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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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Saturday, January 23Two days after Roger Bannister's legendary four-minute mile, Parry O'Brien shattered a sports landmark of his own, with his 60-foot shot put. In fact, he developed his own technique for shot put and used it to break the record 17 times and win 116 straight events. He also developed motivational tapes for himself and used yoga. In 1979, Disney released "The Black Hole," its first PG-rated movie, and began to experiment with more adult fare. This created a backlash, so Disney responded by creating a new brand, called Touchstone. Its first film, "Splash," was also Disney's first foray into salty language and female nudity, thanks to a brief shot of Darryl Hannah's bare butt. What fictional island in the Mediterranean was Balki the shepherd from on "Perfect Strangers"? A) Majorca B) Malta C) Milos D) Mypos Previous answer: "Ring Around the Rosie" may have been about the plague, although there is considerable skepticism over this. 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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