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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.
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.
Friday, November 20
Last month, we looked at Earth's prime meridian. There is a prime meridian on Mars, too. It runs through the crater Airy-0, which is named for British Astronomer Royal George Biddell Airy. And as it happens, he built the "transit circle" …Read more.
Thursday, November 19
One of the titans of animation was Isadore Freleng, nicknamed Friz for his frizzie hair. He had been part of the Kansas City clique of animators working for Disney before moving to Warner Brothers, where he was a key person behind such characters as …Read more.
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Trivia Bits for October 12If you're Italian, or a fan of European exploration, Happy Columbus Day. But if you're an Indian, a Latino or generally anti-Eurocentric ... well ... Unhappy Columbus Day. Except it isn't really Columbus Day. We celebrate Columbus because he reached the Americas on Oct. 12. But that was the date on the Julian calendar, which we don't use anymore. On our Gregorian calendar, we should be celebrating Columbus Day on Oct. 21, 1492. Or we should be celebrating Dia de la Raza, depending on where you sit. Happy Thanksgiving! If you like Thanksgiving so much you want to celebrate it twice, head for Canada, where the holiday is celebrated every year on the second Monday in October. It's a day off everywhere but New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia. It's widely held that the Canadian holiday is earlier because of Canada's shorter harvest season. In lore, who united the Five Nations of the Iroquois, protected them from evil and taught them the arts of medicine, agriculture and navigation? A) Green Arrow B) Hiawatha C) Red Cloud D) Tonto Previous answer: "The Silence of the Lambs" was the first video we could rent before it won the Best Picture Oscar. 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. Paul Paquet has been writing trivia since the early 1990s, and has written roughly 100,000 questions. For more, visit triviahalloffame.com or e-mail him at paul@triviahalloffame.com. COPYRIGHT 2009 PAUL PAQUET DISTRIBUTED BY CREATORS.COM
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