TRIVIA TODAY - Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Greetings Infomaniacs,

Tomorrow morning my friends and I getting on a plane headed for Orlando, Florida for a long weekend of swimming, relaxing, and visiting Universal Studios to see the Wizarding World of Harry Potter theme park.

We've seen all the movies together and been fans of the books since the first one came out, so it only makes sense that we would visit the park together. I cannot wait to see what it's like to be in Harry Potter's world!

Enjoy!
Melissa

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TODAY'S MYSTERY QUOTE
QUOTE: "We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself."

HINT: (1924-2007), widely influential American author of more than forty books, mostly fantasy novels for children and adolescents.

RANDOM TIDBITS
Benjamin Franklin was the first head of the United States Post Office.

The first macaroni factory in the United States was established in 1848. It was started by Antoine Zegera in Brooklyn, New York.

The first telephone book ever issued contained only fifty names. It was published in New Haven, Connecticut, by the New Haven District Telephone Company in February, 1878.

The A&P was the first chain store business to be established. It began in 1842.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer was the first novel ever to be written on a typewriter. It was typed on a Remington in 1875 by Mark Twain himself. Twain did not want that fact known because he didn't want to write testimonials or answer questions about this "newfangled thing."

King George VI of England became the first British monarch to set foot on American soil when he visited the World's Fair in New York City in 1939.

VIDEO CLIP
The Birth of Harry Potter - The Real Locations in Harry Potter

Gloucester Cathedral, hardly any distance from J.K. Rowling's birthplace, provided a number of stunning backdrops for Harry Potter action. Many locations in Rowling's experience have found new homes in the Potter movies.

WATCH IT NOW: The Real Locations in Harry Potter

TODAY'S MYSTERY QUOTE
QUOTE: "We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself."

ANSWER: Lloyd Alexander.

*** Weekly Mind-Scrambler ***
I constantly collide into all the others,
The only one of 16 without colors.
Associated with English and banking and breaking,
The answer is right there for the taking.

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