A Brief History On March 2, 1933, the classic monster movie, King Kong, opened at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. The big ape has starred in remakes of the movie and different adaptations of the idea of a giant gorilla, and the name, “King Kong,” has become a metaphor for a large, ferocious person, several people taking on the name of the great ape as their own nickname. King Kong started a genre of classic movie monsters that continues today, and we take this opportunity to offer our list of the 10 movie monsters we think are…
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A Brief History Q&A sessions with such standout celebrities as John Barrowman (Torchwood, Doctor Who), James Marsters (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Jason David Frank (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers), group sessions with the stars of Doctor Who (David Tennant and Billie Piper), Justice League (Ezra Miller and Ray Fisher), Torchwood (Gareth David Lloyd, Naoko Mori), the “Women of Pop Culture” (Holly Marie Combs, Charisma Carpenter), anime, video games, cosplayer and comics creator sessions, adult and kids costume contests and more highlight the programming offerings at Wizard World Comic Con Cleveland, March 2-4, 2018 at Huntington Convention Center of Cleveland. Digging Deeper Most programming is included as part of the…
A Brief History On March 2, 1657, the city of Tokyo, Japan, then known as Edo, suffered a catastrophic fire that lasted 3 days and killed 100,000 Japanese people, a death toll greater than either of the atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Digging Deeper The carnage caused by the Great Fire of Meireki (or sometimes known as the Furisode Fire) combined to destroy about 60 to 70% of the buildings in Edo. The legendary cause of the fire was a priest attempting to burn a cursed kimono that had been owned by 3 girls, one after…
A Brief History On March 2, 1949, The Old Lamplighter became a memory and a song, but not an occupation, as automatic street lights started to shine, adding to the list in our previous article, “Famous Inventions by Ohioans”! Today we discuss some of the milestones in the history of automotive and street lighting. Digging Deeper Digging deeper, we find on this day, the first automatic street lights went into operation in New Milford, Connecticut. Prior to this development, electric street lamps, not to be confused with traffic control lights, had to be turned on manually or by timer, regardless…
A Brief History On March 2, 1962, Wilt Chamberlain, center for the Philadelphia Warriors, scored an National Basketball Association (NBA) single-game record of 100 points against the New York Knicks. To put this in perspective, at that time, the only other player to have scored 70 or more points in a single game was Elgin Baylor with 71 points. This performance put Chamberlain so far ahead of any other scoring flurry that he was truly in a class by himself. In the 53 years since then, no other player has approached his record, with the closest effort being Kobe Bryant’s…