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This way of getting rid of addiction to opiates in general and morphine and heroin in particular, by simply standing the withdrawal symptoms, is called "White Turkey".

Laserdisc technology, using a transparent disc, was invented by David Paul Gregg in 1958 (and patented in 1961 and 1969). By 1969 Philips had developed a videodisc in reflective mode, which has great advantages over the transparent mode. MCA and Philips decided to join their efforts. They first publicly demonstrated the videodisc in 1972. It was first available on the market, in Atlanta, on December 15, 1978, two years after the VHS VCR and five years before the CD, which is based on laserdisc technology. Philips produced the players and MCA the discs. The Philips/MCA cooperation was not successful, and discontinued after a few years.

The word trivia comes from the Latin word Trivialis.
The word Trivial shares the same root.
By definition Trivia is trivial.

Captain Kirk never said "Beam me up, Scotty." Nor did Sherlock Holmes say "Elementary, my dear Watson", or James Cagney ever utter the phrase "You dirty rat".

Also, St Paul never condemned money as the root of all evil - he condemned the love of money as the root of all evil. Money itself was fine, apparently...

MrSinister, sort of. Sherlock Holmes never spoke that phrase in the original stories. It originated on the British Stage, so it was pronounced by various actors, and then later in the movies.

"Watson, the needle!!"

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle resented the popularity of his ASpie fictional detective. He is said to have made it clear that no one was ever to mention "his name" in Doyle's prescence.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle lost his son in WWI and after that went to spiritist meetings, though he never seemed to have really believed in it.

I thought he was quite the believer, and Harry Houdini tried to convince him otherwise.

I cannot tell for sure, but he went to those meetings anyway.

Wiki-fact:In his later years, Doyle became involved with spiritualism, to the extent that he wrote a Professor Challenger novel on the subject, The Land of Mist. One of the odder aspects of this period of his life was his book The Coming of the Fairies (1921). He was apparently totally convinced of the veracity of the Cottingley fairy photographs, which he reproduced in the book, together with theories about the nature and existence of fairies and spirits. In his The History of Spiritualism (1926) Doyle highly praised the psychic phenomena and spirit materializations produced by Eusapia Palladino and "Margery," (Mina Crandon), based on the investigations of scientists who refused to listen to well-informed conjurors.

(If I remember correctly, it was Houdini, who despised Psychics, who was one of the "well-informed conjurers". Houdini was the Penn & Teller of his age.)

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They made a movie about this believe of Doyle in fairies, and in that he seemed not to really had believed in it.

(Wikipedia and wikimedia aren't 100% reliable sources).

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Wiki not 100% reliable ?????????

I do believe the damp weather has gotten the best of yer judgement, old chap!! !! !!

My eyes are brown, Baby!

"Jimi Hendrix and his new band, Jimmy James and the Blue Flames, quickly gained local attention and played throughout New York City. During this period (1966) Hendrix met and worked with singer-guitarist Ellen McIlwaine and guitarist Jeff "Skunk" Baxter, who was an employee at Manny's Music Shop, a famous daytime hangout for musicians. Hendrix also met iconoclast Frank Zappa during this time. Zappa is credited as having introduced Hendrix to the newly-invented wah-wah pedal."

My fingers are down to stubs from all this typing. "Bang The Keyboard Like A Percussion Instrument Until The Fingers Begin To Bleed A bit."