A Brief History Live-action/animated musical comedy fans, here is your chance to be among the first in Cleveland, Ohio to see Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile on Monday, October 3, 2022 at 5:00PM at Cinemark At Valley View and XD on 6001 Canal Rd. in Valley View, Ohio! For your chance to get a pass, please log on to https://gofobo.com/CROCHISTORYVV3. 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 Based on the best-selling book series by Bernard Waber, Lyle, Lyle,…
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A Brief History On September 25, 1992, NASA launched a probe known as the Mars Observer, alternately known as Mars Geoscience/Climatology Orbiter, an unmanned spacecraft sent to study the surface, atmosphere, climate, and magnetic field on Mars. Unfortunately, in August of 1993 communication with Mars Observer was lost permanently, a costly failure. Today, we list several egregious space exploration failures and invite you to tell us which one you think was the worst. Digging Deeper Soyuz 1, reentry parachute failure, 1967, 1 cosmonaut died Apollo 1 Fire on Ground, 1967, 3 astronauts died Apollo 13, multiple failures caused Moon landing…
A Brief History On September 25, 1961, the State of Wisconsin first required any new automobile made starting in 1962 to be equipped with front seat safety belts. While Nash Motors first offered this commonsense device in 1949, the rest of the United States was not required to have seat belt equipped cars until 1962, with shoulder belts required as of 1968. Digging Deeper Despite all cars having seat belts, drivers and passengers rarely wore them, even when annoying buzzers were included to “remind” people to wear the hated belts. New York paved the way with a law requiring seat…
A Brief History On September 24, 1884, Hugo Schmeisser was born in Jena, in what was then the German Empire. The son of a well known weapons designer, Hugo would go on to everlasting fame, or infamy if you prefer, as the man that invented the assault rifle. Digging Deeper Did you think the assault rifle inventor was Mikhail Kalashnikov, the Russian that invented the AK-47? Or perhaps you thought that Eugene Stoner, inventor of the M-16/AR-15 family of assault rifles invented the genre? Schmeisser beat both of those famous weapons designers by coming up with the StG-44 during World…
A Brief History On September 23, 1986, Houston Astros’ pitcher Jim Deshaies set a record, striking out the first eight batters he faced. We ask you, what MLB record is the hardest to top? Digging Deeper We list some possible answers below but go ahead and tell us your own ideas if you prefer. Denton “Cy” Young, Most Wins by a pitcher, 511, 1890-1911 (Young is also the only pitcher to have pitched over 700 Complete Games) Ty Cobb, career Batting Average, .366, 1905-1928 Joe DiMaggio, 56 game hit streak, 1941 Nolan Ryan, 7 career No Hitters, 1973-1991 (Nolan Ryan…