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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.
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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.
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Saturday, May 23Scandinavian Sounds: Henrik Ibsen is the most famous Norwegian writer and Edvard Grieg is the country's most famous composer. When Grieg adapted Ibsen's "Peer Gynt," he also wrote "In the Hall of the Mountain King," famous for the bit where bassoons and cellos replicate the sound of a tiptoeing Gynt. The piece has been covered by the Who, ELO and Rainbow. It also inspired the theme songs for "Inspector Gadget" and "Sonic the Hedgehog." Scandinavian Scribes: Only France and the U.S. have won more Nobel literature prizes than Sweden has, perhaps because the Swedish Academy gives out the prizes. That being said, you likely haven't heard of any of the Swedish winners: writers like Par Lagerkvist, Erik Axel Karlfeldt and Verner von Heidenstam. What Shakespeare play includes a witchy recipe that calls for "eye of newt and toe of frog, wool of bat and tongue of dog"? A) "Julius Caesar" B) "Macbeth" C) "The Tempest" D) "Twelfth Night" Previous answer: Innsbruck is the capital of Tyrol in Austria. 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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