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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 Thursday, August 6Happy 200th, Alf: Today would have been the birthday of Alfred Tennyson, had he somehow managed to survive two full centuries. Named poet laureate in 1850, he is best known for "The Charge of the Light Brigade" about a battle during the Crimean War. But he also gave us "The Lady of Shalott," a version of the King Arthur story called "Idylls of the King," and the expression "better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all." 45 Years of Voting Rights: Also on this day, back in 1965, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law. This act outlawed literacy tests and other practices that kept African-Americans out of the ballot box. Who would Lohengrin have tossed the ball around with on Father's Day? A) Beowulf B) Erik the Red C) Percival D) Thor Previous answer: Johann Rudolf Wyss, creator of "The Swiss Family Robinson," was also Swiss. 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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