A Brief History On August 27, 2006, Comair Flight 5191, a connecting flight from Lexington, Kentucky to Atlanta, Georgia, crashed, killing all aboard the aircraft except a single survivor. Not only is the “sole survivor” fact amazing, but it was the man that was piloting the plane during the crash! (See some of our many articles about aviation and aircraft by clicking this link.) Digging Deeper The Bombardier CRJ-100 twin jet airliner that can carry 50 passengers plus an aircrew, crashed when it was attempting take off from the wrong runway, flying from runway #26 when the tower had assigned…
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A Brief History On August 26, 2022, we all celebrate National Dog Day, a day invented by Colleen Paige in 2004. While our canine friends are useful in so many ways, today we take a look at a more grim aspect of our relationship with dogs. Digging Deeper While it is highly possible that even Cave men that first domesticated dogs thousands of years ago may have in some manner used their canine friends as co-combatants, some early civilizations such as the ancient Greeks used of dogs in a combat as the Romans around the time of the Roman Republic…
A Brief History Comedy fans, here is your chance to be among the first in Cleveland, Ohio to see Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul. on Wednesday, August 31, 2022 at 7:00 PM at Cinemark At Valley View and XD at 6001 Canal Rd. in Valley View, Ohio! For your chance to get a pass, please log on to https://focusfeaturesscreenings.com/HONKHISTORY31. 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 Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul. is a…
A Brief History On August 25, 1920, the Polish army prevailed over the Russian-Soviet army at The Battle of Warsaw, actually a series of battles that the Poles would later call their victory “a miracle.” Digging Deeper The so called Polish-Soviet War was fought between late 1918/early 1919 and 1921, with the Second Polish Republic trying to resist a creeping land grab by the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic that sought to recover lands lost by Imperial Russia during World War I, as well as land previously governed by the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Meanwhile, between November of 1918 and July of…
A Brief History On August 24, 1743, the army of Sweden surrendered to the Russians at Helsinki, effectively ending The War of the Hats. (We have previously discussed odd names for wars, battles and weapons, as well as riots.) Digging Deeper This particular war actually had nothing to do with hats, as in coverings for your head, but rather the name of a Swedish political party that sought to regain Swedish lands lost to Russia during the Great Northern War. As with many wars, the country that started this one, Sweden, was ultimately sorry they had done so, as Sweden…