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Lady Godiva riding naked? Nope

10/12/2011

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- There is no proof that Godiva rode naked through town. And her name was Godgifu.

- When they were surveying the dead after the Battle of Little Bighorn, no long-haired man could be found. Where was General (he was not a general) George Custer? Some say it was his arrogance that did them in.

- The Pony Express was a flop and a financial disaster. The Telegraph put it out of business.

- The bullfight did not originate in mainly in Spain, or at all.

- OK, the Baby Ruth candy bar name game is an odd one. President Cleveland's daughter Ruth was died in 1904 and the bar was invented 15 years later. Babe Ruth, Yankees, not likely. Now, I used to be a researcher for L.M. Boyd of Crown Syndicate and in his column, he noted: it was named after the grandaughter of the president of the Williamson Candy Company.
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    For years I had a weekly trivia column published in The Big E, the product I ran and wrote for Sauk Valley Newspapers. Before that I was a researcher for L.M. Boyd and his Crown Syndicate and for other syndications as well. Two of them were Sports Features Syndicate and World Features.

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