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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 30Not all students are fans of their school's sports teams. Some have used votes on team mascot names as a chance to poke fun at the whole sports-obsessed culture on campuses. That's why the University of California-Irvine named its team the Anteaters, in honor of Zot, a character from the comic strip BC. The North Carolina School of the Arts became the Fighting Pickles, while Scottsdale Community College cheers for the Fighting Artichokes. Perhaps the most famous weird mascot is the Banana Slugs, who represent the University of California-Santa Cruz. John Travolta wore a Banana Slugs T-shirt in "Pulp Fiction." The campus itself is known for gathering by the thousands every April 20 to smoke pot, for the Grateful Dead archive in its library and for the Porter Run, a mass-streaking event held during the first rainfall of the school year. Delta State University in Mississippi renamed its Statesmen for a local food, which was also "green, southern and ugly." What are their teams nicknamed now? A) Fighting Beignets B) Fighting Enchiladas C) Fighting Key Limes D) Fighting Okra Previous answer: Columbia's logo is the torch-bearing woman. 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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