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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.
RELEASE: FEBRUARY 14, 2012
Today we look at the unhappy history of celebrity stalkers. Robert Bardo became obsessed with young actor Rebecca Schaeffer. He hired a private investigator to find out where she lived and shot her to death, leading the LAPD to set up a Threat …Read more.
RELEASE: FEBRUARY 13, 2012
Some TV and movie stars sing on hit records. Others have criminal records. For example, in 1970, Suzanne Somers was arrested for passing bad checks. Larry King was accused of larceny after siphoning off cash intended to fund the New Orleans DA's …Read more.
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Trivia Bits for Friday, September 11Annually Chinese: As the story goes, Buddha called the animals of the world to his side, but only 12 showed up. In their honor, he named a year for each of them. That's why this is the Year of the Ox. Incidentally, traditionally, Chinese years were numbered, not A.D. or B.C., but based on the number of years the current emperor had been in charge. When the emperor was deposed in 1912, years were numbered for the Republic. In 1949, the 38th Year of the Republic, the communists switched to the Western system. Patriot Day: Today is Patriot Day in the United States, which marks the horrible events of Sept. 11. The House of Representatives unanimously passed a resolution calling for the holiday on Oct. 24, 2001. On Patriot Day, the flag should be flown at half-staff, and you should observe a moment of silence at 8:46 A.M., Eastern time, which is when the first plane crashed into the World Trade Center. Each of these songs is famously long, but which is longest, at 17 minutes, two seconds on the studio album? A) "American Pie" by Don McLean B) "Freebird" by Lynyrd Skynyrd C) "Hey Jude" by Beatles D) "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" by Iron Butterfly Previous answer: Alexander the Great was Macedonian.
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