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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.
WEEK OF NOVEMBER 23
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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Trivia Bits, August 21Eponym of the week: Revolutionary War brigadier general Francis Nash. Born in Virginia, he became an attorney in North Carolina, and commanded the First North Carolina Regiment at the Battle of Brandywine in 1777. The city of Nashville, Tenn., was named for him; the state was once part of North Carolina.
There are three "degrees of separation" between Tom Mix (filmdom's first cowboy megastar) and Tom Cruise. Mix was in "Rustlers' Roundup" (1933) with Noah Beery, Jr., who was in "Little Fauss and Big Halsy" (1970) with Robert Redford, who was in last year's "Lions for Lambs" with Cruise. What nation is the world's leading grower of coffee beans? A) Columbia B) Brazil C) Italy D) Kenya Previous answer: The world's largest thermometer is located near Death Valley, in Baker, Calif. 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 Stan Newman at StanTrivia@aol.com or on a postcard to P.O. Box 69, Massapequa Park, NY 11762. COPYRIGHT 2008 STANLEY NEWMAN DISTRIBUTED BY CREATORS SYNDICATE
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