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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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Saturday, November 14Yesterday, we wondered about the "real" Robin Hood. What about the "real" Lady Godiva? As the story goes, she rode naked through the streets of Coventry to get her husband to lower taxes. As it happens, there is a record of a Godgifu who was married to Leofric, earl of Mercia, which includes Coventry. The widowed Godgifu is mentioned in the Domesday survey as one of the few Anglo-Saxons, and the only woman, to remain a major landholder shortly after the Norman Conquest. Asians think of religion in different terms than most North Americans and Europeans do. It is not uncommon, for example, for somebody in Japan to follow Shinto, Buddhist and even Christian rituals. And some people question whether Confucianism is a religion at all, since it has no clergy, doesn't involve any gods and doesn't talk about the afterlife. Some folks like the way a skirl sounds.
A) A cat in heat B) A flatulent man C) Bagpipes D) Nails on a blackboard Previous answer: King Arthur is said to have died at Camlann. 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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