A Brief History Superhero film fans, here is your chance to be among the first in Cleveland, Ohio to see Venom on Wednesday, October 3, 2018 at 7:00 PM at Cinemark in Valley View, Ohio! For your chance to get a pass, log on to SonyScreenings.com/Redeem and enter the code VenomHH83752. This pass is valid for up to 2 seats. Seating is first-come, first-served and is not guaranteed. You must be with your guest to enter. Saving seats for other parties is prohibited. Digging Deeper In Venom, a journalist named Eddie Brock has been trying to take down the notorious founder of the…
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A Brief History On October 11, 1883, the heads of the major railroads met in Chicago to adopt our Standard Time System, which divided the country into four time zones with exactly one hour difference in each zone. The four time zones are part of the worldwide system of Standard time—a set of 24 somewhat equally spaced meridians tied to the daily cycle of daylight and darkness. Digging Deeper Since the dawn of time, mankind has always strived for what at times seemed unattainable, from learning to control fire all the way to putting a man on the moon in…
A Brief History On October 31, 1941, the United States Navy destroyer, USS Reuben James was sunk by a German U-boat with torpedoes, the first US Navy ship sunk in the European Theater of Operations during World War II, and over a month before the US was even in the war. Today we will tell you a little about the namesake of the fateful ship, and about 10 ships well known for having songs about them. (Apologies to “The Ballad of Gilligan’s Island” and the SS Minnow!) Digging Deeper 1. USS Reuben James. The ship also known as DD-245 was assigned…
A Brief History On October 30, 1974, the unlikely venue of Kinshasa, Zaire (Zaire is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo) was the scene of one of the most memorable fights of all time. Muhammad Ali squared off against Big George Foreman in a fight billed as “The Rumble in the Jungle.” Today we honor those fighters brave enough to face the best and give as well as take with the hardest punchers in the world. Digging Deeper 1. Ali-Foreman, October 30, 1974. Known as “The Rumble in the Jungle,” the match pitted 25 year old reigning Heavyweight Champion “Big…
A Brief History On October 29, 1955, the Soviet battleship Novorossiysk struck a mine in Sevastopol Harbor and sank, taking the lives of 608 crewmen. Even when we think a war is over, the terrible price cannot yet be calculated, because wars have ways of continuing to kill past the date History claims ended the war. Here we list 8 of those sad ways wars continue to kill people beyond what seems to be their time frame. Digging Deeper 1. Anti-ship mines. As noted above, the former Italian battleship, Giulio Cesare, renamed by the Soviet Union the Novorossiysk after the USSR…