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November 4, 2016 –Netflix premiered the incredibly successful series about a young woman forced to take over a multinational business after the unexpected death of her beloved father, The Crown, starring, Claire Foy, Matt Smith, Vanessa Kirby, Victoria Hamilton, Jared Harris, John Lithgow and Eileen Atkins, on this date. Originally, creator Peter Morgan envisaged theContinue reading “The Crown”

The oldest survivor Of The Crimean War passed away in 2004 Timothy the Tortoise, the last survivor of the Crimean War (which ended in 1856,) who died in April of 2004 at the age of about 165. Timothy (a female tortoise despite her name) was discovered aboard a Portuguese privateer (a type of armed ship)Continue reading “Think of all those benefits accrued”

November 3, 1957 – Laika the dog became the first living creature in space on this date, when she involuntarily fulfilling a canine suicide mission aboard the Soviet Sputnik 2. Soviet engineers expected Laika to die from oxygen deprivation—a painless death within 15 seconds—after seven days in orbit. However, some western researchers speculated, then laterContinue reading “I wonder if the Explorer’s Club served Hot Dogs in her honor that year.”

It’s celebrated on the birthday of John Montagu, Fourth Earl of Sandwich, creator of the sandwich. To celebrate, begin gambling heavily, don’t get up from the table for several hours and call for your manservant to bring you a slab of beef and two pieces of bread (and a piss pot.) Remember bunkies, Enjoy everyContinue reading “Happy National Sandwich Day”

November 3, 1993 –Fran traveled for the first time over the bridge from Flushing to the Sheffield’s door when, The Nanny, premiered on CBS-TV on this date. When the show was still being developed, the Sheffield family only consisted of two children: Brighton and Grace. The networked wanted there to be an older daughter, forContinue reading “The Nanny”

Other things to occupy your mind with other than COVID-19 – The Pentagon has its own private island off New York. Plum Island, owned in its entirety by the United States government, is an island in the Town of Southold in Suffolk County, New York. Operated by The Department of Homeland Security, it’s used toContinue reading “If we say anymore, we’ll have to kill you”

November 3, 1954 – Gojira premiered in Japan on this date 65 years ago (Godzilla: King of the Monsters debuted in America on April 26, 1956) : With the ashes of World War II only recently cooled, Japan is plagued by a sudden wave of maritime disasters: Without warning, ships are exploding into flame andContinue reading “I barely escaped … Nagasaki, and now this!”

November 2, 1944 –Thomas Midgley Jr., an American chemist who developed both leaded gasoline and chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), was notoriously known as “the one human responsible for more deaths than any other in history“. As if it was nature’s idea to get revenge on him he was left disabled in his bed due to lead poisoningContinue reading “Talk about double irony”

So those of the dearly departed who didn’t make the cut yesterday for All Saint’s Day, take heart; remember today is All Souls Day (the second day of Día de los Muertos.) In the late tenth or early eleventh century, Saint Odilo of Cluny decided that All Souls’ Day would take place after All Saints’Continue reading “The past is dead; the future unborn”

If American women would increase their voting turnout by ten percent, I think we would see an end to all of the budget cuts in programs benefiting women and children. – Coretta Scott King Don’t forget – if you’re in NY, there are 5 ballot measures you should vote on – go to the otherContinue reading “Just Vote – you have no excuse today.”