A Brief History On September 6, 2024, we scurried to our local theater to watch the remastered RealD version of the 2009 blockbuster stop motion film, Coraline. The original film was not only mega-successful when released in 2009, it also became the third highest grossing stop motion movie of all time with a box office of $172.8 million against a budget of $60 million Digging Deeper While the original version is of course great, according to various viewers, this new version, put together with incredible painstaking detail by the original animators, is absolutely extraordinary. Colorful, fast paced, and combining comedy…
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A Brief History On September 6, 1997, two to two and a half billion people worldwide were glued to their TV sets watching the funeral of Princess Diana, a similar number of TV viewers that watched the 2009 funeral of pop rocker Michael Jackson. Digging Deeper Did you realize funerals were much bigger television events than Super Bowls? In fact, the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II of the UK ranks Number 1 on the list of most watched TV events with a staggering 5.1 billion viewers worldwide! The opening ceremonies of the 1996 and 2008 Summer Olympics drew 3.6 and…
A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on September 6th. For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On September 6, 1620, the Mayflower sailed from Plymouth, England, headed for the “New World” in America. On September 6, 1803, pioneering atomic theorist John Dalton of England first assigned symbols to represent atoms of various elements. On September 6, 1995, Cal Ripken, Jr., infielder for the Baltimore Orioles, set a new major league baseball record by playing in his 2131st consecutive…
A Brief History On September 6, 2013, ivory poachers in Africa poisoned and killed 41 elephants at the Hwange National Park in Zimbabwe. The WWF reports about 20,000 elephants are killed illegally each year in Africa by poachers, out of a world wide total of only 415,000 African elephants. Incredibly, in 1930 there were about 10 million wild elephants in Africa! Digging Deeper Despite strict anti-poaching laws, poaching takes a terrible toll on many types of animals. There may be about 30,000 Rhinos left in Africa, of which only 6000 are Black Rhinos, which numbered over 100,000 as recently as…
A Brief History Focus Features’ My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 in conjunction with Blu-Tique Micro-Wedding Venue are hosting a contest for Ohio couples to win “Free Elopement Weddings” (taking place Wednesday, September 6, 2023) to help kick off the celebration of My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3, opening in theaters on Friday, September 8th, 2023. Digging Deeper The FREE Elopement Weddings will take place Wednesday, September 6, 2023 at Blu-Tique Micro-Wedding Venue (located inside Blu-Tique Hotel, 1 South Main St., Akron, Ohio 44308 in Downtown Akron). The contest is open to newly engaged couples. To be considered for a chance to win a FREE Elopement…
