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Saturday, November 7
William Lear had quite a career, despite having dropped out after eighth grade. He sold the patent for the car radio to Galvin, which is now Motorola. He invented the 8-track tape cassette that became a '70s fad. And he founded a company that …Read more.
Friday, November 6
Built out of solid rock in the 1960s, Temppeliaukio Church is found largely underground in Helsinki. Architects Timo and Tuomo Suomalainen designed the church to burrow into solid rock, using designs that predated World War II. The back wall of the …Read more.
Thursday, November 5
Tonight is Guy Fawkes Night in Britain, which celebrates the thwarting of Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot in 1605. Fawkes and a group of Catholics wanted to blow up the Houses of Parliament. (At the time, Catholics were severely repressed in …Read more.
Thursday, November 5
Tonight is Guy Fawkes Night in Britain, which celebrates the thwarting of Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot in 1605. Fawkes and a group of Catholics wanted to blow up the Houses of Parliament. (At the time, Catholics were severely repressed in …Read more.
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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.
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