Browsing: October 12

A Brief History American romantic drama film fans, here is your chance to be among the first in Cleveland, Ohio to see Love of Your Life on Monday, October 12, 2026, at 7:00 PM at Cinemark At Valley View and XD, 6001 Canal Rd., Cleveland (Valley View), OH 44125!  To download a pair of passes please use this link to register for tickets: https://amazonscreenings.com/LOVELIFEHH12.  Please arrive early.  The seats are first come first serve.  Screenings are overbooked to assure a full theater.  The movie starts right at 7PM, with no trailers. Digging Deeper Love of Your Life is an emotionally expansive…

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A Brief History On October 12, 1901, President Theodore Roosevelt renamed the “Executive Mansion” the “White House,” giving America’s most famous home its name. Teddy was a man of many talents, adventures and firsts. Digging Deeper Born in 1858, Teddy went to Harvard and graduated in 1880, magna cum laude.  He spent 1883 to 1887 in Dakota Territory, ranching and befriending former Deadwood sheriff Seth Bullock. Political jobs included NY City Police Commissioner, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, and Governor of New York. He became Vice President in 1901.  Meanwhile, Teddy served with the “Rough Riders” in combat during the…

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A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on October 12th.  For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On October 12, 1216, King John of England lost his crown jewels! On October 12, 1216, King John of England capped off what had to be one of the least glorious chapters in the history of Britain by losing his crown jewels. On October 12, 1492, Christopher Columbus, the Italian adventurer sailing into the unknown in the name of the Spanish Crown,…

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A Brief History On October 12, 1973, soon to be disgraced President Richard Nixon nominated US Representative Gerald Ford to replace Vice President Agnew who had resigned due to a criminal scandal.  Ford became Vice President without having run for that office, and in August of 1974 he ascended to the presidency, the only US President not elected either President or Vice President. Digging Deeper Ford was born Leslie King, Jr., in Nebraska in 1913, but his parents divorced less than a year later, and Ford’s name was changed when his mother remarried.  A graduate of the University of Michigan…

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A Brief History On October 12, 2021, we finally got around to screening the latest film of the Saw horror movie franchise, the ninth movie of the series, Spiral: From the Book of Saw.  After the other films beat to death (figuratively) the diabolical death contraptions and focused on the victims, this iteration takes a different tack entirely, focusing on the investigating detective as the protagonist. Digging Deeper Played convincingly by Chris Rock, there is nothing funny about his character of Zeke Banks, an outcast cop that earned the enmity of his peers by once turning in a dirty cop. …

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