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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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Trivia Bits for Monday, August 17Obscenity on Screen: Marianne Faithfull has a small role in the history of obscenity, and we don't mean that urban legend about the Mars bar. She is credited with being the first person to say in the f-word in a major movie, 1967's "I'll Never Forget What's 'Isname." The movie also had distribution problems because of an implied oral sex scene. Another contender for breaking the f-barrier is a movie version of James Joyce's "Ulysses," also released in 1967. More Alt History: We were "bitting" about alternate histories novels. A key idea in many of them is that one influential event could go either way, depending on a fluke of one sort or another. These are called jonbar points, and have been since a character named John Barr described them in the 1938 Jack Williamson novel "The Legion of Time." Williamson also coined the terms "genetic engineering" in "Dragon's Island" and "terraforming" in "Seetee Ship." What creature is the symbol of the National Audubon Society? A) Bumblebee B) Great egret C) Giant panda D) Large-mouthed bass Previous answer: We have C.J. 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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