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RELEASE: FEBRUARY 18, 2012
Tim Harper was a campus reporter for the Drake University Times-Delphic in Iowa, when he broke the biggest story of his career on Sept. 17, 1969. Except that none of it was true. That year, Paul McCartney was out of the public eye, as he mulled the …Read more.
RELEASE: FEBRUARY 17, 2012
Henry James proofread the galleys for the 1903 edition of "The Ambassadors," which had been serialized in North American Review. Unfortunately, NAR had edited it down, and James wanted to restore the original version for the book. In the …Read more.
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.
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Tuesday, December 1North America (and Thailand) doesn't use the SOWPODS word list the rest of the Scrabble-playing world does. Perhaps appropriately, SOWPODS is derived from two anagrams: OSPD and OSW, which are the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary and the Official Scrabble Words. OSPD was the American word list, and many British and Australian players wanted to use those words in addition to their own OSW. Hence, the combined SOWPODS. Monopoly's Here & Now edition replaced the traditional properties with landmarks from across the U.S. Lowly Mediterranean Avenue became Jacobs Field in Cleveland, while mighty Boardwalk became New York City's Times Square. This was one of several new editions. Another version out now is integrated with Google Maps, so any city can be your board. Added to the National Toy Hall of Fame is what item, which Calvin and Hobbes once turned into a transmogrifier? A) Cardboard box B) Ray gun C) Robot D) Water pistol Previous answer: Ganesha is depicted with the head of an elephant. 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. Paul Paquet has been writing trivia since the early 1990s, and has written roughly 100,000 questions.
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