Discoveries
Do you remember this? You are so young in this picture.
On March 10, 1985, Soviet Union General Secretary Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko passed away. He had been General Secretary for only thirteen months before his death, which was caused by complications from pnemonia. With his death, Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev was elected as the new General Secretary.
Corey Haim, star of 1987's The Lost Boys as well as 2007's tv-show The Two Coreys (also featuring Lost Boys co-star Corey Feldman), passed away on Wednesday morning. Los Angeles police state that it may have been a drug overdose - something not entirely unexpected, as Haim had a history of drug problems. Today we'll look at newspaper reviews of The Lost Boys, a highlight in Haim's life.
conee walser's obit from October 29, 1988 in local paper
American Cross of honor/ lifesaving/ medals/ Grand cross/Thomas Herndon/ all Lifesaving heros in America
On March 9, 1976, a cable-car in Calavese, Italy, plunged more than 700 feet into a ravine, killing all but one. Unfortunately, this disaster - which was the worst cable-car disaster ever - was repeated in 1998 when a U.S. Marine Corps airplane flying low snapped a cable on the same lift. Lets take a look at newspaper reports of the first disaster.
Kathryn Bigelow, director of 1990's Blue Steel, 1991's Point Break and 1995's Strange Days, among others, has become the first woman to win the coveted Academy Award for Best Director for her film The Hurt Locker (which also took Best Film). Let's take a newspaper look at Bigelow:
As you can see I'm at it again. I've been looking up old newspaper clippings of "Norton Canfield" in the Kansas area.
THE REAL DR. FRANKENSTEIN
The following articles appeared in the Westphalia Times (Kansas), in 1885 and 1886.
November 12, 1885
M.F. Moore sold his drug store to Knapp & Son, and Dr. Frankenstein will conduct it.
Dec 17, 1885
The united states of America dropped an atomic bomb on the japanese city of hiroshima
