November 22nd: Today in 1718 the long arm of the law finally catches up with the dread pirate Blackbeard (Edward Teach). He was your classic pirate, a murderous psychopath of the first order and when they caught up to him they made really, really sure he was dead by shooting him five times and stabbing [...]
November 21rst: Today in 1272 Edward the First becomes King of England. His reputation was cruelly besmirched in Braveheart, but he did have quite a good reputation as a king up to about fifty years ago when he became another viscious dead white guy.
November 20th: Today in 1947 The Princess Elizabeth marries Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten to whom she is still married today. Somewhere along the line they both got promotions.
November 19th: Today in 1863 President Lincoln delivered the speech that helped define the U.S. Civil War, the Gettysburg Address.
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
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Horror is hard to do on the internet, except on news sites, but Leta Hall is taking a crack at it with a chilling story of how evil can enter any home. This is only part one, I can only imagine it gets scarier as she completes the story!
November 18th: Today in 1978 916 people were killed in a horrible mixture of ritual suicide and simple murder at the ‘religious’ compound of Jim Jones in Guyana. I don’t have anything to say on this really, it staggered me then, and it staggers me now. Religion is great, but think, no matter what your [...]
November 17th: Today in 1968 NBC preempts the last minute of a tight football game between the Oakland Raiders and the New York Jets to start the scheduled movie, Heidi. Fans are outraged, there are riots in the involved cities and effigies of the adorable Austrian moppet are burned across America. Little known to the [...]
November 16th: Today in 1384 Hedwig, a woman, becomes King of Poland. Make your own jokes here, I am tired. Anyways, she seems to have been a good King and was later made a saint.
November 15th: Today in 1956 the first movie featuring Elvis Presley, Love Me Tender, is released. He plays the brother of the lead and has songs in the soundtrack. Why do we care? I dunno, it is Elvis stuff. You know, king of rock and roll and all that…… K. You caught me, slow news [...]
November 14th: Today in 1889 Nellie Bly, a reporter for the New York World, starts a journey around the world in 80 days in imitation of the Jules Verne story. She makes it in 72 days setting a record not broken until 1929. As stunts go, this is a pretty cool one.