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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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Friday, December 4Despite its theme of language and class, George Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion" actually debuted not in English, but in German, at the Hofburg Theatre in Vienna. Shaw had written the role of Eliza Doolittle for Mrs. Patrick Campbell, who ended up in a car accident. Combined with other delays, Shaw decided to translate the play himself for the Viennese. It finally was staged in London six months later at His Majesty's Theatre, in a production directed by Shaw himself. The world has a lot of republics, which have no monarchs, and a number of monarchies, which by definition do have monarchs. But it also has three principalities, which are run by princes: Liechtenstein, Andorra and Monaco. And there is still a grand duchy, namely Luxembourg, although 100 years ago, there were many more, including Finland and several that were part of the German Empire. What was both the working title of "Mrs.
A) The Grounds B) The Hours C) The Tides D) The Wolves Previous answer: Sam narrates "Green Eggs and Ham." 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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