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A Brief History On July 29, 1973, British race car driver Roger Williamson met his death when his Formula 1race car crashed at the Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort Circuit in the Netherlands.  The 25 year old 2 time British Formula 3 champion was trapped under his flipped car, not seriously hurt from the crash, but was burned to death as the car was engulfed in flames.  We wrote about that crash in our July 29 article, “10 Famous Car Wrecks”.  Today we look at another 5 famous/infamous car crashes that you may find interesting. Digging Deeper 1.  Tiger Woods, November…

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A Brief History Bingo may not seem like the most exciting activity, but it has been around for hundreds of years and still exists to this day. Although it is a bit more wacky now with live bingo games at sites such as umbingo, as well as musical bingo and drag queen bingo.  Regular readers will know that we like to look into the history of most obscure things, in this article we are taking you back in time with bingo! Digging Deeper – Where Did Bingo Get its Start? So where did it all begin? There is no one answer…

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A Brief History On July 24, 1983, Major League Baseball experienced a strange incident that caused a furor on the field, in corporate offices, and in the homes of baseball fans all over the country when George Brett of the Kansas City Royals blasted a homerun and then had it taken away!  Stunned and outraged, Brett just about had a meltdown on the spot while the Yankee Stadium crowd roared its approval.  Referred to as “The Pine Tar Incident,” the decision to take away Brett’s homer went down in baseball lore as one wacky, weird, and wonderful incident, and here…

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A Brief History On July 22, 1932, Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr. died in Hollywood, California, ending a wonderful career in entertainment, known especially for being the creator of The Ziegfeld Follies.  Flo, as he was called, was a German-American (father’s side) though his mother was Belgian.  Ziegfeld is one of many great German-American entertainers, and here we list 10 notable examples of Great German-American Entertainers.  (See our July 22, 2014 article, German-Speaking Actresses in English-Speaking Roles, Part 1.)   Digging Deeper 1. Flo Ziegfeld, Impressario and Producer.   A Broadway legend, Ziegfeld is famous for his Follies and also for producing Show Boat.  A member of The American Theater Hall of…

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A Brief History On July 21, 2017, the major motion picture, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, makes its debut in theaters for fans of the European science fiction comic series Valerian and Laureline.  Although based on the Franco-Belgian comics, the film is entertaining enough that people totally unfamiliar with the comics will quickly identify with the main characters and enjoy the movie. Digging Deeper The main two words you can say about the film (which we previewed on July 19, 2017) are simply “Eye Candy.”  Vivid and detailed, the screen is almost always filled with an incredible array of objects and “people,” many…

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