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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, January 27When you think Freemasons, you think of powerful white men, covertly pulling the levers of power in their ruthless quest for world domination. And, also, Richard Pryor. The comic legend joined Henry Brown Lodge No. 22 in Peoria, Ill., a year after he nearly died. Neither of the Bush presidents are Masons, nor is Barack Obama, although Bill Clinton was once part of a Masonic youth group. In around 2001, an email got passed around in which George Carlin said he must be a bad American because of all his hard-core right-wing beliefs, including such charming nuggets as, "I believe that if you are selling me a Big Mac, you'd better do it in English." Carlin directly disavowed authorship on his website, but what was odd is that the former hippie and lifelong atheist is best known for the "seven dirty words," which precipitated a free-speech case that went all the way to the Supreme Court. Born Jacob Cohen, he "got no respect" from AMPAS (the Oscar people), which rejected his membership application? A) Rodney Dangerfield B) Buddy Hackett C) Bob Newhart D) Don Rickles Previous answer: The movie "Toy Story" revived the fortunes of several aging games and toys. 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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