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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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Tuesday, October 6Happy German American Day! This is the anniversary of the day in 1683 when 13 German families from Krefeld near the Rhine landed in Philadelphia. They quickly founded Germantown, Pa., the first German settlement in what is now the United States. Although German Americans have traditionally been among the most numerous of America's ethnic groups, the holiday died out around World War I (imagine that) but was revived in 1983. Arctic Circle, a Utah-based fast-food chain, claims to have invented fry sauce, which is one part ketchup and two parts mayonnaise. You can make it spicier by using barbeque sauce instead of ketchup, and some recipes end up tasting like Russian or thousand island salad dressing.
Bajan pepper sauce is extremely hot. Try it on some flying fish, but you may want to wash it down with some Mount Gay rum. Where are you? A) Bahamas B) Barbados C) Barbuda D) Bermuda Previous answer: Somebody from the United Arab Emirates is an Emirati. 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.
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