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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 Wednesday, September 30Papist Trivia I: Lucia dos Santos entered the convent in 1925 and in the 1940s claimed she'd been given a three-part prophecy at Fatima, Portugal, back when the Virgin Mary had reportedly appeared in 1917. The first is a vision of hell; the second supposedly predicts World War II. After much anticipation, in 2000 John Paul II released the Third Secret of Fatima, about a pope murdered atop a ruined hill by soldiers. He thought it was about the attempt on his own life. Papist Trivia II: Adrian VI was the only modern pope, except Marcellus II, to use his baptismal name as his papal name. But he has an even more important place when it comes to papal trivia.
Here's something to bear in mind next March 17. What country's patron saint was a Welshman named Succat, who was captured by pirates from this country when he was 16? A) England B) France C) Ireland D) Scotland Previous answer: Rene Dubos said you should think globally but act locally. 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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