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Post by VanIsleRover on Oct 18, 2024 17:49:24 GMT -5
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1988: The American sitcom Roseanne, starring Roseanne Barr, premiered on ABC and became hugely popular, noted for deriving humour from the everyday struggles of middle-class families and for tackling controversial issues.
1961: The acclaimed musical film West Side Story, an adaptation of a Broadway play, was released in American theatres; it won 10 Academy Awards, including that for best picture.
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Post by MidnightSun on Oct 18, 2024 19:02:30 GMT -5
Nicolas Cage and Jake Gyllenhaal could've been Aragon and Frodo in The Lord of the Rings. It may be hard to imagine anyone else as Frodo or Aragorn in The Lord of the Rings film franchise, but before Elijah Wood and Viggo Mortensen nabbed the coveted roles, many famous actors were considered. For example, Nicolas Cage was offered the role of Aragorn but turned it down, telling Newsweek, “There were different things going on in my life at the time that precluded me from being able to travel and be away from home for three years.”
And Jake Gyllenhaal might have been Frodo, but he bombed the audition for one not-so-small reason. “I remember auditioning for The Lord of the Rings and going in and not being told that I needed a British accent. I really do remember [director] Peter Jackson saying to me, ‘You know that you have to do this in a British accent?’" he recalled to The Hollywood Reporter. "We heard back it was literally one of the worst auditions.”
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Post by BillG on Oct 19, 2024 7:05:36 GMT -5
Who Knew??? October 19TH is "National Seafood Bisque Day"!
 
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Post by soutxed on Oct 19, 2024 8:07:48 GMT -5
October 19, 1781, British forces under General Charles Cornwallis sign terms of surrender to George Washington and Comte de Rochambeau at Yorktown at 2 p.m., effectively ending the American Revolutionary War.
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Post by johnmori on Oct 19, 2024 9:15:56 GMT -5
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October 19, 2019
Members of Parliament met at the House of Lords to discuss the United Kingdom's Brexit deal, this was the first Saturday sitting in Parliament since 3 April 1982 during the Falklands War.
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Post by MidnightSun on Oct 19, 2024 21:30:07 GMT -5
Sean Connery turned down the role of Gandalf. The wise wizard of The Lord of the Rings almost had a bit of a 007 vibe. Sean Connery was originally offered the role that Ian McKellen would make into a classic but turned it down—despite the offer of a 15 percent stake in the franchise's box office profits.
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Post by sandipaws on Oct 20, 2024 0:23:26 GMT -5
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Savory and sweet collide for a soulful celebration of flavor on October 20th as we celebrate National Chicken and Waffles Day.
Imagine a world where ingredients of every spice and spirit find their way into the honeycombs of thick and crispy waffles.
Well, that day has arrived. From LA to NYC, this quintessential meal of the rural south made a slow migration to the urban communities to the north and west.
But, as odd as it seems, chicken and waffles have been around for more than 150 years.
And while no one knows who first put chicken and waffles on the same plate together,
we do know the meal was a staple of both African-American cooks and the Pennsylvania Dutch.
Part breakfast part supper, everyone can enjoy Chicken and Waffles any time of the day.
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Post by BillG on Oct 20, 2024 5:28:06 GMT -5
Who Knew??? October 20TH is the day in 1977 the band Lynyrd Skynyrd crashed in Mississippi woodlands, killing 6 people, including three band members.
 
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Post by johnmori on Oct 20, 2024 6:48:02 GMT -5
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October 20, 2022
Liz Truss steps down as British Prime Minister and leader of the Conservative Party amid the country's political crisis, serving for the least time of any British Prime Minister [49 days].
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Post by soutxed on Oct 20, 2024 9:25:34 GMT -5
October 20, 1947, Cold War paranoia breeds Hollywood hysteria. In Washington, DC, the House Un-American Activities Committee holds its first hearings into possible Communist infiltration of the US film industry. Soon after, a career-killing blacklist will be drawn up with the help of famous informants, and Hollywood will be held in the jaws of the 'Red Scare.'
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Post by MidnightSun on Oct 21, 2024 0:47:53 GMT -5
Notre Dame’s 180,000 rooftop bees survived the 2019 fire. When a massive fire destroyed a large part of Paris’ Notre-Dame cathedral in April 2019, almost 200,000 bees that were set up with homes on the roof survived the blaze. The hives were built in 2013 as a part of a city-wide initiative to increase the bee population.
"Right after the fire I looked at the drone pictures and saw the hives weren't burnt but there was no way of knowing if the bees had survived," Nicolas Geant, Notre Dame’s resident beekeeper, told CNN. "Now I know there's activity; it's a huge relief!"
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Post by BillG on Oct 21, 2024 6:43:43 GMT -5
Who Knew??? October 21ST is "National Apple Day"!
 
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Post by johnmori on Oct 21, 2024 7:27:51 GMT -5
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October 21, 1959
President Dwight D. Eisenhower approves the transfer of all US Army space-related activities to NASA, including most of the Army Ballistic Missile Agency.
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Post by soutxed on Oct 21, 2024 8:34:57 GMT -5
October 21, 2001 "United We Stand" benefit concert for September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks victims, held at RFK Stadium Washington, D.C. organized and headlined by Michael Jackson and featuring Aerosmith, Mariah Carey and The Backstreet Boys.
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Post by VanIsleRover on Oct 21, 2024 16:51:41 GMT -5
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21 October
2018: American actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus, who starred in such sitcoms as Seinfeld and Veep, was officially awarded the Kennedy Center's Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, the highest award in comedy.
1964: The American musical film My Fair Lady, starring Rex Harrison and Audrey Hepburn, had its world premiere, and it later won eight Academy Awards, including that for best picture.
On this day in 1520, explorer Ferdinand Magellan and three Spanish ships entered the strait later named for him, sailing between the mainland tip of South America and the island of Tierra del Fuego toward the Pacific Ocean.
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