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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 Thursday, October 1Bogie in the Caribbean: There is a Hollywood legend that Ernest Hemingway bet Howard Hawks he couldn't film "To Have and Have Not." Hawks won the bet, when he produced a film starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. One of the writers hired to work on the script was a down-on-his-luck William Faulkner, making this an unprecedented instance of a book by one Nobel laureate being adapted for film by another Nobel laureate. Awful, Artificial and Amusing: Speaking of legends, as the story goes, when Queen Anne said that St. Paul's Cathedral was "awful, artificial and amusing," "awful" meant "awe inspiring," "artificial" meant "clever use of artifice" and "amusing" meant "astonishing." So, despite sounding rather mean, the queen was actually paying Christopher Wren a compliment. When you win each of these awards, you can check for yourself. A) Emmy B) Grammy C) Oscar D) Tony Previous answer: St. Patrick was actually a Welshman. 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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