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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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Tuesday, November 10Can you tell me how to get to Sesame Street? We've been asking that question for 40 years now, as of today. The show was expressly designed to use television as an educational medium, with segments timed based on children's attention spans. The show was also designed so that parents would watch with their children, which is why so many celebrities are asked to appear. Even so, early critics fretted that "Sesame Street" was a secret plot to teach kids to watch TV. Had Sweden's Gunder Hagg been just a tiny bit faster, he'd have been as famous as ... well ... Roger Bannister. It was Hagg's record, for running the mile in 4 minutes, 1.4 seconds, that Bannister broke on May 6, 1954. Hagg set his record in 1945 and might well have shattered the four-minute mile as well, but he was deemed to be a professional in 1946 and kicked out of the amateur circuit. Before the euro, Malta's currency had the same name as that of the European country closest to Malta.
A) Drachma B) Franc C) Lira D) Peso Previous answer: Ted Binion was killed in Las Vegas. 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
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