History Schmistory: November 5. Back in time.
Tuesday, November 5, 2024
1955: Doctor Emmett Brown conceives the design for the time-travel enabling flux capacitor after taking a nasty fall and bumping his head on a bathroom sink. Someone should tell Marco that movies are not real, because he has been searching for Doc Brown for a while now…
History Schmistory: November 4. So long ago…
Monday, November 4, 2024
2008: Barack Obama becomes the first African-American President of the United States. Despite his near superhero status, his hair quickly goes gray like all the others.
![By Official White House Photo by Pete Souza (P120612PS-0463 (direct link)) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons](http://www.teammarcopolo.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/480px-President_Barack_Obama.jpg)
By Official White House Photo by Pete Souza (P120612PS-0463 (direct link)) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Being President is tough on the hair.
History Schmistory: November 3. Say hello to our little friend!
Sunday, November 3, 2024
1913: The United States introduces permanent income taxes to it’s citizens, via the Sixteenth Amendment, securing the latter of only two certainties in life. Luckily, “Death” wasn’t on the table for this one.
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History Schmistory: November 2. The Perfect Cheer!
Saturday, November 2, 2024
1898: Cheerleading is born at a University of Minnesota football game. Here’
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/97/Early_women_cheerleaders_at_UW_Madison_%282246608893%29.jpg
s what some of the fist cheerleaders looked like…
History Schmistory: November 1. “Is that all we’ve got?”
Friday, November 1, 2024
1861: In the early stages of the American Civil war, US President Abraham Lincoln appoints George B. McClellan as the commander of the Union Army. Proof that even histories greatest leaders can make huge mistakes. Sometimes even twice.
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History Schmistory, March 30: Hank wants a new toy!
Thursday, March 30, 2023
1533 – Henry VIII divorces his 1st wife, Catherine of Aragon, which leads to the creation of the Anglican church, lots of bloody history over the next hundred years, and several good Shakespeare plays.
History Schmistory: January 31. Off with his head!
Monday, January 31, 2022
1606: London, England. The infamous Guy Fawkes is executed for his attempt to blow up parliament and King James I in ‘The Gunpowder Plot.’
![The execution of Guy Fawkes' By Claes (Nicolaes) Jansz Visscher [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons](http://www.teammarcopolo.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Guy-Fawkes.jpg)
‘The execution of Guy Fawkes’
By Claes (Nicolaes) Jansz Visscher [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Fun fact: The Brit’s mark the anniversary of the Gunpowder plot annually on November 5th with fireworks and bonfires…who say’s you can’t turn an assassination attempt into a party?!
History Schmistory: January 30. Hi-yo, Silver!
Sunday, January 30, 2022
January 30, 1933. Lone Ranger radio show debuts!
Howdy partner!
Full Video Schmistory: January 29!
Saturday, January 29, 2022
What do Kansas, Mercedes Benz, Edgar Allan Poe and mad King George III all have in common? January 29th, silly!
History Schmistory: January 28. “Dear Horace, I just had a happy accident.”
Friday, January 28, 2022
1754: The first use of the word “serendipity” in the English language is noted in a letter from Horace Walpole to Horace Mann. A letter between Horaces! Walpole said he formed it from the Persian fairy tale The Three Princes of Serendip, whose heroes “were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things they were not in quest of”. Mann convinced Walpole to truncate the fledgling term from the original; “Serendipity-doo-dah.”
Serendipity by Nila Sivatheesan, April 7, 2014 via Flickr, Creative Commons Attribution.
