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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 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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