Recently
Wednesday, November 25
Mortified by reports of famine in Ethiopia, Bob Geldof and Ultravox's Midge Ure wrote "Do They Know It's Christmas," and 25 years ago today, some of Britain's top stars recorded the song at Trevor Horn's SARM West studio. Bob George flew …Read more.
Tuesday, November 24
It was 150 years ago today that Charles Darwin saw the publication of "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection," which explained evolution and made possible another century of scientific advances. Darwin dawdled considerably …Read more.
WEEK OF NOVEMBER 23
Monday, November 23
When he was 13, Roald Dahl got a chance to be a taste-tester for a focus group at Cadbury, along with his classmates at Repton in Darbyshire. At the time, Cadbury and Rowntree engaged in bitter corporate espionage. It all …Read more.
Saturday, November 21
Ever wondered what happened to Francis Gary Powers? He was the American pilot who crashed into the Soviet Union, deeply embarrassing the Eisenhower administration. He was traded back to the United States in 1962, for a Soviet spy caught in the U.S. …Read more.
more articles
|
Friday, May 29Flying in Super Style: Strictly speaking, any fixed-wing USAF airplane with the president aboard is Air Force One. For that matter, any helicopter is Marine One. But that being said, the presidential plane we all think of as Air Force One is a Boeing 747-200B. The plane is a flying White House, decked out with modern electronics and equipped with its own operating room, should the president ever need mid-air surgery. Urban Myths on Stage: As the story goes, it was Vanna White, or maybe Pia Zadora, or perhaps Zsa Zsa Gabor, who was so bad during a performance of the play "The Diary of Anne Frank" that someone in the audience yelled, "She's in the attic." It's a funny story but, sadly, not true. Your baby teeth, which fall out, share a name with what botanical adjective? A) Deciduous B) Flowering C) Herbaceous D) Rhizome Previous answer: Yesterday's anti-Nazi passage is credited to Martin Niemoller. 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.
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
