Browsing: August

A Brief History On August 21, 2012, the fourth game in the Counter-Strike series was released for Windows, OS X, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3.  Your performance in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) can be decided by three factors: ability, tactics, and group play. As it comes about skill, you’re going to have to grit your reaction times, crosshair positioning, and spray power. Refining your ability to a ‘high level’, you will also learn a lot of simple tactics, a phenomenon that has proven to be effective at matchmaking. When you go pretty much up as a five-on-five team (clan), these techniques may not be enough…

A Brief History On August 31, 1869, the world’s first recorded road traffic death involving a motor vehicle occurred when Irish scientist Mary Ward fell out of her cousins’ steam car and was run over by it.  Today, motor vehicle accidents are but one way in which automobiles might require repairs.  When it comes to vehicles, repairing them can get expensive. Read here to learn the most expensive car repairs and how much they cost. Digging Deeper Some car repair jobs will cost you next to nothing. For example, if you need to have the windshield wiper blades on your…

A Brief History August 12, 1915 marks the date of a story – which is not actually just a simple story – which tells of the vanishing of a group of British soldiers during the now infamous Gallipoli campaign, during World War One.  Most say that the 5th Norfolk Battalion vanished into thin air. Other versions of this legend say that the soldiers actually walked into thick mist and were then swallowed up, without a single trace.  Ever since the men of Sandringham have vanished, theories have been created, as well as a lot of controversies. Naturally, all of those…

A Brief History On August 29, 2019, we went to see the second film in the 47 Meters Down movie franchise, this time titled 47 Meters Down: Uncaged.  This new film, which debuted across the country August 16, 2019, is not a sequel to the first film, and only has in common the idea of people underwater with dangerous sharks.  And pulse pounding terror. As great fans of horror and terror movies, and the fact that we previously had seen and enjoyed the first film, we were pretty eager to see this latest installment in underwater terror.  We were not…

A Brief History On August 28, 1968, the profession of policing in the United States reached one of its lowest points when the Chicago Police Department under the direction of dictatorial Mayor Richard Daley moved to violently put down protests at the 1968 Democratic Convention (August 26-29, 1968), resulting in what has been described as a “police riot.” Digging Deeper The background to the 1968 Democratic Convention had been a turbulent year in the United States, a year characterized by civil unrest over racial issues and protests over the War in Vietnam, both resulting in riots and protests that were…