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Hooks
Anchorage White Raven
- ... that a raven in Anchorage, Alaska, (pictured) ate tater tots and toast, fought over ice cream, and disassembled a streetlamp?
- ... that Wang Hanlun used proceeds from her company's only film to finalize her divorce?
- ... that Benjamin Britten wanted the score of his An American Overture destroyed after it was rediscovered?
- ... that Dr Disrespect's first videos featured a bombastic "champion" trash-talking game-play footage?
- ... that Cordova, Alabama, was hit by two tornadoes on the same day in 2011, the second of which was on the ground for more than two hours?
- ... that Arthur France founded the Leeds West Indian Carnival, the first Caribbean carnival in Europe, in 1967?
- ... that Spectrum HoloByte published Tetris without permission from the Soviet Union?
- ... that a future World War II aircraft carrier was used as a hotel during the 7th National Eucharistic Congress in 1935?
- ... that John Moore's mother, after learning that UCLA's student-body president was Black, said "this is where he's going to school"?