995) Ray Combs
(1988-1994) Louie Anderson
(1999-2002) Richard Karn
(2002-2006) John O'Hurley
(2006-2010) Steve Harvey
(2010-present).

Nowadays Family Feud's
host Steve Harvey is not
only the host of this TV game
show but also an actor, comedian,
entertainer, television & radio
personality and best-selling author.

Hotel Solitaire is
the name of at least three
hotels located in India in
the cities of Chandigarh,
Bangalore and Agra near
the world famous
Taj Mahal.

The record of world's
fastest computer solitaire
is 12 seconds.

"Patience" is
another name for
Solitaire.

Named after Napoleon
like "Napoleon at St. Helena",
"Napoleon's Square" and others,
due to the rumor that he played
Patience during his exile, however
there is written record of Napoleon
playing other card games but no
mention to solitaire was made.

Solitaire card games
were traditionally used
as a sort of person's
luck indicator in German
and Scandinavian
countries.

Around 1870 the
Lady Cadogan's Ilustrated
Games of Solitaire or Patience
by Adelaide Cadogan was
published and it described
and depicted a collection
of 47 card games of
solitaire.

Dennis James was the
host of "The New Price
Is Right"in its syndicated
nighttime version premiered
on September 11, 1972, Dennis
continued to be the host
until 1977 when he was
replaced by Bob Barker.

Bob Barker completed
a 35-year tenure in March
2007, however, two years after,
on April 16, 2009, he made
a special guest appearance
on the Showcase Showdown
part of the show.

Janice Pennington
and Anitra Ford were the
original models, they were
named after the host as
"Barker's Beauties"

Rumor has it that there
were several prohibitions
that Bob Baker promoted while he
was a host, these restrictions
included leather-made products
offering, or leather sits on
vehicle and the display of
fake meat on cooking devices
such as barbecues and ovens.

Drew Carey started as a host
on October 15, 2007 and since
then such prohibitions have
been lifted and also couture
clothing and accessories from
designers such as Coach Inc.,
Louis Vuitton and Limited
Brands are offered.

Two of the five nowadays
models in "The Price Is
Right" came from abroad:
Manuela Arbelaez from
Medellin, Colombia and
Gwendolyn Osborne who
was born in Bath, England.