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    November 18, 2021: Your Chance to Preview House of Gucci

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    By on Cinema & TV, November 18

    A Brief History Biographical crime drama fans, here is your chance to be among the first in Cleveland, Ohio to see House of Gucci on Thursday, November 18, 2021 at 7:00 PM at Silverspot Cinema Pinecrest  in Orange Village, Ohio!  For your chance to get a pass, please log on to http://uareleasingscreenings.com/HHGUCCI18.  Passes are first-come, first-serve.  The theater is overbooked slightly to ensure a full audience.  Therefore, seating is not guaranteed.  So, please arrive early!  Saving seats for other parties is prohibited. Digging Deeper House of Gucci is inspired by the shocking true story of the family empire behind the Italian fashion house of…

    learning history

    6 Ways to Make Your History Class Interesting

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    By on Education, November 18

    A Brief History Today, learning history might be a passion for some people, yet, most of the kids and their moms and dads that are often homeschooling children today find this subject boring and difficult. Especially the parents teaching history at home find it tedious to keep on narrating the tales of wars, monarchies, civilizations, political transformations, and so much more.  Is it possible to make the history class engaging for kids? The homeschooling parents would be glad if they find some innovative ways to teach history to their kids, offering it in a catchy and entertaining wrapper. Digging Deeper…

    Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988

    Reagan Signs Death Penalty for Drug Traffickers!

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    By on Crime, November 18, Politics

    A Brief History On November 18, 1988, President Ronald Reagan signed into law legislation (Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988) that made certain drug trafficking offenses punishable by the death penalty, a sharp escalation of the “War on Drugs.”  In hindsight, the War on Drugs is seen today as having been an abject failure and perhaps mismanaged, and the national sentiment about capital punishment has also shifted toward decreased support for executions and increased support for banning the death penalty. Digging Deeper Reagan had been elected President in 1980 as the oldest (at the time) man elected to that office.  Having…

    100th Anniversary of the Armistice

    Even More Stuff That Did or Did Not Exist When I Was Born

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    By on Cinema & TV, Inventions, Military, November 18, Politics, Vehicles

    A Brief History On November 18, 2018, just after the 100th Anniversary of the Armistice that ended World War I, we look back over the past almost 62 years to take a look at things we find commonplace today that did not exist when I was born (January 1957).  We also look at things that were common then or in the past that no longer exist.  As you can guess from the title of this article, we have examined these items, new and passé, a few times before. (See “Things That Did Not Exist (Or Were Different) on July 1,…

    November 18, 2017: What is Apple Cider? (Is Apple Cider Different from Apple Juice?)

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    By on Food, November 18

    A Brief History On November 18, 2017, we celebrate the annual Apple Cider Day, a national day in the United States and in the United Kingdom.  Why isn’t the juice of pressed apples just called “apple juice?”  For that matter, what is “apple juice?”  Read on and we will explain these fine points of culinary delight to you! Digging Deeper First of all, apple juice is junk!  It is made from apples all right, pressed into juicy stuff which if left alone would be apple cider, but it is further processed to ruin any useful purpose as a drink for…