1. Legendary series M*A*S*H centers around the doctors and staff stationed at the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital in Uijeongbu, South Korea, during the Korean War.
2. One of the most famous watering holes in America, Cheers is the place where 'everybody knows your name'. It is centered around the bar manager Sam Malone (Ted Danson), server Diane Chambers (Shelley Long) and a host of regulars. There are two Cheers bars in Boston, where the show is based. 3. Superman came to Earth via a rocket ship from the planet Krypton. and landed in a fictional Kansas town called Smallville and was raised there by the Kents. 4. The film takes place in Casablanca, Morocco (then a French protectorate), where numerous Europeans are stranded after having sought refuge from Nazi occupation. 5. Pretty Woman is a 1990 Touchstone Pictures romantic comedy film set in Los Angeles, California. 6. This comedy series, which follows the exploits of employees at London's Grace Brothers department store, is full of sexual innuendo, slapstick, visual gags and double entendres . 7 In the midst of World War II, a squad of Australian soldiers fight a bitter battle against the Japanese forces along the Kokoda trail in New Guinea. 8. Hitler’s surprise attack on the USSR was the most devastating victory of the whole war; as a battle it covered the largest area. The Wehrmacht’s first objective was achieved: the rapid destruction the Red Army in western Russia. 9. Gone with the Wind is a novel by American writer Margaret Mitchell, first published in 1936. The story is set in Clayton County and Atlanta, both in Georgia, during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era. 10. Moulin Rouge is a rigorously accurate historical account of events that occurred during the period between 1899 and 1900 in Paris' infamous Moulin Rouge nightclub. . |
11. Operation Overlord was the codename for the Battle of Normandy, the Allied operation that launched the successful invasion of German-occupied Western Europe.
12. On 28 June 1880 Victorian police captured bushranger Ned Kelly after a siege at the Glenrowan Inn. The other members of the Kelly Gang were killed in the siege. Ned was tried and executed in Melbourne in November 1880. 13. Mary Poppins was set in In Edwardian London in 1910 but was entirely filmed at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California. They used painted London background scenes to mock up London but they were based on actual places. 14. The gunfight at the O.K. Corral was a thirty-second shootout between lawmen led by Virgil Earp that occurred at about 3:00 p.m. on Wednesday, October 26, 1881, in Tombstone, Arizona Territory, United States. 15. Martin Pakula, sports minister of Warne's home state Victoria, said the Great Southern Stand at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG), where the spinner took his 700th wicket on Boxing Day 2006, would be renamed the SK Warne Stand. 16. After a tornado hurl through Kansas, Dorothy Gale and her dog, Toto, are swept away from their home to the colorful and vibrant Land of Oz in “The Wizard od OZ”. 17. The film is set on the fictional island of Isla Nublar, located off Central America's Pacific Coast near Costa Rica. There, wealthy businessman John Hammond and a team of genetic scientists have created a wildlife park of de-extinct dinosaurs. 18. The Battle of the Somme was a battle of the First World War fought by the armies of the British Empire and French Third Republic against the German Empire. It took place on both sides of the upper reaches of the Somme, a river in France. 19. “Sex in the City” is set and filmed in New York City, the show follows the lives of a group of four women—three in their mid-thirties and one in her forties—who, despite their different natures and ever-changing sex lives, remain inseparable and confide in each other. 20. Liza Minnelli takes center stage in this musical film that put her on the map (it swept up eight Oscars in its day). She plays a young American cabaret singer performing at the Kit Kat Klub in Nazi-era Berlin. |