TRIVIA TODAY - Monday, August 22, 2011

Greetings Infomaniacs,

Our Internet was down at work on Friday at the library, and the place basically shut down. Our Circulation department couldn't check out books, our Reference and Fiction desks were unable to look up material for patrons, and I couldn't access any of my files or websites that I normally use for my design work. Looks like I will be busy today making up for lost time!

Enjoy!
Melissa

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TODAY'S MYSTERY QUOTE
QUOTE: "In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it."

HINT: (1859-1907), English poet and ascetic.

RANDOM TIDBITS
F. Scott Fitzgerald went to Princeton and used the school as the setting for his first novel, This Side of Paradise. He died while eating a Hershey chocolate bar and reading a football article in the Princeton Alumni Weekly.

Katharine Lee Bates, an English professor at Wellesley, wrote the words to "America the Beautiful" after being inspired during a climb to the top of Pikes Peak in 1893.

The first people to witness a striptease were Parisian students who watched a model disrobe at the Bal des Quatre Arts on February 9, 1893. However, she was escorted out and fined 100 francs by a court. The students went crazy and began tearing apart the Latin Quarter - the army had to be called out to calm the riot.

Marcel Duchamp, artist and great chess player, spent his honeymoon contemplating chess problems. One night his bride glued the chess pieces to the board. They were divorced three weeks later.

Cary Grant was expelled from school at the age of 14 for attempting to sneak into the girls' bathroom. He then ran away to join a troupe of traveling acrobats.

When he was president, Calvin Coolidge never turned down an invitation to a social gathering although he never seemed to enjoy himself. When someone finally asked him why he went to the parties, he replied, "Got to eat somewhere."

*** Weekly Mind-Scrambler ***
Against your royalty I attack,
Going black to white and white to black
And one by two or two by one,
Until I'm caught or the war is done.
What am I?

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Answer will be posted in Friday's Trivia Today. Good Luck!

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TODAY'S MYSTERY QUOTE
QUOTE: "In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it."

ANSWER: Francis Thompson.