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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 7Celebrity Twits: Yes, we're all a bit tired of hearing about Twitter by now, but credit is due to the celebs who blazed the trail. The best known one is Ashton Kutcher, who tweets @aplusk. He beat CNN in a race to be the first with 1 million Twitter followers. His wife, Demi Moore, is @mrskutcher. Other notable trailblazers include John Cleese, Shaquille O'Neal and "Heroes" star Greg Grunberg. Oh, Cosmo: Cosmopolitan magazine used to be known as a place to read top-drawer, high-fallutin' fiction. It published Willa Cather, Theodore Dreiser, Rudyard Kipling, Jack London and Edith Wharton. But circulation kept falling after WWII until Helen Gurley Brown took over in 1965. In 2004, Lewis Lapham wrote a column describing the Republican National Convention, which hadn't happened yet, for what magazine? A) Atlantic B) Harper's C) The Nation D) The New Republic Previous answer: A-ha was the first Norwegian act to hit No. 1 in North America. 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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