Make a list of 43 things I know very little about, & then learn at least 3 things about each of them

1. Architecture is the art and science of designing buildings and structures.

2. Architectual design is primarily driven by the creative manipulation of mass, space, volume, texture, light, shadow, materials, program, and pragmatic elements such as cost, construction and technology, in order to achieve an end which is aestheic, functional and often artistic.

3. Architecture is the human organisation of empty space using physical materials.

1. What we eat plays an important role in our health. Eating a variety of different foods daily, together with an active lifestyle, are the key factors for good health.

2. Eating a wide variety of healthy foods is the best way to minimise the risk of diet-related diseases.

3. Eat plenty of vegetables, legumes and fruits.

4. Eat plenty of cereals (including breads, rice, pasta and noodles), preferably wholegrain.

5. Include lean meat, fish, poultry and/or alternatives.

6. Include milks, yoghurt, cheeses and/or alternatives. Reduced-fat varieties should be chosen, where possible.

7. Drink plenty of water.

8. Limit saturated fat and moderate total fat intake.

9. Choose foods low in salt. Limit your alcohol intake if you choose to drink.

10. Consume only moderate amounts of sugar and foods containing added sugar.

11. Prevent weight gain: be physically active and eat according to your energy needs.

1. The estimated population is 2,153,600.

2. Paris is today one of the world’s leading business and cultural centres, and its influence in politics, education, entertainment, media, fashion, science and the arts all contribute to its status as one of the world’s major global cities.

3. Paris is the most popular tourist destination in the world, with over 30 million foreign visitors per year.

1. The average weather most Australians experience today is hotter, drier and more volatile than it used to be.

2. Climate change is largely the result of increased levels of human caused greenhouse pollution in the atmosphere.

3. An increase in global temperatures is expected to cause other changes, including sea level rise, increased intensity of extreme weather events, and changes in the amount and pattern of precipitation.

4. Other effects include changes in agricultural yields, glacier retreat, species extinctions and increases in ranges of disease vectors.

1. Body language is a term for communication using body movements or gestures.

2. 70% of communication is through body language.

3. Nonverbal communication by means of facial expressions, gestures, posture and the like.

4. Body language expresses emotions, feelings, and attitudes, sometimes even contradicting the messages conveyed by spoken language.

1. A disc jockey or DJ is a person who selects and plays prerecorded music for an audience.

2. Club DJs select and play music in a bar, club, disco, a rave, or even a stadium.

3. Club DJ turntable techniques include beat matching, phrasing and slip-cueing.

4. Turntablism embodies the art of cutting, beat juggling, scratching, needle drops, phase shifting, back spinning, and more to perform the transitions and overdubs of samples in a more creative manner.

5. The main focus of club DJs is on the music they play. They build their sets by choosing tracks to control the energy level of the crowd and use beatmixing (or “beatmatching”) techniques for seamless transition between tracks.

1. Green tea has been used as a medicine in China for at least 4,000 years.

2. Green tea is reputed to be helpful with cancer, rheumataid arthritis, high cholesterol levels, cardiovascular disease, infection, impaired immune function, and more.

3. It is rich in catechin polyphenols, particularly epigallocatehin gallate (EGCG). EGCG is a powerful anti-oxidant: besides inhibiting the growth of cancer cells, it kills cancer cells without harming healthy tissue.

4. New evidence is emerging that green tea can help you lose weight.

5. Green tea can even help prevent tooth decay! Just as its bacteria-destroying abilities can help prevent food poisioning, it can also kill the bacteria that causes dental plaque.

6. To date, the only negative side effect is insomnia due to the fact it contains caffeine. However, green tea contains less caffeine then coffee.

1. Born November 2, 1755 in Vienna, Austria.

2. She was the youngest and most beautiful daughter of Francis Stephen 1 and Maria Theresa, Emperor and Emperess of the Holy Roman Empire.

3. She married the Crown Prince of France in 1770. Four years later she became Queen when her husband was crowned King Louis XVI (House of Bourbon).

4. Rather than ignoring France’s growing financial crisis, she reduced the royal household staff, eliminating many unnecessary positions that were based solely on privilege.

5. Anoinette and Louis were placed in harm’s way not only by elements of their personalities, but by the changing face of political and social ideology in the 18th and 19th centuries.

6. In 1789 a mob demanded the royal family move to the Tuilerie palace inside Paris, where the King and Queen were virtual prisoners.

7. They attempted to flee Paris in 1791, but failed.

8. When Austria and Prussia declared war on France, she was accused of passing military secrets to the enemy.

9. On August 10, 1793 King Louis XVI was convicted and executed on the guillotine.

10. Her children (Marie Therese and Louis XVII) were taken from her. Louis XVII was subjected to abuse by the family’s jailers and later died, supposedly of Tuborculosis and malnutrition. Marie Therese, her firstborn daughter, was the only family member to survive.

11. Antoinette followed her husband to the guillotine on October 16, 1793. She was executed without proof of the crimes for which she was accused. She was only 37 years old.

1. In December 1975, George and Kathleen Lutz and their children moved into 112 Ocean Avenue, a large Dutch Colonial house in Amityville, a suburban neighborhood located on the south shore of Long Island, New York. Thirteen months before the Lutzes moved in, Ronald DeFeo Jr. had shot dead six members of his family at the house. After 28 days the Lutzes left the house, claiming to have been terrorised by paranormal phenomena while living there.

2. George would wake up around 3:15 every morning and would go out to check the boathouse. Later he would learn that this was the estimated time of the DeFeo killings.

3. The house was plagued by swarms of flies despite the winter weather.

4. Kathy had vivid nightmares about the murders and discovered the order in which they occurred, and the rooms where they took place. The Lutzes’ children also began sleeping on their stomachs, in the same way that the dead bodies in the DeFeo murders had been found.

5. Kathy would feel a sensation as if “being embraced” in a loving manner, by an unseen force.

6. There were cold spots and odours of perfume and excrements in areas of the house where no wind drafts or piping would explain the source.

7. The Lutzes’ five-year-old daughter, Missy, developed an imanginary friend named “Jodie”, a demonic pig-like creature with glowing red eyes.

8. George would hear what was described as a “German marching band tuning up” or what sounded like a clock radio playing not quite on frequency. When he went downstairs the noise would cease.

9. While in bed, Kathy received red welts on her chest caused by an unseen force and was levitated two feet off the bed.

10. Locks, doors and windows in the house were damaged by an unseen force.

11. Cloven footprints attributed to an enormous pig appeared in the snow outside the house on January 1, 1976.

12. Green slime oozed from walls in the hall, and also from the keyhole of the playroom door in the attic.

13. A 12-inch crucifix, hung in a closet by Kathy, revolved until it was upside down and gave off a sour smell.

14. George tripped over a four foot high china lion which was an ornament in the living room and was left with bite marks on one of his ankles.

1. The decade was labeled the Swinging Sixties because of the libertine attitudes that emerged during this decade.

2. The sixties were a time of immense change in all areas of public and private life, often reffered to as a social revolution global in scale.

3. The sixties saw the rise of feminism and gay rights.

4. President John F. Kennedy was elected in 1960.

5. President JFK promoted the space program, math and science education, tax cuts and the Peace Corps.

6. Many younger generations soon began to rebel towards the conservative norms of the time. This created a counterculture that eventually turned into a social revolution throughout much of the western world. The main group from the movement were called hippies. Together they created a new liberated stance for society including the Sexual Revolution, questioning authority and the government, and more freedoms and rights for women, gays and minorities. The movement was marked with drug use (LSD and marijuana) and Psychedelia music.

7. A mass movement began rising in opposition to the Vietnam War, ending in the massive Moratorium protests in 1969, and also the movement of resistance to conscription for the war.

8. Popular bands included The Beatles and The Rolling Stones.

9. Popular American movies included Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Psycho, My Fair Lade, The Sound of Music, The Graduate, Rosemary’s Baby and To Kill a Mockingbird.

10. Australia and New Zealand committed troops to the Vietnam war with controversy and war protests.