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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 Tuesday, September 29Celebrity Snacks: Christy Turlington, Naomi Campbell, Claudia Schiffer and Elle Macpherson created a restaurant chain called Fashion Cafe in 1995. Meant to walk in the footsteps of the Hard Rock Cafe and Planet Hollywood, the chain also had many of the same problems. It didn't help that two other similar celebrity chains (Country Star and the Motown Cafe) launched at the same time. Within a couple years, all three went bust, taking Planet Hollywood down, as well. Speaking Celtic: Gaelic is starting to come back, especially in Ireland. The Welsh are determined to be bilingual. But not all Celtic languages have been so lucky. Manx, a language spoke on the Isle of Man, died along with Edward Maddrell in 1974.
Per the phrase coined by environmentalist Rene Dubos, what should you do, even as you "think globally"? A) Act locally B) Look nationally C) Meditate universally D) Travel carefully Previous answer: Most of water is oxygen. 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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