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August 12, 1994: 10 Famous Labor or Protest Strikes (Sports Edition)

By Major Dan on August 13, 2018 August 12, Lists, Sports

A Brief History On August 12, 1994, major league baseball players went on strike, ending the 1994 major league baseball season and causing the cancellation of the 1994 World Series. Sacrilege! Any labor dispute that cause the cancellation of anything as publicly visible as the World Series is sure to get attention, though labor or protest strikes outside of the sporting world can also be highly visible or even intrusive to the public at large. Today we list “10 Famous Labor or Protest Strikes” that have particular historical interest or consequence. What strikes would you add to the list? (Note:…

A Video Timeline of Early American History from Pre-colonization to Reconstruction (History 12070)

By Dr. Zar on August 12, 2018 Timelines

A Brief History This article presents a video timeline for students of Early American History through 1877 (History 12070) at Kent State University. For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to a video covering that date’s event. After watching that video, please post a one or two sentence comment in the comments section for the video that demonstrates that you watched the video. These comments or “thesis statements” are 1-2 sentence summaries of the video. They should include the most important aspects of each video. In other words, the thesis statement should include the individuals…

August 11, 1929: Let’s Compare Babe Ruth to Other Great Home Run Hitters

By Major Dan on August 11, 2018 August 11, Lists, Sports

A Brief History On August 11, 1929, George Herman “Babe” Ruth hit his 500th home run at Cleveland’s League Park, the first major league baseball player to achieve that lofty status. Obviously, Ruth was the greatest long ball slugger of his day, and his career total of 714 home runs was not eclipsed until Hammerin’ Hank Aaron beat it in 1974. Since then, the much reviled Barry Bonds of steroid induced mega-muscles has surpassed Ruth and Aaron both, ending his career in 2007 with an all time best 762 career homers. Today we are going to compare the top 10…

August 10, 2018: America is Attacked by Giant Prehistoric Shark! (Movie Review: The Meg)

By Major Dan on August 10, 2018 August 10, Cinema & TV

A Brief History On August 10, 2018, movie goers in the United States will be treated to a new monster motion picture, and we do mean “Monster!” The fabled prehistoric shark known as the Megalodon is the star of this new film, never mind action hero Jason Statham. When we say “monster,” we are talking about a shark big enough to eat “Jaws,” and yet not silly enough to be a made for television movie. In fact, the monster shark in this film really did exist millions of years ago, which makes the premise of the story all the more…

August 9, 1969: 5 More Nutty People Not in an Asylum! (But Maybe They Should Be…)

By Major Dan on August 9, 2018 August 9, Cinema & TV, Crime, Health/Medicine, Lists, Politics, Sports

A Brief History On August 9, 1969, members of the Manson Family, followers of cult leader Charles Manson, murdered actress Sharon Tate, her unborn baby, coffee heiress Abigail Folger and 3 other people. Although definitely nutty people with bizarre, cult ideas about sparking a race war through senseless murder, none of these people successfully played the insanity card. Charles Manson died in prison in November of 2017 one seriously deranged dude that seemed to be a shoo in for the loony bin. We previously discussed “10 Blatantly Nutty People Not Found Insane” and today we nominate another 5 goofy people to…