Portal:The arts/Did you know/December, 2008


 * ... that 'Florizel von Reuter, a child prodigy on the violin, later developed psychic interests and wrote books describing communications with dead composers, including Paganini and Rimsky-Korsakov?
 * ... that the names of the two main characters of Nicholas Sparks ' 2002 novel Nights in Rodanthe are a Christmas present to his in-laws?
 * ... that photographer Karl Bissinger took his first test photos with cameras and a studio loaned to him by Richard Avedon?
 * ... that the design of the art nouveau Germania definitive stamp was personally chosen by Emperor Wilhelm II?
 * ... that employees at radio station WIXI in Jasper, Alabama, reported that for more than 30 years their radio studios were haunted