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RELEASE: FEBRUARY 18, 2012
Tim Harper was a campus reporter for the Drake University Times-Delphic in Iowa, when he broke the biggest story of his career on Sept. 17, 1969. Except that none of it was true. That year, Paul McCartney was out of the public eye, as he mulled the …Read more.
RELEASE: FEBRUARY 17, 2012
Henry James proofread the galleys for the 1903 edition of "The Ambassadors," which had been serialized in North American Review. Unfortunately, NAR had edited it down, and James wanted to restore the original version for the book. In the …Read more.
RELEASE: FEBRUARY 16, 2012
British post-punk group Joy Division's music wasn't especially joyful. And the origin of the name is even less so. As the story goes, the Nazis plucked the prettiest women from concentration camps and employed them in brothels for preferred soldiers.…Read more.
RELEASE: FEBRUARY 15, 2012
Before Mickey Mouse — and before he knew much about intellectual property laws — Walt Disney created Oswald the Lucky Rabbit in 1928 for Universal. When he and Universal parted company, Disney lost Oswald, which always rankled the …Read more.
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Thursday, January 21Two of Pamela Anderson's ex hubbies duked it out at the MTV VMAs in 2007. While Alicia Keys was performing "Freedom '90," Tommy Lee and Kid Rock briefly battled, with Kid Rock keeping his cigar in his mouth the whole time. Kid Rock was cited for misdemeanor battery and may have been the only one to actually land a blow. Jamie Foxx then made a plea to "stop all of this white-on-white crime." Meaning to merge the world's religions, Akbar the Great created Din-i Ilahi, a religion that blended Hinduism and Islam, tossing in bits from Christianity, Jainism and Zoroastrianism. Akbar himself was a Muslim but was notably tolerant of other religions, even encouraging debates among holy men of different faiths. In any event, his new religion never managed to gain more than a dozen or two adherents. What song about an Alabaman with a banjo on his knee was first performed at a Pittsburgh ice cream parlor? A) "Camptown Races" B) "My Old Kentucky Home" C) "Oh, Susanna" D) "Swannee River" Previous answer: The Milwaukee Brewers play in Miller Park, which is named for Miller, which brews beer. TRIVIA FANS: Send the trivia questions you've always wanted answered, or original TriviaBits ideas of your own, with your full name and hometown, to Paul Paquet at paul@triviahalloffame.com or visit him online at www.triviahalloffame.com. Paul Paquet has been writing trivia since the early 1990s, and has written roughly 100,000 questions.
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