Ash Wednesday is the first day of Lent a time of penance fasting and prayer for Catholics and for some Protestant denominations.
Ash Wednesday is the opening day of Lent on this day some Christians receive ashes on their forehead as a sign of penance. With the ashes the Priest may say “Remember that you are dust and to dust you shall return” or “Repent and believe in the Gospel”.
The tradition of receiving ashes …
Bruce Wayne born February 19. Bruce Wayne is the son of Physician Thomas Wayne and his wife Martha. Martha Wayne was a member of the prominent and wealthy Kane family. Thomas Wayne’s family reaches back as far as the founding of Gotham City. It was at that time that the Wayne family fortune began to build and continues to build to this day under the guiding hand of Bruce and Lucius Fox.
When Bruce was …
(PCM) The Phantom of the Opera did not get its start on Broadway. The Andrew Lloyd Webber musical opened On The West End London, at Her Majesty’s Theatre on October 9, 1986. The West End is London’s equivalent to New York City’s Broadway.
The Phantom however has a much longer history than that. The Phantom of the Opera was a French novel by Gaston Leroux and was published in 1910 soon drawing a worldwide audience.…
Edgar Allen Poe was born on January 19, 1809 to a married couple of traveling actors in Boston. Soon after his birth both of his parents passed away.
Before reading this we must cast away our preconceived notions of the life of Poe. For many years it was taught that Poe was an alcoholic, a drug addict and a madman. The thought being that could some one write such bizarre works like the Tell Tale …
The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, The Chronicles of Narnia, Flight of Dragons, The Dragon Riders of Pern, How to Train a Dragon and Harry Potter are all books and films that explore dragons in one way or another.
Appreciate A Dragon Day is a day set aside to celebrate this cultural icon
Dragons have been part of culture and mythology for hundred if not thousands of years. Appreciate a Dragon Day is the …
The Black Dahlia Mystery
Elizabeth Short was a 22 year old actress whose body was found on January 15, 1947 in a vacant lot in Leimert Park, a suburb of Los Angeles California, brutally murdered.
As far back as the 1800s the press have given names to unknown murderers or murders, Jack the Ripper and The Boston Strangler are two examples of murderers. Little Lord Fauntleroy and Little Miss Nobody are names the press …
Superman was brought to life by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster in the mid 1930s. He made his first public appearance in Action Comics Number 0ne dated June of 1938.
Superman was born as Kal El on the planet Krypton to Jor El and Lara. Jor El was one of Krypton’s leading scientists and as such was an important member of the Science Council, the body of people who ruled the planet.
Though no one …
P.T. Barnum had already made a name for himself as a showman before he discovered Tom Thumb. Barnum had toured the country with a woman who claimed to be George Washington’s nurse and was well over 100 years old. On that tour he was able to take in about $1500.00 a week, and with that profit Barnum bought a building in New York City that was a museum that had not done well.
Barnum didn’t …
On December 4th 1872 the crew of the Dei Gratia was 400 miles off the shores of the Azures when a crew member spotted a ship that seemed to be adrift. The Captain, David Morehouse recognized the ship as The Mary Celeste which had left New York several days prior to Morehouse’s ship.
The captain tried to hale the Mary Celeste several times without success and so a crew was sent investigate. What was …
Charles M. Schulz was born on this day November 26 in the year 1922. I am not sure that many people would list the comic strip PEANUTS as great literature, but I do. Here is a definition of great literature. Great literature not only has a great story and great characters but helps teach us something about life that sticks with us. Those lessons can last a life time. Charles Schulz achieved all of this …
Picture, in your mind, a beautiful ballroom. Men in tuxedos and women in gowns. An orchestra is playing beautiful music while the men and women dance the waltz and other folk dances. There is a sumptuous buffet laid out with every kind of delicacy and delicious pastry that that the mind of a master chef can conjure. People are dancing and eating and talking and laughing. Suddenly the bell in the high tower begins to …
Lucille Ball Married Desi Arnaz on November 30, 1940. Lucille and Desi were head over heels about each other almost from the first moment they met. Their courtship was strained because of distance and their ultimate marriage was an elopement because the two could be in the same city at the same time.
Their marriage for several years faired little better. Desi was a band leader that got an occasional movie part. Lucille was an …
