General Knowledge

European Day for Victims of Crime was founded by Victim Support Europe (V.S.E. ), an organisation that commemorates and advocates for the rights of crime victims.

Human beings are naturally compassionate. We are capable of great acts of generosity and complete selflessness. It all boils down to opportunity.

Europeans discovered Saint Lucia, formerly known as the Windward Island, in the late 15th or early 16th century. French settlers named the island after Saint Lucia, a young Christian martyr who died in 304 A.D. during the persecution of Christians by the Roman Empire.

California adorns the western landmass of the United States with beaches washed by the deep blue waters of the Pacific Ocean in the west and the Nevada deserts in the east.

Travis Price and David Shepherd of Berwick, Nova Scotia, established the inaugural Pink Shirt Day. In 2007, after Chuck McNeill, a male ninth-grader, was bullied for wearing a pink shirt on the first day of school, they purchased and distributed fifty pink shirts.

The Bicycle® brand is the first name that most people think of when they envision a deck of playing cards. It should come as no surprise that the largest manufacturer of playing cards in the United States also founded Play More Cards Day in 2013, its inaugural year.