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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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Wednesday, December 9DreamWorks didn't exactly get off to a great start. Its first movie was a forgotten 1997 thriller called "The Peacemaker," an action film set amid the chaos of the Yugoslavian wars that involved loose nukes and the Russian Mafia. It starred George Clooney and Nicole Kidman. The film itself also has a plot vaguely similar to that of "Seven Days to Noon." NBA legend Bill Russell grew up amid severe racism in rural Louisiana and encountered more of the same in his early years in the NBA. In 1961, Russell refused to play in an exhibition game in Kentucky when a local restaurant wouldn't serve the black players. He later became active in the Black Power movement and remained distant from Boston fans, skipping both his own induction into the Hall of Fame and the retirement of his number by the Celtics. A Massachusetts cape is named for what state fish? A) Bass B) Cod C) Salmon D) Trout Previous answer: Edmontosaurus was named for Edmonton, the capital of Alberta. 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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