The ‘football’ is a briefcase, the contents of which are to be used by the president of the USA to authorize a nuclear attack, while away from fixed command centres.- In 1778, Captain James Cook became the first European to reach Hawaii when he sailed past the island of Oahu.
- Fred Astaire danced on the ceiling in ‘Royal Wedding’ in 1951.
- Asparagine was the first amino acid to be isolated, by 2 French chemists in France in 1806.
- Aruba in the Netherlands Antilles was the centre of a gold rush in the 19th century.
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