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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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Wednesday, November 4Thirty years ago today, militant Iranian students stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran, taking 90 staff and U.S. Marines hostage. Several women and African Americans were released, as well as one very ill man. A number of Americans hid in the Canadian embassy, which smuggled them out. The remaining 52 hostages were released 444 days later. One of the students, by the way, may have been Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Even under Communist rule, Catholics, including John Paul II, came to visit Lithuania's Hill of Crosses. For centuries, Catholic pilgrims have come and left behind crucifixes, and today there are some 50,000 of them there. Many of the crosses were left in memory of Lithuanian rebels who disappeared during anti-Russian rebellions in the 1800s, so the site has special significance when Lithuania was part of the Soviet Union, which tore down many of the crosses. What name is shared by Philip Pirrip in a Dickens book, by a South Park character and by each member of Gladys Knight's backup band? A) Pap B) Pip C) Pop D) Pup Previous answer: Stockholm is Sweden's capital. 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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