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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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WEEK OF DECEMBER 7Monday, December 7 Sure, Dmitri Mendeleev worked out the Periodic Table. And yes, that table is the foundation of modern chemistry. But that doesn't mean Mendeleev is worth a Nobel Prize. So why not? One theory is that he was blackballed by Swedish chemist Svante Arrhenius, whose theory of electrolytic dissociation had been destroyed by Mendeleev. Arrehenius was notorious for using his position to reward friends and punish enemies and even became the first Swede to win the chemistry prize. If you think the language politics are complicated in Canada or Belgium, Papua New Guinea would like a word. With its valleys and thick forests, it has some 800 languages, 12 percent of all languages worldwide, which are spoken by small pockets of the population. The primary compromise language is a creole called Tok Pisin, which mixes English with Malay and various Austronesian languages. According to Advertising Age, the top ad campaign of the 20th century was "think small," which backed what car? A) Hyundai B) Toyota C) Renault D) Volkswagen Previous answer: If you like getting caught in the rain and making love at midnight, you might also like a pina colada. 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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