Trivia Page
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Did you know .....
....... that The Sunderland Lodge No. 4114 was the first lodge in the Province of Durham to have a web site.
....... that the name "Sunderland" means exactly what it says -- "the land cast asunder", presumably by the River Wear.
....... that The Sunderland Lodge has the popular Secretary's quiz at every meeting.
....... that there are six palindromic lodges in the Province of Durham - Restoration Lodge No. 111, Borough Lodge No. 424, Williamson Lodge No. 949, Sunderland Lodge No. 4114, Lodge of Harmony No. 4224 and King David Lodge No. 7667.
....... that when it was first invented in 1963 by Douglas C. Engelbart, the computer mouse was originally called a "X-Y position indicator".
....... Sunderland became a city in 1992.
....... that The Sunderland Lodge met at the reconstructed Beamish Temple between 1920 and 1933.
....... that County Durham is known as "The Land of the Prince Bishops."
....... that there are 200 lodges in the Province of Durham.
....... that there is Masonic lodge in Sunderland named after Benedict Biscop.
....... that every summer the City of Sunderland hosts an International Air Show (and it is free.)
....... that the Internet became very popular in 1994, but it has been around since the 1960's.
....... that good manners when sending an email is called "netiquette".
....... that BLOCK CAPTALS in an email means that you are shouting
....... that the Stadium of light (the home of Sunderland A.F.C.) is built on the site of an old colliery.
....... that Sunderland A.F.C. won the Football Association Cup in 1937 and 1973.
....... that Sunderland A.F.C. was founded in 1881 and was based on a club known as The Teachers which had started playing in 1879.
....... that the family of the first President of the United States of America originated from Washington Village, just outside of Sunderland. The family coat-of-arms was three stripes and three stars. Does that sound familiar?
....... that John George Lambton, Provincial Grand Master of the Province of Durham between 1818 and 1840 was Governor of Canada.
....... that the first recorded ship-building on Sunderland's river (the River Wear) was in 1346.
....... that the tongue of "Big Ben", (the bell in the Palace of Westminster, London), was forged at Hopper's Foundry in Houghton-le-Spring, Sunderland.
....... that Roker Pier - the harbour's northern breakwater is 2,790 feet long and was opened in 1903. The southern breakwater was never completed due to declining trade.
....... that a system of police boxes was pioneered in Sunderland in 1923 by the then Chief Constable Frederick Crawley.
....... that the Empire Theatre in Sunderland was known as a "comic's graveyard", throughout the world of showbusiness. Many famous names appeared there only to be sent packing by the discerning - if not a little partisan - audience.
....... that the famous clipper "Torrens" was built in Sunderland. She set a record of 64 days for the Australia run. Launched in 1875, the novelist Joseph Conrad served on her for a time as mate. A Sunderland public house is called "The Torrens" and the ship is also the badge of Pennywell School.
....... that there is a concrete boat in the River Wear near Claxheugh Rock. The wreck, called "Cretehawser" was built in 1919, gutted for possible use as an emergency breakwater in 1935 and deliberately beached in 1942.
....... that the first outbreak of cholera in the United Kingdom occurred in October 1831. Two hundred people died.
....... that Sunderland was among the seven most bombed British towns during the Second World War - 267 people were killed, 1,000 were injured (362 of them seriously), 90% of the 34,500 dwellings were damaged, with 1,013 being totally destroyed.
....... that this is second version of The Sunderland Lodge web site. The first version was on line from June 1999 to August 2000.
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