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I Didn’t Know That ... Bet You Didn’t Know It Either

Fascinating trivia facts and still is based at USC. The Shoah Foundation’s purpose including them in the newspaper. In 1942 following the
compiled by Stanley is to record testimony from Holocaust survivors. bombing of Pearl Harbor, The Times decided that publishing
Morgenbesser How Long Was The Wright Brothers’ First Flight? crossword puzzles was a good idea to occupy people’s minds
How Much Salary Did In 1903, Orville Wright piloted the first successful flight and give them something to do if a blackout occurred.
Steven Spielberg Receive in history of a self-propelled airplane 20 feet above a beach Which U.S. Presidents Have Descendants Who Are
For Directing The Movie near Kitty Hawk, N.C. The inaugural flight lasted 12 seconds Married To Each Other?
Schindler’s List? and covered 120 feet. Three more flights were made that day, Julie Nixon is married to David Eisenhower. Julie Nixon
Spielberg was not with Orville’s brother Wilbur piloting the longest one, which was the daughter of Richard M. Nixon, who was running
comfortable with taking a lasted 59 seconds over a distance of 852 feet. for president at the time of the wedding. Her groom was the
salary or any royalties from Who Did TIME Magazine Select As “Person Of The Year” grandson of Dwight D. Eisenhower. Julie and David met at the
the film. He did not want For 2019? Republican National Convention in 1956 while his grandfather
the film to be done as a way Sixteen-year-old Swedish environmental activist Greta was campaigning for re-election. They were both 8 at the time.
to earn money, and so refused pay and refused to profit Thunberg was named TIME’s Person of the Year. Thunberg They started dating in 1966, when they were both college
personally from the film. Instead, he funneled the profits into gained international attention for excoriating world leaders freshmen, and became engaged a year later. The couple are
forming a charity called the Shoah Foundation, which was for their inaction in the climate crisis in a viral speech she still married, have three children and live in Pennsylvania.
made at the United Nations. Thunberg is the magazine’s Where Did Vincent Van Gogh Produce His Most Famous
youngest choice ever to be named Person of the Year. The Paintings?
other four final candidates for person of the year were Nancy After the ear incident came hospitalization, and, following
Pelosi, President Donald Trump, the whistleblower who that, Van Gogh voluntarily went into a mental institution.
revealed Trump’s dealings with Ukraine, and the Hong Kong The more than 100 paintings he produced during this period
protesters. include some of his most celebrated works, including The
When And Why Did The New York Times Start Publishing
Starry Night, which was acquired by New York City’s
Vino With Sting! Crossword Puzzles? Museum of Modern Art in 1941, and Irises, which was
purchased by an Australian industrialist in 1987 for a then-
The New York Times wasn’t complimentary early in the
days of crossword puzzles when it said it was not a game or record sum of $53.9 million.
Who Wants To Go To Italy sport and was a sinful waste of time to look for letters to words Was Celebrating Christmas Ever Considered Illegal?
By the time the Puritans settled Boston, celebrating
that fit into a pattern. By the following year, nine dailies in
And Stay At Sting’s Tuscany Manhattan and 14 additional large newspapers were offering Christmas was outlawed. From 1659 to 1681, anyone caught
crosswords. The New York Times, ever stubborn, declared
Estate And Vineyard? crosswords dead in 1929 and held out for many years before I Didn’t Know That ... on page 11

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