by Diana Filer
1. Rupert’s Liand was a broad swath of what is now Canada, beginning in the 17th century, named after Prince Rupert of the Rhine. He became the first governor of the Hudson’s Bay Company, which, from 1670 to 1870, had exclusive rights to all the rivers flowing into Hudson’s Bay, so important to the fur trade.
2. Pogonology is the study of beards.
3. ‘http’ stands for ‘hypertext transfer protocol’. It is the foundation of data communication for the World Wide Web, thus ‘www’ before ‘http’ on the internet.
4. The Columbia Ice Fields, the geological heart of Jasper National Park are in the province of Alberta.
5. Vernacular is the standard native language of a country or locality and also the substandard everyday speech of a country or locality.
