Browsing: August 16

A Brief History Psychological horror fans, here is your chance to be among the first in Cleveland, Ohio to see The Night House on Monday, August 16, 2021 at 7:30 PM at Cinemark At Valley View & XD in Valley View, Ohio!  For your chance to get a pass, please log on to http://www.searchlightscreenings.com/tzcVu49515.  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 The Night House, reeling from the unexpected death of her husband, Beth (Rebecca Hall)…

A Brief History From August 14 through 16, 2003, a widespread power outage affected millions of people living throughout parts of the Northeastern and Midwestern United States, and the Canadian province of Ontario.  Today, though, it may be hard to imagine not just a couple weeks but rather a whole life without electricity.  Nevertheless, there has been indeed a time period when there was a world without electricity. We, the humans, have come a long way as a race and civilization. For instance, one can create a quality research paper about how people discovered fire, harnessed electricity and was able…

A Brief History On August 16, 1927, the Dole Air Race began, with 8 airplanes taking off from Oakland, California and heading to Honolulu, Hawaii.  Of the 8 planes that managed to get into the air and race, 6 were lost with the loss of 10 men.  Only 2 of the planes made it to Hawaii.  Sometimes races of any type go wrong, horribly wrong, and people or animals end up dead or maimed, sometimes not even the participants!  Here we list 5 disastrous races. Digging Deeper 1.  Dole Air Race, 1927. Also known as the Dole Air Derby, between 15…

A Brief History On August 16, 1945, the last Emperor in China, Puyi of Manchuria, was captured by the Soviet Army.  Puyi, also known as Henry Puyi, was the last Qing Emperor of China from 1908 to 1912, deposed while still a child (born 1906) by the Xinhai Revolution of 1912.  The former Xuantong Emperor lived quietly until the Japanese occupation of Manchuria (Manchukuo) in 1932. Digging Deeper The Japanese made Puyi their puppet ruler of Manchukuo, and in 1934 declared him Emperor Datong, the Kangde Emperor of Manchukuo.  This regime lasted only until the end of Japanese occupation in…

A Brief History On August 16, 1942, while on routine anti-submarine patrol, the 2 man crew of US Navy Blimp L-8 disappeared without a trace.  The unmanned blimp drifted about aimlessly until crash landing in Daly City, California.  No trace of the crew or reason for their disappearance has ever been found. Digging Deeper (Note: An unrelated disaster, the 1964 Republican National Convention was held in the modern city limits of Daly City, although History usually refers to the convention as being held in San Francisco.  Barry Goldwater was nominated for President, and went on to lose by a record…