Encyclopedia of Trivia

In 1885, a young pharmacist called Charles Alderton was working and serving carbonated soft drinks at Morrison's Old Corner Drug Store, ...

Comic actress Lucille Ball first met Cuban-born bandleader Desi Arnaz while filming the Rodgers and Hart stage hit Too Many Girls. At first...

Louis Antoine Godey, the publisher of Godey's Lady's Book , died on November 29, 1878. The largest circulation magazine of its time...

On November 28, 1582, the 18-year-old William Shakespeare married the 26-year-old daughter of a yeoman farmer Anne Hathaway (1556-1623). Th...

English chemist John Walker had developed an interest in trying to find a means of obtaining fire easily. He experimented with several chemi...

Charles Dodgson's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was published on November 26, 1865 under his pseudonym Lewis Carroll . The book ...

On November 25, 1944 a carrier pigeon Paddy was decorated for his effort in the war against Nazi Germany. In the service of Royal Air Force...