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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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Wednesday, November 4Thirty years ago today, militant Iranian students stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran, taking 90 staff and U.S. Marines hostage. Several women and African Americans were released, as well as one very ill man. A number of Americans hid in the Canadian embassy, which smuggled them out. The remaining 52 hostages were released 444 days later. One of the students, by the way, may have been Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Even under Communist rule, Catholics, including John Paul II, came to visit Lithuania's Hill of Crosses. For centuries, Catholic pilgrims have come and left behind crucifixes, and today there are some 50,000 of them there. Many of the crosses were left in memory of Lithuanian rebels who disappeared during anti-Russian rebellions in the 1800s, so the site has special significance when Lithuania was part of the Soviet Union, which tore down many of the crosses. What name is shared by Philip Pirrip in a Dickens book, by a South Park character and by each member of Gladys Knight's backup band? A) Pap B) Pip C) Pop D) Pup Previous answer: Stockholm is Sweden's capital. 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. COPYRIGHT 2009 PAUL PAQUET DISTRIBUTED BY CREATORS.COM
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