• the Dana Nature Reserve is the largest nature reserve in Jordan?
• the East Ghor Main Canal diverts nearly all the annual flow of the Yarmouk River for irrigation in Jordan?
• the extinct spider Eoplectreurys is the oldest described genus of Haplogynae, predating spiders from Cretaceous amber in Jordan and Lebanon?
• the Palestinian–Jordanian alliance forged at the Battle of Karameh (house blown up during the battle pictured) is considered by observers to have led to Black September in Jordan?
• in Jordan, two journalists who republished three of the twelve Danish Mohammad cartoons were sentenced to two months in jail?
• the Jawa Dam in Jordan is the oldest known dam in the world, dating back to 3000 BC?
• the Jordan River Foundation was founded by Queen Rania al-Abdullah of Jordan?
• while Prime Minister of Jordan, Sulayman al-Nabulsi (pictured) was accused of involvement in a coup against King Hussein, resulting in his house imprisonment for over four years?
• there are six nature reserves in Jordan?
• the historian and geographer Robin Donkin served in Egypt and Jordan as a lieutenant in the Royal Artillery?
• the Jordan Valley Unified Water Plan was developed by a U.S. ambassador in 1955 to reduce conflict between Israel, Jordan, and their neighbors?
• in 1954, Israel walked out of the Israel-Jordan Mixed Armistice Commission after the commission failed to condemn Jordan for the Scorpion Pass Massacre?
• historian J. Bowyer Bell was tear gassed in Belfast, held hostage in Jordan, shot at in Lebanon, kidnapped in Yemen and deported from Kenya?
• Baqa'a is the largest refugee camp for Palestinians in Jordan?
• Dibeen Forest Reserve, established in 2004, is the newest nature reserve in Jordan?
• Al-Maquar, which contains the royal residence of Jordan, was built on the camp-site for the armies of the Arab Revolt, who captured Amman in 1918?
• Jordanian politician Sa`id al-Mufti's wife continued living in the Al-Mufti House (pictured) after his death?
• Jordan's Municipality of Salt derives its name from the Latin saltus meaning valley of trees as there is much greenery in the area?
• Jabal Amman is one of the seven original hills that Amman, Jordan was built on during the Neolithic period?
• Qualifying Industrial Zones are special free-trade zones in Jordan and Egypt created to take advantage of the free trade agreements between the United States and Israel?
• as a Jordanian tribal Shaikh, Barjas al-Hadid has been responsible for mediating blood feuds between tribe members in Jordan, Iraq and Saudi Arabia?
• Captain Abu Raed, Jordan's submission to the 81st Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film, is the first Jordanian feature film made in over 50 years?
• Winston's Hiccup refers to the huge zigzag in Jordan’s eastern border with Saudi Arabia, supposedly because Winston Churchill hiccuped as he drew the boundary of Transjordan after a generous and lengthy lunch?
• Salt is an ancient agricultural town in west-central Jordan, famous for the quality of its grape harvest, and therefore speculated to be the root for the English word sultana?
• Israeli politician and settlement activist Gershon Shafat spent ten months as a Jordanian prisoner of war?

Facts on topics related to Jordan

Barbados

• Barbadian cricketer Sir Clyde Walcott became the first non-English and non-white chairman of the International Cricket Council in 1993?
• Frank Leslie Walcott, the first Barbadian ambassador to the United Nations, was also an exceptional cricket umpire?
• Samuel Jackman Prescod became the first person of African descent elected to the Parliament of Barbados?
• it is uncertain whether the extinct oryzomyine rodent Megalomys audreyae came from Barbuda or Barbados?
• the environmental organisation Counterpart Caribbean is a branch of the Counterpart International group based in Barbados?

Saint Helena

• Ascension Island was annexed in 1815 by the British crew of HMS Peruvian and HMS Zenobia so as to deny the French from using it as a base to rescue Napoleon from Saint Helena?
• the whorl snail Nesopupa turtoni, previously known only as a fossil, was discovered alive in 2003 in the Prosperous Bay Plain area of Saint Helena?

Gibraltar

• Gibraltar's St. Michael's Cave, prepared as an emergency hospital during World War II, at present contains an auditorium and receives almost a million visitors a year?
• Dorothy Ellicott was the first woman to be elected to two different Gibraltar Councils and was posthumously awarded the Gibraltar Medallion of Honour on Gibraltar National Day 2008?
• Gibtelecom is the largest telecommunications operator in the British overseas territory of Gibraltar and the official sponsor of the annual Gibtelecom International Chess Festival?
• Giovanni Battista Calvi was an Italian military engineer who worked on many important Spanish defensive projects in the 1500s, to include those in the now British overseas territory of Gibraltar?
• Juan Mateos was the founder of Gibraltar's first hospital which remained on the same site and served the people of Gibraltar for almost four and a half centuries?
• St Bernard's Hospital is the only civilian general hospital in the British overseas territory of Gibraltar?
• all of early 14th-century Europe was consecrated under the protection of Our Lady of Europe (statue pictured) in Gibraltar where devotion has continued for over 700 years?
• following the collapse of Renaissance Cruises in late 2001, MS R Two and five of her sister ships were laid up together, first at Gibraltar and later at Marseille?
• in 1939, excavations beneath John Mackintosh Square in Gibraltar for an air-raid shelter revealed no signs of any foundations, suggesting it has always been an open square?
• in 2006 Gibraltar was granted a new constitution, giving it a modern constitutional relationship with the United Kingdom?

Saudi Arabia

• Emirati marriage counselor Wedad Lootah claimed that many men in Saudi Arabia have their first sexual experiences with other men, due to its gender segregation?
• Saudi Arabia promised to supply 50,000 barrels of free oil per day to help Pakistan if economic sanctions were imposed after its 1998 nuclear tests?
• Saudi Arabian Prince Abdul Majeed bin Abdul Aziz was Governor of the provinces of Tabuk, Medina and then Mecca, between 1980 and his death in 2007?
• Winston's Hiccup refers to the huge zigzag in Jordan’s eastern border with Saudi Arabia, supposedly because Winston Churchill hiccuped as he drew the boundary of Transjordan after a generous and lengthy lunch?
• a Saudi businessman offered US$10 million to buy the shoes thrown by al-Baghdadia TV correspondent Muntadhar al-Zaidi at U.S. President George W. Bush during a recent press conference?
• as a Jordanian tribal Shaikh, Barjas al-Hadid has been responsible for mediating blood feuds between tribe members in Jordan, Iraq and Saudi Arabia?
• the Iraqi Army launched an offensive into Saudi Arabia on 29 January 1991, leading to the Battle of Khafji, the first major ground engagement of the Gulf War (U.S. Marine artillery pictured)?
• the Arab Socialist Action Party, the main secular opposition group in Saudi Arabia at the time, faced a massive crackdown in the spring of 1982?
• the Haramain High Speed Rail Project in Saudi Arabia, will run for 444 km (276 mi) between the Islamic holy cities of Medina and Mecca with 320-km/h (200-mph) electric trains?
• the first Filipinos to settle in Saudi Arabia arrived in 1973?

Morocco

• Moroccan Elarbi Khattabi won five medals in team competitions at the World Cross Country Championships, including Morocco's first such medal, the silver in 1994?
• Moroccan alligator wrestler and circus strongman Tahar Douis set a world record by lifting 12 men weighing a total of 1,700 pounds on his shoulders?
• mellah is a walled Jewish quarter of a city in Morocco, an analogue of the European ghetto?
• Mohammed bin Hadou was a Moroccan ambassador to the court of Charles II in England in 1681–82?
• Lawrence of Arabia and Gladiator were both filmed in the ksar Aït Benhaddou in Morocco?
• Alanqa is a newly described pterosaur from Morocco which had a wingspan of up to six metres?
• US abolitionist Robert Purvis had two grandparents who were English, a grandmother kidnapped at twelve from Morocco and enslaved in Charleston, and a grandfather who was German Jewish?
• an Anglo-Moroccan alliance, developed between Elizabeth I of England and the Moroccan Sultan Ahmad al-Mansur, had an influence on at least two of Shakespeare's plays?
• despite being a widely-used garden plant on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, Salvia interrupta can only be found in nature in the Atlas Mountains in the African country of Morocco?
• during the mid-20th century, wine from Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia accounted for nearly two-thirds of all internationally traded wine?

Cayman Islands

• the original East End Light was the first lighthouse erected in the Cayman Islands?

Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

• Ruth Gruber was the first journalist to enter the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan?