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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 4Urban Papal Myths: There is a persistent but mythical story that an Englishwoman disguised herself as a man and became Pope Joan. Supposedly, she gave the game away only when she gave birth while mounting a horse. Thus ended her three-week papacy, wedged in 855 CE between Leo IV and Benedict III. Oddly, there is a John XIX and a John XXI, but no John XX, so some people see that as proof that Joan (aka John XX) was erased from history. Through the Wardrobe: Narnia's landscape was inspired by C.S. Lewis' home in Northern Ireland, and an Italian town he once passed through may have inspired its name. Lewis eventually created an entire geography for Narnia, whose capital, Cair Paravel, is on the Great River.
What "Rocket Man" founded Rocket Records in 1972, only to re-sign with MCA after recording just one album for his own label? A) David Bowie B) Alice Cooper C) Bob Dylan D) Elton John Previous answer: There were 16 French kings named Louis before the French Revolution (and a few afterward). 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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