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
|
Thursday, November 12The original "daring young man on the flying trapeze" was Jules Leotard, and he made his debut, 150 years ago today, at the Cirque Napoleon in Paris. He is best known for the tight-fitting garment now named for him, urging men to "put on a more natural garb, which does not hide your best features." He actually called it a maillot, which is what the French now call a bathing suit. The odds of winning Pennsylvania's $1 Million Blockbuster game, just once, are 1.44 million to one. That's pretty astronomical — so much so that lotteries have been called "a tax on stupidity." The odds of winning twice are an estimated 419 million to one. But in 2005, Donna Goeppert of Bethlehem, Pa., beat those odds when she won the lottery twice.
I wasn't acidic at all! Drafted straight out of high school, I spent my whole career with the Detroit Tigers. Who am I? A) Sparky Anderson B) Ty Cobb C) Al Kaline D) Hank Greenberg Previous answer: Rhiannon was a Welsh witch. 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
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
