Best Laid Plans
Due to unforeseen issues we have not been able to do our postings. Instead of trying to do things on the run, we have decide to wait until after the Thanksgiving Holidays before we will officially launch the site. Thank you Steven G. Atkinson, H. August Knight and Toni Jo
Mickey’s Firsts
Mickey Mouse spoke his first words, “Hot Dogs, Hot Dogs!” on May 23, 1929 in the Disney cartoon short, The Karnival Kid. It was in this film that he first spoke, but it was not the he appeared in that had sound. The first Mickey Mouse sound cartoon was Steamboat Willie, released on November 18, [...]
Daylight Saving Time May have Ruined Halloween
(Originally published in 2007) If I recall correctly one of the reasons that Daylight Saving Time was changed to end on the 1st Sunday of November was so that on Halloween the children going Trick-or-Treat could start in the daylight. At the time I thought that it sounded like a good idea. That was before [...]
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