Browsing: November 13

A Brief History Dark comedic drama fans, here is your chance to be among the first in Cleveland to see Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri on Monday, November 13, 2017 at 7:00 PM at Cedar Lee Theatre in Cleveland Heights, Ohio!  Please visit http://www.foxsearchlightscreenings.com/3BBJCU for the chance to download a pass.  Passes are limited and seating is first-come, first-served and not guaranteed.  Please arrive early to increase chance of entry. Digging Deeper THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI is a dark comedic drama from Academy Award® winner Martin McDonagh (IN BRUGES).  After months have passed without a culprit in her daughter’s murder…

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A Brief History On November 12-13, 1970, an Indian Ocean cyclone with winds over 150 mph hit what is now Bangladesh (then East Pakistan) killing more than three times the number of people killed in the Atom Bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined! Half a million people died in the low lands of the Ganges River delta, mostly from the storm surge that flooded the area. Digging Deeper In addition to massive loss of human life, thousands of homes and other buildings were washed away, thousands of acres of crops were destroyed, thousands of domestic and wild animals died,…

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A Brief History On the evening of November 13, 2015, a series of coordinated terrorist attacks occurred in Paris, France and its northern suburb Saint-Denis.  The attacks consisted of mass shootings, suicide bombings, bombings, and hostage taking, including bombings near the Stade de France in Saint-Denis.  The deadliest attack was at the Bataclan theatre where attackers took hostages and engaged in a standoff with police until it was ended on November 14, 2015. Digging Deeper At least 129 people were killed, 89 of them at the Bataclan theatre.  More than 350 people were injured by the attacks, including 99 people described as…

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A Brief History On November 13, 1974, the real story of The Amityville Horror began when Ronald DeFeo, Jr. savagely murdered his entire family in the house featured in the popular horror story. Digging Deeper The house at 112 Ocean Avenue had been occupied by the DeFeo family since 1965.  The family consisted of two parents, two daughters, and three sons.  Ronald Jr. was the eldest at age 23 when he used a Marlin Model 336C lever action rifle in .35 Remington caliber to shoot each parent and all four siblings, killing them all. Ronald, or “Butch” as he was…

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A Brief History On November 13, 2013, a painting painted by Francis Bacon in 1969 called Three Studies of Lucian Freud sold for an incredible $142.4 million, the most ever paid for a painting.  Bacon was an Irish-born British painter who lived from 1909 to 1992.  The painting depicts three poses of his friend and artistic rival Lucian Freud.  Digging Deeper On the same day, an orange, marble-sized, 14.82-carat diamond known simply as “The Orange” was auctioned off by Christie’s in Geneva for $35.5 million, a world record for a diamond of its color, and just a day later, a pink 59.60-carat diamond known as…

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