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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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Friday, January 1So, are you calling this year twenty-ten or two-thousand-and-ten? It is anomalous that we've been using two-thousand-and-nine, since 100 years ago we were using nineteen-oh-nine. It appears that we were all influenced by the movie "2001: A Space Odyssey." Some networks have decided to use "two-thousand-and-ten," but the Vancouver Olympics are officially going with "twenty-ten," which also sounds more natural. Called the Black Babe Ruth, Josh Gibson died of a brain tumor at age 35, just three months before Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color line. Although records are spotty, he hit nearly 800 home runs and is believed to have been the only person to knock one out of the original Yankee Stadium. He also played in Cuba, Mexico and the Dominican Republic.
If I say "I am sesquipedalian," you'd have to agree. Why? A) It means "alive and conscious." B) It means "like a human being." C) It means "likes big words." D) It means "right next to you." Previous answer: The four straight M Olympic cities were Mexico City, Munich, Montreal and Moscow. 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. For more, visit triviahalloffame.com or e-mail him at paul@triviahalloffame.com. COPYRIGHT 2009 PAUL PAQUET DISTRIBUTED BY CREATORS.COM
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