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RELEASE: FEBRUARY 18, 2012
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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
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RELEASE: FEBRUARY 15, 2012
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Trivia Bits for Saturday, January 9Bruce Dickinson was once ranked seventh in the United Kingdom in fencing. You know him better as the lead singer of Iron Maiden. In fact, he once got kicked out of school for urinating in the headmaster's dinner, so heavy metal was probably a more sensible career than amateur athletics. Then again, Dickinson eventually chucked rock and roll, too. He became a pilot. No, really. He did. There is a story that Gerber flopped in Africa because people thought the baby on the label meant that the food was made of babies. Not true. But Gerber did have a real-life marketing fiasco. In 1974, it launched Gerber Singles, which were meals such as pureed sweet-and-sour pork, sold in baby food jars and marketed to single adults. The whole thing was too depressing for words, and Gerber quickly pulled the product from shelves. Who once appeared simultaneously on France's 500-franc note and Poland's 20,000-zloty note? A) Frederic Chopin B) Copernicus C) Marie Curie D) Napoleon Previous answer: There are 16 pawns you can pawn off at the pawn shop. 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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