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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 30Cosmetics mogul Leonard Lauder coined the lipstick index, also called the lipstick indicator, for the theory that sales of cheap indulgences go up just before and during a recession. Lauder was speaking as the chair of Estee Lauder, in the early 2000s. The recession that came in the second half of the decade seems to disprove the idea, as Estee Lauder sales have dropped along with sales for everything else, so the sales bump around 2001 may have had more to do with new celebrity-based brands. White Castle is thought to be the oldest American fast-food hamburger chain, and it is particularly famous for square burgers called slyders, which you can buy by the half-dozen. The chain was started in Wichita, Kan., at a time when ground beef was considered unsanitary, hence the "white castle" image, based on the Chicago Water Tower. In the comics, it turned Reed Richards and his fellow astronauts into the Fantastic Four. In real life, it grounded astronaut Donald Thomas. What is it? A) Cosmic radiation B) Gamma radiation C) Microwave radiation D) Ultraviolet radiation Previous answer: Paul was the tentmaker. 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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