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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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Thursday, May 14Hollywood, in Hollywood: Paramount is the last major movie studio still in Hollywood. Founded in 1912 as Famous Players by Adolph Zukor, it is also the oldest of the Los Angeles studios, beating Universal by a month. The mountain in the logo is just a drawing of a mountain, although some claim it was based on Ben Lomond in Utah, which a studio exec knew as a boy. The logo usually has 22 stars. Urban Myths: We love a good story, just like the next guy. So we believed it when Mariah Carey supposedly said this: "When I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean, I'd love to be skinny like that, but not with all those flies and death and stuff." According to snopes.com, the fake story was picked up by Britain's VOX magazine, which fed the story to The Independent in May 1996, after which point it was reprinted by dozens of newspapers and magazines. What Thackeray novel, subtitled "A Novel Without a Hero," does have a heroine, named Becky Sharp? A) "An American Tragedy" B) "A Passage to India" C) "Great Expectations" D) "Vanity Fair" Previous answer: A third of the world's Arabs (as opposed to Muslims generally) are in Egypt. 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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