One good joke can you pretty far. Ask anyone who’s ever headlined a sitcom or had a popular stand-up act. [1] Or a big comic strip, more to the point. The early days of newspaper strips are a treasure trove of great examples: the same artists would have dedicated space in their paper, but not…
The great thing about history is that it never stops being history. It might technically get older, but, realistically, a hundred years is the same as a hundred and twenty. Old is old, dead is dead. So I can read the tenth anniversary edition of a book four years later without feeling any guilt, because…
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION The horrors behind frightening legends come to life when HISTORY®âs Frankenstein: The Real Story/The Real Wolfman Double Feature arrives on DVD on February 7 from Lionsgate. This four-part collection includes over four-and-a-half hours of in-depth analysis of the crimes and cases that sparked the Frankenstein and werewolf mythologies. Available together for the first…
Have you ever wondered what could have been? What if Key West seceded from the mainland? If the state of Wyoming ended up in the middle of Pennsylvania? If freed slaves were given the state of Mississippi after the Civil War? Perhaps you would like a Brief Explanation as to how Budapest became the Taco…
The biggest problem with the InterWebs, particularly for people like me, is that when weâÂÂre researching something we first encounter at least a dozen items that look really interesting⦠and often compelling. Obviously, if youâÂÂre on deadline, this sucks. But if youâÂÂre any sort of history freak, that compulsion can be overwhelming. For example, this…
A few days ago we had the anniversary of the first interracial kiss on US network television. No, this post isn’t about Star Trek, even though that is where it took place. But it is nice to look back and forward to see the path we, as a people, are on. Less than 50 years…
By the time you read this, we’ll have a much better idea of whether the snow predictions for Winter Storm Juno in the Northeast were accurate, but starting on Sunday with a tweet from the Bowery Boys, I had already started seeing people wondering if this would be a historic blizzard like the Great Blizzard of 1888…
Okay, pay attention now because this won’t be easy to understand. First, a couple of news items: A time capsule buried near the State House in Boston in 1795 by Paul Revere and Samuel Adams was unearthed last week during some repair work. And scientists have actually seen some dark matter. They’ve been speculating about…
http://triviahappy.com/articles/the-tasteless-history-of-the-peeing-calvin-decal#.U7bXH6jT5ST Find out why you see bootleg Calvins on the back of so many car windows.
http://hero-envy.blogspot.com/2012/10/1963-ben-cooper-spider-man-halloween.html Forget Stan Lee and Steve Ditko… and meet Ben Cooper.
Cleopatra in Space: Target Practice By Mike Maihack 169 pages, Scholastic Graphix, $12.99 The allure of Cleopatra VII has endured over the millennia and continues to be a source of fascination for people young and old. As a result, she is an easy subject to inject into novels, plays, and unfortunately, this graphic novel. What…
If you’re like me, you learned way too much of your history from comic books. That’s how I first learned about Orson Welles and his infamous Mercury Theater “War Of The Worlds” broadcast which took place seventy-five years ago today, when the Atom went back in time and… well, why tell you when I can…
