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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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Tuesday, October 6Happy German American Day! This is the anniversary of the day in 1683 when 13 German families from Krefeld near the Rhine landed in Philadelphia. They quickly founded Germantown, Pa., the first German settlement in what is now the United States. Although German Americans have traditionally been among the most numerous of America's ethnic groups, the holiday died out around World War I (imagine that) but was revived in 1983. Arctic Circle, a Utah-based fast-food chain, claims to have invented fry sauce, which is one part ketchup and two parts mayonnaise. You can make it spicier by using barbeque sauce instead of ketchup, and some recipes end up tasting like Russian or thousand island salad dressing. Bajan pepper sauce is extremely hot. Try it on some flying fish, but you may want to wash it down with some Mount Gay rum. Where are you? A) Bahamas B) Barbados C) Barbuda D) Bermuda Previous answer: Somebody from the United Arab Emirates is an Emirati. 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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