Blockbuster (colloquially known as The Last Blockbuster)
is a video rental store in Bend, Oregon. In 2019, it became
the world’s last remaining retail store using the Blockbuster brand.
The store continued to operate without laying off staff
during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger is an Austrian-American actor, film producer, businessman, former bodybuilder and politician who
served as the 38th governor of California between 2003 and 2011.
As of 2022, he is the most recent Republican governor of California.
Time magazine named Schwarzenegger one of the 100 most
influential people in the world in 2004 and 2007.
On July 30, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed Medicare,
a health insurance program for elderly Americans, into law. At the
bill-signing ceremony, which took place at the Truman Library in Independence, Missouri, former President Harry Truman was
enrolled as Medicare’s first beneficiary and received the first
Medicare card.
Johnson wanted to recognize Truman, who, in 1945, had become
the first president to propose national health insurance, an initiative
that was opposed at the time by Congress.
An Australian artist’s latest masterpiece is a McDonald’s pickle
stuck to a ceiling — and he wants $6,200 for it.
The gallery director said “The work, simply titled "Pickle," gets
at the question of how people attribute value and meaning to
things”.
Whoever buys the art will get instructions on how to recreate it
for themselves.
Paul Coker Jr. (March 5, 1929 – July 23, 2022)
The animation industry has lost another prolific artist. Paul
Coker Jr., a cartoonist and designer whose career spanned
nearly five decades, passed away on Saturday, July 23 at his
home in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Coker’s first appearance in Mad was in 1961; and went on to illustrate
over 375 articles for the magazine.
