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Wednesday, November 25
Mortified by reports of famine in Ethiopia, Bob Geldof and Ultravox's Midge Ure wrote "Do They Know It's Christmas," and 25 years ago today, some of Britain's top stars recorded the song at Trevor Horn's SARM West studio. Bob George flew …Read more.
Tuesday, November 24
It was 150 years ago today that Charles Darwin saw the publication of "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection," which explained evolution and made possible another century of scientific advances. Darwin dawdled considerably …Read more.
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Monday, November 23
When he was 13, Roald Dahl got a chance to be a taste-tester for a focus group at Cadbury, along with his classmates at Repton in Darbyshire. At the time, Cadbury and Rowntree engaged in bitter corporate espionage. It all …Read more.
Saturday, November 21
Ever wondered what happened to Francis Gary Powers? He was the American pilot who crashed into the Soviet Union, deeply embarrassing the Eisenhower administration. He was traded back to the United States in 1962, for a Soviet spy caught in the U.S. …Read more.
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Trivia Bits for Saturday, September 5Beating the Americans: As a Canadian, this writer sees history a bit differently from most of this column's American writers. For example ... you guys lost the War of 1812. The Americans launched the war as a pretext to invade and annex Canada and that turned out badly, as Canada wasn't absorbed by the United States until sometime in the 1980s. In fact, one of the only real American land victories was way down in New Orleans, and that was after the war ended. Bloody TV: In the 2005-06 season, more murders were committed in New York City on TV than were committed in New York City in real life. With several editions of "Law & Order" alone, there needed to be a constant stream of killings to solve. In 1971, Dave Davies was stabbed in the chest with a fork by his brother, Ray Davies, after trying to steal one of Ray's fries. Both of them were in what band? A) Black Sabbath B) The Kinks C) Pink Floyd D) Small Faces Previous answer: Elton John founded Rocket Records. 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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