Riding Mountain National Park is in Manitoba, sitting on the Manitoba Escarpment.- Dr. Kay Scarpetta is the medical examiner heroine of the crime novels of Patricia Cornwell.
- Billie Holiday, Sophia Loren and Mae West all served time in prison: Holiday for narcotics, Loren for tax evasion, and West for ‘corrupting the morals of youth’ for her play ‘Sex’.
- The Hon. Gail Shea is Canada’s Minister of Fisheries, a position she held once before. As well, she was previously Minister of National Revenue. Shea is a conservative MP for Egmont in Prince Edward Island.
- Tawdry is an altered short form of St Audrey’s lace, the cheap, gaudy neck pieces sold at the annual St Audrey’s Fair in Ely, England.
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