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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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Tuesday, May 12Alpine Puppies: Popular lore notwithstanding, the St. Bernard never actually carried casks of brandy from its collar. That's a good thing, since the last thing you should give somebody with hypothermia is alcohol. The dog was likely named after the Great St. Bernard Pass in Switzerland, where monks bred them at a hospice. Ironically, the breed was nearly wiped out by a series of avalanches in the 1810s. Epic Comedy: Stanley Kramer intended for "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" to be to an epic, as well as a comedy. To that end, the film was filmed in Ultra Panavision 70 and presented in Cinerama. It also included some of the Golden Age's greatest comedians: Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Phil Silvers, Jonathan Winters and cameos from the Three Stooges, Jerry Lewis, Jack Benny and Buster Keaton. If you are a pariah aboard a catamaran, you may know that "catamaran" and "pariah" come to English from what language? A) Arabic B) Dutch C) Sioux D) Tamil Previous answer: Jalapeno is both a pepper and a Mexican city. 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.
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