A Brief History Computer-animated monster comedy fans, here is your chance to be among the first in Cleveland, Ohio to see Hotel Transylvania: Transformania on Wednesday, January 12, 2022 at 7:00PM! For your chance to watch a virtual screening, please log on to http://amazonscreenings.com/HT4historyandheadlines. The link is good for the first 25 people who click on it. Digging Deeper Tips for Amazon Virtual Screenings: Amazon Studios Virtual Screening AmazonScreenings.com How To RSVP + What to Expect Log-in or create a user account with AmazonScreenings.com, then redeem the code to RSVP for the screening. You’ll receive an automatic confirmation…
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A Brief History On January 12, 2020, the National Football League’s 2019 season hurtles toward its final determination as to who wears the Championship crown for the next year. With the Wild Card games out of the way, we only have to wait for the results of the Green Bay Packers vs. Seattle Seahawks playoff to determine who will play the San Francisco 49’rs to see which NFC team will go to the big show and the results of the Houston Texans vs. Kansas City Chiefs game to determine which team will play the Tennessee Titans for AFC honors. Update:…
A Brief History On January 12, 1971, a group of conspirators dubbed by the press as “The Harrisburg Seven” were indicted on charges that they planned to blow up the steam heating tunnels to Federal buildings in the Nation’s capital, as well as to kidnap National Security Advisor, Henry Kissinger. Shockingly, this group of alleged terrorists was led by radical Roman Catholic priest, Father Phillip Berrigan! Digging Deeper Berrigan was already in jail at the time of the alleged plot, serving a sentence of 3 years for entering a military draft office and burning draft cards with home made napalm. …
A Brief History On January 12, 2006, during the ceremony associated with the final day of the Hajj (annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca), 362 Muslim pilgrims were stampeded to death in a sudden movement of the vast crowd. The Stoning of the Devil takes place in Mina, outside of Mecca. Digging Deeper The annual Hajj gets enormous crowds of Muslims from around the world to Mecca in Saudi Arabia, with as many as 500,000 people crossing one small bridge in only an hour! This sort of crowd density is highly dangerous and even minor crowd movement often results in large…
A Brief History On January 12, 2004, the RMS Queen Mary 2, flagship of the Cunard Line, left port on its maiden voyage after having been christened 4 days earlier by Queen Elizabeth II. Built at a cost of $900 million (£460 million) to eventually replace the aging RMS Queen Elizabeth 2, that price equated to approximately $300,000 for every one of the 2,620 passenger berths. The luxury liner also carries over 1,200 crew members. Digging Deeper The second ocean liner to be named after the wife of King George V, the QM2 is massive at 1,132 feet long by about 147 feet wide. …