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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
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Trivia Bits for Friday, January 8Frederic Bartholdi originally wanted to build the Statue of Liberty at the Suez Canal, to show the way to Asia. It was going to be at Port Said and called "Egypt Carrying the Light to Asia." Egypt decided to go with a cheaper statue designed by Count Ferdinand de Lessops, which ended up getting ripped off the pedestal when the canal was nationalized in the 1950s. Bartholdi, meanwhile, always insisted the Suez and New York statues were totally different. On July 8, 1990, West Germany won soccer's World Cup, even though it pretty much no longer existed. Germans on both sides of the demised Berlin Wall went wild as Andreas Brehme scored the championship game's only goal, sealing defeat for the Argentines. On July 1, the two countries had unified their economies, and in September, both Germanys approved a formal political union. If I go to a pawn shop each time I need to pawn one of my chess set's diamond-encrusted ivory chess pawns, how many trips can I make before I run out of pawns? A) Eight B) 12 C) 14 D) 16 Previous answer: The Roger in "Roger & Me" is Roger Smith. 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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