Recently
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.
more articles
|
Friday, January 15Attorney William Shea was unhappy that New York lost both the Dodgers and Giants, so he proposed launching a third major league, to be called the Continental League, which would put teams in cities that either didn't have teams or that could accommodate new ones. Like New York. Major League Baseball freaked out. It quickly expanded to Houston, one of the CL's cities, and offered Shea a new team for New York, which became the Mets. The CL never played a game. Today, the only CL city without an MLB team is Buffalo. Moammar Qaddafi had a posse of hot-chick bodyguards, who wear makeup, camouflage jackets and, sometimes, high heels. Aside from making him seem like a Bond villain, the bodyguards are supposed to be a statement on the equality of Libyan women. In 1979, he set up a military academy for women, which apparently graduated 7,000 women before it closed in 1983, after women tore down a fence to escape.
What is the only state that is bordered by states, all of whose names begin with vowels? A) Louisiana B) Montana C) Tennessee D) Washington Previous answer: TMZ refers to the Thirty-Mile Zone that supposedly protected celebs when they were in Hollywood. 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 2010 PAUL PAQUET DISTRIBUTED BY CREATORS.COM
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
