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Saturday, November 7
William Lear had quite a career, despite having dropped out after eighth grade. He sold the patent for the car radio to Galvin, which is now Motorola. He invented the 8-track tape cassette that became a '70s fad. And he founded a company that …Read more.
Friday, November 6
Built out of solid rock in the 1960s, Temppeliaukio Church is found largely underground in Helsinki. Architects Timo and Tuomo Suomalainen designed the church to burrow into solid rock, using designs that predated World War II. The back wall of the …Read more.
Thursday, November 5
Tonight is Guy Fawkes Night in Britain, which celebrates the thwarting of Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot in 1605. Fawkes and a group of Catholics wanted to blow up the Houses of Parliament. (At the time, Catholics were severely repressed in …Read more.
Thursday, November 5
Tonight is Guy Fawkes Night in Britain, which celebrates the thwarting of Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot in 1605. Fawkes and a group of Catholics wanted to blow up the Houses of Parliament. (At the time, Catholics were severely repressed in …Read more.
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Saturday, May 2Of Art and Monsters: Boris Karloff was not Russian at all. He was actually a London-born Englishman whose career began in Canada. That being said, one of his grandmothers was a Bengali from Calcutta, India. His other grandmother's sister was Anna Leonowens, who was the "I" in "The King and I." Leonowens also spent much of her life in Canada. She co-founded the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Legal Downloads: In 2007, after the end of their contract with EMI, Radiohead released its album "In Rainbows" online, allowing fans to pay whatever they thought it was worth. About one-third of people who downloaded decided it wasn't worth paying anything at all for, but the average price paid was 4 pounds. From Balboa Hill, you can see both the Pacific and the Atlantic (technically, the Caribbean). What country are you in? A) Belize B) Costa Rica C) Mexico D) Panama Previous answer: Earth is found in the arm of Orion. 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. For more, visit triviahalloffame.com or e-mail him at paul@triviahalloffame.com. COPYRIGHT 2009 PAUL PAQUET DISTRIBUTED BY CREATORS SYNDICATE, INC.
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