Archive for January 29th, 2024

MOVIE MASTERPIECE OPENED ON THIS DAY

Criterion Announces June 2016 Titles Including Kubrick's DR. STRANGELOVE | Film Pulse
Peter Sellers

Stanley Kubrick’s black comic masterpiece, Dr. Strangelove or:
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
opened in
theaters to both critical and popular acclaim. The movie’s
popularity was evidence of changing attitudes toward atomic
weapons and the concept of nuclear deterrence.

Dr. Strangelove Vintage Stanley Kubrick Movie Poster

Stanley KuBLOG: Dr Strangelove (or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Bomb) – A ...
Peter Sellers

Movie Review: Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb (1964) | The ...
Peter Sellers

Ten War Film Performances That Should Have Been Nominated for Academy Awards – Filmbobbery
George C. Scott

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 1964 123movies ...
Sterling Hayden

Before Putin, 1980s movies terrorized us with nuclear war | Digital Trends
Slim Pickens

At The Back: Dr. Strangelove

posted by Bob Karm in Actors,ANNIVERSARY,Bomb,Bomber,Dark Comedy,H Bomb,HISTORY,MILITARY,MOVIE OPENING and have No Comments

WILL THE EARHART MYSTERY BE SOLVED?

Image of Earhart next to sonar picture
Deep Sea Vision believes they may have come across Amelia Earhart’s wrecked plane in the Pacific Ocean.

(FOX NEWS) – A South Carolina-based ocean exploration
company says it may have found the airplane that Amelia
Earhart flew on her
ill-fated 1937 expedition.

Deep Sea Vision CEO Tony Romeo, a former Air Force
intelligence officer, believes that the airplane-shaped
object that his company captured in a sonar image is
Earhart’s Lockheed 10-E Electra.

Earhart was trying to become the first woman to successfully
complete a circumnavigational flight of the globe when she
disappeared on July 2, 1937. She was last seen in Papua New
Guinea and disappeared near Howland Island in the Pacific
Ocean.

Amelia Earhart's Aircraft Believed to be Found by Unconventional Team of Experts - The Malaysian ...

Brightened sonar image of plane-shaped object
The CEO of Deep Sea Vision says he plans to return to get clearer pictures of the unknown object. (Deep Sea Vision)

posted by Bob Karm in Aviation disaster,Aviator,CURRENT EVENTS,Expedition,Explorastion,HISTORY,Sonar and have No Comments

POEM WAS PUBLISHED ON THIS DAY IN 1845

Έντγκαρ Άλαν Πόε (Edgar Allan Poe) (Βιογραφία)• Evdomas.gr


Edgar Allan Poe’s famous poem “The Raven,” beginning “Once
upon a midnight dreary,”was published on this day in the
New
York Evening Mirror
.

Poe’s dark and macabre work reflected his own tumultuous and
difficult life. Born in Boston in 1809, Poe was orphaned at age
three and went to live with the family of a Richmond,
Virginia, businessman. Poe studied at the University of Virginia but was
expelled for gambling
. He later enrolled briefly at a military
academy
. 

01/29/1845 - Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" was published for the first ...
January 29, 1845 - Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" was published for the ...     
      
 undefined      
Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849)
 

posted by Bob Karm in ANNIVERSARY,HISTORY,NEWSPAPER,Poem,Published and have No Comments

BASEBALL HALL OF FAME ELECTES FIRST

 Pin on Restored Historical Photos   
    
    
    
    
   
On this day in 1936, the U.S. Baseball Hall of Fame elected its first members in Cooperstown, New York: Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Matthewson and Walter Johnson.

Today, with approximately 350,000 visitors per year, the Hall of
Fame continues to be the hub of all things baseball. It has elected
278 individuals, in all, including 225 players, 17 managers, 8
umpires and 28 executives and pioneers.

On This Day in History, January 29, 1936: The U.S. Baseball Hall of Fame elects its first ...

                               Media Confidential: Finalists Named For MLB 2019 Ford Frick Honors

posted by Bob Karm in ANNIVERSARY,Baseball,DEBUT,ELECTION,Hall of Fame,HISTORY and have No Comments