A Brief History Neo-noir action thriller fans, here is your chance to be among the first in Cleveland, Ohio to see John Wick: Chapter 4 on Tuesday, March 14, 2023 at 7:00PM at Cinemark At Valley View and XD, 6001 Canal Rd., Valley View, OH 44125! For your chance to get a pass, please log on to http://www.lionsgatescreenings.com/HHJW4. 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 in John Wick: Chapter 4, John Wick (Keanu Reeves) uncovers…
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A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on March 2nd. For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On March 2, 1657, the city of Tokyo, Japan, then known as Edo, suffered a catastrophic fire that lasted 3 days and killed 100,000 Japanese people, a death toll greater than either of the atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. On March 2 and 3, 1859, the largest sale of African slaves in the United States came to a…
A Brief History On March 2, 1978, space exploration history was made when Vladimír Remek, a pilot, politician, and diplomat from Czechoslovakia became the first person in space that was not Russian or American. Digging Deeper Remek lifted off aboard Soviet space craft Soyuz 28 for an 8-day trip to outer space, heading to the Soviet space station, Salyut 6. A former pilot in the Czechoslovakian Air Force, Remek was hailed a national hero and even was awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union medal by the USSR. He parlayed his renown into a career in politics, serving as a…
A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on March 1st. For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On March 1, 1790, the first census in the history of the United States was authorized, with some interesting results. On March 1, 1805, the United States government was reeling from a never to be repeated political power play! On March 1, 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of the French, returned to France from exile on the island of Elba to reclaim his…
A Brief History On March 1, 1998, the movie industry reached a new milestone when the James Cameron epic film Titanic passed the magical $1 billion mark, the first movie to do so. Digging Deeper Titanic was a titanic success, eventually reaping $2.2 billion in box office receipts and currently ranking as the 3rd highest money maker. The highest-ranking film to date is Avatar at $2.9 billion and the number 2 spot is held by Avengers: Endgame at $2.8 billion. Titanic cost a then record $200 million to make, a pittance compared to the estimated budget of 2022’s Avatar: The…