Browsing: April

A Brief History Coming-of-age period comedy drama fans, here is your chance to be among the first in Cleveland, Ohio to see Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. on Tuesday, April 25, 2023 at 7:00PM at Cinemark Valley View, 6001 Canal Rd, Valley View, OH 44125!  For your chance to get a pass, please log on to https://lionsgatescreenings.com/MARGHH425.  Passes are first-come, first-serve.  The theater is overbooked slightly to ensure a full audience.  Therefore, seating is not guaranteed.  So, please arrive early!  Saving seats for other parties is prohibited. Digging Deeper For over fifty years, Judy Blume’s classic Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. has…

A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on April 21st.  For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On April 21, 1509, King Henry VIII of England ascended to the throne when his father, King Henry VII died. On April 21, 1802, a band of Wahhabis from Najd in central Saudi Arabia attacked the central Iraqi city of Karbala, with the purpose of punishing those Iraqi Muslims for failing to follow the ultra-conservative religious teachings of Ibn Taymiyya (1263-1328), a…

A Brief History Science fiction action thriller fans, here is your chance to be among the first in Cleveland, Ohio to see Citadel on Tuesday, April 25, 2023 at 7:30PM at Cinemark At Valley View and XD, 6001 Canal Rd., Valley View, OH 44125!  For your chance to get a pass, please log on to https://amazonscreenings.com/CITADELHH25.  Passes are first-come, first-serve.  The theater is overbooked slightly to ensure a full audience.  Therefore, seating is not guaranteed.  So, please arrive early!  Saving seats for other parties is prohibited. Digging Deeper In Citadel, eight years ago, Citadel fell. The independent global spy agency—tasked to…

A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on April 20th.  For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On April 20, 1657, a fleet of 23 British Royal Navy warships sailed boldly into the defended harbor at Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, to attack a Spanish treasure fleet anchored there. On April 20, 1657, the Dutch masters of the colony of New Amsterdam, later to become New York City, made the historic move of granting religious freedom to two…

A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on April 19th.  For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On April 19, 1861, an angry mob with pro-secessionist intentions attacked US Army troops on the streets of Baltimore, an event known as The Baltimore Riot of 1861, or alternately as The Pratt Street Riot or even the more dramatic Pratt Street Massacre. On April 19, 1927, vaudevillian and stage actress Mae West was sentenced to 10 days in jail for “corrupting…