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April 9, 2020 – Flashdance (TBT)
Happy Throwback Thursday! Today we’re spotlighting the year 1983. One of the biggest movies that year was Flashdance! It’s the story of 18-year-old Alex Owens, a welder by day and dancer by night who dreams of one day
April 8, 2020 – Times Square
On this day in 1904 in New York City, Longacre Square was renamed Times Square! In the 1870s, the area was the center of New York’s horse carriage industry. City authorities named it Longacre Square after Long
April 7, 2020 – National Beer Day
Happy National Beer Day! (Isn’t every day National Beer Day in quarantine?) Today marks the day that the Cullen-Harrison Act was enacted, after being signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in March 1933. This wasn’t
April 6, 2020 – Bill Withers
The music world lost a Legend late last week – Bill Withers passed away March 30 from heart complications. Withers was born in a small coal mining town in West Virginia. He enlisted in the Navy at
April 3, 2020 – THEME WEEK DAY 5
We’re wrapping up our theme week on Famous Hoaxes today! So far, we’ve talked about scientific hoaxes, sports hoaxes, astronomical hoaxes and today, we’re talking about a bathtub hoax. In 1917, the Evening Mail published an article written
April 2, 2020 – THEME WEEK DAY 4
Our theme week on Famous Hoaxes continues! Yesterday, we talked about a famous sports hoax, today we’re talking about a famous science hoax – the Piltdown Man, a skull reported to be the “missing link” between man
April 1, 2020 – THEME WEEK DAY 3
We’re halfway through our Famous Hoaxes theme week! On this April Fools Day, I thought it only appropriate that we talk about one of the most notorious April Fool’s Day hoaxes in sports history – The Curious
March 31, 2020 – THEME WEEK DAY 2
We’re continuing our theme week on Famous Hoaxes today, with the Great Moon Hoax. It was a series of articles published by the New York newspaper The Sun, starting August 25, 1835. The articles were about the supposed
March 30, 2020 – IT’S A THEME WEEK!
Who says you can’t do a theme week while social distancing! With April Fools Day on Wednesday, I thought this would be a perfect time to do a theme week on some Famous Hoaxes! Today, we’re starting
March 27, 2020 – Corkscrew
On this day in 1860, M.L. Byrne patented the corkscrew. His wasn’t the first, but it was a new and improved version that consisted of a covered gimlet screw with a T handle. Wine was originally stored
