A Brief History On September 22, 2017, the new horror film Friend Request opens in theaters across the U.S. Having previously shown in Germany (where the movie was filmed), the film was made with an English speaking cast speaking English. Apropos to this era of internet and cell phone addiction, the horror aspect of the movie is readily related to by modern audiences. Digging Deeper Friend Request is supposed to be scary. Is it? YES! So scary an adult woman got up and left saying she was too scared to continue watching and people could call her a “chicken” but…
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A Brief History On September 22, 1692, eight women went on trial in Salem, Massachusetts for witchcraft, an event we used as motivation for our article, “10 More Things History Got Wrong About Women (Part 2).” Today, we will use this historic attack against women to speak highly about the 10 women that lived in the 20th or 21st Century that we personally find to be the most beautiful, most delectable, sexiest, most attractive, prettiest, and most desirable of all. The lack of quality photography prior to the 20th Century is what limits our list to modern times. We are…
A Brief History On September 21, 1964, the XB-70 Valkyrie made its maiden flight at Palmdale, California. The world’s first Mach 3 bomber, the Valkyrie was designed to outrace Soviet interceptors and drop nuclear bombs on the Soviet Union with impunity. As it turned out, this concept became obsolete before the Valkyrie could be produced, and therefore it was not produced, saving US taxpayers a ton of money. On previous September 7th’s we ran articles 10 Underperforming Weapons, 5 More Underperforming Weapons and Another 5 Underperforming Weapons. On May 15th we featured an article on 10 Weapons and Weapon Systems…
A Brief History On September 20, 1893, Charles Duryea and his brother, J. Frank Duryea, tested their gasoline powered automobile, the first gasoline powered car in the United States. Since that historic day, Americans have been building and buying cars and other motor vehicles like no other country on Earth. Here today we list 10 Amazing Facts About American Cars, their history of manufacture, sales, performance and the like. Digging Deeper 1. First Ever Automobile, 1885-1886. Karl Benz of Germany came out with his Benz-Patent-Motorwagen a whopping 7 years before the Duryeas made the first American gasoline powered auto. Benz used…
A Brief History On September 19, 2017, we are happy to report on our pre-screening of the latest block-buster sequel out of Hollywood and Twentieth Century Fox, Kingsman: The Golden Circle. Cutting right to the chase, and that is exactly how the movie starts, this film is a worthy sequel to its older brother, Kingsman: The Secret Service (2015) which grossed a nice profit, $414 million on a budget of $91 million. The movie premiers in theaters on September 22, 2017. Digging Deeper The Kingsman films are what could be called “spy spoof,” a sort of James Bond meets Get…