Curious trivia about the classic L. Frank Baum novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and its afterlife Surprisingly, the famous 1939 MGM film The Wizard of Oz was not the first time L. Frank Baum’s book had been adapted. It wasn’t even the second. In fact, the 1939 film The Wizard […]
Fun Ezra Pound facts, including his unusual middle name and his even weirder fashion sense 1. Ezra Pound’s middle name was Loomis. Or rather, one of his middle names. Ezra Weston Loomis Pound was born in Idaho in 1885; a childhood friend was Hilda Doolittle, who would become known as an […]
The best funny, witty, and wise Mark Twain quotes Mark Twain often gets the credit for all sorts of witty lines, but it turns out that he didn’t say many of them. So we set ourselves the task of tracking down the lines that Mark Twain actually did say – and this […]