• the civil flag of Monaco utilizes the heraldic colors of the House of Grimaldi?
• the beach volleyball events at the 2007 Games of the Small States of Europe will take place on the Larvotto, Monaco's most famous beach?
• "La Coco-Dance" was the first Eurovision entry to feature Tahitian lyrics, representing Monaco in 2006?

Facts on topics related to Monaco

Andorra

• at the 2005 Games of the Small States of Europe in Andorra, Iceland won 34 medals in swimming alone?
• the General Council of the Valleys, the parliament of Andorra, has only 28 members?

Belgium

• Belgian avant-garde singer Catherine Jauniaux has been described as a "one-woman orchestra" and a "human sampler"?
• Belgian cyclist Eddy Merckx is the only person to have won the general, points and king of the mountains classifications in the same tour?
• Belgian firm Interbrew has a 34.4% share in the Ukrainian beer market?
• Belgium's Carnival of Binche (pictured), which features a "battle of confetti", is the culmination of a build-up lasting 50 days?
• Belgium's sillon industriel (steelmaking pictured) was the first fully industrialized area in continental Europe?
• Norwegian chemist Alexis Pappas was born in London to Greek parents who fled from Belgium to England during World War I?
• Paul Simon's ballad "Rene And Georgette Magritte With Their Dog After The War" portrays Belgian surrealist painter René Magritte as a secret admirer of doo-wop music?
• singer-songwriter Django Walker was named after Belgian guitarist Django Reinhardt?
• U.S. Army major William Stewart Walker was credited with leading 380 of his fellow soldiers to safety in Belgium from behind German lines during World War II?
• Charles Le Gendre (pictured), was born in France, married in Belgium, but died an American general in 1899, working for King Gojong, Emperor of Korea?

Denmark

• 17th century Russian diplomat Pyotr Ivanovich Potemkin (pictured) is reputed to have insisted on lying in bed during an audience with the King of Denmark, who was himself confined to his bed, to demonstrate equality between Russia and Denmark?
• archaeologist Eigil Knuth was co-leader of the first Danish Greenland expedition to make use of an airplane, a Tiger Moth?
• Danish mass murderer Peter Lundin got married twice while in prison?
• Danish painter Albert Küchler's "Albanian Girl" was probably not Albanian, but Italian?
• Danish painter Carl-Henning Pedersen was known as the "Scandinavian Chagall"?
• Danish-born jurist Bredo Henrik von Munthe af Morgenstierne was disqualified from the Norwegian Parliament in 1824, having previously accepted a personal payment from the King?
• Grand Duchess Sophie Caroline of East Friesland instructed Danish royal architect Lauritz de Thurah to demolish Sorgenfri Palace in 1756 to make way for a new palace (pictured)?
• U.S. Independence Day is celebrated every 4th of July in Rebild National Park in Himmerland, Denmark?
• Dyrehaven, a forest park outside Copenhagen, Denmark, has 15 entrances, all with characteristic red gates (pictured)?
• Joan Tompkins in The Christine Jorgensen Story played the Danish aunt who gave the world's first transsexual, George Jorgensen, his new name, Christine?

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?

Canada

• "Too Hot", Alanis Morissette's breakthrough single in Canada in 1991, was a dance pop song?
• 150 Irish from Indianapolis participated in the Fenian raids, an attempt to invade Canada from Buffalo, New York in 1866?
• 67 Australian, Canadian, and New Zealand Article XV squadrons were formed during World War II from graduates of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan?
• Canada and Panama signed the Canada-Panama Free Trade Agreement on August 11, 2009?
• Canada and the Soviet Union were disqualified from the 1987 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships following the Punch-up in Piestany, costing Canada a potential gold medal?
• Canada issues special licence plates available only to war veterans?
• Canada's first interchange was a cloverleaf opened in 1937 at the intersection of Highway 10 and The Middle Road?
• Canada's first paper mill was built in Saint-André-d'Argenteuil, Quebec, in 1803?
• Canada's largest dry-bulk shipping company, The Fednav Group, has a fleet of over eighty ships?
• Canadian actress Cara Duff-MacCormick won a Theatre World Award for her role in Moonchildren, a play about coming of age during the Vietnam War era?

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?

Luxembourg

• "Amour Amour", Luxembourg's entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1987 was performed by Plastic Bertrand a decade after the band achieved fame with "Ça plane pour moi"?
• Luxembourg City Hall (pictured) was constructed while all of Luxembourg outside the capital was controlled by rebel forces?
• Your Name is Justine, Luxembourg's submission for the 79th Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, was rejected due to insufficient creative contributions from Luxembourg in the film?
• both Denmark and Spain have plans to change their succession laws from male primogeniture to equal primogeniture, leaving Luxembourg and the United Kingdom as the only monarchies in the European Union not to have equal primogeniture?
• during the German occupation of Luxembourg in World War I, over 1% of the Luxembourgian population died fighting for France, even though Luxembourg remained officially neutral?
• in order to cut costs, Olau Line re-flagged their cruiseferry Olau Hollandia to Luxembourg in January 1993, but were forced to revert the ship to German flag only a month later?
• in the 2009–10 Rugby-Bundesliga season, with the Rugby Club Luxembourg, a team from Luxembourg competes in the German 2nd Rugby-Bundesliga?
• the Luxembourgian football club FV Stadt Düdelingen won the German Gauliga Mittelrhein in 1942 and went on to the German championship finals, losing 0–2 to FC Schalke 04?
• the Popular Independent Movement of Luxembourg was a single-issue political party that represented former Wehrmacht conscripts?