Andromeda isn’t the closest galaxy to ours. That would be the Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy, followed by the Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud (my suggestion), and then Andromeda.

After being appointed as an Apostle to replace Judas, Matthias isn’t mentioned in the Bible again.

There are only two sovereign states with names beginning with Z. (Zaire was renamed the Democratic Republic of the Congo.)

Sir Keith Park
Sir Keith Park, born in Thames NZ, Air Vice Marshal led RAF No. 11 Group responsible for the fighter defence of London during the Battle of Britain.

Irish Political Parties
Fianna Fáil’s name is traditionally translated by the party into English as “Soldiers of Destiny”, although a literal translation is “Soldiers of Fál” (a pre-Christian personification of Ireland).
Fine Gael, means “Family of the Irish” or “Tribe of the Irish”.
Sinn Féin, is Irish for “ourselves” or “we ourselves”.

The Golden Ratio
Two quantities are in golden ratio, if the ratio between the sum of those quantities and the larger one is the same as the ratio between the larger one and the smaller. The golden ratio is approximately 1.6180339887 represented by the Greek letter phi φ (though phi can stand for other things as well).

Dr Pepper
Dr. Pepper was invented by Charles Alderton, a young pharmacist working in Morrison’s Drug Store in Waco, Texas. At first the drink was called by customers “the Waco”. Wade Morrison (owner of the store) named the drink “Dr. Pepper”. The Dr Pepper Museum says “the origin for the name is unclear”. Wade Morrison had worked for a Dr. Charles Pepper in Virginia who seems likely to be the inspiration of the name. One story says Wade Morrison was in love with the doctor’s daughter, but Snopes says the daughter would have been only 8 when Mr. Morrison worked for Dr Pepper. Another story is Dr. Pepper was a customer of the drug store. Yet another urban legend claims that it was called “Dr Pepper” because it tastes like medicine.

New Zealand
Abel Tasman named New Zealand as “Staten Landt” (after the Staten-Generaal?). The name New Zealand originated with Dutch cartographers, who called the islands Nova Zeelandia, after the Dutch province of Zeeland. No one is certain exactly who first coined the term, but it first appeared in 1645 and may have been the choice of cartographer Johan Blaeu. British explorer James Cook subsequently anglicised the name to New Zealand. There is no connection to the Danish island Zealand. There are also a couple of English hamlets called New Zealand.

Thirteen Colonies who declared independence

1. Province of New Hampshire
2. Province of Massachusetts Bay
3. Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
4. Connecticut Colony
5. Province of New York
6. Province of New Jersey
7. Province of Pennsylvania
8. Delaware Colony
9. Province of Maryland
10. Colony and Dominion of Virginia
11. Province of North Carolina
12. Province of South Carolina
13. Province of Georgia