Author: Dr. Zar

A Brief History Superhero film fans, here is your chance to be among the first in Cleveland, Ohio to see Bloodshot on Wednesday, March 11, 2020 at 7:00 PM at Regal Crocker Park Stadium 16 & IMAX in Westlake, Ohio!  For your chance to get a pass, please log on to https://sonyscreenings.com/main/movie_landing/SElTVFNIT1QxMQ%3D%3D.  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 Bloodshot, after he and his wife are suddenly assassinated, Marine Ray Garrison is reborn by a team of scientists.  Enhanced with nanotechnology, he becomes…

A Brief History In 1987, after being petitioned by the National Women’s History Project, the Congress of the United States of America passed a resolution which designated the month of March as Women’s History Month.  As with Black History Month, which also originated in the United States, Women’s History Month has continued to be celebrated ever since it began and has similarly spread to various other countries around the world. Digging Deeper Below is a video timeline/playlist of women’s history: As we have seen in our timeline of women’s history, women have played many fascinating and critical roles in the story of…

A Brief History In February 1969, black educators and the Black United Students at Kent State University in Ohio first proposed Black History Month.  The first celebration of Black History Month took place at Kent State one year later in 1970.  Today, fifty years later, Black History Month is celebrated throughout North America and Europe. Digging Deeper So, as a graduate of Kent State University’s Master’s Program in History, on this 50 year anniversary of one of my university’s contributions to how we remember history, it seems appropriate that I should present a playlist of videos about some notable events…

A Brief History In 550 BC, the first dynasty of the Persian Empire was created by the Achaemenids, established by Cyrus the Great with the conquest of the Median, Lydian and Babylonian empires.  Because Iran, formerly known as Persia, has been in the news quite a bit as of late, it seems worthwhile to dig a little deeper into that country’s history.  So, today, we present an animated timeline of Persian Empires before Islam. Digging Deeper Timeline of the Pre-Achaemenid Era Timeline of the Achaemanid Empire Alexander the Great’s Empire was short-lived. Less than 20 years after his death, it was…

A Brief History Epic war film fans, here is your chance to be among the first in Cleveland, Ohio to see 1917 on Tuesday, January 7, 2020 at 7:00 PM at Regal Great Northern in North Olmsted, Ohio!  For your chance to get a pass, please complete and submit the form at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc6ocbQ2rxY8KJcTHScrtFFSSThP-KlQQe2ysmRJMeyGdzGMA/viewform.  A winning 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 1917, at the height of the First World War during Spring 1917 in northern France, two young British soldiers, Schofield…