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June 19, 2019: Your Chance to Preview Annabelle Comes Home

By Dr. Zar on June 14, 2019 Cinema & TV, June 19, The Paranormal

A Brief History Supernatural horror film fans, here is your chance to be among the first in Cleveland, Ohio to see Annabelle Comes Home on Wednesday, June 19, 2019 at 7:00 PM at Cinemark At Valley View & XD in Valley View, Ohio! For your chance to get a pass, please log on to http://wbtickets.com/ and enter code: CLEHHANNA672. The pass is valid for up to two seats. Seating is first-come, first-served and is not guaranteed. Saving seats for other parties is prohibited. Digging Deeper In Annabelle Comes Home, determined to keep Annabelle from wreaking more havoc, demonologists Ed and Lorraine…

June 14, 2019: Men in Black: International Movie Review, New Stars and Eye Candy!

By Major Dan on June 14, 2019 Cinema & TV, June 14

A Brief History On June 14, 2019, the 4th movie in the Men in Black film series will be released across the United States, and luckily, we had the chance to preview the film ahead of time. We expected a lot from the new movie, since we loved the previous editions, especially the chemistry between Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith. We were not disappointed! The new stars worked great together, and the special effects and aliens were everything we had expected and more. Digging Deeper Starring Chris Hemsworth as Agent H, the uber agent of the MIB team…

June 13, 1944: Tiger Tank Proves Too Much for British Armour

By Major Dan on June 13, 2019 June 13, Military

A Brief History On June 13, 1944, during the Battle of Villers-Bocage, German tank ace Obersturmführer Michael Wittmann proved what could be accomplished by proper use of a superior weapon system when he directed his Tiger I tank against British armor (armour for you Brits), destroying an amazing 2 anti-tank guns, 15 armored personnel carriers, and 14 tanks! Only a week after the D-Day invasion of Normandy, France, the battle was an attempt by the British to break out of the Normandy beachhead and advance on the city of Caen. Digging Deeper A member of the dreaded SS (Schutzstaffel), Wittmann…

What is Martial Law?

By Major Dan on June 12, 2019 Crime, June 12, Military, Politics

A Brief History On June 12, 1775, British General Thomas Gage declared martial law in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Gage offered amnesty and a pardon to all rebels that would lay down their arms, except Samuel Adams and John Hancock, who were deemed traitors that would be hanged if captured. The American Revolution had already had a de facto beginning by this point, with the Boston Massacre (1770), the burning of the Gaspee in Rhode Island (a British customs schooner, 1772), the Boston Tea Party (1773), and the Battles of Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775. Fearing an outright…

Who Really Invented the Telephone?

By Major Dan on June 11, 2019 Inventions, June 11

A Brief History On June 11, 2002, the House of Representatives of the United States Congress officially recognized Italian American inventor Antonio Meucci as the inventor of the telephone. Well, sort of! Depending on exactly who is interpreting the resolution passed by the House of Representative the resolution either gives Meucci credit for the invention or merely gives him credit for taking part in the development of the research that enabled the invention of the telephone. The US Senate did not agree to pass a similar resolution, and of course, the US Patent Office awarded the patent for the telephone…