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The name November comes from the Latin “novem” which is the Latin for the nine. In the early Roman calendar, it was the ninth month. According to the Gregorian calendar, November is the eleventh month of the year. Go figure. The Roman Senate elected to name the eleventh month for Tiberus Caesar and since AugustusContinue reading “We begin to know how long winter will be”

Today is also All Saints Day, the feast celebrated on November 1 in Western Christianity, honoring all the saints, known and unknown. It’s also the first day of celebration The Day of the Dead (Dia de los Muertos in Spanish), a holiday celebrated mainly in Mexico and by people of Mexican heritage (and others) livingContinue reading “All Saints Day is a Holy Day of Obligation.”

November 1, 1967 –Warner Brothers released one of Paul Newman’s signature films, Cool Hand Luke on this date. While passing by the prison camp set, a San Joaquin County building inspector thought it was a recently constructed migrant workers’ complex, and posted “condemned” notices on the buildings for not being up to code.

November 1, 1951 – US Soldiers were exposed to an atomic explosion for the first time in training exercises, at Desert Rock, Nevada on this date. Participation was not voluntary and served both to train and indoctrinate. The next year:November 1, 1952 –The United States successfully detonated the first large hydrogen bomb, codenamed “Ivy Mike,”Continue reading “Your tax dollars at work in the 1950s –”

Two stealth nuclear submarines once bumped into each other by accident. Late at night on February 3, 2009 in the Atlantic Ocean, two stealth-cloaked nuclear submarines (the Triomphant from France and HMS Vanguard from Britain) bumped into each other out of sheer coincidence. They were both cloaked so well from each other that neither submarineContinue reading “Strangers in the night”

Before you steal all of your kid sister’s Halloween candy, Remember that Christmas is in 55 days! and there are 28 days until Hanukkah Demand Euphoria!

October 31, 1926 –Harry Houdini died in room 401 of Grace Hospital in Detroit on this date. The escape artist was killed by diffuse peritonitis, after having undergone an emergency appendectomy. Contrary to popular belief, the fatal appendicitis could not have been caused by a punch to the stomach. And so it goes

October 31, 1992 –The Boyz II Men single End Of The Road was the #1 song on the Billboard Hot 100 for the 12th consecutive week, on this date, breaking the record held by Elvis Presley’s two-sided Don’t be Cruel/Hound Dog, which was #1 for 11 weeks in 1956. Boyz II Men’s bass singer, MichaelContinue reading “End Of The Road”

Dolph Lundgren has an IQ of 160. That’s right; the European Champion of Karate in 1981 also has a Master’s Degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Sydney and the Royal Institute of Technology, alongside a Fulbright scholarship to MIT.

Your friends from ACME would like to bring you a brief history of All Hallow’s Eve: Ancient Romans celebrated a holiday called Feralia on February 21. At first it was a simple day off to recover from the holiday of February 20 (Salvia Divinorum), and to take care of last minute shopping before the holidayContinue reading “Boo”