A Brief History The Rake is a fictional cryptid resembling a humanoid creature that infrequently stalks people, sometimes appearing at the foot of the victim’s bed, and has been alleged to mutilate and abduct children. According to Paul Tamburro, The Rake originated as a creepypasta created by an anonymous poster on 4chan’s/b/ imageboard in late 2005. The creature is depicted as a crouching humanoid that is around 6 feet tall, with pale, grey-colored skin. Its eyes are slightly larger than a human’s eyes, and they glow, which is the sign of a tissue in its eyes known as ”tapetum lucidum”.…
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Digging Deeper On October 13, 1929, Joze Plecnik, Slovenian architect, revealed his memorial to Napoleon Bonaparte on the Square of the French Revolution in Ljubljana, Slovenia. A major influence on the architecture of Slovenia, Plecnik was not a favorite of the communists after World War II and fell from influence. Plecnik and others have left beautiful, imposing, or impressive memorials and monuments to remind us of those memorialized. Here we list 10 of the author’s favorites, not necessarily the most famous or biggest, but the ones that touch or impress me the most. Digging Deeper 10. Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument,…
A Brief History On June 17, 2014, EA Sports released the video game EA Sports UFC for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. Below is the complete roster for the hit video game EA Sports UFC as the roster originally appeared on Wikipedia prior to its removal by electronic book burners. It is reproduced here per the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike License. Digging Deeper Heavyweight Fabrício WerdumCC Cain Velasquez Junior dos Santos Travis Browne Stipe MiocicDLC Mark Hunt Andrei ArlovskiDLC Antonio Silva Roy Nelson Alistair Overeem Frank Mir Pat Barry Mark ColemanDLC Brock LesnarDLC Minotauro Nogueira Light heavyweight Daniel CormierCC [HW] Anthony JohnsonDLC Alexander…
A Brief History On October 11, 1975, television audiences in the United States experienced one of those magic moments when an icon was born, as the comedy skit show, Saturday Night Live (SNL) debuted with George Carlin as host. Digging Deeper Carlin, one of history’s great comedians, and originator of “Seven words you can never say on television,” died in 2008 at age 71 of heart failure. His guests on that epic night included singer Janis Ian, singer Billy Preston, and comedian/actor Andy Kaufman. Kaufman went on to make a total of 16 SNL appearances, but tragically died in 1984 at…
A Brief History “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” is a short story of speculative fiction by American author Washington Irving (April 3, 1783 – November 28, 1859), contained in his collection of essays and short stories entitled The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent (1819-1820). Although written while Irving was living in Birmingham, England, “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” is among the earliest examples of American fiction with enduring popularity, especially during the Halloween season. To that end, the short story is an excellent example of the creation of American culture in the early 19th century! Digging Deeper: “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”…