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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 3Frogs don't drink water. They absorb water through their skin. Water pollution is thus believed to be a key reason for the diminishing number of frogs. About one third of frog species are threatened with extinction, and some 120 species have gone extinct since the 1980s. A 2006 Canadian study suggests that traffic is especially hard on frogs. In fact, amphibian populations of all kinds have been crashing alarmingly. A urinating statue called the Mannekin Pis is an unlikely symbol of Brussels. The statue of the little boy is in a lane off the Grand Palace and was originally sculpted in the 1300s by Jerome Duquesnoy. There are various tall tales about the origin of the boy, and the locals like to dress him up in various outfits.
The Swedish monarchy's palace is in the medieval Gamla Stan district of what city? A) Copenhagen B) Helsinki C) Oslo D) Stockholm Previous answer: There is an Iron Age, a Bronze Age and a Stone Age, but no Golden Age. 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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