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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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Trivia Bits for October 10This is Double Ten Day in China. No, not that China. The other, smaller China. The one you call Taiwan. It is the successor state of the regime that knocked down the Chinese emperor and declared a republic. This process started with the Wuchang Uprising, which began on Oct. 10. Hence, Double Ten. It is also known as National Celebration Day. Tomorrow you may be in for a surprise. It is National Coming Out Day, when gay men, lesbians and bisexuals are encouraged to share their status with friends and family. The idea came up after the Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights in 1987. Candace Gingrich became the spokesperson for the day in April 1995. Coming out is especially important for what is called the "gay agenda," since people who have gay friends or relatives are more supportive of gay-friendly policies. What was the first film to be released on home video before winning the Best Picture Oscar? A) Braveheart B) Crash C) The Silence of the Lambs D) Titanic Previous answer: Indonesia shares Timor with East Timor and New Guinea with Papua New Guinea (and also shares Borneo with Brunei and Malaysia). 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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