History Schmistory: November 2. The Perfect Cheer!
Saturday, November 2, 2024
1898: Cheerleading is born at a University of Minnesota football game. Here’
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s what some of the fist cheerleaders looked like…
MarcoWord: Elezione
Friday, November 1, 2024
Yesterday’s MarcoWord (Italian): “elezione.” Election. “Whoa, dude that tea partier totally messed up the elezione.”
History Schmistory: November 1. “Is that all we’ve got?”
Friday, November 1, 2024
1861: In the early stages of the American Civil war, US President Abraham Lincoln appoints George B. McClellan as the commander of the Union Army. Proof that even histories greatest leaders can make huge mistakes. Sometimes even twice.
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HALLOWEEN HIKE OF HORROR!
Thursday, October 31, 2024
Marco Polo takes a walk in the woods. What could go wrong?
History Schmistory: October 31. Wait a minute, where’s Joe?
Thursday, October 31, 2024
1961: In the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin’s body is removed from Lenin’s Tomb. OR WAS IT?
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Happy Haunting, Folks!
Thursday, October 31, 2024
Get your Halloween Spook on!
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History Schmistory: October 30. Syke!
Wednesday, October 30, 2024
1938: Orson Welles broadcasts an adaptation of War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells, performed as the Halloween episode of a radio drama series called Mercury Theatre on the Air. The first two thirds of the story is retold through a series of fake news bulletins, informing listeners that Martians have attacked the Earth and will probably kill all of us. This causes a majority of listeners to completely freak out. The hoax is basically what made Orson Welles a household name.
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By CBS Radio and photographer unknown [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Not your everyday zombies…
Tuesday, October 29, 2024
Every year around this time, Marco has the dreaded “zombie dream”, specifically, zombie emperors from ancient Rome. Yeah, totally weird. Hopefully it’s not some kind of doomsday premonition. Sweet dreams!
History Schmistory: October 29. Evil Opera
Tuesday, October 29, 2024
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1787: Mozart’s opera Don Giovanni is performed for the first time in Prague, a show chock-full of murder and mayhem, masquerade parties, demon choruses, graveyards, ghostly statues, and ultimately a first class ticket to hell. Top it off with an appropriate moral; he who lives wickedly, dies wickedly, and you’ve got yourself a fulfilling Halloween experience, wouldn’t you say?
History Schmistory: October 28. “This one’s for all the ladies out there.”
Monday, October 28, 2024
1886: In New York Harbor, President Grover Cleveland dedicates the beautiful bronze Statue of Liberty. Always ahead of her time, Lady Liberty went green long before the rest of us.
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